NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 185



Only Krnovel

NIS Agent Tears the Japanese Empire Episode 185

Anger (6)

All the army officers dispatched to Heungnam were arrested under Admiral Hara’s large-scale arrest warrant.

Except for two people.

“You missed two lieutenants?”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. According to what the sailors said, a monster suddenly appeared, knocked out all the sailors, and took two away… … .”

“What an idiot!”

Admiral Hara kicked his adjutant’s shin with all his might.

-Swish!

“100 million!”

The adjutant sat down, wrapping his arms around his shins.

“Do you think it makes sense to just ignore someone who showed up and interfered with something?”

“Ugh… … . I’m, I’m sorry… … . Ugh… … .”

“Tch!”

Admiral Hara was very disappointed that things had gone so wrong from the start.

‘It could have been easily finished… … . If it were to be like this, things would become difficult.’

But it wasn’t like there was no profit at all.

In any case, most of the army officers were under arrest here, and especially the story of the monster who beat up the sailors and saved the officer at the end gave him confidence.

‘The Ghost of Gyeongseong… … He’s alive.’

Admiral Hara had no doubt that the man was the Ghost of Gyeongseong.

I don’t know why he helped the army, but it must be a good thing.

I was planning to tie the two together anyway, so it would have been a good thing for Admiral Hara if they had waggled their tails first.

“All arrested criminals are to be locked up in the Mutsu Shipyard and closely monitored to prevent them from escaping.”

“Ugh… … . I understand, Your Majesty.”

“Tsk.”

Admiral Hara began writing a report to be sent home before the Army could even send a messenger to assess the situation.

The title of the report he was writing was about the suspicion of treason in the army.

* * *

Two army officers left for Hamheung.

We will probably arrive at the Japanese military headquarters in Hamheung by tomorrow morning at the latest.

‘Then, they will probably send a telegram or someone to find out the situation.’

Even though the Japanese military’s frontline generals tend to be somewhat reckless, both the army and navy have been cautious since the recent clashes in Tokyo.

So both sides will try to avoid direct armed conflict.

Admiral Hara also showed a somewhat hard-line stance, but he must have known well that shooting at each other would have a negative impact on his career, and General Kanno of Hamheung must have thought the same.

‘Anyone can think.’

Everyone thinks hard and thinks hard until they get hit.

But after getting hit by an opponent, the story is a bit different.

From then on, thoughts, excuses, and dogfights will begin.

‘First of all… … I have to cut off the army messenger coming to Heungnam and go in while putting pressure on Admiral Hara.’

First, all the telephone poles leading out of Heungnam were cut down.

The Navy paralyzed the fleet’s communications by preventing it from using telegraphs.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that their communication becomes completely impossible, and it’s not difficult to communicate with the outside world if you send people in a more traditional way.

Of course, this is assuming that I allow them to communicate.

‘Now let’s take it slow.’

The Navy bastards who interrupted Chang-sik and his father’s touching reunion will die without even knowing why they died, and there will be no honor or glory ahead of them.

They will be recorded as one of the greatest traitors within the Japanese Empire and will be pointed at for decades.

With that thought in mind, I retreated into the shadows of the alley again.

* * *

After a while.

“The telegram is dead?”

“That, that… … . Someone cut off all telegraph lines going out of Heungnam.”

“entire?”

“Yes, at first it seemed like the telegrams were getting slower and slower… …. At some point they were all cut off, so I sent someone to check, and they found that someone had cut off the entire telegraph.”

“hmm.”

Admiral Hara instinctively felt that this was the work of the Ghost of Gyeongseong.

‘He cut off all our communication lines.’

But I wasn’t too worried.

Just because you can’t send a telegram doesn’t mean you can’t communicate at all.

It was just a little slower, but we could communicate like before.

However, there is one thing I am worried about.

‘The Ghost of Gyeongseong, I don’t know what the hell he was planning to do to cut off his entire body.’

Even he wouldn’t think that blocking a telegram would cut off all communications in the fleet.

“First, I must send a messenger to the Joseon Army (Japanese Army) headquarters in Yongsan and inform them of the situation here.”

“Yes? Weren’t you planning on completely breaking away from the Army… …?”

“What do you mean? I arrested the army officer to catch the culprit who sank the Nagato, not to cause trouble for General Shinnosuke of Yongsan.”

“… … ?”

Admiral Hara’s adjutant thought that was it after all.

But the most important thing in politics is not to beat up your enemies indiscriminately, but to create chaos among them.

So, Admiral Hara’s actions now were intended to divide the Imperial Japanese Army, especially the units stationed in Korea, in two.

‘General Shinnosuke is currently in a situation where he has no choice but to watch what the mainland thinks due to various incidents and accidents.’

He wouldn’t want any new, troublesome problems to crop up.

So, if possible, there was a very high possibility that they would try to handle this incident quietly.

‘If we look at this situation from a larger perspective… … . It would be a way for the Army to clean up the situation by attributing it to General Kanno’s arbitrary thinking.’

It was so-called tail-cutting.

A lizard’s tail will grow back even if it is cut off, but if its body is cut off, it dies.

So, Admiral Hara’s judgment was that the army would also cut off the tail called Kanno.

‘Furthermore, right now Kanno is struggling to do anything about an armed group called the Korean Independence Army or something, so from the army’s perspective, it would be better to just let it slide, thinking that it was an incompetent guy colluding with the enemy.’

Everything was going according to Admiral Hara’s plan.

If things end successfully like this, Admiral Hara can blame all his mistakes on the Japanese Army and the ghosts of Keijo that they have joined hands with.

-Squeak.

That was until Mutsu’s main gun started moving.

“?”

“uh?”

Admiral Hara frowned and asked his adjutant.

“Why is the main gun moving?”

“That, that… … . Let’s look into it!”

“Tsk… … . How on earth did they manage the sailors?”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

Admiral Hara grew increasingly irritated by the deteriorating quality of his sailors as the days passed.

It was so vague that I couldn’t even remember when the last time these soldiers had obeyed orders was.

Just the fact that Nagato flew away right now is like that.

They are now blaming the army, but if you really look into it, isn’t the soldiers’ lack of awareness of safety the cause?

‘Once this matter is over, I should report to my superiors that we should have a period of large-scale mental strengthening for the entire fleet… … .’

Admiral Hara urged his adjutant in a loud voice.

“What are you doing? You should hurry up and call the gunner and go down there yourself and scold the sailors!”

“Yes, yes!”

-bang!

At that moment, the 16-inch main gun of the Mutsu, the pride of the Empire of Japan, opened fire with a magnificent roar.

The impact was so great that the ship rocked for a moment.

“?!”

Admiral Hara quickly glanced at the gunfire schedule posted on the wall.

But there was no plan to fire cannons today.

In other words, it was someone’s deliberate shelling.

“aide!”

-bang!

The problem is that it wasn’t just one shot.

The 16-inch main gun of the Mutsu, the pride of the Empire of Japan, continued to fire.

Anyone watching from afar would have exclaimed in admiration at the magnificent sight that stimulated a man’s romantic fantasies, but Admiral Hara, watching from up close, simply turned pale.

“Father, adjutant… … .”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

“Right now… … Where is this cannon aimed?”

“If it’s this direction… … it’s Hamheung!”

“Hamheung? Where in Hamheung are you aiming at!”

“I’m also good at that… … .”

At that moment, Admiral Hara’s hair stood on end as he scolded his adjutant.

“Right now… … . Go and find out right now.”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

* * *

A little while ago.

Just as the Republic of Korea has Cheolsu, Yeonghee, and Baduki, the Empire of Japan has Nagato and Mutsu.

And Sato, the gunner of the battleship Mutsu, which was in charge of Mutsu and the pride of the Empire of Japan, immediately tilted his head at the order that came down from above.

“Your Majesty has ordered the firing of cannons?”

“Yes, they say the sailors who were sent up to land missed the two rats and that’s why things went wrong.”

“Huh… … . It looks like the kids aren’t handling things properly.”

“So the admiral said that since he had already drawn his sword, he could not put it back in its sheath without cutting anything, and ordered the army in Hamheung to fire cannons.”

“What?! Shoot our own troops? Did the Admiral really give such an order?”

Sato’s two eyes shook.

No matter how crazy Admiral Hara is right now, he still wouldn’t be at the level of ordering us to attack our own forces.

“To be exact, he asked us to be very careful because the quality of sailors these days is not good, so there may be ‘misfire’ during the support fire heading to Hamheung.”

“hmm…….”

Hearing it this way, it seemed like a plausible order.

In any case, this was not an order to openly attack the army, but rather an order to be careful of the possibility of friendly fire.

“I will now call out the coordinates.”

However, the problem is that the coordinates given by the soldier who brought the captain’s orders were not those of downtown Hamheung, but rather coordinates slightly further west.

“Isn’t that a friendly base?”

“I don’t know. When the higher-ups give orders, I just follow them.”

“Hmm… … I guess I’ll have to check with the bridge.”

Sato opened the Jeonseikan.

Then, the soldier who had come to convey the admiral’s orders shook his head and stopped Sato.

“A few officers were scolded by the admiral for missing two little rats just a moment ago.”

“Um… … Is the Admiral very angry?”

“Yes, he was very angry.”

Upon hearing that Admiral Hara was very angry, Sato closed the Seiseikan again.

That’s because he was afraid of what would be said if he asked the bridge to reconfirm the order while the admiral was angry.

This would not be a problem in an ordinary military, but it could be a problem within the Japanese military.

“Okay… … . Well, I guess it’s okay.”

Sato gave up thinking.

Anyway, since it is the Admiral’s order, he will take responsibility.

The secret to surviving in the military for a long time is to just do what you’re told, rather than getting beaten up and getting cursed at for asking questions for no reason.

“Orders have come from the bridge! All guns ready to fire!”

The gunner gave the order right away.

Then, the turret of the battleship Mutsu, which was in charge of Mutsu and Nagato, the pride of the Empire of Japan, turned.

The gunner gave the coordinates, and the officers in charge of each turret immediately calculated and corrected the firing angle of the turret.

And soon after, word came that all the turrets were ready to fire.

“Okay! The first shot is fired on my command, and after that, it’s free fire.”

Sato shouted at Jeon Seong-kwan.

“Shoot!”

The ship rocked slightly and a loud gunshot sound was heard.

“after…….”

Sato finished his work and turned around with a light sigh.

“I think it’s my first time seeing you. Are you the new soldier assigned to the bridge…?”

But there was no one there.

There was definitely a soldier who came from the bridge a little while ago.

“You disappeared before your superior could even speak… …?”

Sato sighed at the level of the sailors.

“Everyone is so disorganized… … . Tsk.”

Even as he clicked his tongue, Mutsu’s main gun continued to pour out shells somewhere without stopping.