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During the reign of Sejong in the Ming Dynasty, the defense in the southeast coast was empty, and the enemy (W not) took the opportunity to invade, causing unprecedented harm.
Japan was called Japan in ancient China. In the early Ming Dynasty, a group of Japanese pirates came to the coastal areas of China and engaged in murder and robbery. They are called Japanese pirates. However, at that time, the Ming Dynasty had a strong national strength, a strong army fighting capacity, a relatively stable social and political situation, and the invading enemies were quickly wiped out, so it did not cause great disasters.
However, during the Jiajing period, the Japanese did harm half of the coast of China.
Some local corrupt officials, bullies, profiteers, criminals, etc. Collaborate with the Japanese pirates one after another, causing them to burn, kill and plunder in the coastal areas of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong. In A.D. 1553, a large number of pirates landed in Zhejiang and Jiangsu under the guidance and leadership of pirate leaders Wang Zhi and Xu Hai, harassing dozens of cities such as Chongming, Shanghai, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Ningbo and Shaoxing.
The imperial court had to send officials and troops to encirclement and suppression. Although the Ming army won some victories under the command of the famous Yu, the court listened to the framing of local profiteers and corrupt officials, executed two ministers, Zhu Wan (W ι n) and Li He, and arrested Yu. And foolishly sent Yan Song's henchmen Zhao Wenhua to sacrifice Poseidon in the East China Sea to pray for the enemy. The enemy's arrogance is even more arrogant.
/kloc-in the autumn of 0/555, the court had to transfer Qi Jiguang, an anti-Japanese general, from the Shandong coast to Jiangsu and Zhejiang as a general, guarding Ningbo, Shaoxing and Taizhou, and controlling the military sites frequented by the Japanese.
Qi Jiguang's famous anti-Japanese generals are Tan Lun and Yu. Tan Lun later became Qi Jiguang's immediate superior and gave a lot of support to Qi Jiguang's military activities.
As soon as Qi Jiguang arrived in Zhejiang, he and Yu together encircled the Japanese invaders who landed in Longshan, winning three out of three. But from actual combat, Qi Jiguang found that the original Ming army had poor discipline, poor training, low morale and low quality. At the end of a battle, a soldier came to report his merits with his head, but another soldier followed him with tears and said, "This is my brother, whose head was beheaded before he died ..." Another soldier came to ask for a reward for his head, which turned out to be an innocent teenager.
Two criminals who took the credit for the murder were executed, but their actions shocked Qi Jiguang: How could such soldiers defeat the Japanese? He is determined to train a new, disciplined and well-trained army. After many requests, he finally got the approval of his superiors and went to Yiwu, Zhejiang Province to recruit new soldiers in person. He didn't want people who were slick, afraid of death and infected with hooliganism, but chose 3000 strong, brave, hardworking and agile farmers and miners to form a brand-new army.
After just a few months of training, Qi Jiguang turned them into a disciplined, well-trained, well-armed and brave team. Wherever this army went, the people welcomed them with food and boiled water, calling them "teachers of the benevolent". With this capable and efficient team, Qi Jiguang moved to the anti-Japanese battlefields in Zhejiang and Fujian, and achieved many brilliant results. The enemy called Qi Jiguang "Tiger" and the people called him "Qijiajun".
In A.D. 1559, Qi Jiguang joined Tan Lun's army and drove to Taizhou to wipe out the enemy who fled to Taizhou. They fought a lot of hard battles all the way and drove the enemy to the south bay of Taiping (now Wenling, Zhejiang). The enemy occupied the high mountains along the coast and fought back. Arrows and stones rained down on the Ming army. Qi Jiguang and his younger brother Qi Jimei were in command in front of the position. They picked up bows and arrows, each with an arrow, and roared out, just hitting two Japanese leaders who raised flags and shouted. The other enemies cowered in fear, and Qi Jiajun shouted to kill the mountain. The enemy retreated to the seaside. I didn't know there was a dead end behind them. They were either killed or drowned in the sea.
The enemy in Zhejiang was almost completely annihilated, and Qi Jiguang was ordered to lead the army into Fujian to annihilate them. The first battle after Qi Jiajun arrived in Fujian was the battle of Yu Heng. Yuheng is an island in the northeast sea of Ningde City, surrounded by water. You can't sail a big boat in shallow water, and it's not convenient to walk when the water recedes. There is an enemy's lair on the island. /kloc-more than 0/000 enemies have been entrenched here for three years, and local loyalists have never dared to attack.
Qi Jiguang sent people to find out the geographical location of the island and the characteristics of topography, waterway and tidal current, and made an attack plan. He asked each soldier to take a bundle of hay to the other side of Yuheng Island. When it was dark that day, he threw the hay into the water and paved a road. The army landed on the island by force and launched a storm. More than 300 Japanese pirates were annihilated, 29 people were captured and more than 600 people drowned at sea. Qi Jiajun won a great victory.
Since then, Qi Jiguang has won many battles in Tian Niu, Linton, Pinghaiwei, Xianyou and Xinghua. In A.D. 1566, Qi Jiguang wiped out Wu Ping, a pirate who occupied Nan 'ao Island on the border between Guangdong and Fujian and collaborated with the Japanese army. At this time, the pirates who had been rioting in the southeast coast for decades were finally eliminated.