Black Corporation: Joseon

Chapter 767

Episode 767: A disaster brought about by oneself…. (2)

Slam! Slam!

As soon as they heard the gunfire, the soldiers sitting on the cart connected the cartridges to the boxcar and attached the cartridge belt to the wagon.

Other soldiers also loaded their rifles and released the safety devices.

The soldiers who finished preparing for battle immediately shouted loudly to their commanders.

“Ready!”

Hearing the soldiers’ cries, Manho Kim Jang-saeng, who commanded the unit, stood upright on the saddle of the cart and looked in the direction of the palace through a telescope.

“lily! “It’s dangerous!”

Kim Jang-saeng confidently responded to the soldiers’ warning.

“hey! My name is Jangsaeng (??)! Jangsaeng! “Hold on to your worries!”

Jangsaeng, who was looking at the palace while answering confidently, saw Admiral Ahn and his party come out of the entrance of the palace.

Jangsaeng, who saw a couple of soldiers moving around with support, probably injured during the escape, gave an order to the cart right in front of him.

“The old man and his party are in danger! There are cars 1 and 3! Move now! “Save the old man and his group!”

“ancient! Hey!”

Hee hee hee!

At Jangsaeng’s command, two carts jumped out of the camp.

“Kyaak!”

“Ahh!”

The Aztecs around them screamed and scattered in all directions as they saw the horse running wildly, as if it was going to trample everything in sight.

Meanwhile, Jangsaeng, who was still standing on the saddle and observing the situation, shouted to the soldiers as Aztec warriors came running from all directions.

“The board is broken anyway! “If it comes within 100 steps, sweep it away!”

“yes!”

Seeing the soldiers answering firmly, Jangsaeng continued.

“They eat people! “Throw away any recognition!”

* * *

When Ahn Sang-soo and his party entered the royal palace of Montezuma I and were frightened by the sight of human flesh, those outside were also frightened.

The soldiers, who had formed a defense position and were taking a breather, saw corpses being smoked with strings tied around their necks.

“What is that!”

At the time, the Aztecs handled human sacrifices in various ways.

One was to collect corpses that had fallen down the pyramid’s ramp, cut off their heads, and then cut off their limbs and boil them.

The other was to burn them by hanging them on a rope, as if they were being hanged.

However, this was not like burning at the stake, but was closer to smoking.

It was this scene that the soldiers waiting outside were horrified to see.

After seeing that, the soldiers from the main branch looked back at the soldiers from the new area.

“Did you guys do that too?”

“Not now!”

The soldiers from Shinji hurriedly denied it due to the suspicious looks in their eyes from the soldiers from their home base. However, the soldiers from the headquarters did not easily agree.

“now?”

“It used to be like that, but I heard that it all disappeared after the Great Emperor banned it! And I heard it wasn’t that bad!”

* * *

What the soldier from Shinji said was true.

Consumption of human flesh was common among the indigenous people of the New World.

However, this mainly targeted prisoners captured in war or those who invaded their tribe’s territory.

In particular, the belief that eating a warrior’s heart would make one become braver led to fierce competition.

The natives brutally lynched and tortured those captured, killed them, and then consumed their human flesh.

This was primarily to provide entertainment and entertainment, and secondly to alert the warriors.

-If we lose the war, you will be eaten like that!

Therefore, the warriors fought even more desperately and fanatically in order to avoid becoming food for other tribes. (Note 1)

The Joseon soldiers who were exploring the new land immediately reported this fact to their home country. However, King Sejong and the Prime Minister’s left and right deputy prime ministers immediately buried this report.

This was for political reasons based on Neo-Confucianism, a national poetry, and for extremely practical reasons.

-It is self-evident that people who commit such heinous acts should not be left alive, but they have never learned the law in the first place. We must teach them morals and give them a chance for rehabilitation.

-Of course, it may be right to destroy them all. However, considering the current population of Joseon, that method would be the same as giving up God.

After making this decision at the time, Sejong placed his hand on his forehead and sighed.

“Whew. Cannibalism has been reported frequently in the Jongjang Peninsula and the northern islands. How can the world be so cruel…”

Hwang Hee, who was Prime Minister at the time, responded to King Sejong’s words.

“Isn’t it because they lived in such a remote place that they couldn’t learn morals and lived in an area where it was difficult to survive? “I believe that the only answer is to do our best to teach them morals, edify them, and create an environment in which they can live like human beings.”

“I agree. And don’t let the crown prince know about this report either. “That child has a flawless character in an unexpected place…”

“I will do so.”

In this way, King Sejong and the prime ministers concealed the report on cannibalism and then issued new orders to the Joseon army in Shinji.

– Do your best to persuade noble or allied tribes to refrain from cannibalism. If this is violated, force may be used.

The Joseon soldiers who received King Sejong’s orders actively carried them out.

Tribes that were affiliated with or allied with Joseon had to immediately stop cannibalism. There was resistance at first, but soon there was no choice but to accept the order.

This was because the strongest people around them were the Joseon army, and I saw cases where entire tribes disappeared without a word while actually resisting.

Afterwards, when King Sejong arrived in Shinji and began to manage Sinji himself, cannibalism in the Sinji area quickly disappeared.

He used socialist schools to actively educate the natives and at the same time used various carrots to appease the chiefs and warriors.

King Sejong did not only use these moderate measures. If necessary, they boldly used force.

Thanks to this, there were many tribes that disappeared knowingly or unknowingly during the reign of King Sejong.

King Sejong’s policy of both warm and cold was successful, and Hyang, who arrived later, was only able to confirm this fact through reports.

However, as Shinji’s territory expanded, tribes with cannibalism continued to be discovered, and Hyang muttered as he regained his appetite.

“This is it… Reminds me of that debate in the 21st century?”

* * *

To be precise, it was a debate over a subject that often appeared in films dealing with the American War of Independence or the history of Western development in the mid-20th century.

The subject matter was ‘peeling the scalp’. It was a scene where Indians who won the war killed their defeated enemies, mainly white people, and then scalped them.

There was a debate over this scene.

-It is a traditional custom of Indians.

-No, it was originally started by white people. They first started it to kill the spirit of the Indians who were resisting them. Afterwards, Indians were pointed out as the culprits due to cultural chauvinism that ‘civilized white people could not have committed such a barbaric act.’

The unfortunate thing was that since this was not the area of interest, it was impossible to know who the winner was.

* * *

“A debate is a debate, and now it’s reality, so we have to find an answer.”

Hyang, who had been worrying so much, found the answer right away.

-Regarding cannibalism, the previous system will be inherited and implemented.

In the end, following the policies of King Sejong and Hyang, the noble indigenous tribes quickly abandoned cannibalism.

And at some point, the new generation of Shinji natives became extremely averse to the act of cannibalism itself.

Thanks to this, even the soldiers from the New World were horrified when they saw the large-scale human sacrifice that was taking place in Tenochtitlan.

* * *

“They are our allies!”

“It’s an ally! Cheer up!”

Ahn Sang-su and his party, who were leaving the royal palace of Montezuma I amidst a fierce struggle, saw the carriages carrying our troops rushing towards them, and their complexion brightened.

“It’s an ally! Cheer up!”

Admiral Ahn Sang-soo and a small number of cavalrymen mounted a horse that had been hitched to one side and bought time by standing between the group and the Aztec warriors.

bang! Tatang! bang!

Slam! Slam!

Admiral Ahn Sang-soo and the cavalrymen, who had run out of bullets from their short guns, took out the curved swords they had tied to their saddles and swung them. And then he immediately started swearing.

“Oh shit! “The sword is short!”

* * *

After Gyeongjang, there were two places in Joseon and the Empire that used bladed swords and even curved swords as secondary weapons. One was the cavalry and the other was the navy.

However, even though they were the same curved island, the curved islands of the cavalry and the navy were all different in shape and size.

While the cavalry’s curved sword was similar to a saber, the one used by the navy was similar to a cutlass.

Although the sizes were different, their purpose of use was the same. It was to be used in close combat situations. Thanks to this, the two looked very similar.

However, Admiral Ahn Sang-soo and the cavalrymen were swearing because the cutlass was smaller than the saber.

Those sitting on a horse had to lean far to the left and right to use the cutlass properly. If you made a slight mistake, you could be caught by approaching enemies and fall off your horse.

To avoid this, Admiral Ahn Sang-soo and his cavalrymen swung their swords in a direction that threatened the Aztec warriors and blocked their approach rather than killing them.

“San dog! “A mountain dog!”

When the cry of ‘spread out’ was heard from the carts that arrived just in time, Admiral Ahn Sang-soo and the cavalry spread out to the left and right.

Suddenly, in a wide open space, freight cars containing only Aztec warriors mounted on male carts suddenly burst into flames.

Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-tang!

As a total of eight wagons loaded on two carts burst into flames, the Aztec warriors flocking to the palace and nearby began to fall like sorghum sheaves.

The Aztec warriors who were rushing in with great momentum suddenly froze like ice.

For them, it was their first battle and death.

They, too, often saw their leading warriors suffer heavy casualties in sieges and other battles. This was mainly done by slingshots or arrows and javelins.

However, there were almost no cases where the battle line collapsed in an instant like the attacks of those strangers.

The elongated things attached to the unfamiliar vehicle that the stranger was riding spewed out flames, and the brave warriors that filled the space died.

“It wasn’t even an arrow…”

“I couldn’t even see it…”

Admiral Ahn Sang-soo immediately shouted as the Aztec warriors froze in momentary panic.

“Escape! Join the main camp!”

The carts carrying the guards continued to shoot and left the square in front of the royal palace.

* * *

Ahn Sang-soo and his party, who joined the rest at the square where the great temples were located, immediately turned their horses and began to escape.

Ta-ta-ta-ta-tang! Ta-ta-ta-tang!

bang! Tatang! bang!

The wagons loaded on the carts and the riflemen hiding in the shadows of the carts continuously fired bullets at the Aztec warriors who were coming from all directions.

“Wipe out all those who rush in!”

“Abandon recognition! “Everyone you see is an enemy!”

“If you want to live, give up acceptance!”

To survive under siege, imperial soldiers pulled the trigger on every Aztec in sight.

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(Note 1)