The Bravest

Half an hour later, Liu Sheng took Lin Jie to the intersection where Zhang Guozhen was going to attack. Lin Jie got out of the car to pay and whispered, "Drive the rickshaw around to see where you can take the rickshaw alley. Be careful not to drive straight, change your route and don't repeat yourself. Also, remember to change your uniform and the license plate of the rickshaw, don't attract attention, Zhang Guozhen's people may be there too. Be careful."

"Got it." Liu Sheng drove away. Lin Jie stood at the intersection, looked around, and chose an alley to go in. After turning around and around to another street, he silently memorized it in his mind and walked back from another alley, constantly looking for a suitable evacuation route. Of course, Lin Jie also found a place to simply change his makeup, such as removing his beard or wearing sunglasses.

Lin Jie and Liu Sheng spent a whole day changing routes back and forth to memorize the entire area. When it was almost dark in the afternoon, the two returned to No. 76 to reunite.

Lin Jie and Liu Sheng hid in a small office and carefully marked the routes they had memorized on the map before they breathed a sigh of relief, fearing that they would forget them.

"Okay, let's go eat first, and then study it carefully." Lin Jie put away his things. He was tired after a day, so he had to eat first and relax his mind.

"Hey, Wulian, I'm not going home for dinner tonight. You can go out to eat by yourself. I didn't find Teacher Liu. He's working overtime on the 76th. If you don't believe me, ask Liu Sheng." Lin Jie called Ye Wulian to report. Unexpectedly, Ye Wulian thought he was going to take Liu Haitang out on a date again, so she had no choice but to pull Liu Sheng over to testify. "Liu Sheng, tell your sister-in-law."

"Sister-in-law, this is Liu Sheng. Yes, I'm working overtime tonight. Yidao and Lao Ma are all here. Don't drink, don't drink. I know, I know, I'll send you back at nine o'clock. Okay, okay." Brother, sister-in-law hung up the phone. Liu Sheng held the phone and looked at Lin Jie with sympathy. Brother, you are so pitiful. You have to report for working overtime, and there must be witnesses for the report. From now on, I just want one wife.

"Liu Sheng, what do you mean by that look? Let's go, call Yidao and Lao Ma to have dinner, and we'll study it when we come back," Lin Jie walked out in a bad mood.

After coming back from dinner, Lin Jie arranged for Ma Laosan to guard outside, while he, Liu Sheng and Yidao hid in the small office to hold a small meeting.

"Brother, there are four alleys that rickshaws can pass through, and you can enter from here, but only these two are suitable. You see, there are three forks not far from this alley. If you take this one, you will enter a messy area in less than two minutes. Once you enter here, there will be hundreds of people at no time to block the way." Liu Sheng pointed to the route he drew and explained.

"Well, this path is good. The ones I drew here are narrow alleys that only people can pass through. Look carefully. These can all get to the opposite street within a minute. They can be used in an emergency."

The three of them discussed in low voices for more than an hour, and Lin Jie made a plan.

"First of all, from the moment Zhang Guozhen fires his gun, the total time cannot exceed eight minutes. Don't have too many people. I counted seven people in total. I will lead Liu Sheng in the front. Once Zhang Guozhen starts, the front will start to close. If he succeeds, we will retreat and give up the action. If he fails and retreats within four minutes, then we only have four minutes left. We can take action, but it cannot exceed four minutes. In short, the total time is seven minutes. If we can do it, we will do it. If we can't do it, we will retreat. There can be no hesitation at all."

"I see. What you mean is that seven minutes is the limit. We should look for an opportunity within this time. If there is no opportunity, we should evacuate immediately, right?" Liu Sheng is a very smart man. He understood what Lin Jie said as soon as he heard it.

"That's right. We are not going to use force this time, but to see if we can steal the chicken. Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, Zhang Guozhen must bear the blame. He followed Wu Sibao and killed so many Chinese people. Let the Japanese take this opportunity to deal with him."

"Then big brother, how should we arrange it?" Liu Yidao was also eager to try.

"Follow the arrangements below. Remember this. There are three rickshaws. Arrange strong and fast runners to ambush at this location. This place is not conspicuous. I saw the traces on the ground. Usually, there should be rickshaws resting here. When you hear the gunshots, move closer to the entrance of the alley and observe. Once we start, be ready to receive the goods immediately. Yidao and another person will ambush and guard at these two locations respectively. If someone arrives within seven minutes after the gunshots, you will use grenades to blow them up and then withdraw immediately. Don't worry about us. We will withdraw immediately after hearing the explosion. At eight minutes, whether anyone comes or not, you must withdraw. Your two people's mission is not to block, but to use the explosion to warn, do you understand? Don't make any mistakes. Also, these two time points must not be changed."

"Brother, I understand." Liu Yidao said without any nonsense.

"Okay, let's do it this way. We still have one day tomorrow, so we should prepare well, especially the modification of the rickshaw seats. Once we succeed, the gold will be hidden under the seats. As long as we leave this area, we can walk around openly and even solicit passengers." Lin Jie made a joke at the end.

The next night, Liu Sheng and Yidao reported to Lin Jie that everything was ready and it all depended on tomorrow's luck.

After reporting the preparations to Lin Jie, Liu Sheng and Liu Yidao put forward new suggestions, which could also be considered threats.

"Brother, seven people are ready, but you are not included. You don't have to go this time." Liu Yidao said very firmly.

"Everything has been planned, what's wrong with you?" Lin Jie was a little annoyed and asked Liu Yidao in a low voice.

"Brother, we've discussed this. It's too dangerous tomorrow. You shouldn't go. There are more than a hundred children in the welfare home who depend on you for food. Let us do it. Even if something happens, only a few of us will die. At worst, when the grenade explodes, no one will recognize us." After Liu Sheng finished speaking, he took Liu Yidao and ran away without giving Lin Jie any chance to refute.

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Lin Jie was waiting anxiously in Room 76.

At this time, Liu Sheng had already led the other six people to quietly disperse, and they moved silently to the outer area where Zhang Guozhen had set up an ambush.

Ten o'clock in the morning.

The Japanese transport truck had just turned from Sichuan Road to Hankou Road. As the speed was relatively slow, a car suddenly rushed out and blocked the road. The transport truck driver was so scared that he stepped on the brakes and stopped the transport truck. Zhang Guozhen, who had been lying in ambush, led his men to open fire fiercely, shooting down the Japanese military police disguised as policemen who were guarding behind the transport truck. The driver in the transport truck turned off the engine, pulled out the key, opened the door, jumped out of the car and ran towards the Bank of China.

Zhang Guozhen was about to succeed, so he didn't care about the driver who was running away, and jumped into the cockpit, wanting to drive away. He stepped on the accelerator but nothing happened, and then he realized that the car had been turned off. The worst thing was that the driver actually took the keys away.

Zhang Guozhen jumped off the train and was unwilling to see the entire train of gold slip away from his hands. He ran to the back of the train and found that the iron door of the train was locked with a big iron lock. He was so angry that he fired several shots at the big iron lock, but failed to knock it off.

At this time, I don't know which of the men shouted loudly: "Brother, it's too late, run."

The shouting of his men and the fact that this place was very close to the Bank of China made Zhang Guozhen not a hesitant person. He shouted "Retreat, retreat quickly," and then he jumped into the car and ran away first.

The strange thing is that there are two subordinates who are very loyal and shouted, "Brother, you retreat first, I will cover you."

Zhang Guozhen's spies scattered, leaving only two loyal brothers. Strangely, the two had no intention of leaving. They quickly took out a grenade and stuck it on the big iron lock of the rear door of the carriage. After pulling the safety, the two quickly dodged to the sides of the transport vehicle.

After a loud bang, three rickshaws came rushing from the roadside. The people who blew up the rickshaws had already opened the rear door of the rickshaws, which had been locked. One of them shouted, "Two minutes, hurry up and load it."

Two people in the carriage desperately threw 6.5 kg gold bricks onto the rickshaws, chanting numbers, 123... Each rickshaw would leave when it counted to , regardless of how many were loaded. Anyway, when the number of people on it reached , they would shout to hurry up. In less than two minutes, the three rickshaws had evacuated one after another.

The two people in the car put two gold bricks on their bodies, threw two grenades in the car, and jumped out of the car. Amid the huge explosion, the two rushed into the streets and alleys beside and disappeared. The explosion was a signal for the people guarding the intersections at both ends to evacuate.

At 10:10, the scene was in a mess, with Japanese military policemen lying on the ground with unknown casualties, and a transport vehicle with black smoke coming out of the carriage. From the moment Zhang Guozhen took action, in less than six minutes, the armored vehicle transporting gold was robbed by two different groups of people. Less than two minutes after the robbers left, the section of the road where the incident occurred was surrounded by military police.

The last two people who evacuated after throwing the grenade were Liu Sheng and Liu Yidao. The two had been lying in ambush not far behind Zhang Guozhen's men. When Zhang Guozhen fired the grenade, they quickly approached from their hiding place.

Zhang Guozhen was unable to start the transport vehicle. After he fired a shot at the large iron lock on the carriage from the back, it was Liu Sheng who was shouting, which disturbed Zhang Guozhen's mind. Time was already tight and an accident had happened, so Zhang Guozhen and his gang did not notice the two extra people. Anyway, they were all wearing similar plain clothes.

Liu Sheng and Liu Yidao quickly evacuated the route they had chosen in the morning, and soon found themselves on another street. They waved to a rickshaw and left separately, of course changing cars or walking along the way. At 12 noon, all seven people who participated in the operation returned safely to the secret station.

Lin Jie, who worked at Room 76, finally received a call from Liu Sheng.

"Brother, the gift for Teacher Liu has been bought. Do you want to go to the welfare home to give it to Teacher Liu now?" Liu Sheng said this in a code word that had been agreed upon in advance. If it was safe, he would have bought a gift for Teacher Liu, and if he didn't do it, it would mean that he didn't buy the gift. If something went wrong, he would say that he didn't buy the gift for Teacher Sun.

Kenji Doihara was furious when he received the news that the gold transport truck had been robbed. Although only a part of the gold was robbed, for Kenji Doihara, who had already lost the entire Shanghai to the Japanese, this was not a matter of gold, but a direct slap in the face of the Japanese. Kenji Doihara immediately called Kagesa Makoto:

"Kagesa-kun, this is a matter concerning the reputation of the Empire of Japan. We must get to the bottom of it. Do you understand?"

"Commander, I will give you an explanation within a week." Ying Zuo Zhenzhu made a military order. After hanging up the phone, Ying Zuo Zhenzhu did not take action immediately. He sat on the sofa with his eyes closed, leaning against the back of the sofa, thinking quietly.

According to the on-site briefing, the transport vehicle was attacked at the intersection where Sichuan Road turns into Hankou Road. The person who attacked knew the transport route very well, and there were no patrol police nearby at the time. The police headquarters not far away arrived at the scene even later than the gendarmerie. There must be a traitor. Yes, there must be a traitor. Even the Military Control Commission could not calculate the exact route and time of the transport vehicle's appearance so accurately.

Having figured out all the relationships, Ying Zuo Zhenxuan acted accurately. He immediately personally interrogated the driver of the transport truck that escaped from the scene. According to his recollection, the people involved in the robbery had a familiar feeling.

Ying Zuo Zhenxuan immediately called for photos of the main personnel of No. 76. The driver carefully identified them and soon recognized that the leader was Zhang Guozhen, a subordinate of Wu Sibao of the No. 76 Guard Corps. Ying Zuo Zhenxuan immediately had an outline of the case. A small Zhang Guozhen actually dared to attack the Japanese. There must be someone behind this, even if there is no one behind it. But this matter is too big, and it must be discussed with the commander.

Yingzuo Zhenzhu soon appeared in Kenji Doihara's office and briefly introduced the case before getting to the point.

"Commander, the power of the secret service headquarters is a bit too great. Shouldn't we control it?"

Kenji Doihara was silent, thinking that since the bloody incident at the Central Bank, Wang Jingwei had dismissed Wu Sibao from his position as the chief of the security guards in order to appease the anger of the Shanghai banking industry. He did not expect that this group of people would still be so bold! They dared to rob the gold of the Bank of Japan for money. It seemed that some dishonest people had to be eliminated, but Wu Sibao's influence in Shanghai was too great and the relationship was complicated, so he still had to plan carefully.

Doihara Kenji made up his mind and said calmly to Eiza Masaru: "The Great Japanese Empire needs obedient dogs, not mad dogs that bite people randomly. Especially dogs that dare to bite their owners, there is no need to keep them. There are many Chinese who want to be dogs. You can do whatever you want!"

"Sir, I understand." Yingzuo Zhenxuan understood what Kenji Doihara meant and decided to make arrangements.

The Japanese military police immediately set out to arrest Zhang Guozhen, but Zhang Guozhen was a local tyrant after all. After the failure of stealing the gold, he had been very vigilant. As soon as the military police went out, they were discovered by people stationed nearby by Zhang Guozhen.

Zhang Guozhen didn't care whether he was arrested or not, and immediately started to flee and hid in Hangzhou, Jiangsu Province.