There are only four watches tonight, and tomorrow we will continue to see five watches!

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After waiting in the port for more than two hours, the fleet arrived at the port at one o'clock in the evening.

But it would be a mistake to think that they would be able to get on the ship and leave at this time, because the dock workers had to bring down the cargo from the ship, and the troops could not board the ship until the dock was empty.

"Damn it!" Shulka listened to Major Gavrilov scolding: "They are late!" ”

"Yes, they're late!" Commissar Fuming replied: "They said that the fleet should be here at about 12 o'clock!" ”

"What's wrong?" Major Gavrilov asked.

"I don't know!" Commissar Fuming said: "It may be that something went wrong on the road......"

"Shulka!" Major Gavrilov shouted in Shulka's direction: "Go and ask what is going on?" ”

"Yes, Comrade Major!" Shulka answered, and walked with the actor in the direction of the dock.

"Why you?" The actor asked: "Comrade the regiment commander has a lot of guards, he can let others go!" ”

"Because time is pressing, Okunev!" Shulka trotted and said, "They don't know what to ask!" ”

"Didn't you ask why the fleet was late?" The actor followed closely behind: "Anyone would ask, right?" ”

"No, Comrade Okunev!" Shulka said: "You have to know that the fleet sailed here from the Crimea, and after unloading the cargo, it had to return before dawn, and if it was late, do you know what it means? ”

"I see!" The actor replied: "We will have missed breakfast in the Crimea!" ”

Shulka wanted to kick the actor into the sea.

"So I said this question might not be someone else's question!" Shulka said.

"Does it make a difference?" The actor still didn't understand what was going on.

"Planes, Okunev!" Shulka said: "There will be German bombers at dawn, and the lives of all of us are at stake, unless you can swim to the Crimea!" ”

The actor couldn't help but be stunned, and then immediately sped up: "Then we have to hurry, I can't swim!" ”

The two ran to the dock, only to see more than a dozen transport ships moored at the dock and nervously unloading, Shulka ran forward and asked the middle-aged man who looked like a foreman below, and asked, "Is the fleet late?" ”

"Don't you see with your eyes, young man?" The middle-aged man responded impatiently while directing the workers to carry it.

"We have the 333rd regiment, when will we be on board?" Shulka asked.

The foreman turned his head and glanced at Shulka, and then said, "I advise you to reschedule and not think about getting on board!" ”

"Why?"

"Unless they unload the goods in half an hour, they won't be able to return before dawn!"

"How much time do you need to unload?" Shulka asked again.

"An hour and a half!" The foreman replied.

"If I can add more than 2,000 to you, can I speed it up?"

"No, comrade!" The foreman said, "Maybe it will be faster, but the ferry is so big that it can't accommodate so many people!" ”

Shulka looked in the direction the foreman had indicated, and then understood what the foreman meant...... The transport ship could not enter the shallow sea and directly docked to the shore, so it was directly connected to the transport ship by building a pontoon bridge more than 200 meters long.

So it is true that as the foreman said, more people may be faster, but not much.

"Let's go and report to Comrade Regiment Commander!" The actor said: "Maybe it would be more appropriate to reschedule!" ”

"No, Okunev!" Shulka said: "You go and inform the regiment commander comrade and ask him to bring the troops over, we need to transport everyone together!" ”

"I said it!" The foreman said impatiently: "Too many people can't solve the problem, it may also cause blockages!" ”

"No, comrade!" "Having a lot of people solves the problem, you tell your workers that they only need to be responsible for carrying the goods off the ship and handing them to us!" ”

"Hey, do you understand what I'm saying?" The foreman said, "You're only going to make things worse!" ”

"Do as he says!" At this time, Major Gavrilov rushed up and said to the foreman in a commanding tone: "No matter what he says!" ”

"Okay!" The foreman spread his hands.

"Comrades!" Shulka shouted to the soldiers who came from behind: "We must unload the cargo in half an hour and get on board, otherwise our ship will not be able to escape from the danger zone before dawn, do you know what that means?" The German bombers will use our ships as targets, do you hope that? ”

"No, Second Lieutenant!"

"What are we supposed to do?"

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If it is a matter of life and death, everyone is willing to stick together, this is best known from the soldiers who come down from the battlefield, so Shulka easily mobilized their enthusiasm.

The method is actually very simple, the two-hundred-meter pontoon bridge at the ferry port is indeed unable to squeeze too many people, but this does not mean that the goods need to be carried down one by one like workers, especially those goods are mostly not heavy.

This is the common sense of transporting battlefield materials: all materials such as ammunition, food, medicine, etc. must be transported to the battlefield, and the battlefield is often on the high ground or in the field without roads.

So, either it really can't be decomposed, such as tanks, artillery, or most of the places where it is needed are cars, such as gasoline barrels.

Otherwise, most of them are the weight and size that are convenient for individual transport.

Shulka informed Major Gavrilov of the plan, and at the sound of the order, the fighters divided into equal groups based on the number of crossings, and each group was lined up from the transport boat all the way down the pontoon bridge to the shore.

It's like building a conveyor belt on a pontoon, except that the belt is made up of people.

And then...... Boxes of goods are unloaded from the ship, and boxes are transported on the "conveyor belt" almost all the time.

This undoubtedly improves efficiency to a great extent, as it not only saves workers time walking back and forth, but also avoids the inconvenience of dark nights...... All it needs to do is mechanically take the box in front of it again and again and hand it to the back, and after doing it a few times, it can be done with its eyes closed.

This scene only stunned the foreman, and he exclaimed to Shulka: "You are right, comrade! You did it...... I think you can do it in half an hour! ”

"You owe me a salary!" Shulka said.

The foreman laughed, walked a few steps and tinkered with a broken box, then handed Shulka something and asked, "Is this enough?" ”

Shulka touched it, then laughed and replied, "Enough! ”

It was a bottle of vodka wrapped in cloth.

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