Sacheon Kyongsang-bukto Korea, South
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...the cities of Sacheon and Changpyong.
The Korean forces, bolstered by one hundred thousand Chinese soldiers, begin in spring 1598 to retake castles on the coastal areas.
The Wanli Emperor of China sends a fleet under the artillery expert Chen Lin in May 1598; this naval force sees action in joint exercises with the Koreans against the Japanese navy.
Japan, heeding Commander Konishi Yukinage's warning of the dire situation of the campaign, withdraws seventy thousand troops in June 1598 and leaves sixty thousand, mostly Satsuma warriors under the Shimazu clan commanders, Shimazu Yoshihiro and his son Tadatsune.
The remaining Japanese forces fight desperately, repelling Chinese attacks on Suncheon and Sacheon as the Ming army amasses more troops to prepare for a final assault.
The Chinese believe that Sacheon is crucial in their program to retake the lost castles.
Although the Chinese are ascendant initially, the tide of the battle turns when Japanese reinforcements attack the rear of the Chinese army and the Japanese soldiers inside the fortress counterattack through the gates.
The Chinese Ming forces retreat with thirty thousand losses.
The Chinese and Korean forces, as the battle rages, are again able to turn the Japanese to a full retreat by the summer of 1598 and again reduce the Japanese to a defensive position situated in Kyongsang province.
The Japanese are by this time barely maintaining their position and considering a peace armistice with Korean and China.