1619년 深河戰役의 미결 지리 고증

Abstract

This paper summarized the detailed historical research results on the geographic data of a certain section in the battlefield of Sarhu broke out in March 1619. The relevant section is from ‘Pingdingshan Mountain’ from which 13,000 Joseon soldiers started marching in Niumaoling pass to about 40 km out of Hetualacheng fortress where about 4,000 to 5,000 Joseon soldiers who survived in the battle stayed as prisoners. In this geographic space did the tragic event occur for 8 days from Feb. 28 to Mar. 6, which was not too much to take a lesson for a long time and was very piercing when it was reviewed even today, 400 years from that time. However, the event was nearly forgotten by incompetent power and even moral meaning as well as tremendous pains were lost. This paper aims to remind the tarnishing history and furthermore provide the opportunity to ruminate the history by accurately criticizing and correcting the place of such tragedy. Through the literature review and field investigation as well as field survey, several new information was acquired. In spite of field trips twice, the old Niumaoling pass couldn’t be perfectly reconfigured. However, this paper made definite progress for thorough reconfiguration through the further study. The theory of Wangcongan(王 從安) was applied to several spots including Niumaoling Pass. It was identified that ‘Shimha’ would be the village name not the river through the records in documents. It was newly identified that 8,000 to 9,000 Joseon soldiers died and remaining 4,000 to 5,000 Joseon soldiers escaped to Pushan Mountain and the field near Pushan Mountain. Such result is the most important achievement of this paper. Moreover, the detailed ground for argument and opinions on prisoners’ path of movement which was not discussed in detail up to now were presented for the first time. Pain and grief generated by this battle are still talking to us up to now, even 400 years since then. Furthermore, the incompetence and hypocrisy of the power who forgot and ignored this battle are still tormenting people as they were. This paper was prepared to listen to what pain and grief wanted to say and to face up to incompetency and hypocrisy.