After traveling for more than three hours, a round of red sun erupted on the river, reflecting on the river, which looked particularly gorgeous.

Six or seven hours after leaving the Wusongkou wharf, the two freighters entered the boundary of Changshu, and the scouts of the New Fourth Army in Ludangli discovered the Xingning and Youning, and hurriedly reported to the headquarters, which immediately ordered eight soldiers with good water qualities to dive to the waters immediately.

The warriors, known as frogmen, swam close to the two freighters and then split into two groups, one for the two boxes of munitions on the Xingning and the other for the two sealed crates on the Youning. The four soldiers in charge of the Xingning then gathered at the bottom of the freighter, in groups of two, only to see that these four soldiers each held a sharp blade, and at the same time cut the cables attached to the two sealed boxes in the middle of the bottom of the hull, and the two sealed boxes slowly sank to the bottom of the water together, while the Xingning continued to move forward, and no one noticed that the six boxes of cargo at the bottom of the ship had been reduced by a third.

The four fighters in charge of the Youning also quickly cut the cables tied to the two sealed boxes in the middle, and the sealed boxes broke away from the hull and sank to the bottom of the river.

When the two freighters were out of sight, a tugboat sailed into the middle of the river, and the underwater warriors tied a cable from a sealed box under the tugboat, and then the tugboat sailed to the shore, while the frogman warriors pushed the sealed box underwater, transporting the sealed box to the shore. There was a hoisting device equipped with pulleys on the shore, and the underwater warriors worked together to hang the sealed box on the iron chain, and then turned the pulleys to drag the sealed box out of the water.

A large truck was parked on the shore, and the sealed box was hoisted onto the truck, which was then transported to the New Fourth Army garrison. Subsequently, through this mode of operation, all the four major boxes of firearms and ammunition were finally safely transported to the base camp of the New Fourth Army.

When these sealed boxes were opened, everyone let out exclamations, and their eyes showed joy, and the brand-new and bright, dazzling variety of firearms and ammunition were presented in front of them one by one, and even mortars, these are the latest Japanese weapons and equipment, far better than the weapons and equipment currently used by the New Fourth Army.

"I didn't think we could use such a good weapon." The commander picked up a light machine gun and looked at it fondly: "I didn't expect the Shanghai underground party to send us such a precious gift package." Immediately call the Shanghai underground party organization and thank them for providing such important information, which has strengthened our New Fourth Army. ”

On the same day, Jin Yixuan received a telegram from the headquarters of the New Fourth Army, thanking the Shanghai underground party organization for its strong support to the front-line troops.

Jin Yixuan, who received the telegram, felt very gratified, and did not disappoint the painstaking efforts of the carrier pigeon comrades, and sent such a large number of munitions to our army without knowing it or noticing.

This method of carrier pigeons gave Jin Yixuan an inspiration, the medicine and food sent to them by the carrier pigeons were still stored in the Jin Shun Trading House, he wanted to send these scarce materials to the front-line troops, but has been struggling to find a suitable way, now the carrier pigeon's method of transporting materials is a feasible plan, you can hide the medicine and food in these sealed boxes, and then transport them to the New Fourth Army garrison by water.

However, Jin Yixuan did not have the sealed boxes in his hands, nor did he have the equipment and materials to produce the sealed boxes, and these special sealed boxes could not be bought on the market. And now these large-capacity sealed boxes are in the New Fourth Army station, so Jin Yixuan called the New Fourth Army Headquarters to ask for those sealed boxes.

The New Fourth Army Headquarters received a telegram from Jin Yixuan, which read: Comrade Carrier Pigeon had previously sent a large amount of medicine and grain to us, and I would like to follow the plan of this shipment by hiding the medicine and grain in a sealed box and delivering it to you by water, so please transport the sealed box to the traffic station. nightingale

When the commander of the New Fourth Army learned of this telegram, he was overjoyed, but he did not expect that he had just received such a large amount of munitions and supplies, and that the underground party organization in Shanghai was planning to transport a large amount of medicine and grain to the base area.

In just a few months, the Shanghai underground party organization seems to have grown up all of a sudden, and is not satisfied with small fights, every time it is a big deal, from obtaining Dr. Gao Zirui's new anti-plague drug APM and experimental data and its preparation process, a large number of gold bars, to this large number of arms and materials, and then to medicine and food, the Shanghai underground party organization suddenly has great powers, and it was still racking its brains for funds, and it is overstretched, but now it is very rich, not only can it be self-sufficient, but also send a large amount of money and materials to the front-line troops, And these materials are contraband that are hard to come by. It has to be said that the underground party organization in Shanghai has the help of a high-ranking person, and this high-ranking person is undoubtedly a carrier pigeon comrade.

The two freighters, Xingning and Youning, sailed upstream on the mighty Yangtze River and arrived in Wuhan waters two days later.

Once the land of Jingchu, the thoroughfare of the nine provinces, how prosperous it used to be, but now it seems to be withered, Wuhan at dusk is a little less noisy, a little more quiet, looking at the shore from the water, the figure of the Japanese military police appears on the road from time to time, which makes people frightened, so the pedestrians on the road are in a hurry, everyone rushes to their homes, for fear of trouble.

Dong Wenhao originally wanted everyone to get off the boat and let everyone eat a bowl of Wuhan's special snack - hot dry noodles, but when he saw that the street was full of Japanese soldiers, he dispelled this idea, and he still had to hurry up and transport the arms to Chongqing.

As the Xingning and Youning continued westward, two patrol boats suddenly approached their freighter, and the Japanese soldiers on the boats held loudspeakers and shouted at the Xingning and Youning in stiff Chinese: "Stop, stop, we have to board the ship for inspection." ”

When the captain of the Xingning heard this, he quickly stopped the ship and looked at Dong Wenhao with a nervous face: "What should I do, will the Japanese find something at the bottom of the ship?" ”

Dong Wenhao patted the captain on the shoulder: "Don't be nervous, after they get on the ship, if they want to check the documents, you show them the pass and the cargo certificate, if they want to check the goods, you let the first and second officers take them for inspection." Don't worry, they won't find anything at the bottom of the ship, take 10,000 steps back, if they really find the goods at the bottom of the ship, they will only have a few people, and more than ten of us will be more than enough to deal with these devils. ”

Listening to Dong Wenhao's words of relief, the captain's heart relaxed slightly.