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manifesto to various parts of
Hwanghae Province to collect scattered soldiers. When more than 500 troops gathered, they entered the Yonan fortress on September 27 to maintain the army. When Yi entered the fortress, all the houses in the fortress were empty. However, when they heard that they were defending the fortress, they returned one after another and the magistrate, who had fled.
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and collected and filled with water flowing down from Bongse
Mountain in the north. As such, Yonan Fortress was small in size, but it was a solid fortress with well-equipped defense facilities. In 1591, the year before the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592, Sin Gak extended the fortress at the recommendation of
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Yeongbaek Plain, a granary in the Hwanghae, as well as secure transportation routes from Jeolla Province to Uiju. In addition, the wandering people of about 10 towns north of the Yonan were able to return to their homes, and the fleeing leaders were able to return to the main town.
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Without posting a lengthy report, Yi Jeong-am only sent eight letters to the government, saying, "The enemy surrounded the fortress on someday and retreated on someday." ("某日圍城, 某日解去") However, as the fact that they fought against about 3,000 became known soon, Yi Jeong-am was appointed as a governor
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Japanese military suffered numerous casualties and losses in the armed forces. After losing the battle, Kuroda Nagamasa's Third Army changed its operation from trying to take control of the entire Hwanghae Province to guarding areas near major supply routes from Hanyang to Pyongyang. As a result,
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October 6, Jeon Hyeon-ryong and Jo Sin-ok snuck out of the gate, took the straws to the Japanese camp and set it on fire. As the flames soared, the Japanese scattered. Yi Dae-chun threw burning straw on the Japanese soldiers climbing up the wall. When the morning dawned, the Japanese
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Japanese army's advance was stalled in Pyongyang due to the uprising of righteous armies in various parts of the southern front, which led to the guerrilla warfare, and the Japanese army's difficulty in advancing its amphibious operations due to the naval
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Japanese army surrounded the fortress and sent a letter to the envoy, which urged him to surrender. Yi Jeong-am wrote to the envoy, saying, "You fight with soldiers, but we fight with righteousness." The Japanese troops who surrounded the fortress began to climb the fortress using ladders. They
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Japanese military amid the war, escaped and ran to Yonan Fortress, bringing with him a message that, "The enemy will withdraw if we hold out until tomorrow morning.”. With the encouragement of the commander and the message of their prisoner of war who
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In 1555, Magistrate Bak Eung-jong built two barbicans and 693 battlements, and there were bows and gun holes. The gates were located in four places, east, west, north, and south. Inside the fortress, there were wells called
Seopungcheonjeong and Gunjajeong. Outside the walls, the moat was dug wide
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in Hwanghae Province to set up a provisional government and tried to patch up its response system to the Japanese military by recovering troops from various regions. Yi Jeong-am was appointed as a Suppressor (초토사; Chotosa) in Hwanghae Province by the provisional government. Yi Jeong-am sent out a
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also came up by connecting wooden plates to the fortress. The righteous army shot arrows and rolled stones to defeat the Japanese soldiers who were scaling the walls. On that afternoon, a Japanese general approached the fortress riding a white horse holding a white flag,
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1035:"무명용사 이대춘, 역사는 오래 기억한다"
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39:3 – 6 October 1592
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613:Background
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76:37°54′22″N
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474:2nd Ulsan
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26:Imjin War
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802:"백사집 3권"
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