NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 135



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The nature of infantry (7)

winter.

Winter is cold.

It gets even colder as snow starts to fall outside and a cold wind starts to blow.

The Korean Peninsula has one of the highest annual temperature differences in the world.

If we had to pick the most fucked up place among them, everyone, without exception, would pick Hamgyeong Province.

The winters in Hamgyeong Province were that harsh.

In the face of the blizzard that swept through Hamgyong Province, there was nothing that could not move, including people and animals.

“Ugh… … It’s really cold.”

“Hey Kato! Bring me some more firewood!”

“The one you just put in was the last one, right?”

“You already used it all up?”

“Ugh… … I’m going crazy. Hurry up and put something more in! The embers are already dying!”

It was a cold that they experienced every year, but it was also a cold that the Japanese soldiers could not get used to.

The soldiers and officers, except for those on duty, were all sitting around the fireplace with their blankets over their heads, trying to keep the cold away.

“Ugh… … . This damn cold.”

“Hey, this place is, they say, at least a place where people can live. They say that if you go out to the north and pee, you’ll get frostbite.”

“Once I finish this shift, I have to beg to be transferred to Taiwan right away… … . Ugh… … . It’s really so cold.”

I was really curious about how the Korean people here lived in this cold weather.

“Ugh. Hey! Go get some more wood from outside!”

“What do you do with trees in this weather?”

“I will do what you tell me to do, but I have too much to say!”

The snowstorm in Hamgyeong Province was not eternal.

As with all things, if there is a beginning there will be an end.

The snowstorm that had been blowing all day finally died down around dawn.

The weather was still cold, but since there was no wind, there were still a few people walking around.

“It’s so cold that my ears feel like they’re going to fall off.”

“Be quiet, man.”

“Brrrrrrr… … Can you light a fire?”

“What if I get caught by that crazy guy Abe? You know his personality.”

The junior who had been whining about being cold while on duty muttered the name of the Ghost Army Commander, who was famous in Hamheung for his foul personality, and muttered something.

“But it’s still so cold… … .”

Then, the senior who was working with me pointed to a dark place and said.

“If it’s really cold, don’t just stay still. Go and check if the barbed wire fence around the base is properly secured.”

“… … Am I the only one talking?”

“Then, shall we go together and leave the base entrance empty?”

The successor glanced into the pitch-black darkness for a moment and then took a deep breath.

“I’ll just finish my work.”

“I guess so?”

After standing there for a while without saying a word, my skin started to itch.

Eventually, the senior, unable to bear the boredom any longer, revealed the number one thing that Forbes ranked as the thing that juniors hate to hear from seniors while working.

“Hey, do you have any interesting stories?”

“Huh? Did I mishear you?”

“Don’t you have any funny stories, you punk?”

“This, this story… … is not there!”

“Ha, what should I do with this kid? Do you have a lover?”

“doesn’t exist!”

“X-Pal, then what was fun during your school days?”

“I only graduated from elementary school, and I just followed my father around and farmed, so even during my school days… … .”

“I’m going to go back.”

The junior desperately tried to think of something to talk about when he saw his senior looking like he was going to be called to the back of the restaurant right after work.

“Ah, ahhhh!! Oh, by the way, when I was out on patrol in the city a while ago, I heard an interesting story at a tavern!”

“At the tavern?”

His life was extended a little bit as his senior showed interest.

“Yes, this area used to be a place where tigers, leopards, and wolves would run around like it was their own home. Maybe that’s why, but they used to come down the mountain at night and bite people.”

“Huh, that’s really creepy.”

“I think so too.”

The successor put all his effort into making up a story.

In fact, the story he heard at the inn was only about a tiger that once came down, bit people, and ran away into the mountains.

However, he drew the admiration of his superior by telling an incredible story about a poor charcoal merchant who lost his father at an early age, went to the village to sell charcoal for a short time, and his entire family became food for tigers, so he later became a tiger hunter.

“Hey… … . Did something like that really happen?”

“It is just one of the tales that can be commonly heard in Joseon.”

“Tiger hunter… … .”

It seemed as if the senior had become completely obsessed with the tiger hunter, as he suddenly began to aim his rifle here and there and started to gain weight.

“They say that Joseon tiger skins are expensive because they are large and their skin is shiny. I wish I could catch just one.”

“That’s true. Private Lee Ji-chi, you’re a good shooter, aren’t you?”

“Yeah, our youngest knows a thing or two.”

“lol…….”

The senior, who felt happy about his junior’s praise, waved his gun around excitedly and showed off.

“If a tiger appears in front of me… … .”

The senior’s gun was pointed at the junior.

“bread!”

“Eek!”

Although it was just a word, the successor was so startled that he fell on his butt.

“Haha, don’t be scared, you little punk. How are you going to get through this tough military life when you’re so scared of men?”

“If you suddenly point your gun at me like that, even a tiger would be surprised… … .”

“Ugh, you cowardly little punk. Stop that and continue with what you were saying earlier.”

“What are you talking about?”

“You said that every time a tiger comes down the mountain, there is some kind of omen.”

“Oh, that’s right. When a tiger comes down from the mountain on a dark night, they say you can see something sparkling in the night, like a firework in the sky.”

“Really? Like that?”

The senior pointed to a twinkling light on a nearby mountainside.

“Uh… … . It seems similar.”

“Really? That’s right… … .”

The senior raised his gun and aimed it at the foot of the mountain where the lights were twinkling.

“And what else?”

“Uh… … . And… … . They say that tigers, although they are as big as tile-roofed houses, walk more gracefully than neighborhood cats.”

“So you’re saying there are no footsteps?”

The senior watched the flames getting closer and closer, focusing all his attention on them and preparing to fire at any moment.

At that moment, his finger was gently pulling the trigger, as if he was about to shoot the gun at any moment.

“?”

Suddenly the light disappeared.

“Youngest. The light went out?”

“Is that so?”

“yo. this?”

The senior turned around and scolded the junior’s foolish voice.

“Whew. Youngest. When on earth will you… … .”

The successor’s head cracked open like a watermelon.

His entire face was blown off above his lower jaw, as if someone had planted a bomb in his head and then detonated it.

-dump.

“… … ?”

The senior shook the body of the junior who had fallen to the floor a couple of times, but each time, blood only poured out from the junior’s lower jaw.

Perhaps he would never forget this sight until the moment he died.

-bang!

And at that moment, a loud noise pierced through the silence of dawn.

The sound sounded like the roar of a tiger coming down from the mountain to bite someone.

He was so frightened by the roar of the giant mountain range that he felt the blood in his body freeze.

I couldn’t move my limbs very well, as if they weren’t mine, and I felt pain even when I was just breathing still.

“Alarm… … . The alarm must be sounded… … .”

But the shock was there, and he had to do what he had to do, so he groped and grabbed the bell string hanging from the guard post.

No, I thought I had caught it.

“Hey Malsuk.”

“?”

His head naturally turned as he heard Korean spoken from somewhere.

Soon, someone swung a club and hit me square in the head, sending me spinning to a point where I couldn’t physically turn around.

The senior, who had been spinning around as if he wanted to meet all the children in the world, died right there.

“after…….”

Captain Hong, who had successfully subdued the outpost, signaled by turning the flashlight on and off several times.

Then, the independence army soldiers who were camouflaged in the snowfield with only their eyes exposed and hoods and masks rushed in.

“We will also subdue the other outposts.”

“Okay, from now on, we are in the middle of enemy territory, so all weapons are permitted to be used.”

“yep.”

Captain Hong roughly pulled the bolt of the Gyeongseong No. 1 he was holding in his hand, finished loading it, and spoke to the platoon leaders who were looking at him.

“Kill everyone except those who raise both hands and surrender.”

“Should we take prisoner the guy who surrenders?”

“Yeah, I have to hold on and do that ‘thing’ I always do.”

“Ah, you mean ‘that’.”

There were a few explosions and shouts coming from a military base on the outskirts of Hamheung, and then it became as quiet as a mouse.

And the next morning.

The soldiers who returned from a wild night out in the city saw the Taegeukgi flag hanging inside the base and became very angry at the soldiers on guard.

“Hey! The flag is hung wrong!”

But the answer I got back was amazing.

[What is he saying again??]

[I don’t know. He seems like an officer, but let’s catch him first.]

“You little punk… … .”

The officer, who was in the midst of his rage, realized that something was wrong, but it was already too late.

-puck!

As the heavy fist sank into his stomach, the officer’s back arched like a bow, and he fell forward again, spitting out the traces of the previous night of madness on the ground.

“Ugh!”

“What are you doing now!”

“I know who this person is… … .”

Other soldiers tried to protect the officer and rush at the sentries, but the soldiers silently aimed their guns and pulled the triggers.

2 seconds.

It took a while for the commotion at the entrance to settle down.

20 minutes.

This is the time it took for the Korean Independence Army Special Forces commanded by General Kim Gyeong-cheon to clear out the Japanese regiment stationed in Hamheung.

“Are you done, Captain Hong?”

General Kim Gyeong-cheon asked Captain Hong, who was commanding the soldiers moving the body.

“It’s over. It’s just beginning.”

“I see.”

* * *

“Ha! I… … . I’m like these people who just leave.”

Just as a sparrow cannot pass by a mill without doing anything, I could not pass by the Sparrow Tea House without doing anything today either. As usual, I ordered a cup of tea and fiddled with the regular report of the Governor-General that I had glanced at in the morning.

But there were more than a few interesting things in today’s report.

“The independence army launched a surprise attack on Hamheung and occupied it.”

As an investor, it is a very welcome thing when the target of my investment performs as well as I invested.

But I didn’t want to cause such a big accident.

“And the 77th Regiment of the Japanese Army, which was moving south from Pyongyang, is said to be engaging in combat with armed police at the Imjin River… … .”

The fact that this news was included in the Governor-General’s report meant that the Governor-General was aware that the independence army had entered Hamgyeong Province.

However, instead of reconciling with the Joseon army (Japanese army) and fighting against the independence army, they went straight into battle with the Joseon army.

“Are they really crazy?”

If only we could both bow our heads and swallow our pride a little, we could overcome this crisis, but it seems like neither of us has any intention of doing so.

“Will Commander Shinnosuke hear news from the north soon? No… … . It’s winter now, so transportation in the north will be difficult, so news will be delayed.”

Since the entire Joseon army, including Commander Shinnosuke, is currently focusing all of its energy on the decisive battle with the Government-General, it will be quite some time before this news is relayed to the army, and by then… … .

“The 20th Division must have disappeared without a trace.”

“?”

“lol.”

When I looked around, Sasaki, who had approached me without me noticing, was sticking his head out and smiling.

“Oh, Inspector Sasaki. Long time no see?”

“It’s been a long time, but I saw you yesterday… … .”

“So, did you bring what I asked you to bring?”

“Oh, if you mean the sample banknote from last time. Here it is.”

Sasaki placed a large suitcase on the table, struggling with one good arm.

-Wow!

At the same time, the Madame’s precious set of teacups on the table was mercilessly smashed.

“… … .”

“Why, why are you doing that?”

“I don’t know.”

“yes?”

“What the heck is this… … .”

At that moment, Madame came out of the kitchen, wiping the water off her hands on her apron, at the sound of the loud noise, and soon witnessed the horrific scene of the disaster with her own eyes.

A moment of silence.

During that gap, I quickly took money out of my pocket, placed it on the table, packed my suitcase, and left the teahouse without looking back.

“Madam, the tea was delicious! I’ll come again next time!”

Thanks to the experience and quick judgment of the professional agent, I was able to avoid disaster by a hair’s breadth.

“Whew… …. Mission accomplished.”

NIS Agent Tears the Japanese Empire Episode 136