But before they could finish laughing, a familiar voice came from the sky not far away.

That's right, it's the cute Stukas who have come to visit their old friends.

"Whew!" The terrible air raid sirens immediately sounded on the beach, and the tens of thousands of British soldiers who were still waiting in a neat queue to board the ship immediately evacuated when they saw this, and then they all lay down on the spot and held their heads with their hands, and their movements were skillful and distressing.

"Lie down!" Charlie also immediately pulled Peter and Joel beside him, and they held them on the sand.

Immediately after that, hundreds of anti-aircraft guns deployed on the beach began to counterattack, and the air-burst anti-aircraft shells continued to shoot black "roses" one after another in the sky.

Many British soldiers also raised their Lee Enfield rifles and fired bullet after bullet at the five Stukas in the sky that were preparing to dive.

But none of this could stop the German planes from "caring" for them, and the five Stukas circled in the sky for a short time and then formed a formation, and then swooped towards the ground one after another.

"Collapse! Collapse! As bombs fell on the beach, the sound of the bombardment filling the soldiers' eardrums.

George and the others lay on the beach, the shock of the explosion constantly shaking their chests from the ground, and many of them felt a sweet smell in their mouths - it was the shock of the explosion that ruptured the capillaries, causing a trace of blood to leak out.

However, the soldiers have long been accustomed to these situations.

After the German planes dropped the bombs, they flew back after leveling out the dive, and used their on-board machine guns to strafe the crowd on the beach, until one of the Stuka was knocked down by a British 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun, and the rest of the Stuka flew away "reluctantly".

Before they flew away, they even shook their wings and taunted the British troops on the ground.

The soldiers who were lying on their stomachs watched the German plane fly away and slowly got up.

The bombing did not cause many casualties to them, because the bombs did not explode as well on the beach as well as on the dirt, so many of them were actually killed by the airborne machine guns.

"Guys, you've got to get used to it." Charlie also got up on the ground, he shook the sand off his body, and shrugged his shoulders at Peter, "The German planes come every once in a while, every other moment, but they can't kill a few of us." I think it's not so much that they're trying to kill us with bombs, it's that they're trying to annoy us with sound. ”

After complaining, Charlie and Peter set out on their way to the breakwater again.

The place where they got off was not far from the breakwater, so they arrived at their destination quickly.

"Alright, I'll take you here." Charlie led Peter and them to the junction of the breakwater and the shore, "I need to hurry back, goodbye buddy!" ”

"Thank you and goodbye!" Peter also waved his hand goodbye, "If we can all go back alive, you must come to Pitlochry as a guest!" ”

"I will!" Charlie laughed, then turned and walked in the direction he came.

"Are you from the 31st Division? Here was the evacuation point of the 31st Division. After Charlie left, an officer sitting behind a table shouted.

"Yes sir, we are from the 31st Division!" Albert nodded in reply.

"If yes, come and get registered! Then hurry up to the breakwater, and there are others waiting to get up behind you! ”

Hearing this, Albert walked over, found his unit in more than a dozen roll calls according to the unit number, and then wrote his own names and those of his comrades on them.

After writing, Albert led the group to the breakwater, behind the last man.

A long wait followed, during which the German bomber forces came several times, but as before, the Stuka only inflicted a hundred casualties on the British.

It wasn't until three o'clock in the afternoon that a small warship finally appeared on the distant sea level, heading straight for the breakwater where Peter and the others were.

A sharp-eyed soldier spotted the ship, wiped his eyes again to make sure he was right, and shouted excitedly: "Is that the boat that picked us up?" That's the boat that picked us up, right? ”

The other soldiers heard the man's shout and looked in that direction.

When the small warship got close enough, they finally made out its identity.

It was the Kingfisher-class minesweeper of the British Royal Navy.

"Wow! A minesweeper! "Yes man! Minesweeper! That's here to pick us up! The soldiers cheered.

An officer also stepped forward to confirm that the minesweeper had indeed come to pick them up, climbed onto the guardrail of the breakwater, and shouted to the soldiers around him: "Boys, remember not to crowd the minesweeper when it comes to shore - if you want to go back alive!" Line up one by one, and don't be discouraged if this boat doesn't take your turn! More ships have been sent from the mainland! Each of us can go home! ”

"Yes sir!" "Understood!" The surrounding soldiers laughed and said to their commander.

Soon, the minesweeper slowly approached the breakwater, and several sailors in the bow and stern threw the ropes used to hold the ship to the breakwater, and the soldiers on the embankment immediately fixed the ropes to the breakwater.

When a naval officer in charge of maintaining order at the scene saw that the warship had been fixed, he opened the movable guardrail and let the ship's telescopic ladder be placed on the embankment.

When everything was ready, the soldiers cheered and began to board the minesweeper in an orderly manner.

The Kingfisher-class minesweeper is a small warship with a length of about 74 meters, a width of about 10.2 meters, a height of about 2.74 meters, and a tonnage of about 1,300 tons.

Soon, about 300 soldiers boarded the small warship, and not only the cabin was crowded with people, but even the deck was full of soldiers, and the captain saw that the warship had reached its loading limit, so he gestured to a naval officer on the embankment, signaling that the warship was about to sail.

The naval officer nodded in response, and then led a few soldiers beside him to untie the ropes that held the telescopic ladder and the warship in place.

After retracting the ladder, the minesweeper whistled a few times, and then started the main engine and slowly headed towards the sea.

"Ah, it looks like this ship won't be on our seat." Watching the minesweeper leave the breakwater with a full load of soldiers, Joel said to Peter in disappointment.

"It's fine." Peter smiled, looked at his men's position on the breakwater, and continued, "Anyway, the next one won't be our turn—if the next one is a small warship like this." ”

Indeed, although the minesweeper had carried out about 300 soldiers and moved them to the back of the line a lot, they were still some distance from where they had boarded, and they really didn't have a chance to catch it if the next one came was a minesweeper.