So there is no doubt that at this time, North Korea was directly hit by the Japanese army and suffered extremely heavy casualties. We must understand that the current weapons of the Japanese are not knives or spears at all, they are muskets! So how can the North Koreans resist? North Korea at this time

There were almost no muskets at all. As a result, most of Korea fell into the hands of the Japanese, and Korean civilians suffered heavy casualties.

At this time, North Korea could no longer resist the Japanese, because the war was impossible to fight. In the end, even the capital was occupied by Japan. The Japanese also carried out large-scale burning, killing and looting in North Korea. This was actually a battlefield similar to that of Western countries.

It was exactly the same. Of course, more women in North Korea were also raped by the Japanese. In the end, North Korea's top leaders knew that their situation was over, so they hurriedly asked for help from our Chinese emperor, the Ming Dynasty.

The most important thing during the Ming Dynasty in China was the development of firearms. It can be said that during this period, our Chinese army was the most powerful in the world. There was no one on the entire earth that could compete with it. Moreover, the national power of the Ming Dynasty was so strong that

This was a very outrageous situation. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty immediately sent troops to help North Korea. Although the Japanese had muskets, in front of the world's strongest Chinese musket army, even though the Japanese had an army of 200,000, they were still retreating.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi could not figure out why China was different from what he imagined and why he could not win. In the end, he could not figure it out and died of depression. Since Toyotomi Hideyoshi is dead, this shows that Japan

The army retreated, and North Korea began to repair their own country again.

Having said this, it is not difficult to see that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ambition to annex China and even the entire world is indeed good, but his military power cannot enable him to realize this ambition at all, so this has become

It is a great regret for the Japanese, but Japan will attack us in China later, and we in China almost lost! But that is a story for another day.

Originally, I didn't want to talk about our China affairs, but now I'd better continue to talk about a small thing, which happened around this period. Let's take a look.

During the reign of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty, our areas along the South China Sea were often invaded by Japanese pirates. The Japanese became pirates and robbed everywhere. We Chinese called this group of people Japanese pirates. In addition, there were some interesting things in China at this time.

Rich people and profiteers colluded with Japanese pirates to harm the people. The main reason is that when Japanese pirates come to coastal areas, they will burn, kill and loot the people here. Many people will be killed, and the beautiful ones will be ruined or even robbed.

If we leave, of course all the food or valuables from people's homes will be taken away.

As for our own wealthy people in China, there are also profiteers. They also collude with the Japanese pirates and harm the people together. The main thing is that the profiteers and rich people tell the Japanese pirates where the common people are, or where the people are richer.

Then the Japanese pirates will give some benefits to these rich people and even profiteers. Therefore, our coastal areas of China have reached the point of restlessness. People have been being killed in large numbers, and beautiful girls have been raped or killed by Japanese pirates in large numbers.

, directly fell into a very serious Japanese invasion.

Although China has begun to lag behind at this time, its military strength cannot be underestimated, so the Japanese pirates understand very well, and Japan has to pay tribute to China every year. Is this a joke? At this point we can understand

Because at present, the Japanese pirates are only burning, killing and looting in China's coastal areas, and will not go deep at all, because they will be completely killed by our Chinese army.

It is also under such circumstances that although our senior officials in China are also paying attention to this matter, because our internal profiteers and rich people have colluded with Japanese pirates, this kind of thing is really impossible to prevent. Especially this

One year, our Chinese pirates Wang Zhi, Xu Hai and others joined forces with Japanese pirates to land on the coasts of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, and plundered dozens of cities. Is this a joke? All of a sudden, almost all the people in our coastal areas were ruined.

So at this time our top Chinese leader Ming Shizong was very worried about this, so he asked Yan Song to find a solution.

But at this time, Yan Song's comrade Zhao Wenhua came up with a bad idea, which was to pray to the East China Sea, which meant offering sacrifices to the East China Sea, worshiping the gods, and asking for the blessing of the God of the Sea. At this time, China had begun to decline.

, so the people of Ming Shizong were not very smart. If we go by the evaluation of Ming Shizong by future generations today, the stupid Ming Shizong actually believed such nonsense at this time, and really sent a large number of people to Zhejiang with tributes.

Go and worship the God of the Sea.

And this method of worshiping the sea god is definitely ineffective. The pirates are still robbing the wealth of our Chinese people, killing people, and even still ruining our beautiful Chinese girls. So the court finally realized that this sacrifice

Worshiping the God of the Sea really didn't work, so it seemed that we had to find another way. So the imperial court sent Yu Dayou, a veteran who was familiar with coastal defense, to lead troops to fight against the Japanese pirates. At this time, Yu Dayou did lead the troops and won several battles, defeating the Japanese pirates.

At this time, the Japanese pirates saw that there was really nothing they could do. If they continued like this, they would really be defeated, so they did not dare to be arrogant anymore.

But Zhao Wenhua, who had made a bad idea to sacrifice to the God of the Sea before, felt that this was not good. Why? Because if Yu Dayou really defeated the Japanese pirates completely, does that mean that his previous method of worshiping the God of the Sea was wrong? So Zhao Wenhua went

The government framed Yu Dayou, and Yu Dayou was immediately arrested and imprisoned. Then the Japanese pirates began to become rampant again. The people along the coast once again fell into a situation where they were calling for help from the sky and the earth. People were dying every day and were being attacked by the Japanese pirates.

They massacred them. But this kind of thing had to be dealt with? So how to deal with it? Finally in 1533, the imperial court sent the newly promoted Qi Jiguang to manage Dengzhou and other three battalions and the 20 troops under the jurisdiction of the third battalion.

The five health centers are responsible for the anti-Japanese work in Shandong Province.

Let’s now get to know Qi Jiguang. Qi Jiguang, whose courtesy name was Yuanjing, also known as Nantang and later named Mengzhu. His ancestral home was Weihui, Henan, and he later moved to Dengzhou, Shandong, which is our modern Penglai today.

Qi Jiguang was born as a general, so he practiced martial arts diligently since childhood and was determined to serve the country. In 1544, the 17-year-old Qi Jiguang took over his father's position and served as the commander of the Dengzhou Guard. The following year, he was in charge of farming.

Later, he led the army to guard Jimen, which is the northwest of Changping in modern Beijing. In 1549, Qi Jiguang won the military examination. The next year, he was ordered to supervise the defense of the nine gates of the capital.

It is not my intention to be granted the title of Marquis, but I hope the sea will be peaceful. This is what Qi Jiguang said. After he arrived in Zhejiang, he immediately greatly strengthened the coastal defense, which achieved great results in the fight against Japanese pirates. By 155

In five years, Qi Jiguang was promoted to the rank of military commander because of his resourcefulness. He guarded the three prefectures of Ningbo, Shaoxing and Taizhou, and won three battles with the Japanese pirates in Longshan. However, Qi Jiguang was not dazzled by the victory, but realized

Our Chinese Ming army was corrupt and incompetent and could not shoulder the important task of fighting against the Japanese invaders, so we sent a letter requesting to recruit troops and train new soldiers.

I just don’t want the original army of the Ming Dynasty at this time, because we also said that this period is the beginning of the end of China’s strong national power, so many pirates dare to mess around, but this does not represent the current Chinese imperial court.

Are there any big problems with the high-level military? In short, there are problems, but they are certainly not as big as these current military problems.

In fact, our Chinese high-level officials have always been aware of the current situation. They are inherently corrupt, so they understand that the army does not have much combat effectiveness. However, they have to get rid of the Japanese pirates, so they agreed to Qi Jiguang's petition. Then Qi Jiguang in 1559, this

He began to recruit more than 3,000 farmers, miners, etc. in Yiwu. They were assigned weapons according to their age and size, and were organized into groups for training. In view of the swampy coastal areas and the scattered Japanese pirates, he made full use of the diverse characteristics of the Ming army's weapons and created an offensive and defensive system.

The suitable Yuanyang Formation consisted of a team of twelve people, a combination of long and short weapons, both offensive and defensive, and cleverly changed the formation according to the enemy's location, and repeatedly defeated the Japanese pirates. Therefore, the army he trained was affectionately called the Qi Family Army by the common people.

, great reputation.

By 1561, tens of thousands of Japanese pirates aboard hundreds of ships were invading Xiangshan, Ninghai and other places in Zhejiang. Qi Jiguang responded calmly and established a strategy of large-scale annihilation. He concentrated his forces to defeat them one by one. He won all nine battles and killed and captured the Japanese pirates.

There were more than 4,000 people, which was called the Great Victory of Taizhou in our later history.

After the Battle of Taizhou, the Japanese troubles in Zhejiang were basically eliminated, but the Japanese troubles in Fujian became increasingly serious. Qi Jiguang immediately led more than 6,000 troops to attack the Japanese pirates, regardless of the fatigue of the pommel and horses. In 1562, he took advantage of the opportunity of the ebb tide.

The soldiers carried straw to cover the mud, waded into the water and made a surprise attack on the Japanese pirates' lair on Hengyu Island. They killed more than 2,600 Japanese pirates and captured Niutian with the victorious troops. The Japanese pirates were frightened and called them Qi Hu. Then he fought with Fujian

The commander-in-chief Yu Dayou, the commander-in-chief Liu Xian of Guangzhou and others won the great victory of Pinghaiwei and the great victory of Xianyou.

In 1563, a large number of Japanese pirates surrounded Xinghua and established a nest with Pinghaiwei as the center. Qi Jiguang rushed to Yiwu again to recruit 10,000 people, and was ordered to cooperate with Yu Dayou and Liu Xian to conquer Pinghaiwei.

He killed more than 2,200 Japanese pirates, seized more than 3,900 pieces of equipment, and rescued more than 3,000 robbed men and women. Soon Qi Jiguang was promoted to the general of the Fujian Army, supervising the navy and army affairs of Fujian, Wenzhou and Jinhua in Zhejiang.
Chapter completed!