On August 27, 663, thousands of sails fluttered at the mouth of the Baekjeong River in Korea, where the powerful Tang Navy fought a decisive battle with the Uighur Navy, which was also the first major battle between the Chinese and Japanese armies. At this time, the Uighur navy had more than 800 warships and an army of 42,000 men. At this time, the Tang army had only 13,000 people, and only 170 ships. On the surface, the two are very different in strength, and the Uighur army has an absolute advantage, but in fact it is just the opposite.
At that time, the warships of the Tang army were much larger than the small boats of the Uighur army, and the Tang army at that time generally used horizontal knives and wore sophisticated armor. Although it was not numerically superior, it was far superior in strength to the Uighur army.
Compared with the Tang army, which had experienced hundreds of battles and basically had no opponents in the whole of Asia, the Uighur Navy had no experience in dealing with foreign armies. The Uighur army just began to attack, and the experienced Tang army soon changed its formation, encircling the Japanese army left and right, and the Uighur army was compressed into a small area.
Although there were many ships in the Uighur army, they were very small, and while surrounded by the Tang army, there was no way to exert their combat capabilities. Coupled with the fact that at this time, the Tang army had mastered rocket technology and issued a large number of rockets, and the warships at that time were all wooden, and when the rockets struck, the warships of the Uighur army quickly burned up and collided with each other, and the entire sea surface was a sea of fire.
The Uighur army desperately broke through, and finally 400 ships were destroyed, the Uighur army was defeated, the loss of tens of thousands of soldiers, and the general Park Se-tae Laijin was also killed. After this war, the Uighur army in Baekje did not dare to stay long, and fled back to the Uighurs, and baekje surrendered. After many years, the Tang army conquered Pyongyang, and goguryeo, the most powerful in the north, also submitted to the iron hooves of the Tang Dynasty.
After the news of the great defeat of the Uighur army came back to China, the whole country was shocked, deeply realized the gap between itself and the Tang Dynasty, and later began to seriously study the Tang Dynasty as a student, and then the Uighur state changed its name to Japan.
For more than 1,000 years since then, Japan has never dared to invade Korea again, and the situation throughout Northeast Asia has been very stable. This situation continued until 1592, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Korea again after unifying Japan and was again defeated by the Ming Dynasty.
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