When it comes to the word anti-Japanese resistance, many people think of the modern War of Resistance Against Japan, in fact, as early as the Ming Dynasty, there was a famous anti-Japanese war to aid the Dynasty, that is, the Ming Dynasty and Toyotomi Hideyoshi ruled Japan, "the Son of Heaven guards the gate of the country, the king dies in the society", although they do not like the corruption of the Ming Dynasty, they are still very admired for the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the peak of the use of thermal weapons in ancient China.
This ancient version of "Resisting The War against The Japanese Empire and Aiding Korea" refers to the Korean War during the Wanli Period, which lasted from 1592 to 1598, the most glorious battle of which was the Battle of Pyongyang, in which the three aces of the Ming Dynasty participated in the battle and joined forces to destroy The First Army of Governor Konishi, which also became a turning point in this war.
Qi Jiajun
Let's first understand the background of this battle, the Japanese soldiers in the 15th century, although they looked down on their "village battles", but the Japanese army at that time was also the elite of a series of wars, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, on the grounds that Korea refused to attack the Ming Dynasty, directly invaded Korea, (at that time Korea was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty) At the beginning of the war, the Japanese army was in the ascendancy, and it took a month to capture the Korean king Of Seoul.
The Wanli Emperor was also bloody, received a request for help from the Korean emissaries, and directly issued an order to resist the Wu and aid the DPRK, in fact, it was humiliating, after all, the fight against the dog also depended on the master, plus the military generals of the court were not convinced, so Li Rusong became the commander-in-chief of the Anti-Wu Aid Korea.
Wokou
Our old Li is not simple, from childhood Xiao Yong is good at war, the teacher is Xu Wei, inheriting the command of his father Yin Zhi Tongzhi, step by step from the right vice general of the Shenji Battalion to the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army, it can be said that he has experienced hundreds of battles, and with Old Li on the expedition there were three ace troops of the Ming Dynasty at that time: the Liaodong Iron Horse, the Shenji Battalion and the Qi Family Army, a total of 40,000 people.
The originator of the Liaodong Iron Horse is Li Chengliang's father and son, it can also be said that the Li Family Army, initially mainly composed of rangers, well-equipped and well-trained, mainly to deal with the rebellion of the Goddess Department, of which Nurhaci's father and grandfather, both died under the Liaodong Iron Horse, standard with bows and arrows, waist knives, three-eyed rifles, etc., cold weapons to play to the peak of the troops.
Li Rusong
"And the battle is mostly used with iron horses, listed as a horizontal array, firing bows and arrows to charge the thief, if the thief does not move, then slowly retreat and charge again." After a dozen times, there is no one who cannot collapse."
The Shenji Battalion is one of the three battalions of the Ming Dynasty's Capital Janissaries, specializing in the special units in charge of firearms, even in the Qing Dynasty, it also continued the Ming Dynasty military system, to put it bluntly, it was the emperor's bodyguard.
In the fifth year of Yongle, after Ming Chengzu Zhu Di personally conquered the desert north, he put forward the operational principle of "the divine machine is in front and the horse team is behind", that is, the divine machine battalion cooperates with infantry and cavalry.
Divine Machine Battalion
The Divine Machine Battalion had 3,600 infantry, 1,000 cavalry, and 400 artillerymen, and was equipped with thunderbolt cannons (infantry rifles), Dalian Zhu cannons (multi-barreled rifles), handle-and-handle mouths (artillery self-defense handguns), and General Zhankou (field heavy artillery), which were the strongest thermal weapons units in the world at that time.
Qijia army also known as Yiwu soldiers, Zhejiang army, etc., Ming Jiajing years into the army and Zhejiang Yiwu, the initial main force is Yiwu peasants and miners, the total strength of 4,000 people, since its establishment with strict military discipline, professional training level, hundreds of battles and victories, up to more than 100,000 levels of slash records known, Ming history famous changsheng general.
In 1593, Li Rusong besieged the city of Pyongyang, the city was the Japanese general Konishi's First Army totaling 25,000 people, Li Rusong adopted a three-sided siege, ambush in the east, he led the infantry mixed brigade to attack the Pyongyang Gate Seven Star Gate, Wu Weizhong led the Qijia Army light cavalry regiment to raid the commanding heights of Pyongyang City Peony Pavilion, Zu Chengxun and Luo Shangzhi led some heavy infantry, disguised as Korean soldiers in the south gate on standby.
Li Rusong and the Shenji Battalion both understood that compared to the Wokou, Daming was better than the far-reaching firearm Flang Cannon, so he pulled away and first suppressed the firepower of the Defending Wokou, and then began to siege the city, the battle entered a white-hot situation from the beginning, killing from dawn to noon, at this time the Qi family army successfully took the high point of Pyongyang City, Peony Pavilion, Li Rusong's confidence was greatly increased, and he was a pioneer.
Battle of Pyongyang
At that time, The red-eyed Governor Xiaoxi saw that the puppet Korean army at the South Gate did not dare to attack the city, so he ordered the South Gate defenders to rush to the aid of the Seven Star Gate, and the result was the right way to divert the tiger away from the mountain, after the South Gate was lost, the battle consciousness of the Wokou instantly collapsed, and the Ming Liaodong Iron Rode into the city like a tide, and the Governor xiao xi saw that the general trend had gone, and led the remnants to flee through the Datong River for the night, and as a result, they were intercepted and killed by the Ming army that was ambushed in the east.
In the Battle of Pyongyang, more than 10,000 Japanese troops were killed, and The First Army of Governor Konishi was basically crippled, and the Japanese army could only retreat to the southeast coast, turning the tide of the Korean War in one fell swoop. After the Battle of Bihokukan, the two sides began to negotiate peace tomorrow, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi refused to accept the canonization of the Wanli Emperor, so there was the Second Battle of Korea in 1597, which ended with the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Japanese army retreating from the Korean Peninsula.
Map of the situation in the Korean War
After the toyotomi Hideyoshi family was weakened, Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, laying the foundation for hundreds of years of peace in the three east Asian kingdoms; and the national strength of the Ming Dynasty was also weakened, especially the military strength of the Liaodong region, which gave the Jianzhou Jurchen Nurhaci the opportunity to develop.