"Maybe it's just an exaggerated rumor." Kusakawa Ryunosuke sensed Nozu Michikan's surprise, and he didn't want to increase Nozu Michikan's psychological burden, so he immediately said.

Nozu Michikani didn't speak again.

He had just realized that this folk rumor was not groundless!

Not to mention anything else, in the raid just now, there was indeed Takeda Shingen's "Wind Forest Volcano" (from "Sun Tzu's Art of War": its speed is like the wind, its speed is like a forest, the invasion is like fire, and it is not moving like a mountain. Style!

At this time, he thought of his wife and daughter who were in the field hospital, and his heart was sad, but somehow, he actually hoped that Lin Yiqing could really be like Takeda Shingen.

Because if it's a famous general like Takeda Shingen, he shouldn't embarrass his wife and daughter!

At this time, in the field hospital, the battle was over.

"Didn't find it?" Lin Yiqing looked at the rows of corpses of government officers and soldiers neatly stacked in the center of the clearing, frowned, and asked the samurai in charge of inspection.

"Nope." The samurai shook his head and replied, "All the corpses have been searched, and there is no thief chieftain Nozu Michikan. ”

"The prisoners are being checked right now." Another samurai said, pointing not far away.

Lin Yiqing turned his head to look and saw a group of wounded government soldiers who were driven together, cowering and looking this way.

Most of the wounded were seriously wounded from the ward, many of them were bandaged and bloodied, lying or sitting in a crooked position, while the nurses who had been caring for them were escorted to the other side, looking at them in horror.

Several Satsuma samurai who were looking for Nozu Michikan didn't care if they were wounded or not, and pulled them around them roughly. For the wounded of government troops who appeared slightly disobedient. Immediately, it was a violent beating.

Lin Yiqing felt a little tired. So he found a chair and sat down, and then he saw Yusaku Uehara coming over.

"Teacher." Yusaku Uehara greeted Lin Yiqing.

"It's a brave work! Come and sit. Lin Yiqing pointed to another chair and said to him with a smile, "It's really hard to let you combat engineers participate in such a battle!" ”

Since the combat engineers who carry out the tunnel blasting operation are an important attacking force, according to the military regulations of the Satsuma Army, the combat engineers are not allowed to participate in field battles unless it is critical. But this time, because the ninja troops touched the location of the government army field hospital, and there was news that the wounded commander of the second brigade of the government army, Major General Nozu Michikan, was recuperating here, Lin Yiqing planned to come to a "decapitation operation", and at that time, all the armies were fighting, and they could not draw troops temporarily, so Lin Yiqing made an exception and ordered Yusaku Uehara and some combat engineers to join the surprise team and the ninja troops and the samurai team who were sent to help in the battle, and fought together.

"We, like everyone else, have undergone rigorous combat training, and we can't always dig underground and bury mines." Yusaku Uehara replied excitedly, "I saw everyone fighting like that. We were all in a hurry and wanted to participate in the real battle. It's such a joy to be able to fight with the teacher this time. ”

"Everyone played very well, but unfortunately they didn't catch Nozu Michikan." Lin Yiqing sighed, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said, "And it's really overkill to let you come to participate in such a battle." Thankfully, you didn't lose it, otherwise it wouldn't have been worth it. ”

Hearing that the teacher valued himself so much, Yusaku Uehara was deeply moved. It's just that when he heard Lin Yiqing mention Nozu Michikan's name, he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, but there was no expression on the surface.

"Report to the general, all the wounded have been checked, there is no Nozu Michikan, maybe the intelligence is wrong, he is not here to recuperate." After examining the wounded, a samurai came up and reported to Lin Yiqing.

"The information is correct, there is only one field hospital for the enemy, and it is here that he recuperates." The female ninja who had been standing beside Lin Yiqing Kaori Rutsuki said, waved her hand, and a ninja stepped forward and held a slender cloth bag in front of Lin Yiqing.

Lin Yiqing opened the cloth bag, and a golden katana with the chrysanthemum emblem of the Japanese royal family was revealed.

"This is a saber given to him by His Majesty the Emperor, which I just found in a single hospital room where there was a fire." Kaori Kisaragi glanced at the samurai and said calmly, "There is also a set of major general's uniform in that ward, although it was destroyed by fire, I can still recognize it. ”

"It's ...... A saber from His Majesty the Emperor! The samurai immediately understood, and nodded repeatedly, "That Nozu Michikan must have recuperated here!" He must be hiding somewhere! Captives should be able to know! ”

"Then interrogate the captives!" Lin Yiqing nodded and handed the katana in his hand to the samurai.

The samurai bowed respectfully to Lin Yiqing, took the katana, waved his hand, and led a few attendants to stride towards the wounded government soldiers.

An attendant samurai stepped forward and dragged a wounded man who looked like a government officer, and the interrogating samurai first held out the captured katana in front of him and showed him a moment, and then asked him about the whereabouts of Nozu Michikan, who looked at him hatefully, and instead of answering, he spat heavily on the ground in contempt.

"Yaga!" Enraged, the samurai drew his sword from its sheath and cut off the government officer's forearm with a single blow.

Lin Yiqing saw the samurai's movements and wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

As a warrior, he can certainly understand the feelings of these Satsuma samurai - they have just experienced a desperate fight of blood and fire, many of their comrades have fallen in front of their eyes, and they have lost their lives forever, and the anger in their hearts has nowhere to vent.

The officer lay on the ground with his severed arm in his arms, rolling on the ground, letting out a miserable wail, and the samurai kicked him hard in a pool of blood and raised his sword again.

"Don't kill him! No! With a childish shout, a young girl suddenly burst out from among the nurses and stepped in front of the government officer whose lower arm had been cut off.

The sword-raising samurai didn't expect someone to stand in front of him, and the katana held aloft stopped in the air in an instant.

"Fuck off! Do you want to die? He scolded the girl in front of him loudly.

"Please! They are all wounded, they are already badly wounded, please spare them! Don't treat them like this! The girl pleaded loudly.

When he heard the girl's first sentence, Lin Yiqing noticed that Uehara Yusaku's body froze suddenly, and when the girl finished the second sentence, Uehara Yusaku turned around violently and ran madly in the direction where the girl was.

"Natsumi! You go! Don't ask for them! ......" the government officer who was lying in a pool of blood hissed.

"If you don't want her to die, tell her whereabouts!" When the samurai heard the words of the government officer, he felt that there was an opportunity, and immediately turned his sword towards the girl named Natsumi.

In fact, he wanted to threaten this girl and force the captives to tell the whereabouts of Nozu Michikan, not really to cut her, as early as before the incident, Saigo Takamori clearly ordered the whole army to strictly prohibit killing and bullying women and children, and violators were beheaded, and no leniency was given. The strict orders of General Saigo, who is a model of samurai in the world, have a strong binding force on these samurai, and they will never dare to offend lightly.

But he never expected that not only the government officer with a broken arm in front of him took it seriously, but there was another person who almost took his actions seriously.

"Stop!" "Stop!"

With two shouts in unison, the officer with the broken arm who fell to the ground struggled to raise his body, stretched out a hand, and desperately grabbed the samurai's ankle, while Uehara Yusaku flew up from the side, stretched out his hand to use the "empty-handed into the white blade" knife grabbing technique taught to him by Lin Yiqing, and snatched the long knife from the samurai's hand like lightning.

Seeing that Yusaku Uehara's sword-grabbing action was like a smooth flow, in one go, and did not give the other party a chance to react at all, the surrounding odd soldiers all widened their eyes.

Many of them were classmates of Yusaku Uehara, and having seen Yusaku Uehara's fighting skills, they couldn't imagine that Yusaku Uehara, who was short in stature and had the worst performance in fighting skills, would display such a clever sword-grabbing technique. Even Lin Yiqing couldn't help but be surprised when he witnessed this scene.

"What are you doing! …… Uehara-kun, it's you ......" The samurai was about to scold angrily, but he immediately recognized Yusaku Uehara, and his expression immediately changed to respect.

Because of his successive efforts to blow up the walls of Kumamoto and Osaka, Yusaku Uehara became a hero of the Satsuma Army, and the samurai respected him with great respect.

"I won't hurt her, I just want the captive to speak......" Seeing Yusaku Uehara's angry eyes, the samurai quickly explained, "I didn't expect Uehara-kun to meet her......"

Yusaku Uehara turned a deaf ear to the samurai's words, and he stretched out the hilt of the samurai sword he had snatched with one hand towards the other party, but his eyes were staring at the girl in front of him.

The girl recognized him, and her eyes were neutral and gave off a look of surprise.

"Uehara-kun? Is it really you? ……”

"Natsumi ......"

In the amazed eyes of everyone, Yusaku Uehara walked towards the girl step by step, opened his arms, and the girl jumped up and threw herself into his arms in a forgetful manner.

Yusaku Uehara felt the softness of the girl's body and the fragrant smell that emanated, and for a while the feeling of happiness filled his whole body, and he couldn't help but cry.

"It's okay, you guys stand down!" Lin Yiqing came to their side and said to the warriors.

"Hello!"

Lin Yiqing looked at Yusaku Uehara, who had reached the realm of selflessness with the girl, smiled slightly, and asked someone to release the nurses, come over to treat the wounds of the government officer and the wounded man with the broken arm, and ordered that the prisoners should not be harmed. (To be continued......)

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