Black Corporation: Joseon - Chapter 1205



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Side story 19. 1592 South Sea War. (19)

Even as they were being slaughtered indiscriminately by the crossfire of the Imperial Army’s wagons, the Japanese Army soldiers continued to run towards the hill ahead, shouting.

It was a combination of the survival instinct to survive by getting past the first line of defense on that hill before the Imperial Army’s bombardment began and the greed to plunder the Empire and make a killing.

The soldiers who were moving forward, jumping over the bodies of their comrades who had fallen to the bullets fired by the wagons, finally began to see the defensive line set up by the Imperial Army.

“Just a little bit more! Just a little more!”

“The enemy lines are right in front of us! Let’s go!”

“If you can just get over there, you can survive!”

As the Japanese soldiers were energized and encouraging their comrades, the Imperial Army poured cold water on them.

The shelling had begun.

Boom! Boom!

“It’s shelling!”

“Get down! Get down!”

“Advance on your stomach!”

As shells fired by the Imperial Army artillery exploded in all directions, the Japanese soldiers quickly lay down on the sand and began to advance crawling.

However, this was a tactic of the Imperial Army’s artillery.

Moments later, a second wave of shells fired by Imperial Army artillery rained down on the beach.

The second wave of bombs exploded simultaneously in the sky over Daecheon Beach.

Kwakwakwang!

“Ahhhh!”

In an instant, the sandy beach of Daecheon turned upside down, and the soldiers’ screams turned the sky upside down.

An army officer, who was observing the situation on the beach from a defensive position with a thick roof, picked up the receiver and reported to the rear.

“Considerable enemy damage!”

The artillery commanders who heard the report from behind brightened their faces and gave orders to their artillerymen.

“I’ll kill you! Keep going to Jincheonrye!”

“ancient!”

“Prepare to fire!”

At the commander’s command, the artillerymen adjusted the timing device of the shell fuse and loaded the gun.

“Ready to go!”

“Blast!”

“Blast!”

bang!

Once again, dozens of fireballs flew across the sky toward Daecheon.

* * *

The ‘bucket shot’ used by the Imperial Army’s artillery was a shell designed solely for killing people and horses.

Until then, the only bullet that aimed solely at killing people was the Bigeokjincheonroe.

And this non-lethal projectile was only used on toys – now identical to 21st century mortars.

The firearms used by regular artillery units were improved and used for the combined purposes of destroying enemy structures and killing people and horses.

However, combat experience – primarily in Gibraltar – raised concerns among artillery commanders.

-The grenade we’re using now isn’t bad. It’s good at destroying buildings and people.

-However, when used in actual combat, I found that the crater created by the explosion of a grenade often served as excellent cover for the enemy.

-If you think about it, you should think about this part a bit. We are getting along well now, but if things go wrong, it is certain that we will have a hard time with the tactics.

– If you kill ten people with one grenade, but twenty people survive and come to you from the hole created by that grenade… I get very anxious. In reality, our troops are also trained to respond in that way.

-So there are two countermeasures that I thought of. One is to burn the surrounding area to the ground with overwhelming explosive power. The other is to sacrifice explosive power in exchange for maximizing killing power.

– In the second case, even though it is still being used with the time limit shinkansen, a fire grenade with a better killing effect needs to be created.

Based on this conclusion, a large-caliber cannon with a caliber of 1.5 feet (about 45 cm) was developed, and the Jincheonroe for general use was created.

In the old days, it was a vicious object that had several layers of lethal iron balls coated inside the thinnest possible shell, like a lightning bolt made by Hyang, and filled with gunpowder.

Imperial artillerymen were trained to use a time-delayed fuze when firing these common artillery shells so that they would explode over the heads of the enemy.

That alone was a problem, but what was even worse for the Japanese was that the Jincheon-roe that was now raining down steel from the Daecheon skies was an improved version.

-It’s good that it explodes, but isn’t it a shame that the fragments spread in all directions without regard for up, down, left, or right?

-Can’t we gather all the directions into one place?

-While we’re at it, couldn’t we make the fragments spread out a little more strongly?

Improvements were made in response to these criticisms, and the new improved version became a firearm that best satisfied the demands of commanders.

Later, it became an object that gained a notorious, if not infamous, reputation among historians studying the history and equipment of the Imperial Army as ‘an object that embodies human malice.’

* * *

The Jincheon-roe that exploded in the sky over Daecheon scattered the iron balls inside it in a shape similar to an overturned funnel.

This was a fatal attack for the Japanese troops who were advancing crawling on the white sand beach.

This is because lying face down greatly increases the body parts exposed to attack.

In an instant, dead or mortally wounded Japanese soldiers filled the white sand beach of Daecheon.

“How could someone do such a heinous thing! Is this something a human would do?”

Kato Yoshitaka, who was shouting curses at the chaos unfolding before his eyes, shouted at his soldiers.

“It’s Ichikabakachika (Ichikabakachika, two-fight or eight-fight)! I’ll run at full speed and break through the defense line! Follow me!”

As Kato Kiyomasa took the lead and ran, the surviving Japanese soldiers also started running at full speed after him.

As the Japanese army charged, the Imperial Army’s firepower, which had been temporarily relaxed, began to tighten again.

* * *

The transport ships that had sent down Kato and his men quickly retreated, and the transport ships carrying Konishi’s second force took their place.

Konishi and his staff, seated on the bridge of the transport ship moving at the front, watched the tragedy unfolding on the beach through binoculars.

“There is no such thing as hell… .”

The staff members only had gloomy expressions on their faces as Konishi muttered.

“Wouldn’t it be better to retreat?”

“Speak sense!”

When one of the staff members mentioned a withdrawal, the senior staff member cut him off.

“Landing on enemy territory always requires sacrifice!”

“But the loss is too great!”

“How can you say that we should go back so easily? And yet, you are the army of the Greater Japan!”

“but….”

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“shut up!”

The staff member who insisted on a withdrawal kept his mouth shut under the urging of the senior staff member.

Konishi, who had been listening quietly, turned his head and opened his mouth.

“Retreat… If I go back now, do you think I’ll be able to return safely?”

“Isn’t that possible?”

Konishi smiled bitterly at the staff’s words.

“If you wanted to return safely, you shouldn’t have set sail. No, if you had turned around just before the attack on Jeju Island, it would have been possible. But it’s already too late. Why would the Navy hold out so desperately? We have no way out. We can only advance.”

“Even Bae Soo-jin can only do this when there is a chance of winning!”

The staff’s protest for a withdrawal sounded like a scream. Konishi responded with a bitter smile.

“Wouldn’t it be Bae Soo-jin who creates the odds that don’t exist?”

“Your Excellency Commander!”

“The arrow has already left the demonstration, and it’s Ichikabakichika. In that case, we should think of a way to increase our chances of winning.”

“Phew~.”

At Konishi’s words, the staff all sighed.

“How on earth did you come to the conclusion that you could defeat the Empire…?”

Konishi heard someone muttering in the mission and answered with a bitter smile again.

“It was definitely possible. Statistically… But it seems there was a variable we didn’t know about. Phew~.”

Konishi sighed and looked at his staff with a determined expression.

“I say again, there is no retreat for us! The only way to survive is to advance! We must advance and capture the Emperor of the Empire in order to return alive! Keep this in mind and think of a plan!”

“Hot!”

While Konishi and his staff were putting their heads together to find a solution, in one corner of the bridge, the crew of the transport ship were talking in hushed voices.

“Wouldn’t it be better to at least negotiate?”

“Would an empire that was hit in the back of the head negotiate?”

“Then surrender….”

“Those samurai ladies? Arthur. We just have to get them down as quickly as possible and pray for their safe return.”

“I feel like swearing… .”

* * *

The movement of the transport fleet changed according to the hastily revised plan of Konishi and his staff.

First, the surviving motorboats from among those assigned to the transport ships that had brought the vanguard were added to the second group.

-Secure as many launchers as possible and land as many troops as possible as quickly as possible.

Here, Konishi and his staff mixed in a trick.

– Among the surviving launchers, select those that are no longer capable of performing operations and load cannons on them.

-Cannon-loading launchers are stranded on the shore and used as fixed artillery batteries.

“You have to answer a cannon with a cannon.”

“yes.”

The nodding staff glared at the naval officer sitting on one side.

“If only those damned Navy guys had done their part….”

The original plan called for using the large-caliber main guns of the naval battleships to suppress coastal defenses.

When the plan went wrong and we arrived in Boryeong, the hastily put together plan called for the ship to run aground on the coastline and be used as a fixed battery.

However, it was unreasonable to expect this from the Japanese Navy, which was currently struggling out there.

No, even in a situation where there was no floundering, it was impossible to run aground on the coastline.

It was because of the tidal flats.

The officer sent by the Navy to assist in the landing operation made his best excuses.

“It would have been a perfectly possible tactic if it weren’t for the mudflats! If it weren’t for the mudflats! Why is the Empire so evil, even on land and in the sea!”

Konishi’s staff nodded without realizing it at the naval officer’s protest.

“I can’t help but agree.”

* * *

While the Japanese naval fleet, unable to even run aground due to the tidal flats, was struggling in the sea, Konishi’s second force began a full-scale landing.

“charge!”

“Wow!”

As the launch pad’s doors opened, Konishi’s soldiers shouted and began to charge.

Tata tata tang!

Boom! Boom!

As Imperial wagons and cannons opened fire on Konishi’s men who were filling the beach again, a group of boats dropped anchor at either end of the beach.

They were launch boats carrying cannons according to a hastily prepared plan by the staff.

“It’s firmly fixed.”

“Thank you for your hard work. Well, that’s all for now… .”

The officers and men of the launch saluted the artillery officer and then boarded the small boat that had been towed and returned to the transport ship.

The artillery officer, who had been watching the boat moving away with a complicated expression, quickly collected his expression, turned around, and shouted to his men.

“Prepare to fire!”

“Hot!”

“The target is the defensive positions on that coastline! Load!”

“Load! Load!”

“Aiming complete!”

“Shoot!”

Bam!

At the shout of the artillery officer, the three cannons on board the launcher opened fire.

Japanese cannons, positioned on both sides of the coast according to the plan drawn up by the staff, struck the imperial coastal defense positions.

“Supporting fire!”

“Supporting fire!”

Although the damage to the Imperial defensive positions was not very great, the bombardment was a great encouragement to the charging Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese soldiers, encouraged by the mere fact that friendly fire was accompanying them, continued their charge with momentum.

In response, the Imperial Army Provisional Command in charge of Boryeong also began responding.

“The Imperial Army of the world! And in the Imperial homeland! And being pushed back by artillery fire? If this happens, you guys will be the first to die!”

“Please leave it to me!”

“Who are these guys shooting in front of!”

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