Taking advantage of the time when the devil warship was evacuated, the fat man ordered the health company and the wounded to hurry up and board the boat to cross the river, and in order to overtake some people at once, he decided to send out all ten small steamboats.
And a platoon of men was arranged on the front and rear steamers to escort the crossing of the river, and they also gritted their teeth and equipped them with some mortars and heavy machine guns, so that the warship that encountered the little devils in the process of crossing the river had a guy to fight back, otherwise they could only watch the ship destroy and die.
At the same time, the fat man ordered everyone on the position to dig pits and build trenches and fortifications, and prepare to fight a protracted battle with the little devils on the river at the ferry, and drag it out as long as he could, and the longer the time, the more beneficial it would be to cross the river.
As long as the crossing of the river is successful this time, the health company and those wounded can reach the other side safely, so that they will have no worries and can let go of their hands and feet to fight with the little devils.
The fat man reported the situation of the ferry to Zhou Wu, Zhou Wu felt that the fat man handled it properly, praised him, and ordered the large army and the teaching regiment to retreat towards the ferry in batches.
The second group of people crossing the river had all boarded the boat, and the fat man hurriedly came to say goodbye to his wife, Liu Xiaolin couldn't help but shed tears, and the fat man reached out and gently wiped away the tears on her face.
"Don't cry, I'll be able to get to Jiangbei soon, I can go here immediately, wait for me on the other side, it's okay, we'll all be fine, I'm going to have a litter of big fat boys with you."
Liu Xiaolin was amused by the fat man's words, her tears shone with a crystal smile, and the fat man was fascinated, it turned out that her wife was so beautiful when she cried, she really had eyes to give herself such a good wife.
With a wave of his hand, the steamer carrying most of the military doctors and nurses of the health company slowly sailed out of the dock and headed for the opposite shore, and the fat man stood on the edge of the dock and waved to his wife, for fear that he would never see him again, until the steamboats completely disappeared from his field of vision.
The second steamer flotilla set off, and at first there was no major movement, and the skilful reinforcement company tried to avoid the warships of the little devils, and did not take a straight line, but walked around the galloping and rolling Yangtze River.
After about ten minutes of driving, when the steamer came to the middle of the river, one of the brothers in front suddenly noticed that a gunboat was rushing towards them.
At this time, the fog had gradually dissipated, and the view on the river had widened a lot, and everyone found that it was a gunboat, and the plaster flag hanging high on the ship proved to be a little devil.
The commander of a company in charge of guarding the safety of the steamer immediately gave the order to prepare for battle, and informed the steamer carrying the armed steamer behind to catch up, and the rest of the steamer carrying the sanitary company and the wounded to continue to drive north of the river, and told them to speed up and not delay on the way.
The situation on the river suddenly became tense, and the company commander who was escorting the crossing of the river had only about 30 brothers at hand, two 82 mortars, two small steel guns, and two light machine guns, and the rest were all carbines and flower machine guns used in close combat, and there were quite a few grenades, but they were not good on the small steamer that was constantly shaking.
It seems that today I can only fight with the little devils and the net is broken, it doesn't matter if they die, as long as the girls and the wounded of the health company can reach the other side safely, everything is easy to say.
The gunboat fired first at the steamer, and the sharp and whistling shells exploded next to the steamer, blowing up columns of water, almost overturning a small steamer behind, so anxious that the company commander shouted: "Hurry up and run towards the north shore, the faster the better, what the hell are you still grinding here?"
The little devils are also quite vicious, they seem to know that those steamers are not armed, and they specially fire at the steamers that are desperately running, and the water column next to the steamer is soaring, splashing in all directions, and the waves and the splash set off by the explosion of the cannonballs splashed Liu Xiaolin and Shen Lina all over their faces, and the people on board have become chickens in the soup.
As a cannonball exploded next to the side of the ship, the steamer that Shen Lina was riding suddenly overturned on its side, and with a scream, many girls and wounded people from the health company were thrown down in the cold and piercing, and the rolling river was swept away in a blink of an eye, and disappeared.
Liu Xiaolin and Shen Lina fortunately held on tightly to the boat gang so that they were not thrown into the water, and after Shen Lina came to her senses, she wiped a handful of water all over her face and shouted: "How many people have fallen?"
After the boat came over, everyone hurriedly counted the forty people in the boat, and now there are twenty-three left on the boat, and the nurses of the seven health companies and ten wounded people have fallen into the river and cannot be found.
Shen Lina also wanted to look for those who fell into the water, and the brother who drove the boat said that it was impossible to find it under this kind of current, and even if they did, it was impossible to survive, so it was better to quickly take the rest of the people, get rid of the shelling, and rush to the opposite bank.
The company commander saw that the devil's shelling almost overturned the steamer in which the health company was riding, and he was suddenly anxious.
This is worth it, if the wife of Regiment Commander Liu and the wife of the chief of staff are blown up, then he, the company commander, will definitely not be able to go back alive.
Thinking of this, the company commander shouted: "The mortar will bring me the fire of the little devil."
Two mortars fired at the gunboat at the same time, and the machine guns and small steel cannons also fired at the gunboat, although it could not hit it, but it had to be done in order to attract the attention of the little devils.
Sure enough, the little devil found that there were cannonballs on the steamer in front of him, and hurriedly turned the muzzle of the cannon to bombard them, and a row of cannonballs set off huge waves around the steamer, almost throwing the company commander into the water, and they were all chilled by the splashing waves.
The company commander was furious, and hurriedly ordered the steamer to lean over at high speed and fight the bayonet with the warship, as long as it was next to the gunboat, because of the limitation of the angle of fire, the little devils could not shell the steamer, and they could hit each other hard with small cannons and machine guns, and even smashed the gunboat back with grenades.
The steamer suddenly let out a strange scream, and rushed towards the gunboat like crazy, and the little devil saw that the steamer rushing on the opposite side was desperate, and hurriedly turned around, trying to pull away.
But where would this company commander let the little devil slip away easily, he ordered all the fire on the ship, what mortars, small steel cannons, machine guns, rifle fire poured down on the gunboat, and sparks flew around the gunboat, clanging.
A shell also hit the front deck of the gunboat directly, blowing up a puff of smoke, which frightened the little devil and fled back at full speed to avoid the various fire attacks of the steamer.
At this time, the two armed steamers led by the company commander had already approached a place about 1,000 meters away from the gunboats, and the naval guns of the little devils could not shell the steamers approaching at high speed because of the problem of blind spots, so they had to use machine guns and rifles to return fire. t1706231537: