I know that during the second half, Hideyoshi seems to have given an explicit order to burn and kill everything Korean on path of the invaders, but why did some of it also happen right during the very first stages of the invasion? Was it a situation where the troops went wild and out of control, or was it something akin to Oliver Cromwell’s attacks on Wexford and Drogheda where the commanders in charge explicitly ordered a harsh retribution, and if so for what reason?
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