touchnovel Chapter 767
Chapter 767
Episode 767: A disaster brought about by oneself.... (2)
Slam! Slam!
As soon as they heard the gunfire, the soldiers sitting on the cart connected the cartridges to the boxcar and attached the cartridge belt to the wagon.
Other soldiers also loaded their rifles and released the safety devices.
The soldiers who finished preparing for battle immediately shouted loudly to their commanders.
“Ready!”
Hearing the soldiers’ cries, Manho Kim Jang-saeng, who commanded the unit, stood upright on the saddle of the cart and looked in the direction of the palace through a telescope.
“lily! “It’s dangerous!”
Kim Jang-saeng confidently responded to the soldiers’ warning.
“hey! My name is Jangsaeng (長生)! Jangsaeng! “Hold on to your worries!”
Jangsaeng, who was looking at the palace while answering confidently, saw Admiral Ahn and his party come out of the entrance of the palace.
Jangsaeng, who saw a couple of soldiers moving around with support, probably injured during the escape, gave an order to the cart right in front of him.
“The old man and his party are in danger! There are cars 1 and 3! Move now! “Save the old man and his group!”
“ancient! Hey!”
Hee hee hee!
At Jangsaeng’s command, two carts jumped out of the camp.
“Kyaak!”
“Ahh!”
The Aztecs around them screamed and scattered in all directions as they saw the horse running wildly, as if it was going to trample everything in sight.
Meanwhile, Jangsaeng, who was still standing on the saddle and observing the situation, shouted to the soldiers as Aztec warriors came running from all directions.
“The board is broken anyway! “If it comes within 100 steps, sweep it away!”
“yes!”
Seeing the soldiers answering firmly, Jangsaeng continued.
“They eat people! “Throw away any recognition!”
* * *
When Ahn Sang-soo and his party entered the royal palace of Montezuma I and were frightened by the sight of human flesh, those outside were also frightened.
The soldiers, who had formed a defense position and were taking a breather, saw corpses being smoked with strings tied around their necks.
“What is that!”
At the time, the Aztecs handled human sacrifices in various ways.
One was to collect corpses that had fallen down the pyramid’s ramp, cut off their heads, and then cut off their limbs and boil them.
The other was to burn them by hanging them on a rope, as if they were being hanged.
However, this was not like burning at the stake, but was closer to smoking.
It was this scene that the soldiers waiting outside were horrified to see.
After seeing that, the soldiers from the main branch looked back at the soldiers from the new area.
“Did you guys do that too?”
“Not now!”
The soldiers from Shinji hurriedly denied it due to the suspicious looks in their eyes from the soldiers from their home base. However, the soldiers from the headquarters did not easily agree.
“now?”
“It used to be like that, but I heard that it all disappeared after the Great Emperor banned it! And I heard it wasn’t that bad!”
* * *
What the soldier from Shinji said was true.
Consumption of human flesh was common among the indigenous people of the New World.
“They are our allies!”
“It’s an ally! Cheer up!”
Ahn Sang-su and his party, who were leaving the royal palace of Montezuma I amidst a fierce struggle, saw the carriages carrying our troops rushing towards them, and their complexion brightened.
“It’s an ally! Cheer up!”
Admiral Ahn Sang-soo and a small number of cavalrymen mounted a horse that had been hitched to one side and bought time by standing between the group and the Aztec warriors.
bang! Tatang! bang!
Slam! Slam!
Admiral Ahn Sang-soo and the cavalrymen, who had run out of bullets from their short guns, took out the curved swords they had tied to their saddles and swung them. And then he immediately started swearing.
“Oh shit! “The sword is short!”
* * *
After Gyeongjang, there were two places in Joseon and the Empire that used bladed swords and even curved swords as secondary weapons. One was the cavalry and the other was the navy.
However, even though they were the same curved island, the curved islands of the cavalry and the navy were all different in shape and size.
While the cavalry’s curved sword was similar to a saber, the one used by the navy was similar to a cutlass.
Although the sizes were different, their purpose of use was the same. It was to be used in close combat situations. Thanks to this, the two looked very similar.
However, Admiral Ahn Sang-soo and the cavalrymen were swearing because the cutlass was smaller than the saber.
Those sitting on a horse had to lean far to the left and right to use the cutlass properly. If you made a slight mistake, you could be caught by approaching enemies and fall off your horse.
To avoid this, Admiral Ahn Sang-soo and his cavalrymen swung their swords in a direction that threatened the Aztec warriors and blocked their approach rather than killing them.
“San dog! “A mountain dog!”
When the cry of ‘spread out’ was heard from the carts that arrived just in time, Admiral Ahn Sang-soo and the cavalry spread out to the left and right.
Suddenly, in a wide open space, freight cars containing only Aztec warriors mounted on male carts suddenly burst into flames.
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-tang!
As a total of eight wagons loaded on two carts burst into flames, the Aztec warriors flocking to the palace and nearby began to fall like sorghum sheaves.
The Aztec warriors who were rushing in with great momentum suddenly froze like ice.
For them, it was their first battle and death.
They, too, often saw their leading warriors suffer heavy casualties in sieges and other battles. This was mainly done by slingshots or arrows and javelins.
However, there were almost no cases where the battle line collapsed in an instant like the attacks of those strangers.
The elongated things attached to the unfamiliar vehicle that the stranger was riding spewed out flames, and the brave warriors that filled the space died.
“It wasn’t even an arrow...”
“I couldn’t even see it...”
Admiral Ahn Sang-soo immediately shouted as the Aztec warriors froze in momentary panic.
“Escape! Join the main camp!”
The carts carrying the guards continued to shoot and left the square in front of the royal palace.
* * *
Ahn Sang-soo and his party, who joined the rest at the square where the great temples were located, immediately turned their horses and began to escape.
Ta-ta-ta-ta-tang! Ta-ta-ta-tang!
bang! Tatang! bang!
The wagons loaded on the carts and the riflemen hiding in the shadows of the carts continuously fired bullets at the Aztec warriors who were coming from all directions.
“Wipe out all those who rush in!”
“Abandon recognition! “Everyone you see is an enemy!”
“If you want to live, give up acceptance!”
To survive under siege, imperial soldiers pulled the trigger on every Aztec in sight.
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(Note 1)