A generation of anti-Wu heroes - Chen Xuan's battle achievements have been great throughout the ages

Chen Xuan (3 March 1532 – 2 June 1607)

Ding You was in chaos again, aiding the DPRK in resisting the Wo

　 In the 20th year of the Wanli Calendar (1592), Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent 150,000 troops to launch a war of aggression against Korea. The Koreans rose up against the Japanese invaders, defended the motherland, and defended their homeland. Although they were righteous, they were much weaker in terms of power and urgently needed the support of the Ming Dynasty. Because the enemy was playing a divisive strategy and pretending to be peace talks, the lords and factions within the Ming Dynasty had the upper hand, and there was a discussion of "sealing tribute", so the reinforcements that had already set out stopped. Chen Xuan was transferred to the south to assist in the defense of Zhangzhou and Chaozhou.

By the 25th year of the Wanli Calendar, a large area of Korean territory and three major cities had been occupied by the Japanese, and the situation was extremely critical, and the Ming court launched a war against the Uighurs at the request of the Korean king Li Litigation. This just war is of great significance to defending the survival of the Korean nation and to defending the interests of the Chinese nation itself, and can only be won and cannot be defeated.

The Battle of Luliang, a thousand achievements

　　This large-scale war of aid to Korea began in October of the twenty-fifth year of the Wanli Calendar (1597). The Ming Dynasty was commanded by the bingbu Shangshu Xingyue, the army was advanced across the Yalu River from Jiliao, and the water army was more than 13,000 under the command of Chen Xuan. Before Chen's waters reached Korean waters, the Ming army was temporarily defeated due to the relative strength and effectiveness of the enemy navy to meet the army. Chen Shuijun arrived at Chungcheong, Jeolla, and Gyeongsang haikou in Korea, and Xing Yue decided to divide his troops into four routes according to the situation at that time: land road left (Liu Ling), middle (Dong Yiyuan), right (Ma Gui), and water army (Chen Xuan). The battle was extremely fierce, and the left and right route armies by land were victorious, so that the enemy Kato Kiyomasa was defeated; After losing the middle road and retreating, the enemy was given a chance to breathe for the time being. The Dprk sent a naval command to make Li Shunchen cooperate with Chen Xuan in the sea battle. The Chinese and Korean naval forces cooperated with Liu Ling's troops by land to occupy the Traction Bridge, and after holding the zhangdao island, they cut off the enemy inside and outside. The enemy, Commander Konishi, was attacked on his stomach and back, and the enemy Shimazu Yoshihiro concentrated his sea forces to aid Suncheon with more than 500 warships. In this way, a major battle between the enemy and our water forces on the surface of the South China Sea was a crucial battle in the entire Korean War. Chen Xuan commanded the warship, rode the tide to sail directly to the target, divided the water army into two groups, and lurked on the island and the two threats.

In the middle of the night of December 18, 26, when the enemy ships approached, Chen Xuan ordered a sudden attack, and under the attack on both sides, the enemy position collapsed, our army threw fire, and the enemy ship burned. The enemy retreated into the port of Guanyin, and Tianming found that there was no way out, only to fight with our army, and an extremely fierce bloody battle began. Chen Xuan waved the flag and beat the drum, commanded the ships to approach the enemy, and fought to the death, and he ordered the main ship he was riding to charge at the enemy. The main ship was fast, breaking into the enemy position and being surrounded by layers of enemy ships. In a critical situation, Chen Xuan was calm and self-assured, and ordered the ship to dismount, ambush the ship, and wait for the enemy to approach. The enemy was counted and boarded one after another. At this time, Chen Xuan gave an order, and the soldiers rose up, their spears pierced, their swords slashed, and the enemies were killed, fell into the water, and died more than a thousand times. In the midst of the fierce battle, Chen Xuan waved the flag to collect the troops, and the ship fell silent. The enemy did not dare to come closer and retreated slightly. Because the enemy was under the wind, Chen Xuan wasted no time in ordering a flamethrower to be fired at the enemy ship. For a while, the enemy ships were on fire, and the enemy did not dare to fight. Chen Xuan commanded the ships to pursue and kill the defeated and fleeing enemies. When it encounters an enemy ship, it burns. When encountering the enemy army, he was killed and chased out for more than 20 miles, and the enemy only had 50 or so broken ships and fled. The enemy at sea "grain duckweed, corpse stuffed into the sea". The great victory in the naval battle of Luliang made the enemy lose his fear. Governor Konishi fled from The Gap in Suncheon, Shi Manzi aided the governor from the west, but was blocked by chenbu who turned to land, Yu Wu retreated to Baojin Mountain, mingshui army besieged, and the enemy fled to Mount Echuan. The cliffs of Yichuan Mountain were deep and dangerous, and Chen Xuan personally led his generals to sneak into the mountain by night, surrounded the mouth of the cave, and the enemy fired artillery bombardment in tianming, and the enemy panicked and fled to the back mountain, trying to rely on Gao's stubborn resistance and Chen Xuan's orders to attack strongly, and finally completely annihilated the enemy. In this battle, Shi Manzi was killed and the enemy generals Ping Zhengcheng and Ping Xiuzheng were captured. A war to aid Korea and conquer the Uighurs came to an end.

Unfortunately, the korean naval command made Li Shunchen and my veteran water army General Deng Zilong die at the same time. Li Shunchen's warship rushed into the enemy ship formation, and was killed in the middle of the fierce battle; During the fierce battle between Deng Zilong and the enemy, the ship was mistakenly hit by another ship and caught fire, and the enemy took the opportunity to attack, and Deng Zilong died heroically. The Korean people have commemorated these two mighty gods of war for generations. At that time, General Chen heard that the two generals were killed in battle, and the pain was extremely great, and he fell from his chair to the ground, and after getting up, he could not support falling to the ground again, and he fell three times, pounding the ground and mourning, and the sailors wept in unison. After the war, Korea buried Li and Deng, and General Chen wrote a memorial text and mourned bitterly. How deeply did General Chen have for Li Shunchen, a friend of his own comrade-in-arms! This friendship between the Chinese and DPRK people, which has been condensed with flesh and blood, has been particularly touching since more than 300 years ago and to this day! After the war, when the Korean King Li Gong received General Chen, he said: "The adult's sideburns are exhausted, and the description is completely changed, which is different from the time of the reception of the Japanese, and must be worried about the merits of the battle." General Chen was anxious, planning, and fighting day and night for this holy war, and wounded the fallen soldiers, "with his sideburns exhausted and described as changeable." He is a friend, a hard worker for the motherland, and his loyalty to the country shines brightly!

In the more than 200 years after the war (until the second half of the 19th century), Japanese expansionism was contained, and the Korean people and Chinese people were spared from the ravages of the Japanese invaders, and of course, it also created an environment for Japan itself to build a peaceful country for more than 200 years. This great struggle of resistance against the Japanese people in China and the DPRK is of extremely great historical significance. General Chen also made outstanding contributions to the peace and tranquility of the Chinese and DPRK people with his outstanding military achievements, and his loyalty to the country has been passed down through the ages.

The brave are invincible

　　Chen Xuan fought, put his life and death on the sidelines, and often took the lead as a soldier and braved death to fight.

　　In the first year of the Ming Dynasty (1573), the rebels in eastern Guangdong built a strong castle, and the mud outside the city fell into it. General Chen only led 3,000 soldiers to break through the city, he sent a small number of troops from the northeast of the city to burst into the fire, and personally led most of his troops to attack from the southwest corner. He took the lead and swung his sword to fight, and finally opened the gap and attacked the city in one fell swoop. General Chen did not disarm in January, slept in the wind and ate, and suffered hardships in front.

　　In the Battle of Luliang in the twenty-sixth year of the Wanli Calendar (1598), General Chen took the lead in rushing into the enemy ship formation on the main ship, he wielded a sword to slash the enemy soldiers, without regard to personal safety, as the supreme commander of the water army, killing the enemy in front. This brave invincible might shines brightly.

　　In the forty-first year of Jiajing (1562), Chaoshan rebelled three times. Chen Xuan put his life on the outside of the degree, rode alone to the enemy camp to persuade him to surrender, causing the other side to disintegrate. In addition, when Feng Youshi, the sub-inspector of Shaozhou, was taken into captivity, Chen Xuan volunteered to take the hostage, went deep into the enemy camp, exchanged for hostages, and then talked and drank with the other side, slackened off the other side, fled by night, and then led his troops to destroy the nest. This act of risking his life and going deep into the enemy camp alone shows Chen Xuan's brave spirit.

In the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566), when Chen Xuan was fighting in Sixing, he was outnumbered and taken into captivity, but this brave man was not timid, he pretended to be dissatisfied with the officials, and poured wine on his sorrows, so that the guards and drunk. He took the opportunity to escape, and returned with his troops, winning in one fell swoop. Chen Xuan's brave spirit can be seen here again.

Odds win

　　In the forty-second year of Jiajing (1563), after quelling the Nanshao rebellion, Chen Xuan proposed to the superintendent that only wisdom could be taken, and the hostages in prison were released, allowing them to travel back and forth to the enemy, secretly reporting the situation, and then taking advantage of the gap to capture the camp and win the victory. Chen Xuan fought wars, relying on bravery and relying on odd tricks, so he almost always won. The aforementioned attack on the castle of the rebels in eastern Guangdong used the strategy of attacking the west with sound from the east, making it difficult for the enemy to lose sight of one or the other, and it was difficult to resist the attack. When Chen Xuan fought, he also used roundabout envelopment tactics at the right time. For example, in the twenty-eighth year of the Wanli Calendar (1600), the Battle of Pingbo Prefecture, Yang Yinglong was in a desperate position, and General Chen fought head-on, pinning down the other side, and sending two elite forces to detour behind the enemy. Wrapped up, the enemy position was in chaos and was broken by the joint force. The course of war is often unpredictable, which requires commanders to adapt to changes and perform miracles. General Chen has the talent in this regard. In the Battle of Luliang, General Chen's lordship took the lead in rushing into the enemy ship formation, and the enemy ships saw this and surrounded them on all sides, and the situation was suddenly critical. General Chen was in a hurry and wise, adopted the tactic of confusing the enemy and creating fighters, ordered the soldiers to stop the ship under the order, and lay down and wait, so that the enemy thought that our army was powerless to resist and was relieved to go into the water to climb the ship, creating a fighter plane for our water army to kill the enemy. General Chen suddenly ordered the soldiers to fight, and the soldiers pierced the enemy with spears and slashed the enemy with their swords. General Chen wielded his sword to slash the hands of the enemy soldiers climbing the ship, causing hundreds of enemy soldiers to slash their fingers and hands and fall into the water. General Chen used this strange trick to turn disadvantage into advantage, killed countless enemies, and bought time for the follow-up warships to rush forward.

Strategically smart

Chen Xuan's courage and strategy are more reflected in the high level of strategic decision-making. In October of the twenty-sixth year of the Wanli Calendar (1598), the Korean War was in a state of stalemate. Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Japan died, fearing the strength of the Ming army, and left his order to collect troops. Is it to sit back and watch the enemy retreat, leaving endless troubles, or to annihilate the enemy with all his might? The Ming army did not hesitate to count on the latter. The question is how to defeat the enemy? Proceeding from strategy, General Chen offered advice: "The sea is boundless, and it is not dependent on dangers and dangers, so why can it succeed?" At that time, the Japanese Army must be responded by the water army, and at that time, the Japanese Navy did not lose its ships, which can be described as powerful, and to annihilate the enemy on land, it must also annihilate the enemy at sea. General Chen maintained that as long as our army "relies on danger and attaches importance to doom," that is, occupies a key strategic point, it will have the right to win. The strategy was determined, and General Chen decisively rewarded the warriors, and the surprise attack on Kashima and Takeshima in the throat land was successful. Onshore enemies can only stay in Shuntian and drag bridges. General Chen took the initiative to cooperate with Liu Ling's troops in attacking the bridge and succeeded again, and the enemy of Shuntian was completely isolated. His subordinates captured The secret envoy who had captured Governor Konishi of Suncheon, and General Chen deliberately let him go and let Shimazu Yoshihiro at sea come to his aid. This has formed a situation of "besieging the city and providing assistance." Since General Chen had preemptively occupied the throat of the enemy's water and land contact, the Battle of Luliang became a decisive battle favorable to me. The decisive battle began, and the two armies were on an equal footing, and only the brave one won. Because of Chen Xuan's strategic cleverness and at the same time giving full play to the spirit of fighting in the naval battle, he finally won the victory of this bloody battle at sea that has been recorded in history.

　　General Chen's brave and scheming military genius was praised by the people of the time and admired by future generations.