Urgent Report on Our Troops' Victory馳。啓我軍勝捷狀
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The report of Yi Sieon (李時言), concurrently Defense Commander of the Three Provinces, Jeong Hihyeon (鄭希玄), Left Defense Commander of Pyeongan, Go Eonbaek (高彥伯), Defense Commander of Gyeonggi, Bak Myeonghyeon (朴名賢), Assistant Commander of Pyeongan, and Bak Jinnam (朴震男), supporting battle commander, and the rest, had this in it.
In accordance with the province's disposition, the Defense Commander of the Three Provinces settled terms with them, joined their forces and picked out the choice troops. On the evening of the twenty-fifth of this month they sent troops ahead in hiding to Nowonpyeong (蘆原坪) and Ugwandong (牛串洞) beneath Samgaksan and such places, and had the several commanders lie in ambush to left and right; and before daybreak on the twenty-sixth they led the main army forward and encamped at Naengjeonghyeon (冷井峴) by Nuwon (樓院), lying hidden and awaiting events. At the hour of the dragon the Japanese of the capital came out to Nowon and Ugwandong in numbers beyond knowing and filled the whole plain.
The several commanders led their troops and, answering one another to left and right with the troops that had been set in ambush beforehand, rushed in all at once and struck them from both sides; and at that time the Field Marshal's troops, the troops of the frontier commander Yi Bin (李薲), and the troops of Yujeong (惟政), commander of the righteous monk troops, came up one after another from the east and joined their strength in the attack, shooting arrows like rain. The enemy's company was startled and broke and fled in defeat, and the several commanders and soldiers vied with one another to show their valor and pursued them to within some ten li of the capital, shifting the fight as they rode their winning force, shot many of them dead, and cut off forty-seven heads.
Again, on the twenty-seventh of this month the Japanese came out in numbers and burnt Suraksan (水落山) and such places. Go Eonbaek's troops and the monk troops shot from the high ground, and the enemy's dead and hurt were beyond number, but they all helped one another away. Only, as their numbers could not be matched and the enemy were below the hill, our men could not go down the hill and take heads; yet those shot dead were very many. A man who came out of the enemy camp reached the naval camp at Yongsan and said that the Japanese at Suraksan had been struck by arrows in such numbers as to be no less than in the earlier battle at Haengju (幸州).
This one battle, in which the several commanders joined their troops and put their strength together, may be counted a great victory for these times. Yujeong's troops too are fairly choice; and the monk Uieom (義嚴), who works together with him, provided his own military grain so that it was not lacking, and in the recent fighting was always first up and showed such valor that the enemy were sure to flee and break; his merit is to be commended. Let him be specially praised and rewarded, so as to urge on the rest.
Interlinear notes 1
癸巳三月二十九日
The twenty-ninth day of the third month of the Gyesa year