IMJIN WAR Ep. 14 - Seoul Retaken
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- February 1593. A large Ming Chinese army has joined with the Koreans to retake Pyongyang, forcing the Japanese to fall back to Seoul. The tide of Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasion of Korea has fully turned. Now it’s time for Seoul to be retaken. As we’ll see in this episode of The Imjin War, this is going to be costly...for both sides.
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A timely episode on the 70th anniversary of the Korean War. Thanks
@Kenneth Knoppik Massive similarities even down to the chain of defensive forts along the Naktong that the Americans and Japanese possessed. Even peace talks during stalemate along the 38th parallel.
Ming Chinese bascially save Korea.
When the Mongols invaded Ming, the Korean couldnt do anything for them.
@@condorX2 Korea sent 13,500 solders in 1618 to support Ming troops. Ming and Qing fought in Manchu. 10,000 of them were died and 3,500 captured by Qing. As you expect, Ming was defeated at the battle. Afterward Korea was invaded by Qing two times since Korea was loyal to Ming. 500,000 of koreans were taken to Qing as slaves. In fact Korean kings worshiped Ming emperors secretely until the Korean dynasty was ended by Japan.
In ancient times, the logistics personnel were often 10 times as many as the soldiers. For such a long supply line, the logistics personnel would eat most of the grain transported. The Ming Dynasty spent tens of millions of taels of silver for the war
Great video as always, this is a really interesting conflict that is tragically unkown in the west and I'm glad there's a person as professional as you who gives us these wonderful videos
Thank you!
@@realsamuelhawley 👍👍, keep up the great work
@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan I don't get very much what are you tryng to say with the last part of your message but i can tell you for sure that in countries like Germany, Britain, Italy, France and Spain, in most of eastern Europe, and especially in America this conflict is close to unknown, even more then the korean war of the 1950s and that's even called the forgotten war; now idk about how much russians teach about this war but it is very plausible that they too teach very little about it and your teacher was just an exception.
Ironic but also absolutely sad that the division of the Korean peninsula was only postponed for a few centuries. Let's always pray for reunification (hopefully not resulting in a form of masked subordination to some other country...).
PS the portrait of Kwon Yul is one of my favourite Korean historical portraits because makes him look very strong and brave (as he actually was).
i talked to some south koreans regarding reunification they prefer korea stay separate for the time being. but for me i see north and south Korea as east and west Germany. hopefully north korea will one day have a "Gorbachev" leader in their ranks who realizes the things they are doing are not working and that the world outside their "closed" borders was constantly changing around them...
@@crawford4140 I also talked to a Korean and that person hopes for reunification, so it's still an open debate among young people in R.O.K. (without disturbing older generations). The objective analysis of the economists say that United Korea would potentially be the third richest country in the world behind only U.S.A. and China but if too much time passes the division will become more and more deep and reunification less and less appealing among people.
@@andreagullo1700 also i heard apparently china doesn't want US troops stationed literally near their doorstep...fortunately for us the PLA we faced in the korean war will not be the same as they were back then. when was the last time china was in a war? their men will be untested and this will be their first war unlike the US....
@@crawford4140 mmh, honestly I would rather bet on a peaceful solution resulting from an autonomous collapse of the regime in the North. This is the only way to unify the country without involving the two big international actors much and to reduce their heavy political (and military) influence on the peninsula after many decades.
Also, remember that China is a nuclear power and atomic bombs unfortunately flatten every difference in military strength...
@@andreagullo1700 then china should be aware of M.A.D (Mutual Assured Destruction): they nuke us we nuke them. it won't come to that unless china's leaders are crazy dumb or mentally-unstable-and-unfit-to-lead-a-country like Hitler or Stalin...
Mr. Hawley, I'm in Naju right now with my family and mother-in-law. It's also the hometown city of 김천일장군, one of the righteous army leaders who tragically died at the 2nd battle/siege of Jinju. I think there's a monument dedicated to him.
Greeting to Naju from Canada! In case you missed it, I cover Kim Cheon-il in Episode 8, about the rise of the uibyeong.
I wonder how the 4 countries teach this war.
China: “Our invincible army saved the Koreans. Any errors were all Koreans’ fault.”
Japan: “We just raided a few villages and towns. The Koreans are just whining.”
N. Korea: “Our dear leader built a time machine in order to travel back in time, and saved the Korean race.”
S. Korea: “It was the Western faction’s fault that we were so unprepared. The Chinese had very little involvement.”
Basically there are no objective facts in Asian history and many Westerners also choose their faction and decide who is right relying on their favorite civilization. This is annoying.
@@andreagullo1700 haha,exactly right.
From my time back in Korea, the Ming aid is well-known, but the role of Korean guerrilla units is probably too heavily focused on. (There’s also a lot of focus on the naval theatre, but then that one genuinely was crucial and done almost entirely under Korean command).
Ha!
WithAStick AngryWhiteMan
There is a lot of historical revisionism in Japan that greatly downplays or even outright dent KOREAN achievements in this war (Admiral Yi being a common target), even though contemporary Japanese sources actually confirm cases like the Battle or Myeongnyang or such.
Great account of events, personalities and consequences. Thanks for your insights, Samuel!
Thank you, Matt!
Thank you for another excellent episode. Awesome!
Thanks for watching! More Yi Sun-sin coming in the next episode!
2:48 Korean prime minister Ryu Seong-nyong was the author of 징비록 (Jingbirok or Book of Corrections). A good book with an objective view of the war. It'll give you an idea of the timeline of events. The book was written for future generations to understand what Korea did wrong and to avoid this mistake in the future so it was written by a Korean to criticize the Korean handling of the war. Just another historical source and perspective to consider if you wish to learn more about this war (I'm speaking to viewers as I'm sure Samuel Hawley is already aware of this book).
Thank you, excellent video. one of your best yet.
Thanks, Brian!
Siege of Pyongyang when Chinese and Korean forces outnumbered Japanese: won by wave and wave soldiers storming the wall.
Field Battle of Byeokje when Japanese outnumbered Chinese: won by better sword skill of Japanese samurai.
Logical. Seriously I don't think average ashigaru in Japanese army had that superior swordsmanship. Both sides used pole arm and muskets on battlefield. The reason of both outcomes should be outnumbered based on similar levels of armament/tactics.
This guy obviously hates China. Not to mention it is a comparison between siege vs field battles.
Gwan Yul and the defenders were heroes
12:15 ...4 years stalemate...?
...sounds familiar...! :-(
Hello there professor! I am wondering if I can translate your videos to Spanish as I really like your content and would like for it to be available in another language that I could help with. Hope this message reaches you and thank you for the great videos.
Japanese force absolutely did not kill “six thousands” Ming soldiers in Battle of Byeokjegwa. Both Korean and Chinese sources recorded Ming forces only had few hundreds to two thousands causalities at most, only Japanese sources claimed they killed 6000 ~ 20000+ Ming troops (that's over 1/2 of entire Ming expedition in Korea, which is why it's absolutely nonsense). Most of all, the Ming force they actually fought in Byeokjegwa only had 3000 men at best, it's basically just a reconnaissance force or vanguards of Ming expedition, mostly were consisted of General Li's retinues, and ambushed by Japanese in Byeokjegwa, how did Japanese kill two times more men than they actually encountered? This is typical exaggeration from the Japanese's side of story which is already debunked long time ago, but you still use such false claim.
I think if Takeda Shingen was alive he would've appreciated how the Ming cavalry fought. Too bad by that time most of the legendary Chinese and Japanese commanders had passed away. Imagine a battle of Qi JiGuang vs Takeda Shingen / Uesugi Kenshin...
Also this American is deliberately vilifying Chinese involvement in the Imjin War. It's definitely wrong to suggest that Li Rusong or Ming attempted to share half of Korea with Japan. I find it hard to believe what this American said about this whole thing on the Chinese side. This "professor" for some reason doesn't know that Li Rusong and his family are of ethnic Korean background working for Ming China. This is a fight for him to protect his motherland as well as doing his job ordered by Emperor Wanli of Ming. Also Li family is so influential and powerful in Ming that many Ming court officials dare not to mess with their family. The Li family even secretly propped up Jurchen warchief Nurrhaci, who became the founder of Qing Empire, because Li family has always done things to benefit themselves against Ming court, and the Li need to find a reason for Ming to need them and that is the Jurchen tribe they helped building. So there was no way that Ming would suggest to Li Rusong to divide up Korea with Japan. Unless Wanli wants a deadly civil war with Li family and his private Liao Dong elite border troops.
Li family gives land in the Eastern border to his troops and they are super loyal to him, they are his private family elite troops. Ming condemns the giving away of Eastern border land to troops and the fact that Li family is doing it is highly controversial, because they are not royal blood of Ming. However for Li it's the best way to build an army that would give him the highest level of loyalty because these troops have their family and land to protect as well as the Interest of Ming. So I doubt that Li would cut of the head of his own men as the last video claimed.
Imjin war for the Chinese was a war to show Japanese strength in order to stop their plans to invade, and it deterred the Japanese for another 3 hundred years because the Ming forces have inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese forces. Prior to this war, Fujian and Ningpo was constantly raided by Japanese forces disguised as pirates to test the strength of Ming. The piracy stopped after this war. Also
Despite cavalry forces were not effective for attacking Japanese forces occupying Seoul, but this "professor" never mentioned Qi family army led by general Wu who's equipment literally were developed to deal with Samurai's. Also Ming brought a hell of a lot of firearm and cannons which allowed with to inflict huge casualties on land battles against Japanese invading forces. Not the other way around.
If Ming attempted to divide Korea up with Japan, don't you think Hideyoshi would immediately mount a second attack in mainland southern China for being pussies? Yet there was no further Japanese invasion until 1900s.
I reckon it's a ploy to change history to make the Koreans feel less friendly towards China in recent conflict build ups with USA in East Asia. I mean even in Korean drama, Li Rusong is depicted as a positive character.
@Markus Lambert and that's why Japan doesn't invade China again until 300 years later?
@@Tizonwar8 He's from Canada, not the US.
Thank you for your insights Mr. Samuel Hawley. I have a question though. Why didn't Japan concentrate its land forces on an attack on the Cholla province ? Thereby taking over Korea's breadbasket and denying the coast to the Korean navy seems like a feasible strategy, no?
They tried several times but gave up because they were always defeated by inferior forces.
@@asgayaajigeeyuui7152, thank you. Shouldn't that be mentioned though when describing the war? I feel that the inability to conquer that province was as big of a turning point as the korean naval dominance.
@@locatemarbles It should but for some reason it's not given due treatment. I think partly because this war hasn't really been given much attention at all until recently; still pretty new scholarship.
What the hell were the Japanese thinking charging uphill into a fortified position? Even with a numerical advantage that’s obviously going to be a meatgrinder.
(Granted, they did break through the first of the two Korean lines of defences, but still)
They had the numbers. You'll be surprised that throughout history most armies charge up hills because they thought they had the numbers to overwhelm a smaller force.
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And it rarely ends well (it’s usually a Pyrrhic victory or a full-on defeat). You’d think they would learn.
I remember Steven Turnbull saying in his book that the Japanese were so eager to be the first to climb the ladder and kill the most enemies.
They probably thought the Koreans in Haengju were only another band of guerrillas and peasants that were roaming the countryside, only a threat to small units.
The intro music is intoxicating . What album is this?
You have done a fantastic job with the narration. It’s like reading a book.
Thanks! The intro music is by the Chinese band Second Hand Rose. Here's a link to the full song: freemusicarchive.org/music/Second_Hand_Rose/Live_on_WFMUs_100_Whatever_with_Mary_Wing_October_19_2014/Picking_Flowers
Great work professor! Hopefully your book is available everywhere!
Thank you! The book is widely available on Amazon and other outlets.
Really loved to watch this series.
2:50 ...wasn't it Napoleon who said: "...it's better to fight against a coalition...!' ?
The information of this vedio probable from Korean book(not official record) and Japanese record.Most of the information is different with Chinese and Korean historical records.The records for Byeokje battle was still have some argument on historiography
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Combining the records from China and Japan,at the beginning of the battle in Byeokje,several thousand Japanese troops leave the Seoul at 1:00-3:00 a.m. and planed draw the enemy into the encirclement.
The heavy rain in the previous night could prevented the Chinese cavalry from taking advantage.Chinese investigation forces was deceived.And 3,000 Chinese cavalry rushed into the ground without cover from allies.But they defeated the enemy in the front
before being surrounded by Japanese troops in the behind at 7:00 a.m.At 9:00-11:00 a.m. ,Chinese and Japanese reinforcement arrived at the Byeokje,the total strength of the Japanese troops reached 40,000, and the total strength of the Chinese troops reached 5,000.General Li Rusong of Chinese troops believed that they stiil had chance to defeat Japanese army and insist not to retreat.Near 14:00 p.m. , Japanese troops completed three-sided encirclement.Finally , another Chinese reinforcement with 1,000 cavalry arrived,and covered the main force to retreat.The battle was finished at 17:00 p.m. .
In terms of casualties, both sides insisted that themselves lost only a few hundred people. Japanese records on Chinese casualties were different,the smallest number is 6,000, but this number exceeds the total number of Chinese troops. In Chinese official records ,Chinese troops have 264 dead officers and soldiers, 49 injured officers and soldiers were counted, and 276 horses were shot dead.The number in Korean records were unclear too,most of them claimed bothsides lost only a few hundred people. However, it is worth noting that on March 23 of the same year, Ishida and others were obliged to check the number of soldiers in Seoul. According to statistics, Tachibana Muneshige and Takahashi Munemasu had only 1,132 people, compared with statistics before the battle, the Tachibana Army was reduced by more than 1,800 people, and after this battle, the Tachibana Army did not participate in any recorded operations.
You made a big mistake seeking historical accuracy here. He has only 5k subscribers for a proper reason.
Theese series are very good :)
The Ming got too cocky. Even without muskets, the Japanese were no joke at hand to hand.
Agreed. That's the samurai's specialty, hand to hand.
Ming also had muskets, though less advanced. Ming had cannons that the Japanese didn't have. The Japanese army in the eyes of Ming was like provincial rebels. The number of Ming army sent to Korea was at first 1/3 of and later less than 1/2 of the Japanese army in Korea, yet the Japanese were forced to withdraw from Korea except several seaside forts. The Japanese warlord was ultimately a frog in the well until it saw the actual continental forces.
It's the Korean King beseeching Ming Emperor to send the "heavenly soldiers" to save Korea. The Japanese invaders had reached the Chinese border and almost the whole of Korea was lost. Without Ming army's intervention, Yi Sun-Sin will be soon without land bases and drift on the sea. Let's be fair.
@@blandwinde Watch the video! The Japanese withdrew due to lack of provisions, not because they were afraid of the Chinese. Yi Sun-Sin and his Korean navy did more to repel the Japanese than the Chinese army.
@@ElBandito My reply was repeatedly deleted. Don't know why.
LEt us not forget the Japanese outnumbered them two to one in that battle
love this sh1t! keepem coming!
Yay! Seoul is retaken!
these videos were private. how have i gained access?
Dang, were the Ming serious about giving the southern half of Korea to Japan for negotiations? If it was to make the Japanese off guard then I would understand that. But that's just crazy.
It was empty talk to get the Japanese to withdraw.
Ming's improvised liaison Shen Weijin was a businessman that can speak Japanese. He's talking bullshit. But still I don't believe he dare say "half".
It did foreshadow what was going to happen a few centuries later.
And as I'm sure we'll see in upcoming videos, Shen Weijing is not the most honest broker.
It was a negotiating tactic.
Chinese had fought for Koreans in three wars, ImJin war, first Sino Japanese war, and the Korean War.
@master universe Tang also defeating Japanese who help Baekje and help Silla for unification of 1 Korea
@@rijantohadianto3492 In return, Tang took northern region of Korea.
Not for the Korean War. Back then, China fought for the communism and killed korean people a lot. If China didn't participated Korean war, Korea must have been unified and milliones of people were not suffered from such a dictorship in the North.
In one of his books on the Samurai, Stephen Turnbull claims that the Japanese could have been driven out of Korea without any assistance from the Ming. He stated that the Japanese were constantly short on supplies, the Korean resistance getting stronger day by day and Admiral Yi had cut the Japanese forces off from their base of operations. Inevitably the invaders would have to withdraw. I don't know. Does anyone have an opinion? Please, no nationalistic sniping!
It is possible, but it did not happen.
I doubt it.
Two main factors.
1) Organization
Thus far, Korean Land Commanders have been completely inept, with several battles being squandered due to poor command out in the field. Even if they had the manpower, their rapid flight north with repeated defeats along the way had them disorganised and unable to get their shit together. They could barely hold the line under the Japanese push, much less mount a counter attack without the Chinese to give them breathing room to properly reorganize.
2) Morale
Never underestimate the effect reinforcements bring when it comes to morale. The countless rapid defeats suffered by the Koreans, and having their King driven so far from their capital would have had a damning effect on morale. It must have seemed hopeless despite the victories Admiral Yi had won at sea, so far away from their current predicament. The arrival of fresh, well equipped troops from the Ming Empire would have seemed like divine intervention. While the Korean Court would have been worried about foreign troops, allies they may be, massing onto their soils, the average soldier on the ground would have seen this the way propaganda made it out to be. The celestial armies from big Papa China coming to help them retake their country.
Cowardice seemed to define the performance of Korean land troops throughout the war thus far. Their morale was extremely low, and their lines would break quickly at any sign of stress.
The unwritten, unspoken, and unseen effect of raising of morale upon receiving reinforcements from China.
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Cowardice thus far... It is good that you qualified that... But you have to put things into perspective that Korea had largely been at peace for centuries, while Japan had just been unified after a century of nationwide almost ceaseless war. Most people cannot just steel themselves to become very brave in the likelihood of death fighting against persons experienced in warfare or much better psychologically prepared for it.
Both the Chinese and Japanese troops had seen frequent combat. The Northern Chinese troops were often engaged against Mongols and Manchurian raiders, and those from the South frequently dealt with ruthless dens of bandits who could generally only be contained and never fully eradicated throughout China's history. They probably also fought against formidable forces of an existing state such as Burma.
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Li Rusong decisively taking Pyongyang was a huge morale boost and probably nothing raised morale and gave Koreans confidence in themselves as Kwon Yul's decisive victory shortly after following the Chinese defeat at Byeokchekwang.
Li Rusong got the Japanese to depart from Seoul. In as much as contemporary Korean and Chinese records indicate that many Koreans were indignant at the Japanese just being allowed to march South largely unharmed, strategically it was a big victory. Seoul was taken with little fighting.
It should be noted that a Chinese infiltration and raiding party destroyed almost all that was left of the Japanese food supplies in Seoul shortly prior to the Japanese retreating. That was an excellent tactical and strategic stroke with little cost and totally forced the Japanese to comply to the Chinese terms.
Hi do u know korean are fighting with chinese on the internet about hanfu? Very interesting topic.
Seoul means the capital town....the capital of Joseon called Hanseong,not Seoul...
May I make a suggestion Mr. Hawley? Your intro music is incredibly annoying and the volume is decidedly higher than the rest of your video. Additionally, the intro is far too long for such short 15-minute videos. Otherwise amazing content, I have liked every video, thank you for putting them together.
I have gone through alot of your episodes with regards to Imjin war, its well researched, but you have based most of your research from Japanese sources and some Korean source. I don't believe you have gone to the trouble of going through Chinese sources as well. Therefore, it is only part of the story.
In Chinese history, the Imjin War is not much more than a footnote. Reason is that the Chinese never held the welfare of a tributary state like Korea in much high regard in the Imperial Court in Beijing. They only saw Korean affairs, in the interests of the Chinese state and this reflected in the actions of their generals and officials, it was always a China first policy.
Good comment, Chris! Chinese nationalists today (who are the main source of negative comments on these videos) also have an annoying habit of blowing off the Korean historical record. If the Ming Chinese record tells a different story, they assume it must be correct, and the Korean record wrong.
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What I see are Korea and Japanese nationalists trying to diminish the roles of the other side. In conclusion, the Chinese had great respect for Admiral Yi.
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In the Battle Seoul you do not mention the successful operation by Chinese saboteurs that entered Seoul and destroyed most of what was left of the Japanese supplies.
@Samuel Hawley You could have easily reasoned with the people who disagreeing with you. I see no unreasonable Chinese commenters in your comment section.
Well it's also important to remember that by this point, the Ming dynasty was in full decline, and had roughly ~50 years in the dynasty's lifetime remaining. I doubt they had much capacity to focus on external problems when their own house was a mess.
The virtue of the Korean people is history, but the strength is not enough, so we should replace it with sadness and slander
Seoul?
Seoul was originally called "HANCHENG"
Hansung
@@Cantonese-rat It was called Hanseong, in Korean.
Li RuSong was a Korean descendent himself. How come the author of this video never stated this?
That is disputed, not confirmed.
@@RedStar0723 Even the Chinese side states that Li is Korean descendant, although he is one of top 10 generals to have ever worked for Chinese Dynasties. This also proved that it is unlikely that Li would negotiate to divide Korea with Japan. The facts don't add up. If the Chinese has done exactly what this professor suggests, I don't think Koreans would want to be vassal anymore particularly when they could stop the invasion on their own and the Chinese were only there to show off and displaying weakness.
Nope, his ancestors came from Gansu, his Bon-gwan was Longxi, his ancestors migrated to Korea and lived there for a few generations then moved back to China.
Everyone is Korean decedent, what you talk about?
@@Cantonese-rat Li Rusong family spoke Korean, they lived among the Manchus.
Check first how many Ming soldiers participated in the battle north of Seoul. "The Japanese cut off 6000 Ming heads". The total of Ming soldiers participating in this battle is 5000. How can the Japanese cut off 6000 Ming heads? If you do a documentary, at least check the records of both participating parties. I guess you only checked some Japanese records and adopt them. It's 5000 Ming vanguards (in 2 batches) leaving main troops and cannons behind and running recklessly into 7 times more Japanese (41,000) and the outcome is still a draw.
It's the Korean King beseeching Ming Emperor to send the "heavenly soldiers" to save Korea. The Japanese invaders had reached the Chinese border and almost the whole of Korea was lost. Without Ming army's intervention, Yi Sun-Sin will be soon without land bases and drift on the sea. Let's be fair.
Well, Everyone bloats numbers when they could gain something by that.
Chinese are even more extreme in this respect. 白髪三千丈.
@Markus Lambert True. People are always looking for one single thing that made victory possible but in reality it was everything put together. The Chinese success was very significant but it was entirely contingent on the actions of the Korean navy and righteous armies.
I don’t think the writer has done much research on Chinese side of record of first and second ImJin war.
Very few of the primary sources are very accessible to the English-speaking world.
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Does China still have a records remaining on this? I heard that China had burned and destroyed almost all of their historical records by their own hadns in the time of "Great Cultural Revolution". and almost every records remaining now highly likely be a fabrication made after the incident.
Ming Chinese had been rotting from the inside and couldn’t wake up since 1550s when Altan Khan (a duke/prince of a Mongol province, Tumed) surrounded Beijing until Ming’s fall by Manchurian and Mongol alliance in mid 1600s.
You are so dumb I don't even know where I should start teasing you.
The short of supply of Japanese is without the doubt, thanks to the Legendary Admiral Yi Sun Shin known as Admiral Yeet the Japanese Fleet 😂. He wrecked their fleet so bad that Japanese were badly short of supply because their supply ships being destroyed by this Admiral.
This Hawley just simply stole some contents from Korean history books. He definitely haven't done any research from Japanese or Chinese history records. Too many information in this series are not accurate or just one side of the story. It's really not something worthy to watch. There are plenty of books from Japanese or Chinese perspective to describe this war. It's very interesting that the description from Japanese perspective or Chinese perspective of this war are very similar and information from these two countries can match, but the story telling from Korean side is very different. Too bad this Hawley guy just choose the Korean side of info and totally ignored the info from the other two countries.
I am pretty sure this pinkkie has got some Korean blood mixed, just look at how he twisted the facts and exaggerated the strength of Korean resistance, while erasing most of the achievements by the Ming forces, Li Rusong was never a coward, even as a field marshal he personally participated in hand to hand combat with Japanese Samurais along with his brothers and other Ming generals such as Liu Ting(who was able to swing a 50+kg Guandao), Ma Gui, Wu Weizhong and so on, and the first man who climbed up the Pyongyang wall while killing many Samurais was General Luo Shangzhi, and without the cannons from Ming Dynasty the retaking of Pyongyang and Seoul wouldn't have been possible.
This dude was born and raised in Korea... So he is basically a white korean.
Hating China is the political correctness, don't you forget that.
Ming Chinese bascially save Korea.
When the Mongols invaded Ming, the Korean couldnt do anything for them.
No, you're not talking about history, but politics. Just like "Seoul" renamed Seoul, it's understandable to tamper with history for the dignity of modern people, but the pattern is low
Get Jesus Christ on the phone. We gotta save our Seoul.
You can understand more easily ;
The First invasion in 1592 : WW2, Japan=Germany, Korea=Russia, Ming=US
The Second invasion in 1597 : WW1, Japan=Germany, Korea, Ming=Britain, France, Wajo may be trench.
And I can admit that if the first is Korea vs Japan(mainly), the second if China vs Japan(mainly).
cannot agree at all..
Damn it UA-cam. Why did I see this video 5 days late????? Great work as usual.
Also makes me wonder how many Korean civilians in Seoul would have been saved if the Chinese were better commanded. Were they to have managed to beat the Japanese maybe all the food in Seoul wouldn’t have been eaten. There was probably not a single grain of rice for a week by the time the Japanese left. Judging by the fact there were dead horses in Seoul, the Japanese May have resorted to eating their own horses.
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I cannot help but feel this episode is overly biased on Korean accounts. It feels like Hediyoshi decided to retreat his army to Pusan because Gwon Yul put too much of a fight, it is not right.
(Not to speak lightly of Gwon Yul, he was a marvel)
in fact none of Chinese or Korean armies could not defeat Japanese strong advanced army both in guns & martial arms with so many brilliant commanders, Japanese left because they didn't want continue war with so many reasons, after all Bunraku no Eki as in Japan calls was Hideyoshi's idea in the first place, the thing that Daimyos really wanted was power in Japan that's why Sengoku Jidai lasted until 1615.
Japan also had great commanders during those times. Like kato and yukinaga
Ming Chinese bascially save Korea.
When the Mongols invaded Ming, the Korean couldnt do anything for them.
They are not Mongolians they are Manchurians. Josen Dynasty want help to the Ming Dynasty. But surrendered to the Manchurians after 2wars with them. In fact, there were no soldiers to help with 4wars, (2war=japan/ 2war=manchurian) in additon, 1 Rebellion of border elite soliders. For 100 years.
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@@condorX2 . It is not that Joseon did not offer any help. the beginning of the war, Joseon sent 13,000 musketeers to Ming, but the Both sides were ill-prepared. The cavalry-centered Ming army combined with the slow-moving Musketeers of the Joseon Army was unable to perform its proper duties. caused 100,000 (Ming 85000 + Joseon13000+ Yehe, a kind of Manchurian tribe 2000) but Allied troops to lose 50% of their troops to Manchurian at the Battle of Sarhu. Of course, Manchurians were not harsh on the third party, the Joseon Army. However, this gives Manchurians the perception that the Joseon army could threaten the rear during the war with Ming China, and causes Manchurians to invade Joseon. Since then, Joseon has more lost 12,000 elite Musketeers in the revolt of elite soldiers on the northern border. This is a big cause of defeat in the war against Manchuria. Also, due to this war, the Joseon Dynasty will not be able to help Ming forever. 🙏 I hope this will help you.
Ming lost 2 important battles in Imjin war and sued for peace during the whole war.