Chapter Ninety-Nine: Crossing the River

"This is not the time for you to worry" Liu Goat did not answer Tang Cheng's question head-on, but directly rewarded him with a chestnut, since leaving the Guanghuamen position, Liu Goat has become more and more fond of playing Tang Cheng's chestnut. "Give me as many cigarettes as you have." Liu Goat took the back half of the pack of cigarettes in Tang Cheng's pocket, and then squeezed towards the troop transport ship by the river with a smile on his face.

Like Tang Cheng's worries, Liu Goat was also worried that the raft they tied up would not be able to cross the river smoothly, so he planned to use the help of the troop transport ship to cross the river. It has to be said that Liu Goat is a well-spoken person, and he got in touch with the people on the troop transport ship with a pack of cigarettes, and I don't know how he said it to the people on the troop transport ship, and when he returned to the raft, he came back with a long rope.

"Quick, push the raft over and tie it to the ferry, the boat is about to leave." The three guys of the 87th Division were overjoyed, and regardless of the coldness of the river, they directly went into the water and pushed the wooden platoon to move towards the troop carrier. The rope brought by Liu Goat was used to firmly fix the wooden platoon behind the troop carrier, and the three guys of Jiujin and the 87th Division were still doing the most reinforcing for the wooden platoon, because they were also afraid that the wooden platoon would suddenly fall apart when it came to the center of the river.

There would be two, three, or even more of them, and the goats saw their wooden rafts connected by ropes behind the troop carriers, and the other routers who had tied up their wooden rafts also came over. Before the ferry started, Liu goats did their best to use broken wood, planks and strips of cloth to reinforce the raft under them, if it wasn't for Liu goat's hard resistance, the honest nine catties would have to run back to those houses on the riverbank to carry a door panel back.

Liu Goat's raft was built in such a hurry that Tang Cheng, who was sitting on it, did not dare to move, for fear that because of his own turmoil, the raft that had been soaked in the river would immediately fall apart. As the ferry moved, the rope connecting the raft and the ferry was tightened, and Tang Cheng, who was stiff, opened his mouth wide to look at the raft that seemed to be about to fall apart with a gurgling sound under him, and his heart was full of fear and worry. However, Liu Shanyang and the others did not have the same worries as Tang Cheng, because they were busy aiming their guns at the routs who were trying to climb onto the raft.

"Snap" The shell gun in Liu Goat's hand was the first to fire, and the bullet grazed the shoulders of a routed soldier and flew out obliquely, and the three of the 87th Division, who were ready to shoot, also pulled the trigger immediately, and before life and death, no one wanted to die by themselves and leave the hope of life to others. If one of these routs is allowed to climb onto the raft, there will be more routs who want to climb on the raft, the raft is so unsturdy that it can't accommodate more people to sit on it, so in order to ensure that they and Tang Cheng can reach the other side alive, Liu Goat They chose to shoot and warn.

"Speed up and get rid of them," the officer commanding the ferry scolded in a fierce whisper, and then ordered the ferry to speed up. The rafts behind the ferry, which are connected by ropes, are not the only ones, and if each raft is full of routs, the speed of the ferry will be slowed down indefinitely, which is extremely dangerous for them to cross the river. The ferry suddenly accelerated, and most of the routs who were dripping with the river and trying to climb onto the raft were thrown off, and the rest of the watery ones were still trying to climb onto the raft or reach out to grab the ropes, and after a burst of gunfire, these routs all became floating corpses in the river.

"Don't blame us, blame this damn world." Looking at the corpses of the defeated soldiers floating and sinking in the river from a distance, Liu Shanyang lit three cigarettes and sandwiched them between his fingers, even if it was to worship the few defeated soldiers who became floating corpses. From the beginning of arriving at Rujiang Gate to now sitting on a raft to cross the river, this is the third time Tang Cheng has seen the scene of shooting his own people, for his own sake, Tang Cheng does not think that Liu Goat is wrong, but Tang Cheng vaguely feels in his heart that it should not be like this, after all, those defeated soldiers have also beaten little devils.

"Devil's airboat!" "Devil's plane!" There was a sudden panic on the ferry, and there were all kinds of screams everywhere, and there were also officers calling for their soldiers to prepare for battle, and all kinds of noisy voices came one after another. The sound from the ferry interrupted Tang Cheng's thoughts, and he looked in the direction that Liu Shanyang was looking, and more than a dozen black dots appeared in Tang Cheng's sight that were slowly getting bigger, which were Japanese motorboats coming from downstream.

The Japanese motorboats on the river appeared from afar, and these devils who blocked the river were scolded by their superiors for being lazy for a night, so they almost let their commanders cut their stomachs; Before dawn they boarded the ship and attacked, and at this time they had just bitten the last flotilla offshore. The Chinese dared to rush to the ferry without naval escort! In the second half of the night, when it was close to dawn, the Japanese army figured out the situation, so the Japanese army's motorboat troops attacked on all fronts, and they must teach the people of China a lesson, and let the people of China know that the majesty of the Imperial Army cannot be challenged.

The Japanese planes that dived down were the first to attack the convoy, and seven Japanese fighters began to dive in the air, and machine gun bullets splashed in rows on the water. The rows of holes left by the bullets that pierced the cabin leaked in the light, like white ghost eyes staring at the soldiers in the cabin, some were killed and some were wounded, the cabin and deck gradually began to be stained red with pools of blood, and the crowd began to wail and howl, but all the boats were rushing frantically regardless of it.

The machine-gun fire on the river was followed by bombs, and with the addition of two bombers, bombs commonly used in ground operations began to be dropped from the air, and a column of water several meters high rose on the river. With a loud "boom", a bomb fell on the river not far from the raft, and the raft that Tang Cheng had been worried about falling apart was almost overturned by Ju Lang, and Tang Cheng, who had already been wet by the river, turned into a rolling gourd like a chicken in the soup.

In Tang Cheng's worries and uneasiness, the seemingly simple raft finally persevered, but they were not the only ones connected to the raft behind the ferry, and when Tang Cheng secretly congratulated himself that he was fine, the other rafts did not have the good luck they had. A small raft a few meters away from Tang Cheng was the first to bear the brunt of the victim's death, and the giant Lang that tossed up with the explosion overturned the small raft into the river in one fell swoop.

The routs on the raft were thrashing desperately, but the river was so cold that they couldn't help but call for help, because the cold river water would pour into their mouths. As long as a bite can choke people out, of course, you can't expect others to save you, everyone has no time to take care of themselves or even has long been physically exhausted, and everyone will hold on, so they can only rely on themselves, they can only rely on their own strength to paddle desperately on the other side of the riverbank, desperately struggling they only lasted for more than ten seconds before disappearing on the river surface one after another.

Although most of the machine guns and machine guns on the motorboat were completely unthreatening at that distance, the faint flash of gunfire and the dense gunfire still frightened the people and the routs on board. Although these civilians, who had been terrorized by the war for a long time, did not run and fall into the water on the boats and rafts, their faces were all iron-blue, and they had fewer weapons and guts to protect themselves than the defeated soldiers on the ship.

Today is destined to be a disaster day, the fairy can only see whose luck is good, most of the people who crossed the river pursed their lips and sought comfort in each other's eyes, and the family on the boat hugged each other tightly. In the sky was a devil's plane, and the planes were constantly diving down to strafe the people on the river and the riverbank, and every time the plane pulled up the nose, it left a place of corpses on the long and wide riverbank. After each strafing shot, the survivors of the barrage began a new round of looting, snatching the river crossing equipment and food that the dead had once had.

The ferry, armed with machine guns, began to fire back to intercept the Japanese motorboats, and in the face of the ferry's machine-gun fire, the Japanese motorboats wisely changed their targets. The Japanese motorboats swept away the Chinese soldiers who were swimming across the river with logs, and they used the motorboats to overturn the improvised wooden rafts, scatter and sink them, and the Japanese soldiers on the motorboats did not even bother to shoot the Chinese soldiers who crossed the river on their own with their guns.

In the huge roll of the motorboat, there is the hopeless struggle of the Chinese soldiers who have fallen into the water; They struggled between the waves, in the cold, on the line of death, until they sank to the bottom of the river. The entire scene of crossing the Yangtze River in the north is the scene of the killing of Chinese soldiers, and the long river bank is full of corpses, and the stunned red beach changes the color of the earth one by one. The water along the river was densely packed with the corpses of those who had died in the river blown back by the north wind, and those who wanted to cross the river had to cross the river first.

Tang Cheng was lucky, because they were connected to the ferry, compared to the steamboat crossing the river, this ferry that simply crossed the river to transport troops was equipped with enough firepower to make the Japanese motorboats fearful, and its speed was far faster than Tang Cheng imagined. "The plane, the devil's plane is here again." The frightened cries of the soldiers sounded on the ferry, and not long after the first wave of Japanese fighters returned, the figure of the follow-up Japanese fighters appeared in the sky.

"Boom" "Boom" The ferry with Liu Goat and they sailed to the opposite shore became the latest target of the Japanese fighters, and in the continuous explosions, what Tang Cheng had been fearing finally happened, and their raft was overturned by Japanese bombs. Tang Cheng's thighs hurt as if they were broken by the spread of wood, and his brain was also dizzy, and his ears were swollen. It seemed that the screams of those who were swept away by the giant Lang were left in the air could be faintly heard in his ears, and Tang Cheng, who was immersed in the cold river water, was completely unconscious and unconscious at this time.