Last time, I talked about the saber of the Ming Dynasty when it was far less powerful than the Japanese "Japanese sword", but it did not prevent the Ming army from defeating the Japanese with the help of the "Mandarin Duck Array" in team combat.

The development of "firearms" in the Ming Dynasty gradually matured, and long-range artillery has basically replaced the "return cannon" and "bed crossbow", but the firearms used by individual soldiers, such as "bowl mouth gun", "three-eyed gun", "Japanese gun", "bird gun" and other "handguns", were not fully useful because of the time-consuming loading and the influence of gunpowder on rainy days due to the dampness of gunpowder.

Therefore, traditional cold weapons such as swords, bows, crossbows, contradictions, axes and hammers are still the basic equipment of infantry, and there have been major changes due to the infestation of "Japanese pirates".

At that time, when the Ming army was engaged in battle with the "Japanese Invaders", the weapons in their hands were often cut and broken by the sophisticated "Japanese knives", or even cut directly, and the casualties were extremely serious. Later, the Ming army developed a thick-backed machete to resist, although it is no longer easy to break, but once the front is chopped, the edge is often rolled, and even can not hurt the enemy, and the weapon is heavy, far less agile and heavy than the "sword". At this time, the "Qi family knife" equipped by the "Qi Family Army" was under the cover of the "Mandarin Duck Array", and the effect on the Japanese was greatly improved.

The biggest difference between the "Qi family knife" and the "katana" of the Japanese is that the "knife stem" is different; The length, width and thickness of the blade are different; The knife is fixed differently with the handle. The "Japanese knife" relies on the eye nail to cross the eye nail hole, while the "Qi family knife" is mostly a tail rivet. The so-called "Qi family knife" refers to the saber commonly used by the soldiers of the "Qi Family Army" led by Qi Jiguang in a narrow sense, and in a broad sense, it refers to the war knife produced by the Ming and Qing dynasties after the "Qi Family Army" similar to Qi Jiguang's improved "knife posture".

To a certain extent, this type of knife borrowed from the curved style of the "Japanese knife", and its handle was generally straight or bent forward, rather than similar to the backward bend of the Japanese knife, because this was in line with the long-standing knife holding habits of Chinese soldiers. At the same time, the forging of "Qijia knife" also meets the requirements of Qi Jiguang's "iron should be smelted more, and pure steel should be used for the blade", that is, "100 steel" should be used for the blade, and "pure steel" should be used for the blade, so as to achieve the requirements of both rigidity and softness as much as possible.

Judging from the existing preserved "Qi family sword", almost no Japanese sword forging method has been adopted. The biggest feature of "Japanese knife" forging is that soft iron is used as the "knife core", the outer "blade steel", and the blade is quenched with mud to form a wave pattern, the forging method is complex, the performance is very good, but the cost is too high.

Although the "Japanese sword" is sharp and tough, and can easily cut the sword in the hands of Ming Dynasty soldiers when slashing against each other, it is not suitable for large-scale combat due to the high cost of forging. Therefore, ancient China has always used the method of "cutting edge clamping steel" to simply deal with the problem of "taking into account both rigidity and softness", and the cost is low.

Although the "Qijia knife" learned the "posture" of the Japanese sword and changed the style of the past as a whole, the Ming army did not need to pay attention to the fine grinding of a single knife body like the Japanese Emperor, but paid more attention to the overall efficacy and manufacturing cost.

Like the "Qi family knife" this type of "Ming knife", its overall strength is very good, although it can not be directly cut with the "Japanese knife", but through the "rattan" after the protection of the bullying forward backhand slash the opponent, or stab through the bloodletting, it can still kill the enemy, so it is easy to popularize, very suitable for large-scale battlefield fighting.

For this reason, Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and other famous anti-Japanese generals also specially compiled the knife technique of this kind of war knife. Later, the "Qi Family Knife" was also cut out of the "blood groove" on the knife body, which was convenient for stabbing the enemy like a sword, and at the same time quickly bleed. This type of knife was also used in the early Qing Dynasty, but it was basically extinct after the middle period.

"Qi Wuyi Gongbao Knife Song Xie Laiyang Xu Mingfu Guibao in the same year" Wang Yirong of the Qing Dynasty engraved "Nantang Collection" in the past: "Today I am happy to get the 'Qi family knife'." The knife is as light as paper and as light as water, and the two lines know Qiu Manghao. Engraved Wanli ten years of words, is the time of the public residence Ji Town. Dengzhou Qi's Yuejia Army, the first surname of the sword is remembered.

Recalling the past, Zhejiang, Fujian and the three sides, the public office was full of smoke. The wine is not drunk, and the spirit is blazing for three hundred years. After several rumors of Jinan Station, Xu Hou got it like an arch wall. The silver letter has not changed the fashion, and the blood of the pelican stains the moss and flowers. I will pass Laiyang today, get off the horse and go straight to Xuhou Hall.

Xu Hou Bao knife gifted, knowing that Yu group practice and defense. There is no doubt that the daughter hangs on the tree, and the Chu bow is strange. That is, there is no difference in the defense of the border, and the generals of the Kwantung region are separated. The Beiyang Boat Division didn't care, throwing 26 million. So the poor island was arrogant, and the sea sandwiched Ezo was allowed to grow.

The imperial court ordered me to govern the township soldiers, and Xu Hou was born at the same age as me. Pitching the southeast half of the sky, the wine is full of tears. "Writes about the protagonist's vision of things. Although the Chinese army in the late Ming Dynasty was still able to easily defeat the strongest "Hundred Battles Heroes" in ancient Japan, the "First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle" in the last years of the Qing Dynasty was criticized.

What was the military strength of ancient Japan? Can you compete with ancient China? Not to mention that the "Battle of Baijiangkou" that took place during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty defeated the "Japanese people" to the point that they had no temper and had to intensively send envoys to the DPRK to completely copy the culture and political system of the Tang Dynasty, the process and results of the Wanli War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression that occurred at the end of the 16th century 900 years later are the best answer to this question, because the gap between China and Japan at this time was the smallest.

The opponent of the "Three Great Expeditions of Wanli" was the Japanese kingdom. The battle between the Chinese and Japanese armies around Pyongyang began with the defeat of the "Zu Chengxun" sneak attack on Pyongyang in April of the 20th year of Wanli, and ended until the following year, after Li Rusong's army broke through Pyongyang, forcing Konishi Yukinaga to lead more than 6,000 defeated troops to flee to Wangjing.

As for Zu Chengxun's attack on Pyongyang, it was just a small-scale contact battle between the Chinese and Japanese armies, and it is not of reference value, because the real confrontation between the two armies was the battle of Li Rusong's attack on Pyongyang the following year.

Before the war, Li Rusong once encouraged Liu Chenglong, saying: I have used cannons for five or six miles, how can he be a yes? Although this passage is suspected of exaggerating their own strength, it also points out the gap between the equipment of the Chinese and Japanese armies, that is, the Ming army has far more heavy firearms than the Japanese army, and in addition to such conventional firearms as "fast guns," "single-barreled guns," "Franc machine guns" (arquebuses)," and "bird guns," there are also "Ming rockets" and "poison rockets."

It can be seen that in terms of firepower, the Japanese army is not the opponent of the Ming Dynasty army at all. This is evident in this battle.

Before the Ming army attacked the city, the Japanese garrison general Konishi Yukinaga once sent his son-in-law Zong Yoshizhi to lead troops to attack the Ming army's camp, but was blocked by Li Rubai's rocket array, resulting in the Japanese army unable to resist the powerful firepower of the Ming army, and had to throw down thousands of corpses before fleeing back to Pyongyang in a hurry.

The next day, Li Rusong commanded the Ming army to attack the city on a large scale. Japan's "Expedition to Han Weilu" recorded the intensity of the Ming army's attack at that time, which made the enemy frightened: "Attacking it with artillery, the sound shook the ground for dozens of miles, the mountains moved, the rockets were empty, the smoke covered the sky, the arrows caught fire everywhere in the city, and the plants and trees were burned..."

The Japanese soldiers were killed by artillery, rockets, and poisoned rockets. The Japanese general Otomo Yoshitomo near Pyongyang was afraid of the Ming army and fled with his troops. The Japanese generals of Joseon Wangkyung did not dare to send troops, resulting in the city of Pyongyang being broken by the Ming army in only one day, and Konishi Yukinaga led the remnants of the defeated army to flee. Later, when he inspected the troops, he found that the first legion, which originally had nearly 20,000 people, had less than 5,000 people left, and two-thirds of them were killed!

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Conquering Ming Army" suffered such a crushing defeat in its first head-on battle with the Ming army. In this battle, the Japanese army retreated in a panic under the powerful firepower of the Ming army, which shows that the gap in military strength between China and Japan at that time was beyond doubt.

In the twenty-fourth year of Wanli (1596), the negotiations between the Ming and the Japanese broke down, and the war resumed until 1598. During this period, the major battles between the Ming and Japanese armies included the "Battle of Namwon", "Battle of Jisan", "Battle of Ulsan", "Battle of Dosanseong", "Battle of Suncheon", "Battle of Sizhou", and "Battle of Luliang Sea". In these battles, the Ming army was on the offensive side, while the Japanese army was on the receiving side. However, due to various reasons, Mingjun was unable to defeat his opponent.

Among them, during the "Battle of Nanyuan", the difference in strength between the two sides was too large, so that the Ming Dynasty lost its troops, and the Ming army only had 3,000 people, while the Japanese army had 50,000 people. During the "Battle of Jishan", the Ming army's deception made a great contribution. What really reflects the strength of the armies of the Ming and Japanese countries is the war in the areas of Ulsan and Suncheon.

The "Battle of Ulsan" began in November of the 26th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1598), and the Ming Dynasty general Yang Hao led 20,000 troops to besiege Kato Kiyomasa's Japanese army in "Ulsan", but it was not defeated for a long time. The reinforcements of the Japanese invaders were so large that they forced the Ming army to retreat after the defeat, so that thousands of people died on the spot!

Starting from the "Battle of Wacheng" in Shuntian, in September of the 26th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1600 AD), the combined forces of the Ming and Xian were led by Liu Ting, Chen Luan, Li Sunsin, and Quan Li. Later, due to the fiasco of Dong Yiyuan in Sizhou, the coalition forces had to retreat.

In all fairness, the second "Wanli War to Aid Korea" was not fought well, and painful defeats occurred one after another. However, if you take a closer look at these battle records, you will find that the Japanese victory is often just accidental, which means that there is a high probability that it is interference from external forces.

For example, in the "Battle of Ulsan", at the beginning of the war, the Ming cavalry first defeated the Japanese army who went out of the city to fight, and then the general Mao Guoqi led the army to conquer the Japanese army's Muzha outer city, causing the Japanese defenders to be in chaos. But at this time, Yang Hao actually ordered Mao Guoqi to organize soldiers to cut off the heads first.

It turned out that he had to wait for Li Rumei's Liaodong cavalry, and the reason was that he and Li Rumei had worked together in Liaodong and wanted this "old colleague" to grab a "first credit". As a result, during this time, the Japanese army redeployed, which led to a reversal in the next battle, and it was the Ming army that retreated in defeat.

What's even more sad is that in the "Battle of Sizhou", the Ming army was about to break the city, and Shimazu Yoshihiro was ready to commit suicide, but the result was a mistake by the gunner of the artillery in the Ming army, which caused the cannon to catch fire and explode (explode), which by the way ignited the ammunition depot, allowing the Japanese army to take the opportunity to go out of the city to counterattack.

As a result, the Ming army collapsed on all fronts, 3,000 soldiers were killed, more than 400 were captured, and the Korean army that fought together also lost thousands of people. The direct result of the "Sizhou rout" was that Liu Ting, Quan Li and others had to order the army to retreat. This coincidence does not exclude the presence of "ninjas" in it.

Although these battles were quite ugly, on the whole, the Japanese army was still compressed in the coastal areas of the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, and there was no ability to counterattack at all. The Japanese troops in these battles were all passive defense, so in the end, even if Toyotomi Hideyoshi did not die, it would be a matter of time before the Japanese were driven into the sea.

The biggest naval conflict between the Ming and Japanese was the "Battle of Luliang." In 1598, after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the five elders of the Japanese regents ordered the Japanese troops in Korea to retreat, and Shimazu Yoshihiro, who was stationed in Sizhou, decided to go to Suncheon to pick up Konishi's troops and return to China together, so as to plan for the long term.

As a result, the Japanese army was ambushed by the Ming and Xian coalition forces in the "Luliang Strait" and almost all of them were wiped out, while Shimazu Yoshihiro only returned to Japan with dozens of small broken ships that escaped by chance. It is no exaggeration to say that this naval battle was a massacre of the victors against the vanquished, and it has gone down in history.

The tall ships owned by the Ming Dynasty army were like wheels that crushed insects, and the Japanese warships were destroyed one by one, and all kinds of firearms showed their might, and this battle sank a total of 200 Japanese warships, killing and drowning more than 10,000 people. On the contrary, the combined forces of the Ming Dynasty and Korea suffered minor losses. According to historical records, the Ming army lost two warships, the Korean army only lost four warships, and the allied forces killed included Deng Zilong and Yi Sunsin.

After all, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was busy mobilizing 300,000 troops to suppress the rebellion of Yang Yinglong, the hereditary Tusi of Guizhou Province, after all, the other party's family had been hereditary from the Tang Dynasty to the present, with 70,000 or 80,000 troops.

The Ming Dynasty's army to assist Korea in resisting the Japanese invasion was only tens of thousands of horses, and the navy (navy) was less than 100,000, so it was the same from any aspect. The victory of the Wanli War was not only due to the strong combat effectiveness of the Ming army, but also to the support of China's national strength at that time.

As for what the Qing Dynasty said in their own "History of the Ming Dynasty": "China and Korea have no chance of winning. But they open their eyes and speak nonsense, and deceive themselves. However, although these have already happened, they may still have reference significance for the "Chongzhen Dynasty" twenty or thirty years later, but what determines the final victory of the Ming and Japanese Wars is not the struggle between the secular world, but the struggle between the "Xiuzhen Alliance" and the "Oriental Island Country Xiuzhen Realm" rooted in the land of China.

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