Chapter 802

Episode 802:

Bloody Battle in the Jungle (8) The Dark Force was an entity that was born through past wars.

In the last Light War, Joseon overwhelmed the Ming in many fields. The capabilities of the Joseon army in the battle between the Joseon and Ming armies were great, but there were more things that the Ming commanders were afraid of.

Among them, the famous ones were the ‘Chakho Musketeers’.

Equipped with special rifles and special ammunition produced at the arsenal in Area 51 – later adopted as standard ammunition for military rifles – the musketeers went into hiding in groups of two or four into the Liaodong and Tianshan Mountains.

The hidden musketeers faithfully carried out their missions of scouting, reconnaissance, and sniping.

Thanks to this, more than one Ming army commander lost his life to bullets coming from unknown sources even though he was not on the front line.

The Imperial Army, having had fun with the assigned musketeers, steadily strengthened the equipment of the assigned musketeers.

First, the vernier aiming device was replaced with a monocular telescope.

Because there were still performance limitations, the monocular was almost as long as the barrel of the gun, but the capabilities of the attached musketeers had developed into more lethal ones.

Although the Imperial Army had fun as the Commander-in-Chief, they still felt inadequate.

“It would be nice to have a unit that could go a little deeper and carry out operations...”

“Even if the musketeer unit moves as much as possible, it has a limit of 4 people. “We need a unit that can move on a larger scale.”

-A unit that can move secretly like a musketeer, but can go deeper into enemy territory and move in larger groups.

This was the new unit the imperial army wanted.

Although the overall size was small, the ‘undercover corps’ was created as a unit that could move on a larger scale than the musketeer corps.

The undercover team, which means ‘moving secretly and inflicting fatal blows,’ had to go through a strict process starting from the selection of personnel.

Among the soldiers who had at least the rank of Jinmu (modern sergeant or sergeant) or higher, they were selected with the support of those with outstanding intelligence, physical strength, endurance, and combat ability.

The most important part of the screening process to select the best person was the training provided by the Chakho Musketeers.

Because the Army’s higher-ups were the best at moving secretly, the upper echelons of the army handed over candidates to the Commander’s Musketeers. The applicants who were handed over in this way had to complete the training course of the Chakho Musketeers.

The training of the Chakho Musketeers, which originated from hunters who hunted tigers, the most powerful beast in Northeast Asia, was harsh, and the instructors mercilessly singled out unsuitable personnel.

The reason the instructors did this was because of their pride and the compensation given by the upper echelons of the army.

The upper echelons of the Army promised that 1/4 of those who passed the training would be assigned to the musketeer battalion.

Being able to secure talent suited to the characteristics of the unit in a timely manner was not a loss for the Chakho Musketeers.

The Imperial Army, which was trying to put into operation the ambush squad created in this way, soon realized the problem.

-Soundless weapons are needed!

As long as one used gunpowder, whether it was a sniper rifle or a rifle, one could not escape the shackles of heavy drinking.

The gunfire was so loud that a joke circulated that it was not a joke: ‘If you fire just one shot, there is no one within 5 ri (about 2 km) in any direction who knows that a gun has been fired.’

Of course, Hyang had a solution for this.

It was a silenced gun used by Milwi.

However, the silenced gun Milwi used was a weapon that could only be used with one shot.

Due to the nature of the organization called Milwi, the goal was to inflict as many fatal injuries as possible, from as close a distance as possible, with as little noise as possible.

Thanks to this, Milwi’s silenced gun didn’t look like a gun at all and the firing sound was extremely quiet. In return for securing such performance, the reloading process was extremely complicated, making it a weapon that could fire only one shot.

Therefore, the county modified a military rifle and developed a five-shot silenced rifle that uses bullets from a single gun.

It was a similar-looking item to the De Lisle Carbine, which was developed and widely used by the British during World War II.

“Here comes something I really like. “Whatever...”

Even after deciding to re-recruit, the Army’s greed remained.

“The Gap-style silent gun is a good product, but its range cannot exceed 20 shots (approximately 60m). And in order to properly demonstrate its power, it must be contained within 10 chapters. “We need something with a slightly longer range.”

Hyang, who was slightly annoyed by the army’s response of shouting ‘A little more!’, took on the homework.

“Then you guys try making it.”

‘Even if I make it as best as I can, it’s all whining and shit!’

The Army, which was tasked with this task, soon found the answer by selecting talented people who were known for their intelligence.

“What the heck...”

The members of the assassination team, who thought they didn’t know much about the jungle, moved as well as they did.

Native warriors were excellent at things like finding drinking water sources.

Searching for signs of the enemies, the Mesicas, was difficult.

However, the most frightening thing about the members of the undercover team was that if they hid, it would be difficult to find them.

When the members of the undercover brigades made up their minds and started moving secretly, even the native warriors could not be found properly. After looking around for a while, I saw members of the assassination team appearing in a completely unexpected place.

These secretive raiders soon became a nightmare for the Mesica people.

* * *

Shh!

“Oops!”

A Messica warrior who was moving to stop the conquering army heading toward Tenochtitlan suddenly let out a short scream and fell to the ground.

At that moment, the Messika warriors around them covered themselves with their shields and began to look in all directions.

“What the hell!”

“How...”

The Messika warriors, looking in all directions, could not hide their bewilderment. The warrior who had just died was located in the center of the camp.

It became difficult to find the enemy’s location as the soldier in the middle, neither at the front nor at the back, was attacked.

Shh! Shh! Shhh!

“Tsk!”

Once again, with the sound of the wind breaking, several warriors lost their lives at the same time.

The faces of the surviving Messika warriors were filled with fear.

With this attack, I realized that there were not just one or two enemies. No, I could tell that I was surrounded. But the scary thing was that I couldn’t see where they were.

What was even scarier was that the arrows fired by the unknown enemy were powerful enough to penetrate the shield and take one’s life.

The Messika warriors, unable to overcome their fear, began to slowly retreat.

Shhh!

As their comrades fell again with the sound of the wind ripping, the surviving Messika warriors immediately turned their backs and started running backwards.

“evil! “Ahh!”

“My feet! “My feet!”

However, before they could go about 10 yards (about 30 meters), the warriors grabbed their feet and rolled on the ground. And then he screamed again.

“evil! “Ahh!”

What made the fleeing Messika warriors scream was the caltrops that had been sprayed in advance by the Assault Team members.

His foot was pricked by a caltrop thorn, and as he fell, the caltrop thorn got stuck in other parts of his body, and he screamed from the pain.

The Messika warriors who were stranded while running away lost their lives to the indigenous warriors who pursued them.

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As time passed, the Mesica Army’s headquarters also began to sense abnormalities.

“It seems like something is wrong.”

At Okan’s words, the subordinate officers and Eagle Warriors nodded with serious faces.

About 100 surprise teams consisting of 15 people entered the jungle to stop the Korean warriors.

They were to withdraw immediately if the surprise attack was successful and return to the base to receive supplies.

If those who went out did not return, they would have been killed by Korean warriors.

In planning this strategy, Okan set the return rate extremely low.

However, it was not a loss as their deaths could hinder the Korean warriors.

The problem was a report sent by a scout some time ago.

Although the return rate of the raiding team was greatly reduced, the movement speed of the warriors did not decrease significantly.