Volume 1: The Field of the Old Home Chapter 13: Death is on the ground beneath your feet
The woman stabbed a gun with a bayonet into the chest of an Imperial soldier trying to kill Alberta. The Imperial soldier hiccuped as if he were sobbing, and after whimpering like this twice, he fell to the ground and died slowly......
Then the woman fell to the ground, sobbing and choking...... She sat on the ground and wept bitterly as if she was about to die...... Alberta, who had no idea how he had managed to get up, took off his shirt and wrapped it around the woman.
Alberta said to the women, "You're alive, run...... Run for your life and ......"
The woman, however, seemed to be looking at a hollow and hypocritical black hole in front of her, and she said slowly, "I...... I don't know where I'm supposed to go...... I have no home, my husband died in my arms, and I don't even know who the enemy is...... What am I going to do? ”
Alberta shook his body and said slowly, "I don't know...... I'm going to give a letter to the 2nd Battalion, far ahead...... There was a command from the Colonel...... "Alberta spoke so simply that he could not even express his intentions cleanly...... He didn't know if the women understood what he meant.
The woman nodded, "I know...... You are a soldier and you are going to carry out your orders......"
Alberta stood up and said to the woman, "You can ...... Go north, there should be no enemy there...... You...... Maybe it's safe to leave ......."
The woman nodded, her tears streaming silently...... "Maybe, right?" As you know, I was helpless and met the enemy's soldiers...... Maybe you're going to die......"
Alberta nodded: "I have a mission...... I can't take a female ...... I ......" Alberta looked at the woman, and he looked at the unclear grayish sky...... He let out a long sigh slowly, "Follow me......"
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Alberta looked ahead, he was sure there was no enemy ahead, and he said to the woman he had saved behind him, "Follow me, keep up!" Do you understand? The woman he had saved nodded. Alberta quietly looked up, he looked ahead, and when he saw that there was no danger ahead, he said to the woman, "There are about 1,200 meters left, and I can get you out of the city...... You have to remember that when you leave the city, be sure to run north! Say nothing and don't look back......"
The woman nodded, and she looked at Alberta with attachment: "You come with me...... You're with me! Let's get out of here, shall we? If...... You look at me pretty well...... You take me, we run away together, you are not a soldier, we flee together to a country place, and we are free! We can stay away from this war...... All right? ”
Alberta laughed miserably, he looked at the sky and thought to himself, "I'm not a soldier, I'm just a fisherman......"
Alberta looked at the girl, and suddenly he had an indescribable emotion in his heart, as if he were walking on a field lined with golden wheat fields and the smell of ......
For a moment, he looked at the girl closely, and he looked at the girl who looked like Alinsa...... He could barely control himself from kissing the girl on the cheek...... But he took control.
He looked at the burning town behind him, he didn't know what was wrong with him, he seemed to have a sense of mission at this time, he felt a kind of indescribable emotion...... He couldn't tell what was going on, but he knew that he was right here and now, right here and now...... He's not who he used to be.
He suddenly felt that this war had something to do with him. He couldn't articulate the feeling, he only felt that if it weren't for this war, he wouldn't have lost his father, and his girlfriend...... He looked at the poor girl in front of him, who would not have lost her husband if it weren't for this damned war......
Alberta choked up and said to the girl, "I miss ......"
The girl was overjoyed: "Then let's run away together...... Get out of here! ”
Alberta shook his head again: "But no...... I'm a soldier to protect the citizens we should protect......"
The woman slammed into Alberta and said, "You don't have to...... It doesn't have to be this way! We can run away together...... What does this have to do with you? This ......"
Alberta smiled: "It's related......"
The girl asked, "What does it matter?" ”
Alberta said, "I'm a soldier......" When Alberta said, "I'm a soldier," he vaguely felt the colonel's words, "Cross that line and you'll live......
Alberta even felt that the line he was about to cross...... And to cross that line is not just to be alive, but to be reborn.
Alberta said to the girl, "It's here...... This is the boundary of the city...... If you go any further, you will be out of the city...... Let's go, after you go, I walked about 1000 meters to the south, and I reached the second battalion, and my task was completed......"
The girl smiled and nodded at Alberta, and she slowly walked away...... Alberta looked at the girl's distant figure, his lips trembled, and at this time he had a chance, a chance to leave...... He had protected the girl through the city, and now he was not far from the second battalion, and he was not far from leaving the city...... He looked to the left, which was in the direction of the second battalion, and he looked to the right, and to the right was the direction of fleeing the city. Fleeing the city means fleeing the war......
He took a step to the right, and then without hesitation he strode to the left......
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Alberta was careful along the way, walking almost always in the craters of artillery fire, either in underground bunkers or on the sides or backs of the ruins. Because he had to be careful at all times that the Imperial army would find him.
But when Alberta saw the position of the second battalion clearly, he was almost ecstatic! But just then he discovered a huge tunnel, which he needed to cross if he reached the second battalion...... But...... On this side of the tunnel is the second battalion of the Epalai garrison, and on the other side is the Imperial army! About a thousand people......
That is, if he wanted to rush to the second battalion, he had to pass through the tunnel, and on the opposite side of the tunnel, the enemy's position......
Alberta laughed miserably, he didn't think he was a hero, and at the same time he didn't think he was a great man! He looked at the gun in his hand at this time, and he did not hesitate...... So he ran to the position of the second battalion. Just as he was emerging from behind his cover in the ruins, he heard distant gunshots...... He felt the world around him go dark...... He fell to the ground...... fainted......
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Alberta felt something weigh on him, and he pushed up, nothing was pushed...... At this point he felt the liquid flowing into his mouth, he was thirsty, he closed his mouth, and instinctively tried to swallow the liquid...... But I felt a bitter taste of blood...... He carefully observed the surroundings, only to find that what was pressed on him was a corpse! He wanted to scream, but he desperately covered his mouth with his hands......
He looked up as hard as he could, only to see that he had almost several bodies on him, pressed against him......
He knew that he couldn't drink it because he was thirsty...... It's the blood of the corpse...... He has great perseverance, otherwise he would not be able to hold back the unbearable gagging.
He looked up and looked around, it was dark. It's night again. He passed out for nearly an afternoon...... At this point, he could no longer feel the presence of his left leg...... He knew the severity of the damage to his left leg from being burned by the magician's flames.
Alberta pushed away a man with all his might, and then climbed onto top of another corpse, when the enemy searchlight came, and he suddenly stopped moving, falling to the ground, pretending to be dead...... By the light of the searchlight, he could clearly see that in the distant enemy camp, in the camp of the enemy army. At least the first soldier was confronting the soldiers of the second battalion, and the middle one reached the tunnel, the same tunnel that Alberta tried to rush through during the day, and almost all of them were dead by the soldiers of Epale guarding the second battalion......
At this time, Alberta learned that after he had been hit by the Imperial army during the day and fell to the ground and fainted, the second battalion of Epale launched several more charges, but this had little effect, so that almost all of the defenders of Epale died in the tunnel......
Alberta looked inside the pit to see the bodies of about 300 soldiers of the Epale defenders......
Alberta breathed a sigh of relief, he waited for the searchlight to pass, and then he slammed forward and continued to crawl forward, and when the searchlight came again, he played dead, in the cavern-strewn tunnel......
That's it! He crawled over the corpses of dead people, blood and mud around him...... He crawled over the graves of the dead, only for his purposes: for he was ready to crawl over the graves of the dead, and he had seen the gun in his hand......
When he climbed to the mouth of the tunnel, he was still three meters away from the position of Epalai's defenders...... But it was this three-meter distance that required him to rush through......
He whispered, "Father is looking at me!" The glory of my ancestors shines on me! ”
Then, like a frenzied checkmate wolf crawling out of a pile of dead bodies, he ran into the position of the second battalion of Epalai's defenders! All he could feel was the bullets of the Imperial Army flying in his ears, "clicking" behind his feet......
When he ran into the position of the second battalion - he hardly knew how he got to the position of the second battalion!
He saw countless guns pointed at him...... Because he was dressed in the trousers of the Imperial army captain, and the shirt of the Epale defenders without military rank...... In particular, the defender's uniform is not yet topped...... And his gun has long been lost to where it was lost......
Therefore, countless soldiers of the second battalion of the Epale garrison pointed their guns at the man in front of them...... At this point, Alberta only said: "I have a letter of order from Colonel Comandy, the Supreme Commander of Port Epale, the Supreme Commander of the Seventh Guard Brigade, and the Command of the Defending Epale Army, ...... in my shirt pocket......
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