"I'm used to this, I can't change it for a while," Mason tried hard to smooth things over. "Next time I'll let them shout 'fight for the Republic'."

"What's there to change?" Geisa smiled and said, "If you can take down Magit Island, you can shout whatever you want in the future."

...

Maggit Island says it is not close, and it is not far away.

To the people on the shore, the boats in Tiefeng County were anxiously slow.

But in the eyes of the Tiefeng County soldiers who had been in a state of great strength for several days, they approached the other side of the river very quickly.

The "horse blocking pile" defense line inserted in the shallows by the Union Provincial People has been blown up with a gap of four or five meters wide.

Although the horse stakes around the gap were not uprooted, they were blown up like dog teeth and fell from place to place.

The short figure took the lead with a "ship", rushed straight into the gap, rushed to the beach, and then jumped into the trench and disappeared.

Other soldiers who were riding in small boats and sampans, inspired by the "centurion", also roared and rushed to the river bank.

On the river surface, the only large boats always maintain a considerable distance from the gaps exploded by the blasting ship.

And all the large boats are concentrated on the right wing of the front line, that is, on the south side.

First of all, the hull of the large boat is wide and the draft is deep. If there are broken wooden stakes under the water surface of the gap, if the large boat wants to pass through, it will actually jamm the gap.

Secondly, Mason Baomin arranged more important tasks for the only large boats.

Behind each large boat, a cable was dragged.

In order to avoid the small boat being swept over by cables, the position of the large boat is arranged at both ends of the front line.

On the large boat, the sergeant in charge of the helm must be careful not to scratch other small boats, and on the other hand, beware of being scratched by the cables dragged by other large boats. The task is arduous, so each one has been carefully selected.

Even the staff in Tiefeng County were not enough, and Mason had to second some ship-carrying personnel from other infantry regiments.

Therefore, it is obvious that the large boats should be faster, but crossing the river is slower than that of small boats.

The short figure in the lead had already entered the trench of the Unionists, and the slow boat arrived on the other side of the river.

But when the big boats put on the horse-blocking piles, they immediately became active and began to destroy the horse-blocking piles south of the blasting point.

The soldiers standing at the bow of the boat finally got the chance to show their skills. They stood on the swinging boat and threw out the lasso accurately towards the wooden stakes.

When they were thrown away, they held two ropes in their hands.

When the lasso was lost, they quickly knotted the lassoes from two adjacent horse stakes to each other, and then tied one end of the lasso to the cable towed by the big boat and the other end to the big boat.

After all this, the sergeant on the boat pulled off the lampshade of the stern lantern.

On the west bank river embankment, Tamas finally waited for the agreed signal.

"Turn!" Tamas yelled and ordered, "Young guys! Turn!"

Behind the river bank, outside the sight of the defenders on the island, Woods Frank spent several days building its winch to begin to exert its power.

The soldiers of Tiefeng County and Baishan County raised their whips high, made up their minds, and slashed heavily at the bull on the winch.

The cows took heavy steps, and the huge winch slowly turned.

The thick cable first slid on the ground like a python, and kept making a slight breaking sound.

At a certain moment, the cable suddenly tightened, and a slightly deflected "stick" jumped out of the water.

One end of the stick was tied to the pulley on the river bank, and the other end of the stick was tied with pointed wooden stakes inserted by the Unionists on the riverbed.

In the face of the power amplified by gears and levers, the wooden stakes and chains that the Unionists are proud of are not enough to see.

More than a dozen wooden stakes were pulled out of the shallows by the winch on the other side of the river, just like pulling radishes.

Seeing that the plan came into effect, the soldiers on the boat shouted warmly.

"Next! Next!" Tamas on the river bank shouted anxiously, "Cut the chains! Cut the chains!"

The soldiers across the river seemed to have heard the shouts of the acting commander, and perhaps remembered their responsibilities.

After a brief celebration, the second large boat was on the top of the roof and the previous round of operations began to be repeated.

At the same time, engineers on each large boat jumped into the water with axes on their backs, slashing the iron chains that had not been blown up.

On the other hand, the soldiers of the Second Battalion also transported floating boxes, sheepskin rafts, sealed wooden barrels and other building materials to the river embankment.

They tied the cables to stones and threw them into the river water to serve as anchors to fix floating objects such as floating boxes and sheepskin rafts.

Then use wooden boards and iron nails to connect each floating object.

A simple floating bridge began to extend to the other side of the river at a speed visible to the naked eye.

...

On the other hand, Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Montekukoli, who arrived at the scene at the first time, was horrified to find that the situation on Magite Island had just begun.
Chapter completed!