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The Imjin WarExpansion eras

1583–1637

The Imjin War (1583–1637). You start as Soldier and could rise all the way to Provincial Army Commander, if you survive. This era covers 27 historical battles.

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Historical battles

YearBattleEst. casualties
1583Battle of JongseongThe Jurchen chief Nitanggae besieged Jongseong with twenty thousand riders. Sin Rip led the cavalry out of the gates, and the Jurchen fell back across the Tumen.≈10%
1587Battle of SonjukdoJapanese pirate ships raided the islands of Jeolla and the border commander was killed. By the time the court sent troops, the ships were already out at sea.≈6%
1588Raid on the Sijeon tribeThe court sent troops across the Tumen to burn the Jurchen villages, avenging last year's attack on Nokdundo.≈10%
1592Fall of BusanjinOn the thirteenth day of the fourth month, seven hundred Japanese ships appeared off the coast. By the next morning Busanjin had fallen and its commander Jeong Bal was dead.≈30%
1592Fall of DongnaeKonishi Yukinaga put up a wooden sign: "Fight if you will; if not, let us pass." The magistrate Song Sang-hyeon answered with his own: "To die fighting is easy; to let you pass is hard." When the walls fell, he sat on the gate tower in his court robes and was cut down.≈30%
1592Battle of OkpoYi Sun-sin's fleet sailed out for the first time and burned twenty-six Japanese ships without losing one of its own.≈10%
1592Battle of SangjuMost of Yi Il's men had been dragged from the rice fields days earlier. When the Japanese muskets fired, the line broke.≈20%
1592Battle of TangeumdaeSin Rip drew up his cavalry with the Namhan River at their backs. The paddies were mud and the horses couldn't charge. Sin Rip drowned himself in the river, and the road to Hanseong lay open.≈25%
1592Battle of SacheonThe turtle ship went into battle for the first time. Japanese musket balls rattled off its spiked iron roof. Yi Sun-sin took a bullet in the left shoulder.≈10%
1592Battle of the Imjin RiverThe Joseon army held the Imjin River for ten days. The Japanese feigned a retreat; the generals ignored all warnings, crossed to pursue, and the whole army was destroyed.≈20%
1592Battle of HansandoYi Sun-sin lured the Japanese fleet into open water and closed on them in a crane's-wing formation. Fifty-nine ships were sunk or taken, and the Japanese never dared ship supplies along the west coast again.≈15%
1592Battle of GeumsanThe Righteous Army leader Jo Heon attacked Geumsan with seven hundred men. All seven hundred died; not one ran. They were buried together in what is called the Tomb of the Seven Hundred.≈30%
1592First Siege of JinjuMagistrate Kim Si-min held the fortress for six days with 3,800 men, and thirty thousand Japanese withdrew. Kim was shot and did not live to see the victory.≈8%
1593Siege of PyongyangThe Ming general Li Rusong crossed the Yalu with forty thousand men and heavy cannon. Pyongyang fell and Konishi Yukinaga slipped away in the night.≈10%
1593Battle of HaengjuGwon Yul held the hill fort with some two thousand men and drove off thirty thousand Japanese. The women of the fort carried stones up to the walls in their aprons.≈8%
1593Second Siege of JinjuA hundred thousand Japanese came back to avenge last year's defeat. After nine days the walls fell, and nearly all sixty thousand soldiers and townspeople were killed. The courtesan Nongae threw her arms around a Japanese officer and leapt with him into the Nam River.≈50%
1597Battle of ChilcheollyangYi Sun-sin had been arrested, and Won Gyun took command of the fleet. He was ambushed at night at Chilcheollyang. The Joseon navy was all but wiped out; twelve ships were left.≈40%
1597Fall of NamwonFifty thousand Japanese surrounded Namwon. The Ming general Yang Yuan broke out with a few dozen riders, and nearly everyone inside was killed. The Japanese cut off the noses of the dead, salted them, and shipped them home to claim their rewards.≈45%
1597Battle of JiksanMing cavalry stopped the Japanese advance north at Jiksan. Hanseong was saved.≈5%
1597Battle of MyeongnyangYi Sun-sin wrote: "I still have twelve ships." In a strait of racing currents, he held off more than 130 Japanese ships with thirteen.≈15%
1598Siege of UlsanThe Ming and Joseon armies besieged Kato Kiyomasa's newly built castle. The Japanese inside ate their horses and drank horse urine, and held out until relief arrived.≈10%
1598Battle of NoryangToyotomi Hideyoshi was dead and the Japanese were pulling out. Yi Sun-sin and the Ming admiral Chen Lin cut them off in the Noryang Strait. Yi was shot. His last words: "The battle is at its height. Do not announce my death."≈20%
1619Battle of SarhuJoseon sent Gang Hong-rip with thirteen thousand men to help the Ming. All four Ming columns were routed, and Gang surrendered what was left to the Later Jin.≈25%
1624Battle of AnhyeonYi Gwal, army commander of Pyeongan, rebelled and briefly took Hanseong; the king fled to Gongju. Government troops beat the rebels at Anhyeon.≈6%
1627Fall of AnjuThirty thousand Later Jin troops crossed the Yalu, and Anju held for a single day. The court fled to Ganghwa Island and in the end agreed to be the Jin's "younger brother".≈30%
1636Siege of NamhansanseongHong Taiji led 120,000 men south himself. The king fled into Namhansanseong, which had food for fifty days. The cold was so bitter that men on the walls lost fingers to frostbite.≈10%
1637Battle of SsangnyeongThe Gyeongsang relief army was broken at Ssangnyeong by three hundred Qing horsemen. Forty thousand men fled, and more died in the crush than by the enemy's hand.≈35%

Casualty rates are the game's estimates from historical sources, used to work out the chance of dying. Treat them as approximate.

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