The bullets in the pistol were quickly gone, and Saigo Takamori dropped the pistol, waved his sword with both hands, ran forward a few steps, leaped sharply, and slashed at a Cossack cavalryman who was rushing straight at horseback.

The Cossack cavalry did not expect that the obese Saigo Takamori would be so flexible, and in a panic, they hurriedly put the bayonet-mounted cavalry gun in front of them, trying to block the knife.

In a flash of cold light, Mosin Nagant's riding spear was actually cut in two from the middle, and the sharp blade not only cut off the riding spear, but also the tip of the blade slashed through the opponent's face, splitting one of the opponent's faces obliquely.

The Cossack cavalryman fell under his horse at once, his eyes widened, as if he could not believe that the Japanese samurai, who was short and fat compared to himself, could take his life with such a single sword.

Another Cossack cavalry pounced on Saigo Takamori, Beppu Shinsuke rushed out of the stab, shouted, and slashed at the opponent's horse, the horse suffered pain, pounced forward with a wailing, and threw the Cossack cavalry down, and before the Cossack cavalry could get up, a Satsuma samurai with a rifle with a bayonet in his hand rushed over, roared and stabbed the other party to the ground.

Under the desperate counterattack of the Satsuma samurai, the Cossack cavalry who rushed to the position on the hill was actually killed, and at this moment, a group of Japanese cavalry in black uniforms rushed up.

Unlike the Russian Cossacks, these Japanese cavalrymen wore standard uniforms, but they all wore their own family coats of arms on their chests!

Kirino Toshiaki recognized the family crests worn by these Japanese cavalrymen, all of which came from the East China Sea domains, and couldn't help but sneer.

"Wujin's revenge! Bojin's revenge! A cavalry officer at the head brandished a long knife. Shouted loudly.

"Wujin's revenge! Bojin's revenge! The cavalry shouted loudly.

"Satsuma's traitor! Your time of death has come! ”

"Satsuma's traitor! Let you taste the sharp sword of the East China Sea Heroes! ”

Look at the East China Sea warriors who are screaming wildly. Toshiaki Kirino got up coldly. shouted loudly: "Traitors in the East China Sea, you don't think you have been killed enough, so come on!" ”

The Satsuma samurai let out an earth-shattering roar, and one by one they bravely took the lead and rushed towards the East Sea cavalry. The first Satsuma samurai threw thunder bullets as they ran, instantly blowing up the East China Sea cavalry, and the East China Sea samurai who rushed up behind also fell off their horses, but the East China Sea samurai also showed extreme toughness. As long as the fallen ones could stand up, they all drew their swords and raised their guns, and rushed towards the Satsuma samurai, and the two sides immediately fought knife to knife and gun to gun.

In the distance, Yama County Youpeng, who was riding a horse and pacing a small hill, was holding a telescope and watching the fierce battle on the city mountain.

"Don't you need to send reinforcements?" Major General Ponotkov, who was beside Youpeng in Shanxian County, put down his binoculars and asked with some concern.

He had seen it just now, although there were only a few hundred Satsuma samurai. But it broke out with strong combat effectiveness and launched a counterattack for a time. The 1,000 Cossack cavalry were defeated, but fortunately, 1,000 Japanese government cavalry were put into the battlefield in time to stabilize the position, but under the desperate rush of the Satsuma samurai, it was difficult for these Japanese cavalry to eliminate all the opponents for a while.

"No, they're enough." Yama Aritomo put down his binoculars and said to Ponotkov, "They are all samurai of the East China Sea Domain, and they have a bitter hatred for the Satsuma traitors, and I believe that they can destroy the enemy." ”

"Since that's the case, let them get their revenge! I let our cavalry retreat. Ponotkov said, and gave the order.

Seeing the actions of the Russians, Shan Youpeng cursed in his heart, but he just nodded calmly on the surface and didn't say anything.

Of course, he understood why the Russians had begun to cherish their soldiers so much.

Since the Southwest War, the Russians have suffered extremely heavy casualties in Japan, which has caused a sharp decline in the strength of the Russian army in East Asia, and due to the barrier of the vast Siberian Plain and the constraints of the British at sea, it is extremely difficult for the Russian army to increase its troops in the east, so it has to minimize the time of the battle in order to preserve the limited troops. This is also an important reason why at the last moment of the Southwest War, the Russians actually allowed the Japanese government army to snatch the fruits of victory.

Yamakawa looked at the retreating Russian cavalry, and his heart was annoyed, but at this time, he was in the midst of a fierce battle, and he had no time to scold the Russians.

Hiroshi Yamakawa hid behind a rock, carefully observing the battlefield.

Suddenly, he saw the figure of Saigo Takamori.

At this time, Saigo Takamori, dancing with double knives in his forehand, slashing hard, the two East China Sea samurai each swung their knives and rushed to Saigo Takamori, jumping up and slashing together, Saigo Takamori roared, and directly blocked the two of them with his left-handed knife, and the right-hand knife flew up and slashed, and actually cut down the two East China Sea samurai together!

Seeing Saigo Takamori so brave, Yamakawa Hao's heart suddenly jumped wildly.

Cut down two Tokai samurai, and four more rushed up to besiege Saigo Takamori, at which time Beppu Shinsuke rushed over, turned his back to Saigo Takamori, protected his back, raised his sword and fought fiercely with the two Tokai samurai.

Hiroshi Yamakawa took a deep breath, raised his rifle, and aimed at Saigo Takamori.

Saigo Takamori was engrossed in fighting with the Tokai samurai at this time, and he didn't notice that someone was firing a cold gun, and at the moment when he swung his knife and cut down a Tokai samurai, Yamakawa Hiroshi pulled the trigger.

A mist of blood burst out of Saigo's chest, and he screamed and fell to one knee, and the Tokai samurai saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and rushed forward to take Saigo Takamori's head, but was stabbed down by a Satsuma samurai in the oblique stab.

When the Satsuma samurai drew his bayonet, he turned around and saw Hiroshi Yamakawa, who was holding a gun and aiming at Takamori Saigo, and he roared loudly, and at the moment when Hiroshi Yamakawa fired again, he stepped forward to block Takamori Saigo.

Hiroshi Yamakawa's shot accurately hit the Satsuma samurai in the heart, and the satsuma samurai stiffened, and then fell.

Saigo Takamori noticed that someone was shooting cold, and he raised his head and just met Hiroshi Yamakawa's gaze.

Hiroshi Yamakawa sensed the contempt in Saigo Takamori's eyes. My heart shrank. He raised his gun and was about to shoot at Saigo Takamori again. But suddenly I felt a gust of wind around me.

As the best of the Tokai samurai, Yamakawa Hiroshi reacted quite quickly, he slammed away the rifle in his hand, and rolled on the spot, dodging the lightning-like slash of the opponent's long knife.

"It's been a long time, Yamakawa-kun." Kirino Toshiaki held the knife in both hands, looked at Yamakawa Hao, and said coldly.

Hiroshi Yamakawa sees Toshiaki Kirino. didn't answer, he jumped up suddenly, instantly pulled out the treasure knife on his waist, and slashed straight at Kirino Toshiaki.

Kirino Toshiaki let out a loud shout, and also jumped up, raising the snowy long knife with both hands.

The sword light flashed under the scorching sun, "Ding! Bite! With two soft sounds, the figures of the two fell separately, and a bloody arrow on Kirino Toshiaki's shoulder flew into the sky.

As soon as Yamakawa's feet hit the ground, he stumbled. Almost fell.

Hiroshi Yamakawa looked at Saigo Takamori not far away, and took two steps forward crookedly. He fell face down to the ground, his body convulsing.

The top of his head had been sliced off, revealing the brains inside.

Kirino Toshiaki put the knife into the sheath, stepped forward quickly, picked up the rifle that Yamakawa had dropped, turned around and came to Yamakawa's side, and quickly untied the bullet box from his waist.

Kirino Toshiaki didn't look at Hiroshi Yamakawa the whole time, and after tying the bullet box to his body, he raised Hiroshi Yamakawa's rifle and used Hiroshi Yamakawa's body as a cover to shoot at the enemy who was surrounding Saigo Takamori.

"General, how are you?" Beppu Shinsuke held Saigo Takamori's crumbling body and asked anxiously.

"Jin Dian, help me...... Go over there......" Saigo Takamori's eyes looked at Kinko Bay.

Beppu Shinsuke picked up Saigo Takamori and walked towards the cliff, and as soon as the two of them took a few steps, several more Tokai samurai pounced.

Saigo Takamori slammed into a Tokai samurai, this Tokai samurai swung his sword and slashed at Saigo Takamori, Saigo Takamori raised his sword to block, turned his knife into the heart, and stabbed into the heart of the Tokai samurai, and at this moment, another Tokai samurai attacked and slashed at the leather samurai armor on his body.

Before the sword of the Tokai samurai was exhausted, Beppu Shinsuke pierced him with a knife, Saigo Takamori drew his sword at this time, and cut off the opponent's head with a knife, at this time, two Tokai samurai with rifles with bayonets pounced and stabbed their spears fiercely, and the bayonets stabbed into the lower abdomen of Saigo Takamori and Beppu Shinsuke in unison.

Saigo Takamori and Beppu Shinsuke roared in unison, each swinging their swords, slashing each other's heads almost simultaneously.

The enemy's brain blood splattered on Saigo Takamori's face, Saigo Takamori felt a blur in front of him, at this time he was already seriously injured, and after a series of fierce battles, he could no longer support it, and suddenly fell to his knees.

"Great Shogun ......" Beppu Shinsuke was about to help Saigo Takamori when a row of bullets suddenly shot at him, piercing through the armor on the two of them.

Blood flies.

Beppu Shinsuke glared angrily at a group of government infantry with rifles not far away, his body shook, and slowly fell backwards.

At this moment, Yama Prefecture Youpeng still sent infantry to support the East China Sea samurai.

"Jindian ......" Saigo Takamori crouched beside Beppu Shinsuke, looked at Beppu Jinsuke who was foaming blood, and shed tears.

Beppu Shinsuke looked at Saigo Takamori and tried to squeeze out a smile, but the bullet hit was full of vital points, he opened his mouth and didn't say a word, he spat blood in a big gulp, tilted his head to the side, and passed away.

Another bullet hit Saigo Takamori's body, Saigo Takamori's body twitched in pain, he struggled to close Beppu Shinsuke's eyes, got up and wanted to raise his sword to rush at the enemy, but he only took two steps before falling down again.

Saigo struggled to get up straight with his knife on the ground, and then he saw the group of government soldiers cautiously pressing towards him.

Saigo Takamori let out a long sigh and was about to kill himself with a knife, but suddenly exploded in the ranks of government soldiers.

With one explosion after another, in the smoke and flames of gunpowder, the people who were close to the government soldiers were blown to the flesh and blood, and those who were a little farther away were also blown to the ground by the steam wave generated by the explosion, rolling out of the distance, some people crawled towards the road in embarrassment, and many more people hugged their injured arms, legs and feet, and screamed loudly.

Saigo Takamori looked back and saw his wife throwing thunder bombs at the enemy.

After Mrs. Iwayama threw out all the "glorious bullets" that Saigo Takamori had given her, she quickly ran to his side and helped him up.

"It's still madame. In a moment. and caused the army of thieves to be destroyed. Saigo Takamori looked at the corpse not far away. smiled and said to his wife, "I'm afraid that the thieves I'm killing here aren't as many as my wife......

"My husband is invincible, I am a woman, how can I compare......" Mrs. Iwayama stroked Saigo Takamori's blood-stained face, and burst into tears for a while.

"Let us not fall into the hands of thieves and suffer endless humiliation. Help me to the edge of the cliff......" Saigo Takamori said to his wife as he looked at the government soldiers who were gradually gathering together.

Mrs. Iwayama nodded, and helped Saigo Takamori up, Saigo Takamori supported him with a knife, holding his wife's shoulder, and the two came to the edge of the cliff step by step.

Seeing the "Mt. Fuji" still parked in the bay, Saigo Takamori smiled and raised his hand to the "Mt. Fuji".

He saw Lin Yiqing and Chiho Kirino standing on the flybridge, their bodies already leaning out of the barricade.

"Hanpeng! Take care of Chiho and everyone! - Saigo Takamori shouted loudly with all his strength.

"Good boys, farewell......" Mrs. Iwayama waved her hand. Choked up.

Another volley of guns fired, and the husband and wife were hit by an unknown number of bullets. But their bodies did not fall.

Saigo Takamori and his wife turned their heads to look at the approaching government soldiers, looked at each other and smiled, the two held hands, and took a few steps towards the edge of the cliff with difficulty.

"Don't-!" Chiho Kirino understood what Saigo Takamori and his wife were going to do, and she screamed.

Like two fallen leaves, Lin Yiqing saw that Saigo Takamori and Mrs. Iwayama jumped off the cliff and fell into the rolling sea.

Tears welled up in his eyes again.

"General! ......" Captain Shichiro Kataoka and the Satsuma Navy officers and sailors on the flybridge all fell to their knees crying.

"General, wait a moment, Toshiaki will come......" Kirino Toshiaki witnessed the scene of Saigo Takamori and his wife committing suicide in the sea, but he did not feel as sad and inexplicable as the other samurai, he just muttered softly, then withdrew his gaze, held his rifle and continued to shoot.

"Ahh Hit! Toshiaki Kirino raised his hand and shot down a government infantryman.

Kirino Toshiaki's shooting immediately attracted a barrage of gunfire from government troops, but he was undaunted and fired one after another.

"Ahh Pity! Didn't hit! ”

"Ahh Hit! ”

"Hit!"

"Didn't hit ......"

"Hit!"

"Hit!"

Finally, a bullet hit Kirino Toshiaki's forehead, and his body stiffened, falling to the side, and the rifle in his hand fell to the ground.

I don't know how long it took, but the gunfire finally stopped.

"Everybody...... Are they all sacrificed? ......" Kataoka Shichiro asked with tears in his eyes.

"Open the gun......" Lin Yiqing hissed.

"What did you say?" Shichiro Kataoka was stunned.

Lin Yiqing pointed to the cliff, and Shichiro Kataoka looked in the direction of Lin Yiqing's finger and saw many government officers and soldiers.

A short time later, the Satsuma "Cross Maru" military flag, which had been standing on the top of the mountain, was torn down and replaced by a huge Nichisho flag.

Shichiro Kataoka understood that at this time his comrades on the cliff had all been martyred and the position had been occupied by the enemy, he immediately gave the order to the officers around him to open artillery and bombard the cliff.

Seeing the Rizhang flag fluttering on the top of Chengshan, the chest of Youpeng in Shan County was filled with heroic feelings for a while.

He took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and the hands on the pocket watch pointed to 14:44.

Today, it is October 25, the thirteenth year of the Meiji era in Japan (that is, the sixth year of the Great Dry Guangxu, 9080 AD).

For Yama Prefecture Aritomo, this is a glorious day worthy of his lifelong memory, because the Japanese Southwest War, which lasted nearly two years, came to an end on this day.

And it was not Nozu Michikan who ended this war with his own hands, nor Oyama Yan, but Youpeng from other counties!

"Inform Major General Inoue to keep the enemy flag that was lowered just now for me." Youpeng said to a herald.

The herald agreed, and ran quickly to the top of the hill.

At this time, Major General Inoue Hikaru was standing next to the body of Kirino Toshiaki in the Shiroyama position, listening to the report of his subordinates, and after learning that this man who did not wear a military uniform but wore samurai armor and had long hair tied was one of the main generals of the Satsuma Army, Kirino Toshiaki, Inoue Hikaru was overjoyed.

Inoue Hikari was a newly promoted major general from the Iwakuni Domain, he originally worked in the Guards Brigade, and was originally going to be transferred to Hiroshima Zhentai, but fortunately he was in Tokyo on business at the time, so he escaped a catastrophe, and after his hometown was captured by the Satsuma Army, he has been humiliated, and wrote to the emperor one after another, asking to serve in the front, but because he is still young, the Ministry of War has not been appointed, but only let him do some staff work. In the later stages of the war, because of the tragic fighting on the front line, the casualty rate of the major general of the Japanese government army was too high, and the army lacked people to command, so the Ministry of War had to "pull out the big one among the short ones" and promote him to major general in an exceptional way, commanding the newly formed Sixth Brigade to fight on the front line.

And this time in the attack on Shiroyama, the former enemy commander was Major General Hikaru Inoue, who commanded a real battle for the first time and achieved success.

At this time, Yamada, a reporter from the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper, who happened to follow the operation of the 6th Brigade, hoped to seize the opportunity to come forward and praise Major General Inoue's outstanding military exploits. While he hurriedly recorded in the interview book, he asked Major General Inoue to pose in various heroic poses to take pictures.

Yamada wanted to set up the camera, and Major General Inoue took what he thought was enough to show off, and just as the camera shutter was about to go off, a thunderclap exploded above their heads. (To be continued......)