2. By morning, most of the Yuan ships had disappeared. According to a Japanese courtier in his diary entry for 6 November 1274, a sudden reverse wind from the east blew back the Yuan fleet. A few ships were beached and some 50 Yuan soldiers and sailors were captured and executed.
4. Japan responded by beheading the six envoys and prepared for a second attack from the Mongols by taking a census of all available weaponry and warriors. All of Kyushu's landowning class was also tasked to build a defensive wall around Hakata Bay measuring five to fifteen feet high and 25 miles long
5. Kublai Khan's second invasion fleet was a whole lot bigger than the first one.
