What does it feel like to be in control of the life and death of others?

Excited? Blood boil? Or is it superior to the self-absorbed? Maybe...... Neither. More often than not, it should be a great sadness from the bottom of my heart for the fragility and cheapness of life.

- At least for Chu Mo, this was what he felt when he aimed the bloody butcher knife in his hand at the young enemy magical female soldier below him.

As the commander of the sixth main force of the Shu Middle Route Army, Chu Mo is a veteran who has been on the battlefield for five years, and killing people is actually the same as three meals a day for him, and it has long been a matter of routine.

But he was not a bloodthirsty murderer, on the contrary, before he became a small soldier in the Legion, he was even a teacher in a remote country, who was determined to preach and solve doubts, and use his short life to promote culture and spread the vast knowledge left by the sages......

But how did you become what you are today?

The reason is very simple, because five years ago, Shu issued a mandatory conscription order, except for the capital Jingzhou, in all the other counties, but all men and women over the age of 16 must join the army to serve the country for three years.

No, Chu Mo didn't want to criticize this unfair "regional discrimination" too much, but at that time, almost all the students under Chu Mo's sect were indeed collectively forced to join the legion under the hijacking of this conscription order!

After arguing with the local consuls to no avail, Chu Mo, out of full of righteous indignation and lofty morality, resolutely threw himself into the army, and joined the legion with the students.

In the past five years, Chu Mo has relied on his keen insight and outstanding command ability, and has led the troops to make countless feats on the battlefield many times, and in only five years, he has been promoted all the way to the position of a thousand-commander, becoming one of the thousand-commanders who is also well-known in the middle of the road, at the age of 29!

For a small soldier, this can already be regarded as a model of success and youth. But—

Chu Mo rarely had a smile on his face, or should he say ...... He hadn't smiled since he joined the Legion five years ago.

Although he won fame, but in this short period of five years, the students he was determined to protect at the beginning have all become one of the trillions of dry bones buried in this canyon, a total of 53, and the brutal battle took the lives of his students and took away his smile.

This is the regret and pain that Chu Mo can't erase for the rest of his life.

And in this canyon battlefield where small soldiers are killed every second, no one will remember this cold number that can even be removed as a fraction, only Chu Mo remembers it, and permanently engraved this number on his saber......

So.

When Chu Mo stepped on the ground of the magical female soldier of the Wu Kingdom in front of him, and raised the butcher knife in his hand to prepare to pierce her face, through the number on the handle of the knife, Chu Mo hesitated for the first time.

The enemy female soldiers under their feet are even younger than they imagined!

is about 16 years old, although her face is stained with a lot of wolf smoke, but you can still see from the general outline that this is a little girl with clear eyebrows. But at this time, she was very scared, like a panicked elk that was crushed by a vicious tiger, so she opened a pair of eyes with panic and tears, and looked up at Chu Mo with a bloodless face.

In a trance, the frightened and desperate face of this female soldier of Wu State overlapped with the appearance of the students back then, which moved Chu Mo at the same time, but also swelled with a great sense of sadness!

If this girl hadn't come to the canyon battlefield and studied hard in her hometown, would she have had a completely different life?

Of course, this hesitation and compassion is only for a moment......

"Close your eyes and ...... soon It's gone. Chu Mo said expressionlessly.

Then, he cut the throat of the female soldier under his feet with a knife, and the moment the hot blood sprayed out, Chu Mo's heart, which was already full of holes, was also marked with an indelible scar.

But he was still expressionless.

This is the duty of a soldier, and it is also the rule of war, you can never refuse to kill, and as a last resort, you can only do it like this, to free the enemy as quickly as possible, and make the enemy suffer less......

"If there is an afterlife, don't be a soldier anymore." Muttering as if praying, Chu Mo withdrew his long knife, looked back at the battle line that had entered the end of the battle in the rear, and breathed a sigh of relief. Then, he turned his head again and looked at the peerless white shadow in front of him.

It was the commander-in-chief of their mid-lane legion, and the hero who rose to fame after the last Battle of Shu Wei - Luna, the Daughter of Moonlight.

Thanks to her, their troops were able to wipe out an entire force of 1,000 men supported by Wu with minimal casualties.

But Chu Mo always felt that since he left the middle lane and came back half a day ago, something was wrong with this adult. Judging from the appearance, although she can't see the clues, her eyes, which are always clear and bright in normal times, have actually lost their luster-

Did anything bad happen during the time she was away?

Thinking of this, Chu Mo walked over and saluted respectfully, "Lord Luna, are you okay?" ”

"It's Mr. Chu." Luna turned her head, glanced at Chu Mo, and then said in a flat voice, "There is the enemy's Highland Tower in front, please lead the troops to continue the march." ”

It should be said that among the three-way legions of Shu Kingdom, the most beloved hero among the soldiers is Zhuge Liang, a military advisor with high prestige, and secondly, the girl in front of him who has only turned 18 years old.

This is not because her prestige can overpower the veteran Guan Yu behind the scenes, but because although this girl is a hero, she is extremely docile by nature, and she does not have the arrogant arrogance of other heroes, and among all the heroes, she is the only one who cares about the soldiers, and whenever there is a shortage of manpower after the war, she will personally help some soldiers bandage their injuries and comfort the people who have lost their robes......

Strong, polite, and approachable, who doesn't like such a girl?

What particularly touched Chu Mo was that since she learned that he was a teacher before, this girl, who had always respected scholars very much, had always deigned to call him Mr. Chu, just by being able to be a corporal, all heroes could not do it, in fact, no hero would do it.

Therefore, although she has been ostracized at the top, within the legion, there are actually countless supporters of Luna, and Chu Mo is one of them.

But today, the girl is indeed a little strange, she seems to be very calm on the outside, but in fact, it gives Chu Mo the feeling that it is a manifestation of forcibly covering up her inner vacillation and anxiety.

And according to her usual habits, she would not have asked to continue the march as she did now, at least, not when she was obviously in a bad state......

(End of chapter)