In 2004, South Korea selected one of the top ten famous players in ancient Asia, in order of ranking from front to back: Lee Shun-chan, Temujin, Sun Wu, Nguyen Hye, Kwon-li, Donggo Heihachirō, Han Shizhong, Eulji Bundeok, Li Zhao, and Oda Nobunaga. I believe that many people want to laugh when they see this ranking, the so-called "Top Ten Famous Players in Asia" are all East and Southeast Asia, and there is no central Asia and West Asia. Many people don't even know who Ruan Hui, Quan Li, and Li Zhao are, China's soldier Sun Wu only ranks third, plus Han Shizhong, and China's famous eastern power is only two people on the list. Han Shizhong can be on the list, why can't Yue Fei, who is equal to him, be on the list? Probably because the former's surname is Han.
【Statue of Li Shunchen at Gwanghwamun is being cleaned】
Not only China, but also Japan scorned this ranking, and soon they rearranged a list of Asia's top ten players, in order from front to back: Sun Wu, Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Xiang Yu, Guan Yu, Uesugi Kenshin, Yue Fei, Maori Motoyasu, and Li Shunchen.
In the Japanese rankings, China's famous players rose to 4, and Sun Wu ranked first. Oda Nobunaga ranked second, and Lee Shun-chan, who ranked first in South Korea, dropped to tenth. I guess the Japanese didn't think Lee Soon-chen could make this list at all, but only to deliberately anger Koreans, they added Lee Shun-chen's name at the end of the list, because they knew Lee Shun-sun's status in the minds of Koreans.
【Li Shunchen in the movie】
Lee Sun-chen, a native of Seoul, was imprisoned in prison during the 20th year of the Wanli Dynasty (1592), but due to the collapse of the situation, Hyun-joo of Joseon had no choice but to resurrect Lee Shun-chen and ordered him to be the commander of the left water army of Jeolla. He had a lot of experience in water warfare, and what made him famous was the Battle of Mingliang, which broke out in the twenty-fifth year of the Wanli Calendar. On September 16 of that year, Lee Soon-chen ambushed the Japanese fleet at Mingliang Gorge in Namyang County, Jeolla Province. Mingliang Gorge is a narrow strait between Jindo and Huayuan Peninsula, with high winds and waves and many whirlpools, which is a dangerous place for navigation.
The Japanese fleet came downwind under the leadership of Takaho Fujido, and Li Shunchen's diary recorded that "there were more than 330 ships" (more than 100 ships were recorded by the Japanese side), while Li Shunchen had only 12 Itaya ships. In order to "take a strong military posture", Li Shunchen "made a turtle boat" of 12 Banya ships, and then ordered more than 100 refugee boats as suspects. In the battle, Li Shunchen bravely took the lead and bravely advanced, and finally won the victory in the Battle of Mingliang.
【The Battle of Mingliang in the Movie】
According to Li Shunchen's diary, this battle "destroyed a total of thirty thieves' ships, and the rest of the ships retreated, let alone approached our division", and somehow became the sinking of more than two hundred enemy ships. In fact, on the day of the victory of the Mingliang Sea, Li Shunchen retreated to TangJi Island on the grounds that "the water potential is extremely dangerous and the situation is also lonely", and then retreated to the more distant Ancient Mountains Island. Although the Japanese army lost the Battle of Mingliang, in the end it easily occupied the base of the Korean Marine Division, but from a strategic point of view, the Japanese army won, and the Battle of Mingliang did not play a positive role in strategy.
In November of the following year, Li Shunchen was martyred by a Japanese stray bullet at the Battle of Luliang, at the age of 54. After Li Shunchen's death, he was given the title of Zhongwu and was extremely depressed. After entering the 20th century, Li Shunchen, together with Eulji Wende and Jiang Handan, was regarded by the peninsula as the three heroes of national salvation, and was respected and respected by posterity. But if li Shunchen is therefore named the top ten famous players in Asia, it is inappropriate.
【Li Shunchen after the Great War】
In the Wanli Dynasty's War of Resistance against the Wu Dynasty and Aid Korea, Li Shunchen was only a mid-level officer, and when Chen Lu and Li Rusong discussed military information in the military tent, Li Shunchen was not even qualified to enter the military tent, and could only listen to orders outside the tent. What really made the Japanese sailors dare not march on the sea was Chen Xuan instead of Li Shunchen. It's just a small country and a widow, and it really can't choose any famous generals, so they can only pick the eldest son among the short men and elect Li Shunchen. If you really want to rank asian masters, the top 100 must be Chinese.