Editing Toyotomi Hideyoshi (section)

=== Second campaign against Korea ===
{{Main|Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)}}

After several years of negotiations, broken off because envoys of both sides falsely reported that the opposition had surrendered, Hideyoshi appointed [[Kobayakawa Hideaki]] to lead a renewed invasion of Korea. This invasion met with less success than the first; Japanese troops remained pinned down in [[Gyeongsang Province]], and although the Japanese forces turned back several Chinese offensives in [[Suncheon]] and [[Sacheon]] in June 1598, they were unable to make further progress as the [[Ming dynasty|Ming]] army prepared for a final assault. While Hideyoshi's [[Battle of Sacheon (1598)|battle at Sacheon]] led by [[Shimazu Yoshihiro]] was a major Japanese victory, all three parties to the war were exhausted. He told his commander in Korea, "Don't let my soldiers become spirits in a foreign land.".<ref name="Holmes" />