Black Corporation: Joseon - Chapter 1207



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Side story 21. 1592 South Sea War. (21)

Boom! Boom! Boom!

“Shoot again!”

“Your Majesty! Get down!”

“The problem is that the Empire came to its senses too quickly….”

Konishi, who was muttering as he crouched again under the imperial artillery fire that was gaining momentum again as if the overheated gun barrel had finished cooling down, suddenly froze in place.

“No way! Were you waiting for us instead of losing your mind? Were you expecting us to start on Christmas Day?”

* * *

Japan chose Christmas as the start date for its operations because of the importance of Christmas in the empire.

The Confucian scholars who ruled the empire were, in principle, atheists.

The first generation of Confucian scholars of the empire, who saw and experienced the evils of Buddhism with their own eyes during the late Goryeo Dynasty, thoroughly distrusted religion and strongly suppressed Buddhism.

However, the power of Buddhism that has continued for nearly a thousand years was beyond imagination.

Sensing that Buddhism’s influence was growing stronger again, those in power began to look for countermeasures.

And Catholicism emerged as a solution.

He was a Catholic who was banned from missionary work on the pretext of not answering questions posed during the time when Hyang was Crown Prince.

However, even in such circumstances, Catholicism was spreading little by little.

In the beginning, there was a very negative reaction to this spread of Catholicism.

“What should I do with this? Should I fix it?”

“The justification for the movement is weak. Most of the monks did not openly preach, but rather studied it as ‘academic work’ and then crossed over. The justification is weak.”

“They are holding a ceremony there because they know the reason why missionary work is prohibited….”

“Buddhism is a headache, so what about Catholicism…?”

Amidst these continuing negative reactions, a response came from the Vatican.

– Ancestral rites are an event to commemorate and express gratitude to ancestors, so they do not violate the commandments.

“I can’t help it.”

“There is a promise that comes with asking questions.”

“Haa~. Buddhism alone is a headache, and now Catholicism too….”

After hearing the Vatican’s response, the ruling class set a prerequisite of ‘the emperor comes after the god.’

-First, promise to be loyal to the Emperor.

– It doesn’t mean that you have to believe in the Emperor as a god. It means that if you are an imperial citizen, you have to be loyal to the Emperor, not the Vatican.

-In other words, we should not interfere in politics.

Later, it was a written document of ‘non-interference in politics’, which was changed to ‘putting the country before God.’

The Vatican, which had already lost most of its political power even in Europe, accepted these terms, and the empire gave permission for missions to be established.

It wasn’t long before the empire’s ruling elite discovered that Catholicism was surprisingly potent.

It was quickly beginning to erode the power and influence of Buddhism.

“Use barbarians to control barbarians…”

The ruling class of the empire, who found it very useful in keeping Buddhism, which had been a thorn in their side, began to secretly promote Catholicism.

The biggest support was declaring Christmas an official holiday.

Regardless of whether one was Catholic or not, Christmas was unconditionally a day off.

Of course, in order to block complaints from the Buddhist forces, Buddha’s Birthday was also designated as an official holiday.

However, by using the official names of ‘Christmas’ and ‘Buddhist Birthday’, they secretly discriminated against them and supported Catholicism.

It was discrimination based on the perception that ‘절(節)’ is slightly more prestigious than ‘일(日)’.

In this way, Catholicism and Buddhism began to compete in a tense battle.

Those who were shocked by the fight between these two were the shamans and the applause.

* * *

Boom! Boom! Boom!

“That is why we chose Christmas as the start date for the operation.”

Konishi continued to play chess, crouching down every time a shell exploded nearby.

-The combined fleet’s training schedule has been delayed. In order to ensure that the Imperial Navy’s tension level hits rock bottom around Christmas.

And that’s exactly what happened.

-No, it seemed like it was done.

-The Empire’s 2nd Mobile Fleet suffered extremely severe damage in the surprise attack on Jeju Island.

-That’s why our troops moved north with peace of mind.

“… But now, it’s exploding on land and sea. It’s as if I’ve been caught off guard… No, did I really get caught off guard?”

Looking at the current situation, Konishi was reaching a conclusion.

“This is a result that cannot happen unless you prepare in advance. Unless you prepare in advance… .”

But, the feeling of uneasiness still remained.

“However, I am concerned that we left the 2nd Mobile Fleet to suffer. The 2nd Mobile Fleet’s power is too great to be used as a discard pile.”

One of the staff members who was listening to Konishi’s monologue from the side lost his anger and shouted.

“Isn’t that what’s important now?”

“No, no… .”

However, Konishi continued to focus only on restoration.

“each…!”

When the staff member tried to raise his voice again, another staff member stopped him.

“why!”

“Your Majesty, you are doing this for the future.”

“What the hell are you talking about!”

“This war is already lost….”

“what!”

-This war has already been lost. Of course, we must take responsibility. However, we cannot take full responsibility.

“… This is the reason.”

After hearing the reason, the staff member could not control his anger and hit the trench wall with his fist.

“Fuck!”

Konishi also knew very well that restoration was not important.

but….

‘The tables have already turned. Surviving the subsequent battle of responsibility is even more problematic.’

Based on this judgment, Konishi continued his restoration.

“Even if it was an empire, they wouldn’t have expected the loss of the 2nd Mobile Fleet. So… was it Won-gyun? It was Won-gyun. Won-gyun was the problem.”

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Konishi identified germs as the biggest cause.

-According to the personnel evaluation report secretly obtained by spies, Won-gyun was said to be a fierce general. However, the evaluation circulating among his subordinates and colleagues was that he was a ‘blind general.’ It was a mockery that he was blind and charged forward without looking back.

-I heard that the result of the factional fighting within the Imperial Navy was Won-gyun’s appointment as commander of the 2nd Mobile Fleet.

“To conclude… .”

Finally, Konishi was able to come to a conclusion.

-The empire dug a trap, and Japan fell into it.

-The Empire suffered greater initial damage than expected because they did not know that Won-gyun would be this incompetent.

-However, because they had prepared in advance, they are inflicting fatal damage on the Japanese Navy and Army.

“…We, Japan, are victims of a trap.”

This was Konishi’s conclusion.

Later, based on Konishi’s conclusion, a conspiracy theory called the ‘Jeju Island attack inducement theory’ was born.

Primarily, Japanese scholars argued this vehemently, while imperial scholars responded by snorting.

“Even if you are talking nonsense, you should keep it to a minimum.”

“If that was a trap, then what was the ‘meteor shower’ that happened afterwards?”

And what followed was ‘chewing the germs’.

“If Won-gyun had done it properly and stopped it in Jeju Island, then such nonsense wouldn’t have come out! This happened because Won-gyun was incompetent!”

* * *

“The conclusion has been reached, and now it’s time to start struggling.”

Konishi, who had created a plan to avoid responsibility, returned to the present.

Konishi, who was still seeing the Imperial Army’s fierce artillery fire with his own eyes, asked his staff.

“What happened to the cannons loaded on the launch vehicle?”

“It was all destroyed.”

“Did you get hit by the infamous ‘anti-artillery bombardment’ from those imperial bastards?”

“Yes.”

“What a pity. Ugh… .”

Konishi, unable to hide his regret and licking his lips, continued to give orders.

“Contact the Navy and request the gunfire support they promised.”

“The communication line from the landing craft has been cut.”

“What about the wireless transmitter?”

“It broke down first.”

“As always, you are right.”

Konishi shook his head at the staff’s answer.

* * *

Wireless telegraphs were notorious for their large size, whether in the Empire, Ming, Japan or Europe.

Because of this, despite its groundbreaking advantage of being able to communicate while moving, it could only be installed in military bases stationed in remote areas where it was difficult to build a communications network, or on large military equipment such as battleships.

Japan has therefore developed groundbreaking equipment.

The wireless telegraph was disassembled by function and packed into several boxes.

If you later assemble these boxes and connect them to a power source, you will be able to use wireless telegraphy right away.

Although it was a very groundbreaking piece of equipment, it was nicknamed “porcelain bowl” among Japanese military signalmen and was treated as the most hated piece of equipment.

It was thanks to its durability that it was as heavy as porcelain but weaker than porcelain.

Whenever we went out to train, the first thing that broke down was this ‘porcelain bowl’.

* * *

“Are you just going to sit around and play? Try communicating using the luminescent communicator right now.”

“Hot!”

At the staff’s command, the signalmen took the luminous radio out of the box, plugged it in, and began sending signals toward the transport ship.

As the Japanese battleships’ main guns remained silent for a long time after the transports had sent an acknowledgement signal, Konishi nagged his staff.

“Try sending the message again!”

“Hot!”

After several calls, a reply came back from the transport ship.

“Isn’t it possible?”

“I can’t? You crazy!”

Konishi, who had shouted, gave orders to his staff again.

“Contact the Navy again! ‘I need artillery support immediately! I will keep my word!’”

“Hot!”

When the answer came back again after some time had passed, Konishi grabbed the back of his neck.

“’Main gun currently unusable’? What the hell is this!”

Konishi shouted, spitting out a curse.

“What are you doing, Maeda-sama! Contact me again! ‘Without the support of the Navy, this operation will fail!’”

“Hot!”

* * *

Although Konishi and even Kato requested artillery support, the Japanese Navy’s battleships were unable to respond immediately.

It was because of the Imperial Navy’s self-propelled grenade launchers.

Even though the sea was shallow and difficult for Japanese battleships and cruisers to move through, the Empire’s self-propelled gunboats were moving quickly and without difficulty.

And, the self-propelled grenades loaded on the self-propelled grenade launcher were adjusted to suit the shallow waters of the West Sea and the South Sea.

The Japanese naval battleships and cruisers could do nothing else but intercept these self-propelled grenades and avoid the self-propelled grenades rushing toward them.

“These cunning imperial bastards!”

On the bridge of the flagship, fleet commander Yoshitaka Kuki was expressing his anger.

The first thing the Empire’s self-propelled gunboats targeted were the destroyers of the fleet commanded by Kuki.

The Imperial self-propelled guided missile boats, which had first disabled the destroyer force, next aimed for collusion.

The conspirators who lost their destroyers were in a situation where they were naked, and the Empire’s self-propelled guided missile boats did not miss this.

-There’s no need to sink it. Just run it aground.

-If it is difficult to even run aground, we will make it impossible to operate the fuselage.

This was the order that Yi Sun-sin gave to his Japanese allies.

The Empire’s self-propelled guided missiles faithfully carried this out.

Thanks to this, the Japanese Combined Fleet was able to blow up not only the destroyer force but also the conspirator force.

The aircraft’s hull lost its level after being hit by self-propelled grenades, making it impossible to operate.

As soon as day broke, it was certain that Imperial aircraft would swarm again, and there was no means of defense other than anti-aircraft guns.

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