Volume 1: The Field of the Old Home Chapter 3: The Soldier and the Gun He Fell to the Ground

Alberta was full of strength, he opened his eyes suddenly, and because of the long breath holding, he had red vision, and his skull was as painful as if it were cracked, but he was better watery and his desire for life! So that he is almost a swim in the gap between the attacks of the enemy ironclad giants, and a fierce man emerges from the water! He desperately breathed in the fresh air, and he knew ...... He lived......

Alberta was swimming as fast as he could, he was swimming extremely fast, and he was swimming as fast as he could. Because he knew that if he didn't swim faster at this time, he would definitely be swallowed by the layers of waves that had eroded him.

As the waves hit Alberta in layers, he swam towards the shore at great speed, the water pouring into his throat over and over again, and he swallowed it into his stomach......

He hurried to the preciousness of life, but at this time, life has never been as far away from him as it is now......

It was at this time that the wave brought by the battleship's guns swept him away again...... Alberta exerted all his strength, and finally did not let himself be shaken into the water again......

It's fifty meters away from the beach on the coast! But the distance of fifty meters between life and death is like the pace of death...... In the interval between the artillery, Alberta swam to the shore with all his might, and at this time, Alberta finally swam to the shore, and he landed on the shore like a dead fish he had been fishing for many years, and he desperately gasped for breath...... He looked at the sky, his eyes were bloodshot, and he had never been more eager to live......

He fell on the beach like a dead fish...... He had seen dead fish, all of them had fallen on the shore, gasping and breathing hard. On weekdays, he would pick up a knife and take their lives. Now, he's like a dead fish...... He fell to the ground, and when he had caught his breath, he got up, his back hunched over, drenched in sweat and seawater, like a man who was about to die...... He had just escaped death, but at this moment, he saw the entire port of Epalai...... It has turned into a sea of fire......

Alberta looked at the sea at this time, and more than a dozen such ironclad warships faintly appeared on the sea. Alberta ran like a panicked man towards the harbor, but after two steps, he slowly stopped again...... In the distance, there were twelve warships on the coast, and he counted them...... He was supposed to run towards the port, but he stopped.

Because ahead, the port is almost gone...... Disappear into the flames. The whole harbor was a sea of fire, burning and rising. Alberta seemed to sense that there was an alternative language that was being sung in the world at this time. The language seems to come from underground, where there is the sound of fire and death - the Grim Reaper is at your side, scythe in hand harvesting everyone in the port of Epalai!

He ran into the harbor town. It's already a sea of fire...... As he entered the town, Alberta saw groups of soldiers, dressed in khaki uniforms and wearing military caps. The soldiers were lined up in columns, in columns...... Their ensigns stood beside them, and they were in groups of about thirty to fifty men, and they were lined up behind the walls of the houses. Waiting for their commander to give an order, they are ready to rush forward!

At this time, the steel battleships stopped shelling, and the arrival of the steel battleships was a shocking and dying feeling for the people of the port of Epalai. Not only in the port of Epalai did not see ironclad battleships, but in this world, perhaps...... No, not maybe but for sure, definitely today, the people of the Strypa continent, the people of this world, are the first to see a large ironclad battleship......

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Alberta saw the distance again, the whole town was burning, and the city's inhabitants were scattering and fleeing. They fled with their wives and children, and even their parents. However, the word "far away" is only relative...... Because they don't know where to flee......

Alberta squeezed through the crowd, the artillery still firing from the sea, and he could hear explosions around him, rubble smashing his cheeks. At this time, he pushed away a lot of people, and he squeezed in from the crowd again. Countless citizens fled for their lives without any purpose, they did not know where to flee, because the whole harbor was burning, and because of the large crowd, they blocked the way out of the city.

In addition to the frightened citizens, there were groups of soldiers. Their commander was shouting hoarsely, ordering their soldiers to stand in line, whether under artillery fire or not, to maintain their formation in order to respond to the enemy's landing and to launch a counterattack at any moment!

Alberta caught a man running for his life aimlessly, "Where is 16 Akron Ave. The man was caught by Alberta, who gave Alberta a desperate punch, and then pushed Alberta away and fled into the distance with all his might. Alberta stopped the man, making the timid man think that he himself had lost his chance to escape. So he punched Alberta in the cheek with all his might, and Alberta was knocked to the ground by the punch. He came back to his senses, and the flames around him were burning, and he couldn't even make out where it was 16 Akron Avenue......

16 Akron Ave., exactly where his home was, where his father was. He grabbed another soldier as the citizens around him were pushing and shoving, all looking for a chance to survive. So he thought that perhaps asking a soldier might give him some answers.

He grabbed the soldier, anxious and nervous, and asked in a hurried voice: "Where is 16 Akron Avenue!" I need to find my father! ”

The soldier pushed him away and loaded the bullet. Pointed a gun at him: "Get out of here!" Or I'll shoot you with one shot! Walk! Walk! The soldier's companion patted him, and the soldier's companion said, "Let's go, we don't have time to waste here!" ”

At this moment, a huge cannonball landed on the building on the right side of the street, and as the building shattered with a roar, the rubble and rubble broke apart, and the huge impact pushed Alberta away, and everyone around it fell to the ground......

Alberta slowly stood up, shaking his head, only tinnitus buzzing in his ears...... He looked at the sky and felt that the sky was on the ground, and then he looked at the ground and felt that the ground was in the sky. He looked at the collapsed house on his left, and blood flowed from the building, as if it were blood coming out of the stones, each of which was soaked in blood.

He stood up, and suddenly stood unsteady and staggered. When he regained his balance and felt that the sky was in the sky and the earth was on the ground, he saw the soldiers in front of him, the soldiers who had just pointed their guns at him and let him go, their stomachs had been hit by the boulders blown up by the cannonballs, and their bodies were cut in half, and he still had a breath, and this group of soldiers suffered far more damage than Alberta, many of them died, and the rest were called by the ensign, they did not have time to help the wounded, and they also did not have time to stay, they used as fast as they could, Run to the place where their commander gave them orders to assemble.

And these soldiers who are on the verge of death are lying here, dying......

The soldier's gun fell at the foot of Alberta, the distant cannon still rumbled, the fire in the harbor increased everywhere, and the sound of the cannonball landing was like some kind of huge thunder roar, muffling the thunder, and then loading it in a box, and then smashing it on the ground! Not only is the sound similar, but the behavior of those ironclad battleships is also similar......

The soldier said to Alberta, "Please...... Solve my pain...... Pick it up and give me a shot......"

Alberta could see that the soldier's stomach had been smashed open, revealing the organs inside. But the soldier's body is still connected to a part, connected to the lower half of the body, so it is not accurate to say that he has only half of his body left. His legs were still shaking mechanically, trembling......

Even he himself doesn't know how long he will need to bleed before he dies...... Alberta looked at the guns on the ground, the guns were full of flesh and blood, and he looked into the distance, many of their soldiers were falling, and only part of their bodies remained, but some of them were lucky to die, and some of the unfortunate were still muttering. Waiting for death......

Alberta felt as if there was an iron railing with iron spikes on the railing, which was holding the soldiers back from their lives...... So their lives were harvested here, left in a place like the earth, only blood and dim gray.

Alberta subconsciously held the soldier's hand, and he tried to plug the huge hole in the soldier's body, but he failed...... He could only say in a crying voice that he himself could not understand: "May you return to your father's arms...... Your homeland will always be safe and warless...... May your Father accept your soul ......"

The soldier gasped suddenly, and he grabbed Alberta: "Please! Kill me! The soldier's shouts even splattered blood from his mouth......

Alberta shouted, he was terrified, he screamed and broke free from the soldier, and pushed the soldier hard, just like the aimless citizen he had caught at the beginning, and the citizen pushed Alberta away, and now Alberta pushed the soldier away! Then he ran away quickly...... It didn't even occur to him, and he didn't even think about whether to relieve the pain of the soldier who was pointing a gun at him, kill him, or leave him alone......

He was just scared and screamed and ran down the next street...... But the next street still burns...... He saw the fire, it was red...... The half-burned buildings around it are the color of black charcoal...... He looked at the ground, which was also black and charred......

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