"Haven't contacted Hu Zongnan yet?" Meng Xiang asked anxiously. Ma Si went around looking for Hu Zongnan, but still couldn't find it. Meng Xiang didn't know that Hu Zongnan had left the north shore at that time, and he was defenseless for a while. As a result, the plan was deviated.

"Send more people to find it! Be sure to find him! "Without Hu Zongnan's order, the First Army on the opposite side is absolutely strictly carrying out the order to shoot at the ships on the river.

With the blockade of anti-aircraft machine guns, the planes, which had been flying for a long time, finally ran out of ammunition and retreated.

At this time, Shimonoseki was already crowded with fleeing crowds.

Originally, there were two ferries between Shimonoseki and Pukou, each time carrying up to seven or eight hundred people, and it took about 45 minutes to make a round trip. If these two ferries can be mastered, they can transport at least 30,000 people across the river. However, these two ferries were arranged to go to Hankow, and only a few small steamers and about two or three hundred civilian boats remained on the banks of the Xiaguan River. So many people have to cross the river, and there are so few boats.

"Let go! Let go! The ship is capsizing! A captain grabbed the edge of a small boat with one hand and shouted at the other hand, and in the river below the boat, five or six soldiers were holding on to the edge of the boat, trying to climb up. As it shook, the edge of the small boat, which was already carrying a dozen people, began to flood.

"Get out of here!" There were also people on the boat who scolded.

"Good job, sir! Take us for a ride, I still have a seventy-year-old mother to support at home......" One soldier in the river begged bitterly, and the other tried to climb up.

"Dang!" "Ahh With a scream, the soldier who was about to climb up was cut off by the captain's sabre. In pain, the soldier who let go of his hand fell into the river, and a wave hit, leaving only a miserable cry, and he was nowhere to be seen.

Even so, there were still people who tried to climb up, and finally the boat overturned in a rocking way, and the people on board fell into the river.

In the river not far away, a small boat was also overloaded and overturned by a wave, and it sank into the river with the boat and people.

"Don't panic, everyone! Come one by one! And boats! Xiao Shanling shouted loudly, but there were so many people that not many people paid attention.

"The devil is coming!" Someone shouted loudly. Immediately, there was another burst of crying.

Although he said that he had not yet attacked the city of Nanjing, panic had already infected everyone, and there was no way to maintain the reading power of individuals in group action. Even some of the officers knew that they were still far away, but in the uproar of the crowd, no one kept calm and boarded the ship in order. Human instinct is already driving safety, which takes the first place.

The scene was chaotic, everyone fought for the crossing, guns were fired everywhere, and countless people died by trampling on the river.

All kinds of rumors have spread, and the crowd has begun to desperately use all kinds of tools that can escape to cross the river. Door panels, wooden barrels, bamboo poles, firewood, etc., but everything that could float on the water was carried to the river. But what are the chances of survival with this method? People can't care about these things under the madness.

"My house!" A dozen soldiers demolished a house by the river and jumped into the river with a few beams in their arms, leaving behind only an old woman who was crying bitterly. Panic has made discipline forgotten by instinct. Although most of the descendants of the Central Army who have undergone rigorous training are still able to strictly observe discipline and maintain a trace of rationality. But this reason also collapsed as the superior escaped alone.

"Sir, we've only grabbed these buckets!" Three or four guards came to Hu Lian's side with a few dung buckets.

"Look for it again!" Hu Lian looked into the distance, and his eyes were full of black heads.

"Sir, you go first!" One of the guards persuaded.

"Let's go together!" Hu Lian said angrily, "What's so scary about the little devil? ”

"The gang of the 2nd Army Corps of Wulong Mountain has already withdrawn, and the army of devils will come over soon!" The guard said with hatred on his face.

Hu Lian was silent.

"Sir, you go first!" The guard's tears were already in his eyes, "Our family is looking for more help from the chief." I couldn't help but say, along with several other guards, I tied four dung buckets to Hu Lian with ropes.

"What are you doing here? Let me go! Let's go together! Hu Lian struggled, but the guards tied up the dung bucket and carried him into the river.

"Sir, go all the way!" Several of the guards were left in tears. As long as Hu Lian is safe, their family will naturally be well resettled. When a soldier fights, what is death?

Hu Lian floated on the surface of the river, and his tears couldn't stop flowing.

"If you don't take revenge, you swear not to be a man!"

"Boat! There are big ships! Someone on the shore of the river shouted.

The sensitivity of the ship made everyone look at each other. On the surface of the blood-red river reflected at dusk, the shadows of the three big ships were getting bigger and bigger.

"Here! Over here! Come here! The people on the shore began to shout in unison.

"Whew!" The long whistle of the steamer made the big ship slowly move towards this side, making the people on the shore cheer in unison.

Meng Xiang, who had long considered the nervousness of the ship, asked Li Ting and the others to contact the ship early in the morning. It was not enough to rely on two steamers from Shanghai.

said that he had already blocked the river, and it was impossible to find a boat from Shanghai, so Meng Xiang hit the idea to the middle and upper reaches.

But it's not easy to get a big ship like this. At this time, all places are strategically retreating, and a lot of materials and goods are being transferred. Everyone has a task on their side, and it is not okay to give money. Where are the idle big boats?

In the end, Li Ting made the decision and directly grabbed two big ships.

One was a passenger ship of Lu Zuofu, at the beginning, it was still forced with a gun, and finally I heard that it was to go to Nanjing to save people, and those Huaxia crew members were more active than the clone soldiers standing next to them. The other is a cargo ship from a foreign company, and the captain is an Englishman.

"Your political axe will give us a satisfactory explanation." Will Carson tilted his head haughtily and looked at Li Ting with disdain.

"He's *, foreign devils are quite rampant!" Li Ting secretly thought about it, but there was still a smile on his face. Hu Si next to him didn't have a trace of scruples, and directly ordered: "Open the boat!" "A gun in your hand is the best order.

"As a citizen of the British Empire, you will not succumb to the threat of a few indigenous robbers!" That Will is a tough bone.

But the sailors under his command were not so tough, and a few of them were already busy.

"It's not a threat, it's a legitimate business practice of hire, trading for money. We gave the money! Li Ting pointed to the check on the table.

"You are inhumane, and we will not breach the contract to accept other requests!" Watching the ship's cargo being removed off the ship one by one, Will said indignantly.

"Humanity? We are going to carry out humanitarian rescue, there are a large number of refugees in the battle of Nanjing, and we need a great knight to give his love! Li Ting muttered that this was a passage that the priest said to a few servants recruited locally when he robbed a priest back then.

At that time, the servants squatted directly on the ground, and Li Ting took this as a joke and remembered this passage.

"Refugees? Refugees in Nanjing? ”

"Yes, sir!" Li Ting's face has always had a smile that makes people can't bear to refuse.

"My boat will rescue the old and the weak, women and children! Soldiers will never be carried! Will Carson looked at the large check on the table again, and Huaxia began to become standard.

"No problem, sir!"