Second Siege of Jinju
Also called: Fall of Jinju (1593)
On Hideyoshi’s orders to avenge the defeat of 1592, over 90,000 Japanese surrounded Jinju. It fell after nine days, and some 60,000 soldiers and townspeople inside were killed.
Even as peace talks went on, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered revenge for the defeat at Jinju in 1592. On the 22nd of the sixth month over 90,000 Japanese under Kato Kiyomasa, Konishi Yukinaga and others surrounded the fortress. No Ming help came; inside were troops under Kim Cheon-il, Choe Gyeong-hoe and Hwang Jin, and refugees from the countryside.
The defenders held for nine days in the rain, but Hwang Jin was shot dead on the 28th, and on the 29th the Japanese broke in where heavy rain had brought down the wall by the East Gate. Kim and Choe threw themselves into the Nam River from Chokseongnu, and the Annals record some 60,000 dead — the greatest loss of life in a single battle of the war. Having taken Jinju, the Japanese went no further and returned to their castles on the southern coast.
