 He was dissuaded from deserting his command by his subordinates, by which time he had only four vessels remaining 

With the fall of Dongnae the Japanese bridgehead was secured and the road to the north was open.Busan and Dongnae fortress were quickly garrisoned, and the harbor of Busan began to provide a safe and almost unchallenged landing stage to disembark more than 100,000 Japanese soldiers with their equipment, horses and supplies over the next month.The Japanese general in command was so impressed with the bravery of this prefect that he had his body decently buried and erected over his grave a wooden monument on which he wrote "“A Loyal Subject”", an epitaph than which none could be more grateful to a true Korean gentleman.