Instructions on Guarding Gyeongsang慶尙道把守事宜指授。啓
都元帥從事官崔尙重巡邊使從事官邊以中今將下去凡所指授之事別爲開錄以送何如
Choe Sang-jung (崔尙重), aide to the Commander-in-Chief, and Byeon I-jung (邊以中), aide to the Border Commissioner, are now going down. May the matters to be told to them all be written out separately and sent?
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The Ming troops were stationed apart at Gyeongju, Daegu and Samga, barring the enemy on three routes. Now the troops at the two places, Gyeongju and Samga, have already withdrawn, and only Commander Liu's troops at Daegu remain; these too will withdraw together before long, so that the situation is urgent in the extreme. Looking at the dispatch Commander Liu sent yesterday to Kim Myeong-won (金命元), he said that our troops should hold the three camps in their place, from which his mind to withdraw may be known.
At Samga (三嘉) there are already a mountain fortress and the camp where the Ming commander was stationed, so a place of such a lie as can be held should be picked out and held by the several commanders stationed at Uiryeong. At Daegu the Commander-in-Chief should be stationed, leading Defense Commander Kim Eung-seo (金應瑞); and Gyeongju should be held by Go Eon-baek (高彥伯), Gwon Eung-su (權應銖), Hong Gye-nam (洪季男), Jeong Hui-hyeon (鄭希玄), Pak Ui-jang (朴毅長), Kim Tae-heo (金太虛) and the rest. Let the three places link their positions to one another, calling together choice and nimble troops and having them all go forward into camp, and let army grain be provided and kept coming without want, so as to make it a plan for holding at all costs. If the enemy's movements turn somewhere, it is for the Commander-in-Chief to answer with a plan according to where the urgency lies.