Reaching Gaeseong with the Ming Army, and the Pontoon Bridge on the Imjin隨。天兵到開城府及臨津浮橋狀

Your servant reached Gaeseong first and at once went and looked over the Mokcheongjeon (穆淸殿) with reverence. The halls had all been torn down by the enemy soldiers and nothing was left but shards of tile, and even the place where the royal portrait (御眞) was enshrined is, in this sudden hour, not known to be anywhere; and tears flow, and he cannot master his bitterness.

The provisions of Gyeonggi were brought by ship from Ganghwa to Huseogang (後西江), but as the people's strength is uneven they were not shipped in on time. The Commander-in-Chief stayed here one day, and on hearing it said that the enemy at the capital show signs of fleeing he would pack three days' provisions and go forward; but there is nowhere for a plan to come from.

In general the business of Gyeonggi is slacker than in the other provinces. If the grand army enters the capital and the provisions for men and horses do not keep up, the ruinous state of it could not be told in words. Your servant has sent dispatch after dispatch to press them, to the very bounds where they may look upon one another, yet the hearts of the people are loosened and of the righteous troops and government troops everywhere not one comes and gathers. That every matter should be thus is a thing to grieve over utterly.

The pontoon bridge on the Imjin your servant has brought barely into shape, going there with the Mayor Yi Deokhyeong (李德馨) and overseeing it. Only, the breadth of the river is very wide, and it seems hard for all the horsemen to cross by it. And so the Commander-in-Chief would have the horsemen cross by the ford and the foot soldiers and the carts by the pontoon bridge. Your servant means to follow the grand army towards the capital, and will report the other matters urgently as they follow.