Hi! I'm (South) korean. I majored in korean history and chinese history in college. my English is not fluent, so I can't make high-quality videos like you do. I watched some of your videos very interestingly. I am amazed at your knowledges of history. thank you for making it possible to watch these videos. I hope people all over the world can see your video and get to know it. I'll subscribe and cheer~
@@kapilrana5075 I would recommend this book. It called 'China: a history' written by John Keay ☜☜ I think it's good for you foreigners to read. a book written by a man named John Keay will tell you some of the history of China. And I think this book will suit Korean history. this is 'a korea history for international reader' ☜☜☜ This book was created by Korean teachers for foreigners. It would be great if you can learn about Korea's history through this book. And there is one thing to note. There is some distortion of history in Korea, Japan, China. In particular, the history compilation works led by CCP government are representative. These things need to be vigilant.
@@kapilrana5075 Goguryeo高句丽 was not Korean! It was founded by an extended ethnicity Fuyu扶余, which eventually merged into Han汉 people! It had nothing in relation with Korea高丽, Korean borrowed its name, just like today’s Egypt to the ancient Egypt.
HI Nim Na, since you're a historian major, I would just like to ask on your perspective that I get it that the Koreans today sees themselves as the descendants (Which they are) of the Goguryeo state. But I guess the Korean/Choseon identity only really came about after the Goryeo (which they have named themselves after Goguryeo). I see the Balhae/Buyeo/Goguryeo as a confederation of tribes (Tungus/Mongolic/Jurchen/Proto-Korean/Chinese), of which descendants of Koreans/Chinese/Manchurian do have a claim to say that they are in fact their respective (Chinese/Korean/Manchurian/Mongolic) dynasty. Instead of insisting that they are a Korean Dynasty. Can you agree with that ?
Great video! I am currently preparing the bibliography for an essay on the contacts between early China and Korea and this couldn't have come at a better time! The best channel on RU-vid
Goguryeo高句丽 was not Korean! It was founded by an extended ethnicity Fuyu扶余, which eventually merged into Han汉 people! It had nothing in relation with Korea高丽, Korean borrowed its name, just like today’s Egypt to the ancient Egypt.
Taizong could not bypass Ansi because he didn't have enough troops. Taizong learned from Sui by not sending armies that are too big. The Sui sent armies as large as 1.1 million to Koguryo. This ended up being a logistical nightmare with troops often eating all the food by the time they got to the Koguryo border. However, one advantage of a large army is that strong holds could be bypassed. So, the Sui invasions, although having a gigantic army, were able to bypass Koguryo fortresses. Apparently, 800k Sui troops guarded Koguryo fortresses and 300k men went for Pyongyang. The Sui force of 300k were hoping for naval reinforcements and supplies once they reached Pyongyang, but the Sui navy failed. So, they were staring at Pyongyang's walls with much of their food already gone. So, they retreated and the Koguryoans ambushed them near Salsa river, killing all of the Sui troops except 2,700 cavalry vanguard troops. Anyways, Taizong couldn't do that as he had just around 200k troops. Taizong clearly did this to avoid the logistical nightmare that the Sui army faced in their various invasions of Koguryo. However, he used these troops quite well, completely annihilating a Koguryo army that was about 300k men by leaving bait on the frontal position and catching the Koguryo army in the flank. Taizong spared some Koguryo nobles lives but killed all of Koguryo's Mohe allies, beheading all of them and burying all the Mohe bodies in a pit. With the exception of Ansi fortress, Taizong's campaign vs. Koguryo was brilliant. Taizong made a choice. He purposely made the Tang army that invaded Koguryo smaller for simpiler logistics, but he couldn't bypass Koguryo fortresses like the Sui could with their bigger army.
Taizong was a legendary emperor for a reason. He was a brilliant man, and in the end, Ansiseong was just a small obstacle to the Tang dynasty taking down Goguryeo. Good analysis :)
Tang needed to Allie with Silla Korea to eventually defeat Gokuryo. After the allied forces of Tang and Silla destroyed Gokuryo and BaekJe; Tang wanted more Korean territory than previously agreed upon which resulted in Tang vs Silla war. Surprisingly; Silla defeated Tang
@@arajoaina Ha-ha-ha-ha, Silla was a state dependent on Tang, and these defeated the country that defeated the Tang, and the Tang Empire took control of the Korean peninsula
@@arajoaina yes. When Tang and Silla finally conquered Baekje, the Tang called Baekje "Ungjin Commandery" and gave the title of "Keyrim Commandery" to Silla. Then they named Koguryo "Andong Protectorate." These are all typical Tang administrative titles, which meant that Silla would not be treated as its own distinct region but more as an "autonomous" zone within direct Tang administrative perview. This, of course, meant war. Tang got greedy.
Nice Animation! I loved the design of animation throughout! As a Korean history nerd, though I would say the country's name became known rather Goryeo than Goguryeo. I know Korean textbook nailed the name Goguryeo down for that period to not confuse later Goryeo, but in historical legitimacy I think it should be better called Goryeo. And plus the earlier King Jangsu officially announced the country's name Goryeo for not having in their name confusion in neighbouring countries afterall.
12:53 the reason Korean history lost that hero's man is because Goguryeo's history text had been lost since the destruction of Goguryeo by the alliance of Tang and Silla later on. The name, Yang Manchun, was later found in Tang Dynasty's history text that he is the one who defeated the Tang's greatest emperor.
That name isn't from history book but from a Chinese novel "The Romance of Tang Record" in Ming Dynasty(1368~1644). So, yeah, that's obviously a fictitious name.
Goguryeo at this time was arguably one of the top 5-6 military powers in the world. Tang China was without a doubt the top military power worldwide. After that, the rising Muslim Caliphate was vying for world number two with the eastern Romans (and winning). Beyond those three powers, you’d have to put Goguryeo up there with anyone else. After Tang China, Rashidun Caliphate, and Eastern Byzantine Empire, the second tier of world military powers in the mid 600s were probably (in no particular order): Goguryeo, the Turks above China, the Kazars on the caspian-Pontic steppe, possibly the Chalukyas or a northern Indian dynasty, and maybe the Franks if they were unified at this particular time. So, you could make a compelling argument that in the mid 650s, the world’s 1 (China) vs 4 (Goguryeo) and the world 2 v 3 (Byzantines vs Muslims) were happening.
It always blows my mind how the other half of the world was just forgotten and lost to time for a long while. Like you don't even mention or consider the peoples in the Americas... very little known what was going on there at this time.
@@TheBucketSkill The Maya civilization was pretty much at its peak during this time. Tenochtitlán was the mesoamerican power. Tikal and Copan were powerful. But these were city states, without beasts of burden or advanced metallurgy. I have great respect for mesoamerican cultures, but they were no where near as powerful as 7th century China or the Roman Empire, most likely. I always tend to follow history pre-1492 as two different worlds: the “known world” of Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, and the “unknown worlds” of SubSaharan Africa, the Americas, and Australia. The two (or, rather, four) worlds were nearly totally separated until the 15th century and developed independently. We have no written history of pre-15th century Australia, and very little written history of the Americas or SubSaharan Africa. So, people tend to focus on the “known” world because we have written history and therefore know a lot more about it. Doesn’t mean nothing was happening in the other areas, we just know far less and therefore there’s less to talk about.
@@18890426 I said “arguably” and I laid out my line of reasoning. Give me a state that was definitely more militarily powerful than Goguryeo in the mid-600s, other than Tang China, the Rashidun Caliphate, and the Roman/Byzantine Empire. Like I said, there are a few that maybe were more powerful, like the Khazar Khaganate or the Chalukya Dynasty in the Deccan in India. But maybe not. One proof of this is the fact that Goguryeo fought off China not once but several times in this period, and indeed, dealt them several crushing blows. But I could be persuaded that the Franks, for example, were a bit more powerful militarily. Or the Turks or Khazars. But if so, it wasn’t by much hence the “arguably” 4th best.
Its was actually quite common in Goguryeo. Goguryeo people loved hunting and they kept several swords wherever possible to always be ready for the big game. Altough by Yeon's time it seems like such tradition faded away a bit, it still functioned as a musculin decoration
@@CoolHistoryBros Did you refer to the Yeon-gaesomun drama? The main character of the drama and Yeon Gaesomun in this video look very similar. And your korean-name pronounciations were very good. Especially 양만춘 and 고구려. Wasn't it hard?
I saw the Korean movie a while back, so this video was interesting to watch, and definitely more educational, with all the background info on geopolitics.
Yes I wait for this epic battle also en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baekgang But I not sure he would cover this cause he not tell the other epic battle between Tang vs Eastern Turkic Khaganate & Western Turkic Khaganate en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_campaign_against_the_Eastern_Turks en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Western_Turks
I suggest fans of this series watch the Battle of Ansi covered in this period drama called "Dae Joyoung" - it's a fantastic series with great writing, acting and historical battles, covering the fall of Goguryeo to the rise of Balhae.
@Civilized ? Why you think like that? 안시성 Was bad movie. And I'm not only korean who hates the movie. This one can't even compared very old movie 무사 of 정우성
man...Goguryeo was powerful...but because of greed and a puppet king that can't control the goguryeo court..they become weakling..Gwanggaeto should be born during Tang Dynasty
Thank you for introducing Korean history. Although I am Korean, I am enjoying watching it. To let viewers know one interesting fact, the name "Korea," which refers to Korea, is also from "Koguryo." In addition, although Goguryeo was unified by Silla, Goryeo, a post-Silla state, respected Goguryeo, so they took its name from Goguryeo. Korea still continues its Goguryeo culture, Ondol and Hanbok, and is proud to use their names as foreign names.
@@joonjang7996 the Chinese also have ondol flooring, but it's more of a regional northeastern thing, not something that's common with Chinese households like it is with Koreans. The Chinese call ondol flooring "kang" (炕) and it is usually reserved for just a bed sized area, not an entire room (or rooms) like with Koreans.
@@joonjang7996 also.... hanbok is derived from Chinese clothing that was common in Lelang and Daifang commandaries. Silla style "hanboks" look rather similar to T'ang era hanfus, especially looking at the length of the jeogori. The jeogori was waist level during the Three Kingdoms era, but during Unified Silla the jeogori went up much higher on the torso just like T'ang hanfus.
@@edwardkim8972 Silla clothes are not a typical design of Hanbok. Kim Chun-chu brought in Tang clothes as a treaty of the Nadang Alliance, and this is a Korean dress that was wear only during the Unified Silla Period. Even after the Tang Dynasty collapsed, the style disappeared. It was also influenced by the Tang Dynasty, but it combined with hanbok to create a new costume. And Tang clothes were also developed by Persian influence. The origin of hanbok is in the form of jeogori pants, which are not found in China, as seen in Goguryeo murals and Gojoseon History. China has been a robe-type dress without pants for generations, and during the Ming Dynasty, it was the first time to wear a short jacket due to the popularity of Goryeo hanbok. Just like the clothes of the Ming Dynasty, The Unified Silla Hanbok was worn for a while and the two later developed independently. These two things show that Hanbok and Chinese clothes are not one-sided and are influenced by each other. If you cite the Unified Silla period as the basis for the claim that hanbok originated in China, China also has Ming clothes influenced by Goryeo Yang. Each other's clothes have their own origins and are only influenced by each other, but Chinese clothes cannot be the beginning of Hanbok.
Fun fact: Yeon Gaesomun's real name is not actually pronounced as 'Yeon Gaesomun'. Ancient Korea pronounced chinese characters as their own words like the Japanese 'kundoku'. The 'Yeon' 淵 means 'lake' or a 'well' which is 'iri' in Goguryeoan the 'gae' 蓋 is probably a suffix and was pronounced as 'ka' the 'somun' 蘇文 is probably originally pronounced as 'sumi', which meant 'gold' in Goguryeoan. So Yeon Gaesomun's real name is actually something similar to 'Irikasumi' And the most interesting fact is that Yeon Gaesomun's name is written in 'Nihon Shoki' as 'Irikasumi', identical.
Yes! Because the letters used Chinese characters, but the way they spoke was different from China. like Japan! (In Korea say "Hundok" = meaning, "Eumdok" = sound) So Park Hyeokgeose, who founded Silla, is now pronounced Park Hyeokgeose, but in the past, Bak = surname 赫Hyok = (mean red)Bulgeun 居Geo= meaning resides (interpreted only by pronunciation, so it is also used in the same meaning there 世Se= world( in pure Korean pronounce "nuri"). Therefore, his name at the time would have been pronounced in the same way as BakBulgeunuri, using the pronunciation that used to mean the red world. The actual recorded nickname was Bulgeuna(弗矩內). The Chinese characters used are completely different, but they are similar in pronunciation.
@@Mtrl-newerThe reason why you think so is because you are chinese. Because if Koreans calim their lost territory of goguryeo, there could be a border dispute.
@Yn actually, those who conquered korea was only Japan empire. You chinese never conquered korea completely. And plus, it is the non chinese foreigners who completely annexed china who invaded Korea the most. Korea ended up being a vassal state of them, but chinese was fully annexed and enslaved.
i remember watching this battle from a Korean drama, call Dae Jo yeong (2006) but in the drama they said that Tang Taizhong has 1 million solider and that the rampart collapse because the people dig tunnel and sabotage the rampart because there was a natural big water source underneath the rampart so the solider and people dig on that place the water burst out destroy the rampart, i' don't really know how that work too, but seeing the geography from this video it would have been impossible to dig tunnel as it's probably very rocky,
its wrong the one with 1 million soldier was during the year 612 sui invasion of Goguryeo. it was actually 1.13m THE BIGGEST war campaign in human history before WWI, but completely defeated and wrecked by Goguryeo hero Ulji Mundeok.
A cunning and powerful commander from a mighty empire/kingdom invades from the north of another kingdom in Eastern Asia, having a overwhelming force and a mighty empire after defeating all their other enemies. This battle is often considered a great battle that is part of the three kingdoms period and the defending side (which has much less supplies and people) wins because of tactics. Now, when have I heard this before?
If you’re taking about the Sui invasions of Goguryeo, note that the Sui actually had far less supplies than the Goguryeo troops BECAUSE their army was so gigantic; they ran out of food on the way to Pyeongyang and most starved to death during the invasion, after which Goguryeo cavalry forces pursued and mopped up the rest.
It is so sad to see many Chinese are insisting that Goguryeo is not a history of Korea but China, which is straight opposition against what Zhou Enlai (周恩来) officially stated in "The Conversation of China-Chosun Relationship" 「周恩来总理谈中朝关系」of 1963: "Both the Liao River and Songhua basins have traces of the Chosun people. This is evidenced by the excavations and inscriptions of the Liao, Songhua River basin, Tumen River basin, and many Chosun literatures still bear traces. We can prove that the Chosun people have lived there for a long time". Sadness arises in my mind because: first, I see Chinese Communist Party just enacts something that is a very self-centered policy without any consideration, which brings only harm to international society, and its idea and ideology is straight against what the former member (such as Zhou Enlai) of CCP had, and all the Chinese people just follow it as if it is only one mighty true; Second, I see a once-great empire falls into a wildfire of criticism around the world that is caused by CCP's dogmatic, self-centered diplomatic policies and the Chinese people support such an action while being delusional that their fallen empire is being praised by the world and only The US is the problem; Third, I see the old great values from a once-great empire have been lost during Cultural Revolution「文化大革命」, and young people of China cannot render their own internal value for living their lives, thus only money is centered among them as the most valuable object that they should follow. Fourth, I see great fighters for democracy have disappeared or killed during/after Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
@@blub6852 Chinese never claim kimchi as chinese as there is no such word kimchi even existed in the chinese language, korean kimchi is called hanguo paocai,literary means korean pickled vegetables and chinese pickled vegetables is simply called paocai. There is a distinguish between kimchi and paocai in china. The German also eats pickled vegetables, they called it saurkrat. Are you saying Germans too are stealing your kimchi ?
Culture revolution more focused on the mass movement. If this movement really focus on so called "culture destroys", there won't exist those great archaeological discoveries during 1966-1976. By the way, 1966-1976 was a great period of Chinese archaeology development.
well more than a laser pointer I should say. Ansi was supported by the city of Gun-an located at nearby shore which prevented Tang forces from being supplied through ports. Moreover, the Tang record mentions that 100000men is guarding Ansi and Gun-an which was a force too big to ignore and just pass
This channel must be used in history classes as teaching material and my man Li jing deserves some rest with his girls too ! He has been an amazing wingman
I was eager to see this one and it definitely delivered. Excellent work on portraying that Tang Dynasty episode. Great work as usual. Btw, is there any way us fans can contact or chat you guys up?
Goguryeo is the history of Korea. 1. The word Korea comes from Goguryeo. 2. Yemaek, a people of Goguryeo, is the largest ancestor of the Korean people. 3. At that time, China and Japan called Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla three han. 4. Even in pre-modern Chinese history, Goguryeo was regarded as Joseon and Samhan, and China's attempt to incorporate Goguryeo and Balhae into Chinese history began in the 2000s. 5. In Korean history, Goryeo continued to succeed Goguryeo, and later Goryeo was established, which was the same name as Goguryeo. 6. Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, politicians of the modern Communist Party of China, once called Goguryeo and Balhae Korean history. 7. the center of Buyeo, the current Chinese grant from the 喇麻洞 the presumed remains came most genes are closest to Korea is that the Chinese their own grain. 8. And the Chinese can't answer me logically. LOL
@麻辣拌 1. Goryeo is national name came from Goguryeo. In other words, Goryeo succeeded Goguryeo. 2. 梁書 東夷列傳 新羅, where Baekje and Silla speak each other. 3. Goryeo was compared to the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Empire, but the 太祖 of Goryeo was a family from Goguryeo nobles. 4. Goryeo reigns as the ruling class of Goryeo after it included a large number of Goguryeo residents at the time of the founding field. 5. Silla said that the three kingdoms were unified, Goguryeo Baekje Silla was called Samhan, and the Goguryeo people were also Samhan, and the Goguryeo people were in the following three kingdoms tombs.(遼東三韓人, 遼東朝鮮人, 遼東郡 平壤城人, 扶餘貴種辰韓令族, 公諱隆字隆百濟辰朝人, 辰韓朝鮮人, 朝鮮貴族, 渤海人, 三韓人, 朝鮮人, 辰韓人, 辰朝人, 平壤人). 6. One of the slogans of the unified Silla, the 三韓一統, is backed up. 7. China did not inherit Goguryeo at all throughout its history, but rather despised it as an orange. However, Korea inherited Goguryeo and was proud of it. 8. In the Tang Dynasty, there is a record of the appointment of 寶臧王 as 朝鮮郡王 9. In the cemetery of 泉男産, the second son of 蓋蘇文, he is referred to as 遼東朝鮮人 and is written as (東明之裔寔爲朝鮮). Just by looking at this sentence, there was a consciousness that he succeeded Joseon. 10.And now, Korea succeeded Joseon, Joseon succeeded Goryeo, Goryeo succeeded Samhan, and at that time Samhan was a descendant of Gojoseon.
@麻辣拌 There are only a few Korean pseudo-historians who believe in words, and they are being blamed in Korea. They also speak on behalf of Koreans, but do not believe that Japanese sushi originated in Korea, do not believe that Chinese characters originated in Korea, and Confucius do not believe that Confucius is Korean. I don't know where the hell comes from. Don't accept that everything you see on the Chinese internet is true.
@麻辣拌 In Korea, the 箕子朝鮮 is not denied. It's just that the substance is suspicious. Ancient history is lacking in records. In Korea, I am also learning in history classes. 檀君朝鮮 is a myth that has existed since the days of Goguryeo, and has come through Goryeo and Joseon until now. It did not appear in the modern times.
Valiant defense worth commemorating. Unfortunately, Ansi was eventually lost only a few decades later when the entire northern half of Goguryeo was conquered by China and that vast territory remains in Chinese hands to this day. Still, overall, it was a smart move by Silla to ally with the Tang in order to unify the southern two thirds of the historic Korean homeland under their sole rule.
Then we find out the Tang withdrew because winter arrived and that's not campaign season. Later on, they came back and rampaged through the entire peninsula.
The general of Ansi fort was Yang Manchun...a general and some considered a rival to Yeon Gaesomun...but Yang was very respected and a humble man...currently Yodong Fort or Laodong Fort is in China territory and there remains a tomb with Gorgeoro artifacts and findings ,but China consider this area and artifacts as their historical findings and do not represent the Gorgeoro history 100% accurately
Thank you so much for this historically accurate representation - you even got the part where the name of the lord of Ansi is unknown, correctly. I think you omitted a few details on why Ansi mattered, but with a good reason - small details might be too distracting. Let me add a few pieces of information for those who are curious. Again, I am so happy to see this clip. Back then, Ansi was a part of the 'chain' of the defense system against the invasion from China, and the Tang forces had to break the chain in order to safeguard their rear. The primary tactics which Koreans used against China over the years remained the same - the Scorched Earth, combined with strong fortresses, forcing enemies to hemorrhage their soldiers and resources. The fall of Yodong was very significant because the city/fortress was the heart of that chain of defense, but Tang China had to withdraw because they could not break the chain and the invading expeditionary forces lost their momentum.
The Mongol’s siege of Song China’s Diaoyu fortress was also very epic, the fortress of Diaoyu defended from mongol besiegers for 2 decades... the mongol khan Mengke was severely injured during an assault he led personally which later resulted in his death, which directly caused the succession crisis in the mongol empire and the disintegration of the mongol empire. he also ordered that the people in the fortress must all be killed after its taken, but kubulai spared them when they were offered surrender in 1279 when Song Dynasty was finally destroyed.
@lati long Yeah haha, in one of Korean records, it depicts a scene where the Song officials were confused on whether they were facing Korean officials or one of theirs since they both wore the same headgear, thanks for the added info
@Ann Amanda No, most of the dynasties established in China were by Chinese, a few were nomadic, regardless those nomadic people have integrated in to Chinese thousands of years ago, their blood are also inherited by modern Chinese, so you can’t really insult us this way for they (Xianbei for example) are also our ancestors. On the other hand, Korea have been a tributary state of many nations as well as China’s.
@Ann Amanda I don’t think Yuan was Chinese, but modern concept of Chinese is different from the ancient one, modern Chinese concept was founded by the manchus, it is a multiethnic nation which included Han, Manchu, Mongol, Hui and tibetan.
Nice video, however, I would prefer you to tell the names of Tang generals instead of just some anonymous figures because most of the early Tang generals were very legendary figures, the major generals who fought against the 150,000 strong Goguryeo soldiers were Yuchi Jingde, Li Shiji, Qibi Heli, LI Daozong, Zhangsun Wuji.... few of them were killed/wounded in action. Later that guy who suggested to massacre Ansi was also Li Shiji, whose talent was at that time almost comparable to Li Jing considered by most generals, however this might have also made him over-confident during the Ansi siege.
Yeah, I feel you man. But throwing around too many names will usually confuse the viewers. I had to truncate a lot of things to make the main narrative more easily digestible.
Goguryo's attack and tang's retreatroute many historian wonder why he took such a desperate route? when he retreated, he retreated through a harsh swamp. he could have taken the route he took when he invaded. so based upon the route the emporer took to go back there are some historian suggested that out of 150000 Goguryo soldiers. some unknown commander took control after the loss and used them to retake the castles that were taken by tang. again this is theory suggested by some historians.
First of all Goguryeo never had an army of 150,000. Chinese historians are known for making up false history. Whenever they would lose a battle they would either not record it or make up story's. These records are from chinese records which they purposely increased the number in order to make them look like they had all the disadvantages. Accroding to modern history, the number of korean soldiers were much lower.
@@yoonsuhjung4658 According to what modern history? your Kpop or K dramas? Korea lost at least 150,000 soldiers and both their main commanding generals during the war is fact and was recorded in both China and Korean ancient texts. By the way, China's history recording system was the most advanced and accurate in Asia, besides court history officials constantly worked on history records editing for most of their life( and the emperors were not allowed to view, change the texts nor punish them for what did they write, this is why you can see both good and dark sides of China history from ancient court history books as they are general neutral. Liu Bang who founded the Han dynasty was recorded as a lazy gangster whereas his enemy Xiang Yu was recorded as a noble and great general, and Liu Bang couldn't do anything to change such texts), and besides court recording system, civilian records were also quite prevalent in ancient China which served as a supplementary information for the official history.
Man, I respect you for being accurate and respectful. I am assuming you have chinese ancestry (forgive me if i am wrong) and you are making me respect china more. I hope more chinese people be like you.
In Chinese history books, Goguryeo is marked as foreign. In Korean history books, Goguryeo is marked as Korean history. The country that succeeds Goguryeo was founded in Korea, and China did not consider Goguryeo to be Chinese history for over a thousand years. Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai also said that Goguryeo and Balhae are Korean history. If a country like the United States occupies Beijing and takes Communists, will Chinese history become American history?
to boost the your algorithm, I'll comment. :-) I think there a Korean movie (with English subtitles), with a very original title The Fortress on this siege. I'm going to watch it later today!
The movie was criticized for its lack of historical accuracy in Korea. The armor of the characters was designed like a mmorpg character to make entertainment like the movie . The armor in this RU-vid video is much more accurate.
Just saw the trailer it says Qing invasion of Korea though not Tang are you instead referring to The Great Battle instead because yea the armor in that do look pretty fantasyish
@@EricChien95 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Battle_(film) The movie is this. It is about tang and goguryeo war, but adapted more fantastic and epic, like .
I think this is not a fail. Tang conquered several crucial cities in Liaodong plain within this war, and eliminated the most powerful corps of Goguryeo(around 30000 casualty and 30000 men captured) outside Ansi fortness with light casualties of Tang side. Even Ansi siege battle wasn't casued many Tang Soldieres lost at all. If you call a countries who conquers land and elimated enemy major forces is failure, that Goguryeo more hard to call as a victoriers (lost at least 60 thousand troops and a bulk of land (most of this is fertile land)
the only major city which fell to Tang was Liaodong city, all the other cities including 白巌城 were smaller fortresses that were not part of the major Goguryeo defense line along the liaodong peninsula. Ansi however was the gate of the TianShan Mountains defense line and Tang failed to penetrate it in 645. And the Tang records say that they lost only 1000men but lost 90% of their horses. Like, really???? lost almost every single cavarly horses and lost only 1000men? Korean records in the other hand covers battles that were excluded from the book of Tang as well and it states that there were many casualties on both sides
@@Werner4voss First, Liaodong Plain is the largest and most productive plain belonging to Goguryeo. Second, after this war, Goguryeo never launched any major war against Tang or take back the Tang's outpost of the Liaodong plains until it was conquered by Tang Dynasty. So, at least Tang suppressed Goguryeo after this war. Furthermore, both new and old books of Tang writing finished after Tang Dynasty, and the next dynasty don't have any motivation to pretend the weaknesses of Taizong.
According to "Medieval Chinese Warfare 300-900" by David Graff (Richard A. and Greta Bauer Pickett Professor of Military History and Chair of the History Department at Kansas State University) Tang had about 150k troops in that battle and Goguryeo had 300k troops.
He captured a Tibetan lama during one of Tang Empire's Western expeditions. The lama was very old with grey hair all over but his face looked remarkably - - almost abnormally - - youthful for his age. Taizhong therefore forced the lama to make a medicine for him so he too could stay young, possibly forever. He took too many of such 'rejuvenation pills' and died from, as it were, drug-poisoning.
@@yongseung3272 Yeah, I think koreans goguryeo is as good as turkic/mongol/tungusic in horse raiding becoz Goguryeo is Korean-Tungusic kingdom so they might had similarity like horse raiding. Goguryeo is the kingdom I like the most. It drove back great Chinese empires for many centuries by itself.
Iman Taqwa: I had read that the Gogoryeo cavalry of the period was the Gaema Musa; warriors of the Kaema plateau. They numbered around 13,000 and were similar to Cataphracts. They were a renowned fearsome heavy cavalry force, according to several historical sources. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
@@karenburrows9184 yes you are right. It’s called gaema musa and I think it was only around 5000 gaema musa cavalries. Probably the best cavalries in the world.
@2:55 The Tang really wanted to destroy the monument because it was built from the corpses of the fallen Sui soldiers from the failed invasion. Confucian beliefs dictate that the final resting place is really important, and it was insulting to have their bodies be put on display as a JingGuan (corpse monument. Yes. there is a word for it, dont ask me why). But yeah. Guguryeo was tough as nails. Sui invasion 1 (598): Grand canal wasn't built so troops were ferried by sea. Typhoons kept sinking ships and everytime ships tried to moor and rest, Goguyeo forces would attack. By the time the army reached the destination it had already lost 90% of the troopes. Sui retreated. To prevent the Sui from attacking again, the king of Goguryeo wrote a self degrading letter to the Emperor of Sui, initialing himself as "辽东粪土臣元" (Your subject Yuan of the useless lands of Liaodong). Yang Jian, the emperor of Sui, decided that was good enough, and invasions of Goguyeo ceased during his rule. Sui invasion 2 (612): Grand canal finished, and invasion led by emperor Yang Guang, son of Yang Jian. Invasion was super bogged down and little progress was made. Goguryeo forces dammed up a river, which the Sui army crossed. Goguryeo feigned surrender, and opened the dam when the Sui soldiers were fording the river on the way back. The Sui army routed and was chased all the way back, only 2700 men out of 300,000 made it back alive. Sui Invasion 3(613): Invasion goes well until an internal rebellion occurred. Yang Guang sent a majority of the forces back in secret to deal with the rebellion. However a member of the rebellion escaped to Goguryeo and informed them of this change. Goguryeo went on the offensive against the now extremely undermanned Sui army and beat back whatever was left there. Sui Invasion 4(614): After putting down the internal rebellion, a new invasion began. It was smooth, but they could not get past the Liao river and was bogged down. The king of Goguryeo returned the informant from the rebellion (from the last invasion) and sued for white peace. It was accepted and the Sui retreated. Sui breaks into full rebellion and is replaced by the Tang in name through abdication in Chang'An in 618. Tang consolidates control of all china in 624 and fully replaces the Sui defeating all other rebellion forces that fought for control. Tang invasion 1 (644-645): Like the video said, the invasion was bogged down at the fortress of Anshi. Winter rolled around and Xueyantuo decided to invade Tang from the West, and the Tang retreated. Tang invasion 2 (660-662): Baekjae was annexed by Silla, and Taizong Li Shimin had passed away. His son, Gaozong Li Zhi oversaw the invasion, a combined attack with Silla from the south. However the Tiele nomads invaded, and a good portion of the Tang army was pulled away to deal with the invasion. The remaining general Pang Xiaotai was soundly defeated by Yeon Gaesumun in the battle of Sheshui and the entire remaining army was lost. Tang invasion 3 (666-668): Yeon Gaesumun passed away, throwing Goguryeo into civil war. The two younger brothers spread the rumor of the eldest brother Yeon Namsaeng swearing fealty to the Tang while he was away at the frontlines in order to nullify his claim. Yeon Namsaeng, having no choice, had to swear fealty to the Tang for real in return for military support. This time the Tang had popular support of the locals because technically it's not a Tang invasion, but rather the Tang backing the eldest son of Yeon Gaesumun. With popular support, breakthrough after breakthrough were made, and some cities outright surrendered when they saw Yeon Namsaeng at the head of the army. The combined Silla Tang army defeated Goguryeo forces for good and a protectorate was created. and Silla gained control of the majority of the Korean peninsula.
The story on this video is the same as the story of Xue Rengui. Maybe the Xue Rengui's story is too magical. This video gives an easier to digest for macro view.
Chinese history education is being distorted to a serious level. The fact that Goguryeo is the history of Korea can be sufficiently proven with numerous historical records and evidence. Therefore, it is useless for the Chinese to say that Goguryeo is not Korean history.
@Cool History Bros Silla had T'ang, Baekje had Japan and Koguryo had some of the larger Mohe/Malgal tribes. The Malgal made-up such a large part of the Koguryo army that T'ang executed 10's of thousands of Malgal prisoners fighting for Koguryo. Malgal and Koguryo relations were quite strong and the kingdom of Balhae/Bohai was probably founded by Koguryoized Malgal people.
Baekje wasn’t just close with Yamato Japan. Yamato Japan itself was created by Baekje’s Royal family, nobility, and people who relocated there. So Japan at that time was actually extension of Baekje. In 2002; Japanese Emperor actually announced that at least a mother of his ancestor emperor Kanmu was from Baekje Korea. This was a very watered down admission by the Emperor bc admitting that their ancestors was Korean is very unpopular to Japanese nationalists. That is why this announcement by the Emperor was shushed by the media. Only one major media covered it half heartedly
@@불리한듯이 The Japanese king interviewed this on TV. When Baekje demolished, a lot of Japanese troops came for help. Why would they do so if they were just allies? They wouldn't have sent so many troops to a country that is already facing the end against Tang+Shinla if they didn't derive from them. Plus, there had been some evidences that even the name Nippon was originally used to describe Baekje before they extinguished. One of the crucial traitors of Baekje was given a high position in Tang as a return and in his tomb, they described Baekje with the word Nippon, which means where the sun rises. Historically, only after that Japan changed its name to Nippon. It is highly suspected that the decision was influenced by the refugees from Baekje who used to use Nippon as their own country name.
The sad truth is that Korea (with a few exceptions) has always been independent but disunified or unified by occupiers, and even divided by occupiers at some points.
I don't know why the Chinese call Goguryeo their history. Mao Zedong said Liaodong was originally Joseon territory, and Zhou Enlai said, "Goguryo, Balhae is the history of Joseon, and Liaohe and Songhua River basins can be proved by literature and relics as the activity stage of the Korean people." Along with he said "Cannot distort history, It is absurd to say that the west side of the Yalu River on the Tumen River has been Chinese territory from a long time ago, or even that Joseon has been a subordinate state to China since ancient times It is absurd to say that it was a subordinate state of China."
@@timetraveller2300 I bet you never learned 주몽 (高朱蒙) founder of Goguryeo because Chinese communist government doesn’t want you to know the truth. 高朱蒙 is son of 금와왕 (金蛙王) which was king of 부여 (夫餘族) that’s where Hanbok and Korean languages originated (even modern DNA trace tells Koreans have very little to do with Chinese but very similar to Mogol) Mongols have very different language structure than Chinese and almost similar to Korean. Also Mongols wear their top cloth cover pants but traditional Chinese clothes have pants cover tops until Korean style (Korean wave) was popular due to Korean queen and their servant yes Korean style was popular back then which was written in your history book as well. Traditional Mongols and Korean looked down on Chinese we called Chinese 때놈 which means ‘dirty people’ doesn’t want to be influenced by Chinese until government workers has to wear it because they lost wars to some Chinese (and Korean won many wars as well). Goguryeo was found by proud sons of ‘horse riding race’ you can not humiliate and manipulate history just like Chinese government manipulate Chinese people
as i reacll if its correct Gwanggaeto the Great try to be friendly to the khaganae and he vasalized sila ang bekje and confederation of gaya if i m right was been took controlled by him
“The Mong guidance [teaching] since the earliest government (officials and ministers) had taught the good way, righteousness, and equality had created peaceful metropolis cities...Heavenly love upon the nobles and followers, and they had succeeded the Mong’s important assignments.” By Li Shimin, Emperor Taizon
In addition, most of the Han Chinese were the ruled class. Sui, Yuan, and Qing are representative. In particular, during the Yuan Dynasty, the Han Chinese were slave class of Mongolian colonies, and during the Qing Dynasty, they were ruled by the Manchurians. In addition, many minorities have become Chinese today, but Korea and Mongolia have remained independent countries.
The ruling class of the Northern Wei and Northern Qi were Xianbei in origin, though they ultimately sinicized. However, the Sui was founded by a Han descent general that led a coup and took over the throne from the Xianbei ruler. The Yuan was Mongol-led for sure, but "Han Chinese" at the time did NOT actually exist. Instead, the people in the north were known as Beiren 北人 and people in the south Nanren 南人. Beiren as a group included the Northern Han but also Jurchens, Khitans, and even some Koreans. Nanren, on the other hand, were the Southern Han lumped together with the Hmongs and Kra-Dai speaking natives. It was only after the founding of the Ming dynasty when Beiren and Nanren became merged into one Chinese identity. The Qing was headed by a Manchu ruling class. Yet the modern version of Han Chinese identity as we know it did not really come into existence until the 19th century. Before then, the Han Chinese only cared about a concept known as Tianxia 天下, Confucianism, and the region they lived in such as Min, Yue, Wu, and the Central Plain. Before the awakening of Han nationalism, these Min, Yue, and Hakka groups were actually historical rivals that fought centuries of battle against each other.
Female king Seon Deok and her nephew was a friend of Li Zhi huh? I'm not sure if the friendship between Li Zhi or emperor Gaozong and a nephew of king Seon Deok is the reason why Silla inducted Buddhism into their kingdom or King Seon Deok would be interested to learn, to had her people learnt and practice according to Buddhism herself. This Buddhism induction could have been the diplomatic plan of her because she wanted Tang dynasty to help her kingdom from Goguryeo. Didn't she? I'm not sure when was the first time Buddhism got into ancient Korea? If this is the first time. Female king Seon Deok. She was one of the great ruler.
It wasn't a defeat in the conventional sense of the word. Just that Taizong was so impressed with the resilience of the Ansi defence that out of respect he decided to withdraw and leave their city in peace.
Again, Chinese furious to deny that Goguryeo is one of the three Kingdoms of Korea. But all they can do is huff and puff since others don't fall for their lies.
I would rather call Goguryeo a kingdom geographically and culturally connected with Manchuria. The relationship between today's Korea and Goguryeo is similar with the relationship between Chinese and Mongols. It is quite weird for Korean people to call a foreign nation who once conquered them as their ancestor.
@@Unicorn-pq2myI feel more weird that you call goguryeo a foreign nation to Korea. There are many goguryeo cultures and people remaining in Korea and already mixed up with beakje silla people. The reason you feel weird is because you learn distorted goguryeo history through Baidu. Yes Goguryeo conquered other Korean Kingdoms, but every three kingdoms attacked and invaded each other. After that they united into one nation. Didnt foreign nation manchurian invaded your ancestors? Isnt it weird that chinese consider foreigner Qing as their ancestors?
@@silversurfer2977 That's exactly why I said Goguryeo is a foreign nation to Korean people. Not to mention that Goguryeo belongs to Manchuria geographically and is closer to Japan in linguistics (Goguryeo belongs to Buyeo people ethnically, and their language has nothing to do with today's Korean, but is closer to Japanese). Today you can easily find that many Manchu elements are preserved in Han Chinese culture, such as spoken language and costume. But can you conclude that Han Chinese and Manchus belongs to the same nation because of these shared cultural elements? Of course you can not. The relationship between Goguryeo and Korea is exactly the same. Goguryeo was colonizer, and a large part of Korea was colonized. It is not shameful to admit that your nation once suffered from a temporary failure, but you would look very ugly if you do whatever you can to deny this history.
@@Unicorn-pq2my lol do we have to admit the history that didnt even exist? Just for chinese? You are faking yourself. The manchurians you are talking about is mohe people who was subjugated by goguryeo at that era. Goguryeo was yemeak which every scholars know that it was proto Koreanic. Dont try to confuse your ancestors and try to worship foreigners as your ancestor. You don't have to be so shameful that sui and tang taizong awfully failed to beat goguryeo. But you would look extremely ugly when you try to steal others history which is shameful to you. Keep that in mind chinese. Tibet, Genghis Kahn, Goguryeo is the example of chinese history stealing.
@@Unicorn-pq2my Beakje was also same blood from Buyeo. Goguryeo people went to the south and established beakje. Buyeo has nothing to do with you chinese. Lol Why would we have to be shameful when proto Koreanic Kingdoms invaded other proto koreanic kingdoms? Stop fooling yourself. To be honest, nobody believes your stupid logic and your claims will only be welcomed in your chinese baidu which you fantasize about. You want to deny your shameful history even by denying your own ancestors' recordes who regarded Korea as successor of goguryeo? Just stick to your real tungustic ancestors. Stop polluting our koreanic Yemeak history with your disgusting nationalism. Stop sneaking others history. Other nations won't fall for you anyway.
Forgot to mention the army raised by the Tang at the time was the largest mobilized army in human history with numbering in a million from soldiers, reserves, with equal number in provisional workers. They said when was war was over there wasn't enough farm worker to feed the rest of population. Oddly, there was previous war between Goguryo and Sui dynasty which was also the largest mobilized army only to be out numbered by the Tang.
