The meaning of Japanese pirates is as follows:
Japanese pirates refer to the general name of the Japanese pirate group that invaded Korea, coastal areas of China and Southeast Asia from the 13th to the 16th century. In addition to coastal plunder, they mainly engage in The Sino-Japanese smuggling trade was called Japanese pirates because ancient Chinese books called Japan a Japanese country.
At the end of the 13th century, Japan implemented a maritime ban policy. However, Japanese businessmen were determined to search for Chinese goods and were prohibited from doing business in the Zhejiang and Fujian areas of the Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan government collected taxes through Qingyuan (today's Ningbo) and Quanzhou Shipping Department to receive Japanese businessmen. Most of these merchants were armed merchants who robbed Japan's western coast.
At the beginning of the 14th century, Japan entered the period of division between the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The feudal princes fought against each other and fought for power. Some feudal lords of the Southern Dynasties who failed in the war organized warriors, merchants and ronin to carry out armed smuggling, robbery, burning and killing in coastal areas of China. They were called Japanese pirates in history.
In 1597, the allied forces of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty entered the decisive stage in their fight against the Japanese. The Ming Dynasty mobilized a total of 140,000 troops from the land and naval forces to once again reinforce North Korea, and decided to divide the troops into three groups to attack the three fortresses occupied by Japanese pirates: Ulsan, Sichuan, and Sulin.
China’s Eastern Expeditionary Army to aid Korea’s anti-Japanese army, led by Admiral Dong Yiyuan on the middle route and Zhang Bang, deputy commander-in-chief, divided the Ming army into four routes to attack the Japanese pirates entrenched in Yongchun, Kunyang and other places in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. attack.
North Korea's Gyeongsang Right Army Envoy Zheng Qilong also led 2,200 troops to form a coalition with the Ming army, and the Japanese fought together. The allied forces of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty bravely killed the enemy and won consecutive victories. In the middle of the night on September 28, 1598, the allied forces of the North and the Ming Dynasty launched an attack on the ancient city of Sichuan, a fortress occupied by Japanese pirates in southern Korea. At 3 o'clock in the morning on the 29th, the Japanese invaders who were surrounded in the city opened the city gate and tried to escape.
After the allied forces of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty repelled many Japanese counterattacks, they invaded Sichuan City. The Japanese defender Kawakami Zhongshi was shot to death by 36 arrows. Thousands of Japanese invaders were wiped out. The Japanese invaders burned the grain and grass warehouse in the city. For two days and two nights, the fire reached the sky. After the most important stronghold of the Japanese pirates in southern Korea was destroyed, their morale was low. The Japanese pirates in the remaining 10 strongholds "organized their formations and ran away in fear", and more and more people surrendered.