"That's what separates him from us." Nathan smiled and said, "He doesn't have the ability to control Germany, so he thinks that we are like him, we don't have the ability to control a country, no wonder it was Germany who controlled him in the end." ”

"I'll let Uncle Meyer know how wrong he is." Sara gave a confident smile.

"Hayashi has achieved his goal of weakening Japan, and the most crucial part of the 'Jerusalem of the East' plan has been completed, and I wonder how he would feel if he lived now." Nathan sighed as he thought of the deceased Hayashi Yoshi-cheol.

"Lin will be relieved and proud of his brother." Sara said.

"Thanks to you, my daughter, you got in touch with his brother to get this great plan back on the ground," Nathan looked at his daughter with a look of pride in his eyes, "I'm so proud and proud of you. ”

Sarah, of course, understood what her father's words of praise meant to her, and her heart stirred, but she still had a quiet smile on her face.

She knows that the time has begun for her true ambitions.

Kumamoto Castle, Japan.

In the courtyard of the hospital, Yusaku Uehara put a bamboo flute to his lips.

He found the bamboo flute from a fighter engineer who had died in battle, and who had died in a battle shortly after joining the combat engineer unit, and Yusaku Uehara couldn't even call him by name.

He was hit by a Russian shell, and his body disappeared in an instant, and that time. Yusaku Uehara was also swept away by the air wave generated by the explosion. If it weren't for his luck. Falling into a pile of sand, he would have been seriously injured, if not dead.

Yusaku Uehara knew what his comrades were hit.

It was a 279-mm mortar gun characteristic of the Russians.

As early as the battle of Osaka Castle, he had seen the power of this artillery with his own eyes, when the Satsuma army was in its prime, and under the command of Lin Yiqing, the Satsuma army even captured 6 such cannons from the Russian army. With these steel behemoths, the Russians and government forces were dealt a heavy blow.

But now, those glorious achievements have passed with the wind.

And the Russians, with such cannons, appeared outside Kumamoto Castle.

Yusaku Uehara was slightly lucky, and the sound of the flute overflowed from every flute hole like a clear spring, quietly overflowing the heavens and the earth.

The warm afternoon sun shines behind the back, and the lark skies lightly across the sky, drawing a graceful arc, like a girl's eyebrows, and countless small yellow flowers pile up to the knee in a sea of flowers. It spreads all the way to the horizon as far as the eye can see, and occasionally a white cloud seems to float over the grassy slope in the distance. It was a white tent in a field hospital......

The small yellow flowers rise and fall with the wind, turning out layer by layer of flower tides, and the land seems to be slowly breathing fresh air.

A red pony spun around, nibbling a few bites of grass here, then going to nibble there, and then sticking to it and arching Natsumi Nozu's cheek. Natsumi coughed a few times and touched its smooth fur, her eyes full of tenderness.

This pony is her mount. She was too timid to ride a big horse, because after retreating to Kumamoto, the quartermaster office replaced her with this docile but mischievous pony. The mounts of Toshiki Kirino and Kunikan Shinohara and Yusaku Uehara are all descendants of war horses, and the legs of the horses are twice as long as the legs of this pony.

Natsumi sat cross-legged not far behind Yusaku Uehara, biting the thread and sewing needle.

Probably influenced by Lin Yiqing's wife He Yunqing, Xia Mei wore a green Qianguo-style horse step skirt, a white silk waist, and a wide skirt sprinkled on yellow flowers, half covering the ochre fawn leather boots. The girls of the Bo people of Qianguo like this kind of dress the most, when the horse skirt is opened, it looks like a big collar, wrapped around the waist, and tied with a belt, it becomes a skirt. The top is close and capable, with soft and undulating lines of the body, but the skirt is wide for riding and shooting. The Bo women never wore silk shoes, which were very popular with Japanese women and Central Plains women, but preferred to wear soft leather boots that covered their calves, so that they could run and jump in strides like men, making it easier to move around.

The reason why Natsumi was dressed in the costume of the Qianguo Bo people was a measure taken by Uehara Yong to protect her.

But Natsumi behind Yusaku Uehara is quiet and graceful, bowing her head and sewing needles without saying a word. She wore her long black hair, and the ends of her hair were tied with small golden bells (which is also the costume of the Bo people), and when the wind came, the golden bells would ring softly on the spot, and she would raise her head and look silently in the direction from which the wind was coming.

It was where the enemy base camp was located.

The flute paused suddenly, and the end was curling. Yusaku Uehara moved and sat down beside her: "Natsumi, do you miss your father and mother?" ”

Natsumi shook her head silently, sat closer, lowered her head and sewed the belt in her hand.

"I know you're always thinking about them," Yusaku Uehara whispered, "though you never say it." ”

"Father...... It's over there now......" Natsumi sighed and looked up over there.

After Lin Yiqing led the Odd Soldiers to attack the headquarters of the Japanese government army and blew up the ammunition depot, the Japanese government army's offensive on Kumamoto Castle was forced to stop, and the supreme commander of the government army, Oyama Iwa, was dismissed by the Japanese government like his predecessor Yama Prefecture Aritomo because of his poor command of the operation and the recurrence of injuries, and his command was represented by Natsumi's father, Lieutenant General Michikani Nozu.

According to the intelligence officers of the Satsuma Army, after the fall of Osaka Castle, Nozu Michikan's elder brother Nozu Zheno, who had been imprisoned by the Satsuma Army, took the opportunity to escape, and has now been reinstated and has also commanded an army to attack Kumamoto.

For Natsumi, such news is very cruel.

"Natsumi, I'll play the flute." Yusaku Uehara wanted to comfort her, "I'll play the flute, and you will dance." ”

Natsumi shook her head, and Yusaku Uehara knew that she didn't want to dance, she just wanted to hear herself play the flute. Natsumi was the best dancer of any woman he knew, and Yusaku Uehara remembered that he and her used to dance to the sound of the flute on a holiday, attracting the surprised and envious eyes of her classmates.

But those days have passed, and now, although her face has not changed much. But has become a mother of a child.

Yusaku Uehara had a slight luck. Think of a higher tone. "Woo". The flute was out of tune, like a muffled cow's roar. Natsumi was taken aback, and looked up to see Yusaku Uehara looking left and right in embarrassment. She pricked the needle into the ribbon she was embroidering, took the flute from Yusaku Uehara's hand, pointed to her lips, and showed him a lip shape. Yusaku Uehara's flute was also taught by Natsumi, and they were only six years old when they first met, so many years have passed. The boys and girls of the past have grown up, but the original feelings have never changed and are solidified in the bodies of the two people.

Natsumi's ring finger jumped lightly on the press hole, and the sound of the flute was like a string of echoing birdsong, and several small finches chirped and flew into the sky in the sound of the flute, and Yusaku Uehara's eyes chased them, and he was distracted.

The clouds on the horizon are lazily rolling, and the earth is quiet, like a spring afternoon dream that has just woken up.

The flute stopped for a long time. Yusaku Uehara came back to his senses. Natsumi handed him the flute and lowered her head to sew. Yusaku Uehara thought about her fingering. Bring the blow hole to your mouth. He was stunned for a moment, there was a faint warm fragrance on the tip of his nose, he leaned close to the flute hole and sniffed it, it was emitted from the flute hole, like musk, but it was so fluttering, just gently brushing on the tip of his nose.

"Natsumi, have you put incense?"

Natsumi smiled and shook her head.

"It's the incense on you." Yusaku Uehara said, handing the flute to her.

Natsumi sniffed and shook her head. Yusaku Uehara hesitated, and carefully leaned over to her neck and sniffed. Natsumi came back to her senses and pushed him in panic. The two of them rolled down in the grass together, and a cluster of fine yellow flowers seemed to be fluttered up by the light butterfly wings and fell again. Yusaku Uehara gasped roughly, and Natsumi was pressed under him, not daring to resist. The scattered petals on her green dress looked like embroidered gold patterns, but they were more vivid and clear. Her hair was a little disheveled, and her long, fair neck was pink, with faint blue lines as she breathed. She turned her head away from her husband, her full chest heaving slightly.

Yusaku Uehara's clear gaze drooped down and stared at Natsumi's face. Natsumi felt her face so red, those slender veins jumping nervously under her skin.

"Natsumi, you really smell ......," Yusaku Uehara whispered.

"It's the scent of clothes." Natsumi lifted her sleeve and sniffed it, finding the source of the fragrance - it was a small hollowed-out gold ball (sachet) attached to the belt around her waist, from which the fragrance emanated.

Yusaku Uehara sat up, a little dazed.

Natsumi quickly tidied up her skirt, but she just lowered her head vigorously and sewed the needle.

Neither of them spoke.

"Natsumi." Yusaku Uehara hugged his knees like a child and looked at her, "You say, are we going to die?" ......" His voice was soft: "I wonder if I will live to see our children grow up?" Natsumi was startled, raised her head, and saw her husband's eyes looking into the distance. So quiet, no joy, no sorrow.

Yusaku Uehara noticed that Natsumi was looking at him, turned his head and smiled at her: "Actually, I'm not afraid, I'm just not willing, our child was born, and he hasn't grown up yet, and then his parents died." Natsumi's hand trembled, and a drop of blood red soaked on the ayako in her hand.

"Your hand ......" Yusaku Uehara ran over and held her hand.

The needle penetrated through the ayako and pierced into Natsumi's fingertips, and the large blood beads were as red as a ripe red bean. Yusaku Uehara held up that hand, looking left and right but couldn't find anything to bandage, and opened his mouth to take Natsumi's fingertips in his mouth.

"Captain Uehara, I'...... Sorry for the interruption ......" A cramped voice sounded behind them, and Yusaku Uehara and Natsumi Nozu were startled in unison.

"Miss Kamiya, you are like this every time, quietly scary," Yusaku Uehara looked at Kamiya Kira with some annoyance, "Ever since I met you, my heart has been being tested, you know?" ”

"I'm sorry! Captain Uehara! Kamiya Kira's face turned red, like a little girl at a loss, "I'...... Correct ...... later"

"What are you talking about, Yusaku, Miss Kamiya is a ninja samurai sent by the teacher to protect our children, she must have been trained since she was a child, walking without making a sound is an important skill in battle, how can you blame her for this?" Seeing that her husband had set up a captain's stand in front of her female subordinates, Natsumi immediately stopped her husband.

After retreating to Kumamoto, Lin Yiqing reorganized the Odd Soldiers and Ninja Troops. And specially arranged for Kamiya Kira to protect Yusaku Uehara and their newborns. Special care for teachers. Yusaku Uehara is very grateful, but he can't stand the ninja-like elusive way of walking Kira Kamiya.

"Madame, overcome him...... It seems to be hungry. Kira Kamiya sat next to the couple and handed the baby boy in her arms to Natsumi.

"He didn't cry, why did he say he was hungry?" Yusaku Uehara looked at his son, who was arching his head vigorously against Kamiya Kira's not plump chest, and asked a little strangely.

"Of course he's hungry, don't you see? If...... If...... If Miss Kamiya could, he wouldn't care if his mother fed him! Natsumi smiled and took her son over. Turn around and undress and breastfeed.

Yusaku Uehara understood, while Kira Kamiya blushed with shame.

"Thank you, Miss Kamiya, for taking such good care of him." Yusaku Uehara said to Kira Kamiya with a smile.

"Where! It is an honor to serve Captain Uehara and his wife! Kira Kamiya sat down and bowed to Yusaku Uehara, "I am willing to serve Captain Uehara and Mrs. Uehara like Mochizuki-senpai served his teacher!" ”

Hearing that Kamiya Kira actually wanted to study like the Mochizuki sisters, Yusaku Uehara couldn't help but be stunned, he never thought that he would have the charm of a teacher.

Yusaku Uehara confided in her heart, and he didn't know what to do. Suddenly, a horse galloped over.

"Captain Uehara, the teacher wants you to come over right away." Said one of the Wonder Soldiers on the horse.

Yusaku Uehara then got up. hugged Xia Mei, kissed her forehead, and got on the horse.

"Miss Kamiya, I'll leave it to you here." Yusaku Uehara said to Kira Kamiya.

"Yes! Captain Uehara! Kamiya rose up and saluted Yusaku Uehara.

Yusaku Uehara nodded, and went away with the strange soldiers who gave the order.

Natsumi watched the figure of Yusaku Uehara gradually disappear, and was feeling melancholy, but suddenly there were bursts of gunfire in the distance!

Natsumi followed the prestige and found that it was the direction where her father's army was located.

"Father...... You okay? ......," she asked softly in her heart.

At this time, she would not know that her father had laid a death net for her.

On the outskirts of Kumamoto City, the base camp of the Japanese government army.

"Your target this time is the enemy's medical battalion." Nozu Michikan, who was wearing a straight military uniform and wearing the emperor's imperial sword, looked at the warriors of the "sword drawing team" selected in front of him, and said in a deep voice.

"The brutal enemy has attacked our medical camp, brutally killed our comrades and relatives, and robbed the doctors and paramedics who were treating them, and we must pay back this blood debt!" Nozu Michikan said, suddenly pulling out the "Seven Trunk Cut" sword given by the Emperor, and roared sharply.

"Pay the blood debt! Pay the blood debt! The swordsmen roared loudly.

"Since the traitors are rampant, hundreds of millions of lives have been tragically destroyed, and now the traitors are only trapped in the city of Kumamoto, and they still dare to resist stubbornly, showing violence and many injustices, although you are a Sa nationality, but you are a loyal and brave man of His Majesty the Emperor, and you will definitely kill all the traitors and bring glory to His Majesty the Emperor!"

Nozu Michikan said, holding the Emperor's Imperial Saber in his hand in front of Nobuo Yamaguchi, the captain of the sword drawer, and said solemnly, "Please use this knife to cut off the head of the traitor!" ”

Nobuo Yamaguchi was full of tears, knelt down on one knee, and took the Emperor's Imperial Treasure Sword handed by Nozu Michikani with both hands.

"Swear to kill all the traitors for His Majesty the Emperor!" He jerked to his feet, faced the swordsmen, and shouted loudly.

"Swear to kill all the traitors for His Majesty the Emperor!"

After watching the sword-drawing team set off, Major General Soga Yuzhun came to Nozu Michikani's side.

"General, the people who went to Kumamoto this time are all from Satsuma, aren't you worried that they will defect to the traitors?" Soga asked Nozu in a voice that only two people could hear.

After the government medical battalion was attacked by Lin Yiqing, all the wounded were killed, and all the medical personnel were taken away, Nozu Michikan, at the suggestion of Chief of Staff Kodama Gentaro, deliberately formed an infiltration force composed of all Satsuma officers and soldiers, and let this force secretly enter Kumamoto Castle to retaliate against the Satsuma army, hoping to boost the morale of the headquarters and ammunition depot in this way.

"No, although these people are all Satsuma, they all have relatives who died at the hands of the traitors, and they are bent on revenge on the traitors, and they will definitely not throw themselves into the rebels." Nozu Michikan said, "What I'm worried about now is that their combat skills are not as good as those under Lin Yiqing, and it is very likely that they will not be able to obtain the head of the thief chief." ”

"Lin Yiqing, the devil, the end is coming." Zeng Youzhun looked into the distance and said, "Even if these warriors can't take their heads this time, Kumamoto Castle will definitely be conquered by our army, and then he will be cornered, either killed in battle, or captured by our army, and there will be no other result." ”

"I'm afraid not necessarily." Nozu Michikan shook his head gloomily and said, "There is information that the rebels and rebels in Nagasaki have already left the port by boat and fled to Ryukyu for refuge, Lin Yiqing is a native of Qianguo, I think he is likely to flee to Ryukyu in the end, and then flee back to Qianguo through Ryukyu." ”

"What?! Then we should take Nagasaki as soon as possible and cut off their escape route! Listening to Nozu Michikan's words, Zeng Youzhun couldn't help but be surprised.

"If we fight Nagasaki first, the traitors will fight to the death when they learn that the way back has been cut off, and if they are left with a way to return first, they will not fight to the death." Nozu said in a deep voice, "The art of war has clouds: 'Surround three queyi', that is, this principle." ”

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PS: On the West Heaven Road, kill two Monkey Kings. The battle between the real and false Monkey King, the sky and the earth, the clouds and rain, no one can tell the difference. Finally, I found the West Sky Rulai. Rulai smiled and said, "Don't be impulsive, come, put on headphones, listen to the first Sanskrit music, and purify your soul." The two monkeys nodded. One of the monkeys said, "I want three headphones...... "Six-eared macaque, pawn."

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