Since ancient times, the Korean Peninsula has been a carefree place for China. It borders China in the northwest and faces Russia and Japan across the sea in the northeast. Its strategic position is very important to both China and Japan. If the Japanese occupied Korea, they could directly cross the border and invade the northeast of China, so China didn't know how many wars it had fought for Korea. The first war between China and Japan broke out because of the Korean Peninsula. The name of this war is the Battle of Baijiangkou.
A prelude to war
It all started with the separatist war on the Korean peninsula.
In the 5th century, Koguryo, Baekje and Silla played an important role on the Korean Peninsula. All three countries want to unify the Korean peninsula. Like China's Three Kingdoms period, the relationship between the three countries of Korea was subtle, with enemies and friends, intrigue and endless wars.
First Silla and Koguryo jointly attacked Baekje, and Baekje was threatened and turned to Japan for help. Japan hoped to expand its power to the Korean peninsula through Baekje, so it formed an alliance with Baekje. So Goguryeo have it both ways went to Baekje and the Japanese side to deal with Silla together. Silla was afraid, so she turned to China Tang Dynasty for help. Determined to destroy Goguryeo, the Tang Dynasty sold Goguryeo to Silla and formed an alliance with Silla.
At this point, Baekje, Koguryo, and Japan on one side, and China and Silla on the other, two major military alliances confronted each other. Both China and Japan participated in the Korean Civil War as helpers, and acted as the main force of this war, which turned the civil war into an international war. Since then, the two sides have scuffled in the Korean peninsula, playing in darkness.
In 645, at the request of Silla, Emperor Taizong led a hundred thousand troops to jointly attack Koguryo with Silla. In fact, attacking Koguryo is not only to help Silla, but also to help Silla. Goguryeo has always been a great threat to Liaodong, China. Helping Silla is actually helping yourself.
Goguryeo doesn't eat rice either. She bravely confronted Tang Jun and fought a tug-of-war with Tang Jun at home. Both sides win and lose. Under Goguryeo's tenacious resistance, Tang Jun's attack was blocked, and Goguryeo was never destroyed. Baekje took advantage of Silla's invasion of Koguryo to attack the emptiness of its own forces and even captured more than ten cities in Silla. Later, when Emperor Taizong died, the whole country mourned in the Tang Dynasty, and Tang Jun had no intention of fighting again. In desperation, he withdrew from Koguryo.
Because Tang Jun's attack on Koguryo didn't achieve practical results, Baekje King felt that Tang Jun was just a paper tiger, so in the following years, he joined hands with Koguryo to lay a foundation for Silla's more than 30 cities. King Silla wrote to the Tang Dynasty again, begging the Tang Dynasty to send troops to rescue him. At that time, Tang Gaozong, who was in power, sent envoys to Baekje and Koguryo to persuade them, but both countries ignored them and went their own way without giving me any face.
This angered Tang Gaozong who refused to propose a toast, so he made up his mind to solve the North Korean problem by force.
So, Sue and Xue were sent to conquer Koguryo for the second time. If it used to be a small fight, now the two sides are officially at war in the northern part of the Korean peninsula. At this time, Silla and Baekje also fought in the southern part of the Korean peninsula, forming two battlefields between the north and the south.
The fighting capacity of Koguryo army is really strong. Tang Jun's attack on Koguryo was blocked again. Tang Gaozong decided to bypass Koguryo and attack Baekje directly from the sea. It is easy for these two countries to destroy one first and the other.
In 660 AD, Tang Gaozong ordered General Su to lead 100,000 water troops to attack Baekje from Rongcheng, Shandong. In July, Silla also sent 50,000 troops to join hands with the Tang Dynasty. Compared with Koguryo, Baekje's fighting capacity is much weaker. Under the attack of the Tang and New Allied Forces, the Baekje army was defeated without fighting a few decent battles, and the capital of Baekje was quickly occupied and Baekje surrendered.
After Baekje surrendered, Tang Dajun could not stay abroad all the time, what's more, the military expenditure was too expensive, and the army was changeable at home and abroad for a long time, so only a few Tang Jun were stationed in Baekje, and most of them moved back to China.
In September of the same year, after Tang Banshi returned to Korea, Baekje rebelled again, so Tang also sent troops to Baekje again. General Tang Jun thought to himself, we will take you as soon as we hit you, and you will turn against us as soon as we withdraw. You have just returned to China, and your ass is not hot, and you have been tossed here again. You damn fool can't be killed. Tang Jun is very angry, and the consequences are very serious. This time, Tang Jun hit Baekje harder. Under Tang Jun's fierce attack again, Baekje was overwhelmed again and turned to the Japanese for help.
If Baekje dies, it will be difficult for Japan to set foot on the Korean peninsula again. In order to maintain Japan's power on the Korean peninsula, the Japanese court agreed to send troops to rescue and began preparations.
In 662, Japan sent 27,000 land and water troops to the Korean peninsula, with a huge momentum. As soon as the first Japanese troops arrived in North Korea, the Japanese emperor could not wait to order troops to attack Silla in an attempt to save Zhao from Wei and lift the siege of Baekje. In July, General Sun was ordered to lead 7000 people from Tang Jun to rescue Silla after learning the news of the Japanese invasion.
When the war was just around the corner, Baekje suddenly had civil strife, and there was a minister rebellion in China. Although he was finally killed by the king, his national strength was seriously weakened and it was difficult to resist the attack of Tang and the new Coalition forces. Baekje once again asked Japan to send more troops for support, otherwise Baekje would be in danger.
decisive battle
At this time, Japan is imminent. Now that you have decided to help, it can only be done by good people, otherwise all previous efforts will be in vain. Moreover, Japan feels that it is already very powerful and has always wanted to fight the Tang Dynasty. This time is an opportunity, so Japan sent a navy that thought it was powerful to move to Baekje.
As the Japanese navy went to the Korean battlefield day and night, Tang Jun was approaching the capital of Baekje, and Baekje was fighting for the trapped animals at this time.
In August 663, King Baekje was overjoyed to learn that Japanese reinforcements were coming. In order to show his importance to Japan, King Baekje left the prince and junior high school generals in the capital and led his troops to sea to meet the Japanese navy.
At the same time, more than 10,000 people of Tang Xinshui Army arrived at Baijiangkou by 170 warship in an attempt to attack Baekje Capital with the army.
On August 27th, more than 40,000 people from Japan and Baekje Navy arrived at Baijiangkou on 1000 warships, and an unprecedented encounter broke out at sea.
As the saying goes, when enemies meet, they are particularly jealous. It seems that a big fight between the two sides is inevitable.
Seeing the enemy coming, our army prepared for the battle.
After the simple deployment of Japan and Baekje water army, the Japanese army took the lead in charging Tang Xin water army by ignoring our army with the advantage of more people and more ships. Because China warships are tall and thick ships, and Japanese ships are short and thin, which are not at the same level as Tang Jun's giant ships.
As the saying goes, when an expert makes a move, he will know if he has it. As soon as the warships of both sides came into contact, Japanese warships were obviously at a disadvantage. The commander-in-chief of the Japanese army saw that it was difficult for him to take advantage of it, so he quickly ordered a retreat. The enemy ships came quickly and retreated quickly, and fled back to their own camp in an instant. We didn't pursue victory, but continued to keep the formation and stick to it. Because the Japanese army came quickly and fled quickly, both sides did not suffer much, so the first battle of the small test came to a hasty end.
On the night of August 27th, the Japanese and Baekje naval forces who lost in the first battle thought hard, summed up the experience and lessons of yesterday's defeat, and made a new operational plan.
The Japanese army thought it had an overwhelming advantage in terms of troops, and decided to strike first to strengthen, and adopted the operational policy of combining all-round attack with key attack to disrupt our army's position. The so-called all-round attack is to rely on the strength of many people to disrupt the war with our army and attempt to bring down our army by fighting for consumption. The Japanese army believes that even one person will drown our army. The so-called key attack is to focus on attacking our China giant ship in chaos, split our army in two, and then divide and annihilate it. Tactically, this is really a good idea, but I don't know if the backward Japanese ships can accomplish this important task.
On August 28, the Chinese and Japanese naval forces once again opened their posture. In strict accordance with the established plan, the Japanese naval command, each with a team of warships, rushed to our water array in disorder, pointing directly at the Chinese giant ship.
Liu, the commander of our army, decided to avoid the enemy's sharp edge and ordered a feint to retreat in order to lure him into the bait.
The Japanese navy didn't know it was a trick, so it rushed to our army in desperation. When they saw the Japanese army fall into the trap, our army immediately surrounded the enemy from both sides and surrounded the Japanese army in the middle. Only then did the enemy know that he had been cheated, but only then did he know that the day lily was cold.
Our army relied on the favorable formation to hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, and the two sides launched a big melee. Thousands of ships and tens of thousands of soldiers mixed together at sea to fight a big war. How spectacular, this battle can be described by shouting and killing.
Although the number and strength of our warships are only a fraction of the enemy's, our warships are all heavyweight warships. Our army commanded soldiers to fire rockets at the Japanese army from top to bottom with tall and thick warships, hitting the Japanese weakness directly. Because the Japanese ship was small and thin, the hull caught fire after being shot by an arrow, and the soldiers were either shot dead by random arrows, burned to death or drowned by jumping into the sea.
The Japanese saw this form, commanded soldiers to answer blows with blows, and fired rockets at our army. However, because our army is a tall and strong ship, it can be put out immediately even if it catches fire.
Seeing that dealing with a man as he deals with you has no effect, the Japanese army is at its wit's end and can't find a good way to crack Tang Jun. At this time, the Japanese army and the Baekje Army are only beaten. In the face of Tang Jun, Japan is more like a child at this time, and there is no strength to fight back. It can only cry and watch Tang Jun perform the burning camp.
The Japanese army was beaten to tears under the sharp rocket attack of our army, and the taste was very bad. Japanese warships that have lost their resistance have no intention of fighting to break through. Many ships were fleeing in panic, or collided with their own warships and sank, or collided with Tang Jun giant ships and were smashed, and the soldiers on board suffered heavy casualties. This scene is really tragic.
Except for a few breakthroughs, most of the Japanese and Baekje armies were annihilated or captured by our army. In the First World War, Tang Jun defeated 40,000 Japanese troops with 7,000 soldiers, which brought down the prestige of Tang Jun and Tang Dynasty. It can be described as a famous example of winning more with less, and it is magnificent! ! !
After the war, the Tang and New Allied Forces continued to attack Baekje and Koguryo while the iron was hot. Without the help of Japan, these two countries are no match for the Tang-Xin Coalition forces at all. The two countries were destroyed by the Tang and Xin allied forces, and Silla finally unified the Korean peninsula, which is exactly the old saying.