Urgent Report That the Ming Army Attacks Ulsan and Stands Locked with the Enemy馳。啓天兵進攻蔚山與賊相持狀
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Yesterday Gu Huisin (具希信), your servant's officer, came back from Ulsan and said: "The Ming troops together with our troops struck the enemy's inner wall, but the wall is most firm and steep and even the cannon could not break it. The enemy fired many matchlocks through the holes above the wall and the Ming troops and our troops were wounded in numbers, so the Superintendent sounded the gong and drew the troops back, and is now considering a plan for taking the wall. Some tens of Japanese ships from Seosaengpo have stood out in the middle of the sea and made as though to come to one another's rescue, and so the Ming commander has divided his troops to bar the mouth of the sea and keep them from landing."
After noon today I heard besides that Assault Commander Chen, striking at the wall under cover of night, was wounded by an enemy bullet and has come out to Gyeongju to be nursed.
From yesterday the weather has been somewhat overcast, and from the end of the hour of the Sheep (미시, 未時) today an east wind has blown without a break and the rain has thickened little by little and has not cleared even into the night. The soldiers are out in the open fields, and there must surely be the harm of their being soaked and frozen; it is most worrying.