>>46277294According to Vietnamese official history, Lê dynasty Vietnam defeated the Chinese pirates of Yang Yandi by sending them 300 beautiful Vietnamese women prostitutes and singing girls to entertain and have sex with the pirates for one day, wet their gun barrels while they were distracted and then when the Vietnamese women left the ships the Vietnamese navy attacked the Chinese pirates whose wet guns could not fire. The Chinese ships were blasted apart and the majority of them were sunk.
The Chinese originally had 206 junks (ships) before the battle but ended up with only 50-80 junks by the time they reached their destination. The Chinese were too ashamed and humiliated at what happened so the Chinese history claims all their losses were due to a typhoon at sea instead of losing to Vietnamese women. The real events with the women are recorded in the Vietnamese history.
https://www.academia.edu/39966246/Epidemics_in_late_pre-modern_Vietnam_and_their_links_with_her_neighbours_1>Did the Yang group suffer from the epidemic themselves? The answer is most probably“yes”. When the Yang group was defeated in Feb 1682 and fled to Cochinchina, the English East India Company (in Pho Hien) recorded their numbers as 206 junks on April 1682. 54 However, on their arrival in Quang Nam, the number of junks was reduced to over 50 (Vietnamese source), or over 70 (Japanese source Kai hentai ). 55 Vachet’s court informants at the time said there were about 70-80 galleys and boats. 56 