"Bang-pop-"

Xia Jian, who came quickly, kicked Ding Zhicheng's wrist, and the moment the pistol was in the air, the gunfire still rang out, and the bullet that lost its accuracy plowed Ding Zhicheng's scalp out of a deep groove, and the gurgling blood flowed down his head and flowed all the way to his black neck.

Xia Jian squatted down, grabbed Ding Zhicheng's ragged chest with his right hand, and waved his left hand to "snap" is two slaps, An Yi, who came back to his senses, saw that Xia Jian was so ruthless, he actually hit blood everywhere, and subconsciously pounced and grabbed Xia Jian's left hand to stop him from hitting again, and suddenly felt that Xia Jian's left hand was hot and slippery, and hurriedly pulled it in front of him to take a look, Xia Jian's left palm had been cut off obliquely by shrapnel, and the broken point was white and bone, and blood was pouring out, leaving only the index finger and thumb trembling disorderly.

An Yi suddenly understood, felt a pain in his heart, and tore his shirt and quickly tied Xia Jian's wrist. Ding Zhicheng, who came to his senses, was scolded by Xia Jian as soon as his mouth moved:

"Lao Ding, Chen Zhibiao and Chen Kan's two grandsons ran away, why do you want to die or live? You actually want to leave us behind in the most difficult time, you really have a kind of dog, Lao Tzu is usually blind! ”

"Xia Jian, don't scold, don't I think it's a non-person? Lao Tzu knew that he was wrong, and he will never do this again...... Master, quickly withdraw! The enemy is about to shell again, and after this round of shelling, we can no longer stop the enemy's charge, and most of the brothers are out of bullets in their guns! ”

Ding Zhicheng's face was full of tears, he stood up tremblingly, wiped the blood stains on his face and looked at the front of the position, suddenly heard the screams of cannonballs, and was so frightened that he bent down suddenly, picked up Xia Jian and rushed to the riverbank, shouting loudly as he ran: "All retreat, brothers, retreat quickly, protect the division's seat ......."

When the surviving 700 soldiers on the battlefield heard the order, they rushed wildly around An Yi, and the lightning-like cannonballs blew up the entire position with thick smoke, and the earth trembled, and several cannonballs chased the heels of the brothers behind and exploded, and more than a dozen speeding figures disappeared in the smoke and fire in an instant.

On the steep river bank, all the soldiers jumped into the river with the brothers of the special brigade regardless of whether they could water or not, and swam lifelessly to the Bagua Continent on the opposite bank under the control of the strong survival **, more than 700 people entered the water and stirred up the turbulent waves, and countless heads rose and fell on the violently undulating river waves, which was extremely desolate.

An Yi, who was surrounded and swam in the middle, turned around suddenly, looked at it while swimming, and found that his floating head was gradually decreasing, and his heart was extremely uncomfortable, so he could only turn around silently and paddle forward painfully.

After swimming for a while, An Yi suddenly screamed, paddled forward desperately, hugged the neck of a brother who was about to sink and shouted to hold up and don't move, the exhausted brother who was already cramping and curling turned his head and smiled brightly at An Yi, and then used his last strength to push him away, his head quickly sank into the water, and a string of bubbles came out and sank to the bottom of the river.

An Yi howled miserably, desperately treading water and jumping high to dive underwater to rescue, and was immediately forcibly carried forward by Lin Yaodong and Chen Mian, who were proficient in the water surname, left and right, An Yi wailed in vain, his hoarse throat burned like fire, and the surging river water immediately poured into his mouth, causing a violent cough, and even the little strength left disappeared, and he could only powerlessly let two loyal guards take him across the river, looking up at the blue sky, and suddenly felt that his soul had left his body.

After fifteen minutes of fierce artillery bombardment, tens of thousands of enemy soldiers shouted and rushed from three directions to the position of the Reading Division, which was filled with gunsmoke and was in disarray, looking for the officers and men of the An Yi Division who were still alive.

In the east corner of Baguazhou, the soldiers who came first fixed four simple bamboo rafts with ropes and bamboo poles, and it took a lot of effort to pull An Yi and a group of brothers who swam back to the shore.

An Yi, who was wet all over, was like a knife, pushed away the guards around him, stumbled to the edge of the Yangtze River, looked at Nanjing City in the south, and called loudly:

"Old Shen—"

It's a pity that Shen Fengdao couldn't hear An Yi's shout at this moment, he was one of the first people to cross Baguazhou with the first batch of wounded soldiers at seven o'clock in the morning, and then quickly led seven brothers of the special detachment to run eight kilometers upstream along the south bank of Baguazhou, and the eight people boarded an old fishing boat with no one on the shore, and quickly rowed across the river one or two kilometers wide, and sailed straight to Yanziji on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Due to the strong force of the river, the boat could only dock at the small wharf of Fendoushan downstream of Yanziji, and eight exhausted men who shouldered the trust of thousands of brothers of An Yishi did not stop and rushed upstream along the river bank.

Shen Fengdao led the brothers to run to three hundred meters east of Yanziji, and was immediately stopped by a company of revolutionary officers and soldiers, three machine guns and hundreds of rifles aimed at Shen Fengdao's eight people who were equipped with sophisticated weapons on the upper body.

Shen Fengdao raised his hands and loudly identified himself, and the company commander was taken aback when he heard it, and flew to report to Li Xianzhou, the commander of the garrison.

Li Xianzhou rushed to hear the news, listened to Shen Fengdao's words and was skeptical, Shen Fengdao immediately took out An Yi's general certificate and handed it over, Li Xianzhou was extremely shocked after reading the general certificate of his junior brother An Yi, especially knowing that An Yi was fighting alone and bloody on the opposite side of the river at the moment, his whole body was as uncomfortable as electricity, and he immediately ordered the adjutant to report to Chen Cheng urgently, and he led a platoon of brothers and Shen Fengdao and others to rush to the Yanziji River Transport Wharf upstream, jumped on the large machine ferry that went to the opposite bank every day, and ordered the boatmen to immediately go to the east corner of Baguazhou.

Due to the sudden fierce battle in Jiangbei, the people's hearts fluctuated, and all the ships on the south bank of the Yangtze River stopped navigating, and the shipowner, who was in his thirties and was well-maintained, did not worry about his boat, and relied on his good family background to rush to the wharf to inspect his ferry, and when he saw more than 40 big men rushing on the boat and wanting to cross the river, he pointed to the incessant gunfire on the other side and refused to agree.

In the end, the shipowner, who was forced by Li Xianzhou, crossed his waist and asked loudly without fear: "My brother-in-law is from the Central Party Department, what do you dare to do to me?" ”

Shen Fengdao didn't say a word, stepped forward and struck out with a palm, causing the chubby shipowner to fly up more than two meters high, and on the way to the water, the blood and brains burst out and spilled far away, crashing into the water with a "bang", and sank in a blink of an eye.

Everyone on the boat screamed, the tall attendant of the shipowner stretched his hand behind his waist, and Yang Libang, the captain of the detachment beside Shen Fengdao, raised his hand and shot the head of the owner's attendant, and then flew up with a kick, kicked the hundred-pound follower several meters away, and plunged into the water to find his boss as a companion.

Li Xianzhou and the others were extremely shocked when they saw Shen Fengdao and Yang Libang's ruthless shots and strong martial arts, and the dozens of shipwrights on the ship were so frightened that they broke out in a cold sweat, their faces turned pale, and they were panicked and ready to sail under the murderous gaze of Shen Fengdao and his brothers.

Gu Zhenglun, the deputy commander of General He Yaozu, who was in charge of the Nanjing garrison, happened to lead his troops to inspect the wharf, and when he heard the gunshots, he immediately led one of his company's guards to rush down, pointing guns at Li Xianzhou and Shen Fengdao, and more than 40 people shouted that they were not allowed to move!

Shen Fengdao walked to the bow of the boat and asked loudly: "General Gu, it has been less than a month since Taierzhuang was farewell, doesn't the general remember the An Yi division who fought side by side with the officers and soldiers of the Forty Army?" ”

Gu Zhenglun was taken aback when he heard this, and when he saw Shen Fengdao's appearance, he immediately recognized him as An Yi's personal adjutant, and hurriedly ran off the boat and asked loudly:

"On the other side, the one who fought with the enemy army was General An's reading master?"

"Exactly! General Gu, my division began to break through from the east of Xuzhou, and has been fighting hard for half a month, and more than 11,000 soldiers of the division have fought bloody battles one after another, and the losses are extremely heavy, and only more than 3,000 people are left when they flee to the other side with great difficulty.

Since 6:15 a.m. today, our unit has been intercepted by a strong enemy one after another, and has fought fiercely until now, two and a half hours have passed, and nearly half of the more than 3,000 officers and men of our division have been wounded or sick.

General Gu, please look at the cooperation at the beginning, save the lives of the dying soldiers of our division, I, Shen Fengdao, am grateful in this life! Reader: All the surviving soldiers will remember your kindness! ”

After saying that, Shen Fengdao slowly saluted, and the seven brothers behind him saluted neatly.

Gu Zhenglun had mixed feelings in his heart, and his two beards stood up in shock, he turned his head and yelled at his subordinates: "What are you still doing in a daze, immediately send someone to send reinforcements to the military seat, and the rest of the people will cross the river with me now!" All the shipwrights obeyed the order, we are now crossing the river to save the hero of the Northern Expedition, General An Yi and his brave soldiers, please do your best, if you disobey the law, on the spot! Sail! ”

The boatmen immediately took action, no longer had the heart to deal with it and slacked off, and the machine ferry, which could carry more than 600 people at a time, emitted thick oil smoke, slowly went off the shore, turned around and accelerated to the east corner downstream of the opposite bank.

Shen Fengdao breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and thanked Li Xianzhou in a low voice, Li Xianzhou said that Xiao Yi is my Huangpu junior brother and my sibling, so there is no need to be polite.

Gu Zhenglun came forward to ask Shen Fengdao how the reading master could break out of the encirclement so quickly and suddenly appear opposite Nanjing? Shen Fengdao said that no one can figure out An Yi's brain, but one of the most important reasons is that in order for hundreds of brothers who have made great achievements but are dying, they can be treated as soon as possible, so An Yi is so desperate and night long.

Gu Zhenglun, Li Xianzhou and others sighed when they heard it, and just when everyone sighed at An Yi's deep affection, Shen Fengdao suddenly pointed to the Yuzui Wharf in the west of Baguazhou, and everyone immediately found that more than ten small steamboats had docked, and two regiments of enemy troops were boarding Baguazhou and rushing downstream, and the hearts of the generals immediately rose to their throats.

Gu Zhenglun's adjutant loudly ordered his guard company to prepare for battle, and Li Xianzhou also gathered one of his platoons and ordered the only light machine gun to be mounted on the bow of the ship. Shen Fengdao and the others walked to the bow of the boat and looked at the direction of Baguazhou, listening to the increasingly dense gunfire in the direction of Dongjiao, and they were anxious.

In the eastern corner of Baguazhou, a regiment of the Third Army of the Anhui Army, which drove from the north shore of the upstream by steamboat, was engaged in an unprecedentedly fierce battle with the remnants of An Yi's division.

Because the brothers who came first by An Yi had already taken precautions and chose the most favorable terrain, they hid in a tidal flat facing water on three sides in the east corner, and took advantage of a natural barrier between the north and the south that was more than 150 meters long and 10 meters wide and 10 to 30 meters wide, and the banks on both sides were covered with lush reeds, so that the enemy could not attack from the north, and because of the deep silt and reeds on the embankments along the river in the east and south, it was difficult for boats and boats to land for a while. can only choose to forcibly charge from the open land more than 100 meters wide in the west, and only the remnants of the An Yi Division, who can raise their guns, are left with a lot of pressure reduced, and they can still support themselves in the situation of the collapse of the battle situation.

However, at this time, there was little ammunition left for the soldiers of the Reading Division, and all the machine guns were discarded early because of the exhaustion of ammunition, and at this moment in the face of the powerful firepower of the enemy's machine guns, they could only be passively beaten, and the dense rain of bullets pressed the brothers to raise their heads, if it were not for the sniper detachment led by Li Fuqiang to play a huge role and kill more than ten enemy machine gunners in a row, I am afraid that the enemy would have rushed into the position at this moment.

An Yi, who was crawling in the hollow, had long forgotten the pain of witnessing the brotherhood of being unable to die, and his face was full of anxiety - he was very worried that the enemy would set up mortar bombardment on the east bank of the Jiajiang estuary, which was less than two kilometers away, and he was worried that there would be more and more enemy troops on Baguazhou and would decisively charge, seeing that the bullets were about to run out, but the enemy's offensive was increasing unabated, and the enemy army in the left front was slowly crawling, and once it entered the charging distance, it would soon launch a strong attack, and the most dangerous moment was coming.

"Tiger Head!" An Yi's voice was hoarse and could only shout.

"Here!"

"Order the brethren, take the bayonet!"

"On the bayonet—"

Gu Changfeng pulled out the double guns inserted in his waist, stuffed one of them into An Yi's hand, poked his right hand to the back of his head, and pulled out the bright sword with a "bang", An Yi also pulled out Hu Jialin's treasure knife and held it in his hand, hundreds of brothers pulled out their spears and quickly loaded them, and more than two hundred brothers with sapper shovels on their backs quietly put down the spears without bullets, took out the sapper shovel that was more conducive to chopping and sharpening and held it tightly in his hand, no expression could be seen on his scorched faces, but his eyes flashed with a fierce light.

At the last moment, a dense machine-gun sound suddenly sounded on the river upstream, followed by a long whistle.

An Yi and his brothers were all in high spirits when they heard the thick and long whistle, but the enemy who was about to charge on the left side of the river was disturbed by the fierce exchange of fire and whistles from the rear, and they all turned their heads to look behind them, and they were a little overwhelmed for a while.

On the river, one regiment of the enemy troops rushing to the east corner rushed into the depths of the island and continued to move forward at high speed, and the other regiment set up machine guns to strafe the huge machine ferry on the river 200 meters away, and the commanders Gu Zhenglun and Li Xianzhou on the ferry pried up the steel deck and brought thick wooden planks to block the bullets, and the four light machine guns and more than 30 flower machine guns arranged on the port side fired at the enemy on the shore.

The enemy on the shore obviously did not run as fast as the high-horsepower engine ferry in the river, and in desperation, he was so angry that he screamed, and ran south again, but was swept by the machine gun on the ship to more than ten people, and the enemy had to lie down again in grievance, aiming at the ferry and shooting wildly, so that the ferry sawdust splashed, and the steel plate "bell" sparked, but the huge ferry was not affected and continued to go south, the speed did not decrease at all, and the enemy troops who were left behind jumped like thunder, but they did not dare to chase boldly, so they could only follow slowly and keep shooting, If you encounter an inlet or a bush, you have to take a detour, which makes you get farther and farther apart.

The commander of the enemy corps, who was confronting the remnants of An Yi's division, watched as the ferry accelerated past his position and rumbled to the eastern corner 100 meters away from the river, less than a kilometer away from the tidal flat behind the remnants of An Yi's division.

After several considerations, the commander of the enemy regiment finally gritted his teeth and made up his mind, pulled out his saber and jumped up from behind the cover, and took the lead to launch a decisive charge to the position of An Yi's remnants, and another regiment of enemy troops in the north quickly landed on the shore and rushed to the south, hearing the shouts of friendly troops charging in the south, they also roared in unison, the momentum of the enemy's attack suddenly increased, and the situation of An Yi's division became more and more critical.

An Yi had Yin Jinan, who passed out after being hit by a machine gun after having a position in his heart, Yang Bin, who was thrown six or seven meters by a bomb explosion and fell unconscious, Hu Jialin, who lost too much blood by shrapnel in his abdomen, Cheng Guang, who was repeatedly ill, and more than 700 other elite brothers who were tortured by injuries and illnesses were worse than death, and finally when more than 1,300 enemies charged two hundred meters ahead, An Yi stood up proudly and raised the treasure knife in his hand.

With a muffled sound of "bang", a huge momentum came from behind, directly knocking the unprepared An Yi to the ground, and Gu Changfeng, who was half up, was also kicked on the head by Chi Shangzhi, the instructor of the first company of the model battalion, and fainted, Liu Changying, deputy of the third battalion of the third regiment, successfully attacked and immediately shouted:

"Xiao Jiu, the situation is so urgent, why don't you do it? Do you want to kill the division and our group? ”

Lin Yaodong, the chief of the guard, gritted his teeth, led eleven brothers to pounce, and ordered a group of brothers to set up An Yi, who was hit with gold stars, and Gu Changfeng, who was unconscious, picked up the treasure knives of the two and rushed back to the back of the formation.

Liu Changying, who was missing a left arm, pulled out the big knife at his waist and shouted loudly: "Brothers, it's time for us to go up, for the sake of the teacher's seat, for the model battalion, for our reading master, kill-"

"Kill—"

More than 280 wounded soldiers and brothers rushed towards the enemy group with a loud cry, and the other 700 or so officers and men had already turned red into the enemy group like mad bulls, and the two streams of people collided together, making a huge collision sound, followed by terrible screams and wails that shook the sky, and the soldiers of the revolutionary army such as Masato Kamitani and dozens of boatmen, who were slowly sailing to the shore, were shocked to see and their hands and feet were cold.

The ferry approached slowly, but due to the water level and silt, it could not dock to the shore for a long time, and the bow of the boat could no longer approach more than four meters from the shore, and thousands of people on board and under the boat panicked and became a mess.

Shen Fengdao saw that the bamboo row by the reeds was beaten up and down by the river waves, and suddenly flew down the water with a scream, and stepped firmly on the tail of the six-meter-long bamboo row, when the front end of the bamboo row was raised high, Shen Fengdao didn't know how to exert his strength, and pulled himself up again, like a flying Dapeng, he quickly turned around in the air and swept his right foot in the air, and the whole wide bamboo row was kicked between the bow of the boat and the embankment, and the sound of "bang" fell and bounced high again, Shen Fengdao floated down from a high place at this time, Firmly stepped on the bamboo raft that successfully connected the two ends, then tested the bearing capacity of the bamboo raft, nodded to everyone on the boat, and quickly went ashore with confidence.

Ding Zhicheng, who was waiting on the shore, shouted, and the officers and men under his command hurriedly lifted the seriously wounded and rushed onto the ship, and more than 100 friendly officers and soldiers on the ship took up their guns to closely monitor the battlefield and the surrounding situation not far away, and the kind-hearted shipwrights also took action, lifting two wooden beams seven meters long and one foot wide, and quickly laying the thick decks that had been removed from the wooden beams, and the approach bridge for getting on and off the ship suddenly expanded by three times, and the speed of boarding the ship was doubled.

Just as the brutal hand-to-hand combat two hundred meters above the sandbar was in full swing, Ding Zhicheng, who had escorted the wounded and sick, led more than 100 tiger and wolf soldiers under his command to quickly return to join the battle group, so that the remnants of An Yi, who had suffered heavy casualties and were about to be completely defeated, quickly turned the tide of the battle. Liu Changying, who had been lagging behind in the Eastern Hiding Province, had blood stains on his head, and he saw that the enemy army was retreating step by step under the slaughter of Ding Zhicheng and other fresh forces, and the remaining hundreds of enemy troops could not stand the brutal killing of flesh and blood and rolling heads, so frightened that they turned around and ran away, but stopped five hundred meters away, and shouted loudly under the encouragement of thousands of reinforcements who came quickly, and turned back and killed again, Liu Changying knew in his heart that there was a situation of death and no life if he continued to fight, so he slowly pulled out the military horn that had been prepared from behind his waist and sounded the horn of retreat.

Ding Zhicheng saw the thousands of enemy troops rushing from the three directions in front of him, knowing that he was invincible, and just wanted to muster up the last strength to fight again, when he suddenly heard a loud retreat horn, thinking that it was an order issued by An Yi on the ferry, he immediately shouted to retreat, led the more than 400 brothers who survived to get out of the battle and turned around and ran, and quickly rushed to the east corner and fled to the big ship.

A few minutes later, the panting enemy launched a frenzied killing of the officers and men of An Yi's division who consciously stayed behind to take up the task of blocking the attack, and finally broke through to the shore in an all-round way, and launched fierce fire on the remnants of the more than ten revolutionary soldiers who rushed towards the ferry slowly offshore.

On the bow of the ship, which was getting farther and farther away from the shore, An Yi, who was tightly hugged by his guards and Li Xianzhou and others, was already exhausted and unable to struggle, he watched more than 400 of his brothers fall under the enemy's bayonets and broadswords and was powerless, his eyes were torn, his heart was dripping blood, but he could only gasp helplessly, and his face was extremely distorted in pain...... On the shore, Liu Changying, who lost his left arm and was getting farther and farther away from him, became the last person who could still stand.

Liu Changying desperately ran to the shore, a shuttle of bullets passed through his waist, splashing a piece of blood from his front abdomen, he staggered forward a few steps, knelt heavily at the water's edge, looked at An Yi on the bow of the boat a hundred meters away, and used his last strength to look up to the sky and yell:

"Master, Lao Tzu will still be your soldier in the next life......"

"Whew-"

The blade flashed, Liu Changying's high head was slashed by the sharp broadsword of the enemy army commander, drawing a poignant arc in the air, and finally fell into the river, several blood arrows rushed out of his erection until they flowed out, and his kneeling posture in the face of the river still did not fall for a long time.

On the ferry, An Yi, who was tightly hugged by several people, had a natural twist, the breath in his chest was surging, his whole body trembled violently, and a cavity of hot blood burst out of his throat and rushed into his mouth, but he swallowed it with bated breath, after a terrifying convulsion, An Yi slowly stabilized, and two lines of bright red blood flowed out of his nose......

(To be continued)