Episode 1282. Who came to Gangnam? (2)
“You’re all there.”
“yes. “It’s coming soon.”
Haenam’s disciples gathered on the deck and stared at the approaching ground.
Gangnam.
Their faces became even more tense.
Of course, this cannot be my first time visiting Gangnam. Before the Gangnam Non-aggression Treaty took effect, I often stopped by inland.
In addition, didn’t he go to Songshan via Gangnam when he participated in the World’s Later Qi Jisu Fei Martial Arts Competition?
However, it is no exaggeration to say that Gangnam then and Gangnam now are completely different places.
‘In the end…’
Kwak Hwan-so bit his lip tightly.
From now on, they must cover a distance of 2,500 miles from here to the Yangtze River. They pass through a group of Safa who are gnashing their teeth to catch and kill them.
‘Is it really possible?’
I felt like my back was soaked with cold sweat.
Thinking with your head and acting with your body are different. I thought I was prepared enough, but as soon as I got to Gangnam, my whole body became stiff with tension.
Kwak Hwan-so looked back. Sure enough, the other Haenam disciples also had tense faces. Perhaps the situation of the disciples on the other boat was not that different.
‘Don’t try to relax.’
Kwak Hwan-so consciously clenched and unclenched his fist several times. If I didn’t move even a little, I felt like I would be suffocated by the rigid atmosphere.
‘It’s natural to be nervous. ‘It’s even weirder that I’m trying not to be nervous.’
It was just when Kwak Hwan-so was about to let out a long breath.
“I think we’re almost there.”
Lim So-byeong walked towards the deck, opened his fan, and gently touched his face. Namgung Dowi asked vaguely.
“Did you arrive when you expected?”
“Okay.”
Lim So-byeong let out a groan and folded his fan. A long sigh escaped.
“It’s a little later than I thought.”
“⋯⋯Really?”
Lim So-byeong nodded his head weakly.
“Even if it didn’t go according to plan, I had to arrive before 3 o’clock… “That way I could move as I wanted.”
“⋯⋯.”
“Why do things happen when there is a headwind… driving me crazy. Jininsa Daecheonmyeong. “No matter how talented I am at flying and crawling, there is no way I could predict a backlash.”
“They say Zhuge Resonation can backfire…”
Lim So-byeong’s cheeks twitched at the words that Namgung Do-wi said without much thought.
“If I were Gong Myung, would I be doing this here?”
“Oh no. I’m not saying I lack ability. Just…”
“Then why can’t Nangong Sogaju only do that? “If the head of the previous generation had come instead of the head of the Southern Palace Soga, all the bastards of the Maninbang would have exploded and died on that shore!”
“Ah…”
“what?”
“I didn’t know that King Greenrim thought so highly of my father. I am deeply grateful.”
“⋯⋯This bastard?”
“yes?”
“Keuhum!”
Lim So-byeong cleared his throat in disapproval and turned his head. Somehow, this person becomes more formidable as the days go by.
His gaze was again focused on Gangnam land. The face slowly hardened.
Although it looks like a huge land, it is actually a basin landform that protrudes in a straight line toward the sea. If you are considering landing, this is the terrain you should avoid the most.
First of all, the landing site is very clearly exposed, and in order to head deep inland, you have to break through a basin that is 300 miles in a straight line. A single road with no detours.
If you look at it, it was a terrain that would make a crane fall, and a terrain that would even appear in one’s dreams while sleeping.
“Are we really going to land there?”
Lim So-byeong responded bluntly to the insinuating voice.
“why? Is there a problem? “We swam there, right?”
“I don’t know much, but things are a little different now, right? First of all, at that time, they did not know of our existence… and the direction of the troops’ advance….”
“Hoooooh?”
Lim So-byeong looked at Nam Gung-do-wi with an exaggeratedly surprised expression.
“Ah, do you know some strategy?”
“⋯⋯.”
“Hey, you’re amazing. You also know the art of war. Oh, by the way, I’ve heard of it. It is said that the King’s studies that one must learn to become the head of the Namgung family also include strategies of war. In addition, I heard you need to have literary skills such as poetry, calligraphy, and painting?”
“It’s not that big of a deal, just a little insight…”
“Tsk tsk tsk.”
Lim So-byeong’s fanning became violent and urgent.
“This is why! This is why things that were learned clumsily are more of a problem!”
“⋯⋯.”
“If you don’t know anything, like the noblemen behind you, you’ll say, ‘Oh, it looks like it’s going down there.’ “I would have kept my mouth shut, but I kept meddling here and there, thinking that the things I learned just by scratching the surface of watermelon taste like watermelon from the peel!”
“⋯⋯No, that’s not it.”
“So, monarchs and such are ruining the country! I know everything because I learned it! “The strategy of war I learned is different from that!”
“He was just scared of expressing his opinion…”
“uh? Absurd language! If you think you know the art of war well just because you learned that, then what was the head of your squadron thinking when you rushed all the way to the Yangtze River? “Did that gentleman forget to learn the art of war?”
“Don’t touch Mr. Seo! That was done with the heart, not the head! with my heart!”
“mind? “You fell asleep saying such a thing!”
“Do not insult your father!”
The focus in Kwak Hwan-so’s eyes became blurred as he watched.
‘He’s doing that even in this situation.’
I thought that anyone with long hair would naturally be nervous in a situation like this. Looking at it now, it doesn’t seem like that is necessarily the case. Either that or they aren’t people with hair.
“Tsk.”
Lim So-byeong clicked his tongue and nervously fanned his fan.
“Well, if you think about it, that statement isn’t so wrong.”
“Yes. So…”
“When you think about it roughly, that’s when you think about it roughly!”
“⋯⋯.”
“Why should we not land at a point where the enemy can expect it? Isn’t it because the enemy can prepare and dig traps or build defense lines?”
Nangong Dowi nodded his head vigorously in agreement. Lim So-byeong shouted.
“They don’t have the troops to build that defense line right now! “Those troops are all stamping their feet in Haenam right now!”
“Ah…”
“In such a situation, if you hesitate to land and waste time, a defense line that wasn’t there before will be created? The most important thing in the art of war is not reason, but timing! It’s a strategy to be right now and wrong later. Do you understand?”
Nangung Dowi nodded as if he now understood. But there was still one unanswered question in his heart.
“Then why did you say you were going crazy earlier?”
“It’s because I’m sad, it’s because I’m sad!”
“yes?”
Lim So-byeong nervously contorted his face and turned his gaze towards Gangnam.
“If only we had arrived three times earlier, we would have somehow been able to rush to Guangdong and burn down the headquarters of those bastards.”
“⋯⋯.”
“If that were the case, that guy Jang Il-so’s face would have been a sight to behold! Oh my, the sky is indifferent too. “How can we get a backlash at a time like this?”
“⋯⋯Are you doing something like that?”
“why? Aren’t you also a treasonous person? Every time that bastard Jang Il-so deliberately built a long-term battle line with Green Forest and attacked us, my stomach twisted! “My poor health is partly because of that bastard!”
“What about the remaining half?”
“It’s because of the Hwasan Swordsman Association.”
⋯⋯It was nonsense, but it seemed like it made some sense⋯⋯.
“Okay. “It’s a shame.”
Lim So-byeong sighed in regret and complained.
In fact, he said this, but his intention to burn down Maninbang’s headquarters was not simply a means to relieve his feelings. The burning of the headquarters of any sect, whether political or private, has great significance.
You don’t have to go far, just look at the volcano.
Even though the entire top of Hundred Thousand Mountains was lost, there was no word that the volcano had collapsed. Wasn’t it after the remnants of the Demonic Cult invaded Shaanxi and burned down the volcano’s palaces that it became official that Hwasan was completely destroyed?
It should not be treated as a simple building. Because the main hall’s pavilions have symbolic meaning. If he had been able to burn down Maninbang’s headquarters as soon as he came in, he would have definitely dealt a blow to Jang Ilso’s firm control…
“Tsk. “I can’t help it.”
There is no way now. If you go to clumsily burn down the main altar, the people here are going to be roasted. Although it is unfortunate, I have no choice but to give up.
“Listen carefully!”
When Lim So-byeong raised his voice, everyone’s attention was focused.
Kwak Hwan-so swallowed dry saliva. To be honest, he doesn’t really trust Lim So-byeong, who is from Sapa. I have never felt the effectiveness of the plan he came up with.
However, the reason why Kwak Hwan-so listens is very simple. This is because all prominent members of the Cheonwoo Meng, including Cheongmyeong and Baekcheon Namgung Dowi, are listening to Lim So-byeong’s words.
That they listen to what the author says. With that alone, the verification of Lim So-byeong has already been completed.
‘So, some great plan will come out.’
Even though he is from Sapa, if he can get the heads of each political faction to listen to him, he is definitely a newcomer.
“After landing, there is no such thing as strategy or strategy.”
“Uh…”
It’s not… I have to come out and return home⋯⋯.
“Don’t be clumsy and run until your feet sweat. “We need to move forward as much as possible before those damn Safa bastards can build a proper Heavenly Earth Network!”
For a moment, Kwak Hwan-so was shocked and shouted.
“Now wait a minute! “If we do that, they will know our whereabouts!”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“yes?”
“I don’t mind knowing. “You’re going to find out anyway, so if that’s the case, it’s better to go even one step faster!”
Kwak Hwan-so opened his mouth.
‘Is he crazy?’
No matter how much I thought about it, it wasn’t something a sane person would say. However, when he turned his head to ask for consent, deep despair greeted Kwak Hwan-so.
“For the first time in a while, you sound like you’re talking.”
Cheongmyeong, a world-famous Hwasan swordsman, grinned.
“It’s nice that it’s simple.”
Hwasan’s deputy Jangmun Baekcheon nodded his head in agreement.
“First of all, it’s reasonable.”
Even Namgung Do-wi, who was the last hope, expressed his approval as if there was no other way.
Kwak Hwan-so, who watched the process, felt like something was going wrong in his head.
‘Are you really doing this?’
This crazy thing?
“Now just a moment!”
“Oh, what is it again?”
Kwak Hwan-so desperately pulled out his hair. You have to say something.
“What if you go deep into enemy territory and get surrounded? “Then there’s no turning back, right?”
“what.”
The answer came from Cheongmyeong, not Lim So-byeong.
“Is Sapaeryeon easy? So if I hide my ass and hide, I won’t be surrounded?”
“That’s…”
“If you’re planning on breaking into someone else’s house and causing trouble, you have to be prepared to be surrounded.”
“Oh no. “You can be prepared, but what will you do if you are really surrounded?”
“What should I do? What should I do?”
Cheongmyeong stuck out his stomach triumphantly.
“I’ll go and think about it then!”
Despair fell on Guo Huanxiao’s face. But others seemed to have different thoughts this time.
“It’s certainly reasonable.”
“Good plan.”
“There is no room for disagreement.”
The Heavenly Demons continued to nod their heads. Tears welled up in Kwak Hwan-so’s eyes. Wouldn’t it be better to go back now…
“Then what about landing first?”
“of course. Just…”
Lim So-byeong smiled and looked at the coast.
“Even if you don’t have a medical history, you still have eyes, so I should give you at least a gift.”
“Huh? A gift?”
Lim So-byeong’s face was instantly stained with an evil light.
