The Japanese samurai were attacked by the Mongols for the first time, so why were they beaten and could not find the north?
Looking back at history, the most sentimental part of the Chinese people is presumably the bloody history of the Anti-Japanese Resistance. In that history, China paid a huge price. However, China also had the opportunity to completely conquer the country, which was the Yuan Dynasty under the Mongols. The first time the Mongols attacked Japan, they left a deep impression on the country and made the Japanese samurai afraid of it, so what did the Mongols do?
The envoys went to Japan, and the flames of war were ignited
In fact, the Yuan Dynasty did not have the original intention of fighting with Japan, an island country, after all, the Mongols had just conquered all of China, and the next thing to do was not to add more wars, but to pursue stability and consolidate the land that had been laid. This achievement of the Yuan Dynasty is Kublai Khan's beautiful composition of the future.
Now that the regime has been established, the next thing to do is naturally to gain the approval of neighboring countries and take over China's diplomatic power. Therefore, the Yuan Dynasty sent envoys to Japan to demand that the other side submit to itself.
However, in the history of China, in fact, Japan has never submitted to China, and it has always been only Chinese culture that has influenced this island country. When they sent envoys to China, they only coveted China's advanced technology. According to the History of Japan, the ruler at that time was ostensibly the shogun Prince Wei Yasu, but in fact it was the Hojo clan, a powerful minister.
The former had no real power, and the demands on the Yuan Dynasty could only be resolved by the subordinates. The Hojo Sect had only one response, and that was to fight for the sake of war.
Actively prepare for war and resist Mongolia for the whole people
The Yuan Dynasty sent envoys twice without success, which naturally angered Kublai Khan, because in the eyes of Japan, Mongolia could not represent China. They see him as a coward. In "The Thirteenth of Later Autumn Revival", Japan believes that there is no China after the cliff mountain, and there is no China after the Ming Dynasty. Even after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the country once claimed to be Chinese, succeeding the Chinese culture after the Ming Dynasty. Such humiliation was naturally unbearable for Kublai Khan. The war between the two countries can no longer be eased.
Although the Hojo Sect was tough on the surface, it was also full of panic in the depths of its heart, after all, it was this dynasty that conquered most of Eurasia. In order to meet the enemy, he began to actively deploy defenses. After some deliberation, he decided that Kyushu would be the first point of war. Because it was the closest to Goryeo, the country had already bowed to the Yuan Dynasty.
Hojo ordered the Kyushu army to move westward, keeping the enemy out of the country. At the same time, the shogunate also organized folk sacrifices, and for a time, the entire country was mobilized against the Mongols.
War broke out and the Mongolian army won a great victory
This war dragged on for five or six years before it really broke out, and it was not the Yuan Dynasty that forgot about it or fought psychological warfare. Rather, Kublai Khan was too stingy. He had intended to get Goryeo to support the supply of troops and march into Japan. But Goryeo was poor and white, and naturally could not afford to raise this team. Therefore, Kublai Khan could only raise funds on his own to prepare for a war in Japan. After a few years, the Yuan Dynasty sent a team of 30,000 people, and the group began to conquer Japan. According to the "History of Japan", in Tsushima and Iki Island, the two armies clashed for the first time and finally failed. The rear battlefield was moved to the islands of Hizen and other islands. Hundreds of samurai were killed by a unilateral massacre. If it were not for the lack of supplies and numbers, it might be that the yuan army would go to Japan for the first time, and the whole of Japan would be surrendered.
In fact, the Yuan Dynasty was strong in three points, and it was these three points that completely crushed the Japanese army and almost subdued the country.
First, the Yuan Dynasty had excellent equipment supply and had high technology. On the ancient battlefield, there was also technological crushing and suppression. After the Yuan Dynasty took the whole of China, it had gradually digested the advanced Chinese technology, so their artillery and other weapons directly frightened the Japanese.
The second point is the good war of the Mongols, who were still tiger troops on the battlefield, and it was because of their bravery that they conquered China, which far exceeded their own technology. And now this fierce tiger with China's advanced technology, its terrible strength can be imagined. Not to mention the Chinese side, the height alone has already crushed the Japanese. Naturally, the advantages are complete when fighting.
The third point is also the most disgusting point of the Mongols in later generations, that is, their brutality, the Mongol troops like to slaughter the city, which many people know. According to the "History of the Yuan", when the Mongols conquered Asia and Europe and other countries, tucheng was almost every carnival after victory. This made the Japanese soldiers frightened and demoralized.
Unfortunately, in the end, this tiger and wolf division was defeated at the hands of the typhoon, so in everyone's opinion, if Mongolia won a big victory in Japan for the second time, what would be the outcome? Is Japan now part of Chinese territory?
References: "The Thirteenth of the Later Autumn Revival", "History of Japan", "History of yuan"