 Even though the men that Song Sang-hyeon wielded were rather ill-equipped and poorly trained, the gallant defenders fought for eight hours before the enemy effected an entrance over their dead bodies.However, as was the case at Busan, the superior firepower of the Japanese arquebus decimated the defenders.During a lull in the fighting, a Japanese vanguard of 100 men scaled the walls with ladders and the rest followed, taking the castle in hand-to-hand combat.