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The wokou attacks started as swift raids on coastal settlements to obtain provisions and goods for trade, then returned to their ships and left. By the summer of 1553, the situation escalated to the point where a pirate raid could number hundreds of ships, defeat garrisons, and besiege district seats.
The pirates were called wokou ("Japanese pirates") and the raids become known as the Jiajing wokou raids. The wokou attacks started as swift raids on coastal settlements to obtain provisions and goods for trade, then returned to their ships and left. Eventually, the situation escalated to the point where a pirate raid could number hundreds of ...
Two well-known Chinese military figures involved in combating the wokou were Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou. Yu Dayou was a Ming dynasty general assigned to defend the coast against the wokou. In 1553, a young man named Qi Jiguang became the Assistant Regional Military Commissioner of the Ming dynasty.
Wokou merchant-pirates became a serious problem ... Aided by the Portuguese, pirate activities peaked between 1553 and 1561, and included a raid in 1556 consisting of ...
Hu Zongxian (Chinese: 胡宗憲; November 4, 1512 [1] – November 25, 1565 [2]), courtesy name Ruzhen (汝貞) and art name Meilin (梅林), was a Chinese general and politician of the Ming dynasty who presided over the government's response to the wokou pirate raids during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor.
Raids of the wokou-pirates on China during Qi Jiguang's time (blue). In 1553, Qi Jiguang was promoted to Assistant Regional Military Commissioner (都指揮僉事) of Shandong's defense force against wokou pirates. The marauders that terrorized the Eastern coastlines were hardly pirates.
Wokou raid Saryang-jin [1] 1555: Wokou raid Joseon [1] 1583: Yi Sun-sin defeats a Jurchen force near the Tumen River [2] 1587: Yi Sun-sin is demoted to a common soldier after annoying I Il [2] Toyotomi Hideyoshi sends an insulting letter to the Joseon court [3] 1588: Toyotomi Hideyoshi sends envoys asking the Joseon court to aid them in ...
Jiajing wokou raids: A censor reports that piracy on the southeast coast is out of control. [245] 1548: February: Jiajing wokou raids: Pirates raid Ningbo and Taizhou. [245] April: Jiajing wokou raids: Ming forces attack Shuangyu but many of the ships in the harbor escape. [245] June: Mongols defeat Ming forces at Xuanfu. [246] October: Mongols ...