The golden morning sun makes the lake and mountains become extraordinarily gorgeous, the summer insects are chirping, the birds are flying, the island is quiet and peaceful in the breeze, and the fragrance of flowers is refreshing.

An Yi by the lake stood up after washing his face, saw An Jin standing behind him and smirked, stepped forward to wipe his face with a towel, and put his big hand on his forehead for a while: "Yes, the fever has subsided." ”

"I woke up today and felt more energetic, but my hands were still a little shaky when I raised the gun." An Jin bent down and held a piece of bamboo filled with water in his hand: "Brother, are you going to pull it out?" ”

"Who told you?" An Yi was a little surprised.

"When I saw my Master Ding coming back, I buried my head in the map with the deputy division commander and the chief of staff, and my Master Li said that it was quite difficult to find out the east entrance, and the enemy had increased his troops again."

An Jin replied in a low voice, the Master Ding he said was Ding Zhicheng, the captain of the Special Brigade, and Master Li was Li Fuqiang, the deputy of the Special Brigade and the sniper instructor of the whole division.

An Yi said noncommittally: "Even if there is action, you will honestly stay in the wounded barracks for me." You have just recovered from a serious illness, and your current state is simply unable to take on too heavy combat missions, besides, so many wounded soldiers and brothers also need to be protected, so you should be with the brothers in the logistics department and the teaching brigade who are guarding the wounded barracks for the time being. ”

"I understand, I won't do it, I know when to do something as a special forces." An Jin said open-mindedly.

An Yi touched his head with satisfaction, and the brothers walked side by side towards the newly built long wooden tables in front of the grass shed.

An Jin walked to the grass shed, An Yi put the black towel on his shoulder, took the cigarette handed by Xiao Jiu and lit it habitually, and immediately realized it as soon as he took a puff:

"American red circles? Grandma's awesome...... Where did it come from? ”

"Brother Ding sent it, last night he stole three bags of Western medicine, syringes, scalpels and other things from the church, saying that he saw a freshly opened cigarette and brought it back, and asked me what was written on it? You also know that I don't know English, only the American flag. Lin Yaodong said with a smile.

An Yi immediately stood up and walked quickly to Ding Zhicheng, who was gathered with the brothers, squeezed between Ding Zhicheng and his beard and sat down, and asked in a low voice, "Old Ding, how far did you run last night?" Which county did you go to? ”

Ding Zhicheng smelled the strong smell of smoke, and knew that An Yi had smoked an American cigarette, Lehaha pointed to the map and smiled:

"Xuyi County, here...... There is a Catholic church on the side of Zhuangyuan Street, less than 800 meters away from the Huai River, which is not marked on our map. There is a regiment or so stationed in this county, I grabbed a pawn and asked, the number is the 443rd Regiment of the 39th Division of the Anhui Army, and the division headquarters is in Mingguang County, 64 kilometers southwest. Listening to that unlucky guy, I'm afraid that in the past two days, there will be a division from the west of Wuhe to Lingsi, and it seems that Chu Yupu's old man will eat us. ”

An Yi nodded: "This information is too valuable!" In other words, Chu Yupu, this old guy, is dispatching troops, and it is estimated that he will go to Wuhe County, or Liuxiang Town at the mouth of the Huai River in the west, and personally command the army to encircle and suppress us, I will calculate ......."

"I have calculated, about tonight and tomorrow morning at the latest, Chu Yupu's three armies will go south to the line from Liuxiang to Xuyi, at the same time, according to the intelligence brought back by the eastern reconnaissance group, the three towns of Jiangba, Donghe, Maba, and Donghekou in the southeast, Hongze and Dongshuanggou on the east bank have all found traces of the Anhui army, and the local fishermen said that they only saw so many troops yesterday afternoon, and there are many three-horse cannons, it seems that the east and southeast are also blocked, and the strength should be no less than two divisions." Yin Jinan said.

An Yi tilted his head and looked at the map: "Sun Chuanfang, this grandson is more anxious than Old Man Chu." ”

"Don't forget, when he fought in Zhejiang, he was beaten enough by us in Quzhou, Lanxi, Tonglu and Kunshan, and he definitely couldn't swallow this breath.

However, it stands to reason that Sun Chuanfang should focus on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the most important places are Shanghai and the first line of Suzhou and Hangzhou, where the taxes are extremely hot, so he is not afraid that Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Zongchang will use their brains? I can't figure it out, how could this guy run to the middle of the lane to join in the fun? ”

Yang Bin held his chin in his hand and said thoughtfully.

An Yi nodded and did not speak, pondered for a moment and said uncertainly: "It is very likely that the warlords have formed a tacit understanding within themselves, first put down Shanghai, Suzhou and Hangzhou and other places, and concentrate the main force to attack Nanjing, yesterday morning Senior Brother Yu's telegram said that Feng Yuxiang and General Yan Xishan and the Feng army are fighting again, suggesting that we be patient and it is likely to usher in a turnaround...... Could it be that Zhang Zuolin's father and son couldn't stand it and urgently ordered Zhang Zongchang to come back? ”

Yang Bin stood up suddenly: "It makes sense, it makes sense!" In this way, I'm afraid that Old Man Chu and the main force of the Zhilu coalition army won't stay long. ”

Hu Zi said helplessly: "We can't stay long, otherwise many brothers will have to wait for death, if it weren't for Lao Ding stealing three boxes of anti-inflammatory potion, Cheng Guang and a few brothers with the most serious gunshot wounds would probably not be able to survive today, and if they don't go back, I don't know how many brothers will die!" ”

"How's the discussion going?" An Yi asked Hu Jialin.

Hu Jialin pointed to Zeng Changhe behind him: "This kid said a bold idea, we all beat the drum in our hearts, a bit like gambling, it has become a vast sky, and we will lose all the losses." ”

An Yi looked at Zeng Changhe, who was the hardest working and most spiritually surnamed among the young lieutenants, in surprise, Zeng Changhe calmly showed a shy smile to An Yi, and then looked at the map and said his opinion completely.

After listening to such a bold and calculated idea, An Yi looked at this peasant boy who led him to run the mountain road to save the people in the village in the mountains of northern Xiangbei in disbelief, nodded frequently for a while, and asked appreciatively: "Changhe, how about I hand over the suspicious plan to you to command?" ”

Zeng Changhe's eyes widened, seeing An Yi's trusting gaze and sincere smile, he thought about it and replied in a low voice:

"I don't know if the enemy's bombers will come, but yesterday afternoon it was a reconnaissance plane that flew to the northeast after a few turns around our heads."

An Yi said with a smile: "It's still early, it is estimated that in another hour I will come again to see our movements, the enemy has an airport in Huai'an, the reason why there were no bombers to harm us yesterday, I think it was the enemy's poor contact for a while or other reasons that delayed the fighters, but since the enemy sent a reconnaissance plane, it must be trying to clean us up, so even if he doesn't send bombers today, he will send a reconnaissance plane, you just need to do it according to your own ideas, I let the captain of the guard follow you as an overseer, See who dares not to listen to you. ”

Zeng Changhe excitedly stood up side by side: "The subordinates resolutely complete the task!" ”

"Be careful."

An Yi patted Zeng Changhe's shoulder, which had become much thicker: "Is your cousin Chang Geng awake today?" ”

"Woke up, Doctor Li just gave him a special injection of medicine, and he fell asleep again, it's better than yesterday." Zeng Changhe replied gratefully.

"Go ahead! The sooner you act, the better. ”

"Yes!"

…… Just after 3 o'clock in the afternoon, two reconnaissance planes that flew in the morning reappeared, flying from due north and northeast respectively to the lake in front of the island, and saw that a steamboat below had left the island two kilometers away from the island and was slowly heading toward the southeast, and immediately lowered its altitude and circled over the east of the island, and saw that thousands of revolutionary troops were rapidly boarding the large and small boats on the lake, circling twice in the air and then heading eastward, and 10 minutes later flew back to reconnoiter around a big bend againIt was found that there was a steamboat towing dozens of fishing boats full of revolutionary troops to the east, which had sailed more than a kilometer away from the island, and the island was extremely quiet and there were no people, and even the two long grass huts that I saw in the morning had been dismantled.

At 5:40 p.m., the two planes went back to refuel and flew again, and again saw two long fleets of boats on the lake several hundred meters below, and suddenly turned around and headed north on the lake about six kilometers away from Shadui Bay on the east coast.

As soon as the enemy plane left, dozens of brothers without shirts on the two steamboats began to get busy, and the brothers on one ship adjusted the direction to due north again, and hurriedly fixed the rudder with wire ropes, while the brothers on the other ship quickly dismantled the roof of the steamboat and other parts that had nothing to do with navigation, and quickly approached the other stopped airboat, took off the big iron hook that connected dozens of ships behind him and hung it, and then let the large steamboat towing two full fleets speed up again. The brethren on board all jumped into the relatively small gas boat, and watched the flotilla full of scarecrows, dressed in military caps and uniforms, slowly moving north, and immediately turned the bow of the ship and accelerated towards Daxing Beach.

Zeng Changhe and more than 30 brothers were very lucky, the reason why the enemy did not send bombers to bomb indiscriminately, was not that the enemy did not want to bomb, but that Sun Chuanfang was fighting fiercely on the east road with He Yingqin's 26th Army, which had not yet retreated to the south of the Yangtze River, and the only eight bombers were all sent over to help in the battle, and the Zhou Fengqi Division, which had been holding the important town of Nantong in the north of the Yangtze River for a week, suffered heavy casualties, and had to abandon the county seat and flee across the river in embarrassment, to complete the raid on Nanjing to lay the foundation.

At night, the 47 fishing boats carrying the first batch of more than 1,200 elite soldiers to the north of Zuzhuang on the southwest bank turned around again and rushed to the southern part of Xiaoxingtan, four kilometers northeast, to continue to pick up the wounded.

At 7:45 p.m., more than 20 cavalrymen wearing the uniforms of the Zhilu coalition army quickly approached the low but solid west gate of Xuyi City.

The captain of the Anhui army stretched out his hand to pick it up, and the yellow-faced man slammed the captain's throat forward with his palm, and then held the soft captain and shouted loudly: "Brother, what's wrong with you?" Why did you faint all of a sudden? Stand up! ”

The cavalry on the horse immediately dismounted, and the six guards guarding the gate also ran up to help, and the cavalry on the enclosure suddenly showed their sharp blades and quickly cut the throats of the six guards, and the yellow-faced man let out a low cry, and all the horses flew into the city, and more than 2,000 shirtless revolutionary soldiers also rushed to the west gate from a kilometer away.

(To be continued)