Republic of Korea in Yeokcheon - Chapter 33



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#33. To see FDR.

– Uncle Sam in Washington to General Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces.

Are you saying you’re coming to America? when? how?

What on earth do you mean you are riding here?

– General Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, to Uncle Sam in Washington.

There is an airplane.

Departs on July 23, 1944, Washington time.

We ask for your cooperation in this regard.

1. We are scheduled to arrive at the recently created Saipan airfield.

2. Prepare the highest grade kerosene available.

3. Please ask Uncle Sam for flights from Saipan. If possible, please use a B-29 with a pressurization system.

– Uncle Sam in Washington to General Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces.

oh my god!

Are you crazy?

Are you going to get to Saipan through a place still swarming with Japanese fighter planes?

Let’s study a safer route.

– General Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, to Uncle Sam in Washington.

Our plane can also fly at altitudes of over 30,000 feet.

And very quietly.

You can safely reach Saipan by flying at high speeds and altitudes at night.

One more thing I would like to ask you to do is, just in case, please tell us not to attack any planes headed to Saipan at that time.

– Uncle Sam in Washington to General Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces.

If so, you are safe.

We will prepare everything you requested.

I hope to see you soon.

“Who are you taking with you?”

“I’ll just go with Lieutenant Colonel Hong. “There are a total of six people, including two military doctors and two nursing officers.”

“Would you like to take some more with you?”

“There’s no need for that, and we have to go around the dangerous area where the Japanese kids are to get to Saipan, which puts a strain on the transport plane. “In particular, we are in a situation where we have to use counterfeit aviation fuel when returning.”

“Whew! I can’t help it. “Are you good at English?”

“Why are you doing this? Do you think I came from the Combined Forces Command to hang out? And I was originally good at English. “You said you failed to get overseas training at West Point?”

“You fell anyway, right?”

“Dude, that happened because the head boy applied!”

“Hehehe! All right. calm down.”

As Lee Kang-cheol said, English is almost essential to rise to the top of a general in the Korean military.

Due to the important nature of joint ROK-US operations, English education itself is heavily required, and opportunities to learn it naturally are provided when working overseas or at the ROK-US Combined Forces Command.

“What are the trends in the Kwantung Army?”

“The movement is definitely unusual. “It was confirmed that several divisions close to the Yalu River were shaking in Busan.”

“When do you think it will happen?”

“These guys have been moving very slowly for a long time. “I think it will take more than 10 days to reach the Yalu River.”

“If you approach me even before I return, you will take care of it.”

“That’s natural.”

“What about the sea or the sky?”

“I am spending my time diligently. Well, it looks like you never get tired. More than 50 fighter jets that have been sortied from mainland Japan have already been shot down. “It wasn’t until yesterday and today that things became a little quiet.”

“What about the trap?”

“Several flyers consisting of a patrol ship and a destroyer approached and were harpooned by K9. Oh, one destroyer was hit by a harpoon while running away.”

“Just leave the thing running away alone. “Why did you hold on to it so wastefully?”

“Even if I didn’t do that, I said something to the 6th Brigade commander.”

“Unless someone like Yamato comes, I tell them to deal with all Japanese ships approaching our coast with K9.”

Currently, the coastal defense of the ROK Armed Forces is unusually equipped with K9 self-propelled howitzers.

The Japanese Navy’s destroyers and patrol ships have a short range of main guns, so K9 self-propelled guns with long ranges can easily hit and neutralize them from a long distance by receiving target coordinates through Albatross and coastal radar and calculating the direction and movement speed with a shooting computer. Because.

Therefore, the use of surface-to-surface ship Harpoon and Haeseong anti-ship missiles was refrained from being used whenever possible in preparation for a full-scale invasion by the Japanese Navy.

The next day, July 21st, at 10 am.

The first civil-military joint meeting was held in the headquarters conference room, presided over by Commander-in-Chief Lee Kang-cheol.

“Everyone is having a hard time. “The living environment is poor, and I am embarrassed to have to endure such heavy work.”

“Ha ha ha ha ha!”

“It’s okay, Commander.”

“Yes, if we work hard for just a few years, we will allow you to live as close as possible, if not as long as before, so let’s work hard a little more.”

Currently, most civilians are renting out the entire Peninsula Hotel and Chosun Hotel in Sogong-dong, and although the two hotels are said to be the best hotels of their time, there is no way they could meet the expectations of people living in modern times.

So, everyone who came with their families left their families at the camp in Ganggye.

Although the Ganggye camp was a bit cramped, everything was adapted to modern life.

“And as already announced, there is an organizational reorganization. “Justice Kim Ho-jin, please excuse me, but please stand for a moment.”

“yes”

“As you know, Chief Justice Kim Ho-jin is the person with the most experience and wealth of knowledge and experience among the civilians in our expeditionary force. Since our expeditionary force organization has now become an organization that has to govern a national organization with over 24 million people, we thought that expansion and reorganization was inevitable and that more experienced adults were needed, so after much consideration and difficulty, we recruited them. Therefore, I appoint Justice Kim Ho-jin as the Minister of Political Affairs, who oversees the judiciary and administration other than the military commander. Mr. Secretary General for Political Affairs, please ask me from now on.”

“I will do my best to assist the Commander-in-Chief and help the country get back on its feet as soon as possible.”

“Wow wow wow!”

Clap clap clap!

Lee Kang-cheol continued to present sculptures.

The Minister of Administration became Kim In-ho, the Director of the National Intelligence Service became Cho Tae-hyun, and the rest of the departments retained the people who were originally heads of the relevant departments.

In addition, the head of the court was decided to be Kang Jeong-su, who was the chief judge of the High Court in Hyundai, and this was a case where he took the courage to join because of his family.

Eventually, Lee Kang-cheol, who had finished presenting the sculpture, opened his mouth again.

“It’s a job you’ve all been doing for a long time, and you’ve been reviewing it continuously at the cave camp, so I’m confident you’ll do a good job. However, as commander-in-chief, I would like to give you a few words of advice.”

“…”

“First, the Republic of Korea in this era is really lacking. The food situation is poor, health and sanitation conditions are very poor, and the level of education is embarrassing. It would be better to consider the literacy rate. And industrial infrastructure? Railroads and ports are at least basic, but these are also at a miserable level in the eyes of those of us who have lived in modern times. That’s right. This country now lacks everything and is ravaged by war. Do you understand? “Is this the current state of the country we will live in in the future?”

“…”

“Is that why you are so absorbed in it? Absolutely not. No, wouldn’t this be a much better situation compared to what arose from the ashes of the Korean War in the past?”

“you’re right!”

“That’s right. I believe in the power of our people. I believe in the quality of our people, and I believe in our people’s fierce passion for education. Also, I believe in the diligence and sincerity of our people. Just 10 years! Within 10 years, we will be able to create a country that is no less than the Western powers, and within 20 years, we will be able to create a country that is rich and strong that no one can ignore. And to achieve those goals, it takes dedication and hard work on your part. please! Let’s suffer together for just 10 years. “Would you please do that?”

“What is 10 years? “I will suffer for 20 years.”

“Ha ha ha ha ha!”

Someone burst into laughter at his answer.

“ha ha ha! thank you “I will definitely repay your efforts and dedication within the legal level.”

“You must keep that promise!”

“ha ha ha! Yes, I will definitely keep it. And secondly, we are modern people. It’s really very different from the people of the 1940s. “They have different physiques and appearances, and they are armed with modern knowledge to the point that even the most ordinary person among us can defeat a scholar of our time.”

“…”

“Do you know why I am telling you this? In the future, you will have to work with many Koreans from the 1940s. It will be frustrating. That would also be incredibly frustrating. Moreover, the structure of consciousness? In this day and age, it’s a happy world where a woman doesn’t get her ears slapped even if she walks around with only her calves exposed. There will be a lot of bumps and collisions. Does that mean we are a superior new human race? no. We’re just from the future. And those who are so frustrated are not strangers. These are our grandfathers and grandmothers. Let’s acknowledge differences, but don’t ignore them or abuse them. I don’t think it’s really true that people ignore other people. “Would you please do that?”

“All right.”

“Thank you.”

Lee Kang-cheol drank water and opened his mouth again.

“Finally, I would like to say once again what I have repeatedly asked you to do. Please do not leak modern knowledge carelessly. All modern technology and knowledge will be controlled by our Expeditionary Command and Government and used only when necessary. Uncontrolled outflow of knowledge and technology is bound to bring about unintended variables. Our expeditionary force command and government will never tolerate such a thing. Modern knowledge can make you rich, but I hope you don’t get caught up in it. “That rich man, I will make it for you.”

“You must keep that promise too!”

“ha ha ha! you’re right! “Let us all become rich!”

“Thank you.”

This has already been agreed upon after several discussions at the cave camp.

A total of 15,582 members of the expeditionary force, civilians, and military decided to share all modern knowledge as a body with a common destiny and also share projects based on that knowledge.

Accordingly, the country held 50% of the wealth generated by the expeditionary force, the joint corporation of the expeditionary force held 30%, and the remaining 20% ​​was to be divided among the participants according to their contribution to the project.

In other words, there would be no one among the members of the expeditionary force who was not rich, so Lee Kang-cheol could easily warn them not to be greedy.

July 23, 1944, 10 p.m.

Expeditionary Force camp airfield near Ganggye-gun.

A C-27J Spartan twin-engine turboprop transport plane was standing at the end of the runway.

“Director Jeong Ji-woon, are you ready?”

“Yes, Commander. After assembling it, I did a test flight, and packed everything I needed to take with me. “When you came, we also loaded up the additives to make jet fuel.”

“Is that really happening?”

“sure? Jet fuel is basically kerosene. Kerosene is mixed with various additives. “It may not be as much jet fuel as we get from Hyundai, but it doesn’t hinder your journey here at all.”

“If you fall, we will come back and hold you accountable.”

“ha ha ha! Do not worry.”

It is about 3,000 km from Ganggye to Saipan, where the U.S. military airfield was built, and the range of the C-27J Spartan transport aircraft is about 6,000 km when completely unloaded.

Therefore, if the weight is increased by several tons by boarding the vehicle and loading additives and various goods, the range should be considered less than 5,000 km.

The problem that arises when this happens is that even if it is okay to go, fuel becomes a problem when you come back.

If you avoid dangerous skies, you will actually have to fly 4,000 km, which means you will be running out of fuel when you get there.

However, there is no way there would be jet fuel at a US military airfield in this era.

So, the idea was to ask the Saipan airfield to prepare high-quality kerosene, and then bring back the kerosene mixed with the additives we brought to make jet fuel.

“Chief of Staff! Goes!”

“Good luck!”

“What am I going to fight? Anyway, take care of your house.”

“Don’t worry and go. Lieutenant Colonel Hong, take care of the commander.”

“All right.”

Oooooh!

Soon, the transport plane carrying Lee Kang-cheol took off.

To see FDR.