Why is Mingliang and Yi Sun-sin's tragedy?

Berenice 2022-01-22 08:01:31

In fact, Yi Sun-sin has fought a lot of battles. Tangpu, Hanshan Island, and later Luliang, why did the filmmakers choose the Mingliang Sea Battle alone as their main battle? I think that it was the Mingliang Sea Battle that allowed Yi Sun-sin to completely enshrine the gods. Just like Yue Fei's fight against Zhuxian Town, there are legends of regretting the mountain and the Yue family's military disaster.
In fact, the North Korean navy at that time was superior to the Japanese in terms of command system and ship quality. If we turn to history, we will find that before Mingliang, Yi Sun-sin's North Korean navy was basically chasing the Japanese and was not afraid of a decisive fleet battle. During this period of time, although Yi Sun-sin's performance was outstanding, he could only be regarded as a generation of famous players and performed normally. If there is no Mingliang, Yi Sun-sin is at Nelson's level (Nelson also almost chased the French fleet, and the French has always been in a defensive posture, trying to avoid the fleet decisive battle). Like Nelson, his rise to fame was largely due to the poor performance of his fellow Army colleagues.
What's more, it is difficult to say whether Mingliang's previous victory was the feat of Yi Sun-sin alone. After all, the entire North Korean fleet is commanded by three equal-level generals. You can say that these military exploits are the credit of Li Yiqi, Cui Hu, and even Yuan Jun. The Japanese army was also not convinced: "It's not because of the tortoise ship. It's not that the Japanese army is incompetent, but that the tortoise ship is too powerful. Without the tortoise ship, it depends on what Yi Sun-sin is capable of."
Maybe God heard such a controversy, so it was Qichuanliang. The naval battle swept away all the fleet commanders. Li Yiqi, Cui Hu, and Yuan Jun all died in the battle, and Pei Wedge, the only one who escaped, also died in the end. Of course, God did not forget the complaints of the Japanese, and sank no turtle boats, so he only gave Yi Sun-sin 12 panoks.
As Li Hui said in the movie, can only 12 ships still be called naval masters? The King of Korea even took the initiative to order Yi Sun-sin to sink the ship and go ashore as an army.
On the Japanese side, the Japanese army moved the navy west after the Qichuanlianghai battle, which is called the mopping-up operation. As the name suggests, the Japanese no longer think that there are still established North Korean naval divisions. The so-called sweeps are only aimed at the fish that slipped through the net in the last naval battle, and some stray bandits.
No one has expectations of the North Korean navy or Yi Sun-sin. After the navy is over, the myth of Yi Sun-sin is over. The Mingliang Sea Battle resurrected the dead North Korean navy. You thought that the North Korean navy did not exist, and as a result, a Mingliang sea battle caused a Japanese army to come to the island and lose his head. This is really the number of stones killed in the Korean battlefield and the highest-ranking daimyo since the Imjin War. Only three thousand stones, the size can not be compared with the younger brother).
The Mingliang Sea Battle is a miracle. If resurrection is not a miracle, then what can be called a miracle? All doubts can disappear. You say, Yi Sun-sin is nothing but this, because the ship is good, so he won the battle. So how did the Qichuan Lianghai battle lose? You said, Yi Sun-sin is bragging, how can he win the fight? So how does come to Shimatsu always die?
As for the subsequent Luliang Sea Battle, many people said that this was the decisive battle. It wiped out the main force of the Japanese navy, and deduced how powerful my Daming navy was. In words, the audience can imagine the arrogance of the speaker. Look. I do not deny the combat effectiveness of the Daming Navy, but I doubt whether the value of this battle is really that great. We carefully consider the background of this battle, the combat objectives of the two armies, and some neglected details.
1. When this battle occurred, the Japanese army was withdrawing its troops in North Korea step by step. Among them, President Xiaoxi is at the far end.
2. During the Battle of Luliang Sea, Shimazu Yoshihiro's navy, who was beaten by a violent meal, went to pick up Konishi to return.
3. The Ming Dynasty navy coalition forces were blocking the retreat port of Governor Konishi, and upon hearing the news that Shimazu Yoshihiro was coming to pick up people, they immediately left the blockade and went to ambush to meet the enemy.
4. At the same time that the Luliang Sea Battle took place, Governor Xiaoxi was quietly picked up by Fujitang Gaohu's navy.
5. After Shimazu Yoshihiro was defeated, he did not seem to have heard of the death of a famous or powerful retainer, and seemed to retreat all in his body. (Insert a joke here, it is said that after the war Daming navy lied that Shimazu Yoshihiro and another famous daimyo were caught, and then dragged to Beijing to beheaded)
6. There is another saying that Shimazu Yoshihiro’s fleet are all transport ships. His subordinates, such as Tachibana Zongmao and Yeshan Hisaka are all Kyushu family names, and they have never appeared in the Japanese navy battle before. It has never been classified as a navy, and has always been used as an army.
7. After the war, the Japanese troops stranded in North Korea, such as Yoshihiro Shimazu, Yoshihiro Mori, and Kiyomasa Kato, returned home safely from Busan. During the retreat, none of the big names died.
If you link these details together, you will find that the so-called Lulianghai Battle is not as important as everyone has said. On the contrary, from the perspective of achieving strategic goals, it is more like the Japanese winning. The so-called elimination of the main force of the Japanese navy and the complete cut off of the Japanese supply line, given that the Japanese army has actually begun to retreat, and the Ming Dynasty coalition forces have no intention of landing on the Japanese mainland, it is actually meaningless, not to mention the Japanese army still passing through Korea after the war. The waterway withdrew safely without any hindrance. Therefore, from the above points, the Battle of Luliang Sea is more like a dispensable battle, and it seems that it makes no difference not to fight this battle.
So since it doesn't matter if you don't fight, why did Chen Lin fight this battle (mainly Chen Lin is going to fight, and Yi Sun-chen can't not listen to Chen Lin's command based on his country's status as a subject country and his own broken navy)?
My guess is: for military exploits.
Chen Lin was finally able to participate in the war, and he couldn't come in vain. He also has to gain merits. It is good to slash the opponent's name like Yi Sun-sin, but if he can capture one by himself, it is obviously more valuable. Therefore, Chen Lin would act to block President Xiaoxi. Originally, President Xiaoxi had discussed with Liu Ting and released him back to China. As a result, Chen Lin blocked him back alive. Chen Lin's target was obviously not Governor Xiaoxi, because Governor Xiaoxi was the army, and blocked him and forced him to surrender. The credit could only be the army, not Chen Lin. Chen Lin would not be so stupid, making wedding clothes for the army. He wanted to use Governor Xiaoxi as a bait to catch the main force of the Japanese navy. So, Shimazu Yoshihiro's team set off for the dead ghosts. As soon as Chen Lin heard the news, he immediately lifted the blockade on President Konishi and went straight to Shimazu Yoshihiro. In the arrangement before the war, Chen Lin requested that the North Korean navy and the Daming navy be separated. Some explanations were for the convenience of command. However, on the battlefield, it was precisely because of the interoperability of the command system that the pioneer of the Ming Dynasty Deng Zilong was hit by friendly forces and died. Therefore, in my opinion, Chen Lin's doing this is more like to facilitate the division of the merits after the war, or more directly, to prevent the North Koreans from taking credit for him.
During the Luliang Sea Battle, the history books said that after Deng Zilong's death, Yi Sun-chen attacked beforehand in order to rescue Deng Zilong. Chen Lin came forward to rescue Yi Sun-sin. It is really a beautiful scene of Chinese and North Korean people walking hand in hand and helping each other. But is this really the case? After the Battle of Imjin and before Ding You rebelled, when China and Japan negotiated the division of North Korean interests, the North Koreans were not allowed to participate at all. The friends who came to help put themselves aside and sat down with the robbers from outside to discuss how to divide their homes. The friendship of the Chinese people is really moving.
Therefore, looking at it from another angle, this warm picture may look like this: Chen Lin found out that his pioneer had been killed by the North Koreans. Not only did the shameless thing Yi Sun-sin not be ashamed, but he didn't even care about rushing forward. Do you want to take credit for me? Bastard, the head of the Japanese daimyo belongs to me, don't grab your stick with me.
Therefore, it is hard to say what Luliang Haizhan looks like.
Finally, let us talk about the poor old man Yi Sun-sin.
In his early years, Wu Ke and Li Sun-sin were immediately taken to the north to fight against Jurchen, so he started as a member of the army. This is understandable, because for North Korea at that time, the Jurchen tribe that emerged under the leadership of Nurhaci was the biggest threat, and all manpower and resources had to be filled there. However, Yi Sun-sin's career in the army was quite bad. As a garrison general, he was ransacked by Jurchen and captured a large number of people. Even though his history and Ma Boyong's "The Last Glory of the Empire" were whitewashed, the defeat was ultimately defeat. Yi Sun-sin was deprived of all military positions and joined the army in white (that is, he started slowly as a small soldier). From this point of view, Yi Sun-sin is obviously not good at land warfare.
When Yi Sun-sin was depressed, at the same time as him, or even on the same front, another military commander's name resounded throughout North Korea. This man was Won Kyun. Yes, you read that right. During the Battle of Imjin, Won Kyun, who was defeated by the Japanese in the last battle, died in Chilcheonliang. His merits were obtained in the fight against Jurchen, and it is said that the biggest feature is bravery in combat, and Yuan Jun, who is greedy for life and fear of death, and sinking the battleship in his history, sounds like two people.
After that, Yi Sun-sin served as a series of small officials. According to this, they were Jeongeup County Supervisor (the head of the county), Jindo County Supervisor (also the local chief executive, but controlled the local navy), and Gary Pu thrifty envoy, whether the first was in charge The navy, I don't know. But the latter two are in charge of the navy, and these three positions are in Jeolla Province, especially Jindo, where the Mingliang Sea Battle took place. Therefore, not surprisingly, Yi Sun-sin finally became the navy envoy of Jeolla Province. It can be said that Yi Sun-sin has achieved the command of the navy in one step at a time. He is very familiar with waterways, especially the waterways of Jeolla Province.
Just less than a year after Yi Sun-sin became the Zuo Shui envoy, his colleague, Won Kyun, also became the Gyeongsang-do You Shui envoy, and everyone was on the same front again. However, unlike Yi Sun-sin, Yuan Jun was airborne, because after all, he was a famous general in the resistance against the wild, and he could not start from the grassroots like Yi Sun-sin. But the most terrible thing is that after only two months in office, the Japanese came over. It is estimated that Yuan Jun did not even recognize the faces of his subordinates at this time. I don't know who he is, and I don't know the enemy, Yuan Jun's fate is miserable. But he is not the worst. The worst is probably Park Hong, the left water envoy of Gyeongsang Province, whose defense zone is directly facing Japan. This is why there are only 4 ships left in Gyeongsangdo.
What follows is the story of Yi Sun-sin leading everyone together to beat the Japanese invaders. During the war, Yi Sun-sin's prestige was as high as the sky, because he was the only regular army in North Korea that was victorious. What pales in comparison to his prestige is the panic of Lee's North Korea and the army being defeated and running madly. Throughout the latter part of the Imjin War, before the Ming army entered the DPRK, only the Korean rebels were still resisting on the ground in North Korea, and the large-scale regular army had disappeared. The North Korean royal family naturally needs heroes like Yi Sun-sin to boost the morale of the army, but it is also difficult to escape the accusation and contempt that everyone ran away alone in disregard of the royal family abandoning the country and the people. Although everyone is afraid to say it, you don't need to guess what you think.
Of course, Lee's North Korea's mind is my guess. The only thing we can be sure of is that Yi Sun-sin was imprisoned immediately when the Japanese army began to retreat during the Sino-Japanese peace talks. The charge is treason with the enemy. Yi Sun-sin was almost lost in the entire country. When the capital was ravaged, he did not collaborate with the enemy and treason. He was willing to be a spy and a running dog. Now he is about to win, but he is collaborating with the enemy? This is really a ridiculous accusation, and it is an insult to Yi Sun-sin's personality. But if the ruler wants the minister to die, how can the minister not die? The king not only sentenced Yi Sun-sin to death, but also explicitly demanded that the jailers "make a confession" and used harsh punishments to force Yi Sun-sin to confess himself. This is simply mental humiliation and torture. Finally, Won Kyun, who performed poorly in naval battles and was at odds with Yi Sun-sin, took the place of Yi Sun-sin and became the control of the three navy forces (actually, it can be tortured here, why not Li Yiqi or Cui Hu).
Of course, Yi Sun-sin did not die in the end, but the death penalty was unavoidable, and the living crime was inevitable. He deprived him of all military posts and joined the army again in white. This series of shocking changes made Yi Sun-sin's heart completely chilled. It's hard for me to guess why the king spared his life so that he could save it for future troubles. No matter how troubled Ding You was, he didn't use Yi Sun-sin. It was Qi Chuanliang that was defeated in the end, and Yi Sun-sin was invincible. I guess I want to see the depravity of Yi Sun-sin to satisfy the king's twisted psychology of jealousy. I don't know, besides suicide and depravity, Yi Sun-sin at this time has any way to go. All he has is deep disappointment in the country and despair of his own future.
But God really favored this old man. Ding You went into chaos again, and the North Korean navy was wiped out in Chilchuanliang. Only 12 ships managed to escape. Yi Sun-sin came out again under the advice of his officials. This is really a turning point for God. No one thought that the Japanese would come back so soon, not to mention that the famous North Korean navy would be defeated so badly, and the most amazing thing for Yi Sun-sin is that he still has 12 ships. The ship can command. Not much, not too much, too much, the king will definitely choose another commander, but if it is missing, Yi Sun-sin will not be able to command.
The old man's withered heart ignited again, and the vitality returned to this person. He went into battle without hesitation, and worked very hard to rectify the so-called three navy masters in his eyes. I guess that when the king saw Yi Sun-sin's reaction, he actually regretted it in his heart. Originally, the king thought that just ordering the boat, Yi Sun-sin should not be able to make a storm. Since the officials strongly recommend it, then just follow the boat and be personal. How could I think that such an insignificant decision in the eyes of the king has become Yi Sun-sin's resurrection grass. Seeing that Yi Sun-sin didn't complain, he worked hard and he was even more energetic than before he went to prison. The king probably felt that something was going to happen, but the order had gone down and couldn't be withdrawn, so he turned to an order like this, asking Yi Sun-sin to sink the warship like Yuan Jun and Park Hong, abandon the navy, and go ashore to become an army.
Such an order was undoubtedly resisted by Yi Sun-sin. This is the opportunity God gave Yi Sun-sin, how could Yi Sun-sin give up easily. For him, the king's fate and even his own life are no longer important, and Yi Sun-sin has new ideas about his own life. But Yi Sun-sin could not openly sing the opposite. He desperately needed a victory to support his disobedience. Otherwise, the king will resist his orders, avoid war passively, and throw him into death row again, and this time there will be no pardon. "There is no retreat! You are all dead!" In the movie, the passage of Yi Sun-sin's remarks to the generals was simply for Yi Sun-sin himself.
Thankfully, God gave him the battle of Lianghai. His position is stable, at least until the Japanese withdraw. After Mingliang, Yi Sun-sin didn't move much. I guess he wanted to enjoy the last moments of his life. He doesn't need victory anymore, or even more victory is meaningless to him. He knows what will be waiting for him after the war is over. This country does not need heroes who are loyal to the emperor and serve the country, but only pets who accompany the king to run wild. No matter how chaotic the government is, and no matter how faint the rulers and ministers are, what will happen to the country’s destruction and Da Ming’s protection, come back and still be the masters. Your group of slaves will always remain slaves.
Chen Lin needs military exploits to show off the Lianghai battle, and what Yi Sun-sin needs may be a good home. This battle, as I have said before, is actually completely meaningless. However, Yi Sun-sin still played very vigorously, his flagship, like Mingliang, still rushed to the forefront, even if he was surrounded by enemy ships, he still did not look back. In fact, Yi Sun-sin had no need to do this at all, he was about to win, and Yi Sun-sin was already close to gods in the hearts of Koreans with the Minglianghai battle, he didn't need to be like that. The only explanation is that he wants to die on the battlefield. "I can't choose how to live, but I hope I can choose how to die." In Luliang, he might think so when facing the enemy, and finally got what he wanted.
Yi Sun-sin is sad, but how lucky he is. Think of Yue Fei and Xiong Tingbi. If Yue Fei knew that he was going to end unnecessarily, would his class return to the court, would he not look back like Yi Sun-sin, rushing into the enemy line with even one army and died there. History has no ifs, history will only repeat.

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  • Nat 2022-03-31 09:01:08

    6.5, the naval battle is well shot, reflecting the standard of the Korean film industry, but the purpose of patriotic mission is also very strong, it is very inciting but true, it just shot the Mingliang Xiaohai naval battle to show the rush of the exposed Lianghai battle.

  • Dawn 2022-03-30 09:01:09

    Historical events adapted from war blockbusters. It is also the box office champion of Korean film history. In the aspects of clothing and ships of the two countries, North Korea and Japan have been exquisite, trying to express the ingenuity of less is better than more in history. But unfortunately, in terms of naval warfare, it did not follow the historical method of "steel cable + shelling" in history, but exaggerated and dramatized it, which was too tragic and tragic, resulting in many bugs. Not as good as "Final Weapon: Bow"