"Quick! Fast! Hurry-"

"It's full, let's go!"

There was a hustle and bustle at the mouth of the Fangting River, and the panting Xia Jian stood on the stone pier, watching a group of ragged brothers pounce on the boat and collapse on the wet deck, not even having the strength to move, and couldn't help sighing in his heart, but gritted his teeth and said nothing.

Lu Guang waved his big hand and commanded desperately with all his might, urging the rickety and laden fishing boats to leave the shore as soon as possible.

"Smack-"

Li Fuqiang shot the commander of the enemy battalion who was riding a war horse and rushed across the bridge with a roar, and he couldn't feel the movement of Xiao Anjin next to him, so he immediately turned around and crawled over to hug him, and checked up and down and didn't see the shot, so he was relieved.

Seeing that the enemy at the bridgehead in the west did not dare to rush over again under the accurate fire of the brothers of the sniper detachment, Li Fuqiang picked up An Jin, who was covered in heat, put on his shoulders and ordered a retreat, rushed out of more than 700 meters and climbed onto the last two boats, and immediately ordered loudly:

"Deng Bin, let the brothers lift their guns up, and don't let go of any target within range!"

"Yes!"

On another boat, Deng Bin loudly ordered the exhausted brothers to raise their guns and shoot at the swarming enemy troops, waiting for the enemy machine gunners to rush to the shore and set up their machine guns, and finally the two boats had sailed more than 600 meters into the middle of the lake with the concerted efforts of the fishermen and the brothers.

Xia Jian carefully stepped over the collapsed brother and came to Li Fuqiang to squat: "What's wrong with Xiao Jin?" ”

"I wasn't hurt, I guess I was sick, and my whole body was hot. When I was lurking last night, I noticed that something was wrong with him, and he didn't hit the enemy herald with two shots in a row, and Deng Bin helped him replenish the gun.

Alas, it's hard for this kid, he didn't close his eyes for three days and three nights, and half of the night he was soaked in water, and he killed seven enemy captains alone. Li Fuqiang hugged An Jin tightly and licked his chapped lips.

Xia Jian hurriedly untied the kettle on his waist and handed it over: "Drink or drink?" ”

Li Fuqiang smiled: "Drink water first, and then drink your wine after drinking water." ”

A fleet of more than 70 large and small fishing boats slowly rowed towards the middle of the lake, and the summer noon sun made everyone feel unbearable.

Xia Jian took out half a piece of barbecue jerky from his pocket and handed it to Li Fuqiang, when he suddenly heard the roar of the northwest sky plane, and immediately shouted in fright: "All pay attention, be careful of enemy aircraft bombing!" ”

"Boom-boom-"

Two of the three enemy planes circled and finally dropped bombs, and the flotilla that did not open the distance was in a panic, and many ships lost power and direction, and spun in place, and one after another high-power bombs were dropped on the periphery of the flotilla, and the huge waves and water columns stirred up overturned more than a dozen ships in an instant.

Sawdust splashed on the surface of the lake, screaming and screaming, only Deng Bin and a few snipers, who were so calm that they were close to indifference, raised their rifles and aimed in vain at the constantly diving planes.

Five kilometers southeast of the flotilla with heavy losses, the more than 200 large and small fishing boats carried by An Yi and the other three regiments were even more miserable, and the four bombers dropped bombs and continuously circled and dived and fired frantically.

It wasn't until all the planes finished dropping the bombs and left calmly that An Yi was able to stand up from the bumpy and shaking ship, looking around with tears in his eyes and sobbing:

A third of the boats were gone, dozens of capsized wooden boats were surging with the waves, the lake was littered with floating corpses and strands of blood, patches of fish had their bellies opened, and the surviving boats were full of brothers who had salvaged the bodies of their comrades.

An Yi wiped away his tears and tried his best to find the boat where Hu Zi and the others were on the boat, full of tragic scenes and earth-shattering sorrows, so that he had to lower his head and sit down.

A corpse floated on his back four meters away, An Yi looked at it, jumped into the water with a scream, swam back to the boat with the corpse in his arms, and turned over on the boat under the pull of the guards, and saw that Peng Jianqing, who had already died, was all gone below the waist, An Yi couldn't hold back the sadness in his heart anymore, hugged the beloved general and the little junior brother tightly, and cried loudly...... The flotilla no longer went forward, but sailed toward Heron Island, four kilometers to the south, until four o'clock in the afternoon when all the brothers had been assembled.

The surviving brothers in the cooking class picked up dry branches and hay, and cooked gruel in a pitiful dozen cauldrons, Yin Jinan and Yang Bin finished counting the number of people, and came to the tree together, sat cross-legged beside An Yi and the others, lowered their heads and smoked without saying a word.

An Yiqiang held back the grief in his heart and slowly turned to Yin Jinan: "Report a number!" ”

"Of the four thousand six hundred and seventy-two, nearly two thousand of whom drowned alive." Yin Jinan didn't raise his head, and he was already in tears after answering, but he didn't wipe the tears hanging from his cheeks with his hands, and smoked his own.

Yang Bin's eyes were red, and he sighed with a crying voice: "The three radio stations are gone, and a large number of weapons have sunk to the bottom of the lake, and only the one that Lao Ding and his family have saved is left, which can barely be used." Now there are only seven officers and soldiers who are familiar with the work of the radio station, and Huanqi is in contact with the general headquarters and headquarters, and it is estimated that there will be news soon, and the other brothers are ......"

An Yi wiped away the tears that overflowed from the corners of his eyes and closed his eyes in pain: "Are all the brothers who have been fished up buried?" ”

"Hu Zi and Xia Jian are leading people to do it, more than 200 villagers are helping, many brothers can't be salvaged and sink, and the villagers say that they may not be able to float in a day or two."

Yang Bin replied in a low voice, swallowed his dry throat hard, paused for a while and continued:

"Enemy planes reconnoiter frequently, and the east coast will not be able to go, if my estimation is correct, the entire Llama Lake will be surrounded. The area of Luoma Lake is not large, more than 10 kilometers wide and more than 20 kilometers long, the south is Suqian, we are now located nine kilometers away from the south bank, 13 kilometers away from the east coast, eight kilometers away from the west coast, the small island is called Ludao, one kilometer long and 400 meters wide. ”

An Yi nodded and slowly stood up: "Lao Yang, Ji Nan, stand up and walk around with me." ”

Yin Jinan threw away the cigarette butt, wiped away the tears on his face with both hands, and stood up suddenly, Yang Bin stood up halfway and stumbled and almost fell, An Yi grabbed his raised arm, pulled it to his side with force, carefully checked Yang Bin, and then held Yang Bin's bruised ankle that was swollen into a steamed bun and whispered: "Rest, wait for Huanqi to have news, you can take a look first." ”

"Nope! I'm going to walk around with you...... What are you looking at? Why don't you give me a hand? ”

…… At nine o'clock in the evening, Commander-in-Chief Chiang, who had returned to Nanjing, sat quietly in a chair in his large office, his face sallow and lifeless, and he finally understood that Li Zongren, Wang Jingwei, and Tang Shengzhi had secretly reached an alliance, and that the slogan of overthrowing Chiang had already resounded one after another at the corners of Nanjing.

Ignoring the persuasion of the elders Zhang Jingjiang, Wu Zhihui, and Dai Jitao, the "Xishan Conference faction" of the party, which had always been entrenched in the French Concession of Shanghai, completely fell to Li Zongren, who had a large army in his hands, and more than half of the party elders were attracted by Li Zongren's generous appeal for the slogan of "establishing a united political axe and the Ninghan confluence."

In the name of the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Group Army, Tang Shengzhi once again telegraphed the whole country to crusade against Chiang Kai-shek, listing one by one the charges of Chiang Kai-shek's connivance with the will of the Communist Party, his tyrannical and self-reliance, and the unauthorized holding of meetings to oppress Wuhan.

Commander-in-Chief Chiang pinned his last hope on Feng Yuxiang, and was about to send a telegram to Feng Yuxiang, but Feng Yuxiang suddenly telegraphed the whole country, advocating the reorganization of the political axe of the Ninghan confluence, Sun Ke and other reorganization factions immediately loudly agreed, but Yan Xishan, who had a pivotal position, did not say a word, and quietly watched the changes in the south and regretted his words, and Chiang Kai-shek's last reliance was also shattered.

The office was quiet, and no one dared to disturb Chiang Kai-shek's contemplation, only the trusted Chen Lifu had no choice but to gently push open the hidden door and come to Chiang Kai-shek and report in a low voice:

"The train of Jing Lao and the others will arrive at the station in half an hour, and the subordinates have already sent a few Ji Shi to greet them."

Chiang Kai-shek raised his head: "Oh? Well...... Just in time, it looks like I need to leave. ”

"Headmaster, I received an urgent report from An Yi ten minutes ago." Chen Lifu's eyes were full of tears, and he lowered his head and said sadly.

Chiang Kai-shek stood up suddenly: "How is he?" How's it going? ”

"Principal, please rest assured, An Yi led his troops to defeat Sun Chuanfang's interception of more than 16,000 people, and attacked the southwest at night with the strategy of attacking the east and the west, and the main force suddenly appeared in Pi County in the northwest direction, and it only took half an hour to defeat Pi County, and then unexpectedly turned south, snatched a large number of fishing boats that the Zhilu coalition army forced to collect, and retreated from Luoma Lake, but unfortunately it was ......"

"What?"

Chen Lifu raised his head, wiped away his tears, gritted his teeth and replied: "They were bombed and strafed by as many as eight planes of the Zhilu coalition army on the lake, and the 10,000 soldiers of the Reading Division, who were originally invincible on land, have been bombed and strafed by enemy planes several times, and now there are only more than 4,000 people left. The lake was extremely open and unobstructed, and it became a live target for enemy aircraft...... Now An Yi led the remnants to stay on a small island in the Luoma Lake, and the lake was full of heavy enemy troops who wanted to put An Yi to death and then hurry up, and An Yi had no food and grass, and was surrounded by heavy troops.

Now, all the armies of the Northern Expedition have withdrawn to the front line of Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and the enemy has occupied all the areas north of Yangzhou, and we have no choice but to save him. Sun Chuanfang and Zhang Zongchang's army has repeatedly suffered heavy defeats at the hands of An Yi, and they hate him to the core, this time I am afraid it will be...... I'm afraid it's a lot of bad luck. ”

Commander-in-Chief Chiang's eyes quickly turned red, and he sat down slowly and weakly, covering his head with his hands, and let out a trembling moan for a long time: "I...... I'm sorry for him! I'm sorry for him......"

…… In the middle of the night, Egret Island, the originally blue night sky, suddenly became cloudy, and the strong wind rustled the trees and weeds on the island.

An Yi by the bonfire hugged his younger brother An Jin tightly, Shen Fengdao and Xiao Langzhong found a lot of herbs to boil into juice out of nowhere and distributed them to the sick brothers of each regiment to take, An Jin took half of the kettle of medicinal soup and still had a high fever, An Yi could only let the guards call the lake water and keep cooling An Jin's head.

Hearing Xiao Langzhong say that An Jin can't eat anything and vomit something, it is recommended that it is best to add some broth to An Jin, but where did the broth come from at this time?

An Yi suddenly remembered something, and told Shen Fengdao to catch a fish and come back, Shen Fengdao said that the shore is full of fish, but no brother eats fish tonight, and the belly of the fish is full of brother's flesh and blood!

An Yi's heart was sour, and tears poured out again, but he stubbornly asked Shen Fengdao to catch it, and after a while, he caught a big herring weighing four catties, An Yi asked Shen Fengdao to cut off more than a dozen slices, grabbed one and stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it hard, chewed it into a paste and pinched An Jin's mouth, and poured it into his mouth.

An Jin really swallowed subconsciously, and slowly opened his eyes after more than ten minutes, saw An Yi hugging him tightly, squeezed out a smile, and said slowly: "Brother, I'm useless, I can't carry it for three days......"

An Yi's tears flowed down like a lake with the floodgates open, choking and unable to speak for a long time, when a red lightning bolt suddenly flashed in the sky, followed by a string of rumbling thunder, and bean-sized raindrops poured down immediately afterward.

An Jin stretched out his hand with difficulty, wiped away An Yi's tears, and comforted: "Brother, don't cry, cheer up, the brothers are waiting for you to take them out to win the battle." ”

"I'm not crying, it's raining." An Yi bit his lip and couldn't stop the tears of sadness flowing down.

"Brother, I know you're crying, you're the teacher, if you cry, the brothers will cry."

An Yi's bitten lips were gushed with blood, he raised his head, licked the dried blood with the rain and swallowed it hard, hugged An Jin and stood up suddenly: "Brother promise you, don't cry again, I must bring the brothers home safely!" Xiao Jin, believe your brother! ”

"I believe, I have always believed, that there is no one in the world who can compare to my brother......"

The brothers around him whimpered, and the tiger's head was as hard as a beard, and they also looked up to the sky and sighed, and tears flowed down their faces......

(To be continued)