China and Korea agree in the spring…
May 1593 CE
China and Korea agree in the spring of 1593 to cease hostilities if the Japanese will withdraw altogether.
Konishi has no option but to accept the terms, but he will have a hard time persuading Hideyoshi that he had no other choice.
The Japanese evacuate Hanseong in May and retreat to fortifications around Busan.
While some Japanese soldiers leave the army and settle in Korea, even marrying Korean women, the rest of the troops retreat back to Japan by May 18, 1593.
The Ming government withdraws most of its expeditionary force but keeps sixteen thousand men on the Korean peninsula to guard the truce.