episode_0358

A few months ago, an order was given to recruit useless skilled soldiers from each military unit.

The commanders thought it was right and gathered up their subordinates and sent them away.

You may be wondering what a useless skilled soldier is.

However, the monthly salaries of soldiers also rise slightly.

Although it is a small monthly salary, it goes up slightly every year.

The question is whether the monthly salary increase is worth it.

Surprisingly, the time when soldiers are most loyal and obedient is during their first year and when they are new recruits.

As he gets more and more stubborn, even when I ask him to do a task, he makes excuses to get out of it, and when he could get out of it alone, he tries all sorts of tricks to get the entire group of ten that I lead out of it.

Accumulating years of experience does not mean that you become a skilled soldier like the ‘real army’ of the North, so keeping them with you will only result in losses. They are wastes who are foolish about knowing orders and passing it on as a trick.

So, among the Cheonhoso fishermen, these wastes are removed through secret deals.

They are killing each other’s waste.

Even if a soldier dies during an operation, consolation money can be included in the ledger.

Since this is a consolation payment that is not delivered to the bereaved family, waste disposal is even economical.

I wonder if the superiors don’t know about this situation.

It was an operation to assassinate the pro-king.

If you succeed, you will be silenced; if you fail, you will be executed.

So, he is a painter.

Since they are going to kill them anyway, it is not a waste to burn them.

It’s convenient because you don’t have to bother executing them one by one.

However, not all of the country’s armies were like this.

There is a real army outside the fire zone.

Northern Army!

Strong, battle-hardened soldiers who fought against barbarians day after day in the north.

They are given proper martial arts skills, receive ample bonuses, a large amount of supplies, and receive significant additional points for their children’s success, making them extremely loyal.

They are one of the few soldiers in the central plains who can be said to be elite.

These soldiers are precious from the very beginning.

So, there is a fire prevention zone, behind the bare land where trees and leaves have been cleared and the ground has been plowed to prevent the fire from spreading. A real army that should not be on fire is ambushed.

There is no need to use chemical engineering.

Search and destroy operation?

What kind of search and extermination are they doing with the waste that they are trying to avoid, hide, and pass by because they can’t find even the slightest hint of military discipline?

Since it will be blown right through, this is no different from letting the enemy go.

However, there are not enough numbers to deploy the Northern Army, and they are valuable assets (this is important) of the country that could be repaid if lost.

But how convenient is it to light it on fire?

It is also good if it burns to death along with the waste.

Even if it survives, if you light it on three sides, it will pop out on one side anyway, so elite soldiers who are properly encamped can kill it.

Therefore, the soldiers within the fire line who loiter around and search the mountain, imitating patrolling, play a role similar to a kind of beacon or signal.

What if blood clots occur inside?

For whatever reason, whether it was joining up with a lost guard or an injured old man fighting to the death, it means that the prey has enough fighting power.

Then, no matter what the firebreak work is, you just have to start the fire.

Even if the fire spreads anyway, what’s the big deal if a little lowly thing burns to death?

The man wearing the gyedu helmet laughed.

“Start chemical engineering. Is it a westerly wind now?”

“Well, the feng shui master says that the north wind or southeast wind can blow.”

When the westerly wind blows, the days become warmer.

When the temperature rises like that, one of two things happens.

There are times when cold winds blow south from the North Sea, or, in rare cases, hotter winds blow north from the South Sea.

The Gyedu man burst out laughing.

“Southeast wind, hehe. I heard that the geomancer’s last name is Zhuge?”

It was an outright laugh.

In fact, the weather forecast in the primitive and ancient barbarian central plains is simply a collection of statistics accumulated through experience, so the accuracy rate is not very high.

(The same goes for Qing’s hometown, but the data is vast in many aspects and the calculations are excellent.)

“If you give me four more days, no, just three more days-”

The military general’s earnest plea was punctuated by Gye-du’s man.

“Do it now.”

“However, if the fire spreads, the people will suffer great damage. We protect the emperor’s people-”

“This guy!”

Puck, the head of the Gyedu man hits the general on the head.

The helmet flies in the sky due to a powerful blow, and the general stumbles and barely manages to regain his balance.

“Ha, you stupid bastard. You are the emperor’s army, and you do not protect the emperor’s people, but only the imperial family, the most precious in the world. Hey, magnetism. There you are.”

“Yes, Captain.”

“There’s a traitor over there right now. So what should the military do?”

“… … We must kill him.”

“Hmph. Because I was so soft-hearted, I expected him to be a great military leader, but it turns out that he won’t be able to become a great person. Is it because I come from a humble background?”

The general gritted his teeth.

Saying that you will not be able to become a big person was a declaration that your promotion ends here.

“Go and burn it. Thank goodness the traitor wasn’t hiding in the city. Because there was no need to burn down the city.”

“I will follow your orders.”

—-

Cheong, who was lying on his back and listening, suddenly saw a red light flickering at the edge of the sky.

Cheong was embarrassed.

what? Dawn? Did I doze off?

But why does dawn rise in the west?

Does the sun really rise in the west?

Is it because we live in the ancient, primitive, and uncivilized central plains that sometimes there is an event that catches me and causes the sun to rise in the west?

When talking about wind, the west wind does not mean the wind flowing towards the west, but the wind blowing from the west.

So, in the winter when the westerly wind blows, if you are going to use fire, you naturally light the fire in the west first.

There is a saying, Hwagwangchungcheon.

The phrase “light piercing the sky” refers to a large fire or similar force.

Cheung frowned, trying to focus, wondering what the hell this was all about, could this be the aurora he had only heard about?

And then not long after that.

ah. It’s on fire. forest fires.

hmm? It worked out well, didn’t it?

If you hide in a cave or something, or dig deep into the ground and hide.

The idea was that he was from the Qing Dynasty.

In Qing’s hometown, people do not live near mountains and forests, so they do not know how terrible a disaster forest fires are.

When a person is caught in a forest fire, their lungs are damaged by the hot air.

This hot air is more than twice as hot as boiling oil, so if you take a single breath, your airways and lungs will be cooked in an instant.

Meanwhile, the speed at which it spreads also varies depending on the wind, but can be the same as the speed of a running horse, or more than twice as fast in strong winds.

The people of Central Plains recognize the horror of these forest fires and call them the work of the devil, calling them fires.

If you hide in a cave, you will be found with steamed whole greens instead of greens, and even if it is a deep cave, there is not enough air to breathe, so you will drown outside the water.

Even if you dig and hide, you will end up with a Peking duck instead of a Peking duck.

“Yeonpa? It looks like there’s a forest fire right now.”

“What!? We need to run away, right now! Wang, Wang, you must wake up!”

When the lotus turned white, it shook Wangya violently and woke her up.

It was a scene where you could see how urgent and greatly embarrassed he was just by looking at him violently shaking the royal body of his beloved king.

“Yeonpa? Even if you don’t have to rush-”

“What are you talking about! Fire after fire, fire after fire!”

“Still far away-”

“You look like a poor girl! Fire comes faster than a steed’s trot! It’s coming in an instant! Wang, get on the cart right now!”

It was a small cart brought by the Qing Dynasty while robbing a temporary military camp.

Because of its side, it cannot carry people.

The moment the person carrying him shrinks his legs in surprise, Cheong will be unable to overcome the pain and will roll on the floor.

If it rolls while running at speed, the person carrying it will suffer at least minor injuries, and at worst serious injuries.

If you hold it forward, your hands will be tied, and if you hold it on your shoulders, you won’t be able to do any vigorous movements.

Because it will be a peculiar type of iron mountain that destroys the internal organs of the person wearing it over the shoulder.

Not even one, but two pieces of luggage.

If Cheong was fine, he would have been able to break through with one wrapped in swaddles on the back and the other in the front.

Then I saw a cart.

It was a small cart, about the same size, pulled by people collecting waste paper in Qing’s hometown.

Cheong looked at it and said, then, I can load the luggage over there and then I can drag it.

“Don’t be in a hurry and tie it well, because it might fall off. I have the freedom to lower my body as much as possible.”

“How can you be so carefree!”

“Wouldn’t something be done in a hurry?”

Cheong said, picking up the harness and putting it under my armpits above my chest and tightening it.

Well, there are a lot of obstacles along the way, so I don’t think I’ll have to go down and pinch my side.

But it’s a bit like that.

Human speech, can I make sense? Leave nice words. I hope Wanggungdung is doing well. I want to eat horses, horse meat, horse meat sashimi… … .

“Now, let’s go! Hurry up!”

“Hold on tight! The ox carriage at the top will shake a lot.”

So Cheong ran away.

Speaking of a woman pulling a cart with two people on board, it is an event that even the author and the medicine seller cannot take their eyes off of.

It is also like climbing a mountain, rushing up a rugged mountain slope.

If the world had seen it, they would have been willing to buy it without hesitation, saying it was a drug that would make a real anti-fighter.

Shut up and take my money! do.

—-

The weather forecast in Jungwon is poor.

It may rain or it may not.

Exact odds? Since it hasn’t rained much lately, it’s probably pretty high, right?

Or not. How can humans understand the will of heaven?

Therefore, feng shui practitioners make predictions in the widest possible range.

It’s a westerly wind right now, but it could be a northerly wind or a southeasterly wind, which could lead to rain, and although it’s not cold, there’s a good chance it could snow.

If you do this, no matter what you do, you will get one correct answer.

It was a way for feng shui masters to avoid responsibility.

Of course, because such shallow tricks do not work, when damage occurs due to a drought or a major typhoon, the feng shui masters are the first to resort to it.

However, the feng shui master should have used more imagination.

Because I didn’t say that the westerly winds could get stronger.

As the night deepens, the westerly wind suddenly emits a harsh whistling sound, which develops into a violent wind that shakes the forest.

If the wind is strong, the embers spread faster and farther.

Thus, the fallen leaves, filled with sparks and fire, were swirling around wildly, and they very easily jumped over the 10-foot-wide wasteland that the person had turned over with his meager strength.

This was the exact spot where the feng shui master claimed that it was vulnerable and that it had to be dug up.

Still, he was a feng shui master with a reputation for being quite brave.

The fire rises.

A huge fire horse rushes greedily.

—-

Tong, twang! bang!

A cart pulled by human power climbs the mountain at incredible speed.

It was more appropriate to say that the cart was flying rather than rolling.

Because the wheels spent much more time floating in the air than when they were on the ground.

The ratio was approximately one to nine, so it wouldn’t be wrong to say that the cart was just flying.

The young and old who rode the first flying cart in the Central Plains were very tired of the rough ride.

Jayu is fine, but he doesn’t know martial arts, and although he is an expert at kite, his body has multiple holes and torn and stitched wounds all over his body.

So, I had no choice but to hold on to the safety ropes attached to the cart and bounce around while trying to avoid being thrown off.

Still, I wear three coats and three hats, so I can withstand being bumped and bumped.

Inside the Cheongdo cart, I feel the movement of the luggage being thrown this way and that way.

“Be patient! Just up to the road above!”

Then, the left wheel steps on a large rock and floats upward, causing the cart to jump to the side.

Cheong gritted his teeth, raised his left hand to hold onto the support of the pack horse, and lowered it! Ribs! The three sisters with the muscles on their sides groaned! The base of the pelvis below is in the mountains! Better kill me! Argh!

In an instant, my left leg loses all its strength.

An inevitable physiological reaction.

Cheong gritted his teeth and stomped his right foot, one, two, three, four, five.

“Off… … ”

The blurry vision is not due to vision.

My vision is blurry due to the tears welling up without my knowledge due to the intense pain.

However, it is not a big problem as it is equally difficult to see whether it is cloudy or not.

So, if you cross just one small ridge, there is a long way, or at least a road where the cart does not shake –

“Run, run away!”

“The flames spread! Run away quickly!”

As soon as you cross the ridge, a horde of bandits running down the road and suspiciously high-quality fur clothing appear.