Moreover, China once invaded Japan in the Yuan Dynasty. After Kublai Khan unified the Southern Song Dynasty, * * * had to drop more than 200,000 troops. What should these people do? It is impossible to kill them all, and Kublai Khan does not trust them to be loyal to himself. So Kublai Khan decided to send these people to invade Japan!
First invasion of Japan:1January 274, Kublai Khan ordered the Korean dynasty to build 900 ships, including 300 large ships weighing1000-4,000 stones, 300 light boats and 300 small boats. All this was done in June. In August, Yidu was appointed as Marshal Zheng Dong, Hong Chaqiu as the right deputy commander, and Liu Fuheng as the left deputy commander, commanding 20,000 Mong-Han troops, 5,600 Korean troops and 6,700 Korean sailors, totaling more than 32,000 people. 1274 65438+1October 3, officially set off. Du Du called the generals to discuss the military operations in these two days. Due to the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army, the number of Japanese troops was overestimated, and Japan was not as rich as expected. The soldiers gradually lost their fighting spirit. Only Kim Fang-ching, the general of the North Korean army, saw that the situation at that time was favorable to the Yuan army, and advocated taking Taizaifu and holding the position for reinforcement. Yi Du denied Kim's opinion that "a small enemy is strong, a big enemy is captured, and the soldiers are exhausted", so he decided to withdraw the whole army and return to the DPRK the next day. As a result, a typhoon hit that night. After midnight, the typhoon gradually subsided and it rained heavily. Fearing the Japanese attack, Yidu ordered to retreat in the rain. After returning to China, we found that the death toll from this typhoon reached 13,500, more than one third of the total number of troops dispatched. The first expedition ended hastily, and Japanese history books called it "the Battle of Wenyong".
The second invasion of Japan: Yuan troops were deployed in two ways. All the way is the East Route Army, including 40,000 troops from Mongolia, Han and North Korea, and 900 warships under the command of Yidu, Hongchaqiu and Jin. After North Korea, attack Japan against Ma Haixia; On the other hand, Jiangnan Army, a warship of 65,438+/kloc-0,000,000, set sail from Qingyuan (now Ningbo) under the command of Fan, commander of the Southern Song Dynasty, and crossed the sea to directly attack Japan. The two Yuan armies, with the right prime minister and famous general Agan as the commander in chief, are scheduled to meet in Yiqi Island on June 128 15. For the long-term, the Yuan Army also prepared farm tools, and planned to open up wasteland after landing. In addition to the 50,000 to 60,000 people drowned in the typhoon, there are still 40,000 to 50,000 people left on the island, exhausted without a commander. The Japanese army attacked, most of them were killed or injured, and the remaining 20 thousand people were captured. These prisoners were called "Tang people" by Japan, and all of them became slaves. In this way, 6.5438+0.4 million went to the army, and only one-fifth came back. The second expedition ended in a fiasco. This year is the fourth year of Emperor Hongan of Japan, which is called "Battle of Hongan" in Japanese history. Later Kublai Khan thought Japan was a disaster-prone place, so be it! It can be said that these two timely typhoons saved Japan, otherwise it is not completely impossible to conquer Japan with the strength of the Yuan Dynasty!