"Yes, it's a mine." Gentaro Kodama's eyes stared at the battlefield in the distance, "The enemy's commander is very cunning, they laid a large area of mines in advance, using the entire position as a deadly trap to lure the Lu army to attack, and when the Lu army enters the position, they will instantly detonate the mines, such an attack, no one is spared." ”

Listening to Gentaro Kodama's explanation, Shinagawa couldn't help but gasp.

"The Satsuma army is so capable of fighting, but I'm afraid that with the fierceness of the Lu army, it will be difficult to fight against it!" Gentaro Kodama sighed, "I really don't know how this war will end......"

Shinagawa couldn't help but sigh when he heard this.

Nearly a year has passed since the outbreak of the largest civil war in Japan's history, and the war shows no signs of ending, but is tending to widen.

Gentaro Kodama believes that the best way for the government to end the war is to negotiate peace with Saigo Takamori, rather than borrowing troops from foreign countries.

After the complete failure of the "Chongbei Army" operation, the people in the northeastern region controlled by the Japanese Government were panicked, and news came from time to time that the Satsuma Army was about to launch a large-scale attack, but after more than a month, the Satsuma Army stopped its military operations and switched to a posture of defending on the spot.

Regarding the abnormal behavior of the Satsuma army, Kodama Gentaro initially thought that the Satsuma army was tired after a long battle, and although it won consecutive victories, its strength was also greatly damaged, so it was necessary to repair it, and the higher authorities also explained it to the government officers and soldiers, but what happened afterwards made him understand that this was not the case.

In the meantime. Saigo Takamori gave several stamps to the emperor one after another. Indicate the reason for this uprising. He requested a strike from the government and put forward conditions for peace talks.

The news of Saigo Takamori's request for peace brought hope to the Japanese military and civilians who had been tortured by the war, and also changed Kodama Gentaro's view of Saigo Takamori.

Gentaro Kodama knows that the banner of "New Deal and Virtue" played by Saigo Takamori is definitely not a casual talk to win the hearts and minds of the people, he is indeed practicing it.

After the Satsuma Army occupied the southwestern half of Japan, the government sent some spies to the "occupied areas" to inquire about the situation. Let's see if we can create chaos for the Satsuma army there. However, they soon discovered that the lives of the inhabitants of these areas, including the Momoto Yamaguchi Prefecture of the Choshu Domain, had not been disturbed too much, that the Satsuma Army had basically committed no offence against the inhabitants of the occupied areas, that the materials needed to be obtained from the private sector were also purchased with money, and that military discipline was very strict, and that there was basically no resistance to the occupation of the Satsuma Army in these areas, and not only that, but after a period of time. Many people in the occupied area expressed their support for Saigo Takamori, so much so that the spies soon became ineffective. Soon he fled back in embarrassment.

In the face of Saigo Takamori's request for peace talks, the Meiji government inexplicably remained silent, which made Kodama Gentaro depressed.

In his opinion, the government wants to end this disastrous war, and this is the best time.

After all, Saigo Takamori was the father of the Restoration, and he did not really want to rebel against the emperor, and the reason why he launched the "military admonition" was actually for a reason, and now the government obviously did not have the strength to defeat Saigo Takamori, and in the case that the other side took the initiative to "stop the war and stop the war in order to nourish the people", peace talks should be a logical thing.

But what made Kodama Gentaro feel unbelievable was that the government not only did not have the slightest intention of making peace with Saigo Takamori, but also began to borrow troops from foreign countries!

Although he did not know exactly what the arrival of the Russian army was, he could guess that if it were not for the government to give away some important benefits, the Russians who could not afford to come early would have come so quickly and so much.

Attacking only one Satsuma army's front, nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses were dispatched, what did the government pay to make the Russians work so hard?

Seeing that the Russians began to retreat, Kodama Gentaro retracted his thoughts, and he and Shinagawa walked down the hill at a brisk pace - if they walked slowly, they might fall into the hands of the opposing Satsuma army.

The first frontal battle between the Satsuma army and the Russian army ended, in which the Satsuma army eliminated more than 3,000 Russian troops at a small cost of 120 men.

On the same day, Gentaro Kodama wrote in his diary: "...... In the first battle of the Lu army, the losses were extremely heavy, and their fear of thieves was no different from that of our army. ……”

At night, Yusaku Uehara couldn't sleep, leaning in a bomb crater, looking up at the starry night sky.

At this time, he remembered the good time when he and Natsumi looked at the starry sky together.

Despite the brilliant victory in the daytime battle, the Satsuma samurai were full of praise for Yusaku Uehara and the sappers, but Yusaku Uehara didn't care, all he was thinking about now was Natsumi and the child who was about to be born.

Yusaku Uehara was thinking about Natsumi there, but suddenly there was a strange sound on the other side.

"Captain Uehara, there seems to be something strange on the enemy's side." A Satsuma samurai who was serving as a guard jumped into the crater where Yusaku Uehara was and pointed to the opposite side.

Yusaku Uehara straightened up, raised his binoculars and took a closer look, but found nothing but darkness.

"Did you hear that? It seems to ...... There is the sound of a ghost crying! This young samurai was from the Tosa Allied Army, and his courage seemed to be a little small, and when he said this, his voice trembled a little.

Uehara didn't laugh at his timidity, but listened intently.

Because just now, he also heard some strange faint sounds.

It's already November, and the weather is already very cold, and at night, when the night wind howls, it is very sad, and it can't help but give people a terrifying feeling, but this time, the sound heard by Yusaku Uehara is different from before.

In the wind whistle, there seems to be a faint cry of a woman!

"Did you hear that? This...... It can't be a ghost crying, right? The young samurai's face turned whiter.

Yusaku Uehara frowned.

After the battle in Kyoto and Osaka, although the lines of the two warring sides were largely stabilized here, fierce battles occurred from time to time, and there were many casualties in the battle. Rumors among local residents say that the ghosts of the war dead are crying at night. Therefore, they dare not go out at night. It's been a long time. Such rumors also had a certain impact on the armies of both sides fighting here, and it was only a young samurai who came up with such a phrase.

But after all, Yusaku Uehara is an excellent student taught by Lin Yiqing, and he doesn't care about such rumors. But today's voice is indeed strange.

If the teacher is here, will you feel scared to hear what he has to say? Yusaku Uehara thought to himself, and couldn't help but be a little funny.

"Call someone. Let's go over and see. Yusaku Uehara stood up and said.

The young samurai realized that he had shown a cowardly appearance in front of the chief, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, he answered, turned and ran away, and after a while, more than a dozen young samurai followed him to Yusaku Uehara's side.

"I hear a woman crying on the other side, let's go over and have a look." Yusaku Uehara glanced around at the samurai around him, made enough of Lin Yiqing's demeanor, and said in a deep voice.

"Hello!" These samurai listened to Yusaku Uehara's order, and they all agreed solemnly.

The current Yusaku Uehara. Because of his outstanding military exploits, he has established his own unique prestige among these young samurai.

Yusaku Uehara led them to the pontoon. The officers guarding the pontoon bridge heard that Yusaku Uehara was going to cross the river to reconnoitre, and they immediately expressed their support, and the two sides agreed on a code for communication, if Yusaku Uehara returned after encountering the Russian army, they would be responsible for answering and providing cover with Gatling guns.

After the agreement was made, Yusaku Uehara led a dozen young samurai to quickly cross the pontoon bridge and quietly touch the woodland on the opposite bank.

The reason why I chose to go to the woodland to scout first was because Yusaku Uehara found that the strange sound was coming from the woods.

But when they crossed the pontoon, the sounds disappeared inexplicably.

Yusaku Uehara waved the pistol in his right hand, and the samurai rushed into the forest at a brisk pace.

The woods glowed eerily in the moonlight, and Yusaku Uehara noticed that something white seemed to be shaking on several trees in the forest.

The samurai also noticed the white stuff and stopped in unison.

Yusaku Uehara made up his mind, mustered up his courage, and walked forward step by step.

After a few more steps forward, he finally saw what the white things were by the light of the moon.

Hanging from the tree is the body of a woman with white flowers!

The samurai who came later also saw this terrible scene, and their mouths opened wide in surprise.

Yusaku Uehara stared at a young girl about Natsumi's age in front of him, who had the same beautiful face and white and soft slender body as Natsumi, but now she was lifeless and hung on a tree.

Yusaku Uehara looked at the bodies of the other women, and he quickly judged that they had all hanged themselves.

Yusaku Uehara looked up at the dead girl in front of him again, he pulled out the combat knife that Lin Yiqing had made for him at his waist, jumped up and swung the knife, and cut the rope.

The girl's body fell in front of him, and he stepped forward to support the girl, whose body was still soft and her skin was still warm, proving that she had only been dead for a short time.

Yusaku Uehara looked at the girl's face, he noticed that the girl's lips were bitten, her neck and chest were full of bite marks, and there were blood stains between her legs, and he immediately understood what was going on, and his eyes were first shocked, and then turned into raging anger.

The warriors lowered the bodies of the rest of the women, more than twenty in all, all of whom had hanged themselves.

"They...... It was insulted by Lucia's ghost beast, that's why he ran here and committed suicide! A young samurai also understood what was going on and hissed.

"Lucia's ghost animal!"

"Eight Garucia ghost beasts!"

Uehara Yusaku somehow suddenly remembered Natsumi who was far away in Osaka, and his heart suddenly burned like a fire.

Yusaku Uehara knew that as long as the Russian army stayed in Japan for a day, such a thing would not stop happening.

The next day.

Minamino Eisuke looked at the extinguished village with some surprise, waved his hand, and the Satsuma soldiers behind him rushed over quickly.

As the vice-captain of the Samoki Army, Eisuke Minamino is now considered a battle-hardened battle, but this time he came to this village with a small team of troops, and somehow, there was always a feeling of unease.

The village was once a supply depot for government forces. But now they are in the village. But not a single enemy was found.

"Your Excellency. Nobody ......," a Satsuma officer whispered to Eisuke Minamino with the barrel of his pistol on his rain-soaked military cap.

"Search carefully! Watch out for enemy snipers to shoot cold shots! Eisuke Minamino ordered.

The officer took the order, and Eisuke Minamino waved the revolver in his hand and walked cautiously forward with the soldiers.

"Captain! Look over there......" One of the Odd Soldiers team members pointed to a courtyard gate in the distance.

Eisuke Minamino looked in the direction of his finger and saw what seemed to be a bunch of white flowers there.

Eisuke Minamino blinked, looked carefully, and then saw clearly. There, it seems, is a pile of human corpses!

"Yes...... Woman! "Someone can see it, too.

Eisuke Minamino and a team of subordinates cautiously approached the courtyard, and when he saw what was in front of him, he couldn't help but be taken aback.

Those lying on the ground were all naked corpses of women!

Eisuke Minamino stared blankly at these female corpses, feeling anger rising in his heart.

Noticing a woman lying face down on the ground, her chest covered in black blood, she stepped forward and carefully turned the woman's body over, revealing the face of a young woman with angry eyes and a distorted face.

The Satsuma soldiers looked at the naked female corpse, and their eyes were mostly focused on the woman's chest and lower limbs. But Eisuke Minamino noticed that there seemed to be something in the woman's mouth.

"It looks like there's something in your mouth, take it out and look at it." Eisuke Minamino ordered.

The soldiers of the Satsuma Army gathered to watch. A soldier pulled out a dagger and stepped forward, pried open the clenched teeth of the female corpse, and used the tip of the knife to pick out the contents.

"It's ...... Lucian stuff! Give the bite off! When the soldier saw what had come out of the woman's mouth, he couldn't help but curse, "Damn Lucia! ”

The surrounding Satsuma soldiers looked at this thing, and their faces showed resentment, and Eisuke Minamino also saw that this thing was thick and big, and it was not at all the same as the Japanese thing.

"Keep searching! This bastard who has nothing should not be able to run far! Eisuke Minamino shouted loudly.

The Satsuma soldiers immediately launched a search, and after a while, they found the bodies of three Russian soldiers.

The three Russian soldiers had been dead for a long time, their upper bodies were still wearing gray uniforms, but the pants on their lower bodies were gone, and the Satsuma soldiers turned over their corpses, and sure enough, they found that one of the male roots was missing, dyed black and red.

The three Satsuma soldiers were furious, and immediately stepped forward to draw their knives and cut off the heads of the three Russian soldiers.

Soon, they found several letters on the corpse.

"Sir, look at this ......" A soldier took all the letters and handed them to Minamino Eisuke, "I don't know if there is a secret military information ...... this"

Eisuke Minamino took the letter and opened it to read it, and when he saw that it was all written in Russian, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and roll his eyes.

"Captain, what's written on this?" A samurai stepped forward and asked.

"I don't know, it's Lucia." Eisuke Minamino called a soldier and handed him the letter, "You hurry back to the staff base camp and give the letter to General Hayashi, he can find someone who understands Lucia and can know what is written on it!" ”

The soldier received the order, carefully carried the letter in his arms, and hurried along the road from which he came.

Not long after, these letters arrived in Lin Yiqing's hands.

Lin Yiqing took these letters, glanced at the envelope, and knew that these were all private messages from Russian soldiers.

Having carried out "special missions" in Siberia and Mongolia more than once, he is no stranger to the Russian language.

Even though he knew that the contents of the letters might not matter, he opened them and read them.

And one of the letters, Lin Yiqing only glanced at it, and his face changed a little.

"Japanese women are not much better than Russian women, but these three Japanese women have better waists than Russian women; The three women seem to be beauties drawn with a pen, with delicate skin, grabbing a handful as if touching a baby, and a faint fragrance; They lay on the ground with their eyes slightly closed, tears on their eyelashes, and red cheeks, afraid to look at us. …… It took half a day before we left. In the evening, Belyanko asked me to go back to them. ”

"When we entered the room where they were held, and saw the three women lying naked on the ground, we took off our clothes and threw ourselves on them, and as you might imagine, their bodies were no longer hot, but cold. I thought it was caused by lying on the floor for a long time, and I wanted to move them to an idle bed. Belyankov whispered to me that they were all dead. It stands to reason that the village has become occupied by the Russian army, and the villagers in it are helping us, but we don't trust them. You know, today they may help us against the Satsuma, tomorrow will they betray us to the Satsuma? Everyone thinks that the best way is to kill them all after using them. That's what we all thought, and that's what we did, and now there are only a few prettier women left in the village, like these three women. ”

"I didn't believe they were dead, so I touched their lips again, and they couldn't breathe anymore. It's a pity that all three Japanese women are indeed dead. But we were still very interested in them, and we worked hard together on the three corpses, and when we were done, we took pictures with them, and of course, it took a while for the pictures to be washed out......" (to be continued......

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