Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

Chapter 989 [Chapter 6] 3

The rain on Tawarasaka seems to show no sign of stopping.This is even more disturbing.

The Taharazaka War has been going on for more than ten days.Both the official army and the Satsuma army have poured tens of thousands of bullets on the small hill of Taharazaka, but there are not many casualties in total. After all, the official army's side is more miserable, after all, they are attacking in such heavy rain and mud. , it is too disadvantageous.

Moreover, the swordsmanship of many people in the Satsuma army is not ostentatious. In this situation, it is safer to draw out the knife and say that it is inaccurate than pull the bolt - after all, the sharp blade will not be soaked in the cold rain.

Fortunately, the government army has captured Takase west of Taharazaka, which can be temporarily used as a transit point for rest and distribution.So now Takase is full of people, horses, cars, guns, luggage, etc.

The first brigade of the official army also suffered heavy losses, so they had to retreat to Takase to rest.The road was noisy, people, cars, and horses mixed together, so that some staggering wounded soldiers were squeezed to the side of the road, and some people could only walk slowly in the fields.The roadside was also piled up with discarded luggage, bombed guns, damaged carriages, broken wooden boxes, and seriously injured people lying on the side of the road.

A man with epaulets showing a second lieutenant, a tattered military uniform, and an unkempt man stumbled down the road and came to a wooden house.

He entered the wooden house, and came out again after a while. Holding a wooden sign, he walked around the wooden house and came to an open space next to it.

The clearing is filled with what looks like a decent supply of supplies.He stood on the edge of the clearing and looked around until a young-looking young man with a round face noticed him and walked over.

"Are you looking for someone?" the young man asked.

The man with the appearance of a second lieutenant was suddenly accosted, he let out a little panic, and showed the young man the wooden sign.

"I'm Ino from the [-]rd Infantry Regiment of the [-]st Brigade... I was ordered to receive the supplies needed by the headquarters..." he explained with some stammer.

The young man let out an ah, smiled, and took him aside.

"Everyone is busy here..." he said, "You stay here for a while, I can only find everything for you slowly."

Ino responded gratefully, and watched the young man rummage through a mountain of wooden boxes beside him.

"Ha! I found it, the bullet—" the young man shouted with a smile, and dragged the two wooden boxes out with great effort and put them aside.

Ino felt a little sorry that he couldn't help, so he said to the round-faced young man who looked like he was always smiling, "Thank you for your hard work—"

The young man straightened up, turned around and said, "No, you're welcome." Then he walked to another pile of wooden boxes and large packages wrapped in oilcloth, and while searching, asked casually, "Ino-kun looks very calm. , much calmer than most of the flustered guys I've seen these days... You must have had experience in battle before, right?"

Ino was surprised, and immediately replied: "Ah... yes. Apart from this, I won't do anything else..."

As if to divert the topic, and just to avoid embarrassment, he quickly added: "If you are young like you, you have to face this kind of fierce battle every day. It is very hard... I also have many young children under my command Ladies and gentlemen, I have never seen such a scene at all in the beginning...After a series of battles, now, cough..."

He stopped talking awkwardly.The young man turned around, glanced at him, and said sympathetically, "It's so pitiful....I've seen a lot of people like that..."

Ino didn't know what to say.He is not a person who is good at words, so he could only say dryly: "It's good for you to be here... The fight on Tahara Sakago was a mess, it was terrible... Those who have never been in battle before may not be able to bear the scene , those Samoans!"

There was some anger in his voice.

The young man looked at him again in surprise, bent down and dragged out a huge oilcloth bag, opened the oilcloth on top, and counted the number of military uniforms underneath.

"Isn't that right... At this time last year, he was still controlling the government with a loyal face... Who would have thought that he would become a traitor now!" There seemed to be a hint of ridicule in his voice.

"Those people...have been pointing their fingers at others for more than ten years, saying that others are traitors, and they are grabbing the title of righteousness, as if they are really loyal; now, it is finally their turn Myself—”

Ino was taken aback.

As if hearing some other meaning from the young man's words, he straightened his back suddenly.However, just when he was about to ask something, there was another sound of footsteps behind them.

Immediately, a calm and serious voice rose from behind them.

"The first advance team of the police recruitment team, come to collect supplies."

Ino turned around almost at the same time as the round-faced youth.

In the next second, a very strange expression appeared on Ino's face.He seemed to want to laugh, but also seemed to be unbelievable, the corners of his mouth wanted to bend upwards, and at the same time, he seemed to want to try his best to resist the tears in his chest caused by mixed feelings, and his face twitched.Finally, he opened his mouth wide, feeling the heat in his eyes, and the same heat in his chest; it seemed that for a moment he forgot what this place was, and he took a big step, his face glowing.

"Team leader!!" he shouted, "Team leader Saito!?"

The man standing behind him was slightly taken aback.When he also saw Ino's face clearly, his jaw tightened for a moment due to surprise and joy, and then he also smiled, his voice was still steady and calm, but with a sense of joy added.

"You are...Kumebe?!"

"That's right! It's me! Team leader!" Ino nodded violently, his eyes fell on the opponent's face, and then on the navy blue police uniform and epaulettes.

The other party's gaze also seemed to have gone through such a process, because the corners of his lips were slightly raised, and he smiled and said, "Is he a second lieutenant now? That's not bad."

Then, as if realizing that there was a third person present, he cast his eyes on the young man standing behind them among a pile of wooden boxes and oilskin bales.He looked over the shoulder of Tadaka Ino - who was the captain of the Shinsengumi back then, Masaki Kumebe - and landed on the young man's face.

The young man's face looks very ordinary at first glance, only a pair of eyes are very bright, and the corners of the eyes are slightly raised by nature, which always gives people the feeling of smiling, which seems easy-going; but deep in the eyes Looking at it, those eyes seem to be like a deep pool, containing many profound meanings that are difficult to decipher.

This kind of deep eyes that don't match his ordinary face, let the police officer of the first advance team of the police recruitment team——according to Ino Tadakami's previous address, it can be inferred that he is the third group of the original Shinsengumi Team leader Saitoichi——slightly narrowed his eyes, revealing a thoughtful expression.

He considered it for a while, then bowed his head implicitly to the young man who straightened up from the pile of supplies.Afterwards, his eyes moved away from the young man's face, and fell on the face of Ino standing in front of him again, and asked, "...Is this the place to receive the supplies?"

This kind of style of reuniting with old friends and being moved only for a short period of time before starting work faithfully to one's own duty undoubtedly evokes Ino's memories.His gaze was staggered for a moment, and he showed a nostalgic smile, and said: "...Yes. Speaking of which, you are still the same as in the past, no matter what time you are, you always put your own tasks first..."

Saitoichi—oh, he is called "Fujita Goro" now—the corners of his lips curled slightly.Although judging from the epaulettes, his current military rank is lower than his former subordinates; but the aura he exudes is still not comparable to that of Ino.

When they met again, he deliberately suppressed the original sharp aura on his body, making himself look like a silent and reliable police officer; but now, in front of his old subordinates, he temporarily does not He suppressed his original cold and aggressive aura like a famous sword, so the glance he cast at that young man at this moment was just like the lone swordsman when he was chasing down the rogues on the streets of Kyoto. Calm, cold, persistent, firm, straight to the heart.

However, this aura didn't seem to affect the young man at all.He calmly met the gaze cast by Goro Fujita, and under that gaze, he raised his hand and threw a large bundle of military uniforms wrapped in oilcloth near the two wooden boxes next to the pile of supplies, and stepped over them calmly. Several wooden boxes and bags of clothes walked slowly in front of Goro Fujita and Tadaka Ino.

"Did you also just retreat from Taharazaka?" He actually started talking with Fujita Goro in a calm and casual tone.

"Or... are you going to Taharazaka?"

Fujita Goro paused slightly.But he had no reason to refuse to answer this question that sounded so natural, so he replied: "We have just arrived here with reinforcements."

The implication is that they are about to go to Taharazaka to fight against the Satsuma army.

The young man seemed a little surprised when he heard the words, and raised his eyebrows.

"Police recruiting team... so you are really a policeman? The situation is so critical..." He said something like a sigh, lowered his gaze and gave a slight nod.

"Those Satsuma people, I heard that most of them are very good at swordsmanship... On our side, there are many townspeople and guys of commoner background. In terms of swordsmanship, they are not their opponents..."

Although Fujita Goro felt that the young man's casual comments were a bit strange, but this was considered a good intention to inform the situation on the front line; so he nodded and accepted the favor.

"So, let's fight them. Those Samos...they won't be complacent for long." He replied calmly.

"Based on swordsmanship alone...they can't be our opponents. It's been like this since before, and of course it's the same now—"

He seemed to have more to say, but Ino, who was inexplicably encouraged by his few words, suddenly grinned, patted him on the shoulder vigorously, and said in a rough voice to the young man: "Ah, you Don't worry! If you hand it over to the team leader, there will be no problems! The team leader was a wolf who roamed the capital!"

Hearing such a description suddenly, Fujita Goro seemed a little surprised, immediately turned to Ino, and said very seriously: "...that's all in the past, don't mention it again. But I am really very good at swordsmanship. confident--"

Before he finished speaking, the round-faced young man who was listening quietly suddenly frowned and laughed.

Fujita Goro had to stop, and seriously reflected on whether he had said anything inappropriate just now.

"What's the matter? I don't think I said anything funny—" he said.

The young man smiled and shook his head.

"I'm sorry. There is nothing wrong with what you said—" He replied with a smile, and the way his eyebrows were crooked gave people a sense of familiarity inexplicably.

"Across the capital...'a wolf'..." He repeated the adjective that sounded a bit harsh now as if talking to himself in a low voice.Then before Fujita Goro lowered his face seriously to defend, he raised his eyes again and looked directly at Fujita Goro, the warm smile in his eyes still hasn't disappeared, making those black eyes sparkle.

"Then, it will definitely go smoothly." He said, "I will fight to the end and win. I pray like this."

The advance team of the police conscription team did not stay here for long.Fujita Goro was indeed here to receive the last necessary supplies before the expedition.Ino Tadaka generously expressed that he could let Fujita Goro take the lead first, but Fujita Goro hadn't expressed his objection that "it should be received in order", the young man had naturally turned around and rummaged through the pile of materials like a hill to find his Claim the items on the list.

He also brought a few people to help carry it.So there was no need for Tadaka Ino or the young man in charge of distributing supplies, Fujita Goro took away those heavy wooden boxes by himself.Before leaving, he once again paid tribute to Tadaka Ino and said goodbye to each other.

Then, he turned to the young man who had shown extra friendliness to him for some reason, and nodded slightly.

"Thank you very much for your help." He used the full set of honorifics carefully, and his tone was very sincere.

For such a short moment, he almost had an illusion, as if the young man's gaze on him was bottomless, as if he had gathered all the strength in his body; but in the next second, the gaze that contained infinite depth It has disappeared, as if it never existed in the world.There was a kind and gentle smile on the young man's face, and his eyes were warm and calm.

"Take care, Captain Saito," he said.

Fujita Goro:! ?

For a moment he couldn't help opening his eyes wide.

The author has something to say:

February 7:

First of all, on the first day of resuming the update, I didn't expect that the first thing I would say was the new rules for the author to change the article.

In fact, I basically don’t do any activities to get moonstones, so I don’t have a few months of stones for me to modify articles and catch bugs when things come to an end.

At present, the regulations I have seen in the background are that there is no limit to the number of revisions of the saved manuscripts, and there will be a fee for revisions after publication.

So, if you want to catch bugs in the future, I can only correct them in the message area ==

The frequency of my bugs is very low, and I will pay attention when writing, but if it happens, please correct it in the comments [.

Come again!Why did my unicorn arm start to write Xiaoyi again [confused]

A little note: This Ino is the former team member of the Shinsengumi, Kumebe Masaki, and Ino Tadaka is his pseudonym after the war.

Obviously, the girl is pretending to be a male banker here, but she is actually spying on the news.

She hadn't expected to meet Xiao Yi and other newly selected team members who had joined the battle here.

As for why they didn't recognize her, it was because the girl used [Advanced Disguise] to change her appearance w

Next update: tomorrow at midnight.