At the beginning, the Japanese pirates were only famous ship owners, officials and unemployed people in the coastal areas of Kyushu. /kloc-At the beginning of the 4th century, Japan entered the split period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the defeated southern feudal main organization samurai plundered the coastal areas of China and North Korea.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, in the imperial edict of Emperor Guangxu, "the enemy" was widely used to refer to the Japanese army, and words such as "the enemy army, the enemy soldiers, the enemy guns and the enemy court" were derived.
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The Japanese invasion not only led to the decline of towns in coastal areas, but also led to the "stop farming and waste weaving, and the crops lost their time" in Dingzhuang in other areas, which caused great losses to people's lives and property in China.
From the thirty-first year of Jiajing (1552) to the forty-third year of Jiajing (1564), the Japanese rebellion in Jiajing basically ended, causing devastating damage to southeast coastal areas such as Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian and Guangdong. The enemy "broke through eastern Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Zhen, Huai and Yang to Nantong, and there were more than 100 counties along the river."
The fierce fighting capacity and excellent weapons of the Japanese pirates during the Japanese rebellion also made the Ming army vulnerable to its attacks, which not only boosted the confidence of the Japanese pirates in defeating the Ming army, but also further strengthened their panic psychology during the Japanese rebellion.