The deputy battalion commander with the rank of major, this is quite unusual in itself, not to mention, it is still promoted at the right time, this is simply a dangerous warning to Uncle Da: It is for this purpose that the province specially promoted me with ulterior motives. So, what is the purpose of this group of them?

And the reason why Uncle Da attaches great importance to Fang Hua personally is that the other party's repeated reminders are the intention of just improving: the other party is either a person who loves short circuits with a brain like Tie Niu, or the city is deep. If it is the former, then there is nothing to say, but if it is the latter, then it has to be taken seriously: daring to help Fang Jue break the situation at this time means that this person's ability is super strong, and he will not interject for no reason. So, what is the purpose of his interjection?

Of course, Uncle Da has never been mixed in the military circles of the government, so he naturally does not understand the unspoken rules in the military circles: Fang Hua is from the province and is regarded as the 'Central Army', while an officer of a local army like Uncle Da is one and a half levels shorter in front of him. If he really wants to talk about it, he has to salute the other party...... This is also the reason why the province temporarily promoted Fang Hua to major: Wang Shihua is a lieutenant colonel, Fang Hua is a major sent by the province, the two sides are half a catty, get along, they can also intersect at the same level, and if they fight for power, they can also not lose to each other in terms of identity.

So much why, Uncle Da was a little upset, and simply asked directly: "Major Fang, you are responsible for escorting this batch of weapons?" ”

"It's not!" Fang Hua shook his head and said with a smile: "The whole country is fighting devils, in order to strengthen the local armed forces, and in order to make the Jiangyin County Baojing Regiment become the main force of the local anti-Japanese war in the future, the province specially appointed me and some colleagues to come to help train the Baojing Regiment." ”

As soon as he heard this, two words flashed in Uncle Da's mind - military power! I said why don't you enjoy the happiness in the province, why were you promoted to major all of a sudden? It turned out that he came to attack the military power of our Baojing Regiment. No, I will immediately notify the head of the family of such a major event, so that the head of the family can prepare the means to deal with it in advance.

Thinking of this, Uncle Da lost his interest in continuing to trouble Hu Xingmin.

"Put all these weapons in the cabin, keep all the people in my watch, and don't beat or curse them, and don't let them walk around at will."

After speaking, he smiled coldly at Hu Xingmin, who was about to have a seizure: "The surname is Hu, you don't talk to me, for the sake of Lieutenant Colonel Fang and County Magistrate Fang, Lao Tzu is too lazy to bother with you." But if you play tricks on me on the next road, don't blame me for being ruthless and not greeting you in advance. ”

After speaking, the other party gave a military salute and turned away.

On the contrary, Fang Hua was a little uncomfortable with his standard military salute: Seeing that you salute this army so neatly, you are obviously a veteran in the army, but the problem is, my cousin doesn't seem to have said that you are a regular army?

Uncle Da was in a good mood, and after sending a telegram to Wang Shihua in the command room, he carefully checked the pocket watch he had extorted from Hu Xingmin, and when he saw it, he was even more happy: it was actually made of pure gold, with fine workmanship, and a circle of small diamonds inside and outside the case. If he wasn't reluctant to bite, he would have to lower his mouth to test whether it was real gold...... Uncle Da has no other hobbies in his life, so he can't see pocket watches, the more expensive and novel, the more he can arouse his greed, and the more he has to find ways to get his hands.

Wang Shihua also called back quickly, and just said: How many instructors came?

Uncle Da slapped his forehead and laughed self-deprecatingly: "It's really old and confused, such an obvious problem still needs to be reminded by the head of the family?" ”

Hurry up and go out to find Fang Hua.

Fang Hua was arguing with Hu Xingmin in a whisper: Hu Xingmin's face was annoyed, although Fang Hua was smiling, his eyes showed a little impatience.

Since he tore his face with Hu Xingmin, Uncle Da didn't give him the slightest face. As for Fang Hua, although it was hostility first, he was a soldier after all, so when Uncle Da came to them, he didn't look at Hu Xingmin, and he was not polite to Fang Hua, and asked directly: "Lieutenant Colonel Fang, I don't know how many people the province has sent to train the Baojing Regiment?" How many people did you bring with you this time to train the Baojing regiment? ”

Although these words were long-winded, these two questions had to be asked separately, otherwise, it would leave Fang Hua with an excuse to be confused.

Fang Hua looked at Uncle Da and said with a smile, "Chief Li, why are you suddenly interested in this?" ”

"If I don't ask clearly, I'm afraid that the head of the family will blame me."

"You can contact ...... now" Fang Hua said casually, but halfway through speaking, the topic changed, and he asked a little stunned: "You all have transmitters in Flying Shark Village?" ”

You know, these days, the telegraph is a rare thing, if in the poor place of Xiangxi, even the flying shark village can have a transmitter, then the province has to re-evaluate the strength of the Wang family. For Fang Hua, many of the preparations he imagined had to be changed.

"Nope! I just want to send someone to inform the master of the house when I get off the boat, so that the master of the house can be ready for reception. "Although such a secret can't be hidden for long, it can be concealed for a while—you can fool me, why can't I fool you?

"I brought eleven people, all of them instructors, and now there are seven people on the ship, and the rest will not be known until they return."

Uncle Da nodded: Before the fleet set off, he had already sent a number of people twice, and determined that the other party had a total of thirty-seven people, excluding these twelve and Hu Xingmin himself, the rest was twenty-four, which happened to be two classes.

"Okay, you guys talk first, and I'll bother them when they arrive."

After returning to the command room to send a telegram to Wang Shihua, Uncle Da sent a telegram to Peng Ziqing, asking about the outcome of the incident and the damage to the personnel...... In order to bring the two sides closer together, Wang Shihua authorized Peng Ziqing to take a radio station, a telegrapher and two hundred and fifty people who were relatively friendly with each other, and quietly arrived at the downstream of Shendao Town over the mountains and mountains, and then took five large boats rented from Wang's family in Shendao Town that had been waiting for a long time, and went to the upstream of Screw Beach first. After getting in touch with Uncle Da, he parked the fleet in the north of the upstream of Screw Beach, which has been in a silence and fire, while Uncle Da drove the fleet to the south, and the two sides are separated by a river channel nearly 100 meters wide, but they can't see each other because of the moonless darkness and the slight night fog on the river. In other words, Uncle Da must leave here before half past four the next day, otherwise, Hu Xingmin and the others will be able to see Peng Ziqing's fleet staying in the north.

The telegram was sent back, but Wang Shihua didn't respond, but Peng Shuihu replied with a big question: There are four people missing, including Peng Ziqing, and asked Uncle Da if he could see it?

Uncle Da immediately called back: At this time, the big ship has already sunk, and their small boat has not come back yet, it is very likely that something has happened, so let Peng Shuihu quickly send someone to search downstream along the river, you can shout, but don't light a torch, it is easy to attract the attention of others.

A few minutes later, Wang Shihua called back: You must pay attention to the safety on the road, Wang Shihua will welcome everyone in Shendao Town tomorrow.

Peng Shuihu's side did not respond.

After nearly half an hour, those who had come on foot came back one after another.

An inventory: There are always three guides on the side of Flying Shark Village - Peng Ziqing's identity cannot be exposed, so naturally it cannot be counted. Eight people are missing on Hu Xingmin's side, including two instructors.

The atmosphere suddenly became solemn.

Uncle Da hurriedly sent four small boats and ventured to the downstream of Screw Beach to search for them with torches. At the same time, two more teams were sent to carry torches, shout along the way, and search along the river by land. But he didn't forget to tell everyone again and again: if you haven't found it three hours later, that is, before one o'clock in the morning, you don't have to look for it, send someone from a small boat to report to Flying Shark Village, and let Flying Shark Village send people to search along the way, and those who are missing can only look at the destiny of heaven.

In the past few hours, the invisible dull atmosphere has always been suppressed in everyone's hearts, and even the supper has no taste.

At about twelve o'clock, two small boats came back first, and told everyone a very bad news: they brought back eight corpses, all of them from Hu Xingmin's side. Two other boats were heading along the way, intending to search directly for Flying Shark Village.

This news made Fang Hua very sad, and it also made the people of the Wang family even more worried: none of these eight people escaped one, it can be seen that the title of the palace of the king of Hades in Screw Beach is not called in vain, and its danger makes the hope of the three people of the Wang family surviving extremely slim.

Uncle Da sent three telegrams to Peng Shuihu one after another, but as a result, the answer was only four words: searching!

Hu Xingmin knew that Uncle Da didn't want to see him, and he didn't dare to get angry on the boat, so he could only ask Fang Hua to come forward to persuade him.

"Chief Li, the three missing brothers under your command, brother, I am also saddened. But I think you know better than I do the importance of the munitions on these ships...... It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, and I hope you will focus on the overall situation. ”

"No! Even if the people of my royal family are missing, they have to live to see people, and they have to see corpses when they die. ”

"But it's night, are you really going to wait here until dawn...... I heard that bandits are rampant here, and if something happens, you and I can't afford it! ”

If he hadn't been able to search with great fanfare, lest he have to meet Peng Shuihu's people, let alone wait until dawn, he would want to get off the boat and search in person. But the overall situation is important, you can't wait until dawn to let Hu Xingmin and others send the fleet on the other side of the river, right? Uncle Da can only push the boat down the river.

Uncle Da thought about it seriously, and he had to pretend to have two expressions on his face: sometimes gritting his teeth, sometimes helpless, and finally, he sighed and said, "Hey~!" I know you're right, but I ...... Ay~! Well, wait another hour, and we'll set sail with or without news. ”

In everyone's tormented waiting, an hour finally passed, and there was still no response.

Fang Hua came to Uncle Da again, but before he could speak, he saw a subordinate running over: "Report to the owner of the village, they are back." ”

"How?"

The hand shook its head expressionlessly.

Uncle Da glanced at him, looked at Fang Hua again, gritted his teeth, and shouted in a deep voice: "Inform me, don't wait, start the boat." ”

In fact, Uncle Da put his hope on Peng Shuihu, and he could use the radio to contact the other party at any time, so for Uncle Da, whether or not to drive the boat was actually not such a big problem that was so difficult to decide as he looked on his face.

The sound of the horn resounded across the river, and eight large ships set sail in a majestic manner.

Uncle Da stood at the stern of the boat, his face was grim, his eyes were full of worry as he looked at the boundless darkness, listening to the sound of the water colliding as he drifted away...... After the fleet was several miles away from the screw beach, and the sound of the crashing waves could no longer be heard, Uncle Da let out a long sigh, turned around and walked towards the command room, and did not come out for a long time.

With such a bad start as Screw Beach, it is destined that this voyage will not be smooth sailing...... What will happen next, then we can only do our best and depend on the destiny of heaven.