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7/13/2025, 6:35:24 AM
>>63969381
>but they btfo'd the Koreans and Chinese
The Chinese kicked them out of Pyongyang so hard they abandoned everything north of Hanseong. By the end of the war they were relegated to a southeast Korea and despite winning defensive sieges they were dead set on withdrawing.
>historiography presents the whole affair as a naval war
Naval warfare has been overstated by modern Korean scholarship, if you examine Yi Sunshin's role in the war you find that he was heavily restricted by limited manpower and did not have the means to harass the main Japanese supply line.
>>63972013
They weren't unbeatable they just had to resort to an overwhelming numerical disparity, considering the bulk of their troops were from Western Japan they neither had the experience nor the cavalry to perform at a higher level. If the Japanese ever got past Korea they were doomed if they had to fight a combined war wagon/cavalry Chinese army that numbered in the low tens of thousands.
>but they btfo'd the Koreans and Chinese
The Chinese kicked them out of Pyongyang so hard they abandoned everything north of Hanseong. By the end of the war they were relegated to a southeast Korea and despite winning defensive sieges they were dead set on withdrawing.
>historiography presents the whole affair as a naval war
Naval warfare has been overstated by modern Korean scholarship, if you examine Yi Sunshin's role in the war you find that he was heavily restricted by limited manpower and did not have the means to harass the main Japanese supply line.
>>63972013
They weren't unbeatable they just had to resort to an overwhelming numerical disparity, considering the bulk of their troops were from Western Japan they neither had the experience nor the cavalry to perform at a higher level. If the Japanese ever got past Korea they were doomed if they had to fight a combined war wagon/cavalry Chinese army that numbered in the low tens of thousands.
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