《 関ヶ原の戦い, Sekigahara 1600, 開戦 》

濃霧の中で両軍は2時間ほど対峙し続けていた。やがて、霧も薄くなってきた頃、福島隊の横を井伊直政と松平忠吉の小隊が通り抜けようとしていた。家康から先鋒を任されたは­ずの福島正則の家臣可児吉長が呼び止めて詰問するが、「物見」と称して福島隊の前方へ張り出した。直政の小隊は、西軍の主力である宇喜多隊に向けて発砲、対する宇喜多隊も­直ちに応射。そこに、井伊隊の抜け駆けに激怒した福島隊が宇喜多隊に突撃。ここに関ヶ原の戦いの火蓋が切られた。

福島隊や加藤隊、井伊隊、本多隊など数多くの東軍部隊が、西軍部隊で最強を誇る宇喜多隊に突撃したが、宇喜多隊の猛反撃により相次いで後退。それでも東軍部隊は何度も宇喜­多隊に突撃し、関ヶ原一の激戦が展開された。石田隊には黒田隊、細川隊が攻めかかる。士気が高い部隊同士の戦いであり、戦いは熾烈を極めた。石田隊は大筒などを用いて、必­死に東軍部隊を抑えていた。やや遅れて大谷隊には藤堂隊、京極隊が、小西隊には田中隊、織田隊がそれぞれ攻めかかる。激戦をこの地で体験した太田牛一は次のように記してい­る。

敵味方押し合い、鉄砲放ち矢さけびの声、天を轟かし、地を動かし、黒煙り立ち、日中も暗夜となり、敵も味方も入り合い、しころ（錣）を傾け、干戈を抜き持ち、おつつまくり­つ攻め戦う―
三成は、開戦から2時間を過ぎたころ、まだ参戦していない武将に戦いに加わるように促す狼煙を打ち上げた。さらに島津隊に応援要請の使いをだす。西軍は総兵力のうち、戦闘­を行っているのは、宇喜多、石田、小西、大谷の3万3,000ほどながら、地形的に有利なため戦局をやや優位に運んでいた。ここで松尾山の小早川秀秋隊1万5,000と南­宮山の毛利秀元隊1万5,000、その背後にいる栗原山の長宗我部盛親隊6,600ら、計4万7,000が東軍の側面と背後を攻撃すれば、西軍の勝利は確定的となるはずで­あった。しかし、島津は使者が下馬しなかったため、無礼という理由で応援要請を拒否、また毛利秀元・長宗我部盛親・長束正家・安国寺恵瓊らは、内応済みの吉川広家に道を阻­まれ、参戦できずにいた（宰相殿の空弁当）。結局最後まで南宮山の毛利軍ら3万3000もの大軍は参戦できず、直後に起きる小早川秀秋の裏切りと並ぶ西軍の敗因となる。

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[071590z]

@tornados28 1. You shouldn't say I am biased towards Ming, You should try and refute my points

2. Historical debates should be based on evidence and facts not biasness

3, You accuse me of bias towards Ming? I am not a descendant from Ming and I am from Singapore National University of Singapore (NUS)

4. Which university are you from? Before you accuse people of anything, please refute my points and then stop personal attacks

5. And also do your research properly before you come to Internet

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@tornados28 1. Who retook Pyongyang? Who retook Seoul? It was the Ming

2. Korean naval victories are insignificant because they are quite small and only concentrated on small encounters, Yi Soon Shin has to carefully plan so that he will not be overwhelmed by the larger Japanese navy

3. The Japanese fought the Koreans and hold their ground BUT when they saw Ming soldeirs, they fled

4. Japanese defeat of Ming soldiers are mostly in the sieges where the Japanese position cannons and early guns

[tornados28]

@1KoreanEmpire And you a fucking idiot just for calling me a noob, Moron. I know you're a troll but you are still a dumb fuck.

[1KoreanEmpire]

@tornados28 U are a bloody noob, no asians luv the japanese, only ignorant westerners luv samurai blah blah, japanese history are barbarians, pirates, invaders, and which asians luv them? chinese hate them, koreans hate them, filipinos hate them, americans their co called allies USA orders them around japanese culture are mostly copied from korea china mongolia mainland asia

[tornados28]

@tornados28 The second campaign was a lackluster campaign that the Japanese daimyo did not support. They only reluctantly participated due to Hideyoshi's power. And remember, the most powerful Japanese forces, those of Tokugawa Ieyasu's armies, did not participate in the Imjin War at all.

[tornados28]

@071590z I have researched the naval campaigns. I have read Swope, Hawley and even the somewhat flawed Turnbull. I have also researched on Samurai Archives which is actually a good and unbiased source on the web.

[tornados28]

@071590z I understand your point but when the naval battles began to affect the war does not matter in regards to when the Ming invaded. The fact is the naval superiority of the Korean navy had a very large impact that had nothing to do with the Ming. Yes the Japanese were pushed back but I think that was more to do with extremely stretched supply lines and less to do with the Ming. The fact is the Japanese raced ahead of their supply lines and that was a huge mistake.

[071590z]

@tornados28 1. All I can said is the Korean navy did defeated the Japanese Navy

2. But naval battles did not affect the overall tide of war until the Ming army attacked and join the war.

3, From that onwards, Japan has been pushed from Imjin River back to Pyongyang and then to Seoul.

4. Please research Yi Soon Shin naval campaigns first

5. The second campaign which lasted from 1597 to 1598 was not Korean naval success, it was trapped on Korea's southern coastline by 100 thousand Ming soldiers

[tornados28]

@tornados28 Kenneth Swope's book on the war in my opinion is biased toward the Ming and how effective they were. As I said above, yes the Ming put some serious hurt on the Japanese, but Swope like others inflates the effectiveness of the Ming army. Samuel Hawley's book on the Imjin War in my opinion is the most thorough and unbiased book on the subject in English. He explains the difficulty the Ming had and how much effect the Korean Navy had which WAS substantial.

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@tornados28 I do believe that eventually the Japanese would have been worn down and have left without the Ming intervention, but of course that's impossible to say. Without command of the sea and an effective navy, it's tough to maintain a presence in a foreign land across a large body of water-just like the Mongols, Chinese, and Koreans found out three centuries before when the shoe was on the other foot and the Mongol Invasion of Japan failed.

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@071590z I'm not saying the Ming didn't have impact on the war-just that they weren't the overriding, sole reason the Japanese were defeated like some would have one believe. I do think the Ming presence and troops prevented a lot of bloodshed that would otherwise have taken place in a drawn out, years long guerrilla war between the Japanese and Koreans (even more bloodshed than actually took place between the three countries).