Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

"How about the others?" Saito asked as calmly as possible.

Arai read the names one by one with a crying voice, and it sounds like only three or five people have survived to this day.

This number of people can hardly form any combat power at all. If the Satsuma infantry swarmed up, they would be swallowed up in an instant.

No, maybe they don't need to swarm, just stand far away like now, bombarding here with Yasuke cannons and bullets like a dense net, just like what they have done to Aizu City for so many days— — that's it.

Sooner or later, Tathagata Hall will be razed to the ground by such fierce and intensive artillery fire.None survived.

"Arai, do what you should do." He tried to order himself to calm down, and said to the young man beside him without looking back.

Arai's swordsmanship is not very good. After the Shinsengumi started training according to Western-style military training methods, he found that he still has a bit of talent in learning marksmanship; so now he is heavily relied on every time he fights, and his tasks are average. It is also to shoot from the rear to cover the comrades who rushed forward, or to shoot and kill the enemy soldiers from a long distance when the enemy army is approaching-so tonight may have such an advantage. He was still standing here, and it seemed that apart from his poor spirit, he didn't have much physical injury, so he was considered very lucky.

Seeing that his captain was tentatively poking his head out of the trench to observe the enemy's situation in the distance amidst the rumble of artillery fire, Arai squirmed his lips a few times, and finally managed to utter a word.

"Captain...you...are you not afraid?"

As soon as the words came out, he immediately realized how stupid his question was.

Saito... No, Captain Yamaguchi is one of the pillars of the Shinsengumi. He has won the trust of Director Kondo and Deputy Hijikata at all times, and is sent to perform the most difficult, difficult and dangerous tasks... like this How can a person be so shaken by the imminence of death that he wants to turn his head and run away?

In other words, hasn't he already seen the appearance of death many times before his eyes?

Sure enough, he saw Captain Saito showing a strange look on his face, and turned his head to look at him.

"Afraid? No, I don't think there is anything scary." Captain Saito's voice remained as calm as usual, faintly resounding in the trench filled with the smell of earth and choking fire/powder.

"From the moment I applied to stay in Aizu, I never thought that I would survive until the end of the war," he said quietly.

Just when Arai thought that his respected captain was going to say more bold words, Saito turned his eyes away again.

"If you haven't made up your mind yet, then do it quickly."

Arai: "..."

He felt a little speechless for a moment.

On the contrary, it was the strange woman who stood aside and claimed to be a member of the women's team. Her mother's family is in Osaka, and she came to Tathagata Hall to repay her favor because of Shinsengumi's rescue of her shop at the beginning. come out.

In the low air of death, her laugh was a little decidedly out of place.Arai stared blankly at her, as if puzzled as to why she was so relaxed when death was imminent.

As if noticing his gaze, the young woman also turned her face away.

"...I'll help too."

A faint smile still lingered in the corners of her eyes and brows, but she said these words in a very serious tone.

"...Yamaguchi-kun will definitely see the sunrise tomorrow."

Arai: "..."

For a moment, what flashed across his mind were complaints like "Why didn't you mention my name" and "The captain's skills are much better than mine, so I'm the one who needs to be saved!"However, he still has a sliver of reason, knowing that these words must never be said; so he just squeezed out a smile similar to being hit by a sneak attack on the back of the head, and he was so angry but still kept smiling (no), Coughed, and replied awkwardly: "Yes, is it..."

The next moment he noticed that his captain was also surprised—and then that surprise quickly turned into helplessness—and he took a subtle look at the young woman who claimed to be "Kazuo Shinoda", what? Neither said.

If it wasn't for their imminent death, it wouldn't be a good time to gossip; Arai would take a good look at the secrets behind this girl-including what happened when she was in Osaka, why Captain Saito said it was important to her It was Vice Chief Hijikata who was grateful, not him, but she still stubbornly planned to pour out the act of repaying gratitude on Captain Saito...

Ah, maybe after tonight, the answers to these questions will never be known, right?

Arai sighed old-fashionedly.

Maybe it's because of watching too many comrades fall down or being blown to pieces tonight, facing his captain's iron mask-like unshakable composure and indifference, the kind of mortals that gradually rise in Arai's heart will have The panic was finally suppressed by reason, and slowly fell down.

In the end, he took a deep breath, answered "Okay" in a low voice, carried his rifle/gun, and walked away slowly.

Saito Mao walks through the trench with his waist down. He tried his best to reach the shortest point he could reach in all directions of the position, taking advantage of the shallow trench that everyone dug earlier and was so shallow that he could only block most of his body if he stood upright. From a distance, observe the situation nearby.

Just as he walked back and forth in the trench with his body lowered, Sa Chang's army certainly didn't stop.Cannonballs and bullets swished over the trenches as if they didn't need money, almost dense enough to interweave into a fire net.

Saito lowered his body a little more, holding a rifle/gun in his right hand, and accelerated his pace back to his original position.

That position is now considered to be the key point to face the official army head-on, but there is no one left in the Shinsengumi who can strengthen the troops to guard there.

When Saito returned to that position, he was a little surprised to find that Kazuo Shinoda had found a rifle/gun from nowhere, and was pulling the bolt to check inside; Make three groups—the two youths each form a group, and the remaining three youths form a group—scatter a little distance from each other and scatter in certain positions that are not far apart. All the rear directions were monitored.

Saito shook off the strange feeling in his heart, and solemnly said to Kazuo Shinoda: "...Thank you very much."

As a result, she raised her head and looked at him with an expression that was even weirder than his own.

"Eh?...I haven't done anything yet?"

Saito: "..."

For some reason, he felt like laughing a little at that moment, but soon stopped.

He coughed and began to tell her seriously what he had observed.

"Those Samoans probably wanted to kill us all with shells, lest they rush up and die in hand-to-hand combat."

"...The Changfu Nationalist Team, because they are in the trenches and the terrain is too low, they can't see their movements clearly. But they have been tossing around for most of the night, so they should have swum over even if they were swimming."

He said his inference with a serious face, and he obviously felt that there was nothing wrong with his reasoning, but he paused because he found that she grinned and smiled again in front of him.

Although after fighting in the middle of the night, none of their faces were very good-looking, covered with dust and dirt; but because she came later, her face still looked cleaner than his; so Now that smile also looks brighter, so bright that it almost dazzles his eyes.

Saito couldn't help but pause when he spoke, and there was a layer of confusion in his tone.

"What's the matter? . . . I had no intention of saying anything funny," he asked.

However, such a simple question made the smile on the corner of her lips freeze there!

Saito:?

The doubts in his heart deepened, and he opened his mouth to continue asking, when he heard the sound of the wind caused by the flying shells above his head, and the whistling sound that was getting extremely close to his position, which became louder and louder——

Before his rationality clamored to call the police, his body responded automatically and subconsciously.

He jumped forward and threw the girl who was still smiling vividly to the ground heavily.Their bodies hit the rough ground at the bottom of the trench, and the gravel hurt his exposed skin——

But the next moment, his thoughts were interrupted.

The earth-shattering sound exploded above his head almost at the same moment.The earth and rocks seemed to have been shaken into fine powder, they were suddenly thrown into the air, and then fell down densely like rain.

The huge explosion sound and impact force were as if someone punched him in an instant, drilled roughly through his ear hole, reached his brain, and then gave him a lot of hard blows in his brain, and then tore him His brain and eardrums; for a moment his brain was confused, his ears were tingling, and sand and stones hit him like a torrential rain.

He felt a pain in the top of his head, and suddenly there was a buzzing sound.His forehead was on fire, as if a curtain of bright red blood suddenly covered his head; the pain gradually seemed like someone was holding the sharpest knife, stabbing the most fragile bones and flesh inside him, Then he tore them apart; finally, amidst the shock, shock and unbearable pain, his memory and his body suddenly became blank at a certain moment.