Kiyomasa put out all the effort he could muster to defend the castle which was incomplete and short of water and food supply against large forces of Ming and Korean troops, and kept the castle defended until the arrival of reinforcements with Hidemoto MORI and Nagamasa KURODA.
未完成で水も食糧も乏しい状況で明・朝鮮の大軍を防ぎきり、毛利秀元や黒田長政の援軍の到着まで城を守り抜いた。