Report on Replacing O Eung-jeong, the Right Defense Commander右防禦使吳應鼎遞差啓
吳應鼎遞差當否問于都體察使事。傳敎矣吳應鼎之爲防禦使當初固有不勝其任之慮但以乏人故備邊司。啓差矣頃日賊報卒至臣發遣應鼎使合京畿前營右營之軍把截要害且分付云兵分則勢弱當於秃城厚集其陣屯留重兵而多發體探之人遠遠瞭哨視賊兵所向與左防禦使相爲掎角其後聞應鼎擧措煩擾分軍約束頗有違錯秃城守城之軍盡數調用於他處且分兵拒守許多路頭形勢孤弱縱有緩急似難相顧事人多言之臣猶未知其間曲折昨已行文問其䇿應形止欲待其回報而。啓請處置矣伏見諫院之。啓亦必有所聞而然吳應鼎遞差而使他人之可堪者代之甚當
Your Majesty gave command that the Supreme Commander be asked whether O Eungjeong (吳應鼎) should be replaced. In O Eungjeong's being made defense commander there was from the outset the fear that he would not prove equal to the charge; only, men being wanting, the Border Defense Council submitted his name and he was appointed.
Some days ago, when a report of the enemy came suddenly in, your servant sent Eungjeong to join the troops of the Gyeonggi front camp and right camp and to block and cut off the strategic passes, and gave him moreover this instruction: 「If the troops be divided the posture grows weak; therefore gather your camp thickly at Dokseong (禿城) in Suwon and keep many troops there, send out many men to scout and watch far off, and, observing where the enemy's soldiers make for, join with the left defense commander so that front and rear support each other.」
Since then your servant has heard, and many are they who say it, that Eungjeong's conduct of affairs is cumbersome and confused, that in dividing and ordering his troops there is much that goes awry, that he has moved all the troops meant to hold Dokseong and used them elsewhere, and that he has besides divided his troops to block and hold the several roadways, so that the posture is solitary and weak and, should anything urgent arise, they would hardly be able to look to one another. Your servant does not yet know the particulars of the matter, and so already yesterday sent out a dispatch asking how he is answering to it, meaning to await that reply before asking that it be dealt with.
Bowing low, your servant has seen the submission of the Office of the Censor-General, and it too must rest upon something they have heard. It is altogether fitting that O Eungjeong be replaced and that another man equal to the charge take his place.