Inoue Kita is only 16 years old, and from a middle-to-high-ranking samurai family, he is not used to lying in a sticky and cold sand pit. However, on the battlefield of Tokyo Bay, there is no better treatment, and Inoue Kita is also glad that he can lie here, and those unfortunate people have all become terrible corpses.

All the Japanese knew the significance of the battle in Gulf of Tonkin, and in the event of defeat, the entire Imperial State would cease to exist. Therefore, whether it is the shogunate or the emperor, whether it is the shogunate faction or the shogunate faction, they all took out their own family resources, and wanted to fight to the death with a strong enemy, seeking a fantasy of seeking peace by war. Now that everyone has taken out their family funds, some people who were originally very precious have also been sent to the battlefield. These very precious people included not only the thousand-year-old nobles such as daimyo and high-ranking samurai, but also the hope for the future of Japan, the seeds of the development of the empire, and all the students in Tokyo's schools went to war.

The Meiji government, like Kokoko, attached great importance to the cultivation and education of human resources, and only when there were countless talents in the green mountains could the empire stand tall in the world forever. Therefore, the Meiji government also set up many schools to train modern talents, and the most precious talents were the students of teacher training colleges. Students in other directions are gold ingots, and normal students are cornucopias, as long as there are sufficient teachers, the country can cultivate endless talents.

Inoue Kita is not only a student, but also a teacher student, that is, the most precious talent, but he has not escaped the baptism of war. Although Tokugawa Yoshiki summoned nearly 300,000 samurai from all over Japan, Emperor Meiji still felt that it was not enough, so he personally issued an edict requiring all samurai men over the age of 13 and civilian men over the age of 15 in Tokyo to join the army and participate in the war. Inoue Kita also got it out of school, and of course because he was a noble birth and a teacher that everyone respected, so instead of using a bamboo gun as a weapon, he got a Schneider rifle.

Inoue not only has good weapons, but also good treatment, and on the first day he became a squadron leader, with more than 180 people under his hands. Inoue, who has been influenced by samurai culture since childhood, disliked his subordinates very much at first, they were dressed dirty and chaotic, their eyes were dull and there was no trace of bravery, and the weapons in their hands were also messy, and they did not look like soldiers at all. But after the start of the war, Inoue began to rejoice that God had blessed him, and if it weren't for these dirty-looking and stupid-looking subordinates, he would have died I don't know how many times.

After the offensive under the joint command of Tokugawa Yoshiki and Saigo Takamori began, Inoue's squadron also launched an attack on the Manchurian army's defense line with a group of cooperative troops with a feint. At the beginning, Inoue still complained in his heart, lamenting that he had lost the opportunity to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor and add glory to the family. Feint troops! Isn't it just going through the motions to attract the enemy's attention, and then charging behind them, and you won't get any merit. But while fighting, everything is different from what was planned.

The Manchurian Army would not judge which was a feint attack and which was the main attack, as long as it was the Japanese army that came forward, they greeted them equally. Heavy artillery shells are like hail, medium-caliber artillery is denser than torrential rain, and small-caliber artillery is almost everywhere. There were explosions everywhere, everywhere there were waves of violent earthquakes within the five internal shocks of the crashing people, and everything was shrouded in a dark red fog. There was seawater, blood, minced flesh, sand, tears, and endless wailing, and Inoue felt like he was in hell, and he could do nothing but howl and tremble. It was his disheveled soldiers who pulled him out of danger again and again, and took him away from death. When there was finally no way out, several of his subordinates plunged into the cold sand pit by pressing the well.

The sand pit was just over two meters deep, the bottom of the pit was full of blood, and there were stumps, internal organs, and powdered flesh everywhere, but it was a rare paradise in this hell. The killing outside the pit didn't stop for a moment, there were rumbling explosions and unwilling wails everywhere, and from time to time stumps or something that didn't know what it was would fly in. Inoue trembled and curled up in a bunker in the sand, clinging his body to the sand and even burying his face in the sand.

"Squadron leader, we ran in the wrong direction and strayed into the attack area of the main attacking force!" An elderly soldier with a samurai* sword, after looking at it for a moment, immediately reported what he had seen to Inoue. Although Inoue is not a few years older than his grandson, the Japanese respect for the samurai and the ancient concept of hierarchy still make him respect this shaky squadron leader very much.

"Can we go back?" Inoue was pushed a few times before he reacted, and he wanted to go back to the feint echelon that didn't get much credit.

"I'm afraid there is no hope, there is almost a sea of blood outside, everywhere is almost the same, and it is impossible to tell where our large army is!" The old soldier, who had been the owner of the pawnshop, looked around for a while, and when he returned, he shattered Inoue's illusions.

Inoue hadn't spoken for a long time, and after staying in the sand pit for a long time, he calmed down a lot, and his brain gradually returned to functioning. In the current situation, I am afraid that as long as he leaves the sand pit, he will return to the west with his life, and his life is gone, so what is the point of finding the troops he belongs to. But let's not go! The main attacking force here is also the enemy's key target, and I am afraid that it will be even more dangerous. After thinking about it, Inoue decided to respond to all changes with no change, so let's honestly squint here!

Inoue and the only five or six remaining subordinates around him squatted in the sand pit for a while, and the sound of the guns did not become sparse, and the sound of the guns became dense again. The crowd could not see what was outside, but they saw countless people running past the bunker where they were, many of whom glared at them. After a long, long time, the people outside were still running forward, and the gunfire was still fierce, and Inoue seemed to see several of his classmates among the people who ran by.

"How's it going out there?" When Inoue met his classmates, his self-esteem was hurt a lot, and he felt that the situation outside might have changed a little.

"The barbed wire fence and the trap have been broken through by our troops, and our troops have already entered the enemy's positions and are bombarding the enemy's pillboxes with field artillery!" The pawnshop owner climbed up and poked his head again, then turned back in surprise and shouted to the people in the bunker what he had seen.

"The enemy is ......" the pawnshop owner was about to say something more, but a distant bullet had ripped off his skull, leaving his words in his heart forever.

The bloody corpse of the pawnshop owner fell right in front of Inoue, but Inoue kept looking into the air, and he wanted to find out where the old man's skull was. The death of the pawnshop shopkeeper made the people who had just had a glimmer of hope calm down and once again firmly pressed their bodies against the sand. After a long, long time, everyone suddenly seemed to hear the cry of "Long live". A young soldier, gritting his teeth and looking outside.

"We're in full swing with the enemy!" The young man shouted excitedly.

"Charge!" Inoue couldn't help but look up, the position of the Manchurian Army was really full of Japanese troops, they seemed to be victorious, the smart Inoue immediately seized this opportunity, roared and led his subordinates to rush to the battlefield of victory.

As soon as he left the bunker, Inoue fell to the ground and vomited uncontrollably. Inoeu, who had only raised his head in the sand pit, had never seen the whole picture of the battlefield, but now he finally saw it. The corpses of the Japanese soldiers were densely packed, one next to each other in a place where there were almost no feet, and Inoue had a strange thought in his head before vomiting, and Tokyo Bay seemed to have turned into a grassland of corpses. After vomiting everything in their stomachs, Inoue and the others once again stepped on the corpses of their comrades and charged forward, rushing towards the position that represented merit.

Inoue and his party were quickly swept away by the flow of charge, and everyone seemed to want credit for capturing the enemy's position. However, the artillery bombardment of the Manchurian army did not stop, and the bullets continued to come from the front, and the team often changed direction due to the impact of the shells, and the people in the team often fell to the ground without a sound. Inoue ran with everyone, they ran through several trenches, ran past the pillboxes of the Manchurian army, and even ran to the front of the main attack echelon, and then they finally stopped.

The position of the Manchurian Army did not collapse, they were retreating in an orderly manner, and the daredevils of Inoue encountered the last broken line of defense of the Manchurian Army, and then they were defeated in an instant. Running around for a while and lying on the ground to avoid bullets, he suddenly found that not far from him, there was a Manchurian soldier fighting hand-to-hand with several Japanese soldiers, the Japanese soldiers were holding spears and *, but the Manchurian soldier only had a shovel-like thing. Inoue couldn't contain the excitement in his heart, it was an area rarely frequented by bullets, it was a Manchurian soldier who was certain to die, Inoue wanted to take a Manchurian head back, so he also carried a bayonet to kill it.

"Ahh Although the Manchurian soldiers were being besieged, his fighting skills were very superb, and the shovel-like thing was also very sharp. When Inoue rushed over, the Manchurian soldiers had just cut off a spear with a shovel, and then slashed off the head of a Japanese soldier with a shovel. The bloody human head happened to fall in front of Inoue, who screamed in fright, and then sat down on the ground. After cheering himself up a few times in his heart, Inoue got up with difficulty and continued to rush towards the Manchurian soldier, but when he arrived, it seemed that it was too late. Although the Manchurian soldiers were stabbed in the left arm, the Japanese soldiers who besieged him were all corpses.

Inoue, who was fighting in front of the Manchurian Army, was suddenly stupid, and the other party was two heads taller than him, like an adult looking at a child. The strong muscles on the other party's body and the lush hair on the arms are as terrifying as a bear. Although Inoue did not put down the gun, he did not dare to move. The Manchurian soldiers looked at him for a while, then ignored him, picked up a corpse colored in Manchurian military uniforms on the ground, and left quickly.

Inoue didn't dare to shoot him in the back, and just watched him leave as if he had become a sculptural stone statue. Later, the gunfire of the Manchurian army gradually faded away, and countless Japanese troops ran past Inoue's side, but until some pungent fog rose, Inoue did not react at all.