There are only four updates tonight due to things happening, and five updates tomorrow!
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After waiting at the port for more than two hours, the fleet arrived at the port at one o'clock in the evening.
But it would be a big mistake to think that you can board the ship and leave at this time. The dock workers must transport the goods from the ship, and the troops can only board the ship after the dock is empty.
"Damn!" Shulka heard Major Gavrilov curse: "They're late!"
"Yes, they are late!" Political Commissar Fuming replied: "They said the fleet should be here around 12 o'clock!"
"What's the problem?" Major Gavrilov asked.
"I don't know!" Political Commissar Fuming said, "Maybe there was something wrong on the road..."
"Shulka!" Major Gavrilov shouted in the direction of Shulka: "Go and ask what's going on?"
"Yes, Comrade Major!" Shulka responded and led the actor towards the dock.
"Why you?" the actor asked: "Comrade leader has a plan to have more guards. He can let others go!"
"Because time is tight, Okunev!" Shulka said while jogging: "They don't know what to ask!"
"Aren't you asking why the fleet arrived so late?" The actor followed closely behind and said, "That's what anyone would ask, isn't it?"
"No, Comrade Okunev!" Shulka said: "You have to know one thing. The fleet sailed here from Crimea. After unloading the cargo, it had to return before dawn. If you are late, you know what it means.
What are you wearing?"
"I understand!" replied the actor: "We will miss breakfast in Crimea!"
Shulka wanted to kick the actor into the sea.
"So I said this question may not be something others can ask!" Shulka said.
"What's the difference?" The actor still didn't understand what was going on.
"Plane, Okunev!" Shulka said: "There will be German bombers at dawn, and this is related to the lives of all of us, unless you can swim to the Crimea!"
The actor couldn't help but be stunned, and then immediately speeded up: "Then we have to hurry up, I can't swim!"
The two ran to the dock and saw more than ten transport ships parked at the dock and being nervously unloading. Shulka ran forward and asked the middle-aged man who looked like a foreman below, "The fleet is late.
Yeah?"
"Don't you know how to see with your eyes, young man?" the middle-aged man responded impatiently while directing the workers to move.
"We have the 333rd Regiment, when can we get on the ship?" Shulka asked.
The foreman turned his head and looked at Shulka, and then said: "I advise you to reschedule and don't think about getting on the ship!"
"Why?"
"Unless the goods are unloaded within half an hour, they won't be able to return before dawn!"
"How long will it take you to finish unloading?" Shulka asked again.
"An hour and a half!" replied the foreman.
"If I can add more than two thousand people to you, can it speed things up?"
"No, comrade!" said the foreman: "Maybe the speed will be faster, but the ferry is so big and can't accommodate so many people!"
Shurka looked in the direction indicated by the foreman, and then understood what the foreman meant... The transport ship could not enter the shallow sea and directly dock to the shore, so a pontoon bridge more than two hundred meters long was built to reach the transport ship directly.
So as the foreman said, it may be faster if there are more people, but not by much.
"Let's go report to the comrade leader!" The actor said, "Maybe it would be more appropriate to reschedule!"
"No, Okunev!" Shulka said: "Go and inform the comrade commander of the regiment and ask him to bring the troops over. We need to transport everyone together!"
"I said it!" the foreman said impatiently: "More people can't solve the problem, it may even cause blockage!"
"No, comrade!" Shulka said: "More people can solve the problem. Tell your workers that they only need to be responsible for lifting the goods off the ship and handing them to us!"
"Hey, do you understand what I'm saying?" said the foreman: "You're only going to make things worse!"
"Do as he says!" At this time, Major Gavrilov caught up and said to the foreman in a commanding tone: "No matter what he says!"
"Okay!" The foreman spread his hands.
"Comrades!" Shulka shouted to the soldiers coming from behind: "We must unload the cargo and board the ship within half an hour, otherwise the ship we are on will not be able to escape from the danger area before dawn.
Do you know what this means? The German bombers will use our ships as targets. Do you want that?"
"No, Lieutenant!"
"what should we do?"
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If it is related to their own life and death, everyone is willing to unite together. The soldiers who came off the battlefield know this best, so Shulka easily mobilized their enthusiasm.
The method is actually very simple. It is true that too many people cannot be squeezed into the 200-meter pontoon of the ferry, but this does not mean that the goods need to be carried down box by box like workers, especially the goods are mostly not heavy.
This is common sense in transporting battlefield materials: all materials such as ammunition, food, medicine, etc. must be transported to the battlefield, and battlefields are often in highlands or wild areas without roads. If there are any materials to be packaged, it will take two or three people.
It even requires a car to move it, which is undoubtedly asking for trouble.
Therefore, either it is really impossible to decompose, such as tanks and cannons, or there are mostly cars where it is needed, such as gasoline barrels.
Otherwise, most of them are of a weight and size that are convenient for individual soldiers to transport.
Shulka told Major Gavrilov the plan, and then gave an order. The soldiers were divided into several groups based on the number of ferries, and each group lined up from the transport ship along the pontoon to the shore.
It's like building a conveyor belt on a pontoon, except that the conveyor belt is made up of people.
Then...box after box of goods were unloaded from the ship, and box after box was transferred on the "conveyor belt" almost non-stop.
This undoubtedly improves efficiency to a great extent, because it not only saves the time of workers walking back and forth, but also avoids all the inconveniences caused by the night... All it needs to do is to mechanically take over the eyes again and again.
Then pass the box to the back. After doing it a few times, you can complete it with your eyes closed.
This scene only left the foreman dumbfounded. He sighed to Shulka: "You are right, comrade! You did it... I think you can indeed finish it in half an hour!"
"You owe me a wage!" Shulka said.
The foreman burst out laughing, walked a few steps and tinkered in a broken box for a while, then handed Shurka something and asked: "Is this enough for wages?"
Shulka touched it, laughed, and replied: "That's enough!"