At this time, on the north bank of Yanglinkou, a long fleet of boats was slowly heading upstream, dragged by the small steamer and the patrol boat.
It's just that the speed of the boat is not very fast. After all, there are 23 fishing boats, and even a small steamer is quite laborious to tow them.
But after leaving this part of the river, the speed of the boat was relatively stable. This was also the time when the sea water was rising, so the water swimming on the river was slower than during the day.
The fleet of nearly two thousand masters is now slowly sailing towards Nanjing.
Just as they were driving past a river bank, they saw long torches on the south bank of the Yangtze River heading downstream.
Even looking at it from a distance, it was still three or four miles away, and the number of people seemed to be quite large.
Liu Yue, who was holding a telescope, took a deep breath after reading it.
"Get the hell out of here. There are so many enemies. There will be no less than one division of troops here. If we move slower, we may really be made dumplings by the Japanese. I don't know how the young master and the others are doing now."
"Don't worry, Master, they are very powerful, and they are dressed in Japanese clothes, so there shouldn't be any problem. With Master's ability, anyone who wants to cause trouble to Master is probably not even born yet."
"That's what I said, but the young master doesn't know if he will hit the Japanese. If he does, he may be in trouble."
"Yes, but I believe the young master will be fine. Keep sailing!"
As the troops slowly moved upstream, they almost perfectly intersected with the Japanese troops on the shore. The Japanese troops had no idea that they had missed them right in front of their eyes.
Of course, those workers who gave up joining Zhang Tianhao's team may have really become their scapegoats. After all, they chose their own path, and Zhang Tianhao had told them the consequences, but they still didn't choose, so they can't be blamed.
Indeed, when the Japanese and puppet troops rushed over from the direction of Jiangyin, they encountered more than 300 laborers on the way. As a result, they were directly surrounded and suppressed, and they died until they could no longer die.
Only a small number of people were clever and did not follow the large group, but walked alone from another direction. As for whether they can survive, it depends on their luck in the future.
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On the other side, Zhang Tianhao was sitting in the car, driving the truck towards Shanghai.
At this time, he was already more than twenty kilometers away from Yanglinkou, and it seemed that he was completely free from the Japanese siege.
"wrong!"
At this moment, Zhang Tianhao's eyes narrowed, looking at the faint light in the distance, his spirit instantly became tense.
"Everyone is here, we are going to drive the car into the woods on the roadside and hide it!"
At this time, Zhang Tianhao, for safety reasons, drove the car himself this time, and with his eyesight on the road, he did not need to drive lights at all. Although there were some bumps on the road, it did not have much impact.
But now he saw the truck approaching from a distance, and his heart lifted.
He did not expect that the Japanese's response was too fast, and support from Shanghai was about to arrive. This made him sigh that the Japanese's response was really fast.
"Master, we understand!"
As Zhang Tianhao looked at the trees on both sides, he turned the steering wheel, turned a corner, and drove directly into the trees.
And the speed was quite fast. As he drove in, Zhang Tianhao turned off the engine and stopped after driving about 100 meters.
"Everyone get out of the car and stay away from the truck!"
After all, he didn't know if he would be discovered by the Japanese who were rushing over. If he was discovered, the next step would be an escape journey.
He really doesn't want to flee, but wants to return to Shanghai safely.
After the group of people jumped out of the car, they began to carefully retreat toward the wheat field on the side of the woods, not very quickly.
But when they withdrew another hundred meters away, they saw the car lights in the distance getting closer and brighter.
This made him feel excited.
As the leading truck passed in front of them, they saw rows of Japanese behind them, running quickly behind the truck with their backs facing towards them.
"Two squadrons, plus a regiment of puppet troops!"
Looking at the enemy not far away, Zhang Tianhao tightened his heart, then carefully lay down in the weeds and began to stare at the Japanese troops passing by on the road 200 meters away.
It's just that it might be winter and the road was dry, so the Japanese troops didn't notice anything unusual on the roadside. On the contrary, they might have been in a hurry and simply ignored the traces left by the trucks on the roadside.
When the last group of Japanese troops passed in front of them, Zhang Tianhao and others breathed a sigh of relief.
"Master, fortunately we walked fast, otherwise the Japanese would have made dumplings. Their reaction seemed to be too fast!"
Ah Feng beside him also whispered something.
"Well, it's too fast. Brothers, push the car onto the road. Let's keep going. We need to be fast. When the Japanese react, they will definitely turn around and deal with us."
"yes!"
All eleven people followed Zhang Tianhao and slowly drove the truck back onto the highway. Then Zhang Tianhao continued to drive towards Shanghai.
As he got closer and closer to Shanghai, Zhang Tianhao was not relieved, but his eyes narrowed slightly.
"Less than a kilometer ahead is the Japanese inspection post. We can no longer drive and have to go around it, otherwise the Japanese will discover our general whereabouts."
When Zhang Tianhao was still some distance away from the inspection post, he stopped the car and said to Ah Feng.
"yes!"
As Zhang Tianhao stopped the car, everyone jumped out of the truck again.
Looking at the lights of Shanghai in the distance, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the task for tonight was almost completed, and the next question was how to get home safely.
"You go first, go this way. I'll take care of the truck first and catch up with you later!"
Looking at the eleven people standing here, he whispered to Ah Feng and Ah Bing.
"Master, let's handle it, after all..."
"No need, I'll handle it myself. You guys hurry over now. I'm very fast."
He waved his hand again, and then let Ah Feng lead the people to carefully leave from the reeds on one side.
Watching the group of people leave, Zhang Tianhao looked around and saw that there was no one around. With a wave of his hand, the truck disappeared on the spot.
Then he slowly followed the footsteps of A Feng and others and moved forward slowly.
For the next five kilometers, the group ran directly back. However, what made Zhang Tianhao and his group a little depressed was that there seemed to be too many Japanese checkpoints on the road tonight. In the five kilometers, there were actually three checkpoints. It seemed that
It’s like he’s afraid that others won’t know.
The distance in between is only two or three kilometers. Although the last one is a regular checkpoint, it is also too much.
Especially when Ah Feng was leading the way, he was almost discovered by the Japanese. After all, there was still a lot of noise in the reeds on the side of the road.
It almost frightened Ah Feng so much that he rushed out, preparing to fight the Japanese troops at these checkpoints.
If Zhang Tianhao hadn't been smart enough to call some wild ducks, he might have directly attracted the attention of the Japanese soldiers, and the secret might have been exposed.
When the group of people returned to SH city, Zhang Tianhao finally breathed a sigh of relief and headed home with A Bing.
This chapter has been completed!