Chapter 39 Chapter 18 Forward and Backward

In the Battle of Ulsan, the Ming army discarded the luggage accumulated for many years, and retreated to Gyeongju in embarrassment, and further withdrew from Gyeongsang-do. Yang Gao, who was still in shock, retreated all the way until he was sure that the Japanese army was not following him. Then he settled down and fulfilled his duty as a coach - defending against the enemy's counterattack. In order to appease the Korean king, Yang Gao retreated to Seoul.Before leaving, he sent Ma Gui to Anton to preside over the frontline affairs, gathered the defeated army, reorganized the army, and then scattered out the few troops that had preserved their organizational system during the retreat. Li Fangchun and Niu Boying went to Nanyuan, Zu Chengxun, Mao Guoqi, etc. People stationed in Xingzhou.

Yang Hao's move was obviously over-considered.At this time, the Japanese army had no aggressive intentions at all. After breaking the siege of Ulsan, all the generals dispersed, happily praising Hideyoshi, and no one mentioned the matter of counterattack.Even Kato Kiyomasa, clamoring for revenge, stayed in Ulsan to strengthen the city defense.He first finished repairing Dosan Castle, then built another city on the mountain where Yang Gao camped in the north, and specially built a corridor from the inside of Dosan Castle to the water well—this was obviously psychologically shadowed by the siege of Ulsan. .

After the defense was completed, Yang Gao began to seriously consider the aftermath of the defeat. The loss of personnel in the Battle of Ulsan was not large, but the defeat was too ugly.For the Ming court who wanted face, the loss of things was a small matter, but the loss of face was a big matter.In order to give the court a passable explanation, Yang Gao dragged Xing Jie and Ma Gui into a boat.The two of them are also the main promoters of the Ulsan battle. If something goes wrong, none of the three can get away with it. How to explain to the court?It's very simple, hide the defeat and make the victory, describe the final collapse of the Ming army as returning to the army, make the tragedy of Kato Kiyoshi in Daoshan Castle even worse, and finally send a few Japanese prisoners there, and the matter will be over.

There is a story about Yang Gao that is widely circulated.It is said that after Yang Gao returned to Seoul, he asked the battalions to count and report the casualties, but the soldiers handed over the books, and Yang Gao took a look, what the hell?There are more than 20,000, how can I tell the court?With a swipe of his pen, he changed it to hundreds of people, and then reported it. This story was majestically written into the history of the Ming Dynasty, but its veracity is very suspicious. There were only over 40,000 people in the Ming army, and more than half of them were casualties at once.Even if Yang Gao's hands and eyes are open to the sky, it is impossible to hide it.

Besides, if he underreported the casualties of 20,000 to hundreds, the imperial court would set strategic goals for him according to the target of 40,000.Taking 20,000 people to do the work of 40,000 people, Yang Gao is not a fool, so why ask for trouble. Finally, as we analyzed at the end of the previous chapter, the actual casualties of the Ming army could not exceed 2,000. This "20,000" figure is really outrageous. Therefore, it is possible for Yang Gao to conceal his defeat from the court, but it is not that exaggerated. We cannot just pour dirty water on the ancients. Soon this memorial was written, and Yang Gao asked Xing and Ma to sign it, and then sent it to Beijing.Attached to the letter was a private letter from Yang Gao to the two cabinets, the second assistant Zhang Wei and the third assistant Shen Yiguan. In the letter, Yang Gao told the truth and asked the two to mediate.

The letter was delivered, and reinforcements arrived. Guerrilla Lan Fangwei rushed to Seoul with 4,000 Zhejiang soldiers and 3,000 cavalry from General Wang Guodong as the first backup force after the Battle of Ulsan.Arriving at the same time as them, there was also a military fan called Ding Yingtai. This Ding Yingtai is a famous talker.He was originally an aide of Xiao Yinggong, the procuratorate of Shandong, and once represented Xiao Yinggong to go to Xing Jie and Yang Hao to intercede for Shen Weijing, but Xing Jie scolded him, and he has held a grudge ever since.This person doesn't know why, it seems that he has always had a deep hatred with the soldiers who aided the DPRK.As early as after the Battle of Bichiguan, he once wrote a letter to impeach Li Rusong, and he said that Li Rusong lost tens of thousands of soldiers-he was almost becoming the spokesperson of the Japanese military.

This time when he came to North Korea, he had already held back his thoughts and made a good use of it. After arriving in Seoul, Ding Yingtai was not idle, wandering around the various departments of the surrounding defense zone like a paparazzi, and soon he found an excellent piece of material. Chen Yin was treated unfairly in the Battle of Ulsan. He was abruptly replaced by Yang Gao when he was about to attack Dosan City. He was injured in the next day's battle and has been recuperating in Seoul.Chen Yin himself didn't say anything, but Zhou Mian and Zhou Bi, his colleagues in the same battalion, complained about this. Coupled with Ulsan's defeat, they felt that Yang Hao was really not a good guy.

For some reason, this matter reached Ding Yingtai's ears.As if Ding Yingtai had found a treasure, he hurriedly found Zhou Bi with a small notebook. Zhou Bi was full of grievances and had nowhere to vent, so he began to tell Ding Yingtai about Yang Hao's various wrongdoings. Needless to say, there was a command error in the Daoshan defeat. The most exasperating thing is that Yang Gao also used the military servants and businessmen to fill the quota of the dead. As a result, the horses in some camps have even been hungry for several months.All kinds of crimes. Ding Yingtai spent several months in Seoul, silently remembering all these collected clues in his heart.When the data collection was almost done, he went to find Yang Gao again.

Before this, Yang Hao had just experienced a small disturbance.His father died of illness at the beginning of the twenty-sixth year. According to the rules, his son should resign and return to Canada to observe his filial piety. However, considering the tension of the war, the coach should not be easily replaced. Wanli specially approved Duoqing as a matter of fact.Censor Wang Xian'an wanted to impeach this matter, but was pushed back by several elders. Due to the turmoil, Yang Gao didn't want to provoke these sloppy officials anymore, so he was quite polite to Ding Yingtai, and the two chatted quite speculatively.Ding Yingtai saw that the other party had put down his guard, so he quickly changed the topic to the battle of Daoshan.Yang Hao had already received Zhang Wei's reply letter at this time, and proudly showed it to Ding Yingtai.Ding Yingtai took a look, and said inside: "Yang Gao must make a great contribution to the battle of Daoshan. I will help you and win the emperor's praise." He couldn't help being overjoyed. The last mark of success.

After Ding Yingtai bid farewell to Yang Gao, he wrote a memorial and sent it to Beijing in June. Just as he expected, this memorial caused a great shock in Beijing.In the memorial, Ding Yingtai impeached Yang Gao with twenty-eight guilty persons and ten shameful persons, and then said that Magui, Li Rumei and others were also greedy and slippery generations, six should be beheaded, ten guilty of party crimes, and even Zhang Wei, Shen, etc. The usual two pavilion elders were also scolded bloody. This shot, poking from Seoul to Beijing, overturned all the frontline officials who aided the DPRK to the chief officials of the court, and the whole court was shocked.

In this memorial, some of the crimes Ding Yingtai said are justified.For example, he accused Yang Hao of "abandoning the soldiers and absconding when Japanese arrived, and discussing garrisons to cover up crimes when the army was defeated. He lost his teacher and humiliated the country, and he dared to deceive by omitting reports." He criticized the poor military discipline of the Liaodong Army. , rape and plunder the country", these are all facts. But some of the words were too much, obviously intentionally framed.For example, Ding Yingtai said that "more than 20,000 Liao soldiers were killed in battle, all of which were lost at the hands of Rumei brothers." He once said that Yang Hao and Li Rumei deliberately flattered Kato Kiyomasa and made peace without authorization, obviously distorting the truth and only picking bad things to say. But these are not Ding Yingtai's real killing moves. His most ruthless attack was to slash at the two big bosses of the cabinet, Zhang Wei and Shen Yiguan. Ding Yingtai said in the memorandum that the reason why Yang Hao got the manager position was the result of the North Koreans bribing Mr. Zhang Ge, and Yang Hao’s misdeeds in North Korea were all supported by Zhang and Shen. , That is, "defend the party and ignore it". Don't underestimate the four words "protecting the party and indiscriminately". All the emperors of all dynasties hated these four words. You're corrupt, you're incompetent, you're cruel, and you're overjoyed, none of this is a problem, but if you dare to collude with others to lie to me, then he's outrageous.You group of people dare to lie to me today, and dare to oppose me tomorrow, how can I be the emperor? The more Emperor Wanli thought about it, the more angry he called Zhang Wei and Shen Yiguan over, and said that when Yang Gao's father passed away, you were the one who pushed me to take care of him.I said why are you so active, so you have discussed it long ago to fool me?You two, take a break from your duties and take a rest. The more Emperor Wanli thought about it, the more angry he called Zhang Wei and Shen Yiguan over, and said that when Yang Gao's father passed away, you were the one who pushed me to take care of him.I said why are you so active, so you have discussed it long ago to fool me?You two, take a break from your duties and take a rest. This action frightened the two elders, pleading guilty and belittling themselves, they almost didn't pass out.The first assistant, Zhao Zhigao, also tried his best to say good things to excuse the two colleagues. Later, Emperor Wanli calmed down a little bit. After thinking about it carefully, these two people were usually able to do things well, and it was not a big deal to send private messages to others, so he ordered them to stay in office. After dealing with the two ministers in the cabinet, the imperial court also came out with its opinions on the handling of several principals in the front line: Yang Gaoge returned to his hometown; Xing Jie was temporarily in charge of military affairs;The imperial court also sent a special commissioner, Xu Guanlan, to North Korea to investigate carefully the various crimes accused by Ding Yingtai. As for the position of manager, the imperial court first preferred Wang Yingjiao, and later picked Wan Shide, the governor of Tianjin. When the news of Ding Yingtai's impeachment reached North Korea, Yang Gao was shocked.He took a look at the copy of the memorandum, and found that there were many details in it, which were not known to those who were not in the army. After careful inspection, it turned out that Zhou Bi had done a good job. Yang Gao got angry from the heart, called Zhou Bi over and scolded him severely, and then put him in prison.All of a sudden, the Zhejiang soldiers quit. They have always fought the hardest wars, and their pay and food are the worst. Their long-suppressed anger was suddenly ignited, and under the leadership of Zhou Mian, they actually besieged the manager's office.Yang Gao saw that the Zhejiang soldiers were about to make a mutiny, so he quickly called Peng Youde and Xu Guowei's cronies, led the troops to rein in their horses, and started a confrontation with the Zhejiang soldiers. When Chen Yin heard the news that the Zhe soldiers were making trouble, he yelled that it was not good, besieging the chief officer is a taboo in the army, no matter whether Yang Gao loses power or not, no matter who takes over, the Zhe soldiers will be in bad luck.He hurried to the manager's yamen, and personally persuaded Zhou Mian and others.Under his persuasion, the Zhejiang soldiers withdrew their troops and returned to the camp.Yang Gao knew that he would not be the manager for long, and he didn't want to make things worse. Now that Chen Yin had prepared the steps, he went down the donkey and released Zhou Bi. Soon the North Koreans also knew about Yang Gao's resignation, and huge waves immediately set off in Seoul.Although Yang Hao was defeated, he had a high prestige in the hearts of the Koreans. Everyone still remembered the feat of Manager Yang riding alone into Seoul last year.Especially the king of North Korea, Li Yan, who liked Yang Hao very much, was surprised to hear that he was dismissed by the court, and said that Manager Yang was a meritorious minister, how could Daming do this? No, we have to help Manager Yang, Li Yan said.How to help?Naturally, they use what they are best at - defamation. Li Yan first approached Liang Zuling, the imperial envoy in charge of North Korea’s military affairs in Shandong—it happened that he took over the position of Xiao Yinggong, Ding Yingtai’s old superior—and talked about it for a long time.So North Korea wrote a letter to Emperor Wanli in August, saying that Manager Yang was a good man. Once he arrived in North Korea, the whole situation changed, and everyone praised him; although the battle of Daoshan failed, it was a small defeat. That's all, you can't change the coach just because you lost once.Ever since Yang Gao left, people were in panic.Xing Jie didn't do anything, and the coalition troops were panicked, and the battle was almost impossible to fight. Just at this time, Chen Xiao, the censor of the supervising army, also stood up and said a few fair words, thinking that the defeat of Ulsan was indeed true, but the peace talks with the Japanese army were just a means to deceive the enemy, and the label of "unauthorized peace talks" was a bit big up. With the efforts of these two aspects, Wanli's attitude eased, and Yang Hao's situation began to become delicate again.Ding Yingtai was very annoyed when he saw that the North Koreans dared to disrupt the situation. He happened to go to North Korea for an inspection in September, and after a round trip, he wrote a letter, suing the North Koreans to the court. Ding Yingtailuo's level of accusation is better than that of Lai Junchen.He said in the memorial: "I traded cloth with Koreans for a book in Dingzhou. North Korea secretly summoned the Japanese and agreed to take back the old land of Liaodong and Koryo together. It also said that even during the war, North Korea still secretly traded with Japan, and shipped rice and soybeans to Kyushu one by one. Finally, Ding Yingtai said: In this book, when it comes to Japanese year names, the characters are very large, and when it is written about the next year, the characters are very small, which is obviously disobedient. Luo Zhi has reached this point, it is also considered a wonderful flower. When North Korea heard this, it was frightened and angry at the same time.They really didn't expect that in order to fish out Yang Gao, they put themselves in it too.The king had no choice but to send envoys to continue the journey of defamation, desperately defending that the book was a forgery, and North Korea's obedience to Ming was absolutely unquestionable. Fortunately, Emperor Wanli was not confused about major matters. He knew that Ding Yingtai was talking nonsense, so he issued an order to appease the North Korean king: "Your country is loyal and obedient throughout the world, so don't be confused by people's words." Emperor Wanli gave them another reassurance, saying that the imperial army had already Yunji, the new manager Wan Shide has also gone to North Korea, everything will be fine. Therefore, from the first month to the ninth month of the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, the Ming army did not continue to attack, and fought livelyly while accumulating strength.During this period, apart from the big waves caused by Ding Yingtai, several other things happened. The first is the death of Li Rusong. After the general returned to the country, the voices of the court accusing him of being a Japanese have never stopped, and Li Rusong also lived a low-key life very tactfully.In the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, Dong Yiyuan, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, resigned. Countless people were eyeing this lucrative vacancy. Recommendations were piled up in the cabinet like snowflakes. Unexpectedly, Wanli didn't pick anyone, and directly asked Li Rusong to take over. The officials of the imperial court were not reconciled, and talked about how bad Li Rusong was, but Wanli was not moved at all.Li Rusong was very grateful for Wanli's love and care, and he did his best ever since.In April of the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, the barbarians invaded the border.He personally led the troops to encircle and suppress.This general's temperament has not changed, he still likes to charge forward, and Qingqi advances alone.This time, he was not as lucky as he was in the Bi Ti Pavilion, and died in an ambush near the Huan River at the age of fifty. When the news reached Seoul, King Li Yanzhi of North Korea sighed deeply.He didn't get along very well with Li Rusong, but the latter's great contribution to taking back Sandu cannot be denied.Li Yan sent an envoy to Liaodong to express his condolences, and set up a memorial tablet in Seoul. Li Rusong's death affected two people. One is Zu Chengxun.He was originally stationed in Xingzhou, and he was very sad when he heard the news of the death of the old chief. At that time, he expressed his intention to return to Liaodong.But Yang Gao did not approve his request because the reinforcements had not arrived. The other is Li Rumei, Li Rusong's younger brother. Besides Yang Hao, Ding Yingtai scolded Li Rumei the most harshly in the memorial, saying all kinds of ugly things.In his mouth, Li Rumei is an extremely greedy, stupid and tyrannical general, it is incomprehensible that the imperial court tolerated him to live till now. But Wanli did not touch Li Rumei. Firstly, Li Rusong had just died not long ago; secondly, Wanli himself admired Li Rumei quite a lot, and on the contrary once considered helping him to be the general officer of the Imperial Japanese Army.This move was opposed by the ministers. They felt that Li Rumei had plundered in North Korea, and it was fine if he was not dealt with. How could he still be promoted? None of the ministers expected that this was Wanli's trick to demolish houses and open windows.When I say to open the window, you must object; but when I say to demolish the house, you will say that it is enough to just open a window.After the ministers wrote against Li Rumei as the general officer of the imperial army, Wanli swiped his pen: "Okay, listen to you, Li Rumei did not perform well in North Korea, so go back to Liaodong to replace his brother as the general army of Liaodong." Not only the Liaodong General Soldier, Wanli also added a burden to him as the Chief Soldier of the Japanese Army.To prepare for Japanese pirates is to guard against Japanese pirates, and the direction of Liaodong's defense against Japanese pirates is only North Korea, so in fact, his responsibility is to manage the logistics supplies of the Ming army in Liaodong.This is tantamount to shouldering the two important tasks of the Liaodong Theater and the Liaodong Logistics Area of ​​the Korean Battlefield. Under Li Rusong's nine springs, seeing Wanli so interesting, he can also rest in peace. The second thing is the death of Li Ning. Li Ning is also a mighty general of the Liaodong Army. He had a bad reputation in Liaodong in his early years. He once massacred civilians and pretended to lead the army, and was impeached by the imperial censor several times. cross over. When Li Rusong entered the dynasty, Li Ning, as one of the main forces, also traveled with the army, and went through a series of major battles such as Pyongyang and Bizhiguan.When he aided the dynasty for the second time, he was conscripted into the dynasty again together with Zu Chengxun and others.After the Battle of Ulsan, he was assigned to the vicinity of Geochang to assist in the defense of the defense, and to operate near the actual control line of both sides, which is regarded as a front-line battle. In April of the 26th year of Wanli, Jiesheng defeated a small Japanese army in Juchang, rescued a large number of Korean civilians, and pushed the control line of the Ming army to the south of Juchang.This means that the Ming army can go all the way south to attack Jinzhou from then on, dividing the Japanese coastal defense line into two. Shimadzu, who was stationed in Jinzhou, quickly dispatched a force to the north to block the gate of the Ming army's attack along the middle road.After Yang Gao received the military information, he immediately ordered Li Ning to lead two thousand troops to intercept, trying to stop the enemy in the steep mountains near Juchang. Li Ning and the Japanese army had an encounter at Shajin Station near Juchang and Xianyang.He had no fear of the Japanese pirates, without saying a word, he led people to kill them, and fought the Japanese army evenly.Facing the Liaodong iron cavalry, the Japanese army couldn't resist, and they were defeated one after another.At this time, Li Ning's "Li Rusong Syndrome" broke out. He didn't wait for the whole army to gather, and killed only dozens of servants around him. When the Japanese army saw that Li Ning's Qing army was going deep, they set up a pocket formation behind the mountain.After Li Ning was shortlisted, there was an ambush on all sides.Li Ning and the others brought too few people. Even the Liaodong Army's combat effectiveness is amazing, but it can't bridge the huge gap in numbers.Li Ning was defeated in battle and was shot to death indiscriminately—he and his old chief Li Rusong died in the same month.After he died in battle, his personal soldiers continued with General Li Le with more than 600 people, and finally broke away from the battle after paying a heavy price, and was rescued by Zheng Qilong, the North Korean army who rushed to him. Li Ning was one of the highest military officers killed in the Ming Dynasty in the entire war to aid Korea, and he was the deputy commander in chief.After Li Ning died in battle, Yang Gao immediately ordered the other generals to defend with peace of mind and not to attack lightly. In fact, Yang Gao's worries were superfluous. Except for a major event in Juchang, and then some small frictions in Yanyang, Geumsan, Gujindao, Suncheon, Longtan and other places, the Japanese army behaved at other times. Very obedient. Not only are the Japanese unwilling to fight north, but they are no longer willing to fight anymore.As early as the end of the Battle of Ulsan in February, Kato Kiyomasa sent a Japanese envoy and a North Korean prisoner to Seoul to continue the peace talks with Yang Gao, but Wu Weizhong arrested him when he reached Zhushan.Yang Gao wasn't even interested in seeing each other, so he let Wu Weizhong handle it by himself.In April, President Xiaoxi in Suncheon sent the gold medal spy Yao Shiluo to Namwon to look for Li Fangchun, hoping for peace talks.Li Fangchun was not polite at all this time, and directly arrested this master, which was a bit of a bad breath. Why are they in such a hurry to negotiate peace? This is the third thing I want to say, Hideyoshi's death. During this year, Hideyoshi became more and more ill.The sixty-two-year-old man suffered from a serious illness and was already paralyzed and weak. He even needed support to walk, so he could only stay in Fushimi Castle. He only went to Daigo Temple to enjoy the cherry blossoms once in March. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Japanese overlord will definitely not last this year. The Battle of Keicho was promoted by Hideyoshi with his own strength, and everyone except him fought very reluctantly.Now that Hideyoshi is terminally ill, it is inevitable for the Japanese army to withdraw from North Korea.The question now is when and how to withdraw.The generals who conquered the dynasty began to fight in their hearts. At this time, Hideyoshi's ambition has been tossed by illness to the point where there is little left, and he no longer has the ideal of "showing a good name in the Three Kingdoms".But he felt that he was not reconciled, the good news in the front spread frequently, one victory after another, killing tens of thousands of Ming and North Korean troops in each battle, scared Ming and North Korea to keep begging for peace, but why did the Japanese army's territory become more and more aggressive? The smaller it is, the more enemies it will fight? Hideyoshi actually understands the real situation on the front line very well, after all, he himself is a veteran.It's just that this old hero is unwilling to give up the little luck in his heart, and he is unwilling to let the great plan of conquering Korea that has cost countless efforts go to waste.However, ideals are bruised in the face of reality, the Korean War situation is deteriorating day by day, there are more and more Ikkui rebellions in the country, and the hidden threats under the humble appearance of Tokugawa and other daimyos from the Eastern Kingdom, Hideyoshi has to look away. I moved to my beloved son Xiu Lai. I can't live long, but Xiu Lai's life has just begun.I can't just leave a mess and leave, I want to leave a world where all nations submit to my children. As a result, the arrogant Hideyoshi gradually disappeared, and the rational Hideyoshi slowly woke up.However, the time left for him is running out. In May of the third year of Qingchang (the twenty-sixth year of Wanli), Maeda Toshiie and other elders collectively asked Hideyoshi to withdraw their troops.With Hideyoshi's acquiescence, such daimyos as Hideaki Kobayakawa, Hideka Ukita, and Hidemoto Mori crossed the sea and returned to China in advance.They were either Hideyoshi's relatives or the elite of the Western Kingdom. Hideyoshi transferred them back to the country first because he was afraid that they would be damaged in North Korea and weaken the strength of the Toyotomi family. There are only more than 60,000 Japanese troops left in North Korea, including Konishi Governor, Kato Kiyomasa, Kuroda Nagamasa, Nabeshima Father and Son, Tachibana Muneshige, Zongyoshi Tomo, and Shimadzu Yoshihiro—except for Kuroda Nagamasa’s Kai Except for Bing and Zong Yizhi, basically all Kyushu soldiers.They used Suncheon in the east, Goseong and Sacheon in the middle, and Ulsan and Seosangpo in the west as three support points, with their backs against the sea, covering the southern sea areas of Jeolla and Gyeongsang-do. These 60,000 people were the absolute main force of the two Japanese invasions of Korea, and most of the battles were undertaken by them.Hideyoshi didn't let them go back to the country. First, they needed them to monitor the movement of the coalition forces so as not to interfere with the large troops crossing the sea; It's a pity that Hideyoshi didn't wait for this day to come after all. On August 18th in the third year of Qingcho, the Japanese overlord died suddenly in Fushimi Castle.Before dying, Hideyoshi expressed his wish to the five senior elders, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Maeda Toshiie, Mori Terumoto, Ukita Hideka, and Uesugi Kekatsu, and hoped that they could assist Toyotomi Hideyori to carry forward the legacy of the Toyotomi family. continue. After the five elders expressed their loyalty successively, Hideyoshi stopped breathing.The instigator of the Renchen War just died before the end of the war without seeing the final outcome - this is actually a good thing for him. No matter how lofty Hideyoshi's status in Japan is, no matter how he is rendered and beautified by later generations of film, television, literature, and video games, for Ming Dynasty and North Korea, Hideyoshi is an out-and-out aggressor. The blood of hundreds of thousands of Ming and Korean soldiers and civilians was shed. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea was the first time that Japan launched a major aggression against neighboring countries with the goal of destroying the country.It not only affected the political landscape at the time, but also opened Pandora's box.Hundreds of years later.Hideyoshi's spiritual believers set foot on North Korea again, and began to build the "Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", which started from Hideyoshi. It is really a pity that this culprit who caused countless victims in the same era and indirectly caused more disasters in later generations died so comfortably. On August 27th, the four elders except Ukita Hide’s family collectively signed a document, which only expressed one meaning: According to Hideyoshi’s last order, all Japanese troops stationed in North Korea should be withdrawn as soon as possible.On September 15th, they formed another resolution, calling for ways to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty in order to buy time. On September 28th, the four elders issued the class teacher's order for the second time. The 60,000 Japanese troops stationed in North Korea did not immediately implement this order. It's not that they don't want to leave, but that they are too busy to leave. Because a great crisis is rushing towards them.