How did the Koreans lost to the jurchens? The Koreans by this point had a powerful military full of musketeers and cannons.
>>18454943So did the Manchus. They had Han Defectors on their side.
>>18454943>Pay tribute to Chink>Steppenigger takes over Chink>Steppenigger comes knocking down, asking for Chink tribute be paid to himNow, what would you do?>Fight a long to war to stop paying tribute, lose many soldiers, civilians and your main trade partner>Pay tribute to Steppenigger and keep going like nothing happened
>>18454965Look at the dates retard, Ming was still around by this point and the Qing was newly established after unification of the Jurchen tribes.
>>18454995Why didn't the Ming just setup and impenetrable fortress here and put their best men here? Are they stupid?
>>18454943>How did the Koreans lost to the jurchens?whalehunter hands typed this post
>>18454998The emperor literally executed a commander for telling him your idea
>>18455027Did he actually?
>>18454998They did? If you pin Beijing and Shanhaiguan (the big two fortified areas) and then look at the topography you'll see why they were built where they were built. They are smackbang in the middle of that strip of land corridor linking North China to present day Northeast.The problem is, at that point, they had thoroughly alienated the miitary and someone opened the door
>>18454943Koreans didn't recover financially for like several decades after imjin. They were gutted to something like a third of their former industry. They also lost an entire army specifically built for defence in the coup (which was coincidentally their best and also had a contingent of Japanese Veterans), most of the imjin vets by this point were also straight up in their retirement age. They lost some of the best of the best if not literal living heroes on the level of Yi in that war during the rout. The Ming commander (forgot his name) also annihilated some of the Korean economy plundering and extracting war tribute until Yang executed him personally.Also their King couldn't even do his job properly and flee in time, the muskets they had at that point couldn't penetrate Mingguang, they didn't have a single forestry worth producing pikes yadayada.
>>18454943The qing campaign seems to have had two war aims and goals:1) A fast mobilization and a fast war, bypassing many of the fortresses. The war lasts about two months beginning in the beginning of december and ending at the end of january 3) The capitulation of king injo If king injo has time to organize against the qing then the military numbers are about the same and fortresses begin to become more important. The qing campaign then relies on advancing up to king injo before proper defense can be summoned and by removing king injo also removing the source of ming power in the region
>>18454998>>18454995Well, anon?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanggongchang_Explosion
>>18455779>Stored a hundred tons of gunpowder in the city center Why are chinks like this?
