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Korea: Admiral Yi - V: Martial Lord of Loyalty - Extra History (Patreon)

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At last Yi has the upper hand against the Japanese. After all they've done, he will not let them flee.

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Korea: Admiral Yi - V: Martial Lord of Loyalty - Extra History

Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon Watch the Admiral Yi series! http://bit.ly/1FkP5ZO Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC (---Episode details below!) Play games with us on our sister channel! http://bit.ly/WatchEXP Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator ____________ After his success at Myeongnyang, Yi began rebuilding the Korean navy and strengthening his partnership with the Chinese. But then, Toyotomi Hideyoshi died. Japan's new leaders had no interest in continuing the war, but although they sued for peace, Korea now held the upper hand and was determined to punish the people who had committed so many massacres against their people. Yi and the Chinese fleet bottled up the Japanese at the fort in Suncheon. When the Japanese called for reinforcements, Yi interrupted them in Noryang Strait. Again they were outnumbered, 500 to 150, but the Chinese commander did not yet understand Yi's long range style of warfare and immediately closed for close combat. Yi ordered his flagship to rescue their allies, and as soon as the Japanese recognized him, they focused fire on him. This allowed the Chinese, suddenly forgotten, to fire freely on them. The Japanese realized their error and tried to flee, but Yi would have none of it. Beating the war drum himself, he urged his ships to chase the Japanese - to punish them for all the slaughter they brought to Korea. It was then that he was struck by a fatal gunshot. Before he died, he ordered his son and nephew to command the battle for him. They dressed in his armor to hide his death from the troops and continued beating the dream. Together, they carried the day - only for Yi's tragic death to be revealed at the moment of victory. But although Yi did not live to see it, 300 Japanese ships were captured and destroyed that day and the rest of their invading force was rounded up soon after. For his tireless service, his brilliant leadership, and his unwavering devotion to Korea, Yi was given the posthumous title of Chungmugong, the Martial Lord of Loyalty. ____________ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H Get the outro music here! http://bit.ly/1NbpIcd *Music by Sean and Dean Kiner: http://bit.ly/1LBy9zh __________ Extra History - Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai Battle of Okehazama: http://bit.ly/1IUpYw2 Extra Credits - What Type of Player are You? Bartle's Taxonomy: http://bit.ly/1LSrtIx

Comments

Corey Wallen

I cannot decide whether Yi was as much of a bada$$ as this series makes him out to be, or if the rest of the military of that era were just idiots. Either way he was truly a man of honor to his country.

Farzad Mansouri

Not going to lie but I am crying man tears at that ending. Rest in peace Admiral Yi!

Sponsor

Wow, you gave me chills!

Luknai

My respect for yi kinda faultered when he insisted on hunting down and killing a beaten enemy trying to retreat, when they could have just signed a peace treaty, and avoided further bloodshed.

RMS Oceanic
>>915419

The flipside of honour in effect: It's not enough that the enemy who caused you harm has ceased causing it, you must avenge the original crime. I doubt Yi is unique when it comes to this.

Michael Jebbett

Yi: Rewarded for his loyalty with treachery, demotion, attempted assassination, and eventually, death.

Mask

For those who want more Yi and even more details, they made a movie about Admiral Yi some years back. Great job EH, I loved how you included the sound of the drum!

Stormy Weather

That was beautiful! You guys did an amazing job!

Hung Nguyen
>>916061

For more information, it's called The Admiral: Roaring Current and is a movie I greatly recommend. Even though there are dramatic embellishment, it mostly stays true to the events of Myeongnyang and no is better at portraying Yi than Choi Min-sik.

Hung Nguyen

Beautiful! Simply beautiful! I loved the drumbeats as the narrative went into the final phase of Noryang. It felt so climatic. You guys did a splendid job of this series, truly honoring the memory of Yi. Here wishing for a similar success for further series!

David May

Not gonna lie.... this actually made me tear up a little

Hasan Mahmood

Great job, guys! I hope at some point you guys cover Saladin.

Michael Waisfeld

Seriously though, why didn't the Japanese just avoid passing through narrow straights? Losing, how many was it... 3 battles due to getting bottle-necked? Was it that difficult to circle around the coast? Is the slightly shorter travel time worth the risk? The Japanese were inherently overconfident but you'd think a man like Hideyoshi would have the brains to order them not to do it (even if he was reportedly going clinically insane at the time).

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>>917922

Hideyoshi wasn't there commanding in person! And while it definitely turned against them very severely, I can't fault them for taking the fastest route to relieve a city under siege when every delay meant the city might fall on its own. And during Myeongnyang, well, if we weren't looking at it through the 20/20 of historical hindsight, we'd have thought they were ridiculous to avoid an engagement with 13 ships, when they had over 100. Which actually would have turned out all right for them, I expect, if Yi hadn't deliberately baited them with those tides they didn't know about.

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>>916620

Not gonna lie, I've watched the final cut about 6 times since Dan sent it to me. Gets me very time!

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>>916371

Thank you! We actually rewrote this episode after Sean and Dean sent us a preview of the drumbeats. It was too good not to make it part of the series!

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>>916061

Yeah, absolutely check this movie out if you want more! It's streaming on Netflix in several territories. Fair warning, though, the Japanese are very much demonized in this movie.

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>>915498

It's streaming on Netflix in several countries! I know it's on in the USA, not sure about others.

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>>915474

Sad, huh? But he is also Korea's national hero, and while he didn't live to enjoy his accolades, he's celebrated all over the country now.

Martin Ockovsky
>>916048

Well, that's probably right, but the way you tell the story brings it to a whole new level. All of it is amazing.

Agus Perez Moreno

Man, i will patron after this. / amazing end. the music, dan voice. all of it.

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>>915419

It's not honorable, and it's not pretty, but it would have been a risk to let Japan retreat with all their armies intact. What if the political situation changed, and they wanted to reinvade in the future? Plus, there is literally a mountain in Japan of around 40,000 noses that they cut off Korean and Chinese people during this invasion and turned into a monument. That sort of brutality is not easily forgiven.

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>>915355

And on rarely do they survive close inspection and still come off seeming like good people.

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>>914893

I'm gonna go ahead and say it was the former. ;) A lot of these people that looked foolish compared to him, on both the Korean and the Japanese side, won battles or showed great leadership in other situations. Even Won Gyon, who wound up losing the fleet, had been a very successful campaigner against the Jurchens to earn his high-ranking position.

Tommie Gordon

keep up the great work EC, i've learned more from your EC History than in textbooks! awesome work.

Pablo Camarasa

I think that...yes, that's a tear. Man, thanks for such a great work you are doing on this channel.

SovietWomble

Who the fuck is cutting these onions?

Robert S

you're giving me chills, guys. keep up the astounding work

Robert S

holy shit episode 1: KEEP BEATING THE DRUM you foreshadowing bastids

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>>918462

:D It was originally released with a slightly different name, since I was working off a different translation, but the intent was always to foreshadow this moment. Once I saw the translation James used, I updated the title to match it exactly.

ReaperNX

Wow, you guys. Just, wow.

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>>918389

Not having to teach to a curriculum helps us a bunch, since we can go and cover history like this, that often isn't covered in the west.

Meghan

Okay, I am going to admit it- this episode made me outright cry. The timing of the music and the flow of the narrative got to me and had me tearing up. I think the only other one that got to me like this was the Sengoku Jidai series.

Anonymous

This man *defines* the word "Legendary". As does this episode.

Jesse

Excellent end to a great series. Well done guys. Well done.

Nessf

That couldn't have been a better story if it had been written as a work of fiction. Damn. Just.... damn.

Parker

It's sad about how this story ends. Yi pulled Korea through the war and went through more bull$#!+ than any character I have ever heard (fictional or otherwise). He did not deserve to die from a stray bullet.

Parker
>>919059

PS was Yi's son and nephew being clean shaven an artist choice and they actually had beards? Or were these guys the best actors in history?

Parker
>>918462

That's not the only foreshadowing. In the second episode (please fact check me) Yi was shot in the shoulder and no one realized it.

Robert S

how did the joseon court try to make up for their fuckery?

Edward Kim

There is another General in Korea called Eulji Mundok who fought the 1 million army troops of Sui dynasty with 30,000 men and wiped them out... I mean he killed all the million troops in one battle. It is recorded as the biggest fight in world history in terms of man power. (Only 2800 went home out of a million).He is considered in par with Yi in Korea.

Sean Sarff

I actually teared up after watching this. I expected Yi to be fine since he just would walk out of most problems though his life. But I guess his legendary luck just ran out during that battle.

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>>918672

You mean we didn't get you at the end of the World War I series? Nuts. We'll have to try harder!

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>>918855

If it had been a work of fiction most of us would have rolled our eyes at how unrealistic it seemed. ;D

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>>919059

I'm not aware of any contemporary portraits of Yi's son or nephew, so yeah, the artist's rendering of them with different facial hair was a choice made to show they were different. Even in real life, though, if they were mainly shouting orders in the middle of a hectic battle, I doubt anyone was taking the time to look very closely at their faces - much less notice their voices probably had a different timbre. ;)

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>>919433

Mostly with posthumous titles and awards. It was certainly too little, too late, and one account of the scene says that the king was stone-faced and appeared unmoved during Yi's eulogy.

Meghan
>>918672

...I might have cried then as well- I've got a kind of crappy memory sometimes XP (But I swear, if you get better at giving me feels then you're going to start getting bills for the tissues I'm going to need.)

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>>920935

Yeah, especially since he had previously survived a shot in the shoulder, I was also hoping he would somehow make it through... but no.

Edward Kim

Oh yea, There is debate between whether the battle of MyeongRyang was 13 vs 133 or 13 vs 333. Can we clear that up on lies once and for all? I too am very curious.