Thinking that the flood did not know how many places it had flooded, Xiucai estimated that a large amount of clean water would be used on the road, so he asked the beard to make some water bags out of horse skin, ready to fill them with water on the day they left, so that everyone could drink. ｅｎA`ｃｏｍ

Anyway, there are enough horseskins now, thirty or so horses, all of which have been processed, enough to make three large rafts, or four small rafts.

Xiucai thought about it again and again, and felt that dry food and water could not be placed on a raft alone, for the sake of insurance, but should be distributed to everyone, and some dry food and water bags should be tied in the middle of the raft as a reserve of food and water.

Therefore, it was decided to make three large rafts, nineteen people sat in three boats, and the rest of the horse skins were all made into small water bags and dry food bags, and more importantly, hollow bags, tied to everyone's hands, similar to modern lifebuoys.

This idea was put forward by Xiaohe, thinking that when he was a child, he and his father were fishing and transporting goods on the water of the Yangtze River, and his father would often blow a hollow leather bag and tie it to his body to prevent him from falling into the water and drowning.

By the middle of June, the "fleet" of the Seventh Company was finally ready to stop, and Xiucai also discussed with Sangou and a few of them for a long time in the choice of route.

At present, it seems that the safest should be the west of Kaifeng Zhengzhou, because most of the Japanese troops attacking this side were either drowned or escaped in rubber boats thrown down by planes due to heavy flooding.

Even if it is estimated that there are some residual devils, it is estimated that there is no combat effectiveness, all the heavy weapons are in the water, and the food is also very tight, in the city, that is, waiting for the plane to drop a little thing to extend life.

But despite this, Xiucai still doesn't recommend going this way, their large group of people, riding such a "high-level" fleet, it is easy to make the devil red-eyed and murderous.

Although their ship is a boat, it is very fragile, a bullet can penetrate several horse balls, and when the ship sinks, everyone will burp, not to mention that the three dogs are still injured and cannot swim, so they can only lie on the boat.

Another point, walking towards the west, is considered to be against the current, everyone rowing is very hard, and all the strength is wasted on rowing, in case of encountering devils or accidents, there is not much resistance left.

Although the east side is downstream, this reverse is absolutely impossible to go, that is the place where the devil's army is hoarding, and going, it is equivalent to sending yourself to the tiger's mouth, and the devil still thinks you are not enough to stuff your teeth.

The north side is the Yellow River, not to mention the sinister nature of the Yellow River, even if it crosses the Yellow River, it is also an enemy-occupied area, and now only the south is left, from the map, the south is Tongxu, Weishi, Fugou and other places.

But now I don't know where the flood has gone? What was the southern part of the country occupied by the Japanese? Paddle south, what if I deviate from the course? The most feared is that they drifted to the southeast Anhui area, which is also an enemy-occupied area.

In the end, the only way to go is to go in the southwest direction, this direction, there is the Pinghan line as a coordinate, even if the railway is submerged, but the poles along the railway line are exposed a little bit, which can be used as a navigation guide.

The second is that this side should not be occupied by the Japanese army, after all, this time the main force of the Japanese army was washed or trapped by the flood, and it was impossible to continue the attack, and the silence everywhere in the past few days illustrates the problem.

The direction was finally determined, and it was not considered a total countercurrent if it was drawn in the southwest direction, as long as it was drawn in this direction, it should not be a big problem.

The night before departure, everyone had eaten and drunk enough, and slept beautifully, and early in the morning, at dawn, they were woken up by Xiucai, and all the dry food and water were carried to the raft, and the machine guns were mounted at the front of the raft, and each person had a rifle.

The monk and Xiaohe carried the three dogs, lay on the raft in the middle, and each of them tied several hollow leather balls, and the three dogs were the most tied.

Everyone first pushed the raft into the water, rowed a distance, looked back at the hill, Xiucai felt a little inexplicable, or to thank this hill, saved everyone's lives, and there will be a chance to worship in the future.

I have been paddling in the southwest direction, and I feel that the water flow is not so obvious, it is very slow, and the momentum of the raft is average, so there is no difficulty in counterflowing.

On the way, I also met the devil's plane, hovering in the sky, seeing that there was nowhere to hide around, Xiucai quickly asked someone to hide the gun, because everyone was wearing civilian clothes, the devil circled for a while and left.

Everyone was scared into a cold sweat, if the devil plane dropped a few bombs, or flew down for a burst of strafing, everyone would have to die.

Just in case, Xiucai asked everyone to go to the place where the roof of the house was exposed, and once the devil plane came, quickly leaned on the top of the house and did not move, which was a kind of concealment.

It was just a fluke just now, or this devil's plane was kind and didn't shoot, but it didn't guarantee that the next plane would fly in, and it would be like this.

So during the day, everyone walked and stopped, but at night, Xiu began to call everyone to exert their strength, connecting the three rafts with horse skin ropes, and everyone rowed together.

There are six or seven people on each raft, and Xiucai asks everyone to divide the work, especially at night, two people paddle on each raft, one person observes the guard, the other three sleep, and the shift changes after an hour.

In this way, they kept rowing all night, and according to the combined measurement of the compass and the map, the speed at which everyone traveled was still okay, all the way through Chenliu and Tongxu, all the way to Weishi County.

In the area of Wushanpo before, because of the frequent wars, all the villagers there fled, but when it came to Tongxu, especially the Wei family, this big flood caused many disasters to the people.

Along the way, almost all dead people and dead animals floated on the water, which was terrible to see, and the strong smell of rotting corpses filled the air, which made people sick.

The water went over the rooftops, and the occasional hill was full of people, and there was a lack of food and clothing, and many people were hungry and sick.

When a person dies, if he dies of illness, he is dragged and thrown into the water by other people, allowing the water to float away or sink to the bottom. If he starved to death, he would eat his flesh.

Miserable, miserable!

After all, six or seven days have passed since the flood broke out, and no one has come to the rescue? Xiucai is also puzzled.

Seeing so many compatriots living on the line of life and death, Xiucai and Sangou were heartbroken, but they didn't dare to approach them, they are now like mad dogs, and many people have lost their normal humanity.

Just now, Xiu was about to get close and send some dry food or something, but before their raft could get close, a group of people jumped into the water and swam towards them.

Seeing the crows and crows swimming towards their raft, even a kind person like Xiucai was afraid, and these people looked at their raft greedily with a green light like a hungry wolf or a mad dog.

Xiucai immediately made a decision, immediately turned his head and rowed away, everyone sped up and rowed, feeling very uncomfortable, very uncomfortable, it was not a good taste, before he was hiding from devils, and now he is hiding even his own compatriots.

In fact, everyone works so hard, what is the picture, to put it mildly, it is to save the country and save the people, but now the people are waiting for someone to save them, why don't they save them?

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