He stood on the edge of the trench, looking into the distance, and could not see anything clearly at night, and the sergeant told him that it would be safer to set out at night, but he did not think so. During the day he had traveled half the town, and now he had to run back. He knew that the flames of war were like death...... He understands death and sacrifice. He had seen the charging ensign leading his platoon, and he had also seen a company charge where the company commander was at the front.

Now it was his turn, and he looked at the khaki uniform on his body, and he laughed miserably. He's still thinking about retreating. Because this is not his war, this is a brutal war...... He didn't think it had anything to do with him.

He gritted his teeth and climbed up from the trench: just like that, out of the pit full of dead people. The earth was full of blood, and the sky was dark red......

He had to traverse three districts to get to the opposite side, inside the camp of the second battalion.

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The night is undoubtedly fatal for the soldiers. The minions of the night can devour the lives of soldiers at any time.

But just after Alberta left the trenches, he suddenly saw the sky suddenly lit up like day in the deep blue of the night...... A yellow fireball hit the sky, and Alberta was taken aback! He ran to the side in shock, he didn't know it was an enemy flare......

As one flare after another shot shot into the air, the troops of the Opperon Empire charged. Enemy artillery rang out in the distance, and Alberta fled from the trench positions as fast as possible. It was at this moment, by the light of the flares, that he saw that in the position he had just run out, the troops of the Opperon Empire had begun to charge frantically towards the position...... The soldiers of Operón's army were men of three, and they carried a "long-barreled" gun with a long barrel, and when the huge gun was erected, the bullets struck the defenders of Epalai like a wave...... Alberta didn't know what it was, and he didn't know that it was a heavy machine gun...... All he knew was that during the daylight this morning, he had seen countless soldiers of the defending army die at the gunpoint of this huge "giant barrel gun......

Alberta fled as fast as he could, like a dead dog, running without any death. He also did not dare to look back, he did not know the situation of the position...... He ran for some distance, but he saw that his surroundings were lit up by flares as if it were daylight.

By the time Alberta felt like he was running to death, he felt like he couldn't run anymore...... All of a sudden, he felt that his legs and feet could not be controlled at all, and he tripped and fell to the ground...... He nearly fainted...... At this moment, he faintly saw in the distance, the place where he had just come out of the Epalai position, the enemy army, that is, the Imperial army, was desperately launching round after round of offensives. The place was like daylight, illuminated by the afterglow of the flares, and it was like a remote place illuminated by the afterglow of the flames...... The flames shine ahead, and here ...... The glow of the flares reflected the ruins of the buildings, the light and shadows fell, and the afterglow of the flames and flares reflected on the shadows, and the shadows of the ruins looked eerie, like some kind of monster showing its claws, and these shadows alone seemed to be able to swallow people's lives.

Alberta came back to his senses, he stood up hard, he looked around in horror, all around him were on fire in ruins, he looked back and saw the distant position, the fire was soaring, and the sound of artillery fire rumbled......

Alberta did not know that the army of the Opperon Empire used 75mm rapid-fire guns, which could reach a range of about 8,100 meters, but because the night and the Empire's army had already begun to charge, the Opperon Empire's artillery took direct fire instead of indirect ranging fire from a distance. But even so, the defenders of the port of Epalai did not even know where the Imperial artillery was coming from. The defenders of the port of Epalai were still armed with 8-pounder guns and 12-pounder breech-loading rifled guns......

Alberta couldn't tell which was the defender and which was the enemy from the sound of artillery...... But once again he carried his rifle on his back, and he had just run so fast that he fell to the ground and hit it so hard that his rifle fell from his back......

He sniffed and wiped away the tears that had been shed for some time. He continued on his journey to the second battalion.

He ran through the flames of war, and it seemed that the war behind him had nothing to do with him at all...... Instead of caring about the war, he would rather take some time to mourn his girlfriend, Alyssa, and his father...... He doesn't feel that there should be or shouldn't be anything about the war, he only feels that the war should have nothing to do with himself......

Alberta continued to walk, and as he moved farther and farther away from the battlefield of the defenders' positions behind him, the light of the flare farther and farther away from him...... Alberta saw the road ahead and had lost the light of the flares. Of course, he didn't know that it was a flare, he only knew that it was "a cannonball that glows when it hits the sky after it makes a whooshing sound." ”

Alberta sensed that there was always a flame in front of him, and when he clearly saw the flames in front of him, he suddenly realized that there was a junior officer of the enemy army in front of him! The officer, armed with flames, was closing in on him......

Alberta screamed in surprise, and the junior officer in the black uniform on the opposite side also spotted him! The junior officer used magic to slam a flame-burning missile towards Alberta!

Alberta ran as fast as he could, towards the back of a ruin...... He looked at the enemy in front of him, an enemy magician! He doesn't seem to be dodging fast enough...... As he hid behind the ruins, the magician's flame missile hit the ruins, causing Alberta to fall to the ground with a powerful explosion...... The walls began to collapse and Alberta was buried inside......

He was almost unconscious, and he saw a small fireball in his hand as the magician in the distance was still chanting a spell he didn't understand. But Alberta fell in the rubble, and the stones and rubble held him down, and he could barely move......

Alberta struggled to break free from the rubble, like a dog crushed by the rubble and stones, pushing the rubble that was pressing on his body, and like a lost dog, he desperately got up from the rubble and fled forward.

But the magician behind him, seeing that he was not dead, but had risen from the rubble, continued to shoot the fireball at Alberta, who desperately jumped over the cliff in front of him, and he slammed over the roof of the ruins, and landed in front of him a large crater formed by the shelling...... And the fireball slid straight over his head......

Alberta continued to run forward desperately, and the magician chased after him, Alberta raised his gun and fired a fierce shot at the magician, but instead of hitting the magician, he shot the stone behind the magician, and the shards of the stone splattered on the magician's cheek, creating a scar, which did not hurt the magician, but angered the magician......

Alberta's first use of a rifle, he was not proficient in using it, and even at critical moments, he forgot how to load the rifle. Alberta fiddled with his rifle as the magician behind him struck Alberta with another fireball......

He watched as the fireball rushed towards him, and he tried to dodge as fast as he could, but he failed...... The fireball hit the ground in front of him, and he was knocked flying as the massive fireball rippled...... Alberta fell to the ground, almost dying......

The flames burned on him, and he didn't move at all...... He was covered in blood, and the flames burned his legs, by which point he had almost stopped breathing......

The magician continued to chant a spell as he approached Alberta's side, seemingly concerned about the amount of mana he had left, not wanting to waste another fireball with the soldier who had already wasted his three magic fireball rounds. For he saw the magical flames that had burned in the body of this soldier of the Epalai defenders...... He thought that Alberta was dead, otherwise a living man, with such a large flame burning him, he would not have been left without action.

The mage was reluctant to waste another magic bullet to test Alberta's life. So the magician grabbed a fireball in his left hand and tested Alberta's snort with his right hand......

At this point, the magician noticed that Alberta's nose was not breathing...... He touched his right hand to the carotid artery in Alberta. The magician wants to determine if Alberta is dead.

Just as his hand touched Alberta's neck, Alberta grabbed the magician's left hand with his right hand as fast as he could, and almost instantaneously, he pulled out the bayonet from his waist and stabbed the magician in the heart!

The magician screamed, and he looked in amazement at the Epalai man who had been pretending to be dead...... This soldier of Epalai was able to endure the burning of the flames all the time, waiting for the right time......

The magician fell to the ground, he was not willing to die, he survived the daytime battle, he was strong in magic, he was still a low-ranking officer, as long as the war was won, a great future awaited him...... Whether he enters the Imperial Academy of Magic for further study or continues to serve, he will have a good home......

But at this moment, he fell to the ground, his body twitched, he wanted to cast a magician, but his hand could not move, he wanted to speak, but his mouth kept shaking......

Sometimes, life seems to be like this, from a moment of time to a moment, like a light flickering from a distant pole, quickly coming, to the present, here......