[277] Most of the Japanese were suffering from hunger, frostbite, and snow-blindness and some Japanese soldiers were so weakened by hunger that they were unable to defend themselves from tigers in the mountains. [265] Song Ying Chang's letters on March 1, 1593, described the battle in full to the Ming court. [241] Kim had recently acquired about 170 new arquebuses that were equal in strength to the Japanese guns. ~Since this article is quite long, I've split it into 2 parts~ Bargaining from such fundamentally different perspectives, there was no prospect whatsoever for success in the talks. Hideyoshi was also tempted by an external conflict to prevent internal rebellion within Japan, which would keep his newly formed state united against a common enemy, and prevent the daimyōs from acting on any ambitions against his rule. Yang Hao [237] Hyujǔng called the samurai "poisonous devils" who were "as virulent as snakes or fierce animals" whose brutality justified abandoning the pacifism of Buddhism to protect the weak and innocent. [64] Such considerations would be consistent with the fact that Hideyoshi was not Shōgun and had no links with the imperial bloodline. [199] At Sacheon, the Japanese ships were anchored in the bay below a promontory where the Japanese had set up a command base. [239] Turnbull described the Second battle of Geumsan as an act of folly on Cho's part as his outnumbered force took on "10,000 of the toughest samurai", who encircled the Righteous Army and "exterminated" them, wiping out the entire Korean force as Kobayakawa ordered that no prisoners be taken. [176] Katō's Second Division arrived at the capital the next day (having taken the same route as the First Division), and the Third and Fourth Divisions the day after. Japanese Occupation On the night of signing the 1905 Eulsa treaty or so-called Japan-Korea Protectorate Treaty by force, Terauchi Masadake who took the lead in the Japanese occupation of Korea said as follows: “Toyotomi Hideyoshi did not succeed in sending our troops to Joseon, but we succeeded!” He was a disciple of Yoshida Shoin. 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