As Shirane said, as an Imperial Japanese naval officer who couldn't swim, he had swam in several famous seashores along the coast of Japan, and he was still very confident in his water.

But after he jumped into the Yangtze River, he found that the reality was completely different from his imagination, and the Jiangtadao Naval Academy had a strict swimming course, but they were never taught how to escape in the turbulent river.

At first, Shirane held his breath and swam some distance against the river, because he was afraid that the ship's radiators would shoot at him. In fact, his judgment was very correct, and the angry workers did shoot at the river from behind, but it was a pity that these people had only learned to pull the trigger an hour or two earlier, and even if they fixed the target, they might not be able to hit, let alone shoot at a moving target in the river from a rocking boat.

At this time, the wooden boat was still descending rapidly along the river, so that when Shirane surfaced, he found that in just ten seconds, the boat had abandoned itself and was about thirty meters away.

The boatmen had apparently spotted Shirane's traces at the moment, but none of them had the courage to jump into the water to capture the escaped Japanese. They are just coolie porters and boatmen, and just because they know how to sail doesn't mean they have to be familiar with water. So a group of people could only shoot indiscriminately for a while, and then watched as the black dots in the river quickly moved away from them.

Shirgenfeeff was once again in a crisis of life at this time, he was not ready to go into the water, he was still wearing the full set of clothes before, the Chinese-style cloth buckle was difficult to untie with one hand, the tightly wound cloth belt was even more torn when it was stained with water, the trouser legs were tightly wrapped around the legs, and the cloth that absorbed the river water dragged people down continuously.

The heavy clothes seriously interfered with Shirane's swimming movements, and coupled with the turbulent current, every second he insisted on on the surface of the water at this time, he had to exert several times more strength than usual. Soon Shirane couldn't hold on, he felt that his physical strength was rapidly declining, the effect of adrenaline began to slowly subside, his head hurt violently again, and after choking a few mouthfuls of water in a row, Shirane began to worry that he might never be able to swim to the bank of the river that seemed to be close at hand.

"Tarss opens the bag! (Help!) The lieutenant couldn't help but shout for help, but before he could call twice, he was hit head-on by a wave of river waves, and Shirane choked on the turbid river water again.

At this moment, Shiraneffer was almost in despair, his limbs gradually lost his strength, his lungs ached like inhaling a handful of sand, and his movements were completely out of shape when he was frightened, and he could only swing his arms mechanically with his eyes closed, and beat the water indiscriminately. Just when Shirane was about to give up struggling, suddenly a solid arm grabbed the lieutenant's neck from behind, and then Shirane felt a pain in the back of his head, and then his eyes went black and unconscious.

When he woke up again, he found himself lying under a large tree, the warm sunlight shining through the treetops on his face, and the scent of blades of grass and earth in the air. Bai Gen turned sideways and began to cough violently, his lungs had really inhaled a lot of river water before.

"I thought you'd be in a coma for a long time, Lieutenant." A familiar voice suddenly came to mind. A pair of hands supported Shirane's back and helped him sit up.

"Ahem, cough" Bai Gen coughed violently, trying to clear his airways, he felt that his vision was a little blurry, but he could still vaguely distinguish the face of the person in front of him.

"Adjutant Liu, you saved me?" Shiragen recalled the moment before he was about to drown, and the memory behind him was not very clear, but after a little reasoning, he could figure out that it was the officer in front of him who saved his life.

"I'm sorry to knock you out, Lieutenant, but you know the situation, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to take you ashore." Adjutant Liu said with a smile.

"No, no, no, no need to apologize." Shirane felt a little better, and he hurriedly swung his arms.

"I don't know how to thank you, Liu Sang, I owe you two lives, no matter what happens in the future, you will be my good friend for life." Bai Gen said gratefully, recalling the helplessness and despair in the Yangtze River at this time, Bai Gen still felt afraid for a while.

"It's an honor to have Shirane-san's friendship." Adjutant Liu helped Bai Gen to sit on the trunk of the tree.

"I didn't expect your swimming skills to be so good, I never thought that the Yangtze River would be so dangerous." Bai Gen coughed dryly a few times, and then exhaled a long breath.

At this time, he found that the clothes on his body had been taken off, and only a crotch cloth was left on his body.

"I've found a place to dry my wet clothes, you need to take a break to regain your strength now." Adjutant Liu was also wearing only a pair of big pants at the moment, and what made Bai Gen curious was that his two calves each had a circle of cloth wrapped around them like leggings.

"This is," Bai Gen asked, pointing to Adjutant Liu's calf.

"You ask this? This is a guarantee that we will return alive to the area controlled by the Imperial Army. Adjutant Liu looked down, and then replied with a smile.

"Camp Commander Wu didn't believe Boss Qi, so he handed over the remaining thirty taels of gold bars he had with him to me for safekeeping. The boatmen didn't know how to search my body, so they only took my pen and pocket watch, but missed out on this windfall. Liu Jianchang squatted down and patted the leggings.

"You carried almost a kilogram of weight, swam such a long distance in the Yangtze River in clothes, and still have the strength to save me?" Shirane felt a little incredible.

"I grew up by the Yellow River when I was a child, and my swimming skills are very good, and my physical strength is good, so if you know some skills, it's not something you can't do." Adjutant Liu patted his chest and showed off his strong muscles, indicating that he was a man who looked thin in clothes.

"Let's not talk about this for a while, I went around the neighborhood for a while, there is a dirt road not far from here, and there are many people walking on the road, obviously there is a small village nearby. After the clothes were dry, we set off to find some food and a change of clothes. Adjutant Liu suggested to Shiragen.

"It's all up to you now, and I'm completely at your disposal." Shiragen was full of trust in Adjutant Liu at this time.

"Okay, then you can rest here, I'll go see if my clothes are dry." Adjutant Liu patted Bai Gen on the shoulder, then stood up cautiously and got out of the bushes on the side.

It was almost evening, and a foreigner came up from Liumu Town on the bank of the Sichuan River. At first glance, it looked like some kind of disaster, with only a set of clothes and pants on his body, no luggage, not even shoes on his feet, which was a very common sight in these days, either by bandits or shipwrecked, and every month one or two such guys who did not know whether they were lucky or unlucky would come to this town.

However, these two outsiders are a little different from the others, and they don't have the atmosphere of a lost family dog. They inquired about the address of the silver number in the town, and by the time they came out of the money house called Fuxin, the two of them had changed their appearance.

Liu Jianchang exchanged five taels of gold bars in the silver number, and the silver number boss was very deceitful, and he could see that they were in a hurry to wait for the money, and they didn't even see that the two of them even ran away from their shoes, so they tried their best to lower the price. And Liu Jianchang didn't want to make extraneous branches at this time, anyway, the gold belonged to Wu Dewei, and people didn't have a position to care about when they were in trouble.

But that's it, five taels of gold were also exchanged for a full 170 yuan. Although the Republic of China does not use gold as currency, the value preservation of gold has become a hard currency that businessmen are keen to reserve, and the exchange price has been rising.

In the early years of the Republic of China, one tael of gold could be exchanged for thirty yuan in the Beiyang era, and by the year 40, the value of gold had risen by almost half, and if the war continued like this, it might double again in the future.

The shopkeeper knew that he had hacked the other party a lot, so he couldn't do too much, so when Liu Jianchang proposed to let him sell some ready-to-wear and daily necessities, the boss immediately enthusiastically agreed, and directly sent the guy to the ready-to-wear shop in the town to call someone to come to the door. After half a day's kung fu, Bai Gen and Liu Jianchang had a makeover, looking like two businessmen who went out to talk about business.

At this time, Liu Jianchang estimated that Qi Laoda's transport ship should have found the dock to dock, and maybe the boatmen were reporting to the government at this time.

However, Liu Jianchang is not very worried about this, because according to the efficiency of the local government of the state government, even if it is a big case, wait until the lower layers are reported up, and the higher authorities will approve it step by step, and then mobilize the military and police forces of each county and township to search, this series of processes will take three or four days at the earliest, and by that time he will have already run out of a hundred miles.

However, it is absolutely impossible to walk along the Yangtze River, and now it can only pass through the mountains of eastern Sichuan, because these directions are all blank areas controlled by the government.

(Not yet refreshed)

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There have always been some book lovers who say they don't want to read chapters about China, such as Shirane's short story. And my habit of writing is that since I start telling a story, I have to finish telling the story. This chapter finally ends Shiragen's adventures, and the next chapter will change perspectives and tell another story, but Shiragen's story is not completely over, and there will be chapters dedicated to him later.

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Thank you. (To be continued.) )