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#Episode 78. Catapult
Man is a war animal.
And war is a firepower war.
The reason the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea is called the Fire Department is because it pours all its available power into firepower.
From past to present.
The development of weapons that can kill more people has become the history of science.
One person with an arrow.
Several people were killed by bullets.
Dozens with shells.
Hundreds with missiles.
And with nuclear weapons, it can reach tens of thousands.
Murder was civilization itself.
Zion, perched on the roof of the police station, looked out over the city in the dark night sky.
The city was completely dark without any neon signs.
The operation has already begun.
Zion needed weapons of mass destruction.
In addition to the Ogre, we focused on developing firepower that could be used by individual soldiers.
The results are out.
This is done by using Nepenthes.
No matter how much you improve existing Molotov cocktails, their firepower is limited.
It was very likely that it would go out while being thrown and there were many cases of misfires.
Moreover, if the Molotov cocktail was launched from a catapult, it would have gone out mid-flight due to air resistance and the wind.
However, when the rag was replaced with Nepenthes stems, the limitation was resolved.
Nepenthes stems were found to be more flammable than conventional oiled rags.
This is because Nepenthes is a plant-based monster and has a lot of oil in its body.
Since that discovery, Molotov cocktails have been improved in the following ways:
After filling a glass bottle with Nepenthes oil, the lid of the bottle was sealed with the stem of the plant.
Even if the firebombs made this way were thrown from a catapult, the fire would not go out.
Alien resources were on a whole other level more efficient.
Of course, it wasn’t 100% explosive, but this drawback was easily overcome by the method of dialysis.
At first, you blow up a bottle containing only oil.
Dozens of glass bottles are fired into the air, scattering and falling to the target location.
As the bottle fell to the floor and broke, the Nepenthes oil inside was scattered throughout the area.
Afterwards, if you blow away the burning bottle, a fierce fire will spread haphazardly.
This fire is very deadly.
And indeed, the effect was tremendous.
* * *
Bisan-dong Dongan-gu defense base.
There were warriors there holding spears and knives and guarding the barricade.
They were leisurely chatting with each other or gambling.
This is a close distance to Madame’s gambling house.
That’s why I never thought that Man-Gyeong’s soldiers would invade.
But as always, carelessness led them to ruin.
Whirik- clang!
“… … ?”
“what?”
While the warriors were playing poker, a glass bottle flew near them.
The warriors, who thought that someone had come close and thrown it, stood guard, holding their weapons.
But there was no one around.
“I guess a flying monster was playing with it and dropped it?”
“I guess so. There are a lot of strange creatures flying in these days.”
“Huh, huh? Hey! Don’t touch me! I saw it all!”
The warriors of the time approached the poker table again.
But that was the moment.
Whirik- clang!
Another sound of a glass bottle breaking.
The young warriors who were running towards the poker table also stopped and looked at it.
And then.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
This time, twice in a row.
Again.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
Countless glass bottles pouring down.
“Eww!!!”
“Ugh… … !”
No matter how much of a glass bottle it is, if it hits you directly in the head, you will die.
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During the battle, the warriors quickly hid inside abandoned cars and buildings to avoid the flying glass bottles.
But that was only the primary thing.
“… … Okay, are you done?”
“Hey! Get the situation straight!”
As the bottles stopped flying, the warriors began to emerge from the building one by one.
And then I noticed something strange.
“… … ?”
The floor was slippery.
Like oil.
There was oil spread here and there along with broken glass bottles.
The startled captain looked up at the sky on the other side.
There.
Fireballs that filled the sky were flying towards this place.
Before him the warriors were silent.
The captain of the defense force muttered with a strange smile.
“fu*k.”
Boom, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
* * *
Choi Myeong-jun was chewing on the cigarette butt filter like it was gum.
It was his habit to want to consume as much nicotine as possible.
Then he asked a soldier who was looking at Dongangu through binoculars from a high place.
“Did you get it right?”
“… … Ma, I think it matches?”
“Do you think I got it right? What the hell are you talking about? Did I get it right? Did I not get it right? Tell me for sure.”
“Yes… … Yes. Yes! You got it right. Definitely!”
“Oh, really?”
Phew-.
Choi Myeong-jun spat out the cigarette filter he had been chewing and ordered reloading.
Daughter-.
With the sound of a bell, the ogre again took hold of the nepenthes stem and lifted it onto the catapult.
Then the soldiers came and set fire to the vines.
Whoosh whoosh!
The stem loaded onto the catapult began to burn.
The observer ran over and spoke to Choi Myeong-jun.
“But I went a little further back. I think it would be better to aim forward.”
“… … Really? Hey, math teacher.”
Choi Myeong-jun turned his head and called out to the bespectacled man sitting at the desk.
He was a math teacher for the second Manan force at the time of the suppression of that force.
He was also an expert who played a decisive role in creating the catapult.
The spoils that Zion obtained while subduing the two forces were not limited to silk goods.
There were experts too.
The math teacher answered with difficulty, sweating profusely.
“Huh? Oh, uh, uh! Oh, wait a minute. So, set the angle to this much… … and draw a parabola… … and apply this much force. Okay, wait a minute. I’ll calculate it in a moment. T-T, so please don’t hit me… … !”
Choi Myeong-jun frowned at the trembling voice of the math teacher.
“Hey, teacher. When did I ever hit you?”
“Geu-geu-geu… … Geu-geu. If you, if you count a little slower… … T, tap the forehead. Chi, it’s a hit.”
“No, isn’t that a sign of friendliness?! It’s just guys joking around. Isn’t that right?”
In fact, Choi Myeong-jun and the math teacher were similar in age.
“Yes… … Yes. That’s not it.”
“what?!”
When Choi Myeong-jun shouted, the math teacher became very nervous and quickly grabbed his ballpoint pen.
“Yes, yes! I’m joking. So, so, please, bear with the joke. Now, just a moment. I, I’ll concentrate.”
The math teacher, wearing broken glasses, began to calculate by the light of a torch.
In fact, it was greedy to expect precise aim from the catapult.
This is because the role of catapults is more to launch things into the castle rather than to destroy the enemy’s walls.
“Oh, isn’t it okay to just do it roughly? Why are you doing so many calculations?”
Choi Myeong-jun, whose patience had reached its limit, approached the math teacher step by step.
Then the teacher got scared again and lowered his head.
“Hee… … Heek… … ! Don’t hit me.”
“Don’t hit me. I said I won’t hit you. Am I a psychopath? What do I do that makes you hit me? What the hell is the problem?”
“But, sir, aren’t you a gangster… …? Gangsters usually solve problems with their fists… … .”
“Hey! These days, gangsters don’t use their fists much. They just make noise and pay quickly.”
“Uh… … yes.”
The math teacher answered, raising his glasses to the middle.
Choi Myeong-jun frowned as he looked at his stop.
“Did you swear at me?”
“Ah, no! It’s just my, s, habit… … Anyway, s, in fact, Your Majesty, the key to this battle was to test weapons, right? So, rather than attacking recklessly, to make precise attacks… … .”
“So what.”
“That, that’s why! I, I’m experimenting. Actually, catapults are almost impossible to aim precisely. That, that’s why I filled that bag with bottles. Oh, right?”
“Ah- Then it will spread through the air?”
Tamar-!
Choi Myeong-jun slapped the math teacher on the back as if he knew what he was talking about.
To Choi Myung-jun, it was a sign of friendliness, but the math teacher who accepted it was not like that at all.
“Again… … Again. You hit me… … Oh, boy… … Anyway, that’s it.”
Glass bottles filled in a sack will scatter in all directions when hurled by a catapult.
Although precise aiming may be impossible, if you were to scatter vials of that oil all over the enemy base,
Because if you can light a fire there even once, it’s a success.
Rather than a precision strike, it is more like indiscriminate bombing of a broad area.
“Oh, please move forward a little bit. You need to pull that pillar a little bit.”
The catapults made by the Manan Second Force were so elaborate and valuable that they had poured everything into them.
It was reconstructed by Zion’s experts and remade to suit this force, so it could be considered a cutting-edge weapon for its time.
“This, this should be about right.”
“Okay. If you miss, you get hit.”
“Yes… … Yes?!? Why, why me?”
“Prepare and fire again.”
At Choi Myeong-jun’s order, the soldiers moved quickly.
After adjusting it as the math teacher said, I fired the catapult again.
Oh my god!
The sound of a glass bottle breaking through the air was sharp.
The burning glass bottles fired from the catapult left trails like meteors.
The sight was so beautiful that everyone there was spellbound.
“… … Did you get it right?”
Choi Myeong-jun asked the observer again.
The observer looked through the telescope, then burst into laughter and shouted.
“Oh, yes! This time I hit the mark!”
“good.”
“Oh… … Ohhh… … ! That’s a relief. Ta, please don’t hit me… … ! I’m getting PTSD… … !”
Choi Myeong-jun smiled.
This was revenge.
Revenge against Dongangu, who has been harassing our workers who have been drawing water for the past few months.
And their revenge is not over yet.
“Hey, Math Teacher. Stay here and command. My brother gave me orders not to stop attacking until the sun rises.”
“Yes… …? Yes?!? Me?”
“Okay. I’m going out to play now. It’s been a while.”
“Oh, you’re going out to play… … Where are you going?”
Yeah-.
At that moment, Choi Myeong-jun took out a dagger.
It was a burden that Zion had given him.
Choi Myeong-jun was still using the sword that Zion had given him with great care.
Then the 100 elite soldiers following him all took up their weapons.
Choi Myeong-jun looked at his math teacher with a big smile and said.
“Hunter hunts.”
Choi Myeong-jun was very excited about his first murder in a long time.
The moment he left for Bisan, 100 elite troops followed him.
The catapult continued to fire glass bottles.
The attacks on the area will not stop for a while.
Until their defenses become a sea of fire.
* * *
Zion calmly surveyed the battlefield from the rooftop of the Manan Police Station.
Red flames rose from the dark city.
The attack had begun.
Jin Jae-hee, who was watching the scene together, was next to him with a cigarette in his mouth.
The managers were also there.
This was an observation.
An observation by high-ranking officials of the Mankyung forces for the purpose of verifying the power of the new weapon.
“Wow, that’s amazing… …! Wow.”
The work department manager started clapping first.
Following the work department manager, the other department managers also began to applaud one after another.
They praised and exalted Zion.
But Zion did not respond.
He just observed the battlefield in silence.
“Actually, I had some doubts about the double operation. However, that was all my naive thinking. As expected, it was Your Majesty’s plan. If this operation is successful, we will definitely be able to solve the water problem.”
Chief of the Order Department.
She had been talking frequently with King Kang Shion recently about the water problem.
However, no solution could be found, and eventually they tried to take over the river by force.
And the head of the Order Department was impressed after hearing Kang Shi-on’s plan.
Because it was a genius plan.
“It is all thanks to your Majesty.”
“Thanks to your Majesty.”
“Thanks to your Majesty.”
Starting with the Ministry of Order, key high-ranking officials of the powers bowed their heads and expressed their gratitude.
Until then, Zion still had no response.
But as the attacks continued for some time and a sea of fire engulfed the enemy city, Zion looked at the officers and deputy officers of each department.
“Are you sure now?”
The reason Zion summoned the generals, deputy generals, and the commanders of each army was to assure them of the expansion of the war.
War was not something that could be waged unilaterally by a monarch alone.
We can secure leadership only by gathering the key figures of each class here and instilling in them confidence in war and in victory.
In fact, Zion’s plan was working, and there was now no one in the leadership who opposed the war.
Zion looked back at them and said:
“War with the East is inevitable, and it will come soon.”
Zion did not want to miss this opportunity.
They were planning to use this opportunity to solidify the power of Dongan-gu, which had been weakened by the long war, and to integrate Anyang.
All the plans were already drawn up.
All that remains is execution and cooperation between each department head.
“The war will be postponed for a month. Until then, each department should thoroughly prepare for war.”
Now all the labor of the forces will be turned to preparations for war.
Starting from today.
(Continued in the next episode)