It Became a Symbol of the Bronze Age - Chapter 338



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Episode 338. Unkillable Objects (4)

The battle, which began at noon, continued until sunset. The results of the battle were astonishing.

The Moonmen have already lost half of their 70 ships.

Half of them were directly destroyed, but the other half were engulfed in flames.

Asadal’s gunpowder arrows burned the ship from the inside, and if action was not taken immediately, it would take less than two hours for the ship to catch fire and become incapacitated.

In contrast, Asadal did not lose a single turtle ship, not even a single fast-moving ship. Only a few sea hawks were swept away by enemy ships and sunk.

And when the sun went down and the temperature dropped.

“Wind, the wind direction has changed!”

The wind direction began to change.

Geoguroo gritted his teeth and shouted.

“Okay, now it’s our turn. Charge at the enemy ships and crush all of those ships!”

At his command, Asadal’s ships began to charge toward the enemy ships.

***

As the already unfavorable situation changed, the Wolves began to retreat. No one gave the order to retreat.

“We have to run away!”

It all started with a tribal chief. He no longer had the courage to fight and chose to retreat.

“That, that cowardly bastard!”

“Are you taking it out alone?”

Perhaps, this chieftain will be rebuked by many tribes when he returns later.

But this does not necessarily mean that other tribes fought hard.

‘Since he’s going to get the blame anyway, shouldn’t we slowly get out of there too?’

There is something called the ‘broken windows effect’. No matter how safe a town is, if you park a car with a broken window, people will steal things from inside.

The reason why this phenomenon occurs is simple. If you break the window, it means that someone has already broken the car. If someone else does it, you can do it too, and if someone criticizes you, you can make an excuse by saying, “Oh, someone else did it too.”

That is to say, humans hate to break perfection and hate to do things that others don’t do.

Conversely, if other people did it, the guilt about doing it would be greatly reduced.

It was the same even then.

“We’re also taking out the fleet!”

“Run away!”

As one began to break away, the retreating fleet became two, then three.

At this, the head of the Sashi clan, who was nominally close to the commander-in-chief, clenched his fist. He had no time to think about his younger brother’s death.

“You guys! Where are you going? Victory is just around the corner!”

“Kaaaak, huh! You didn’t lose because of your smart little brother! What? You’re going to have to slow down the enemy ships and crash them? Damn, do you think they’re slow?”

Of course, these words were only half heard, buried in the sound of rowing and waves.

In fact, it is not a sound meant for the opposing ships to hear, but for their own soldiers to hear.

The office workers are like, ‘They lost because they jumped out!’, and the people who are running away are like, ‘They lost because the office workers are idiots!’ That way, you won’t lose trust within the tribe.

But they thought too easily.

So… why do you think Asadal would just let half of his fleet go?

It’s really unfortunate for them.

There is still one reserve unit left in Asadal.

“Let’s drive the final wedge!”

“We have to get those guys out of here!”

Armed merchants and tribesmen led by Jingo.

They appeared in front of the retreating Willians, that is, they blocked their retreat.

“Block the road with three merchant ships!”

Under Jingo’s command, three merchant ships of the Baniki were huddled together to block the road. They were loaded with rocks so that they could not be easily pushed back, and armed merchants on board the ships pushed back the enemies with long spears.

“Those guys…!”

Those who ran away were of all colors.

“Push! Push!”

The enemy tried hard to break through the path blocked by the merchant ships of Baniggi. In the meantime, the ships of Asadal, advancing on the wind, excitedly fired arrows and other weapons at their rear.

Whoosh whoosh-!

It only took a moment for the fire to start at the rear.

But at the same time, three more merchant ships also opened up little by little.

At that point, Jingo asked the island’s chieftains.

“…Really, are you going to do it?”

“I must. This is our island. I appreciate your hard work, but if I depend on you all… why would I die? I don’t want to be a son who brings shame to my deceased mother.”

Ami, the chieftain of the Pangcha tribe, answered as he went up into the canoe, holding a long pole. He was followed by warriors, some male and some female.

In this way, about 200 warriors on fourteen canoes charged toward the enemy ships.

“The barbarians are coming in ships!”

“What are you doing! Sharpen your arrows and throw your javelins!”

They threw their javelins with great effort. Asadal’s shield blocked some of them, but not all of them.

Many died. However, many more survived and made it to the bottom of the ship. In any case, even the Moonmen who fought all day didn’t have many spears and arrows left.

“Uh, how did you do it?”

“After lighting the wick at the end of the pole, just push it into the opponent’s no-hook hole! Like this!”

Ami demonstrated first. As soon as the sound of fire burning was heard, Ami picked up a pole and stabbed it into the oar hole of the enemy ship.

And after a while.

Pubberbubung!

“Kwaaak!”

With a huge explosion, a terrible smell of gunpowder rose from inside. What followed the smell of gunpowder was the thick smell of blood.

The good-nose people of the Amish tribe rejoiced when they smelled this scent.

“It’s a shame I can’t hunt the enemies’ heads!”

“You guys, hurry up and shove it in! We’re going to the next ship!”

Only then did the tribesmen follow Amy and begin to light the fire on the poles and then insert them into the holes in the pit.

The first gunpowder weapon, the fire spear, which emerged in the Song Dynasty, was easy to use even by tribesmen who did not know much about gunpowder.

So, as the armed merchants on board the three merchant ships blocked their retreat and the tribesmen attacked the oarsmen with their spears, the enemy fleet slowed down noticeably.

Whoosh whoosh!

The front and rear ranks of the fleet were set on fire simultaneously. The bewildered ships of the moonmen began to ram each other indiscriminately.

Because of that, they didn’t even know that the sun had set, because the flames brightly illuminated the moon people’s ships.

But anyway, the wind direction changed, and Asadal could ride the wind and chase them, firing all the arrows and gunpowder he had prepared.

And the 2nd Fleet didn’t stop there.

“That ship, that ship is quite flashy! There must be an enemy leader there! We have to cut off his balls! Beat up that old man!”

These were old guns that fired hooks instead of powder pouches. Whack!

With a loud noise, the hook sank into the enemy ship. It was aimed at the upper deck, not the lower deck where the oarsmen were, and a strong rope was attached to the end of the hook.

“Okay, got it!”

“Pull!”

They pulled the rope. Sometimes they pulled it directly, sometimes they used a cylindrical tool. And so the enemy ship tilted. The collaborator shouted.

“They can’t run away anymore! Put a plank on the rope!”

“I already put it on!”

“That’s fast!”

The 2nd fleet’s small hull rammed into the largest ship and then jumped over it. The enemies were already exhausted, and it was not difficult to sweep them away.

“I, I…!”

“Kiyooooooooooo!”

The thief cut off a man’s head. And shouted.

“Enemy leader, where is the enemy leader!”

At those words, one of the Odo soldiers asked incredulously.

“Hey… wasn’t that the enemy general that you just killed?”

“This guy?”

Only then did Sohyeoboo look at the fallen enemy in front of him. He was wearing golden armor, so there was no way this was not the enemy commander. It was dark and he couldn’t understand what was being said, so he didn’t recognize him.

“…You are the enemy general.”

“Yes,” Sohyeopbo shouted, lifting the head of the enemy commander’s office.

“I cut off the enemy general’s head! This head was cut off by me, Sohyeopbo, the nephew of the one-eyed god of war!!!!”

Sohyeopbo was happy. Now, he could stand on the same level as Bu-rye again.

***

Ping-! Tirrrruk!

With a loud noise, Asadal’s cannon on the turtle ship was smashed to pieces.

“Ugh!”

The soldier screamed.

Gaeson, who commanded the turtle ship, ran.

“Are you hurt?”

“No, I’m not hurt. However, I don’t think the old store will be usable anymore.”

It’s because I shot too many times.

Gaeson glanced at the situation.

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“Stop shooting. Everyone else, stop shooting your old guns!”

The battle is already over.

Now, he had calmed down from the excitement of battle and was able to see the outcome before his eyes.

“How many?”

“It’s dark so I can’t see well… but it looks like four feet?”

“Three times?”

“Yes, it seems to fit.”

In the distance, four enemy ships were seen fleeing.

Of the 70 enemy ships, only four escaped alive.

When Gaeson saw this, he shouted.

“Look, Asadal! Among those countless enemies! Only four ships survived and escaped! But what about us? Eleven swift ships are still standing! It’s our victory!!!! Those pirates are no match for us!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Waaa …

“Asadaaaa …

It was truly a great victory.

***

New weapons such as gunpowder weapons, cannons, and axes played a big role, but that wasn’t all.

If everything had been decided simply by the speed of arms, the Song would have won against the Yuan, and the Ming would not have lost to the Later Jin.

Naval battles are all about weaponry?

That’s true, but that’s not all.

The Battle of Chiljeonryang was not a battle that Joseon lost because its weapons were inferior to those of Japan, and the Battle of Actium was also a battle where Antony’s fleet, which received support from Egypt, was stronger than the fleet of Octavianus, the victor.

Weapons are important, but not all battles can be won with weapons alone. The enemy is not defeated simply because he is out of weapons.

There is a failure of the schedule.

If the enemies had been quietly targeting the entire Haibaba Island while defending the space, Asadal would have had a hard time.

But Sashi couldn’t do that. They were a group of pirates, so they had little unity, and there were enemies called Missi behind them. In this situation, a war at sea was impossible.

That is why the enemies chose a short-term battle.

It’s a strategic mistake.

And the strategy failed.

They fought a battle called ‘mass assault’ due to misinformation brought by Samuho.

But the fast ship was fast enough and could respond to the attack, so it was only natural that the enemies were defeated without any help.

In this way, Asadal blocked the moon’s all-in rush.

And if you’ve blocked an all-in rush, you shouldn’t stop there. You’ll need to break a few multis as well.

After two days of rest, Asadal immediately pursued the enemy into the mainland of Wol.

“Kill them all!”

The ones who took the lead in the land war were also the Sohyupbo. Their five-legged soldiers quickly descended on their crescent-shaped boats, leaving the enemy’s ports in ruins.

‘That guy, his character is so different…’

I clearly saw him praying in front of the totem of the One-Eyed God (his uncle) before the battle, asking for his survival… but when he actually went into battle, he was truly a different person from Lu Bu.

Don’t people who pray so desperately usually fight while taking care of their own bodies? No, did you pray for their lives because they fought so recklessly?

…I don’t know.

Anyway, Asadal destroyed the port of the Wol people and dragged away all the ships that were under construction, and burned the ones that could not be dragged away.

“What should we do with the enemies who run away?”

“Let them go. Since the ship has already burst, they won’t be able to enter Habyi. Besides… if they’re still alive, forces like Missi and Onara won’t be able to come all the way to the southern part of the moon.”

“Yes, that’s true.”

Adallah nodded.

“We might not be able to occupy the vast jungles of that moon, except on an island.”

“That’s right. Rather than that, it would be better to let them live and block Missi and Onara. Come to think of it… maybe we should support them instead.”

At first glance, it may sound strange to support an enemy that was at war only a few days ago, but it is not something that has never happened before.

During World War II, when it seemed as if the Korean War would break out, the United States actively supported Japan, its enemy, and turned it into a military factory.

Even if we don’t go all the way to modern times, Silla actively supported the revival movement of Goguryeo, which it had destroyed, when it was engaged in battle with the Tang Dynasty. It’s like building a breakwater.

“What do you think?”

“It’s not a bad idea. Even if we use them as slave laborers, it will be difficult to take them to Asadal… After all, it would be right to keep the Ona Mi clan’s forces in check. Besides, not all the forces under the Sa clan attacked us, so it wouldn’t be bad to choose those who oppose the Sa clan and support them.”

“Hey, can you speak Wol-in?”

“I haven’t played for two years.”

***

It’s not like the Sa clan’s power reached all of the southern part of the Moon. If that were the case, he would have become king long ago.

There were many forces that were not on good terms with Sashi, and I gathered them together.

“Should we come if we are told to come and go if we are told to go?”

“They destroyed Sassi’s fleet?”

“I guess I should go.”

The tribal chieftains who had seen the downfall of the Sashi clan could not refuse Asadal’s call.

And some of the chieftains who heard Asadal’s words immediately went to their hometowns and explained this.

“Asadal had two conditions.”

“Is this a tribute award?”

“No, they didn’t want that.”

The Moon is a pirate, but nominally they are a vassal of the Zhou Dynasty. If they establish a tributary relationship with a vassal of the Zhou Dynasty, they will truly become enemies of the Central Plains.

There was no need for Asadal to take that position. The conditions Asadal put forth were simpler.

“First, no piracy.”

“…You can’t do piracy?”

The moon people reacted as if they had been told something like ‘no breathing’.

Those gathered now are not on good terms with the Sashi, so they were left out of the battle against Asadal led by them, and their main occupation is pirates.

“Then what do we eat to live?”

“Listen until the end. This only applies to Asadal. So, if you exclude the Barbarian Island (Taiwan) and the Sasi port that Asadal currently occupies, you can raid Cho, Oh, and Mi.”

“Oh, that’s… similar to usual.”

“Yeah, it’s the same as usual. We weren’t originally interested in things like barbarian islands, were we?”

In fact, there was no need to ban it.

All the ports near the Taiwan Strait have been completely destroyed, so even if they wanted to, they couldn’t do it anyway.

The tribesmen grumbled.

“And, by the way, you also want us to block Owa Cho and Missi. You want us to be used as shields, right?”

“…Isn’t it better than everything being destroyed anyway? If Asadal wants to, they can blow up all the ports that aren’t that close to them.”

The tribesmen soon nodded their heads.

As you said, it couldn’t be helped.

“Okay, I understand. Then what’s the second one?”

“Asadal has taken possession of two ports near the Barbarian Islands this time. It was originally an area ruled by the Sa clan. He has requested that his occupation of the area be acknowledged.”

“…?”

Their expressions became mysterious again.

It was as if the robber had said to the robber, ‘Accept this as mine.’

How dare you say such a thing! Have you any shame? It does not mean the same thing. It means the exact opposite.

“Why do you ask me to acknowledge that?”

If you took it, shouldn’t it be yours?

That is a truth of the world that even those who have been robbed admit.

“…Well, that’s what it is. I’ve decided to acknowledge it. Those ports are lands they took by legitimate means (spear swords).”

“…What are you doing there?”

“They say they trade with us. And… this may sound absurd, but they say they farm.”

“Farming?”

“Yeah, farming.”

“Isn’t that just for the weak? Why do strong people farm?”

It’s not that they don’t know farming.

And they don’t even know the efficiency of farming.

But this is like the relationship between the Greeks and the bow. The Greeks also knew that the bow was powerful. However, they avoided it as a ‘weapon of cowards’.

So the problem is not the efficiency of farming itself, but the stereotype the Lunarian pirates have about ‘farmers’.

The relationship between the moon pirates and the farmers is like that between the beekeeper and the bees. The weaker ones farm, and the stronger ones ‘harvest’ them at the right time.

So, for them, farming is something only the weak can do.

Just like the Vikings, these tribes also had the weaker, older, and women working the land while the younger and stronger sailors traveled the area in boats.

But Asadal, who is stronger than anyone else, farms?

I can’t help but understand it.

But they were wise.

“Oh, are you going to farm with the surviving Sassi weeds? That would be the greatest insult to them!”

“Huh? I see! That’s right, that’s it!”

“What a cruel way! Huh, we shouldn’t treat Asadal carelessly. If we’re not careful, we might end up holding a plow!”

After much thought, they succeeded in drawing a conclusion using their common sense.

Of course, this is wrong.

‘Rice farming in Gangnam? How can you put up with this?’

As for Poongbaek, he simply knew that rice farming was successful in Gangnam.

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