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Perhaps, more likely though is this fits a pattern of Woodward being bad at journalism and simply got the story wrong: https://www.politico.com/story/2012/04/the-woodward-method-075770

What insubordination? Esper asked Milley to reach out and talk the Chinese down from their bad intel so they didn't strike us pre-emptively. They did that and it was all good. Everyone did their jobs and deescalated the situation. What certain elements of the US media are glossing over is...

Not what happened apparently: https://www.axios.com/mark-milley-woodward-trump-crisis-bb8a80b1-3e3a-492b-934a-99825cc6ef7f.html This sounds more like a non-story that Woodward and the media in general ginned up to sell his dumb book.

If you read the more complete reports they didn't think that Trump was the problem, they had intel that the Chinese were overreacting to maneuvers the US was doing in October 2020 and were trying to reassure them that it wasn't a planned attack. In January it was just a follow up to confirm...

So technically does that mean it wasn't against orders, he took orders from his direct civilian commander?

At this point that is just a matter of course for those 'news' agencies.

Looks like this was ordered by Mark Esper: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/is-the-general-milley-story-really-a-mark-esper-story/ Woodward's reporting is just sensationalism to sell his dumb book. He's another grifter.