Battles of Geumsan

Also called: Tomb of the Seven Hundred

Go Gyeong-myeong’s militia (seventh month) and Jo Heon and Yeonggyu’s militia and monk soldiers (eighth month) attacked the Japanese at Geumsan and died to a man. Jo Heon’s 700 lie in the Tomb of the Seven Hundred.

Go Gyeong-myeong, who had raised a militia at Damyang, attacked Geumsan with government troops on the 9th–10th of the seventh month; when the regulars broke first, he and his son Go In-hu fought on and were killed.

Jo Heon, who had raised a militia at Okcheon, retook Cheongju on the first of the eighth month together with monk soldiers under Yeonggyu of Gapsa. Marching on Geumsan, they met a far larger Japanese force on the 18th, and Jo, Yeonggyu and all 700 militiamen died where they stood. The Japanese were badly mauled too and soon abandoned Geumsan. Jo’s students later gathered the bones into one grave, the Tomb of the Seven Hundred.