Liu Quan frowned and listened, but there was nothing he could do.

"Where's Kazukun?!" she had to interrupt Harada.

Harada shook his head, the expression of worry on his face deepened.

"No news has come yet. ”

Yanagizumi was silent for a moment, "So, what about the Kasuga team?!"

Harada said unsurely, "...... I should be able to hold it up for a while, right?!......!The news I got before was that those guys really deserved to be good men of Tama, and they were fighting each other desperately......

With a heavy heart, Ryuzumi raised his head and looked in the direction of Mt. Iwasaki, where Shinhachi and Kasuga were guarding, but could barely see anything except a cloud of smoke and dust.

Kondo stood not far from them, as if he had listened to all their conversation. But since the beginning of the battle, it has been a bitter battle, the situation is overwhelmingly unfavorable to the enemy, and the enemy has constantly killed and wounded the soldiers who have only swords in their hands and do not know how to use artillery and rifles, and the positions are full of flesh and blood. This harsh reality seemed as if Kondo was about to be knocked down.

He stood there in disbelief, looking sadly at the three sides where the fierce battle was raging, as the shells fell on his own position, the sand and gravel flew sideways, and when the smoke and dust cleared, the soldiers staggered to the ground, wounded and unable to move...... He muttered, "Damn...... How...... How so?!"

Only then did Yanagizumi remember that Kondo was seriously injured by a stab and did not participate in the Battle of Toba Fushimi, so he had never seen the cruel scene of the defeat of the shogunate army. Lacking the necessary understanding of the advanced tactics and equipment of the new government army, and simply thinking that this was the era when victory could be won by relying on superb swordsmanship and firm conviction - this kind of thinking is completely outdated.

Suddenly, a bloodied soldier stumbled over - a few steps away from Yanagizumi and Harada, and fell to the ground!

Kondo, Yanagizumi, and Harada were all taken aback. Harada quickly ran up to pick up the team member.

"Hey, are you alright?!How's it going-"

His voice stopped abruptly. For he had noticed that the sergeant had a bloody hole in his abdomen that had been pierced by a bullet. In fact, it is a miracle that the sergeant actually ran so far with the wound of the bullet in his hands.

Instead of answering Harada, the squad member said hurriedly, intermittently, "...... Enemy...... Surrounded from behind...... Shoot violently...... We're suffering heavy casualties! ...... Go for reinforcements...... Saito-gumi—"

Before the word "long" could be uttered, the team member's body collapsed heavily under Harada's arm support, and his head was tilted to the side.

Harada couldn't bear to close his eyes, and laid the lifeless body of the team member on the ground before standing up and looking at Kondo.

"What now?Mr. Kondo?!"

Kondo's face was tense, and his eyebrows were almost twisted into a dead knot.

It's not that he doesn't know how difficult the situation is facing, but now the main camp is almost about to be broken by the enemy! There are no troops to help! But it is obviously impossible to let Saito fend for himself in Kannonzaka so ruthlessly, and the Shinsengumi must not treat his companions so ruthlessly! But now, what else can be done-

Liu Quan took a deep breath and said resolutely: "Zuo Zhijun, you are here in this camp to protect Mr. Kondo. I went to Kannonzaka alone for reinforcements. ”

Kondo:!!!

Harada: !?

After making this decision, which was close to death, Yanagizumi's face was pale and his lips trembled, but he still held the sword in his hand, raised his head and smiled at Kondo and Harada reluctantly.

“...... You can't just leave Yijun there. Someone has to help him......"

Her voice seemed to tremble, but the content of her speech was simple and extremely brave, even with a hint of reckless bravery.

"Mr. Kondo and Mr. Zuo...... You know what I'm capable of. As long as you can cooperate well with Yijun, maybe ...... We still have a chance to fight back, and it's not impossible to destroy the enemy army. ”

Her voice trembled, and she tried to make a joke, but neither Kondo nor Harada laughed.

Kondo seemed to be completely knocked down by her decision that looked like suicide, muttering "How can you let a woman die alone", "I have to rely on a woman's sacrifice in exchange for the lives of my subordinates, have I Kondo fallen to such a point of contempt", his face was full of painful self-blame, as if he was going to stop her in the next second, or he was about to announce that he was going to run to reinforcements in person as soon as his blood was surging and his head was hot.

...... Speaking of which, the director is a traditional and old-fashioned man, no matter how many times she or the deputy director reiterates that she doesn't need special treatment, the director always feels that she is the kind of person who deserves to be treated and taken care of. So now it feels hard to accept watching her gamble with her life to rescue the loyal subordinates who have followed her since the beginning...... It's painful, isn't it?

Without waiting for Kondo to speak, Liu Quan preemptively said to Harada: "Then, this camp is here, please." ”

Harada's face flashed with a hint of unbearability. He opened his mouth, as if to call out to her, but his sanity clearly told him that they had no other way to go.

"Hey, Yukiba!" he called out to her, but he didn't seem to know what to say for a moment. As if his usual ease of communication seemed to be completely useless at this time, he thought hard and squeezed out a sentence.

"What if you ...... How can we say ...... to the deputy chief?"

Liu Quan seemed a little surprised, paused, and suddenly laughed.

"Deputy Chief?!" she had already walked a few steps away, and at this moment she stopped at Harada's shout and turned her head, just looking at him like that, a soft smile on her pale face.

"Don't worry. I will tell him myself that I left my post without permission and ran to support Ichi-kun. When the time comes, I hope he won't make me seppuku like a thunderbolt. ”

She said half-jokingly, her tone finally got rid of Fang Cai's dazedness, apprehension and fear, and actually revealed a little lightheartedness.

"Also, the order that the deputy chief gave me was 'to protect Kondo-kun together with Saito in the most dangerous time.'" She skillfully omitted the premise of the deputy chief's order - when he lost the battle.

“...... If I lose even Ichikun, I won't have fulfilled the deputy chief's order. A look of determination appeared on her face.

"So, here in this camp and Mr. Kondo, please leave it to you. I'm going to pick up Ichik-kun back. ”

Her first sentence was so powerful that Harada's throat tightened for a moment as if something had clogged up, and the latter sentence immediately became light, like Saito was a lost puppy.

Laughter and sighs crowded into Harada's chest at the same time, and he couldn't make a sound, so he could only look at Liu Quan and nod vigorously, watching her resolutely turn around, holding the strangely shaped sword that had been re-sheathed at her waist with her left hand, and trotting all the way up the hill to the north.

With the bullets and fragments of shells that exploded over his head and on his sides along the way, Yanagizumi quickly burrowed into the woods and ran towards Kannonzaka.

Although she is always afraid of being in this kind of killing hell, she will be afraid that she will be injured and she will die, but she has always firmly remembered that the system bacteria have promised from the beginning that the player will not really receive a boxed lunch. It's just that the physical pain is not diminished in the slightest.

Stepping on the uneven forest Zhongshan Road, Liu Quan brushed aside the branches of the big trees on both sides and ran wildly.

It's hard to imagine what kind of disadvantage Xiao Yi is fighting with the enemy army. Needless to say, the objective aspects of numbers, combat power, and firepower are not to be said, just look at the seriously injured team soldier who went down the mountain to ask for help - Xiao Yi used to be a cold-blooded swordsman, no matter when and what kind of task he performed, no matter how difficult it was, he never sent anyone to ask for help?!

Wasn't he alone in Yaukoji facing dozens or hundreds of Satsuma clan soldiers? In Fushimi's Ryuunji Temple, wasn't he fighting against Tenki Jiushou alone? Every time it was a hard battle so close to death that he was not sure of victory, but he never took the initiative to ask for help. Liu Quan went to reinforce one time on Shannan's orders, and the other on the assignment of the earth.

But now...... What are the mouthless swordsmen of the Shinsengumi to face?

Liu Quan got out of the woods in one breath, and before she could look around at the scene, she suddenly felt a cold and sharp killing intent coming straight at her behind her, arousing the hairs on the surface of her body to stand on end-

Her reaction was not slow, and she didn't have time to draw the knife, so she put her hands together and shouted, "Stop it all!!"

...... You still need a little superpower to save your life at a critical moment, don't you?

The blood-soaked blade sliced through the air with a thud, stopping just inches from her throat.

Liu Quan looked at it and was immediately shocked.

“...... Yikun: Did you cut me down like a villain of the chief?"

She hurriedly withdrew her hand. Almost at the same moment, the black-clothed young man on the opposite side widened his eyes slightly, paused for a moment, and then slowly withdrew his Taidao "Ikeda Onijinmaru Kunishige".

He gasped slightly, as if he felt a little tired after the battle, and his body, which always stood straight, also collapsed slightly. His eyes widened as he stared at the woman who had suddenly emerged from the woods without warning, and his breath was a little rapid.

"How did you end up here?!"

His gaze drifted behind her, and he didn't see anyone. In an instant he seemed to understand something, and his face became even more ugly.

“...... You're running alone again...... Support me?!"

Liu Quan patted his heart, which was beating fast because of the fright of running and almost being stabbed just now, and showed a bright smile at Xiao Yi, who was covered in blood.

"yes. I think I'm about to become a professional 'Yijun support group'~"

This joke did not make the face of the young man opposite a little slighter.

"It's dangerous here. He warned her in a stern tone, "Even if you have that kind of ...... That kind of magical ability is also difficult to control the enemy who climbs up from all directions to sneak attack. After they had scattered us, they scattered us too, intending to surround us one by one and strangle us...... They also have powerful guns!No matter how amazing your abilities are, can you withstand bullets?!"

After listening to the rare long list of warnings from the mouthless Xiaoyi, Liu Quan bent his eyes slightly, and his smile deepened.

"Huh~ yes. She actually gave an affirmative answer, looking at Xiao Yi's shocked face full of "What the hell are you talking about?!", and smiled even more proudly.

"I mean, my ability to hold bullets in mid-air - so, Ichi-kun, it's up to you and me to strangle them next, right?"