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Li Rusong
Ming general, eldest son of Li Chengliang, who put down the Ningxia mutiny, retook Pyongyang from the Japanese in 1593 and later fell fighting Mongol raiders beyond Liaodong
Mural of the event “Imjin War”, which this person took part in.
After unifying Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi demanded passage through Joseon for an attack on Ming China. When negotiations failed, Japanese forces invaded in 1592; after losing its capital, Joseon organized resistance and requested Ming military assistance.
Also known as Zi Zimao
Li Rusong, courtesy name Zimao, was the eldest son of the Liaodong commander Li Chengliang; he entered service through his father's rank and held several frontier commands. When Pubei mutinied at Ningxia in 1592, Li led the punitive army from Shaanxi and flooded the city to end the revolt. That winter he was given command of the troops of Jizhou, Liaodong, Baoding and Shandong and led the Ming relief army into Korea against the invasion launched by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In the first month of 1593 he stormed Pyongyang and pushed south, but was ambushed at Byeokjegwan, after which the war moved into peace talks. Appointed commander of Liaodong in 1597, he led light cavalry beyond the passes in the fourth month of the next year against the Tumen Mongols, met a far larger force and was killed fighting. He was posthumously made Earl of Ningyuan with the name Zhonglie, and the Koreans honoured him with Shi Xing and other Ming commanders at the Muyeol Shrine in Pyongyang.
Life and times
- 1549 CEBorn
Ming - 1592Imjin War
Took partage 43Japan's invasions of Joseon from 1592 to 1598 met Joseon resistance and Ming intervention, ending in Japanese withdrawal after devastating the peninsula.- Li Rusong Recovers Pyongyang for Joseonc. 1592Ming General Li Rusong led imperial shock troops across the Yalu River, retaking Pyongyang and turning the tide of the Imjin War.
- Li Rusong Recovers Pyongyang for Joseon
- 1593Allied Forces Recover Pyongyang
age 44In 1593 Li Rusong's Ming army and Korean forces recovered Pyongyang and forced a Japanese withdrawal south. - 1598 CEDied
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