European Financial Emperor - European Financial Emperor chapter 11

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Captain Jeff had to admit that he was facing the crisis of a lifetime.

Taken from noblemtl.net

Meeting pirates here in the Middle East was proof of the worst situation, so he thought he was going to die like this.

The story changed when a boy named Hana Yi-hwan was able to subdue the enemy with the activity.

Taang!

A shout was heard along with gunshots.

“Huh! The flag of the pirate ship has been broken!”

“… … what?”

“It looks like that boy is going to have an accident again this time?”

I wanted to make some kind of gun for a while, and I developed a gun with a range of 300 meters.

Besides, simply because the range was long didn’t mean it was a hit.

It was only natural that the accuracy and safety of a gun were the factors that made it possible to expect a hit.

‘Does that mean that the boy made a gun that could shoot at least 200 meters away? No, even with a gun like that, how can you shoot with such precision that you can break a flagpole?’

I wondered if future science would develop extremely, and I wondered if it would be possible to shoot even if I made such a gun right now.

After a while, another gunshot was heard.

Taang!

This time, I heard a slightly different shout.

“… … The commander of the pirate ship is dead!”

“Commander? Are you talking about the pirate captain? Or the chieftain?”

“I don’t know for sure, but there was a person who commanded the enemies lined up in rows. But the boy shot him and left a hole in his head. Very refreshing!”

“Hey, you’re wide-eyed.”

He would have been able to know about the necessity of heating up.

But what was important was how the little boy recognized the commander and fired.

Then the surveyor with the telescope in his hand exclaimed in a trembling voice.

“… … Enemies are running fast! At this rate, you’ll catch up quickly! If you don’t, you’ll get shot and die!”

Jeff shook his head.

Now, the enemy’s artillery shells had reached the distance.

If they had decided to open fire, the East Stella would have been completely destroyed and eaten with fish.

“no. They don’t have cannons.”

“Huh!”

“Besides, look at their movements. You can’t move that fast with a cannon.”

“Then you mean a battleship without cannons?”

“No, I usually go around disguised as a merchant ship. Then, when it finds a target, it suddenly turns into a predator.”

During wartime, there were quite a few cases where merchant ships plundered merchant ships of enemy countries.

However, it was not in a state of war now, and private practice was prohibited.

‘Are they those who loot to avoid the eyes of the military authorities?’

Their identities have been curious.

But now, rather than wondering about their identities, they had to save their lives.

“Once you run away, you make time.”

“But now the headwind is blowing! Even if we can break through the wind, there are certainly limits!”

It was a pain in the ass.

If the pirates were to fight in a hand-to-hand battle, it was almost impossible for anyone to guarantee victory.

In addition, if the shells were fired happily from the other side and then hooked up and leaped, it was clear that there would be no crew left to fight.

‘Damn it, what should I do?’

The first mate must be contemplating which way to flee by now.

All Jeff could do now was prepare himself for battle as efficiently as possible.

“Bring the planks and block the sides of the ship! They are roughly two spans apart!”

“Why are the planks… … .”

“You don’t need cover to do anything or anything.”

“iced coffee! Yes, I understand!”

I thought that the merchant ships in Jicheon, where people who couldn’t even load ammunition properly, might be more mischievous than pirates.

Even among them, most of them must have never encountered pirates in their lives.

‘Even if we met, it would have passed safely.’

If we weren’t lucky, we wouldn’t even have been able to board East Stellar.

It was evident from the fact that he did not even know the presence or absence of cover.

As Jeff’s sighs grew longer, he heard the surveyor’s voice again.

“The pirates are going down one by one from the guns shot from the watchtower!”

“… … What?”

“They are too busy moving around and changing seats among themselves! It’s really Abiguous isn’t it?!”

“Huh!”

“Ugh, I’m falling again!”

bang… … ! bang… … !

Gunshots were heard one after another.

Jeff wondered how many guns he had to climb up to be able to shoot like this.

‘I think it shoots at least 4-5 rounds per minute. Does it make sense to have such a skilled shooter?!’

It was impossible to achieve such a rate of fire unless it was one of the two, either with insanely fast hands or rotating the gun.

It takes at least 15 seconds to just put gunpowder in the muzzle, and it takes at least 25 to 30 seconds to compact it, insert a bullet and close it again.

Even if you master it like crazy, you won’t be able to fire at more than 2 rounds per minute when you wake up.

When five people died in a row, the pirates began to backtrack in surprise.

“Chief, do they actually run away?!”

“… … Are you running away?”

“I’m too busy running away because I’m scared, let alone hand-to-hand combat! Huh, in the meantime, the boy is speaking?!”

Tang, tang, tang… … !

There was a brief delay, but the boy slashed five guns in a row again.

Enemies were too busy to run away because it was too tight for them to fire shells from this street, and when someone kept sniping outside the range of the matchlock gun, they felt fear.

The sailors cheered.

“Wow! I live, I live!”

“Anyway, that Chosun little boy is brave!”

People rejoiced and rejoiced.

However, Jeff was different.

What would have happened if I had met a guy like me as an enemy?

‘It’s terrifying just thinking about it! We all just die without even thinking about attacking. It is no wonder that a hundred people are slaughtered by one man!’

The commander-class was annihilated, and the rest suffered only fatal wounds and did not kill, but the boy seemed to know that it was a real horror.

There was a slight delay, but it was clear that the fear was multiplying because of that.

Soon the sailors rushed out onto the deck.

“The enemies are running away! What the hell happened?”

Jeff silently pointed his finger at the Watchtower.

Then the sailors’ mouths opened wide.

“… … What is that? I wonder if that boy was named after more than thirty pirates right now?”

“It would be correct to say that it was made of rags to be precise.”

“Huh! Is there any nonsense like this?!”

Aaron, who came out on deck with the sailors, decided that he no longer had to outrun the enemy at full speed.

Then I saw that the enemy was driving the ship at an angle of about 15 degrees from the escape route.

“Sail 15 degrees starboard. In the next three or four hours, the coast will be visible.”

“all right!”

Ben-Heren hasn’t even seen me yet, but the situation has already been cleared up. Truly, this was a miraculous situation.

After a while, Lee Hwan, recognizing that the situation was over, came down from the watchtower.

People looked at him with admiration and cheers.

“Wow!”

“Boy, that was great! It’s great, it’s great!”

“Only good things will happen to you in the future! You saved our lives!”

Those who died in this battle would actually count on the top five.

Dozens of others were fatally wounded, and it was clear that recovery would be difficult for the time being.

He took care of the situation while saving people’s lives, so Lee Hwan looked even more amazing.

Jeff looked at the boy again.

‘… … From the moment I heard that he had written the ledger, I had an intuition that he was not an ordinary person. One must be such a great person.’

The scariest thing was that Lee Hwan was still a boy.

When he was about 30, he had no idea what would happen to the European continent.

***

The evening after the battle.

Lee Hwan squirmed between the people who were gathering on the coast and enjoying the party, and leaned as if hanging from the railing.

“Wow!”

Although I had been training so tediously in the military, it was my first time actually killing a person, so I was in shock.

I tried to vomit for a while, but my stomach did not calm down easily and I suffered a lot.

Then, Jeff, the captain of the deck, approached him.

“… … After killing people like a machine, it must have been the first time I had murdered.”

He handed Lee Hwan a bottle of wine.

As soon as Lee Hwan received the bottle, he took a large sip.

gulp!

“Whoa!”

“Doesn’t it feel like fire is gushing out of your heart? Everything is like that first. Be it alcohol or murder.”

“… … Yes. Everyone has a first.”

Jeff threw a bundle of rolled leaves at Lee Hwan.

It seems to be a type of tobacco, but it smells very different from regular cigarettes.

Lee Hwan thought that this was the South American cigar he had only heard of.

“It is very popular with the bourgeoisie. Try it once.”

“You give me everything.”

“As you said, everyone has a first. But it’s the first time, so it’s harder to forget.”

Lee Hwan only took the leaves, but did not smoke a cigar on the spot.

It seemed that he couldn’t taste the taste properly because he wasn’t even an adult yet, but at first glance he heard that cigars aren’t made by renting a fire.

Jeff gave such a piece of advice to Lee Hwan.

“I will never forget the feeling of the first murder. However, as long as those emotions don’t make them too cruel or too weak, people can live as long as they want. So did I, because all the wars in the world have rolled and ended like that.”

“… … What kind of murder are you discussing philosophy?”

“It’s taking people’s lives. There is no need to take it so lightly, nor to take it too much. I just need to remember that I survived by taking my life out of necessity.”

It wasn’t much of a consolation, but for Lee Hwan now, Jeff’s advice was like oxygen to help him breathe.

Jeff handed Lee Hwan a handkerchief and said.

“By the way, how did you come up with that great gun? I can’t find such a gun even if I search the world. All I can think of is that you made it yourself.”

“… … It is the foundation of my business.”

“A business foundation?”

“I’m going to make it right and sell it later.”

“ha ha ha! He’s quite ambitious. Seriously, if you make and sell such a gun, it must be money. But there’s no way you can make and sell that gun by yourself. There is no proper market, and there is no engineer to help you, right?”

“Well, you have to think about it slowly. I was just trying to find artisans to work in the factory.”

Jeff seemed to be interested in Lee Hwan, so he grabbed the horse’s tail and didn’t let it go.

“The craftsmen give Switzerland or the German Federation the best. Well, even though it seems like a lot of people are emigrating to the US lately.”

“Immigration?”

“It must be so hard to make a living.”

“Hmm.”

“Well, Sweden is the best at handling gunpowder and heavy firearms, but Switzerland and Germany are the best for hand skills. But those people have also lost a lot of jobs recently. You know, after the war, there weren’t that many people to buy guns for.”

“Sweden.”

He tapped Lee Hwan on the shoulder and then turned around.

“I’ll leave the drink. Drink and get drunk and get some sleep.”

“… … .”

“Live more virtuously.”

Lee Hwan stuttered and entered his cabin.