NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 223



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NIS Agent Tears the Japanese Empire Episode 223

A tall man leaves home and never returns (8)

-Tudadadada!!!

-Red! It’s red!

“Red?!”

-Kuaaaah!!!

Captain Nagumo, who was commanding the unit, was greatly embarrassed by the sudden enemy attack.

“Damn… … . It looks like the enemy noticed.”

Gunshots could be heard from all directions, along with the sound of someone being shot and killed.

-mother…….

-Matsushida! Come to your senses!

-I miss my mother… … .

-Matsushida!!!

At first glance, it sounded like his unit was exposed to enemy fire.

So it sounded like our troops were being killed indiscriminately.

“Damn it! Advance forward! Take out that machine gun position quickly… …?”

Captain Nagumo noticed something strange.

Clearly, gunshots could be heard from all directions, the sound of someone dying, and occasionally, a voice calling someone’s name in despair.

But… … . I raised my head and looked around, and something was strange.

‘The soldiers… … are okay?’

First of all, the soldiers were fine.

Just by listening to the sound, it sounded like about a dozen people had already been shot and killed, but when I looked around, I couldn’t see even a single drop of blood on the pure white snow.

There, even at the machine gun positions, it was so peaceful that you wouldn’t think a battle was in full swing.

No, to begin with, I doubted whether he would even shoot a gun.

“Captain! It’s dangerous!”

“Dangerous? What is dangerous about this?”

The machine gun positions were silent.

“… … When did we finally subdue the enemy camp?”

“yes?”

Captain Nagumo raised his crouching subordinate and made him look around.

“There were so many gunshots, but no one has been shot yet.”

“uh…….”

-Tuda dadada!

And the gunshots were still ringing out.

But the machine gun positions that should have been busy firing bullets were silent.

“Uh… … . What’s going on?”

“Whew… … Tell the soldiers to remain on alert and go up to the base.”

“Oh, yeah.”

But despite his orders, the soldiers flinched at the sound of gunfire and could not move, so Captain Nagumo took the lead and climbed the hill.

And then he sighed deeply when he saw the crudely constructed machine gun emplacement and the blackened logs that were used as machine gun stands.

“Haa… … Are you trying to trick us with this?”

“Ha, but the gunshots were so realistic.”

“shot?”

Captain Nagumo picked up something round from where the gunshots were heard.

Even now, from the small object that fit perfectly in his hand, he could hear the loud sound of gunfire and someone shouting his comrade’s name in a boiling voice.

It was as if he held the battlefield in his hands.

“Hey, Captain, what is that?”

“I don’t know either.”

Nagumo looked around the mysterious sound box.

Then I discovered some English written on the bottom of the box and read it without realizing it.

“Shoo… … ?”

-Ah, can you hear me?

As Captain Nagumo was trying to read the trademark, he heard a voice he had never heard before.

As expected, the voice came from a small box.

“?!”

Nagumo reflexively dropped the sound box and immediately drew his pistol.

-Hey you little punk! That thing is worth more than your body! Handle it nicely!

Suddenly, Nagumo heard a voice scolding him, and he scolded the sound box in return.

“Who are you! Who are you to deceive us with such a crude device?!”

-Who would it be? Of course, it’s the independence army.

“Independence Army… …?”

-Just take two steps back and look down.

Captain Nagumo glanced back.

Then his subordinate quickly stood two steps behind him and dug out the snow.

and.

-Click.

“Sir, there’s something strange here… … .”

“Get off me! Get off me!”

-bang!!!

A large explosion occurred before Nagumo’s eyes, and his body was thrown backwards.

At the same time.

“Commence firing!”

-Tudadadada!!!

The soldiers who had been hiding in the snow emerged and began shooting indiscriminately at the defenseless Japanese soldiers.

Unlike most Japanese soldiers, most of whom were armed with regular rifles, they were all armed with rapid-fire weapons, allowing them to unleash devastating firepower in an instant.

“Kwaaaaak!”

“Take cover! Take cover!”

“Ahhh! Eww!!”

There was chaos as everyone was running around in confusion as bullets rained down on the Japanese soldiers who were in the enemy’s direct line of sight on a snow-covered mountain with no cover whatsoever.

“Uh, what should I do?”

“Retreat! We must retreat for now!”

“What about the company commander?!”

“I don’t know either! Let’s retreat for now!”

The Japanese army, suddenly attacked by the independence army, ran straight down the mountain, and the place they passed by was dyed red.

Many Japanese soldiers fell to the ground, blood splattered on the ground, and the snow-covered mountains soon turned red.

“Ugh… … .”

Even in the midst of all this, Captain Nagumo, who was caught in the explosion and rolled down the mountainside, was fortunately still alive.

“There… … . There’s no one… … . Keuk!”

Captain Nagumo felt a strange sensation as if water was rising up from his chest along with a great pain every time he breathed.

“Ugh… …. Are your ribs broken?”

Captain Nagumo tried to force himself up, but it wasn’t as easy as it sounds.

“Ugh!”

I tried to get up while leaning against the tree, but my strength suddenly gave out and I slipped.

Buried in such cold snow, I couldn’t even move a finger and was just buried like a corpse.

‘Am I going to die like this?’

Now I couldn’t even hear the sound.

Captain Nagumo’s eyes gradually closed.

‘The life of a soldier who dies on the battlefield isn’t so bad… … .’

That’s what I thought, but it was too unfair to close my eyes like that.

‘I was tricked by the enemy and ended up like this… …!’

At that moment, a soldier in a yellow uniform was seen running from afar.

At that moment, Captain Nagumo, who had regained hope in life, opened his mouth, mustering up the last of his strength.

“There… … ! Who… … ! Hey… … !”

At his screaming shout, the soldier who had been running far away stopped and ran towards him.

‘Okay! I’m alive!’

Captain Nagumo smiled at the thought that he had finally survived, but… …. The opponent was not the being he had imagined.

“What? One of them is still alive?”

“… … ?”

“Um… … . Let’s see… … .”

“What the heck is this… … !”

Captain Nagumo lightly shouted at the soldier trying to search through his belongings and tried to push him away, but all the strength in his body had already left him and he could only struggle without being able to move properly.

“Oh, hold on tight, Nagumo… … Captain?”

“Ugh… … . Is this how His Majesty the Emperor’s army should act… … !”

“Who are you calling His Majesty the Emperor’s army?”

-Keep going.

“Kuaaaah!!!”

The soldier picked at Captain Nagumo’s wounds as if nothing had happened.

“You see? This is what happens when you play with your mouth carelessly.”

Captain Nagumo squeezed out his last bit of strength in excruciating pain.

“Ugh… … . Who are you… … .?”

“Who am I?”

In response to his question, the soldier smiled and pulled out the greatsword from his waistband.

“You don’t need to know.”

* * *

“Your Majesty, the vanguard company that was advancing to capture the high ground… … .”

“The unit that climbed the eastern ridge received support… … .”

“The unit that had advanced to occupy the position was defeated… … .”

Lieutenant General Ishimitsu, commander of the 1st Division, the first division created in the Imperial Japanese Army and a pride of the Army along with the Guards Division, placed his hand on his forehead as news of defeat poured in from all sides.

“You lost everything?”

Ishimitsu asked his staff again with a dejected expression.

“Unable to neutralize the enemy’s positions… … . Is this to say that the Imperial Japanese Army was defeated by these country bumpkins?”

“That, that… … .”

But the truth was more shocking than that.

“What?! Jinjin never existed in the first place!!!”

“… … And the enemy camp across the river turned out to be a military police outpost.”

“The military police… … . Then, then… … .”

“… … A shootout broke out there, killing five people and wounding three.”

“her…….”

We fell completely for the enemy’s deception.

“The scout who came looking for us at first… … He tricked us… …!”

“I think so… … .”

“… … .”

Ishimitsu held down the baton tightly and poured out his anger that had nowhere to go.

“That damn scout… … Where is he now?”

“… … It seems that he has already escaped since he has not been seen in the barracks.”

“He’s quick.”

At that moment, a person appeared in Ishimitsu’s mind.

This is a character from a novel that I have seen countless times in the mainland and Joseon.

“… … The Ghost of Gyeongseong.”

“The Ghost of Gyeongseong… … Are you talking about that?”

“Yeah, it’s definitely him.”

Only then did Ishimitsu understand what the 19th Division Commander he had met in Joseon had said.

“It’s the ghost of Gyeongseong! I’m sure of it.”

“Huh? Did such a person really exist?”

“You didn’t even know that?”

“Uh… … Wasn’t that just the protagonist of a novel serialized in the Chosun Ilbo?”

“This is driving me crazy.”

Ishimitsu’s staff had always thought that the Chosun Ilbo was a new magazine created in Korea.

It couldn’t be helped, because when Namgung Hoon took over as president again, he carried out a major reorganization of the Chosun Ilbo, changing the newspaper into a small booklet format and including serialized novels and poetry selected from contests as the main content.

And since all sorts of advertisement pages were inserted between the serial novel and the newspaper article, most people only read the serial novel part and put the rest on the bookshelf or threw it away, so not many people read the newspaper article part at the end.

Since most newspaper articles were about domestic news in Joseon, Japanese readers only had a quick glance at the international section where their country’s news was published.

That’s why I thought that the occasional news about the ghosts of Gyeongseong that made the front page of the newspaper was just the beginning of a new serial novel.

Among them, there were even cases where people sent letters to the Chosun Ilbo asking when the novel “Ghost of Gyeongseong” would be officially serialized.

“It seems like the Governor-General’s bastards are trying their best to prevent the news from spreading to the mainland.”

“Ah… … . Well… … . If that’s all true… … .”

“Tch. I knew he’d be here.”

There were already a lot of things to worry about, but now there are more things to worry about.

“As of now, we are strengthening security. Change the password every hour, and contact the military police to ask them to provide some support for unit surveillance personnel.”

“Your Majesty, I know it may be presumptuous of you to ask this, but wouldn’t that just increase the soldiers’ fatigue?”

“It’s better to fight a little tired than to fall down dead in a strange place before even starting a battle!”

Lieutenant General Ishimitsu, who had already been badly injured once, was on edge.

“Your Majesty, then what should we say to the 14th Division?”

“what!”

“No, that… … . If we attack the main base, we’ll send a signal to attack over there… … .”

“… … .”

Ishimitsu thought.

The enemy’s positions were fake.

Rather, the friendly forces suffered just as much damage as the troops hiding there.

Why did the enemy do this?

‘Are you trying to kill time?’

Yes, that’s right.

This is a delay.

It was a pitiful effort by the Bulyeongseon people to buy time to escape by tying up their own ankles.

His thoughts flowed in one direction naturally, as if a stream had opened up.

Then, is Ha Sam-bong’s independence army real?

‘We don’t need to check it ourselves, do we?’

Ishimitsu gave the order right away.

“Tell Asakuno that the enemy threat has been eliminated and to attack Hasambong with caution.”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

Ishimitsu thought that there was a high probability that the enemy in Hasambong was fake.

But he couldn’t just say out loud that he was embarrassed, so he added a word to save face.

“In addition… … . The enemy’s resistance is expected to be fierce, so if possible, convey that you should operate your units with caution.”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”