The shimmering canal is not wide.

The river flows slowly in plain rivers.

From time to time, there are messy floating objects such as branches, trunks, water and grass on the river surface, slowly drifting northward with the flow.

More than ten small boats were unable to transfer thousands of fellow villagers to the West Coast in a short period of time.

You can only shuttle back and forth on the canal.

When going west, it was full of loads every time, and even the water on both sides of the boat was crowded with people climbing on the side of the boat.

After the ship arrives on the west coast, it returns to the east coast to pick up people and gets in contact.

Return after returning.

As time goes by, fewer and fewer people stay on the East Coast.

It was almost the last time people were transported to the west bank of the river.

The sound of the Japanese gunboat engine came from the north.

At this time, the boat had just arrived at the heart of the river. An experienced boat boss. After roughly estimating the speed of the boat, his face immediately changed drastically to the people rowing behind him: "Hurry, row quickly!"

"Before docking, the Japanese gunboat will definitely intercept us when they run faster." A sound came from the ship behind.

"You have to dock before the Japanese arrive, unless... you can speed up the ship!"

"Or why don't you let the water let go..." The boat boss looked at the fellow villagers climbing on the side of the boat.

The people who were climbing on the side of the boat were immediately panicked.

However, no one let go of his hand, but instead grabbed it tighter.

In the river, an old man suddenly spoke: "Young people, keep running. I'm old, I'll let go first..."

Although the canal surface is not wide, its human power is limited, and most people cannot swim through the canal nearly one mile wide in a short period of time.

The boat boss quickly comforted: "Don't worry, everyone, everyone travels west separately. The target of the Japanese motorboat is our ship. As long as you can get fifty meters away from the west bank of the river and have our cover on the shore, nothing will happen..."

"As soon as the Japanese motorboat arrives, no one can escape..."

The soldiers of the main battalion on the west bank first set up positions on the river bank, looked at the ships on the river surface, and then looked at the Japanese motorboats getting closer and closer, but could only stare helplessly.

"Fortunately, no Japanese were found surrounding and intercepting the Japanese in Hexi for the time being..."

"It's not that there are no Japanese, but that the Guard Battalion disrupted the Japanese plan to sweep the raid!"

The sky has begun to darken, and the outline of the Japanese motorboat in the canal can be seen clearly.

On the motorboat, the Japanese also saw clearly the situation on the river.

Boom...

As the ship closest to the river approached one mile, heavy machine guns on the motorboat began to fire.

Puff puff puff...

The machine gun bullet hit the river, pulling out a series of splashes...

Then there was another string of water splashes, and the ballistic began to pull back...

Snatch...

A row of bullet holes immediately appeared on the hull that was exposed to the water.

Feeling danger, the boss of the ship was shaking.

The people who scattered in the river and traveled westward, swam desperately with their hands and feet, and their speed became faster than before.

In their hearts, only if they rush into the river within fifty meters west of the river can they be basically safe...

Hedong.

Li Xiang's body was exposed on the sandbag.

In the field of view of the telescope.

The steamships converted from the Japanese with iron-shelled cargo ships are not small.

There were at least twenty Japanese on the ship.

Heavy machine guns keep shooting on the river.

Li Xiang frowned and immediately issued an order to attack the enemy motorboat.

The machine gun arranged behind the sandbag on the bow vibrated slightly as the hull began to blindly shoot at the Japanese motorboat one mile away.

Immediately afterwards, the dull sound of Czech machine guns spread across the river.

The Japanese were fighting fiercely. The observer suddenly saw the water splash on the river near the hull and immediately found that there was a light machine gun in the east of the river to shoot at him.

The Japanese observer pulled his gong and shouted: "Discover the enemy's iron shell warship!"

"Machine gun, clear the opponent's firepower!" The Japanese lieutenant held up the telescope and was a little dazed: the opponent's iron-shelled hull seemed to be quite large.

I quickly realized that it should be the patrol boat that was stolen after being attacked by the Turkish Eighth Route Army!

It must be taken back...or sunk it!

Then the second order was issued: "Mortar shooting, target, iron shell boat!"

"Everyone will fight me to protect the fellow villagers in the river!" The third company commander of the main battalion who crossed the river first shouted loudly.

At this time, you don’t care that you are too far away from the enemy. Shooting without a correct head will waste bullets.

As long as the enemy ship can slow down the speed, the fellow villagers who cross the river will have a glimmer of hope.

Immediately afterwards, Czech light machine guns began to fire on the west bank and shot at the Japanese speedboats on the river.

The three parties opened fire at the same time, and the howling sound of bullets crisscrossed and chaotic.

The river surface is full of ripples that sway after bullets enter the water.

The battle seems intense.

However, it has no effect on the three parties who fire.

The Japanese on the motorboat completely ignored the shooting of the West Bank!

"Maintain the fire density, the Japanese machine gun firepower is attracted!" Li Xiang held up his telescope and turned a deaf ear to the occasionally hitting the Japanese heavy machine gun bullets on the hull.

Li Xiang was not panicked and carefully considered the current situation.

He knew very well that there were a large number of Japanese soldiers on the front line of Donglu Village in the southeast.

There are two reasons why the Japanese appeared here. One is that the Japanese canal motorboat was ambushed and retaliated, and the other is that they set up defense lines on the east side of the canal, trying to encircle the Ninth Camp, which was temporarily stationed on Wang Shun's territory.

He believed that the battalion commander must have a solution. As a commander, he instinctively prompted him to think desperately.

It is easy to cross the canal and go west by yourself, but it is equivalent to throwing down Nine Camps.

Therefore, he felt that the Japanese should break the attempt to defend themselves on the east bank of the canal!

Bullets roared over nearby, overhead, over ears, and raging on the river.

I felt someone trying to pull his legs desperately.

Slowly twisting his neck and looking at the figure behind him.

A row of captains under his command lay behind the sandbags and shouted anxiously: "Company Commander, hide quickly! Company Commander, don't show your head..."

A row of leaders tried to pull his head shorter that had appeared from the sandbag.

Li Xiang looked unhappy: "The Japanese machine gun is so far away, what are you worried about?"

"I'm not afraid of ten thousand, I'm just afraid of what..."

Hidden behind sandbags.

Li Xiang took out his pen and wrote and painted on the paper for a while, and turned his head to the mortarist who was on the boat and ordered: "Mortars are ready, three consecutive shots!"

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As soon as the sound fell, a mortar shell was immediately released.

I think the gunner's eyes were almost green when he waited.

Bang...

The shells hit the Japanese motorboat.

Although the shells did not explode, they still scared the Japanese lieutenant on the ship.

Unexpectedly, during this sweep, the opponent actually had a mortar.

Obviously, the opponent is definitely the main force of the Tubali!

The lieutenant with a hideous expression became extremely excited and ordered the gunboat Japanese gunman: "Start up the shooting speed, shoot! Shoot..."

The Japanese observer holding a telescope suddenly noticed.

The shells fired by the opponent's mortar began to smoke towards the river.

The effect of smoke bombs will be greatly reduced after entering the water.
To be continued...