Although the drought has passed, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are still extremely hot, even at night. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The rolling water of the Yangtze River shimmered slightly in this sultry night, but it did not bring coolness to people.

More than a dozen big boats were leaning towards the north bank of the Yangtze River at this time, and the oarsmen on the boats did not say a word, but rowed hard, and their naked upper bodies were sweating like rain.

Just when they could finally see the dark riverbank through the light of the water, a few faint red lights flashed there, which were showing the direction of the nocturnal fleet.

The boats slowly approached the shore and lined up in turn.

Just as they were approaching the riverbank, the boats stopped, and in the darkness there was the sound of "tom-tom" entering the water, which was the fact that each boat had sent someone who was proficient in water to pull the cable to the shore.

This is because these ships are not small boats, and they do not dare to get too close to the shore without a dedicated dock.

At this moment, two or three miles downstream on the riverbank, there was a sudden sound of machine gun fire, and the red light with bullets could be seen flashing in the night sky, and then there was a roaring explosion.

The sound of the machine gun seemed to have become the fuse of the shootout, and more gunshots rang out immediately after, and it was like bursting beans in an instant.

The sound of gunfire was an order, and the sound of dense footsteps came from the woods on the riverbank, and some people on the shore caught the long enough rope that the boatmen had brought down and tied it to the trunk of the tree closest to the shore, while many more had already made countless splashes and went into the water.

As the depth of the water increased, the river gradually reached their waists and necks, when they finally felt the rope hanging from the side of the boat, and began to climb towards the boat.

Half an hour later, as the last man untied the cable tied to the tree and climbed back into the boat, the big boats rowed to the other side, and the dark north shore was silent.

And the gunfire on the banks of the river downstream has become sparse and scattered.

By this time, all the personnel of the quartermaster department were already standing on the boats, and everyone was supporting each other to overcome the shaking of the ship's moving waves.

Naturally, there were no people's faces in the darkness, but most of the people were praying, praying that in the gunfight on the downstream bank just now, Huo Xiaoshan and they would be able to cross the river safely.

It was now the tenth day since Huo Xiaoshan and their Japanese troops were caught off guard by the rout as bait.

After they eliminated the Japanese army that day, they naturally withdrew to the Dabie Mountains with the broken national army.

The leaders of the quartermaster department found out their origin only after finding the officer with the largest rout, a company commander named Hu Lianxi.

It turned out that they were the national army guarding the mouth of the lake, and they were originally a regiment, but when they were attacked by the Japanese army a few days ago, a regiment commander and three battalion commanders were killed one after another, and the rest of the personnel rushed to Dabie Mountain as soon as they saw that the situation was not good.

This is not to blame them for fleeing in a cowardly battle, there was no danger to defend the mouth of the lake, how could a mere regiment resist the iron hooves of the Japanese army attacking Wuhan.

Escaping to Dabie Mountain is the only way to live, otherwise you will either be killed by the Japanese army or throw yourself into the river.

So they hid in the Dabie Mountain, and the Japanese army was attacking in the direction of Wuhan, but they did not take their remnants of the defeated generals in their eyes, and encircled and suppressed them once, but they didn't even catch a single figure in the vast mountains and let them go.

Unexpectedly, their regiment had a radio station, and the surviving supreme commander Hu Lianxi was the direct nephew of a senior general of the Central Army.

So after checking the contact, the national army on the other side sent a wooden boat to pick them up, but they did not expect to encounter a Japanese army soon after leaving Dabie Mountain.

So he was chased by others and beaten up, if it weren't for the appearance of Huo Xiaoshan, then they were afraid that there would be few survivors of this rout.

In the dark, Zheng Youjian didn't worry much about Huo Xiaoshan.

On the one hand, he now believes in Huo Xiaoshan very much, as long as he says that he can do it, he will definitely be able to do it, on the other hand, after so many battles, he always feels that life and death are predetermined.

Huo Xiaoshan swimming in the Yangtze River is certainly dangerous, but when there is a real war, which battle is not dangerous?

Zheng Youjian is now thinking about what to do on the other side of the river, because the team they saved turned out to be part of the 75th Army of the Central Army.

When talking to that Hu Lianxi, neither he nor Huo Xiaoshan dared to mention that the predecessor of his unit was the wartime quartermaster department of the Central Army.

Because they fought with the 75th Army, they directly beat those of the 75th Army who dared to rob their spoils in the gambling fight in Taierzhuang.

At that time, they had to say that they belonged to the Central Army, but they couldn't report the number of the troops, and they were a little embarrassed, but Zheng Youjian used other words to distract from the matter.

Murong Pei and the little sister sat in the cabin, as the only two women in this army, and Murong Pei was Huo Xiaoshan's daughter-in-law, so they naturally received preferential treatment.

At this time, the two girls snuggled together and didn't speak, but their thoughts were exactly the same, and they were both praying for their sweethearts.

Murong Pei must be worried about Huo Xiaoshan, and the little sister is naturally worried about Shen Chong.

Murong Pei wasn't afraid that Huo Xiaoshan wouldn't be able to swim the Yangtze River, she was just afraid that this time Huo Xiaoshan would not be able to find himself if he was delayed if there was a situation like last time.

In the war era, once the two broke up, even if they were still alive, it was very likely that they would become separated forever.

In such an age, everyone is as small as the fallen leaves in autumn, who knows which gust of wind will blow them in which direction?

The little sister was worried that Shen Chong's water nature was not as good as Huo Xiaoshan's.

The little girl herself has excellent water quality, but she knows that Shen Chong's water quality is even a midstream level, and swimming in the Yangtze River is still a little reluctant after all.

At this moment, the two girls' fears were struggling to swim across the river in the downstream waters of the boat they were on.

There are Huo Xiaoshan, Shen Chong, Hanzi and three other soldiers with good water nature.

They were to allow the Quartermaster Office and the 75th Army to smoothly get on board, so that they could harass and block the Japanese troops patrolling along the river not far from the embarkation site.

Because Hu Lianxi and they bumped into the Japanese army last time, and the Japanese army lost more than 200 people at once, the Japanese army has already sent troops to start encircling and suppressing them in Dabie Mountain in the past ten days.

They also seized the opportunity to jump out of the Dabie Mountains after making proper contact with the national army on the other side, but they were faced with the situation that the Japanese army had increased patrols on the river bank in order to prevent them from escaping.

So Huo Xiaoshan came up with the trick of sending a few people to make a movement to attract the attention of the Japanese army and cover the large army.

Zheng Youjian and Hu Lianxi immediately rejected his plan, and both asked him how the person in charge of covering had crossed the river.

Huo Xiaoshan's answer was just three words, "swim over", which made the two people stunned at once.

Huo Xiaoshan wanted to cover by himself, but it was really unrealistic, and if he couldn't make much movement by himself, how could he attract the Japanese army.

So he found Shen Chong Hanzi and three other soldiers who dared to swim the Yangtze River.

There are many people who know how to swim in the water, but there are really not many who dare to swim the Yangtze River, and now only six of the more than 600 people in the entire quartermaster department have been singled out.

The six men, however, took two crooked machine guns and two grenadiers, and when they found the Japanese patrol approaching the upper reaches of the moored ship, they fired their guns and cannons indiscriminately in the dark of night.

The reason why they were scattered was because they were aiming to cover but not to kill the enemy, as long as the movement was loud and the Japanese did not find out that there were people boarding the ship.

After they had exhausted all their ammunition, they threw their weapons and jumped directly into the Yangtze River water.