Li Rusong

Li Rusong (1549–1598) was a Chinese general of Korean descent from Tieling, Liaodong during the Ming Dynasty. He was a Ming army commander in the first half of the Imjin War that took place in the Korean Peninsula. Upon the request of the Korean King Seonjo of Joseon, Wanli Emperor of Ming sent reinforcements to support the Korean military in its war effort against the Japanese invasion masterminded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. His father, Li Chengliang, was also a Ming general, who defended Liaodong from the Jurchens. According to the Annals of King Seonjo of the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty, Li Rusong's 5th generation ancestor Li Ying (李英, Yi Yeong) was a distant relative of Yi Jonyeon (李兆年, 이조년) and a member of the Seongju Yi clan of Goryeo that fled to Liaodong after committing murder. Li Rusong was ultimately captured and executed when the Mongols invaded Liaodong.