Three Kingdoms Sugar King - Chapter 658



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658. Sit down and shoot!

About 1,000 soldiers of Cheong Yong-yeong, who ran down the castle wall first, put down the gunny sacks they were carrying on their backs and retreated.

Then, one after another, other soldiers came running and placed gunny bags, and in an instant, a small garden made of gunny bags filled with soil was created.

“You’re building a mountain right under the castle. “If we do that, even if we just rain arrows and stones from above, many soldiers will die.”

Jangpae watched the scene and couldn’t understand it, so he looked at Jeonpung. But Jeonpung smiled calmly and said.

“Hehehe. That’s why I said it was a kind of local product. “To be precise, it is not a native product, but rather a stepping stone.”

“A footstool? Are you really going to use that as a stepping stone and use a ladder to climb up to the castle?”

Instead of answering Jangpae’s words, Jeonpung pointed to Yuejin in the distance with his hand. Before I knew it, there were hundreds of soldiers lined up behind Yue Jin, waiting for something.

“Soldiers carrying ladders, gather here.”

When Akjin saw that the work of building the scaffolding was progressing smoothly, he turned around and called the soldiers carrying ladders together.

“let’s go!”

At Akjin’s call, two rows of soldiers carrying long ladders approached and lined up on the left and right.

When two soldiers on each side of the ladder stopped with the ladder on their shoulders so that they could jump out at any time, this time soldiers with shields walked between the ladders and lined up to wait.

“Everyone, don’t be afraid. I will be the first to climb that wall. “Let’s take that castle within today and show everyone how elite Chung Yong-yeong is!”

After encouraging the soldiers, Akjin looked ahead again and saw the clay sacks rapidly accumulating and gradually increasing in size.

But suddenly there was a commotion behind me, so I turned around and saw the Crown Prince suddenly approaching from the south, leading about a hundred archers with bows in their hands.

“huh? Arbitrary. What brought you here? “I understand that the general ordered Balnoyeong to wait in the rear?”

In response to Yue Jin’s question, the Crown Prince came to Yue Jin’s side and scratched his head as he watched the work of building sacks under the castle wall.

“this. I was expecting it because it was an indigenous mountain, but was it just built as a foundation? For some reason, I thought they would use us if they were building a mountain, but there was a reason why they asked us to wait. “Because this is the only way to find an angle to fire an arrow.”

When attacking a castle by building a mountain, it was common to raise the mountain to a higher level than the castle walls and attack using bows and oars from above. However, when they said they were going to build a mountain, they asked Balnoyeong, who specialized in court labor, to stand by, so the Crown Prince thought it strange and came to see it in person.

“Do you understand now? I didn’t ask you to wait for no reason. Apparently, on the first day, Wonho built a camp here and called in generals to plan how to attack the castle. Are you sure you listened to this?”

“ah. I was a little tired at that time. Anyway, now that I know what’s going on, I guess I should get ready too.”

After saying that, the Crown Prince sent the archers he had brought back to where they had been, and remaining alone, he suddenly took out a large leather pouch hanging on his side.

“It might be possible for this guy who fired an empty arrow without a point at the enemy general in Hadong… … .”

As the Crown Prince remained without returning, Akjin glanced at the Crown Prince’s actions with a puzzled look on his face.

At some point, the Crown Prince was even humming, taking out a bow that had been rolled up in a circle from his pocket, unwinding it back to its original state, and connecting the strings.

“What are you doing now? “What are you doing when you know the bow is useless here?”

Despite Akjin’s scolding, the Taesaja tried pulling the string with his hand as the string was connected to the bow and aimed it at the castle.

Seeing the Prince’s appearance like that, Ak-jin was about to say something more, but the subordinate who was directing the work from the front came running.

“Jungrangjang. The work is almost finished. Now get ready… … “Oh my!”

The subordinate who was running in front of Akjin to report suddenly cowered with an embarrassed look on his face when about a dozen arrows flew from the castle.

“this. Mr. Jungnang. “The enemy is shooting arrows.”

At the subordinate’s words, Akjin actually snorted when he saw the enemy soldier firing arrows from the top of the castle wall.

“under! Everyone, don’t be scared. Right now, they are blocking other areas, so there are few soldiers guarding this area. They are shooting arrows at the target, but they are only firing about a dozen arrows at a time. “Who would die from such a blind arrow!”

Akjin, who encouraged the soldiers, glanced at the Taesaja, who was still calmly checking his bow, and then tilted his head at the golden decorations attached to both ends of the bow.

“Look here. “What is that thing on the end of that bow?”

When Emperor Yue Jin asked in bewilderment, his eyes lit up and he held the bow tip forward so that he could clearly see the decoration.

“You mean this? Gungmi (弓弭) means tying the string of a bow. In this way, it is also decorated with gold or jade.”

“Is it really made of gold?”

“ha ha ha. yes. The general gave me gold as a reward and asked me to go to the blacksmith shop and make it. What is it like? “Don’t you think you’ll be good at shooting an arrow just by looking at it?”

Akjin shook his head and said at the incomprehensible words of the prince.

“I don’t know what you’re thinking, but don’t bother me.”

Yue Jin, who had warned Taesaja like that, soon saw that most of the soldiers who had been stacking gun bags withdrew empty-handed, so he turned around and looked at the soldiers holding ladders and shields.

“Now it’s our turn. let’s go!”

“Waaah!”

At the sound of Akjin’s shout, the waiting soldiers all rushed to the bottom of the castle wall.

Then, Taesaja, who had just finished inspecting the bow, walked around and followed Akjin as if he was taking a leisurely walk.

* * *

Under the East Gate wall.

Soldiers carrying ladders rushed to the scaffolding made of clay sacks piled up by thousands of soldiers and hung them on the castle wall.

When preparations were completed to climb the castle, Ak-Jin bravely climbed the ladder and climbed the castle wall as mentioned earlier.

“Everyone, get up quickly!”

Akjin quickly climbed the ladder with both hands and shouted at the soldiers climbing the wall together from the left and right.

However, the situation that seemed like it would be a smooth climb changed before we even got halfway up the castle wall.

“Push!”

A shout suddenly broke out from above, and enemy soldiers stuck their heads out of the walls and pushed down ladders from all over.

“Ugh!”

As ladders were pushed down here and there, dozens of soldiers climbing the castle wall fell. As stones and arrows fell from above, casualties to the soldiers continued to increase.

“damn.”

Ak-jin, who watched the scene, gritted his teeth and climbed the ladder without moving his hands for a moment.

However, soon after, enemy soldiers appeared on top of the castle where the ladder was hung.

“… … !”

Akjin flinched unconsciously when he saw the enemy soldier holding a stone the size of a human head and trying to throw it.

However, before the enemy soldier could throw the stone, something flew up from below and attacked the enemy soldier.

See!

With a jarring sound, the enemy soldier dropped the stone in his hand and grabbed his neck.

When Akjin looked up, he saw an arrow stuck in the enemy soldier’s neck.

Grumble!

The soldier let out a sound of phlegm boiling in his throat and helplessly passed by Ak-jin and fell down. Akjin unconsciously looked down to where the enemy soldier had fallen.

“uh?”

The Crown Prince sat cross-legged on a platform piled with gunny sacks, raised his bow high in the air, and made eye contact with Yue Jin.

When the Emperor saw Yue Jin, he motioned upward without saying a word and urged him to go up quickly.

“Aaaah!”

Akjin was thrilled by the Taesaja’s magical archery skills and frantically climbed the ladder, finally crossing the castle gate and climbing onto the castle wall.

“You guys! “Do not touch my soldiers!”

Then, while shouting in anger, he frantically swung his sword at the enemy soldiers around him and covered the soldiers still climbing the castle wall.

Some time after that.

Finally, when the flag that said Jeongyeonyoung was raised above the East Gate, Jeonpung nodded and said.

“hmm. “It looks like he won the alumni position easily.”

“oh! Look over there. The alumni gate is open.”

After hearing Jangsong’s shout, the group watched as the eastern gate opened and the soldiers of Jeongjeongyoung entered the castle like a flood.

“It’s almost like it’s over. “It would be best to go to the castle soon.”

At Jeonpung’s words, he made Gwangok, who was still throwing stones at the south gate, stop shooting, and then led about a thousand soldiers and approached the south gate.

Sigh!

As soon as he arrived near the south gate, the south gate, which had been tightly closed, opened, and Akjin, covered in the blood of enemy soldiers, walked out from inside.

“Mungyeom! Are you okay?”

When he saw Akjin, he hurriedly approached him and asked with a worried face. Akjin then looked at his body and said with a bitter smile.

“General. There’s nothing to worry about. “This is all blood splattered from enemy soldiers.”

When he found out that Ak-jin was safe, he asked with a relieved face.

“What happened to Changhee?”

At that question, Akjin frowned and said.

“I also looked for him in the castle, but his whereabouts are unknown. “When I heard the story of the enemy soldier captured earlier, I heard that about a hundred enemy soldiers escaped through the north gate, so I think they may have been mixed in there.”

“This castle had a north gate?”

“yes. There was a small gate leading to the mountain path leading to Mongsan in the back. “When I got there, the gate was already wide open and there were no enemy soldiers guarding it.”

As Ak-jin spoke like that, Jeon-pung, who was listening behind him, opened his mouth.

“This has become a bit of a problem. “If we leave him like this, he could become a source of trouble again in the future.”

At Jeonpung’s words, the little boy turned around and called Mareuk.

“Inchworm.”

“yes. “General.”

“Tell the rear troops waiting in the rear to look around Mongsan Mountain and look for Changhee.”

When Maruk retreated to call a messenger at the command of the king, Akjin opened his mouth again.

“General. And I have something else to report to you.”

“What is it?”

“Earlier, while I was climbing the castle using a ladder, Bishop Balno gave me a lot of help.”

Akjin talked about what had happened under the walls of the East Gate earlier.

“no! “Is it really possible to sit down and shoot an arrow over your head?”

I was surprised because I knew how difficult it was to sit down and fire an arrow over one’s head.

Jeonpung and Jangsong were equally surprised.

“Huh. “They say Balnogyowi’s archery skills are comparable to that of Yang Yugi, a famous archer from the old Chu Dynasty, but it seems to be true.”

“Iknow, right. “Thanks to you, Jeong Jeong-yeong took the castle without major damage, so I should at least give you a reward.”

Hearing the two people’s words, the boy scratched his head and looked at Jingyo, the poisoned soldier who had followed them and was quietly listening to their conversation. Then Jin Gyo spoke with a stern face.

“It is true that the Balno Bridge Committee made a contribution, but there is a penalty for disobeying the general’s order to stand by. Therefore, no award should be given. “If we are not careful, our military’s discipline may collapse.”

“… … That’s right. “When I see you later, I will have to point out sharply that you violated military orders.”

When the decision was made to deal with the prince who made such an unexpected move, he and his party entered the captured Jeonyu Fortress.