(1592 AD) On April 14, the twentieth year of the Ming Dynasty, Japan launched the "Nongchen Rebellion" that shocked the world in order to annex Korea. At the request of the King of Korea, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to aid Korea and began a 7-year-long War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which ended in the victory of China and The defeat of Japan. More than 400 years ago, the area around Sacheon was the main battlefield where the armies of the Lee Dynasty of Korea and the reinforcements of the Chinese Ming Dynasty fought side by side against the Japanese Wokou. The fiercely fought "Battle of Sichuan", "Battle of Jinju" and "Battle of Luliang" wrote a chapter in the history of Korea and the "allies of aiding Korea",-the Chinese Ming Dynasty soldiers who fought against the Wokou.
The "Chaoming Army Tomb" buried more than 36,000 soldiers who died in battle
In front of Sacheon there is a large "hill". This is the military tomb of the Ming-Chao-Ming Army more than 400 years ago, where the heads of more than 36,000 Ming soldiers were buried.
The "Chaoming Military Tomb" is a square shape, 36 meters long and wide, and about 8 meters high. In the middle of the front of the tomb, there is a 4-meter-high "Memorial Monument". On the front of the black marble stele, there are ten Chinese characters engraved with the "Monument to the Consolation of the Ming Dynasty And ming united army". At the back of the stele is the "Inscription of the Consolation Spirit of the War Martyrs", which reads that in order to remember "the haters who do not return in the distant exotic lands--the deep comrade-in-arms love of those Ming Dynasty allies." This monument was erected to commemorate the joint military orders of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty."
This is the history of the South Korean people sending reinforcements to the Ming Dynasty of China, aiding the Joseon Dynasty with blood, and jointly fighting against the Wokou, which is still fresh in my memory. In the song-singing and weeping "War of Defense of the Great Patriotic Republic", more than 30,000 soldiers of the Dprk-Ming Coalition Army died on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War. In order to show his merits to the Japanese emperor, the murderous Wokou cut off the ears of the Ming generals and salted them, put them into more than a dozen large wooden barrels, and transported them back to Japan by ship. In order to cover up the crime, the Japanese Kou cut off the heads of the martyrs of the Korean and Ming Coalition Forces and buried them together. Because the burial site is not accurately recorded, the monument cannot be built for a long time.
The "Battle of Sichuan" was a great victory for the Ming and Ming armies
Located at the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula's landmass, Sacheon is strategically located. A narrow and long Bay of Sacheon is the most convenient passage from overseas to Seoul, the capital of South Korea, and has always been a place of contention for soldiers. On April 14, 1592, Japanese invading armies landed on the southern harbor city of Busan, and 45 days later, they captured the strategic location of Sacheon and advanced towards the important town of Jinju. In less than two months, much of North Korea's territory was lost.
The King of Joseon sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty to ask for military assistance. The Ming court held that "the intention of the Wokou to Korea is really China, and the salvation of Korea by our soldiers is really to protect China." Therefore, it was decided to aid the DPRK in resisting the Wokou. In July 1592, the Ming Dynasty sent the pioneers Dai Chaozhi and Shi Ru to lead 20,000 troops to march, and the deputy general Zu Chengxun led a large army into Korea, kicking off the prelude to the Ming Aid Korea's War of Resistance against Japan.
In 1597, the Ming-Ming alliance entered the decisive stage of the war. The Ming Dynasty mobilized a total of 140,000 troops of the army and water army to reinforce Korea again, and decided to divide the troops into three routes to attack the three fortresses occupied by the Wokou: Ulsan, Sicheon, and Sulin. Under the leadership of Dong Yiyuan, the viceroy of the Middle Road, and Zhang Bang, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Chinese Army, the Ming army attacked the Uighurs in yongchun, Kunyang, Jinzhou, and Sichuan in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula in four routes. The Korean Gyeongsang Right Soldier Zheng Qilong also led 2,200 troops to form a coalition with the Ming army and fought together. The Combined Forces of the Ming Dynasty and Ming Dynasty bravely killed the enemy, and the momentum was like a broken bamboo, and they won successive victories. In the middle of the night on September 28, 1598, the combined Ming and Korean armies launched an attack on the ancient city of Sacheon, a fortress held by the Wokou in southern Korea. At 3:00 a.m. on the 29th, the Japanese who were surrounded in the city opened the city gate in an attempt to seize the road and escape. After the Combined Forces of the Ming Dynasty repelled many counterattacks by the Wokou, they attacked Sacheon Castle, and the Japanese Kou defender Kawakami was killed by 36 arrows, thousands of Japanese Kou were annihilated, and the Japanese Kou burned in the grain and grass depot in the city for two days and two nights, and the flames soared into the sky. After the destruction of the most important stronghold of the Wokou in southern Korea, morale was low, and the remaining dozen or so strongholds of the Wokou "scattered in horror", and more and more surrendered.
The Battle of Luliang ended in defeat for Japan
On August 18, 1598, the Uko commander Toyotomi Hideyoshi was defeated in the Korean battlefield, and he was ashamed and angry, and finally died in Fushimi Castle, and before his death, he was ordered to withdraw his troops. In November 1598, the Japanese Kou under the command of the U.S. general Konishi attempted to escape by sea and return to China under the fatal blows of the Ming and Korean forces. Before fleeing, in order to slow the troops to breathe, Governor Konishi sent his subordinates to send gold and silver and other generous gifts to the Korean water army Jiedu li shunchen and the Ming Dynasty admiral Chen Qiying, hoping for peace talks, but were refused. Desperate, Governor Konishi appealed to Yoshihiro Shimazu, who was entrenched around Sacheon New Town, and Shimazu assembled 500 ships in an attempt to break through the defenses of the Ming and Ming armies and return home.
On November 4, Li Shunchen and Chen's naval forces were ambushed in the area of Luliangjin Bay, and when 500 warships attempting to transport the remnants of japanese troops from Korea appeared, General Li Shunchen personally rode the drum and led the ship into the enemy position, surrounded by the Japanese army. The warship of the famous general Chen Qi was also surrounded by Wukou warships. Deng Zilong, a seventy-year-old veteran of the Ming Dynasty, led 200 brave men to jump on a Korean warship to fight, but the warship he was driving unfortunately caught fire, and Deng Zhuanglie was sacrificed. Li Shunchen and Chen Qi, who came out of the siege and rescued each other, Li Shunchen was unfortunately shot and his life was in danger. Dying, he said to his son: "The battle is fierce, for me, don't be silent." He also ordered: "Give the military flag to Song Xili, give orders, and continue to beat the war drums until victory." ”
The Luliang Naval Battle was finally won by the Ming and Ming armies: 450 Japanese ships were sunk, more than 10,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, the Japanese army was completely defeated, most of the Japanese naval forces were completely annihilated, and the remnants of the army reluctantly withdrew to Japan. The seven-year-long War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ended in the victory of China and the DPRK and the defeat of Japan. The Three Armies of the Great General of the Ming Dynasty, the History of Ming, called this "the victory of the Orient and the great merit of the world".
In order to commemorate general Li Shunchen, who fought side by side, the Ming Dynasty admiral Chen Li, transported his body to the ancient and modern island of Guandao County, the large camp of the Ming Dynasty water army, and built a "Zhongwu Ancestral Hall" to pay tribute. In order to commemorate the Ming Dynasty's army's trip to Korea to resist the Wu Dynasty, the DPRK established a "big newspaper altar" in Seoul.