There are two other wars, not that most people in China don't know, but that few people in China don't know. This is why the Mongols launched two large-scale wars and failed to conquer Japan.
/kloc-in the 0/3rd century, the Mongolian fighters of the Yuan Empire were invincible and swept across Eurasia. Arrogance At that time, North Korea's position was close to that of an outsider and it had little interest in war. Therefore, their records are more credible. At that time, both Mongolia and Japan recorded these two wars, but the records were often contradictory. According to some historical records of North Korea, Mongolia attacked Japan because Japan refused to submit to the Mongolian Empire. Kublai Khan sent envoys to Japan for many times, demanding that Japan surrender and pay tribute. King Koryo also wrote to the Japanese, asking them to yield to the Mongols, but the Japanese refused Kublai Khan's request contemptuously every time. In the face of such an attack, the Mongolian Khan, the king of the world, certainly cannot tolerate it. Therefore, an armed attack on the Japanese tunnel is inevitable. It should be noted that when Japan was attacked for the first time, the Southern Song Dynasty was not extinct, and Kublai Khan only controlled China in the north. At that time, the Yuan Empire was assembling heavy troops to prepare for the southern expedition, and there were not many troops attacking Japan, and the Han people were not the main force of this invasion.
Another reason why Kublai Khan attacked Japan is that Japan has been the world's largest producer and exporter of silver for hundreds of years. Years of campaigns have made the finances of the Mongolian empire tight, and this rich island country is undoubtedly a piece of fat in the eyes of Mongolian nobles who are in urgent need of hard currency.
"In A.D. 1274, the expeditionary force that attacked Japan set sail from North Korea and sailed for Kyushu Island. Expeditionary force * * * 25,000 people, about half of whom are Mongolians and Koreans, and some jurchen and a small number of Han people. The commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Force is Hu Dun of Mongolia, and the two deputy commanders are Hong Chaqiu of Korean nationality and Liu Fuheng of Han nationality. The Yuan Army sailed to Hakata Bay, first captured and ravaged Tsushima Island and an island, and then landed in Kyushu and invaded the inland. Of the three invading armies, one is the main force and the other is the cooperative defense. The landing site of the main force is about near Nagasaki.
In the face of the first "Mongolian attack", the Japanese Kamakura shogunate mobilized some regular troops to participate in the war, and the Kyushu coastal governors also urgently organized warriors and militia to participate in the war. After more than 20 days of bitter fighting, the Japanese army's tactics were relatively backward and suffered heavy casualties in the first battle, but it still successfully blocked the advance of the Yuan Army. After several days of stalemate, the Japanese gradually adapted to the tactics of the Mongols and began to fight back. Japan, mainly composed of samurai, rode heavy war horses in close combat, braved the rain of arrows to attack the enemy with the support of Mongolian archers, and launched close combat with the enemy, which invalidated Mongolia's archery advantage. Liu Fuheng was killed in the fierce battle, and the Yuan army returned to the beach to rely on the pull-back gun for defense. At this point, the Yuan army suffered heavy casualties and there was no hope of progress. Their failure is inevitable. As the arrows and supplies were about to run out, the Yuan army could not continue to hold its ground and had to retreat to the ship. On the way back to North Korea, the Yuan Army fleet was hit by a storm and suffered some losses, but most of the ships returned home safely.
After the first invasion of Japan, Kublai Khan thought that the Japanese had learned the power of the Mongols, so he sent envoys to Japan again to demand surrender, but the Japanese simply beheaded the Mongolian envoys. Kublai Khan naturally won't submit to humiliation. After the unification of China, he set out to prepare for the second sea invasion. Recruit troops from China, Mongolia, and North Korea to land in coastal areas for training, and continuously collect food and grass materials for expeditionary forces from all over the country. At the same time, shipyards along the southeast coast of North Korea and China are also building warships and troop carriers around the clock.
Naturally, preparations for such a large-scale expedition cannot be kept secret. The Japanese closely monitored the movement of the Yuan Empire and made full preparations for the upcoming second "Mongolian attack".
128 1 year, the huge Yuan Imperial Expeditionary Force set out from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Korea at the same time. The expedition was spectacular, with nearly 5,000 ships and about 200,000 troops, including 45,000 Mongols, more than 50,000 Koreans and about100,000 Han people, most of whom were newly attached troops. The ancient Mongols were naturally the backbone of the expedition. As expected by the Japanese army, the Northern Fleet arrived in Hakata Bay at the end of May. While waiting for the southern fleet, Mongolian troops easily captured several islands in Hakata Bay, all the residents on the island were slaughtered, and the buildings on the island were destroyed and burned. At the beginning of June, the Southern Fleet arrived and two huge fleets met off Kyushu. After that, the Yuan Army began to land, and the landing place was Jiulong Mountain, not far from where the main force of the last war landed. This time, the expeditionary force met with more tenacious and effective resistance. With the stone wall as the cover, the Japanese army constantly repelled the attack of the Yuan Army and waited for an opportunity to organize a counter-charge. The Japanese defeated the main force of the Korean army in the most successful counterattack. Hong Chaqiu, commander of the Korean Army, was captured and killed, and several senior Mongolian commanders were killed one after another. Fierce fighting lasted for more than a month, and the loss of the expeditionary force has exceeded one third, but it still can't break through the stone wall. By the end of July, the Yuan Army had basically run out of grain, grass and arrows. At this time, the Mongols and the Japanese probably thought that the end of this war would be the same as last time, ending with the withdrawal of the Yuan Army.
On August 1 day, a violent hurricane suddenly blew in the Pacific Ocean. The storm lasted for four days, and the ships of the Southern Fleet of the Yuan Army were basically destroyed, and most of the ships of the Northern Fleet were also lost. The remaining ships of the Northern Fleet, carrying the commander and some Mongolian and Korean troops, fled the battlefield and returned to North Korea. Confederate army commanders and some senior officials saw that there was nothing they could do, so they had to leave their large forces and escape by the remaining ships of the Southern Fleet. At this time, there are nearly 100,000 troops left on the beach of Jiulongshan, breaking through the Japanese defense, and now they can only wait for death. Three days later, the Japanese army began to counterattack, driving the remaining Yuan troops to a narrow area called Bajiao Island, and then attacking with troops. Most of the Yuan troops were killed, and the remaining 20,000 people were captured. According to Mongolian standards, the Japanese divided the prisoners into four classes, the first three classes, that is, Mongols, Semu people, Jurchen people, Koreans and Northern Han people were all put to death, and the fourth class Tang people (Southern Han people) were exempted from the death penalty and became members of the Ministry (Dalits). Today, there is also a hill called "Yuan Guan Tomb" in Hakata Bay, which is said to be the collective cemetery of soldiers of Yuan Army.
In this fiasco, three Yugoslav soldiers escaped. They pieced together a boat and drifted back to China. Kublai Khan finally learned the truth of the defeat through three survivors. Fan, the deputy commander, was beheaded and other officials were punished to varying degrees.
The advantage of Japanese equipment lies not only in combat knives, but also in the armor of samurai. It is said that Mongolian bows and arrows can't penetrate the samurai's armor as long as they are a little farther away. Japanese samurai are completely unemployed and have received strict military training since childhood. It is not surprising that their fighting skills were superior to those of the ancients in Bi Meng. Mongolian records say that the Japanese are good at fighting alone, and the Japanese statement can verify this. The Japanese have the lowest evaluation of the Han people in the Yuan Army. In their view, the Han army is a standard fishing force, because it is afraid of death and has a low potential. But Han people can't fight, so it's right to be slaves, so the Japanese finally pardoned some Han people. (Why the Mongols didn't conquer Japan, mostly from Daqing Science Life) We can easily see that as early as 300 years ago, the Japanese dared to challenge the mighty Mongolian army. At that time, the Han people were most despised by the Japanese. After the end of World War II, China, with 96% Han nationality, was recognized as the "post-war top four" in the world, while Japan was almost in ruins, trampled by the whole world and restricted in almost all aspects. Only after more than 30 years, Japan miraculously rose to become the "second child in the world", and China really became the third world.
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