At this time, the air in the warehouse became more and more turbid, and several people were almost breathless. Xu Shijiu quickly held his breath and took a bundle of explosives and placed them outside the iron gate. He then connected the lightning tube and explosives as quickly as possible. After Yu Jiaxi and the others hid it, they pressed the explosives without hesitation.

There was only a loud bang, and the iron gate was blown open. A breeze whizzed out, and the thick smoke rolling outside the iron gate was swept open. Xu Shijiu and others also realized the consciousness of them. They couldn't care about so much at the moment. Xu Shijiu helped Yu Jiaxi up and rushed into the iron gate. Gao Shenxing hesitated for a while, and finally came to help Hongxing up.

Yao Nianci had a resentful expression, and could only rush into the tunnel with Yang Qing's support.

After entering the iron gate, there was a deep corridor. Yang Qing was not wrong. This tunnel was indeed secretly excavated by Gu Zhenglun, the former commander of the military police.

This can be traced back to the history of the Kuomintang's spies.

Speaking of the Kuomintang spies, the most famous one is the Military Control Commission. The predecessor of the Military Control Commission was the Blue-Yi Society. However, before Dai Li joined the Blue-Yi Society and formed the Rangers, the Blue-Yi Society was just an unknown ordinary organization within the Kuomintang, and its influence was very limited. During this period, Chairman Jiang's activities that were ulterior motives but had to be done by Gu Zhenglun, the military commander.

In the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930), the Kuomintang veteran Wang Jingwei colluded with local warlords such as Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren and Zhang Fakui to overthrow Chiang. The Central Plains War broke out. During this time, Chiang Chiang's situation became unprecedentedly dangerous. The entire city of Nanjing was also very popular. In order to save his life, Chiang Chiang ordered Gu Zhenglun to dig an authentic tunnel from the Fuguishan Underground Palace and directly lead to Xiaguan Wharf. Gu Zhenglun took advantage of his position to divide a fork from the middle to connect to the military police headquarters. This is the origin of this authentic tunnel.

When Xu Shijiu and his sixteenth men came out of the tunnel, it was the darkest time before dawn. It was pitch black and they could not see their fingers. However, they could clearly hear the sound of waves slapping the river bank, and the wet water vapor between their noses. It was obvious that they were already on the edge of the Yangtze River, so they naturally went outside the Wucheng in Nanjing.

Although they survived death, no one cheered because they all knew that they had just been temporarily out of danger. There were more Japanese troops outside the city than in the city, and there were a large number of buildings in the city to provide cover, so it was difficult to hide outside the city. Once discovered by the Japanese patrol, they would die immediately.

I walked to the riverside in the dark, and it was already dark.

The luck is pretty good. Today is cloudy and there is heavy fog on the river. The fog has been spreading across Xuanwu Lake, wrapping half of the Nanjing Wucheng in. With heavy fog as a cover, the Japanese army outside the city discovered it in a short time. As for the Japanese army in the city, the fire in the gendarmerie warehouse cannot be extinguished so quickly, so there is no need to worry.

Xu Shijiu and the others have lost contact with the outside world and are not clear about the current situation in Nanjing at all. But they still know one thing. Staying on the south bank of the Yangtze River may only be a dead end. Even without the three women Yu Jiaxi, Yao Nianci and Hongxing, it will be difficult for them to break through the Japanese army's numerous seals and escape.

Therefore, if you want to escape, you can only cross the river!

But now there are no bridges and no ferries. It is not easy to cross the Yangtze River, which is thousands of meters wide. Swimming across the river is simply a matter of seeking death!

Xu Shijiu immediately decided to let Yu Jiaxi and the others stay in the reed marsh by the river. He and Gao Shenxing and Yang Qing went to find wooden boards separately, preparing to form a raft across the river, but in the end they didn't find any boards. A few days ago, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were crowded at Xiaguan Wharf. In order to cross the river, they had already demolished all the nearby houses, and even the coffin boards in the cemetery were dug up.

However, Yu Jiaxi and the others hid in the reed marsh and cut off three large bathtubs that floated from the upstream. These three large bathtubs were obviously used as tools for crossing the river, but in the end they failed. They probably either fell into the water in the river or were beaten to death by Japanese patrol boats that were patrolling the river. Otherwise, these bathtubs would not have floated back to the south bank.

Seeing that the sky was already bright and the fog on the river was gradually fading, Xu Shijiu gritted his teeth and decided to take the risk of crossing the river.

Although the three bathtubs were not small, they could not tolerate two people at all. There was no way. Xu Shijiu could only let three women sit in the bathtub. The three men were immersed in the river and pushed the bathtub to swim to the north bank with their hands. A small episode happened when they were grouping. Gao Shenxing was unwilling to be in the same group with Yao Nianci, so Xu Shijiu had to exchange it with him.

Pushing the bathtub into the river, Xu Shijiu shivered suddenly. The river was so cold.

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Almost at the same time, two small sampans drove out from a small river near Snake Mountain. The sepal stood barefoot on the bow of one of the sampans, with the armed belts on their waists tightly, and each hand was picking up a box cannon. At this time, the sepal had already taken off its security uniform and returned to the old storm of the water bandits.

"Brothers, let me light up the shizi!" The leopard was aimlessly searching for the foggy river surface, and shouting loudly, "If you find someone on the river, you should lean on it immediately. Regardless of the life and death, save it first."

Don’t get me wrong. The leopard did not mean to save people. He was developing his armed forces in an alternative way. After the Kuomintang abandoned Nanjing, veterans of the National Army kept trying to cross the river with a piece of wooden board, a piece of wood or even a bundle of reeds. As a result, most of them were frozen to death in the river, but a few people were rescued by the leopards.

The leopard's abacus was very good. These veterans of the National Army were all tough and threatened with life-saving grace, so they would not worry about not joining the team obediently. When these veterans of the National Army joined the team, their team would immediately become the most combative bandit armed forces on the surface of the Yangtze River and Taihu Lake, sweeping across the Yangtze River, and the surface of the Taihu Lake is just around the corner.

Then, his leopard will hit anyone he wants, and it's no big deal if he doesn't have a penny.

The old waiter kindly reminded: "Brother, we were all out at night a few days ago, but today is broad daylight. If the patrol boat with a young Japanese patrol boat is discovered, it is not a joke."

"You guy knows nothing." The leopard scolded bluntly, "I observed it carefully last night. Today, the heavy fog will not dissipate until the sun is over. The patrol boat with a small Japanese unpublished patrol boat cannot find us, let alone as long as it is not a big deal if it is not in Jiangxin, even if the patrol boat with a small Japanese unpublished patrol boat is discovered, it is no big deal."

I always scratched my head and went to search the river.

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Time passed quietly in the difficult struggle. The three groups of people gradually penetrated into the river, and the distance between them gradually widened. Gao Shenxing pushed Yu Jiaxi to the front, but Xu Shijiu and Yao Nianci fell to the end. Xu Shijiu lost too much blood during the hand-to-hand battle with the enemy at Saihongqiao position. How could he recover his vitality in just two days?

Seeing Xu Shijiu's lips turned purple and his teeth trembled, Yao Nianci lowered his head and said with concern: "Captain Xu, why don't you come up and sit for a while, I'll come down and push you away?"

Xu Shijiu smiled with difficulty, shook his head and said, "It's okay, I'm fine."

As he spoke, Xu Shijiu stepped on his already stiff legs a few times, pushed Yao Nianci and pulled him slightly closer to Yang Qing and the others in front of him. At this time, the heavy fog on the river surface had not completely dissipated, but it had become much thinner. Xu Shijiu saw that Gao Shenxing had already pushed Yu Jiaxi to 50 meters away.

When Yao Nianci was worried that Xu Shijiu could not hold on and wanted to persuade him again, Xu Shijiu suddenly made a gesture of silence.

Although Xu Shijiu was almost frozen, his hearing was not frozen. He had already heard the vague sound of motors, and a patrol boat with a young man was approaching! Soon Yao Nianci and the others also heard it. Gao Shenxing and Yang Qing in front of him stopped and turned around and looked at Xu Shijiu at a loss.

There is no cover on the river surface, and there is no place to hide!

"Come back, swim back quickly!" Xu Shijiu growled in a low voice.

However, it was too late, and it was almost Gao Shenxing. Yang Qing and the others turned around and a motorboat rushed out of the fog. The little Riben on the boat soon discovered a large bathtub floating on the river, as well as Yu Jiaxi and Hong Xing sitting on the bathtub. The little Riben began to scream, and then the machine gun shot over.

Yu Jiaxi first screamed and fell headlong into the river from the bathtub.

While pushing Yao Nianci to swim to the shore, Xu Shijiu turned his head and looked back. Seeing Yu Jiaxi being shot and fell into the river, Xu Shijiu suddenly broke his eyes and howled shrillly to the sky: "Jiaxi, Jiaxi..."

Gao Shenxing plunged into the river, and a moment later he floated up from the river again, but his hands were empty.

Seeing that Yu Jiaxi had not appeared, Xu Shijiu started crying in a flash. Yao Nianci, who was sitting in the bathtub, was stunned. She had never thought that a man as strong as steel could cry like this. She couldn't help but wonder, if she was dead, would Gao Shenxing cry so sadly?

Yang Qing and Hongxing were shot immediately and the bathtub was turned upside down. The figures of the two soon disappeared into the river.

Xiaojiu's patrol boat turned a big bend and forced towards Xu Shijiu and Yao Nianci who were landing at the end. However, it was not far from the riverside at this time. Xu Shijiu pushed the bathtub into the reed marsh before Xiaojiu's patrol boat caught up. Xiaojiu's patrol boat was afraid of being stranded and did not continue to chase him. He just shot at the reed marsh for a while and turned around and left.

Xu Shijiu got on the shore in a daze, climbed up to a high ground, then knelt down and cried loudly: "Jiaxi, Jiaxi, where are you, where are you? You said, you promised to give birth to ten or eight dolls for me. The baby hasn't given birth yet, why did you leave? You come back, you can't leave, you come back..."

Yao Nianci came ashore and looked at the river in disgust. She was worried about Jiaxi and even more worried about Gao Shenxing.

A wave suddenly rose from the calm river surface. Gao Shenxing's head suddenly poked out, and he took a deep breath of cold air almost greedily. Seeing that Gao Shenxing was fine, Yao Nianci burst into joy. However, Xu Shijiu rushed down from the high ground like crazy, threw Gao Shenxing to the ground, and then grabbed Gao Shenxing's clothes and roared: "Give me back Jiaxi, return my Jiaxi to me, return me, return her to me..."

Gao Shenxing didn't say a word, allowing Xu Shijiu to push, shov and scold.

Yao Nianci felt distressed and shouted to Xu Shijiu: "Captain Xu, Jiaxi is dead, Jiaxi is dead! We are all sad when she dies, but how can we blame Achu? What hurts her is Xiaoji Wuben."
Chapter completed!