Chapter 12 [The Destruction of the Japanese Sword Fanatics] -2

Sure enough, Xu Hai soon led more than ten thousand people from Okuma and Samosir Island to plunder Guazhou, Shanghai, Cixi and other places, and mobilized troops to storm Zhapu. Hu Zongxian set up camp in Tangqi, and he and governor Ruan E were horns of each other.Frightened by the Japanese situation, they also went out to meet the enemy. Ruan E's subordinate general Zong Li dared to fight and led his troops to attack the Japanese pirates in Xu Haibu. He won three battles and three victories, but unfortunately died in the end.The Japanese pirates took advantage of the opportunity to surround Ruan E in Tongxiang.

Seeing that the situation was urgent, Hu Zongxian hurriedly drew his troops back to Hangzhou.At the same time, he sent commander Xia Zheng to hold Wang Fu's letter to persuade Xu Hai to surrender.Seeing Wang Fu's handwriting, Xu Hai was shocked: "Why, is the old ship owner (Wang Zhi) going to surrender too?" Wang Zhi had a great reputation among Japanese pirates and pirates, and Xu Hai himself was injured in the battle, so he was quite moved. Because he didn't know the depth of the matter, he didn't dare to agree immediately, and he shied away and said: "Our group of people attacked from three directions. I alone don't count, and there are Chen Dong and Ma Ye."

According to Hu Zongxian's instructions, Xia Zheng lied to Xu Hai and said: "Chen Dong has already made a secret agreement with us, now it depends on what you want." When Xu Hai heard this, he immediately suspected that Chen Dong had a secret agreement with the Ming army. For Chen Dong's side, he also heard that Ming envoys entered Xu Hai's camp for secret talks, and he was quite surprised.As a result, the suspicion between the two deepened. Under Xia Zheng's persuasion, Xu Hai sent an envoy to apologize to Hu Zongxian, but demanded a large sum of gold and silver to "reward the army".Hu Zongxian implemented it immediately, sending people to send money, wine and meat, which made Xu Hai overjoyed.So he immediately released more than 200 Ming army prisoners and withdrew from Tongxiang.As a result, Ruan E, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, was saved.

After Xu Hai rescued the siege, he returned to the base camp Zhapu to recuperate. Hu Zongxian sent a letter to persuade Xu Hai: "Master Xu has attached himself to Daming, and there are many Japanese pirates in Wusong River. Why don't you attack them and make meritorious service! Moreover, there are hundreds of boats belonging to that group of thieves, and you can lead your troops to plunder them as military resources." Like Xu Haique, he took it for granted, and soon led his army to counterattack the former "comrades in arms", beheading more than 30 ranks. And just when he was out of the army, Hu Zongxian sent Yu Dayou to set off with troops, and set fire to many large ships docked near Zhapu, his old nest.

Xu Hai was frightened, and hurriedly sent his son Xu Hong as a hostage to "honour" the flying fish crown, armor, famous sword and countless golden treasures to Hu Zongxian.Hu Zongxian reciprocated, rewarding Xu Hong with more golden treasures, and asked him to send a message to Xu Hai, hoping that Xu Hai could send the two thieves Chen Dong and Ma Ye to the Ming army. Xu Hai was very grateful to see Mr. Hu being so "righteous".He quickly grabbed the hemp leaves, tied them up and sent them to Hu Zongxian's door. Hu Zongxian was very scheming. He personally untied Ma Ye, promised him a high-ranking official, and induced him to write to Chen Dong, asking him to get rid of Xu Hai.After Hu Zongxian got the letter written by Ma Ye, he sent it to Chen Dong. After earning a reply from the other party, he sent someone to forward it to Xu Hai.

Xu Hai was furious when he saw the letter.At the same time, Xu Hai's two concubines, Cuiqiao and Luzhu, were also bought by Mr. Hu, who told Xu Hai day and night that Chen Dong wanted to harm him.There was a lot of wind beside the pillow, so Xu Hai immediately sent someone to bring a heavy treasure to Chen Dong's master, the younger brother of the owner of Satsuma Island.The Japanese forgot their righteousness at the sight of profit, and were overjoyed to see Jinbao countless times, so they immediately had Chen Dongsong and Hu Zongxian tied up. As a result, Chen Dong and Maye were able to meet in the prison room of the Ming army.

When Chen Dong and Ma Ye were arrested, it was actually Xu Hai who suffered the most.If he really and in fact surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, he would have nothing to worry about.But he didn't get the pardon and official title. At this time, he had lost his wings and was alone, which was very embarrassing. Xu Hai was stupid, he thought he had meritorious service in tying Chen Dong and Ma Ye, and he had no defense against Hu Zongxian.Therefore, the two parties agreed on a date, and Xu Hai was ready to formally surrender. Unexpectedly, Xu Hai was impatient to surrender, and rushed to Hangzhou one day in advance, leaving a large army outside the city. He himself led more than a hundred Japanese island chiefs to enter with armor and swords.Zhao Wenhua and Ruan E were both there at the time, and they were frightened when they heard that, fearing that Xu Hai would make money in the city and kill people in the name of surrender, so he urged Hu Zongxian to reject him.

This Lord Hu was not afraid in the face of danger, comforted Zhao Wenhua not to be afraid, and immediately sent someone to open an account to meet Xu Hai.In fact, Xu Hai really surrendered.After he entered the account, he led all the thieves to kowtow and apologize.Hu Zongxian left his seat and helped Chuhai himself, saying that the imperial court would "treat him leniently" and hoped that he would "take the crime and make meritorious service" in the future. When Hu Zongxian said this, he felt very embarrassed.For a giant bandit like Xu Hai who has been killing and plundering along the coast for many years, the imperial court has always wanted him to be killed, and Hu Zongxian himself has no right to grant amnesty.

Therefore, Governor Hu first arranged for nearly 10,000 Japanese pirates under Xu Hai to live and camp in Shenzhuang.There is a river in Shenzhuang, which divides Zhuangzi into east and west parts.Xu Hai's hands descended to the west, and Hu Zongxian's Ming army lived to the east, facing each other across the water. In the evening, after the arrangements were made, Hu Zongxian summoned Chen Dong, who was under house arrest, and asked him to write a secret letter to the old subordinates living in Xu Haiying in Xizhuang, saying that Xu Hai conspired with the government and army, and wanted to kill all the Japanese pirates at night for meritorious service.

When the news came out, the Japanese party was terrified, and came to Xu Hai's tent at night to shout for death.Xu Hai was dreaming with his arms around the two beautiful concubines when he suddenly woke up and ordered his guards to resist desperately.The thieves killed each other, and Xu Hai himself was shot in the thigh and barely supported. During the melee, the Ming army had surrounded the Japanese pirates. In the early morning, when he saw that all the Japanese brothers in his camp were dead and injured, and the Ming army surrounded them and shouted for murder, Xu Hai knew that he had been deceived, and threw himself into the water in despair.

The Ming army won a complete victory without much effort this time. Even Xin Goro, the younger brother of the owner of Osumi Island in Japan, was captured alive. Only a few remnants of the enemy fled to Zhoushan.Hu Zongxian immediately ordered Yu Dayou to pursue him, and burned his fence on a snowy night, and all the Japanese pirates were burned to death. "The two Zhejiang and Japanese gradually leveled off. Emperor Jiajing rejoiced and made an announcement to the temple. Lingchi Maye, Chen Dong, Xu Hong, Xin Wulang and other thieves ordered Hu Zongxian to be added to the imperial censor and rewarded with gold coins. To be honest, although Hu Zongxian's strategy is good, he is not too kind.How can I say that Xu Hai is also a surrender, and it is ominous to kill and surrender. I don't know if Governor Hu knows this. After Xu Hai, Chen Dong and others were dealt with, the next target was Wang Zhi, the leader of the Japanese pirates. In the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing (1557), when he heard that "old comrades" Xu Hai and others were all dead, Wang Zhi suddenly felt sad for the death of a rabbit and a fox , together with more than 3,000 Japanese pirates, took a boat to Ningbo Cen Port, plundered the four territories, and then withdrew to the sea to wait and see. Even so, because Jiang Zhou and others were doing "work" before, Wang Zhi didn't kill many people. He just wanted to show his "strength" and increase his bargaining power with the Ming Dynasty. Hu Zongxian sent someone to inform Jiang Zhou, and Jiang Zhou told Wang Zhi, saying: "If the prince surrenders, the imperial court will appoint you as the governor."Jiang Zhou didn't know that Governor Hu was planning a plan, so he made a blood alliance with Wang Zhiyi. Lao Wang was very excited, and said vigorously: "I will clean up Haibo for the court and redeem the lives of my family!" He first sent his bandit leaders Mao Haifeng and Ye Bichuan to set off with Jiangzhou, and then he led a large army to follow. However, after Jiang Zhou and the others arrived in Hangzhou, Wang Zhi did not come for a long time.Officials of the Ming Dynasty expressed their suspicions one after another, thinking that Wang Zhi was deceiving, and it was likely that he would attack again while taking advantage of the opportunity.Therefore, Wang Bengu, the censor of the Ming court, ordered Jiang Zhou to be arrested and imprisoned, and he was strictly interrogated whether he was a traitor to the country. Jiang Zhou was wronged and angry, and argued: "Wang Zhi must surrender, and he missed the deadline, probably because of the strong wind at sea." What Jiang Zhou said was good.Wang Zhi's big boat had just sailed for a day when it encountered a hurricane at sea, and the group almost died. He had to send someone back to resend a new ship, so it was late. Wang Zhi came here and stopped at Cengang, Ninggang.Residents in the Zhejiang area were shocked when they heard that hundreds of Japanese pirate ships and thousands of people were berthing at Cen Port, and there were many rumors. When the court officials heard about it, they also privately believed that Hu Zongxian would bring wolves into the house, which would lead to a catastrophe in the southeast. When Wang Zhi came from afar, he suddenly found that the Ming army was not far from the shore, full of soldiers, with a dense barrier.He was very unhappy about this, so he sent his adopted son Wang Fu ashore to question Hu Zongxian: "I came here according to the imperial order, just to rest our troops and secure the country. Unexpectedly, your Lord Hu strictly forbids boats to go out to sea, and you have placed a large army on strict guard. Trick me!" Hu Zongxian was burning with anxiety, but with the patrol censor Wang Bengu and others watching, he didn't dare to go too far, so he had to send someone to reply to Wang Zhi, saying that the court "welcomes" his surrender.At the same time, he asked Wang Zhi's son, who was under house arrest, to write to his father, urging Wang Zhi to go ashore immediately and surrender. Wang Zhixin smiled wryly, and replied with only a few words: "How stupid my son is! Your father is here, and the court treats you generously; when your father comes, you will die after closing the door!" He asked Jiang Zhou to board the ship or the Ming army sent someone with status to be a hostage in the army.Jiang Zhou himself could not come. He was imprisoned by the inspector censor, and he was being tortured and tortured.Therefore, Hu Zongxian sent the conductor Xia Zheng, who had been dealing with the Japanese pirates, to see Wang Fu with a forged imperial court pardon for Wang Zhi (in fact, he did write the memorial, but it has not yet been approved). Wang Fu didn't know if it was fake, so he went back excitedly and told Wang Zhi.Lao Wang was very happy, thankful that he had plundered and slaughtered for most of his life, and finally had a legitimate status in the "motherland".The excitement is tantamount to Lai Changxing's return to the local party secretary. Wang Zhi had no doubts, arranged his troops properly, and went ashore without hesitation, with only a few followers with him. The common people were very curious to see Lao Wang, a half-grown old man, dressed in gorgeous bright clothes, and all the attendants around him had Japanese pirate hairstyles with a few bald heads (including Chinese and Japanese), which were very eye-catching. Hu Zongxian was so enthusiastic that he treated Wang Zhi as a guest and chose a mansion in Hangzhou to house Lao Wang. He also sent guards and bearers, which was similar to receiving foreign leaders. When the matter developed to this point, Hu Zongxian's original intention was indeed that the imperial court pardon Wang Zhi, and use the Japanese pirates to attack the Japanese pirates, so that the coastal troubles could be eliminated.In addition, Wang Guozhen, the spokesperson of the Ming court, and other human resources could not stand it, saying that Wang Zhi was the culprit of the Japanese pirates and could never be pardoned. Originally, Hu Zongxian had to defend himself, but when he heard that many people in the court claimed that he himself had accepted a large sum of bribes from Wang Zhi, he tried to pardon the pirate leader for his serious crimes.After many years of ups and downs in the officialdom, Hu Zongxian broke out in a cold sweat, hurriedly withdrew the original memorandum, and changed his name to Wang Zhi. He committed a heinous crime and should be punished immediately. For many days, Wang Zhi spent a lot of time in his mansion in Hangzhou, waiting for the appointment of the imperial court.In normal times, he also studied the sea charts carefully, and was ready to go to sea as a "captain" to kill "Japanese pirates" at any time.One day, when he heard the commotion at the front of the door, Wang Zhi thought that there was an edict to take office, so he hurriedly changed his clothes and went out to greet him.Unexpectedly, the person who came here was not Hu Zongxian from the same village, but Wang Bengu, the inspector censor, who came with a lot of fierce yamen servants.Before he could speak, Wang Zhi was beaten and knocked to the ground by the police.In the blink of an eye, he has changed from a guest to a prisoner. Wang Zhi was not stupid, he quickly understood, sneered, and sighed: "Grand Hu misled me!" Wang Zhi's case does not need to be examined carefully, his previous crimes are enough for him to die 10,000 times.Within a few days, dozens of family members including Wang Zhi, his mother and wife were taken to the execution ground in Hangzhou for execution.After so many years of murder and looting at sea, Wang Zhi is a person who has experienced the world, and his expression is calm when he is executed. The only thing that Wang Zhi regrets is that such a clever person like himself was finally deceived by the seemingly loyal fellow Hu Zongxian.When the sword was cut down, Wang Zhi let out a roar. Wang Zhi was killed, and the more than 3,000 Japanese pirates moored in Cengang were very sad and angry.These people are all dead soldiers who have fought bloody battles with Wang Zhi for many years.Once the old club died, they felt that they had nowhere to turn, and they all stood up with their swords, fighting with all their strength to fight the Ming army. The most unlucky thing was that the commander Xia Zheng sent by the Ming army as a hostage.When Wang Fu heard that his adoptive father was trapped and killed by the Ming court, his eyes were red with anger, and he immediately tied Xia Zheng, who was drinking together just now, to the bow of the boat, and cursed the Ming army for being untrustworthy. Then, all the pirates rushed forward and cut Xia Zheng with broken knives. Xia was just a man, and he didn't say a word until he died.But this one also held back his tune, he couldn't yell at him, so he could only die in silence. Because he knew that the court's trick to kill Wang Zhi was too unreasonable. The death of Wang Zhi caused a new round of crazy revenge by Japanese pirates.More than 3,000 of his subordinates were crazy Japanese killers with red eyes, drifting on the sea all the way, killing wildly all the way.At the beginning of the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, these people attacked Chaozhou first, killed many Ming troops, and then set sail to attack Fuzhou.Ruan E, who had just been transferred from Zhejiang to Fujian as the governor, was invincible, so he came up with a plan to transfer tens of thousands of taels of silver from the treasury, and together with the six new ships built by the Ming army, gave them to Japanese pirates to "buy" himself. The "stability" of one party. After collecting the money and the ship, the gang of thieves turned around and attacked Fuhai, even killing the local county magistrate, and looting wantonly. Soon, several groups of Japanese pirates came and went, climbing steep slopes in Taizhou, Hui'an, Changle, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places, doing their best. Due to the outbreak of new pirates and the resurgence of sea troubles, the Ming Dynasty strictly punished Hu Zongxian, and deprived the generals Yu Dayou, General Qi Jiguang and others of their military posts, and ordered them to destroy the Japanese pirates in Pingcen Hong Kong within one month. Wang Zhi's remnant troops set up strict defenses in Zhoushan to prevent Cengang from fighting.Although the Ming army was brave, the Japanese pirates relied on the favorable terrain to kill and injure the Ming army a lot. On the other hand, Japanese pirates from all walks of life came one after another, many of them under the banner of avenging the "old ship owner" Wang Zhi, with abnormal momentum. In the past, the Ming army had two methods of suppression and appeasement, but now they cheated and killed Wang Zhi. No matter what you say, Japanese pirates from all walks of life will not surrender to the Ming Dynasty officials. Hu Zongxian was as anxious as an ant in a hot pot.Because many Japanese pirates invaded and plundered Fujian, many Fujianese claimed that Hu Zongxian deliberately let the Japanese escape south, trying to draw the Japanese invaders out of Zhejiang, where he was.In the court, Li Hu, a speech officer from Fujian, wrote a letter to impeach Wu Zongxian. Out of desperation, Lao Hu suspected that Yu Dayou (also a native of Fujian), the commander-in-chief under his command, had communicated with his superiors, so he made the first move. The report said that Yu Dayou was not effective in governing the army and fled southward.This Yu Zongbing was unlucky. He fought bloody battles with Japanese pirates for several years, but ended up being arrested and interrogated in the capital.Fortunately, he did a lot of meritorious deeds in the past, and many officials in the court rescued him, so he was not executed and sent to the fortress to guard the border.Of course, the key to Yu Dayou's escape from death was that some fellow Fujianese in his court raised money and gave 3,000 taels of gold to Yan Shifan, the son of Yan Song.As soon as Xiao Yan was happy, he saved Zongbing Yu's head with a piece of paper. In the next few years, there were frequent Japanese infestation in Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangbei and other places, but in fact, "Although (Hu) Zongxian supervised dozens of prefectures in the southeast, the road was far away, but he was far away, and he could not spread the scriptures and paintings." Therefore, It cannot be said that Hu Zongxian's command is incompetent.After all, the coastal defense line was too long, and the Japanese pirates appeared and disappeared, attacking east and west, making it impossible for the Ming army to defend against it. In order to protect his official position, Hu Zongxian is very good at taking the upper-level route.Because he got married with Yan Song and his son through Zhao Wenhua, he kept respecting these two countless gold and silver treasures on weekdays.With Yan's father and son speaking for him in the court, Lao Hu's "authority shook the southeast".At the same time, Hu Zongxian also likes to support scholars, the seats are always full of guests, and the wine in the bottle is not empty, so the reputation is everywhere, and everyone praises him as good.But as far as the common people are concerned, Mr. Hu added extra money and tried his best to search, and the people complained a lot. Not long after, some officials claimed that Lao Hu had embezzled more than 30,000 silver from the state treasury and destroyed the account books. His crime was clear.Hu Zongxian defended himself, saying that he embezzled public funds for the purpose of eliminating thieves for the country.This is half true.He sent people to separate people and bought Japanese pirates, which really cost a lot of "public relations fees".Emperor Jiajing had a good impression of him, not because of his meritorious service against the Japanese, but because he often presented "mascots" such as white tortoises and colorful ganoderma, which made the Taoist Emperor Jiajing happy, not only innocent, but also Instead, he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War. After Yan Song lost power, the court officials impeached Hu Zongxian for making friends with Yan Song and the ten crimes of "rape, bullying and corruption". Emperor Jiajing himself still defended him: "Hu Zongxian is not Yan Song's party. I have used him for eight or nine years, but no one takes him He said something. It is because he has offered auspicious things many times that evil people hate him. If he is blamed, who will work for the court in the future!" After all, there are many conclusive evidence of crimes, but Hu Zongxian was given a lighter punishment because of the "protection" of Emperor Jiajing, and he was dismissed from his post and stayed idle. Lao Hu is impatient of loneliness, and he is not idle in his hometown, so he offers 14 kinds of "fitness and prolongation" on Emperor Jiajing's birthday in-house surgery.The emperor was very happy and was going to use him again.Coincidentally, the censor searched the home of Luo Longwen, a traitorous party of Yan Shifan, and found several letters written by Hu Zongxian, which were written to Luo Longwen when he was impeached around the 38th year of Jiajing. In the letter, he begged Luo Longwen to speak well for him in front of Yan Shifan, expressing his gratitude and filial piety to the Yan family and his son.Because Yan Shifan and others were charged with "communicating with the Japanese and committing crimes", Emperor Jiajing hated it to the bone.As a result, his favor for Hu Zongxian suddenly disappeared, and he issued an order to arrest Hu Zongxian. In despair, after entering Beijing, Hu Zongxian committed suicide in prison.This Mr. Hu is courageous, resourceful, courageous, and knowledgeable. On the front line of the Anti-Japanese War, he often stood between the arrows and rocks in military uniform to personally supervise the battle. He was at ease and sincerely a brave man.In particular, he has done a great job in intelligently capturing the giants of Japanese pirates such as Xu Hai, Chen Dong, and Wang Zhi.It's a pity that Hu Zongxian was too shrewd, and was misled by shrewdness in the end.Fortunately, he was "rehabilitated" at the beginning of Wanli , Chasing the posthumous title "Xiangmao". Gu Yingqin, a historian of the Qing Dynasty, said it well: Although Hu Zongxian committed suicide, he should have no face to see Xu Hai and Wang Zhi two giant thieves underground!Broken promises, deceit and meritorious deeds will not be rewarded in the end.Of course, Master Hu's merits must never be neglected, if the two thieves do not die, "it will be even more difficult to know." Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, who fought hard to destroy the Japanese, Qi Jiguang should actually be ranked second in the fight against the Japanese, but because of the most revealing battle against the Japanese in Pinghai, Qi Jiguang took the first place, and Yu Dayou took the second place.After that, Qi Jiguang guarded the border in the north again, worked hard, wrote many military books, and was deeply used by Zhang Juzheng, so he was the most famous in later generations for breaking the Japanese. In fact, carefully observing the war against Japan during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty and the process of personal "struggle", Yu Dayou is above Qi Jiguang in terms of qualifications, military exploits, and reputation. Yu Dayou, who is old and serious, Yu Dayou, styled Zhifu, was born in Jinjiang, Fujian.According to historical records, he liked reading since he was a child, but he was addicted to it instead of traditional Confucian classics.Of course, he didn't read that the purpose of the "professors" nowadays is to earn money for the rich or women's fortune-telling.Yu Dayou's reading lies in "the right to deduce military strategists' strange truths and truths".After winning the yin and yang of military strategists, he devoted himself to martial arts under the famous swordsman Li Liangqin at that time. "The family is poor and empty, and the intention is to be open-minded." He is indeed a magnanimous and strange man. After his father died of illness, Yu Dayou did not follow his father's last wish to apply for fame, but inherited the world position of "Hundred Households". It can be seen that his father and grandparents were also from the middle and lower ranks of the Ming Dynasty. There were martial arts in the Ming Dynasty.Yu Dayou succeeded in taking the exam in the 14th year of Jiajing, and was awarded the post of "Thousand Households" to guard Jinmen.At that time, there were already small groups of Japanese pirates constantly harassing the coastal area, and Yu Dayou offered advice to the inspector censor. The Ming Dynasty had an ethos similar to that of the Song Dynasty, emphasizing literature over military affairs. The inspector censor was furious: "The small school can write a letter to talk about things!" But Xiaoyu is young and vigorous, and is indomitable.Soon, Mao Bowen, Minister of the Ministry of War, was planning to conquer Annan. Yu Dayou wrote a letter to explain the matter, and asked himself to serve in the army.Mao Shangshu was very surprised, but it was a pity that Yu Dayou did not come in handy when he stopped fighting soon. In the twenty-first year of Jiajing, Altan Khan of Mongolia invaded Shanxi on a large scale, and the imperial court issued an edict to recommend warriors across the country.Yu Dayou was full of anger, and recommended himself to the Censor's Office.Fortunately, this censor did not beat him and reported his name to the Ministry of War.Shangshu Mao Bowen was very familiar with Yu Dayou's name, so he immediately recommended him to the account of Zhai Peng, Governor of Xuanda. In the commander's tent, all the generals were full, and Zhai Peng summoned Yu Dayou to discuss military affairs with him and visit his talents.Yu Dayou, who is full of blood, speaks eloquently, with reasons and evidence, and has refuted Zhai Peng several times.As a result, Governor Zhai got up and left his seat, went up to take Yu Dayou's hand and sighed: "I really shouldn't treat you like a warrior." For this reason, the entire army was shocked. Even so, Zhai Peng may still feel that Xiao Yu is talking about war on paper, and he dare not use him in real war. Living for a long time is boring, so Yu Dayou resigned.Mao Bowen heard about it and used him as the garrison (commander of the city defense) of Tingzhang.With a stage, Yu Dayou was able to perform. While composing poems with Zhu Shengwenhui, he taught warrior swordsmanship every day, and his shots were extraordinary. He defeated the famous pirate Kang Lao in the first battle and captured more than 300 people. He was promoted to "Commander of the Department of Capital" and became famous in the first battle. In the twenty-eighth year of Jiajing, Zhu Wan inspected Fujian and promoted Yu Dayou to be the commander of the Japanese capital.At that time, just as Annan's thief minister Fan Ziyi sent people to invade Qinzhou, Lianzhou and other places in the Ming Dynasty many times, the Ming court first sent Yu Dayou to attack Annan. In the First Battle of Qinzhou, Yu Damian chased the enemy for several days, beheaded more than a thousand ranks of Annan's soldiers, captured Fan Ziliu, Fan Ziyi's younger brother, and finally forced Annan to kill Fan Ziyi. Such great achievements were all concealed by Yan Song of the current dynasty, who only gave fifty taels of silver to settle the matter.Yu Dayou was not discouraged, and still devoted himself to the country. He continued to lead the army to suppress the Li nationality's rebellion in Wuzhishan, Qiongzhou.As a result, Dading, Hainan. His measures are much more advanced in concept than setting up ethnic autonomous regions. In the 31st year of Jiajing, Japanese pirates ravaged eastern Zhejiang.The Ming court appointed Yu Dayou as a general to assist in the suppression of the Qing Dynasty.In the past few years, he has participated in many naval battles and made great achievements.Especially the great victory of Wang Jiangjing under the command of Zhang Jing, Yu Dayou made a lot of contributions.It's a pity that Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian covered up all the credit. Not only did he not receive the credit, but he was also demoted for "disobedience to command". After all, Yu Dayou was a well-read military general, and he still did his best to fight the Japanese pirates for the imperial court, and defeated the Japanese pirates several times in the battles of Lujingba, Sanbansha, and Yingface Lake.The famous Japanese pirates in Zhelin (Raoping, Guangdong) were beaten repeatedly by Yu Dayou and others, and they were almost wiped out.Thus, in the thirty-fifth year of Jiajing, Yu Dayou was appointed by the Ming court as the chief soldier of Zhejiang Province, who also governed Su and Songshu counties, and became the commander of a military region. He lived up to the entrustment, braved the cold and snow, led the Ming army to fight to the death, and wiped out the Zhoushan Japanese pirates in one fell swoop.After that, Hu Zongxian captured and beheaded Wang Zhi with a plan, which caused the new Japanese to become a big one, and greatly disturbed the Fujian area.In order to shirk responsibility, Hu Zongxian blamed Yu Dayou.The imperial court was furious and arrested Yu Dayou to Beijing, almost killing him.Thanks to the courtiers' rescue, Yu Dayou was released from prison and sent to Datong to serve as a white robe. Li Wenjin, the governor of Datong, used him very much for this general, so he had the opportunity to make meritorious deeds many times, and he was the first to create new types of warfare equipment such as unicycles and horses to resist the enemy on the battlefield.Li Wenjin introduced these new equipment to the Jingying in the Beijing area, "There are military vehicles in the Jingying, and it has been since then." In the 40th year of Jiajing, Zhang Lian, a thief from Raoping, Guangdong, rebelled and captured several counties.The imperial court reappointed Yu Dayou to go to southern Jiangxi, and brought together Ming troops from Fujian and Guangdong to conquer and suppress.For Yu Dayou, suppressing these rebels is as easy as pie.He quickly quelled the rebellion of Zhang Lian and other thieves, and was promoted to the general army of Fujian.After that, he and Qi Jiguang (at this time Qi Jiguang was Yu Dayou's deputy and the deputy general of Fujian) and other generals rejuvenated Huacheng and defeated the Japanese pirates (see Qi Jiguang's deeds later for details).This time, Qi Jiguang's department was the first to reach the great victory, so he was rewarded. Yu Dayou was only awarded "praise" such as silver coins. In the 43rd year of Jiajing, Yu Dayou moved to Guangdong.At that time, there were more than 20,000 real and fake Japanese pirates in Chaozhou. They colluded with the Dongman tribes along the coast and plundered Huizhou and Chaozhou.In Fujian, Cheng Shaolu and Liang Daohui, the chiefs of Dongman, plundered Japanese pirates in Yanping and Tingzhou. Yu Dayou is brave and majestic, and as a dignified commander-in-chief, he rode alone into the camp of the bandit chieftain Cheng Shaolu. Knowing the advantages and disadvantages, he persuaded the opponent to lead the barbarians back to their original place.Wu Duan, the bandit chieftain of Huizhou, defeated the local army in a row, and his momentum was in full swing. When he heard that the Yu family's army had arrived, he was so frightened that he turned around and retreated.The two sides competed, and Wu Duan was captured seven times, all of which were released by Yu Dayou, making him refuse to accept it and come again.The story of Zhuge Liang's seven captures of Meng Huo is a novel, while Yu Dayou's seven captures of Wu Duan can be seen in official history. In the end, the chieftain Wu Duan was convinced, bound himself into the army to plead guilty, and asked to kill the Japanese for his own effect. Yu Dayou had no doubts about employing people, and with the minority army led by Wu Duan as the vanguard, he launched an attack on the Japanese pirates and surrounded the enemy in Zoutang. He conquered three Japanese pirate lairs in one day and one night, beheaded more than 400 real Japanese, and then defeated the Japanese pirates in Haifeng .Although the Japanese pirates are warriors, they are also shocked. When they encounter such a mixed army of brave local barbarians and officers and soldiers, they can only escape. As a result, the Chaozhou Japanese fled to Qisha and Jiazi and seized fishing boats into the sea.They were also unlucky, the strong wind at sea drowned thousands of Japanese pirates, and the remaining 2,000 people returned to Haifeng's Jinxi Capital. Yu Dayou was not in a hurry, he sent troops to surround them for more than two months, the Japanese pirates were devastated, and they risked their lives to break out of the siege, and were basically wiped out by the Ming army.Chaozhou Japanese pirates, so far. Later, Wu Ping, who surrendered and rebelled, led a group of Japanese pirates to harass the coasts of Guangdong and Fujian. Yu Dayou led the navy and Qi Jiguang led the army.It's a pity that because Wu Ping, the leader of the bandit, seized the boat and went to sea, the Minguang Xun impeached Yu Dayou for dereliction of duty according to the imperial history chapter, and Lao Yu was dismissed because of this. Soon, thieves rebelled in Heyuan and other places, and Yu Dayou was hired again.He led 100,000 soldiers, went straight to the old lairs of thieves, captured and beheaded more than 10,000 local thieves, and recaptured nearly 100,000 good people who were robbed. In the early years of Longqing, Yu Dayou made a lot of contributions in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places, respectively destroying the pirate Zeng Yiben, Gutian Zhuangman Wei Yinbao, etc., "eliminating all the hundred-year-old bandits", and his power shocked Nanfu. In the first year of Wanli, Yu Dayou died of illness, and the Ming court gave him the posthumous posthumous title of "Wu Xiang" as Zuo Dudu, which was highly praised. As a general, Yu Dayou is honest but not greedy, he is kind to his subordinates, he plans first and then fights, he cherishes the lives of soldiers, he is loyal to the country, he is old and loyal, he is indeed a rare general in the Ming Dynasty.At that time, the famous general Tan Lun once wrote a letter to Yu Dayou, and his evaluation of him was very pertinent: "Restraint and shrewdness, the public (referring to Yu Dayou) is not as good as Lun (Tan Lun claims); the letter and punishment must be rewarded, the public is not as good as Qi (Jiguang); the gallantry, the public is not as good as Liu (Liu Xian, another anti-Japanese general at that time). This is all ignorance, but the public is greatly affected!" In other words, Yu Dayou has gathered all the advantages of everyone, and he is worthy of the demeanor of an ancient famous general. Qi Jiguang Qi Jiguang, courtesy name Yuanjing, was born in Dengzhou, Shandong.His father, Qi Jingtong, was a mid-level military commander in the Ming Dynasty, and later entered the Shenji Battalion in the capital as an officer.At the seventeenth time, his father Qi Jingtong died of illness, and Qi Jiguang was able to succeed him. He was later promoted to be the commander of the capital, and he was preparing for the Japanese along the coast of Shandong.Later, he was transferred to Zhejiang Coast to resist the imperial bandits.According to historical records, Qi Jiguang was "suave and curious" since he was a child, he was good at reading, and he had a good command of Shi Dayi. In the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing, he and Yu Dayou surrounded the Japanese soldiers directly under the king in Cengang.Soon after, after Wang Zhi Kouping, Qi Jiguang was able to resume his official position and changed to the frontier affairs of Taizhou, Jinzhou, and Yanzhou counties. When Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, who were fighting against the Japanese, entered Zhejiang for the first time, they felt that the professional Ming army in the guards was too weak in combat effectiveness, while the folk customs in Jinhua and Yiwu in Zhejiang were fierce, so they recruited 3,000 soldiers from the two places and carefully selected them. He taught him the skills of stabbing and fighting and the use of long and short weapons. He practiced every day and refined his self-created "mandarin duck formation" and "one head, two wings and one tail formation". Finally, these 3,000 people became the "ace army" against the Japanese. ". According to the rugged terrain with many puddles in the coastal area, Qi Jiguang adapted to the local conditions and did not ask for fast horses. He specially trained soldiers to familiarize himself with the local terrain to formulate combat strategies and practice formations in order to advance and retreat well.Moreover, under his drill, the battleships, firearms, weapons and other items of these thousands of soldiers are all refined and have a clear banner, which was called "Qi's Army" at that time.However, forty years before Jiajing, the "Qi Family Army" cooperated with Yu Dayou and other troops to fight, and they were not very famous. In the 40th year of Jiajing, a large number of Japanese pirate groups attacked Taozhu, Qitou and other places.When Qi Jiguang heard the news, he raised his army and went straight to Ninghai, controlled Taozhu, defeated the Japanese pirates in the Longshan area, and pursued them all the way to Yanmenling. The intelligence system of the Japanese pirates is very good. Knowing that Qi Jiguang's army was empty in the backstage state, a large number of Japanese pirates with a mixture of real and fake Japanese rushed straight to Taizhou.Qi Jiguang returned to the army immediately, and fought to the death with the Japanese pirates Zhansheng who was shortlisted in Taizhou. He killed the first thief, and the Japanese pirates were defeated. Many people fell into the Gualing River and drowned.Just after finishing this process, the Japanese pirates at Jitou then attacked Zhanzhou.Unexpectedly, Qi Jiguang preemptively attacked Yu Xianju head-on, so that none of the Japanese pirates who sent themselves to the door escaped. Within one month, Qi Jiguang won all nine battles, captured and beheaded more than a thousand Japanese pirates, and drowned tens of thousands of Japanese pirates. As a result, he became famous and the Japanese plague in Zhejiang gradually subsided. Seeing that Jianjiang could not stand, the Japanese pirates fled into Fujian one after another, from Fuzhou and Ningzhou in the north, to Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in the south, and harassed thousands of miles along the coast.Therefore, Hu Zongxian ordered Qi Jiguang to lead more than 6,000 people from Zhejiang to Fujian to kill Japanese in Fujian. The Japanese pirates who came to Fujian from Wenzhou joined forces with Funing and Lianjiang Japanese pirates to capture Shouning, Zhenghe, and Ningde; the Japanese pirates who went to Fujian from Nan'ao, Guangdong, joined forces with Fuqing and Changle Japanese pirates to capture Xuanzhongwei, and Datian, Gutian, Putian and other places were in danger. The situation is very serious. Ten miles outside Ningde City, there is Hengyu Island, surrounded by dangerous waterways on all sides. More than a thousand elite soldiers of the Japanese pirates, including thousands of good people, set up camp on the island, showing arrogance.The local officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty never dared to attack, and the stalemate lasted for more than a year.Moreover, the new Japanese pirates who came one after another set up camp in Yingtian and Xinghua, and they relied on each other with the Hengyu Japanese pirates, which caused a great shock. After Qi Jiguang arrived, he made up his mind to gnaw down the hard bone of Hengyu first. The wading ground between Hengyu Island and the land is covered with mud after low tide.After Qi Jiguang observed the terrain, he decisively ordered that each of his soldiers hold a bunch of grass and throw grass while attacking. They fought steadily and approached the Japanese pirate camp on the island. The Japanese pirates were unprepared and fought desperately. They were defeated by Qi's army. Not to mention more than 2,600 people were killed, Hengyu's old nest was also taken over. Qi Jiguang worked hard, took advantage of the victory to Fuqing, defeated Niutian Japanese pirates, overturned their lair, and the rest escaped to Xinghua. The Qi family's army pursued them desperately, pulled the fence at night, conquered sixty battalions, and beheaded more than a thousand ranks.According to reason, Qi's army can take a break for a long time.But Qi Jiguang was good at dispatching surprise soldiers, and Xuan Shuai returned to Fuqing, and happened to meet a Japanese pirate who had just landed in Southeast Australia, beheading more than 200 people.At this time, Liu Xian's 1st Division of the Ming Army also repeatedly defeated the Japanese in Fujian, and all the Japanese scattered and fled. Under the great victory, Qi Xiguang played Shi Xigong in Pingyuan Taile. At the end of the year, Qi Jiguang led the Zhejiang army to leave Fujian and return to Zhejiang. The good times didn't last long, and it was heard that Qi's army was on the mend, and the Japanese pirates who had fled at sea gathered and re-attacked all parts of Fujian. At the end of the 41st year of Jiajing, nearly 10,000 Japanese elite troops surrounded Xinghua City, and the siege lasted for a month.Since Xinghua is a prefectural city with high walls and thick bricks, it is difficult for Japanese pirates to invade.Unfortunately, there was an eight-member detachment of the Liuqian Division of the Ming Army who went to Xinghua to send information, but was intercepted and killed by Japanese pirates on the way.The Chinese in the Japanese pirate team put on uniforms and entered the city disguised as Liu Xian's men.In the middle of the night, eight thieves took advantage of the black and beheaded the Ming army guard at the city gate, and opened the city gate wide.Japanese pirates rushed in from outside the city and captured Xinghua Fucheng.After entering the city, the Japanese pirates killed and wounded many Ming defenders, and only one or two defenders of the Ming army escaped. After the Japanese pirates occupied Xinghua City, they murdered and raped day and night. After two months of torment, they set a big fire to burn Xinghua City to white ground, protruded and joined forces, and captured Pinghaiwei.It was so ferocious that all Fujian was shaken. Emperor Jiajing was shocked, and ordered Yu Dayou to be the commander-in-chief of Fujian and Qi Jiguang to be the deputy commander-in-chief. He asked them to join forces with Liu Xian, a local Ming army in Fujian, to destroy the Japanese, and sent Tan Lun, the censor of the right capital, to governor Fujian. Liu Xian's Ming army was small in number, so they had no choice but to fortify themselves in Pinghaiwei.After Yu Dayou led his troops to arrive, out of prudence, he only commanded his troops to encircle the Japanese pirates with Liu Xian's troops, but still did not dare to attack. In May of the forty-second year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang led a new force, the Zhejiang Army, to arrive.Therefore, the governor Tan Lun led the central army, Yu Dayou led the right army, Qi Jiguang led the left army, and they all attacked the Japanese pirates in Haiwei.After all, well-trained, Qi Jiguang led his troops to ascend first, followed by all the troops, defeating the enemy in one fell swoop.After this battle, more than 2,000 Japanese pirates were killed and more than 3,000 captives were recaptured.What's more, with such a great victory, only 16 people were killed in the Ming army. Tan Lun went to work, led by Qi Jiguang, and he was able to succeed Yu Dayou as the commander-in-chief. In the next year, Qi Jiguang led the Ming army to defeat more than 10,000 Japanese pirates under Xianyou City, beheading hundreds of them, and thousands of Japanese pirates fell to the cliff and died.The surviving Japanese pirates ran to Caiwangling in Zhangpu County in panic.Qi Jiguang divided his soldiers into five sentinels, all armed with short knives, climbed up the cliff, and appeared in front of the distressed Canwo. There was a big battle, and hundreds of people were captured and beheaded. So far, the pirates who entered Fujian were basically wiped out. Later, Qi Jiguang cooperated with Yu Dayou to defeat the Japanese pirate leader Wu Ping in Nan'ao, Guangdong. "Qi Jiguang is a general, his orders are strict, and his rewards and punishments are trustworthy, so no man dares to spare his life. Both he and Yu Dayou are famous generals, their conduct is not as good as Yu's, but their determination is more than that. Yu Dayou is a veteran, prudent, and Qi Jiguangbiao has launched a campaign, repeatedly destroying the big bandits, and his name is even more famous than Yu Dayou. "Of course, the reason why Qi Jiguang's later generations are more famous than his predecessors Yu Dayou also lies in his meritorious service in the years of Longqing and Wanli, when he supervised Jibei.Especially when Zhang Juzheng was in power, Qi Jiguang was extremely trusted, which made him develop his genius.During his tenure in Jibei, he extensively repaired the Great Wall and invented many advanced offensive and defensive weapons, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Ming army. Because of his meritorious service, he was awarded the honorary title of "Prince Shaobao" by Ming Ting. Since the middle period of Jiajing period, the Mongol Alta Khan invaded the capital, and Jibei was an important frontier defense town. During the seventeen years, there were ten generals in Yi, and the governor Wang Yan (who made great contributions in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War) and Yang Xuan were all punished for losing the law.而戚继光在镇十六年，“边备修饬，蓟门宴然。继之者，踵其成法，数十年得无事。” 戚继光军事专着《纪效新书》、《练兵纪实》等，实为博大精深的系统性军事专着，当时日后，广受尊崇。 可叹的是，张居正死后，其政敌死打穷追，认定戚继光乃张居正死党，把他调换广东。郁郁不得志之下，戚继光不久谢病离职。但张居正政敌仍不放过他，纷纷上奏弹劾，戚继光被罢官遣返老家。 三年后，既贫且病的戚继光由于没钱抓药，病势转沉，郁郁而亡。一代大英雄，竟落得如此不堪结局。 值得一讲的是，张居正所犯的痔疮，实为吃了戚继光所献的海狗鞭壮阳药所至。张相国割痔感染，竟至要命。他这一死，戚继光在朝中倒了后台，自己也开始了倒霉的历程。人性就如此复杂，一般人可能会大惊小叫：戚大英雄这样人，也会做出给长官送壮阳药的事情吗？当然，人情所在，英雄不免。有时候，历史的细节，充满了黑色幽默般的玩笑！ 嘉靖后期近十年的倭寇之害，自浙江开始，继而流窜淮扬吴越。闽中两广，无不惨遭荼毒，“（倭寇）掠子女财物数百万，官军吏民战及俘死者不下十余万。 虽时有胜负，而转漕军食，天下骚动。“所以讲，倭寇之害，流蔓甚广，绝不是一些浅识陋见所讲什么倭寇给中国带来了”资本主义萌芽“。 自倭寇乱炽，浙闽等地富殷繁华城镇，半为丘墟，人民被杀无数，沿海奸民与倭人、佛朗机人勾打连环，惟一的目的就是杀人劫物。他们的劫掠，严重破坏了明朝沿海一带的工农业生产以及手工业发展，真不知有什么“萌芽”会蕴于血火刀剑之中。 当然，明朝沿海倭患渐息，除了俞大猷，戚继光等人的因素外，日本国内的因素也不容忽略。因为，那时的日本，已经处于战国末期。在1585年（万历十三年），日本的羽柴秀吉平定四国，最终完成日本的统一，被“天皇”任命为“关白”，赐姓“丰臣”。 丰臣秀吉乃大志倭人，稍后征服了九州的岛津氏和关东的北条氏，成为日本烈岛的真正主人。而日本的统一，使得丰臣秀吉在上台初期下大力气整治国内政治、经济，他严令打击海盗，巩固他本人为主的“中央集权”。这些，皆在客观上从源头阻遇了日本列岛“倭寇”的生成。