Battle of No Ryang

The Bataille of No Ryang is the last battle of the Guerre Imjin, which opposed the Korea Dynastie Chosŏn to the Japanese empire of Hideyoshi Toyotomi.
It was held the December 16th 1598 and saw the victory of the fleet of boat-tortoise of the Admiral Yi Sun-sin, which perishes during the battle, just as the commander of the Japanese fleet .
This battle marked the first use of Kòbuk-Sòn (Boat-tortoise), first ship armor-plated to fight battle in open sea. The Admiral Yi even had conceived to him the plans of this ship, now lost.

After this defeat, Hideyoshi gave up the idea to conquer the Korean peninsula.

Died of the admiral Yi Sun-sin

At the conclusion of the battle, the Japanese fleet beats a retreat. The admiral Yi orders the poursuite.
At the time of this one, it receives a shooting of arquebus on the level of the left armpit coming from a Japanese ship. Conscious that the blow was mortal, he would then have murmured “the battle is with his paroxysm, do not announce my death…” before returning the heart.

His/her oldest son Yi Hoe and his nephew Yi Wan would then have taken his body to transport it in his cabin before a soldier notices the death of the amiral.
To continue the battle, Yi Wan would have revêti then the armor of his/her uncle and announced by drum of war to the remainder of the fleet which the combat continued.

The flagship assisted from the ship from the Chinese commander Chen Lin, badly in point at the time of the battle. This last would have then required to see the admiral Yi to thank it personally, but met in the place Yi Wan which announced the death of Yi Sun-sin to him.

It is said that Chen Lin would have been shocked so much by this advertisement which it would have fallen 3 times per ground, before hammering the chest, in larmes.
The news of died of the admiral was spread quickly in the allied fleet and the sailors and soldiers of the two fleets would have pushed many lamentations.

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