Korean version of anti-Japanese drama

In 1597, Ding You was in chaos again. Yi Sun-shin (Choi Min-sik) was dismissed by the imperial court on suspicion of collaborating with the enemy, and he was escorted to the capital to be severely tortured. In July 1597, the Korean navy led by Yuan Jun was completely wiped out by the Japanese navy, and the Korean capital was at stake. Yi Sun-sin was released and appointed as the commander-in-chief. He defied the public opinion and defied the imperial decree that he and the army would join forces to defend the capital, and decided to lead the remaining 12 ships to fight against the Japanese pirates. In order to save his life, Pei Chung, who had escaped after leading the navy and the Japanese pirates, sent someone to assassinate Yi Sun-sin. Facing the soldiers who tried to escape, Yi Sun-sin took off his head with a knife.
In the Mingyang Strait, Yi Sun-sin's 12 ships faced off against 330 Japanese pirates. Facing the subordinate ships that did not advance due to fear, Yi Sun-sin's main ship alone faced the vanguard led by the Japanese pirate "One Piece" Kojima Totsuso (played by Ryu Seung-ryong). Yi Sun-sin took advantage of the geographical advantage to defend the blood island, annihilated the troops of General Kojima, and cut off General Kojima's head in the hand-to-hand battle. Seeing this, Anji Wakisaka (played by Zhao Zhenxiong), another admiral of the Japanese pirates, led the troops to retreat.
"What should we do with such deep hatred?"
"The general will obey the ruler, and the ruler will obey the people."
"As soldiers, we must not fear and escape death."
"Take fear into courage."
Although the number of Japanese pirates ships However, it can be seen from the ship equipment that the North Korean navy has an obvious advantage. The North Korean navy has powerful fire guns and magic arrows, while the Japanese pirates only have iron cannons (and they are muskets). Therefore, at the beginning, the North Korean navy sank several Japanese pirate ships with their guns. The magic is that in the hand-to-hand battle, the troops of several Japanese pirates can't beat a single ship of Yi Sun-sin, which is completely illogical. Wakisaka Anji was at odds with Kojima Tsugumi and did not come to help at the critical moment, and he had suffered from the fear of the navy who had eaten Yi Sunsin before, otherwise the consequences of Wakisaka Anji's attack with the whole army would be unimaginable.
In the real naval battle, Yi Sun-sin chose to set up an ambush in the narrow Mingliang Strait, buried iron cables and wooden stakes in the shallow seabed, and lured the vanguard fleet of Japanese pirates to pursue, and then the North Korean navy besieged the trapped vanguard fleet of Japanese pirates. . After that, Yi Sun-sin's troops withdrew, and it did not have a big impact on the war. The Japanese pirates destroyed the base of the North Korean navy and achieved the strategic goal of covering the advance of the army. The real decisive battle at sea was the subsequent Battle of Luliang. The Chinese and North Korean coalition forces, led by the Ming Dynasty navy army led by Admiral Chen Lin, defeated Japanese pirates Yoshihiro Shimazu, Takahashi Zongshige and Naoji Takahashi. On the boat, Deng Zilong, deputy admiral of the Ming Dynasty navy, and Yi Sun-sin, the admiral of the North Korean navy, both died.
In the film, Yi Sun-sin wrote Chinese characters, and the official script of North Korea at that time was Chinese characters.
As a Korean patriotic movie, Yi Sun-shin is shown too personal heroism, the battle scene between the warships is not grand enough, and there are many illogical plot bugs.

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