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Enemy battleships continue to be supplemented from Japan?

They are moving the troops south as well.

It is obvious what they have in mind.

What His Eminence wants is a concentrated attack on Chosun Navy.

Kansuke...!

It is a gift from His Eminence the Taiko.

Master!

If we suffer another defeat against Yi Soon-shin, His Eminence will be

receiving a gift from you this time... your heads.

Trust us to the task.

I swear to you on my life Yi Soon-shin's fleet will be destroyed!

His Eminence sees Yi Soon-shin as a formidable opponent akin to Ieyasu.

The two of you are no match for him!

Capture the navy leader of Chosun Yi Soon-shin alive?

His Eminence has ordered us to move south.

Kato Yoshiaki's troops have been ordered to do the same.

This means all Japanese naval leaders in Chosun will be assembled in Pusan.

What's more, strategy will be devised and delivered directly from Japan.

Could this mean that the Taiko sees Yi Soon-shin as his rival?

I'm getting increasingly curious about this man...

I must confirm my suspicion about him once and for all.

Contact Baron Yim. I must see him.

Aye!

Let's go!

That's him. He is the richest merchant in the city.

We won't have to worry about the funding the counteroffensive if

we capture him alive.

It doesn't look good. You must pull them out!

There will be another chance.

Retreat! Retreat!

Go! Hurry! I'll take care of him!

Oh my, who could this be?

It's Lady Chung-yang.

What are you doing here, my lady?

You are so foolish...

A woman of your beauty and talent could easily live in the lap of luxury.

Why are you risking your with these militiamen?

It's regretful.

If we can't take your wealth, we should've at least taken your life.

You are giving me the chills.

You tried to kill me, but I'll return your evil with kindness.

Welcome, Baron Yim.

She is the best kisang in Chosun, General.

I thought she would make a suitable gift for a victorious general.

Bring her next to the general.

The best kisang in Chosun? She is indeed beautiful.

She's a feisty little one!

Taming her will be quite fun and challenging.

Baron Yim, I couldn't be more pleased to acquire the best kisang in Chosun.

Now I must have the best warrior in Chosun.

Yi Soon-shin...

The man who gave me this scar thirty years ago...

Is he the same Yi Soon-shin of the Left Cholla Navy?

General, how did you...

He is!

This will be a very exciting fight!

Yi Soon-shin... I will take his head without fail this time.

Another 100.000 enemy soldiers are coming to Chosun.

Is this true?

Their goal is to acquire Pyong-yang in the shortest time possible

and advance into Ming.

Accordingly, they will not choose the land route.

Then...

They will attempt to get us out of the way.

They will gather all of their resources and attack us full-force this time.

They will attempt to land and destroy the headquarters as well.

If we fail to protect Cholla, all hopes of winning this war will be lost.

Cholla Province must be protected.

And to do that, the three navies must work together.

This is truly frustrating.

Where is High Commander Won of the Right Kyung-sang Navy when he was

requested repeatedly?

There is not a single oar we can use! This is not a battleship!

It's still here because we didn't have a chance to sink it, sir.

All things considered, it's in fair condition.

And the shipwrights?

We're trying to gather a crew, but it does very good, sir.

Sir, please don't be stubborn. We must request aid from the

other naval stations.

Be quiet and just find the dam shipwrights!

If you can't find shipwrights, put the soldiers to work!

You will be punished if you fail to restore the ships!

But sir...

Sir.

What do you want?

Sir, High Commander Yi requests that you attend the commanders meeting at

the Left Cholla Naval Station tomorrow.

Who does he think he is telling me to come and go?

If he wants to talk to me, he will come here!

Sir...!

High Commander...

I have no time to sit around and chat. Get back to work!

It is a high commanders meeting. You should attend, sir.

He is calling me over to make a fool out of me again...

this time in front of Yi Aukki!

Yi Soon-shin has 30 galleys. Yi Aukki has 25...

and I, Won Kyun, has pathetic total of seven of which four barely float.

Sir...

Find my galleys! Search the bottom of the seal if you have to. Just find them!

I must have equal strength of my peers.

Only then I will consider an alliance! Is that understood?

Yes, sir.

I've searched every military installation in Chosun to seized these cannons.

General Dodo, if cannons were the cause of your humiliating defeat,

shouldn't you have thought of this first? Right General Gouki?

You swore you woulnd't work. What made you change your mind?

But then, I guess there's nothing more valuable than life.

Who cares about artist's pride when your life is at stake?

Pride goes out the door, right?

Would you like me to say you're right or you're wrong?

I don't know if my life is valuable or not, but I thought I should

hold on to it for a little while longer.

I should live to see you redeem yourself...

since it doesn't look entirely hopeless.

About Wu-song, thanks.

You saved Yi Soon-shin's life.

General...

It's good to see you, Kohei

General Gouki told me about all of the great work you have done.

Not only have you secured valuable clayware to take back to Japan,

but you have captured numerous skilled potters as well.

I'm just doing my job, sir.

I'm sure you remember this dawan.

This is the first dawan you made after pledging your loyalty to me.

There after you made countless beautiful dawans impressing even

the Taiko but always thought this was the best of all dawans you've made.

Do you know why?

Because I believe you gave me your loyalty for Great Japan and for me

with this dawan. You haven't had a change of heart, have you Kohei?

Of course not, General.

Then why do Dodo and Gouki doubt you?

I'm told that the enemy already knew about the snipers in the last battle.

Dodo is certain that you were the one who leaked the information.

He has a valid reason since you are Chosunese.

Why? Is it because the man we were after is Yi Soon-shin?

General!

I know how much he means to you.

You'd give up your family back in Japan in a heartbeat to save him,

wouldn't you?

I will take my life.

I will prove my innocence by seppuku like an honorable samurai.

If I have lost your trust as well, I no longer have a reason to live.

Stop!

Stop, Kohei.

I trust you completely, but Dodo and Gouki are different.

You can't blame them for doubting you. I thought you should know that.

In order to clear up the suspicion, you must demonstrate your loyalty.

Begin the demonstration!

No way! Why would I teach you how to use the cannons?

So that you can blow away my own people? I'd sooner die!

Jangsu! Jangsu!

You heartless beasts!

Load the cannon. If you defy my order, all of your men will die.

No, Commander! Let us die instead!

Commence training immediately!

No one eats or sleeps until you become experts! Is that clear?

Aye!

Are you going to throw a dawan?

You refused to do it before. What's gotten into you?

Work!

Throw pottery for me and your life will be spared.

Never!

Pyong... Pyong?

It's not for me. Chosunese clay doesn't work for me anymore.

I'm no longer a Chosunese potter. I'm a Japanese potter.

My country is no longer Chosun but Japan.

Father, forgive me...

I can't live as a Chosunese, a Chosunese potter anymore.

I can't make Chosunese pottery anymore.

I've put too much Chosunese blood on my hands to do that...

What did you find out at the enemy camp?

Japanese forces have cannons?

Yes, sir.

Apparently, they learned how to use them from Chosunese prisoners.

What? Those traitors!

How could they betray their country!

I'm sure those miserable Japanese threatened to kill them.

Who wouldn't buckle under the sword?

If there should be a fleet to fleet artillery battle,

we have to be prepared for significant loss as well.

The enemy has 500 battleships, and we have less than 60 in all

three naval stations combined.

If they are out to destroy us, those 500 battleships will charge to the

coast of Cholla all at once this time.

There's more to the report, sir.

We've confirmed that the enemy ground forces are moving west

toward Cholla as well. And their size, again, is beyond measure.

Can we win?

Can we protect Cholla Province alone?

60 days into the war, Cholla Province had become a focal point in which the

outcome of the war could be decided.

From Japan, Hideyoshi urgently dispatched his strategists to

Chosun and sent direct orders regarding Cholla invasion.

He ordered all of his prominent naval generals to move south

including Wakizaka Yasuharu and Kato Yoshiaki...

In the name of the Great Japanese Army and His Eminence the Taiko,

I will attack and conquer Cholla!

... and ordered some 15.700 ground troops under Kobayakawa Takakage,

which had been spread out in Sung-ju, Sonsan and Kimchun,

to come together and attack Cholla by land.

Twenty thousand Japanese troops are marching to Cholla Province.

We must do something!

That's right, Governor.

The entire Cholla Army will be wiped out unless something is done now!

We've already lost nearly all of our men.

There is nothing more to lose...

The Cholla Army had lost majority of its troops after the devastating

defeat in Yong-in, and its highest leader had lost will to fight.

And instead of attempting to exercise control over the disheartened leader,

the King and his ministers had taken flight once again abandoning Pyung-yang

to seek refuge in Uiju.

What's more, Yoon Du-su and Yi Won-ik who had sworn to protect Pyung-yang to

their deaths helplessly crumbled before Konishi and Kuroda's army

and handed over Pyung-yang to the Japanese. It was simply unrealistic

to expect this government to get the country out of war.

It is not an overstatement to say that the fate of Chosun was riding

on Yi Soon-shin's shoulders.

If there is a fleet-to-fleet artillery battle, the key to victory lies with

the projectile range of the cannons.

Chosun or Japan, the navy that secures longer distance will win this battle.

Of course, High Commander.

Load the cannons!

Fire the single stone!

Fire the Great Warrior's Arrow!

We've secured greatest distance using

the Great Warrior's Arrow in the Heaven Cannon, sir.

Be careful!

Straight and accurate, you got that?

Gees! I'm the cannon crew leader!

To protect the headquarters from ground forces attack, I've ordered

the troops to construct barricades and install large cannons that can

fire the Flying Thunder exploding shells.

Flying Thunders are more effective in killing the enemy soldiers than

destroying their vessels.

If we're dealing with over 500 ships, we can't get too close to them.

Install them on the galleys as well.

Yes, sir.

With the right combination of iron balls and large cannons on the Turtle

Ships, we will be able to break the enemy's initial confidence.

Formations!

Move to formations!

Load the cannons!

Ready!

Fire!

Fire!

Fire!

Turn ship around! Return to the headquarters!

Yes, sir!

Return to the headquarters!

Megura Bune?

That's right, General Wakizaka. It is no ordinary ship.

It is closer to a monster than a...

A monster? That's absurd!

It sank my entire fleet into the bottom of the sea within moments

after it appeared.

I cannot begin to guess the limit of its power.

If the Chosun Navy should come to the Pusan with this thing leading

the way, there is no guarantee that we will defeat them.

How could you be so dense?

If you are so afraid of this thing, get rid of it first!

The Left Cholla Navy is a formidable enemy that defeated us eight times.

Megura Bune is their secret weapon, and there is no doubt that they are

guarding it like their life.

Once you infiltrate the Left Cholla Naval Station, our chances of

returning alive is next to nil.

But you will receive the honorable title of Samurai!

And your reward will be delivered to your families in Japan.

Once you succeed in destroying the Magura Bune, Great Japan will remember

you as proud heroes, and your families will live a lifetime

of wealth and honor.

Give your life for your country!

Aye!

Since the Turtle Ships have been exposed, the enemy will no doubt

attempt to destroy them in order to weaken us.

We've erected barricades around the Turtle Ships and doubled the security.

We also have specially trained men covertly guarding the site.

Atten-hut!

The High Commander of Left Cholla Navy is busily preparing for the next battle.

I will go to Pusan. I will inspect the enemy camp.

That's absurd. Come back inside and we will talk about this.

The high commanders of the Left and Right Cholla navies both claim that

the enemy fleet is over 500 ships large, and that our only chance

to work as a team, but High Commander Won refuses to listen.

I will go and confirm their claim.

I will count each ship and check their capacity in minute detail.

You'd walk into the enemy camp alone? Do you know how reckless this is?

Like master, like servant.

This is the only way I could respond to High Commander Won.

Let's go!

I'm told you are Chosunese.

Are you at peace with your life?

How do you live with yourself?

It might be in your best interest to lower your voice.

I've been trust into the arms of a Japanese made a play toy.

I care not whether I live or die.

Then why are you alive?

Why didn't you kill yourself and maintain your chastity?

I feared I would have regrets. I must at least eliminate that

beast Wakizaka with my own hands to have lived a worthy life.

I am waiting for that chance.

It's wishful thinking. General Wakizaka is a man to be feared.

He is fully capable of destroying the best warrior of Chosun Yi Soon-shin.

And to prove it, he is sending his men to Left Cholla Naval Station

where they will blow Yi Soon-shin's precious Turtle Ship into bits.

You bastard! You are a Chosunese.

How could you possibly utter those words without a flinch?

Go ahead and vent, but what is that going to change?

Listen carefully. Words alone cannot change anything.

This is a surprise.

You said you would be my servant but you had refused to be my bedmate.

What made you change your mind?

Do you really wish to serve me in bed?

Yes, General.

I have no desire to hold a woman who does not desire me.

Are you willing to give me your heart as well?

If you will grant me a wish, I will try.

A wish?

Take me with you to Japan.

And make me your lawful wife.

A lawful wife?

Not a mistress but a wife, General.

Then the children I will bear will be your legitimate heir.

From what I have heard, warrior of Chosun Yi Soon-shin is an amazing man.

And if you are the one to destroy this man, I want to bear your son.

Then my son will be a man of unsurpassed strength.

And I would be his mother.

The mother of a man of unsurpassed strength...

Very well, your wish is granted.

I have had too much to drink. I need some fresh air.

I think I've sprained my ankle. Would you help me?

Please help me.

Please...

Find her! Find the wench at once!

Aye!

How dare she trick me and attempt to escape.

Madam, why is a helpless woman being chased by enemy soldiers?

I must get to the Left Cholla Naval Station!

The Turtle Ship, the Turtle Ship is in...