Hastened Report on How Hwangju Prefect Kim Jinsu Took the Enemy, and on Asking Quickly for Ming Troops馳。啓黃州牧使金進壽捕賊緣由。及速請。天兵狀
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The main thread of this dawn's dispatch was the circumstances of Vanguard Commander Shen (沈遊擊) going back and forth to Busanwon (釜山院) and exchanging words with the Japanese, and the circumstances of Hwangju Prefect Kim Jinsu (金進壽) taking and beheading two Japanese commanders and one Japanese private soldier out of some six hundred enemy who came from Bongsan (鳳山) on the twenty-third, and seizing some fifty horses, with a great number of pack loads besides.
The reply letter of Pyeonghaengjang (平行長) and the brief record of the questions and answers exchanged with the Vanguard Commander are said to have been checked, matched, and sent up, appended at the end of the same dispatch, to be returned after Your Majesty has seen them in person. The circumstances of the Vanguard Commander's coming down from Busanwon, and the circumstances of asking again about the words exchanged and getting at the facts, are said not to have been set down together, so it seems the messenger returned without seeing the reply after the Ming man had been sent again.
Looking now at what Yi Wonik (李元翼) has notified, there is as yet no intent to advance quickly. As for negotiating a peace with the Japanese soldiers, it is hard to warrant that it will certainly come about.
That Kim Jinsu cut down the enemy in this way is a comfort and a joy, yet the enemy who went in alive must also be numerous. If one looks at the date and the hour, these seem likely to be the enemy already reported from Junghwa (中和), so what is to come is a matter of concern as well.
As for asking quickly for Ming troops, let the court add further measures. The Japanese enemy come out daily as before and then go straight back in.
Interlinear notes 2
Pyeonghaengjang (平行長) is Konishi Yukinaga.
Jorwae (卒倭) — a private soldier of the Japanese army.