Report on Laying In Army Grain to Await the Ming Troops' Rising Again, on Sending Scouts Separately into Hwanghae and Hamgyeong Provinces, and on Dispatches to Unsan Magistrate Seong Daeeop and Others to Call Up Military Men措置軍糧以待。天兵再擧及發遣體探人分往黃海咸鏡道與移文雲山郡守成大業等招集武士狀

Of late your servant has had no word at all of whether the Ming troops will come out, and is deeply vexed. Your servant is now halted at Anju (安州).

Of the grain shipped in from place to place, what has already reached Jeongju and Anju is two thousand seok of rice at each and something over a thousand seok of fodder beans at each. It is enough to supply amply a month's provisions for five or six thousand troops, and even should they reach ten thousand it would not fall short within a few days. If the number exceeds this, there is truly cause to fear it will be hard to supply. Whether the troops asked for are many or few, and whether their coming out is early or late, must be known in detail beforehand if we are to be free of the worry of being pinched and hard put to prepare. Of the Ming troops wounded in the fighting on the seventeenth, those who come out from Pyeongyang with their wounds bound up, dragging their feet, follow one after another without a break, so your servant has had each district along this one road treat them with all its heart, and has had those who lost their horses and go on foot sent on by providing oxen and horses.

Your servant hears that in the Seoheung (瑞興) mountain fortress in Hwanghae Province there is much granary grain from several districts, and that it sits moreover in a steep place, so that even two or three men holding it would keep the enemy from daring to advance and attack. Whether it is being held your servant does not certainly know. Gathering those who of their own wish would scout — the Uiju post-runner Kim Geuksim (金克諶), the Hamjong local clerk Kim Eungnyong (金應龍), and the office slave Jeong Su (丁守) — he had them go by byways and look. He also sent dispatches to each district there, giving them a plan for barring and cutting off the enemy's road, and had them lead their clerks and soldiers in front and kill the enemy with all their strength. He also gathered two monks of Anju and sent them by the mountain roads of Maengsan (孟山) and Yangdeok (陽德) to look into news of the northern province, but they have not yet returned. Should the enemy of the northern road join with the enemy here and spill out between Yangdeok and Maengsan, the situation would be deeply worrying, so your servant has sent dispatches one after another to Song Eonsin (宋言愼), charging each district again and firmly to bar and cut them off with all their strength.

Only, there is not one military man in the province fit to be appointed a commander. Your servant heard before that many who fled the disorder have gathered in the several mountains about Huicheon (熙川) and the like, and that among them there are perhaps many of military background; so he has had Unsan Magistrate Seong Daeeop (成大業), the Pyeongsa Yi Sangcheol (李尙哲), and Eocheon Postal Inspector Byeon Ijung (邊以中) call them up along separate roads and set a term for them to come and assemble, and has notified them with fiery urgency as well.

Today Yi Wonik (李元翼), Yi Bin (李薲), and the others are just advancing with a great force to fight, and the troops of three districts rise together at the same time from the west, so that the hearts of the people are stirred as one. Just now, too, the rain has cleared fresh and fine, convenient for moving troops. If happily the will of Heaven repents of the calamity and sweeps away the remaining enemy, then south of Pyeongyang we can beat the drums and advance without hindrance. The autumn grain is just ripening, so provisions too can be prepared and used from place to place. Your servant cannot overcome the heart that stands and hopes.