Imjin War (Bunroku Campaign)

Timeline

1. 1592Busan · South KoreaIn April 1592, Konishi Yukinaga and others landed at Busan; the Japanese forces swept forward, capturing Seoul within weeks, while King Seonjo fled north to Uijeongbu and half of Korea quickly fell.
2. 1592–1593Pyongyang · North KoreaMing general Zu Chengxun and others led troops into Korea, joining forces with Li Rusong to recapture Pyongyang; the Ming-Joseon allied forces advanced north for a time, but after the Battle of Byeokjegwan the front shifted south and the war entered a stalemate.
3. 1593–1596Southern Korean Peninsula · Korean PeninsulaThrough the mediation of Shen Weijing and others, Ming and Japan opened peace talks; most Japanese forces withdrew to their homeland, giving the peninsula a brief respite, but the breakdown of negotiations set the stage for the second invasion of 1597.