Episode 28. Murder (1)
Kwaaak.
My hand went to the knife and my limbs trembled.
Although he had recently practiced swordsmanship, he had never thought of killing people.
No, I never thought that something like this would happen again.
‘Damn I’m crazy. By the way, if you’re a bandit, you’re not going to kill a person or two lightly. I don’t think I’m going to win after practicing for a few days… but even if I win, even if I shout, that’s still too much.’
If the bandits were coming, I had no choice but to run to the front, where the military camp was expected to be.
‘There must be a military curtain in front of me? Must have. Otherwise, I will die today.’
While the hairs on his body stood on end with nervousness, the footsteps presumed to be those of the bandits drew closer.
The fireman was hiding behind a tree so he couldn’t see his opponent, but he could predict how close they were just by hearing them.
‘You have to kill at once and run. Ah~ Shit, why are my hands sweating so much?’
The painter rubbed the palm of his hand on his clothes to prevent the knife from slipping out of his hand.
‘It came very close. Roughly ten steps away.’
In a tight posture, I applied strength to my heels like a frog about to jump.
‘If you come a little closer, it will jump out and stab you right in the heart. Jinsu, no, you can do it!’
thump thump thump …..
My heart was beating like crazy and I broke out in a cold sweat.
Beok beok beok beok…
‘Huh?’
The sound of footsteps seemed to be getting closer, but then they went away again.
‘What’s going on, just passing by. Don’t you know I’m hiding?’
I didn’t have the courage to stick my head out, so when I pricked up my ears, the footsteps were quite far away.
‘Whoa-.’
The breath that had been stopped after inhaling to the fullest was exhaled at once.
Of course, the opponent could hear the sound of breathing, so I breathed in as quietly as possible.
‘Seeing that they didn’t look for me, I’m sure they weren’t caught.’
My heart is still beating so furiously that I can hear it in my eardrums, but the tension has eased quite a bit.
‘Then why are you going back? Wasn’t that a surprise attack?’
After the tension was relieved, I felt a strange feeling again.
Of course, he had no intention of following his opponent. I was thinking of just going forward and going to the military camp.
Pooh-.
Then another owl sounded from the direction the bandit had disappeared from.
And after a while, as if in response, an owl sounded from afar.
‘You’re definitely sending and receiving signals. But I don’t know what kind of signal it is.’
The fireman tilted his head for a moment, but soon turned off his nerves and went forward.
After about 5 minutes, I saw a light leaking from the military curtain in the distance.
‘Haha I lived.’
I felt relaxed and wanted to sit down, but since I hadn’t arrived at the military camp yet, I moved on diligently.
‘I don’t know why the bandits spyed on it, but if you tell the military officer, he’ll take care of it.’
The fireman walked towards the military tent and looked back. dark forest. I couldn’t see anything, but there were bandits there.
‘It’s giving me goosebumps.’
Pooh-.
Then the owls chirped again in the forest.
Creepy.
The fireman’s hair stood up again.
‘Damn it, it’s getting closer. They might be coming in to surprise them.’
The fireman ran to the camp as quickly as possible.
His clothes were scratched and torn by branches and thorns, and his skin was chafed, but he didn’t care.
“Yes! Who are you?”
Sensing the fireman’s presence, the sentry raised the spear with drowsy eyes.
The fireman could see that he had been dozing a little while ago.
“I’m the fireman of the congressman.”
“ah! You are Gongja Hwa. Haaa~ I was surprised.”
Fortunately, the soldier recognized the fireman.
“There is a bandit hiding in that forest right now.”
“yes? Four bandits… Eup?”
The fireman hurriedly covered the guard’s mouth and spoke in a whisper.
“be quiet. What will the bandit do if he hears it?”
“Eup-up.”
When the fireman let go of his hand that covered his mouth, the sentry looked at the forest with eyes completely free from sleep.
“Are you really a bandit?”
“Yes, I saw it.”
“Oh dear. I must hurry and inform my superior.”
“I will inform you, so stay here. The barracks for the highest-ranking officer are in the middle, right?”
“yes.”
“While I meet the officer, keep the other sleeping guards awake quietly.”
“yes.”
When the fireman disappeared, the sentry moved quickly and began to wake up the comrades.
* * *
“Bandit!”
Hearing the fireman’s words, Gyowi Join jumped up from his seat in surprise.
“yes.”
“where?”
“In the woods over there. Some people spyed on this place a little while ago.”
In an instant, Professor Joe’s eyes glistened.
In fact, he, who was in charge of the subjugation this time, looked down on the bandits and suffered too much loss.
If he goes back to the prefectural office, he will definitely be punished, so he is worried. I was trying to make more majors somehow, but an opportunity for a twist came unexpectedly.
“Are you sure you saw it?”
“yes.”
“But who are you?”
“The painter is a member of the council.”
When Lieutenant Jo made a puzzled expression, the officer who came in belatedly opened his mouth instead.
“A member of parliament?”
“yes. He came with Congressman Bong, and his medical skills are very good.”
“okay. It’s surprising that he’s dressed like a Confucian student, but he’s a member of the council. Well, even among those in government, there are many people with excellent medical skills, so there’s nothing wrong with that. By the way, Mr. Hwa, is he the painter’s man?”
“Do you know our house?”
When the painter asked again, Inspector Jo’s face naturally showed a look of belittling.
The painter did not realize it much, but among the nobles, the painter was recognized as a declining family.
“At first glance, I heard that the pottery skills are outstanding.”
“Ah yes. Boone is my second older brother.”
“okay. Then what is your name?”
“It’s a fireman.”
“stoker. Hmm, judging from Lieutenant Hwang’s praise, it seems that his medical skills are excellent. Who are you learning medical skills from?”
“I am learning medicine from Congressman Bong.”
“Rep. Bong is a name I know well. Are you thinking of going to see a doctor?”
“yes.”
The reason why the painter wanted to study medicine was that he had to apply for and pass the medical school to be qualified to open a medical clinic.
“When it comes to medicine, if it’s a position that others don’t covet, you can at least get a government job. Well thought out.”
However, Lieutenant Jo seemed to look at the reason why the painter wanted to go to medical school from a different angle.
“yes! That’s right.”
The painter was in a bad mood and the seat was uncomfortable, but he did not want to talk, so he roughly nodded.
“Oh, this is not the time for me to talk about this leisurely. Prince Hwang.”
“Your teacher.”
“Go out and quietly and stealthily wake up all the soldiers and ambush them at every entrance to the camp. And the sentries make them pretend to sleep by putting wooden boards on top of each other and wearing them under their clothes. Oh, the doctors and patients…”
Captain Jo gave orders to Hwang and began putting on the armor he had put on.
The fireman was completely relieved when the soldiers started to move busily.
It was only then that I realized that my leg was loose.
Lieutenant Jo went out of the barracks as if he had forgotten or ignored the fireman’s existence before he knew it.
‘Has the family’s family been strong enough to be ignored by the author? Well, looking back, it was clear that the family was on the decline, but it felt dirty to be looked down upon. Still, I told them that the bandit had been spying on them…’
The fireman looked at the entrance to the barracks where Lieutenant Cho had left for a while, then realized that he was thirsty and looked for a water pitcher.
“Whoa- I think I’m going to live for a while now. By the way, the proud Lieutenant Joe will prepare for the bandits’ surprise attack, so it will be safe here.”
Fortunately, I was able to stretch my legs.
* * *
“Kuh-kuh, as expected, most of them are dozing.”
Bandit leader Bang-deok, whose face was painted black with charcoal, put on a satisfied expression as he looked at the sentries dozing around the tent.
Not a single sentry noticed anything while approaching the short distance that would have taken less than a minute to run.
“The guys who came to fight are still asleep before the fight is over. The discipline is so messed up that I can’t lose unless I try to lose.”
Pang Deok thought that he would sweep away the soldiers today and feed them to the wolves, and start plundering the mountain village again tomorrow.
Pangdeok stroked the long spear, which was made of iron up to the handle, and waited for his subordinate to come.
He handled the spear, which is difficult for ordinary people to lift, as lightly as a marble.
After a while, the subordinate crouched like a shrimp and approached.
“Boss.”
“So are you ready?”
“yes.”
“The southern road is open.”
In the south, another trap had been dug to catch the fleeing soldiers.
“yes.”
“Then we can start hunting now.”
Pang Deok held out his hand, and his subordinate took out a flint and lit a torch.
Blazing…
Pang Deok put the tip of an arrow on a torch to make a fiery arrow, then fired it at the military tent.
Shushu Shushuu…..
While the fire arrows were flying, dozens of arrows flew towards the military camp, and soon bandits rose up from all sides and ran towards the military tent.
“Ouch! That enemy!”
“A bandit appeared.”
“Bandit…”
Pangdeok laughed heartily as he followed the men running in front of him with a long spear.
“Kill them all. Kill them all, leaving no one left. I will give my third concubine to the one who kills the most.”
Wow!!
At Pang Deok’s cry, the bandits shouted in unison, even though the third concubine was pretty.
Bang Deok arrived at the soldiers’ camp in a short time of only ten breaths.
Puffuk Pushyuk!
“Ouch!”
“Ah!”
“…..”
However, the men who entered the camp ahead of the soldiers suddenly knelt down.
The guards, who had been thought to have been hit by arrows, suddenly rose up and stabbed them with spears and slashes.
“What is it? How could they die…”
Pang Deok was unable to continue.
spot.
Blood splattered from his ears as he reflexively turned his head from the terrifying feeling.
‘arrow!’
If I had been a little late in opening my head, my head would have been pierced, not my ears.
He hurriedly set up his spear and looked at where the arrow had come from. A soldier who appeared to be an officer was already aiming a second arrow at him.
“Such a rat!”
Dig.
He raised his spear and ran toward the officer.
The opponent shot an arrow, but he swung his spear and threw it away, kicking off the ground and flying up.
It was a distance of 5 meters, but the length of the arms and spears combined was enough to split the opponent’s head.
As if the opponent had already anticipated Bang Deok’s attack, he quickly threw away his bow and swung the sword at his waist.
kang.
‘omg!’
Bangdeok’s eyes widened as he swung the spear.
The spear he wielded as he jumped boasted a tremendous weight, including his body weight. Of course, I thought that even if the sword didn’t break, I would be able to split the opponent’s head with the force of pressing down, but the spear bounced off so easily.
‘master!’
Wow.
After the opponent’s sword hit the spear, it stabbed at high speed.
‘Fast, fast!’
It was as if a ray of light was directed toward his chest.
Frightened, he turned the spear to defend his chest, but the sword was pushed back and stabbed his shoulder instead of his chest.
hooked
‘Keugh!’
Shuaang.
Pang Deok swung his spear wide and slashed the opponent’s waist and retreated.
Just by bumping into each other for a moment, you could tell that the opponent was a master of a much higher rank than you.
‘Where the fuck did this bastard come from?’
Somehow, the daytime ambush was a complete success, but there were quite a few dead guys. It seemed that it was also because of this officer.
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