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Many people know that Japan greatly admires the culture of the Tang Dynasty, but few people know that Japan's admiration for the Tang Dynasty was beaten out, this is the Battle of Baijiangkou, after which Japan was completely convinced of the Tang Dynasty, and constantly sent "Tang envoys" to the Tang Dynasty to learn all kinds of knowledge. The Battle of Baijiangkou was actually the first recorded war between China and Japan.
During the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were three kingdoms on the Korean Peninsula: Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla. These three countries are constantly fighting with each other, and as their common boss, the Tang Dynasty, they naturally have to mediate. But there was a thorn in the head of these three countries, that is, Goguryeo, which was often opposed to the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty did not allow him to fight Silla, he was partial to fighting, and often joined forces with Baekje to bully Silla. The Tang Dynasty saw that these two younger brothers were too disobedient, so they sent troops to teach these two disobedient little brothers to use swords and swords to impress Goguryeo and Baekje and let them know the importance of peace (obedience).
It must be said here that Goguryeo has no inheritance relationship with Korea's self-proclaimed ancestor "Goryeo", so Korea should not shout that Goguryeo is his every day.
In 660, the disobedient Baekje was destroyed by the combined forces of the Tang Dynasty and Silla, and the Tang Dynasty directly garrisoned baekje in Baekje, intending to teach Baekje with "wanghua" so that baekje's people could also bathe in the "grace of the Emperor of the Heavenly Dynasty", but the prince of Baekje, Buyeo Feng, was disobedient, and had to run to the next door to the Uighur kingdom (that is, Japan), and also joined forces with the Uighur state, in a vain attempt to restore Baekje and prevent the baekje people from receiving "royal education", this kind of behavior against the trend of the trend was naturally condemned, and the Tang Dynasty said that the Uighur kingdom dared to make trouble and beat it up.
However, the Uighur kingdom (Japan), which could not see the general situation in the world, not only did not understand the good intentions of the Tang Dynasty, but also sent more than a thousand ships to help the remnants of Baekje without self-awareness. For the small Uighur state, can the Tang Dynasty be afraid? That was impossible, so the Tang Dynasty concentrated one hundred and seventy warships to fight.
The two sides fought the first major war in the history of China and Japan at the mouth of the Baijiang River. More than a thousand ships of the Japanese Navy rushed up and faced the Tang warships. On the surface, the Japanese ship has a large number of people, as if they have the advantage, but history has long shown that the war cannot be won by a large number of people. The Tang army soon let these Japanese navies know what it meant to be a generational difference and despair.
The Japanese ship is short, and in the face of the tall and sturdy Tang Army warships, the Japanese Navy cannot connect the ships to fight hand-to-hand (the ship is too low to jump on the Tang Army's ship). The Tang army calmly shot rockets at the Japanese navy on the tall warship, the Japanese did not even hide at sea, the Tang army won four battles and four victories, and directly sunk more than 10,000 Japanese navies to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.
The Battle of Baijiangkou was the first major war between China and Japan, and after this great defeat, Japan hid its restless heart and began to learn from the Tang Dynasty honestly, and even eager to move the Tang Dynasty's system over, and then for nearly a thousand years, Japan no longer dared to fight China's ideas.
During the Ming Dynasty, perhaps more than nine hundred years, Japan forgot the pain of the Battle of Baijiangkou and once again fought the idea of China, which was directly fought back by the Ming army. Japan was honest this time for more than two hundred years, and it was not until the First Sino-Japanese War that it once again took advantage of China's weakness to wage war.
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