Several days after Happo, Yi Sun-sin received a report of thirteen Japanese ships and pursued them with the same organized warship force. Eleven of the thirteen were sunk. The small action reinforces a pattern rather than merely adding a tally: Korean combat ships repeatedly caught transport-oriented groups unable to answer their artillery. The sequence shows that the May campaign had already become a sustained hunt for Japanese shipping before the turtle ship appeared at Sacheon.
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Thirteen ships sighted and eleven sunk after Happo
A report of thirteen Japanese vessels prompted another pursuit in which Yi Sun-sin's force sank eleven ships.