Battle of Keicho: Another struggle between China and Japan

Antecedents: Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent troops to Korea

In 1596, Shen Weijing sent an envoy to Japan to declare the title of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi was dissatisfied with his title and decided to invade Korea again.

In 1596, the Ming Dynasty sent emissaries to Japan to crown Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the King of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi felt humiliated and sent troops into Korea again, China and Japan had another fierce confrontation, and finally Toyotomi Hideyoshi died of illness, the end of Japan's withdrawal, Japan entered the civil war period of power and profit Shen Weijing up and down, so that Korea had a few years of tranquility, but the paper could not contain fire, this kind of country-related flicker sooner or later will be exposed. In September 1596, shen Weijing came to toon to toyotomi Hideyoshi as an emissary of the Ming Dynasty, and when the Chinese-Japanese translator read "Tefenger is the king of Japan", Hideyoshi was red in the face, extremely angry and refused to accept the title, and decided to send troops to re-enter Korea. Because the rate of the water war in the past few years was calculated by the famous Korean general Li Shunchen, Japan used tried and tested tricks one by one to reverse the plot, so that the Korean Xuanzu Li Ling sent Li Shunchen to prison.

At this time, the nail in the eye had been removed, and in the first month of 1597, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took the opportunity to send troops, and the Japanese mainland plus 20,000 soldiers stationed in Korea totaled 140,000 troops to attack Korea, and after the landing of Busan, they attacked Sacheon, Namhae, Gwangju, and slaughtered Namwon, and the Korean water army without Li Shunchen was almost completely destroyed at the Battle of Seocheon Beam.

The loss of a series of cities disrupted the strategic deployment of the Ming army, making the already inferior coalition side fall into passivity. In this way, the Joseon Xuanzu could not be eaten, and seeing that the barrier of Seoul was lost in autumn, Li successively wrote to the Ming Dynasty to increase its troops and assist, fortunately, with the unswerving support of the Wanli Emperor, tens of thousands of Ming troops continued to march to the Korean battlefield.

On October 17, it was a time of momentum, did not think that the famous Japanese warring states general Kuroda Nagamasa and the Ming army led by Magui encountered a big loss, and although they occupied Jishan Castle, the offensive was broken, they lost the initiative, and soon retreated to Busan in all directions, and the Ming army also came to the frontal battlefield, and the strength of the two sides was quietly changing.

The Ming Dynasty coalition army counterattacked several times in succession, in the tenth month, the Japanese army and the Ming army aided the Ming army and Ulsan, the losses were heavy, after the loss of Ulsan Castle, the famous general Kato Kiyomasa was besieged in Shimayama Castle, a generation of generals were about to fall, on the occasion of this thousand hooks, the Ming army commander Yang Ho favoritism, the Southern Army troops that immediately broke into the island mountain city were replaced by the Liaodong Army to attack the city, Kato Kiyomasa who smelled a glimmer of life naturally did not miss this opportunity, and the reinforcements who came with support jointly counterattacked Tianyou Kato Kiyomasa, and heavy rain fell from the sky, making the Ming army firearms impossible to use. The Japanese army seized on Yang Ho's command mistake and severely damaged the Ming army.

Blessings are incomparable, and misfortunes are not alone. On October 26, the Japanese commander Fujido Takaho led more than 133 warships to attack the Mingliang Strait at the high tide, and Li Shunchen, who could be reactivated by the Korean marine division, had already become a bamboo in his chest, and Fujido Takaho looked at the civilian ships disguised as warships, identified it as its main force, blindly pursued deeply, and fell into an ambush, the Japanese commander Laishima Tongzong was also killed, the army was scattered, and although the Battle of Ulsan was defeated and won, the Japanese generals who invaded Korea felt that it was more and more difficult to support, Kato Kiyomasa, Shimazu Rinhiro, Governor Konishi and other famous generals. Although they had extremely high war wisdom, they could not help but raise troops from within the Ming Dynasty, and after a stalemate, in 1598, more than 70,000 Japanese troops such as Hideaki Kohayakawa returned to China to reorganize, and 64,000 people such as Kato Kiyomasa and Shimazu Yoshihiro were defended and occupied

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

In September, the Ming army began to attack Ulsan again, while attacking Sacheon, Kato Kiyomasa against the old rival of Kamima Takashi, the two sides had a mutual victory and defeat, and Tachibana Muneshige, who came to the rescue of Kiyomasa, first attacked with a thousand people at night and then set up an ambush to defeat the Ming army.

In October, the Japanese general Shimazu Yoshihiro led 7,000 troops to garrison the Sichuan castle wall, but under the village was the 30,000 Ming army led by Dong Yiyuan, the situation was critical, but a jaw-dropping scene occurred, the Ming army camp exploded, and the cannons of the Original Ming Army suddenly exploded, which then caused the battalion's powder depot to explode repeatedly, and there was a good opportunity, Shimazu Yoshihiro decisively sent troops to massacre the Ming army in great confusion.

Luck turned around, and it was finally the turn of the Ming Dynasty. In October, news of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death in Kyoto in August reached Korea, and the Morale of the Japanese Army was demoralized and preparations for retreat began. The last battle was a sea retreat, in the face of the ming Dynasty's combined forces' fierce pursuit, the Japanese army fought and retreated, protected each other, and even killed the old enemy Li Shunchen, which also solved a big hatred.

Consequences: Battle of Sekigahara

In 1600, the Japanese Toyotomi clan invaded Korea and suffered losses, which Tokugawa Ieyasu used to successfully ascend to the throne in the Battle of Sekigahara

Conclusion: The Battle of Gyeongcho was a war of Japanese aggression and Korea's alliance with the Ming Dynasty against aggression, as the place where the war took place, Korea has been in a slump ever since, and the defeat in the war of aggression completely dealt a blow to Japan's ambitions for foreign expansion, and indirectly caused great changes in the Japanese regime.