屍し山ざん血けつ河が

noun

heaps of bodies and streams of blood; fierce battle

A dramatic yojijukugo describing a battlefield so intense that corpses pile up like mountains and blood flows like rivers. Used figuratively for any extremely fierce conflict or struggle.

• その戦たたかいはまさに屍し山ざん血けつ河がの様よう相そうを呈ていした。

  The battle truly presented a scene of heaps of bodies and rivers of blood.

• 屍し山ざん血けつ河がの激げき戦せんをくぐり抜ぬけてきた兵へい士したち。

  Soldiers who have survived fierce battles of heaps of bodies and streams of blood.