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Nickname: Your name is Xie Ru, and you are honored as General Zhong without Bow.
Nationality: North Korea
Ethnic group: Korean.
Place of birth: Seoul, Korea
Date of birth: March 8th, 24th year of Jiajing (1April 28th, 545)
Date of death: November 19th, 26th year of Wanli (1598 65438+ 16 February).
Occupation: military personnel
Faith: Confucianism
Main achievements: leading the Korean people to fight against Japanese invaders.
Win the naval battles in Liang Ming and Lvliang.
Invented the tortoise-shell ship. Representative work "Li Zhongwu's Power Book"
Li Shunchen —— Early Experience of Korean National Heroes
Li Shunchen was born in Ganchuandong, Seoul on 1545. The Li Deshui family is a noble family, but when Li Shunchen was born, his family declined. Li Shunchen's father, Li Zhen, was born in a family affected by the scholar-bureaucrat disaster (the political struggle between the scholar-bureaucrat groups in the Li Dynasty), so he could not become famous all his life, and his family wealth was reduced to poverty and hardship. When I was a child, Li Shunchen moved to Yashan on Zhongqing Road.
As a teenager, Li Shunchen liked to dance with knives and guns. He often walks around the village with a slingshot and shoots pedestrians in mischief. There is a saying in his neighbor that "all elders are afraid to answer the door." He often imitates the marching arrangements with his playmates, and he also commands in an orderly way to defeat the "enemy" in slapstick.
1 1 years old began to study in private schools, with brilliant articles and little achievement. However, when Li Shunchen is free, he rides a horse and hunts, plays with fists and sticks, and is bent on joining the army.
At the age of 22, he officially started practicing martial arts with a sword. Because he paid attention to martial arts since childhood, Li Shunchen was proficient in all kinds of weapons, and because of his profound cultural background, he read all the classics of military strategists such as Sun Tzu and Woods.
In A.D. 1576, Li Shunchen took part in an equestrian exam. Before that, he was thrown to the ground because of an abnormal mount. Wu Sheng and the examiners were shocked, but he stood up on one leg, limped to a willow tree, broke some bark and branches, and bandaged himself. Due to the accident, the exam can't continue.
career
After 1576, he served as a supervisor in Jingyi County, Jeolla Road.
1583, Toyotomi Hideyoshi wiped out various warlords by force, unified Japan and became the supreme ruler of Japan in practical sense. Toyotomi Hideyoshi tried to establish a feudal empire including the Korean Peninsula, China and Japan. Korea became the first target of Japanese conquest.
1589, Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent an envoy to North Korea, demanding that the Lee Dynasty of North Korea jointly attack the Ming Dynasty, but it was sternly rejected. Toyotomi Hideyoshi took the opportunity to invade North Korea.
159 1 year, 47-year-old Li Shunchen was promoted to be the Chinese naval ambassador to Jeollazo Island. In order to resist foreign aggression, we trained the water army and built armored "turtle boats".
Since 159 1, Japan has been actively preparing for the war of aggression against Korea. When the country was in danger, Li Shunchen was entrusted with an important naval position in the Jeollazo Island Water Army. After Li Shunchen took office, he made every effort to strengthen the naval construction and prepare for the war of aggression.
He focused on rectifying the army and reforming weapons. In reorganizing the army, he absorbed the fine tradition of the Korean navy and the advanced experience of foreign countries, and reformed the battle formation, strategy and tactics of its navy. And strengthen the patriotic education for the troops, so that the commanders and fighters become brave soldiers loyal to the motherland and good at fighting.
Advanced weapons are an important factor in defeating the enemy. In order to improve the fighting capacity of the North Korean navy, Li Shunchen also reformed the "Turtle Boat". The improved turtle boat is more than 10 feet long and 10 feet wide. The hull and the "turtle shell" on it are made of hardwood and covered with iron plates, so it is not easy for enemy gunfire to hurt it. There are also many nails on the iron plate, which makes it impossible for the enemy to climb in the battle. There is a big faucet at the bow with two holes in it. During the journey, you can burn sulfur and other things in the boat and spray smoke from Longkou, which can hide yourself and confuse the enemy. There are many gun holes around the hull, which is convenient for soldiers to fire at the enemy inside the ship. At the same time, there are 10 paddles on both sides of the ship, which paddle together in the battle, sail quickly and advance and retreat freely. The enlarged hull can store more fresh water and grain, which is suitable for long-term and long-distance navigation. After the transformation of Li Shunchen, Turtle Boat was put into mass production immediately, which played a great role in the later Nonchen Great Patriotic War.
1592 After the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War in Korea, more than 200,000 Japanese troops invaded Korea and quickly captured Wang Jing, Kaesong, Pyongyang and other places, occupying more than half of the Korean peninsula. South Korea called this period of history "a non-Sino-Japanese rebellion". At the request of the Korean dynasty, the Ming dynasty sent troops to help, and from then on, a seven-year war between Chinese and Korean soldiers and civilians against Japanese invaders began.
In the case of repeated battles and defeats on land, Li Shunchen led his troops to win Lien Chan in naval battles such as Yupu, Sichuan and Xianshan Island from June to August, seized the sea power and shattered the land and water plans of the Japanese army. In September, Ren Zhongqing, Jeolla, Shang Qing three water army commander. In June 5438+10, the naval battle of Busan, more than 100 enemy ships led by Japanese navy general drunkard Jialong were sunk, and the Japanese navy dared not fight again.
1597, after Japan was dismissed and imprisoned for false accusations, it mobilized heavy troops to commit crimes again in North Korea. Under the command of General Yuan Jun, North Korea's water army was completely wiped out. In September, after he was put into use again, he reorganized his fleet and fought in the Liang Ming Strait in June+10, 5438, repelling more than 330 enemy ships with 12 ships, thus smashing the Japanese attempt to move westward. Later, they moved to the ancient and modern island (now Guam), established a naval base, and formed a joint fleet with the China Navy led by Chen Lin and Deng Zilong to strengthen the attack on the enemy and implement a maritime blockade.
Anecdotal allusions
1592 in April, the Japanese invaders landed in Busan, North Korea with the superior forces of the army, and at the same time cooperated with the actions of the army with a strong fleet. Li Shunchen commanded the North Korean navy to rise up and fight, defeated the Japanese navy many times, firmly controlled the sea power, and slowed down the Japanese attack. At the beginning of May, the Li Shunchen Navy and the Japanese Navy launched a fierce battle on the Yupu Ocean. At that time, the Japanese army was arrogant and dismissive of the North Korean navy. As soon as most sailors of Japanese warships landed in Yupu Port, they went into the village to rob. Li Shunchen unexpectedly led 85 ships into Yupu Port, immediately sank and burned 26 enemy ships, killing more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers 1000, and sank and destroyed the enemy ship 18 that night, only one North Korean navy was injured.
From the end of May to the beginning of June, Li Shunchen commanded the battle of Tangpu.
1592 On May 29th, Li Shunchen led 23 warships to prepare turtle boats, joined the navy under the command of Yuan Jun, and prepared to attack the Japanese positions in Sichuan Ocean. After arriving at the scheduled place, Li Shunchen found that the terrain occupied by the enemy was dangerous, which was not conducive to the attack. So he improvised and adopted the tactics of retreating to advance, lured the enemy out of the port and prepared to annihilate the enemy in the ocean. When the Japanese navy saw the North Korean navy retreat without a fight, it mistakenly thought that it was timid, that is, it went all out to pursue it. When the enemy chased the sea area favorable to the North Korean navy, Li Shunchen turned back unexpectedly, with the "turtle boat" as the pioneer, rushed into the enemy line, ran around, shuttled back and forth, and fired all kinds of artillery at the same time, smashing or sinking the enemy ship. Other warships are not to be outdone, arrows and guns are fired in unison, and the Japanese fleet is in chaos. After a fierce battle, the ships pursued by the Japanese army were either sunk or captured.
1On June 2nd, 592, Li Shunchen led a fleet to attack the enemy of Tompu, causing the turtle ship to rush to the enemy flagship and smash it. At the same time, Tangpu 2 1 enemy ships were all set on fire.
1592 On June 5th, Li Shunchen and Li Renqi took the tactics of luring the enemy to go abroad and attacking from front to back, and burned 26 enemy ships. In July, the North Korean navy destroyed nearly 100 enemy ships in the naval battle of Xianshan Island, killing the main force of the enemy navy in one fell swoop.
In order to save the defeat, the Japanese aggressors successfully used a clever trick, and Li Shunchen was dismissed, which led to the total annihilation of the Korean navy and the occupation of the Xianshan Island base camp by the enemy. At this time, under the strong pressure of domestic public opinion, the court re-appointed Li Shunchen as the commander of the Third Navy Division, entrusted with the important task of saving the nation from extinction. But at the same time, the court thought that the navy had collapsed and it was difficult to defend the enemy, so Li Shunchen led his troops to land. Li Shunchen, who was in danger, looked at this situation from the perspective of a military strategist and thought that the naval division should never be abolished. On the basis of the remaining 12 warships and 120 sailors, Li Shunchen first supplemented some troops, stepped up training, and then re-selected a new naval base. Li Shunchen carefully analyzed the strength of both sides and other factors. Obviously, the enemy has an absolute advantage in strength. If we want to win, we must make use of our geographical position, that is, use favorable terrain to attack the enemy.
At the end of August, after Li Shunchen commanded the North Korean navy to repel eight enemy ships that had come to sneak attack, he took the initiative to retreat to Bibo Pavilion in Jindao, which was in dangerous terrain. Li Shunchen knows the terrain in this area like the back of his hand: there are small islands ahead, and dozens of warships can be hidden in the harbor; More advantageously, there is a narrow strait in this sea area, namely the Liang Ming Strait. The tide ebbs four times a day here. Li Shunchen thinks this "narrow road" is a good battlefield to kill the enemy. He sent people to secretly set iron ropes and wooden stakes at the east and west exits of the Liang Ming Strait in order to prevent enemy ships from sailing at high tide and provide an ideal place for the North Korean navy to catch turtles in a jar at low tide.
1597, 10 year1October 26th, the Japanese army attacked the Korean navy with 330 warships and 9200 troops. In the case of disparity between the enemy and the enemy, Li Shunchen had answers and calmly responded. He first sent warships to attack enemy ships and introduced a large number of them into the Liang Ming Strait. Soon, the tide receded and the enemy ships were secretly set with iron chains; The stake is blocked and it is impossible to drive out. Li Shunchen immediately sent the navy to fight back, sinking more than 30 enemy ships, warships 12, and wiping out more than 1000 people. This is the famous "Liang Ming Victory" in the history of North Korea, and it is also a brilliant example in the history of the world navy. Subsequently, Li Shunchen moved to Kuching Island (now East Guam) and established a base area.
1598 1 1 In the naval battle in Lvliang, the joint fleet composed of Chen Lin and others defeated the enemy fleet, but was killed while pursuing the fleeing enemy. Two years later, in recognition of his achievements, the North Korean court named him a first-class propaganda hero.
1643, 45 years after his death, he was given the title of "loyal warrior". Since then, the people on the Korean peninsula have called him "a loyal warrior" in memory of him. The posthumous work was compiled into Li Zhongwu's Book of Merit.
End of life
But just as he was fighting bravely, a bullet flew in and hit him in the chest.
This is a very strange thing. At this time, the Ming dynasty allied forces took the lead, and the Japanese army was already a spent force. It was fragmented and had to change its position after one shot. It's basically a sacrificial type and it's about to collapse.
The enemy has been surrounded, with superior troops and weapons, very uplifting morale, and the remnants of the enemy are vulnerable. This was the situation at that time. Li Shunchen was on a turtle boat, surrounded by armored packages, and the shooting gap was limited. To put it bluntly, even if he stands up and lets people hit him, he may not be able to hit him.
However, Li Shunchen was shot.
Li Shunchen, who was seriously injured, knew that his mission was coming to an end, but the battle was not over.
So, at the last moment of his life, he left a message to his nephew Lee Wan:
"The war side is in a hurry, be careful not to say that I am dead."
This is also his last words.