Under the cover of the grass and trees, Yusaku Uehara pricked up his ears and listened to all the unusual movements around him. It has been going well, and as soon as I touched the bottom of the commanding heights, I looked up and saw a Russian soldier standing up from there, wanting to look down. I'm probably very alert, and I can hear movement below. Yusaku Uehara has only one thought: fire first! He didn't bother to bend down and hide in the grass, and he hit it with a shot.

The enemy was punched in the chest, and with a lunge forward, he turned down the fortifications. There was a shout from above, and I don't know how many people there were. Yusaku Uehara didn't expect so many enemies to appear, and was startled when four round things flew out of nowhere, all of which landed in the fortifications and exploded violently.

Yusaku Uehara bent down, only to hear four explosions in quick succession, and when he looked up after the sound had passed, all the shouts were gone.

He saw another machine gun position, it turned out that this was just a small dirt bag, the area was not large, there were actually five people on it, these people or head, or legs, or arms, or chest, or abdomen, all bandaged, one guy white cloth strips wrapped around his body tightly, these people must have been wounded in the battle with the Satsuma army just now, unable to move, but at this moment finally got retribution, they all fell next to the machine gun. Only one of them had not yet lost his breath, with a short, violent coughing sound in his throat and blood blisters in the corners of his mouth, and Yusaku Uehara went over to shoot him at close range.

The Gatling gun was blown up and crooked to the side. He quickly checked the terrain around him, and the battle was still raging two miles in front of him, with smoke and fire rising from time to time. To go over and go to war. You have to go through the high ground below. Of course, you can also go down the ridge. Sneak away from the enemies on this high ground. But Yusaku Uehara didn't want to do that. Anyway, it's all about hitting the enemy, it's the same everywhere. Now he is getting bolder and not feeling afraid.

The enemy position on the high ground in front of him was in shambles after the artillery attack, and strangely one of the straw houses did not burn or collapse. He thought that there must be an enemy hidden in the trenches, and there was no doubt about it. It's just how to lure them out and kill them one by one. You can't stay here for long, for fear that the enemy will hit you with artillery. Then there will be no place to bury you.

But he still has a question, who threw the things that killed these enemies just now?

This man is not showing up now.

Yusaku Uehara observed for a while, but the other party still didn't show up.

Uehara Yusaku guessed that this person might be more cautious, and if he acted as brutally as he had just now, he would definitely be ambushed by the enemy's cold gun. The enemy is cunning, he can't do it for the sake of one person, everyone rushes out as a target.

As long as you hide your body and ambush it, it's different. Sometimes it only takes a single bullet to kill an enemy. And there is no danger of any exposure.

This person did not dare to come out, probably because he was too experienced in combat, and he was afraid that there would be a large number of ambushes behind Yusaku Uehara, and when the time came, he would be exposed, increase casualties, and implicate himself. Probably, what they have to do now is wait for reinforcements, and not expose them easily.

Thinking of this, Yusaku Uehara couldn't help but have a trace of respect for this person who had helped him just now.

"Thank you!" Yusaku Uehara shouted.

Yusaku Uehara observed again, the first trench on this high ground was about two hundred meters away from the machine-gun position he had just rushed up to occupy, and now he got off the machine-gun position and went directly from the ridge towards the first trench.

Uehara Yusaku was on guard, and on the mountain on the right side of the ridge separated by a space distance of four or five hundred meters, a bullet suddenly fired, and a "whoosh" sound flew over his forehead, and Uehara Yusaku was startled, and quickly lay down and hid in the grass.

He was turning back to find the enemy's hiding place in the direction where the bullet had come from, when suddenly the sound of rustling blades of grass and the sound of running footsteps came towards him. As expected, there was an enemy hiding in the position. Yusaku Uehara hurriedly turned around and pointed his gun at the person who had come from. He secretly rejoiced that he was really blessed just now, and he was almost shot coldly.

Yusaku Uehara lay on the ground, listening to the direction of his footsteps. Not good, more than one person came! He lay on his stomach and carefully discerned the enemy's approach. Looking at the grass roots on the ground is undoubtedly much better than a cat's waist, this is a secret that Yusaku Uehara suddenly discovered, because he has already seen the legs and feet of the people in front of him, but the enemy has not yet discovered him.

Yusaku Uehara didn't have time to think about whether the other person would bring him new help, and he fired desperately.

A Russian spear threw high into the grass on the shoulders of the man and fell to the right. On the right, there was the scream of a man being hit by a gun.

The shouting gave Uehara excellent directions for shooting, and he immediately turned his gun and continued shooting.

The remaining bullets were used in an instant, and in the midst of this, he heard the short, violent coughing of someone who had been hit in the head, face, and throat, followed by the sound of a man falling in the grass. When the man fell in the grass, the bullets were just gone.

Yusaku Uehara heard that there was no movement in the grass in front of him, and before he dared to stand up, he turned around, took a sniper rifle in his hand, and scanned it.

The grass was so dense that he couldn't see anything.

Yusaku Uehara cautiously stretched the muzzle of his gun out of the grass, but the front was blocked by a ridge. He had to take advantage of the cover of the grass and crawl over slowly, and after crawling over, he couldn't find a position to aim at the ridge. If you rashly stick your head out to peek, you will definitely be hit as a live target.

He already sensed that there should be an enemy sniper here.

The person who helped him just now, why didn't he show up, may also have something to do with this enemy.

He knows what is at stake in a sniper. The shot just now didn't hit, maybe it was from a position to fire, or it was affected by the wind, etc., so it was biased and didn't hit itself.

He figured the sniper was still watching. Where the hell is that person? The grass around me is so deep that it's not easy to observe at all. This is true here, and even more so on the opposite hill. The grass is deep. The forest is also dense.

Yusaku Uehara noticed a blown out French rifle left behind by a fallen Satsuma soldier not far away. And a helmet.

Yusaku Uehara suddenly remembered the lesson Lin Yiqing had taught him, and he immediately took the rifle and the helmet. In addition, he broke a large handful of long grass that he had prepared to join.

After continuing to observe the opposite ridge as much as he could, he chose a better position and began to carry out his plan. He tied one of his pick-up rifles to the grass and placed it on his left side, close to arm's length away, and then used the other rifle to push it diagonally forward little by little behind its butt. If the sniper on the other side was still around, he would have seen a gun slowly sticking out of the ridge grass. The muzzle of the gun pointed diagonally upward.

Now he is waiting, giving the enemy time and seeing how the enemy on the other side reacts. In the time he waited, he picked up the big handful of grass, and now they became a long rope that could be pulled far away. He felt that the time was almost up, so he used the gun in his hand to bring the helmet under the ridge next to the gun, revealing a little.

With a "dang" sound, the bullet immediately pierced through the dense grass in front of it and pierced the helmet. The mud on the ridge next to it flew up. The enemy was still there, and his position had not changed. It's very tight to stare at here, and I really don't relax at all. This guy is very patient and very decisive.

Yusaku Uehara judged where the bullet was coming from. The opposite ridge is only a general location, and it is necessary to determine the range of 50 meters first, so that you can observe further and find out the opponent from the lurking grass and leaves. Just now he was heading to the left towards the highland trenches, and the bullets were across the forehead, and now the bullets for shooting the helmet came from the left front, drawing a triangle, and the general position was determined.

Although the gunfire in the distance is no longer violent, it is sporadic and everywhere, so to speak. From early morning to now, the battle continues, and it can be said that it is more intense. The sound of the explosion of the rumbling cannon really came far away, as if it was doing a kind of embellishment, the sound behind the back of the stage. Boom, boom, and as if to remind people, those who are resting, don't forget that this is still on the battlefield.

It was overcast and there was no sunlight. The dew on the blades of grass has not completely dissipated either. Yusaku Uehara silently stretched out the gun from the grass next to the dirt bag.

He quickly focused his attention on a ditch in the direction of ten o'clock. The ditch was about 100 meters long, and it arose from the direction of one o'clock in the middle of the mountain, and stretched all the way through. The ditch is not very deep, but it looks like it is about ten meters, and there are trees up and down, so it is really not easy to find at first glance. At ten o'clock in the ditch there were several boulders piled up on top of it, surrounded by long grass and a small tree growing in the middle of the boulders. This is where he is now focusing on observations. If there is a sniper, it would be a good hiding place, to control the entire slope of the mountain on his side, and to provide information that is not favorable to our attacking forces at any time. He used this as a dot and drew a semicircle with a diameter of 50 meters on the upper edge of the ditch, and repeatedly observed it in the semicircle above the ditch.

After searching and searching, he looked at the semicircle on the ridge with a diameter of 50 meters, but there was still no valuable discovery. And he had just calculated that the bullet must have come from that place, and the only possibility was next to the boulder, not to mention that there was a dense clump of grass there, which completely obscured his line of sight, even if there was no cover, from his point of view, the protruding boulder also obscured his view.

He believed that there must be something wrong behind the grass, but seeing was believing, and it felt unreliable! To shoot a single shot, you have to see the enemy with your own eyes and shoot at the key point.

The place where I am hiding now can be said to be an open area, and it is still very dangerous, and I can't be exposed here for a long time. Besides, it's not a problem to stare at that dense grass, maybe there's still movement around it? Just as he looked so closely and again and still didn't find anything, and wanted to get out of sight, the dense grass in the gun scope suddenly moved.

The surrounding grass showed no signs of being blown by the wind, and this sudden discovery made Uehara's heart beat with surprise and nervousness. His surprise and nervousness are like the feelings of an angler who has just learned to fish and waits for a long time by the river before finally a fish comes to bite the bait. He could see that it was a stick or something in the grass. What's he doing? Act rashly and alert the enemy? Yusaku Uehara stared at it. Look at it clearly.

Something is raised.

Not a stick. It's a gun! A gun wrapped in a strip of grass-green camouflage cloth.

It seems that the enemy is too cunning. Too experienced; The camouflage training of snipers has really been done at home.

The gun was lifted up little by little in the grass, and it looked like it was about to be withdrawn.

Yusaku Uehara didn't understand what was happening, when he suddenly saw a small circular object fly out of the grass not far away, flying straight towards the location of the enemy sniper.

Due to the distance, the round thing quickly fell to the ground. Rolling straight in the direction of the enemy, it rolled as it rolled with a faint smoke, and although Yusaku Uehara was far away, it seemed to be able to hear a small sizzling sound in his ears.

Yusaku Uehara is all too familiar with this kind of voice, it is the sound of the fuse!

At this moment, Yusaku Uehara almost shouted, great, that enemy actually half-crouched up behind the grass!

He was clearly aware that the other party was throwing some kind of explosive. If he wants to dodge, he moves fast. But they can't outrun bullets.

Yusaku Uehara, who had long been ready to attack, immediately fired two shots in succession.

When the second shot was fired, he fired it almost with his eyes closed. When he opened his eyes, he saw that the enemy's rifle, which also had a scope, had thrown out of the enemy's hand and dropped to the side, and the barrel above the handguard was suspended in the air. One of the enemy's hands, stretched out from the grass, rested there.

Then there was an explosion.

Yusaku Uehara felt a wave of heat hit his face, and quickly lowered his head, and something small flew over his head and hit the trees with a strange crackling sound.

After about half a minute, there was no movement in the grass. Yusaku Uehara raised his head and flattened the sniper rifle in his hand. It was only then that he let out a long breath.

"Is it Captain Uehara?" A crisp voice asked in Japanese.

Uehara was stunned, he could hear it, it was a girl's voice.

"It's me." Yusaku Uehara knew that she should be the one who had just used the same four round explosives to help him destroy the enemy, and immediately agreed, "Excuse me, who are you?" ”

A thin, agile gray shadow emerged from the grass and walked quickly to Yusaku Uehara's side.

It was a girl of about fifteen or sixteen years old, she was not tall, and she was wearing a ninja costume, but because of the battle, many places had been broken, and the veil on her face did not know where to go, and Yusaku Uehara noticed that she did not have a gun in her hands or body, but there was a short knife at her waist, and two bulging cloth pockets.

"My name is Kira Kamiya, and I'm a ninja from Iga." She looked at Yusaku Uehara and said with some excitement, "We all came to Osaka to join General Saigo, but there was a fierce battle with Lucia's army on the way, and I was separated from everyone. I walked here alone, and I just happened to see Captain Uehara, but I didn't dare to confirm it, and now ...... What a joy! ”

"How did you recognize me? We haven't seen that before, have we? Yusaku Uehara asked with some surprise when he saw the excited look of the girl in front of him.

"Your name has long been spread throughout Iga, and no one knows you." Kira Kamiya said, "Your elusive tactics have killed countless Lucia beasts, and what we all read in the newspapers is extremely respectful of you! ”

Kira Kamiya said, bowing respectfully to Yusaku Uehara.

"My greatest wish is to meet Captain Uehara with my own eyes and express my respect to you in person!"

"Miss Kamiya, you're welcome." Yusaku Uehara didn't expect to meet someone who admired him so much here, he felt a little funny, and of course he was quite proud, he bowed and returned the salute, "Thanks to you just now, I was able to kill that Lucia killer." ”

"It's my honor to be able to help Captain Uehara!" Kamiya Kira said excitedly, "Everyone knows, they will definitely envy me!" ”

"You don't have a gun?" Yusaku Uehara asked, noticing the rudimentary equipment on her body.

"Yes." Kira Kamiya looked a little embarrassed, "I don't know how to use a Western musket yet. ”

"And what do you use to fight the Lucia?" Yusaku Uehara remembered the explosive throwing weapon she used to attack the Russian army, and immediately asked.

"This is my weapon, a thunderbolt." Kamiya Kira opened the cloth pocket on his waist, took out a jet-black round iron bullet, put it in the palm of his hand, and showed it to Yusaku Uehara, "This is one of the weapons of our Iga ninjas, which was originally used to create smoke, but after the improvement of a master, the powerful yellow powder of the West was replaced with the smoking gunpowder, and the fine iron sand was loaded with it, and the power of the explosion was used to attack the enemy. ”

"How can it explode?" Yusaku Uehara picked up the iron bullet and looked at it, he saw that there was a hole in the iron bullet, which contained a medicine wire, but the length of the medicine wire was too short, only slightly exposed outside the bullet hole, if it was ignited with fire, in the eyes of Yusaku Uehara, he was afraid that it would explode before it could be thrown out.

"If I run into an enemy in a moment, I'll show Captain Uehara a a demonstration." Kira Kamiya showed a lovely smile. (To be continued......)

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