"I shouldn't have ...... Myself...... A ...... alone Take the liberty of doing something...... Leave everybody......"

"Teacher...... I'll never see you again...... Will you forgive me? ……”

Hearing the words of Konishi Yonghei full of attachment and reverence for Lin Yiqing, Murata Jingfang's heart couldn't help but shrink.

This is the feeling that a young samurai can only have for the teacher he respects and admires the most!

He also learned a lot about Lin Yiqing's rumors, who paid attention to intelligence gathering, but he always believed that most of them were exaggerated and not credible. After he picked up the gun again, he had a plan in his heart to compete with Lin Yiqing on the battlefield.

In fact, this time Emperor Meiji asked him, an instructor at the army school, to return to the battlefield, and also wanted him to dispel the myth of Lin Yiqing.

But now, there was fear in his heart.

He knew that he was very, very lucky to be able to win today's showdown.

The ability of this child named Yuhei Konishi in front of him can be said to be not bad at all compared to his Murata Jingfang!

If you can train students to this point, what kind of terrible person does this teacher have to be?

Thinking of this, a cold sweat broke out on Murata Jingfang's forehead.

"Teacher...... Will avenge me...... He's going to kill you all......" Yuhei Konishi saw the look of fear in Murata Nobuyoshi's eyes, and a mocking smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The child's smile made Murata Jingfang shiver, Murata Jingfang was about to ask him where Lin Yiqing was, but he saw the child's eyes gradually dim, and he coughed violently. A stream of blood foamed from his mouth. After a few convulsions. And he didn't move.

Murata Jingfang stared at the child's lifeless eyes, slowly put down the gun in his hand, stretched out his hand to probe the child's nose and mouth, and found that the child was indeed not breathing, before he took a long breath, stretched out his fingers, and closed the child's eyelids.

Murata sat down next to the child's corpse, his face full of tiredness. The battle from night to day had drained him so much energy that he desperately needed a break now.

After resting for a while, Murata was worried that other ninjas would appear, so he got up and searched the dead child's body, and took the child's equipment—a French Grasse rifle, two cartridge boxes, a dagger with an axe-like blade, five shuriken, a revolver, a copper food box, and a copper flat pot. Wait a minute. Looking at these equipment that were even better than the Satsuma samurai, Murata Jingfang was shocked.

When Murata Nobuyoshi's hand touched the collar of the child's underwear. Seeing the silver family crest badge again, he took the badge off the child's collar and took it in his hand to look at it carefully, it was a pattern of grass blades rolled into a cross shape on the rhizome, and he knew that this was the family crest of the Konishi family - "Gion Mamoru".

Murata put the badge in his arms, took the knife from the child's back, loaded it with a katana that also had the "Gion Mamoru" family crest, pulled the sword out of the sheath, and cut off the child's head with a single sword, and put it in a pocket.

He needs to have proof that he has destroyed the enemy.

When Murata returned to the vicinity of the camp, he happened to meet a small group of government shooters, all of whom were students of the Army Toyama School brought by Murata Jingfang. When they came back after carrying out the combat mission, they heard that Murata Jingfang went to snipe the terrible ninja alone and did not return all night, so they were very anxious, so they gathered a team to meet them early this morning, but they didn't go far before they ran into Murata Jingfang.

The students cheered at the sight of the katana sword captured from the enemy and the pocket containing the enemy's head pinned to Murata Nobuyoshi's waist.

"Teacher, the enemy must be very fierce, right?" Seeing Murata Jingfang's tired face, student Kato Ken asked carefully.

"Yes." Murata Jingfang nodded, "This gun belongs to the enemy, it's for you, use it well!" As he spoke, he threw the captured Glass rifle to Ken Kato, who took the rifle with joy in his eyes.

Kato Ken was about to say words of thanks, but suddenly found that Murata Jingfang's right shoulder was flushed, and his face couldn't help but change.

"Teacher, are you injured? ……”

Murata Jingfang noticed his gaze, and at this time, a gust of wind blew, and he felt a tingling pain in his right ear, and reached out and touched his ear, and his fingers were immediately stained with blood.

A small piece of his right ear seemed to be missing, and Murata remembered the combat experience just now, and knew that it might have been caused by Yuhei Konishi shooting in his back. Thinking that as long as this bullet deviates slightly, it may kill him, and the person who is beheaded may be himself instead of the other party, Murata Jingfang's heart is full of fear.

"Enemy...... Very fierce and cunning, if you act in the future, try not to be alone, at least two people to act together, understand? Murata Jingfang admonished everyone.

"Yes!"

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Osaka Castle, the headquarters of the Satsuma Army's staff.

"What do you mean, the enemy is showing the public in front of the battle, and it is the head of Yonghei?" Lin Yiqing listened to the report of Hidehiko Sato, the deputy captain of the Odd Soldier Team, and his brows furrowed suddenly.

"Yes." Hidehiko Sato's eyes flashed with sadness.

"Do you see clearly that it's Yuhei's head?" Lin Yiqing asked in a deep voice.

"It's too far away for me to see clearly, but on the wooden sign hanging underneath, Yuhei's name is written." Hidehiko Sato replied, "And, until now, Yuhei has not returned, and it is likely that he has been killed by the enemy. ”

"How could Yongping be alone?" Lin Yiqing asked with a frown.

"Yuhei wounded an enemy Osa, but failed to take his life. He didn't think he was able to complete the mission, so when we retreated, he secretly left the team and went back, and we didn't even notice it......" Hidehiko Sato lowered his head, "It's my negligence!" Please punish the teacher! ”

"It's our negligence, please punish the teacher!" Several members of the same team couldn't bear to let the captain take responsibility alone, and said in unison.

Lin Yiqing waved his hand impatiently, and he stood up. Frowning. Slowly pacing.

"Among the enemy troops. There can be someone who kills Yongping......" Lin Yiqing said to himself, "This person is not simple, who could he be?" ……”

Hearing Lin Yiqing's words, the members of the Odd Soldier team all looked stunned.

"We're going to avenge Yongping now!" Someone said loudly. As soon as his words came out, the crowd was immediately excited, and the members of the odd soldiers were clamoring to avenge Konishi Yuhei.

"Show Yongping's head in front of the formation, I'm afraid it will be a trap." Lin Yiqing shook his head and said. "Don't go."

Although Lin Yiqing's voice was not loud, the members of the Odd Soldier team immediately quieted down after hearing it.

Lin Yiqing turned around and came to the map, looked at the staggered and horizontal lines of the two sides on the map, pondered for a while, and said: "The combat effectiveness of the enemy army that landed seems to be much stronger than the combat effectiveness of the enemy army in front of us, so let's defeat them first!" ”

"Then, Yuhei's ......" Hidehiko Sato hesitated for a moment and asked.

Lin Yiqing looked at his bandaged right hand. Raise your head and look at everyone. A sharp light flashed in his eyes in an instant: "Yongping's revenge, it's up to me to avenge him!" ”

In the distance, the sound of gunfire was constantly being heard.

On the front line, Shiro Ikegami, the captain of the Fifth Brigade of the Satsuma Army, was carefully observing the battle situation.

A Satsuma Army machine gun shooter beat the Gatling gun on the two-wheeler like a wind, and Shiro Ikegami, who was next to him, could even clearly feel the powerful kinetic energy generated when the bullet was fired, while the deputy on the other side was busy bringing over the cartridge full of bullets and preparing to replace it.

One cartridge quickly ran out, the machine gunner stopped firing, and the deputy quickly removed the empty cartridge and replaced it with a new one.

"Left, 10 o'clock!" A Satsuma officer next to him commanded in a deep voice, directing the machine gunner's fire as he pulled his rifle over and expertly pushed the bullet on. Since it was the captain who came to watch the battle, he tried to show his composure and bravery.

In this attack organized by Shiro Ikegami, the firepower of the Satsuma army was quite scientific, so the striking force that erupted in the battle was already beyond the capacity of the government army.

The ......Gatling Gun began to roar again, and the rate of fire performance of the rotary machine gun was at its maximum.

"You idiot! Aim before you shoot! Doesn't this bullet cost nothing?! "It may have been a Satsuma Army machine gunner who had a problem with his aiming, and a Satsuma Army officer who commanded the shooting was clinging to the machine gunner's ear and yelling loudly.

Shiro Ikegami turned his head to see that the Satsuma machine gunner was nodding his head in a hurry, but his fingers did not let go of the crank, and a barrage of bullets shot into the forest instead. Shiro Ikegami took a closer look, maybe the machine gunner noticed the captain's gaze, and he was so excited that his body shook like chaff. Of course, this was also largely the shock of the Gatling gun when it was fired.

"Can you still shoot?!" The Satsuma officer was furious, "Do you need me to replace you?!" ”

The Satsuma machine gunner said with some trepidation: "Long ...... Sir...... I can do it...... You...... Mainly...... You're watching here, I'm worried that I won't be able to play. ”

The officer hatefully took the pistol and moved away from his waist, and as soon as he was lying on his stomach, he "snapped" and shot him. However, it is clear that his marksmanship is not very good, and this shot did not hit any target.

Looking at this scene, Shiro Ikegami couldn't help but feel a little crying and laughing.

In his opinion, the soldiers from the civilian population who were later replenished in the Satsuma army were no worse than these samurai who had once made a profession of fighting war.

Probably because no one was watching, the Satsuma Heavy returned to his normal state, and the Gatling gun sounded rhythmically with the sound of metal crashing. The effect was very intuitive, and the government soldiers who were shot at began to retreat in panic. Shiro Ikegami was about to order the machine gun to shift the firing range, but saw that the shooter had already moved the muzzle of the gun and began to shoot according to his own ideas.

Time passed quietly under close observation and constant summons. At this time, if one can look down from the sky, they will see that the dense Satsuma army has divided into four directions and launched an attack on the positions of the government forces.

After learning that the government forces had landed in the rear of Osaka, Saigo Takamori was keenly aware of the bad arrivals, and he immediately dispatched Shiro Ikegami to support Shinosuke Nomura, and Shiro Ikegami led his troops to arrive. He immediately went into battle. It was intended to drive the enemy army back into the sea in one fell swoop. That's why this attack came about.

Shiro Ikegami shifted his gaze with a telescope to observe the government positions in other directions, and when he saw that the government forces had retreated under the concentrated fire of the Satsuma army's machine guns and rifles, he put down his gun and nodded in satisfaction.

At this moment, he heard a piercing scream, and he instinctively shrank his head and shouted, "Shelling! Shelling! Conceal it all! ”

As a commander on the front line. He directly commanded two brigades of about 5,000 Satsuma infantry and an artillery team, at this time the artillery should have moved to the predetermined position, and began to shell the rear of the government army, cutting off the retreat of the government army, but it may be that something went wrong with the measurement, so that the shells actually fell on this side.

Several heralds immediately ran to give the order. At the same time, a violent explosion sounded, deafening and overwhelming, covering any sound on the ground, and the flames and smoke suddenly rose over the positions of the government troops.

Shiro Ikegami and his men fell to the ground. Shiro Ikegami poked his head cautiously and watched the battle. It was only when he saw that what he feared most - the shells falling on his own heads - did not happen, and he was relieved.

It seems that the battle plan made by himself this time still has a big loophole!

At this time, the government army was completely desperate, but it was still fighting the trapped beast.

The artillery bombardment of the Satsuma army continued, and compared to the power of the artillery bombardment of the shogunate army that Ikegami Shiro had seen before, the shelling was not fierce at this time. However, the feelings of the other Satsuma officers and soldiers were two different things. Because the Satsuma army's shelling was very targeted, the government army suffered heavy casualties.

"It's over......"

Looking at the battle situation in front of him, Li Xiande let out a sigh from his heart.

The plan of the government army was originally to launch a surprise attack on the Satsuma army, take Osaka directly, and stab the Satsuma army in the back to turn the tide of the war in one fell swoop, but now what Li Xiande did not expect was that the Satsuma army immediately launched a large-scale counteroffensive.

Li Xian didn't dare to lie on the ground, because the shock and vibration he received when he was shelled were so great that he could only squat hard to observe, and try his best to expel the excess air from his lungs, so as not to be crushed by the shock wave when he encountered a close bullet.

In fact, in the eyes of Li Xiande, who participated in the American Civil War, the combat skills of the infantry and artillery of the Satsuma Army were very bad. In his opinion, the artillery should be fired first, and the infantry will be attacked after the shelling. But the situation with the Satsuma Army was the opposite.

The artillery bombardment of the Satsuma army did not last long, and when a lot of thick black smoke columns rose on the government army's position, the Satsuma army's artillery stopped with satisfaction, and the front line sounded an earth-shattering shout almost at the same time, and groups of Satsuma army infantry neatly placed a platoon of guns to attack the government army's position, and the bright bayonets almost dazzled Li Xiande's eyes behind the big tree.

This was an attack by about 3,000 Satsuma troops, with the obvious intention of destroying the frontal government army in one fell swoop.

Li Xiande looked around and saw the remnants of the government soldiers and the samurai of Tokaido jumping out of shelter and charging towards the Satsuma army.

When he saw a wounded government officer lying there, weeping and shuddering, he pulled out a lighter and tried to light the tattered flag, and he knew it was time to plan for himself.

Although he had been naturalized in Japan, accepted the official position of the Japanese government, and personally came to the front to participate in the battle, in his heart, he never intended to die for Japan.

Now he has long been a Japanese citizen and is a Japanese, but this does not prevent him from using his white face to protect himself in the last resort.

Li Xiande dropped the weapon in his hand, quickly took off his military uniform, threw it aside, and then took out a lighter, lit his military uniform, and quietly ran away.

Gentaro Kodama attached the slender bayonet to the rifle, pulled out the revolver and opened the nose, shouting, "Everyone, rush! The time has come to serve His Majesty the Emperor! ”

Although he took a rifle with a bayonet, he didn't want to fight the bayonet, but to pull the halts of the hundreds of government soldiers who had retreated and prevent them from breaking up under the attack of the Satsuma army!

"Look, sir!" One of his own soldiers pointed in shock.

Gentaro Kodama followed the gesture and looked at it, only to see the body of Nogi Noshinori Nakasa, who was in the lead, suddenly froze, his body shook, and slowly fell backwards......

Several guards hurriedly carried Nogi Noshinori back, and the others were at a loss for what to do between the enemy and our positions. Some continued to rush forward, some looked for the officials, and some retreated back with a few people who carried Nogi Noshinori...... The situation was extremely chaotic, and many people were hit by bullets fired by the Satsuma army in this brief confusion.

Gentaro Kodama was so anxious that he broke out in a cold sweat, and he led the team to the back of the government army from the oblique spur, just in time to catch Nogi Noshinori who was carried down.

Gentaro Kodama didn't have time to see Nogi's injuries, and the chaotic team had to be commanded.

"Keep charging! Don't stop! Keep charging! Gentaro Kodama shouted into the crowd.

The guards around Gentaro Kodama followed him and rushed forward. The several Tokai samurai who came with him did not speak, and their feet sped up and passed Kodama Gentaro. At this time, I can't help but say that Gentaro Kodama took the lead. The commander can be so brave, of course the subordinates will follow suit.

At this time, although the government troops were quite tough, the queue no longer existed, and due to the loss of their commander, they could not even organize a decent platoon of guns, and in this small area, the number was also at a disadvantage, and the situation could be said to be precarious. (To be continued......)

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