Toyojiro Kura was an ordinary Japanese citizen, and his family had no other occupation than farmers and small traders. Cangfeng, who inherited the ancestral business, was once a happy small businessman, an old lady, wife, young son, a harmonious family of four, living his ordinary life. It's a pity that the sudden war disrupted the rhythm of everything, and Toyojiro Kura's house of harmony was shattered overnight.

Cangfeng became a coolie, busy in the city day and night, carrying supplies, burying corpses, in short, there was endless work. Cangfeng's wife was also requisitioned, and her ordinary-looking wife was taken to the city's hospital to take care of the wounded soldiers who had been brought down from the front. Cangfeng also knew that he was loyal and patriotic, and he didn't mind dedicating himself to the emperor and the motherland, but both of them were arrested and used as coolies, what should the children and the elderly in the family do?

After the war began, prices rose like a fly, and after the Manchurian army entered Kyoto, it reached an outrageous height. Cangfeng and his wife worked hard, and it was difficult to ensure the food and clothing of their families, not to mention that now both of them have been arrested! It is difficult for an elderly mother to get something to eat, let alone a five-year-old son. Cangfeng, who had been away from home for half a month, was very worried, he was afraid that when he returned home again, his mother and young son would never appear in front of him again.

"Hide quickly, the Manchurian air raid is coming again!" It was just getting dark, and when Kura Feng took advantage of the rare rest time to look at the sky and miss his family, his co-worker Taro Suzuki came over and pulled his sleeve to remind him that it was time to avoid the air raid.

The air raids of the Manchurian Army were very terrifying, * would fall from the dark sky and destroy everything in the vicinity. The demon known as the Fire Demon* is even more terrifying, with sticky grease splashing everywhere like water, and then the flames will consume everything. Many of Cangfeng's workers lost their lives in the air raids, and their deaths were very ugly. Now that everyone has mastered the law of Manchurian air raids, and they have dug air-raid shelters like the soldiers, the chances of survival are much greater, and as long as they are careful, there is still not much threat.

Cangfeng is basically safe, but what about his wife? What about mothers and children at home? Do they have bomb shelters to hide? Cangfeng didn't know about his family's situation. Once when he was fortunate enough to climb high and look far away, Cangfeng looked at the direction of his home, which had been burned into a white ground, and the once small home may only be left with ashes. I don't know if the mother and child have escaped, or if they have already been buried in the fire. Every time he thought of this, Cangfeng wanted to run away and flee home to take a look, but the overseer Inoue Koji watched too closely, and he had no chance to withdraw at all. Although Cangfeng is a coolie, he also practices military law, and if he escapes without permission, he will be beheaded.

"Blow a section!" A large group of workers huddled like groundhogs in the narrow bomb shelter they had dug themselves, and Suzuki handed Kuratoyo's flute to him.

Cangfeng can play the flute, not very well, but at least there is a tune. When the Manchurian air raid came, when everyone prayed to survive, they liked to listen to Cangfeng play a song, even if it was an elegy for themselves. Overseer Inoue discovered that Kurangyu was playing the flute, but it was rare that he did not hit anyone, but encouraged Kurang to keep playing. The depressed and desperate need comfort, the coolies need it, the soldiers need it, even the fierce overseers. Cangfeng's flute is not very good, but it can calm everyone's fearful minds, so everyone wants to listen to it more.

"It's raining!" Cang Feng took the flute, but did not start playing, but walked out in a trance, and it was drizzling in the night, and Cang Feng was confused in the rain.

Everyone also moved their bodies as if they were outside, and after the Manchurian army approached Kyoto, it never rained in Kyoto again, and they had not walked in the peaceful rain for a long time. Cang Feng stretched out his hand to pick up the rain, and let the raindrops fall on his palm, as if he touched the rain, he touched peace. That peace and tranquility was something he had lost for too long.

"Lazy bastards, get out of here and get on with your work!" Overseer Inoue reappeared brandishing his stick, and the terrible fellow didn't seem to know what tiredness was, and he would never get tired.

"Your Excellency Inoue, it's night, and the Manchurian air raid is coming!" Suzuki cautiously explained, but Inoue's presence frightened him again, and he retracted into the dugout.

"Lazy bastards, there are always endless excuses! The airships of the Manchurians need a clear sky, and when it rains, they can't launch an air attack! Overseer Inoue also had to avoid the air raids, he didn't care about the deaths and injuries of the laborers, but he felt sorry for the ammunition that was blown up with the coolies.

Cangfeng picked up the flute, and the heavy supplies fell on his shoulders again. The fighting on the front line was very tense, and the Manchurian Army, the Korean Army, and the Heiseong Government Army would launch offremarks every day, and the officers and troops would consume a large amount of ammunition every day, resulting in a large number of wounded. Ammunition, food, and medicine all need to be supplied, and the wounded have to be transported down, all of which are the work of Cangfeng and others. Cangfeng enjoys transporting the wounded, although the odds are very low, but the job of transporting the wounded gives him hope to see his wife. The group lit torches and got busy under the command of the overseer Inoe, who was going to send supplies to the front line overnight. But the team had only been moving for a while, and the air raid that would never have appeared in the mouth of Overseer Inoue came again.

"Woo ......" A very harsh, shrill and strange sound sounded in the air, similar to the sound of an air raid dropping bombs, but slightly different.

"Manchurian heavy artillery, get down, get down!" Overseer Inoue was a veteran of the battlefield, but he lost a palm and became an overseer, so he knows a lot about some things on the battlefield.

"Boom, boom, boom ......" The coolie men were already afraid, and when they heard the screams of the well, they were all lying on their stomachs, but this shelling was aimed at them, and they could not be dodged by lying down. After a series of explosions, a third of the people left Cangfeng, most of them were torn apart by the explosion, and only a small part left their whole corpses, but they were bruised, and they were shocked to death. Those who ran around in the shelling died very completely, they were torn to pieces by the shock wave, and many parts were scattered and could not be found.

"Hide, ...... Hide...... "Only the upper half of the overseer is left, and the small half doesn't know where to fly for a long time." However, the dying Inoue finally had humanity and reminded the people to run, this kind of shelling will not be more than once, and they must take advantage of the gap to slip away.

Many of the wounded were abandoned along with the corpses and supplies, and Kura Yu returned to the state he had just been, but unfortunately Taro Suzuki could no longer appear beside him. There were much fewer people in the bomb shelter, but the crowding was still there. Everyone's faces were much paler, and there were a lot of blood stains on their bodies, and no one mentioned the flute anymore.

"Why fight?" Cangfeng, who was sitting at the entrance of the cave, suddenly muttered to himself and asked a question that should be considered by the big shots.

"The one in Tokyo wants to be the emperor, and we also want to be the emperor, and we all want to be the emperor, and then we fight!" Someone in the crowd replied to Cangfeng in a low voice like a dream.

"Can't the two of them discuss it? Why war? Cangfeng doesn't know if his family is still alive, if they are alive, they must be very cold on this rainy night.

"No negotiation! Tokyo said that our emperor had assassinated Emperor Komei, and that he was even an impostor, and that he could no longer be the emperor! "Someone agreed, but there was no one to speak.

"Then let the one in Tokyo be the emperor!" Cangfeng said unconsciously.

"The ministers said no, the one in Tokyo is a woman, and his husband is a foreigner, so he can't be the emperor!" The voices in the crowd were a little louder.

"We've had many female emperors! And the emperor's husband also had Chinese, this does not affect! "There was an argument in the crowd, and some people felt that they were well-informed, knew that Japan had a female emperor, and that the imperial family had long had Chinese blood in their veins.

"Two children of the gods are vying for the position of emperor, why did the Manchurians come?" Cangfeng paid more attention to the Manchurians, because the Manchurians had the power to destroy everything.

"Emperor Heisei of Tokyo is the wife of a Manchurian general, and his wife is vying for the throne, and her husband will definitely come forward." This answer was entirely a conjecture on the part of the coolies themselves.

"Yes! Husbands should protect their wives! Cangfeng's mind was still very confused, he wanted to help his wife, although he didn't know how his wife was now, but he knew that the timid woman needed him.

It's a pity that no matter how many people need it, Cangfeng still can't leave. When it was light, a new overseer, Kimura, arrived, and the coolies continued to work. Last night's terrifying artillery fire was not an air raid, but Manchurian artillery. More than ten days after the infantry had built up the outlying positions, the heavy artillery units of the Manchurian army arrived, and they set up artillery positions on the hills outside the city, firing at targets they considered suspicious at any time.

During the day the Manchurians did not carry out artillery bombardment, and the airships that they had been absent from last night returned. The Manchurians seemed to have lost interest in the trenches at the front, and all the brutal means were greeted like the city. High-explosive bombs destroyed everything, incendiary sheets set everything in flames, billowing smoke obscured everything, as if day had returned to night. Moreover, the Manchurians used a new type of terror weapon, a weapon with a huge scale of destruction, when it exploded, a huge mushroom-like fire ball would rise, and as long as it was wrapped in the fire, all living beings would be killed, even if you were hiding in a solid bunker. Goxinga once again experimented with his new weapon with Japan, and this terrifying weapon was the Cloud Burst Bomb.

Countless soldiers and civilians died of suffocation in the explosion, and they did not even have a chance to struggle and shout. When Cangfeng and the others retreated to the bomb shelter, it was already the second rainy night, but the night rain did not completely drive the Manchurians away, and the shelling and bombardment continued.

"Goodbye!" Cangfeng played the flute and said goodbye to the people he loved with the flute, and soon after the flute sounded, the vicinity of Cangfeng's air-raid shelter fell into a sea of fire.