Report That the Ming Army Entered Pyongyang馳。啓天兵已入平壤狀
從事官金信元馳報內當日巳時到降福院後站唐將已爲接戰四面攻城放炮之聲如雷如震巳末體探軍官李繼命馳報內唐兵破七星門而入我軍自含毬門而入時方厮殺云云平壤一城似已收復不勝慶幸之至謹先馳。啓臣方進去順安檢勅軍糧等事接濟計料唐糧運轉等事更乞急速措置
In the urgent report of the aide Kim Sinwon (金信元): on that day at the hour of sa he reached the rear post station of Gangbogwon (降福院), and the Ming commanders had already joined battle and were striking the wall on all four sides, the sound of the cannon being like thunder and like a thunderbolt. In the urgent report of the scouting officer Yi Gyemyeong (李繼命) towards the end of the hour of sa: the Ming troops had broken through the Chilseong Gate and gone in, and our troops had gone in by the Hamgu Gate, and they were at present fighting hand to hand.
It seems that the one walled city of Pyeongyang has already been recovered, and unable to master his joy and his sense of good fortune your servant humbly reports it urgently first of all. Your servant plans now to go forward to Sunan (順安) and keep a close hand upon the army grain and such matters so as to supply them. As for moving the Ming provisions, he begs again that it be urgently disposed of.
Interlinear notes 3
正月八日
The eighth day of the first month
The source text has 金信元. He is the same man as in jb-101, and appears to be a different man from the Supreme Commander Kim Myeongwon (金命元). — translator
The source text has 體探. Since this book writes the same thing elsewhere as jeongtam, it has been made to match. — translator