"Thanks, no need. I just want to see what tricks you are up to today." Yan Xiaohui turned the car keys in his hand and said with a smile.
"Am I that complicated? I was a little frightened yesterday. Today I just have a dance party to calm down the fright. Let's all get together to have fun and welcome the New Year! Haha."
After a while, Mingzhu arrived, and her appearance was even more terrifying. She and Ning Xiner drove two cars respectively, and then followed three large military trucks, with forty gunmen sitting neatly on them.
Each of these forty gunmen was equipped with a powerful pistol, and twenty of them were actually armed with Thompson submachine guns, commonly known as Chicago typewriter weapons.
One shot of this kind of gun can turn a person into a sieve full of holes.
This kind of formation means that the police have to retreat when they see it. They are no match for them. Unless the Shanghai Garrison Command garrison is dispatched, they can hold down the position.
The Cao Gang actually only has this little wealth, so they are all out tonight.
"Suspend action, pause." Seeing this posture, Ozawa panicked and hurriedly gave a pause order to all his subordinates.
"Damn it, Lu Ming is a lunatic. What on earth does he want to do? This is simply a hooliganism!" The beautiful woman felt like she couldn't breathe, but she still wanted to curse a few words.
Ozawa had already stopped cursing and wanted to rush out and kill people, but he didn't dare. One hundred of his men couldn't defeat the forty gunmen of the Cao Gang.
He had heard of the reputation of the Cao Gang before, but he felt that the Cao Gang was still slightly inferior to the Qinghong Gang. Only after seeing today's battle did he realize the depth of the Cao Gang.
Later, horse-drawn carriages, rickshaws, and taxis came from all directions. Cai Lian invited more than a dozen girls from Chang San Shu Apartment, and Lu Ming knew almost all of them. This circle was not big, and everyone who appeared frequently knew each other.
Lu Ming greeted them one by one at the gate of Wanguo Apartment, saying some polite words to welcome the New Year such as "Congratulations on getting rich" and "Good luck", and then Ziyang led them directly into the ballroom, where they were treated to drinks and tea.
Naturally, all the bachelors in the apartment that Lu Ming invited arrived early. There were free drinks to drink and beautiful beauties to see. Could such a beautiful thing exist in the world?
An Gonggen and the other two had already changed into the clothes brought by Yuan Mingzhu. They were all dressed in black and wore sunglasses. The sunglasses were wide and covered half of their faces, and the peaked caps on their heads were pulled down low.
With this outfit, even people who knew them usually would be completely unable to recognize them in the dark.
They pretended to be gunmen and blended in with the invited Cao Gang crowd, making them inconspicuous like a few drops of water falling into a pool.
After about an hour of commotion, all the guests who were supposed to come arrived. The lights in the ballroom were bright, the band had already started playing famous songs, and there were already couples dancing on the dance floor. This was just the prelude.
Lu Ming entered the ballroom with a smile on his face, knocked on the microphone, coughed twice, gave a "Happy New Year" welcome speech, and then announced that the dance officially started.
The band began to play a waltz, and everyone below entered the dance floor and began to dance ballroom.
"Didn't you say you wanted to dance tango with me?" Ning Xiner was forcibly pulled here by Yuan Mingzhu, with an unhappy face. When she saw her favorite dancer among the people dancing on the dance floor, she immediately became happy.
Can't wait to dance the tango.
"You come with me for the first dance." Yan Xiaohui came over, not caring that Yuan Mingzhu was right next to Lu Ming, and directly pulled Lu Ming onto the dance floor.
"Sister, can you bear this?" Ning Xiner asked in surprise.
"Whatever, since he is holding a dance party today and welcoming the New Year, let him be free."
This was not the time to be jealous. Among all the people who came to the New Year's ball, except for Zhang Ziyang, Mingzhu guessed what Lu Ming meant, so she persuaded her elder brother to mobilize all the elite members of the Cao Gang.
It is not accurate to say that the Caobang has only this amount of wealth. Strictly speaking, there are only so many gunmen. Guns are expensive on the one hand, and on the other hand, the government will not sit idly by if the Caobang equips its subordinates with too many weapons.
, it becomes an army.
In comparison, there are even fewer gunmen in the Qinghong Gang. The main reason is that there is no need for it. Whether it is bullying the market or fighting for docks, it is enough to have enough heads, knives, axes, and sticks. After all, they will not go with the army.
Fight for superiority.
After a waltz was danced, the tango followed. Lu Ming did not break his promise and came over to invite Ning Xiner to dance the tango. The handsome guy and the beautiful girl were really good-looking, but in fact, Lu Ming's heart was very tight.
Most people can dance ballroom, but very few people can dance tango. The main reason is that the body movements of tango are a bit difficult, and it is even more difficult to dance well, like that.
People who knew how to dance tango invited their pre-arranged dance partners, walked into the dance floor in pairs, and danced gracefully, and the atmosphere in the place suddenly became lively.
The dancer who danced with Ning Xiner full-time looked a little disappointed because Ning Xiner didn't ask him to be her dance partner, so he had no choice but to come over and invite Yuan Mingzhu to dance.
Yuan Mingzhu originally didn't know how to dance and didn't like dancing, but in the past two years, Ning Xiner took her to the dance hall frequently, and she could still walk a few steps no matter what kind of dance she danced.
Yan Xiaohui went over and pulled Sheng Di to dance.
People outside the dance floor were chatting with glasses of wine, watching the dance, applauding and whistling from time to time.
The dozen or so bachelors living in the apartment used broken Chinese to chat with the girls from Changsan Book Apartment, hoping to take them away.
They don't understand that these girls are not the young working girls outside, they are professional socialites and are not so easily deceived.
With professional smiles, politeness and propriety, they charmed more than a dozen bachelors to the point where they couldn't find any reason to take them away.
Zhang Ziyang did not dance. He led four police officers to patrol around the scene nervously, while An Gonggen and the other four hid in the shadow of the lights, waiting for the best time to leave.
In the building opposite, Ozawa Seishiro heard bursts of melodious dance music coming from the apartment building. He became furious and his face turned purple.
Mantetsu's agents in Shanghai were already very powerful. In order to ensure nothing went wrong, Ozawa mobilized all Mantetsu's elite forces in Shanghai. Judging from the situation in front of him, he was still defeated.
The main reason is that he does not dare to provoke a gunfight, and he cannot afford the serious consequences if the situation gets out of control if the fire is fired.
The main task of Manchuria agents is not to arrest criminals, but to collect intelligence under the guise of doing business. Intelligence is their core job.
This time, due to the explosion at the Yamato Hotel, several Japanese were killed and more than 20 people were injured, varying in severity.
The target of this bombing operation is actually Commander Shigeru Honjo, which is even more intolerable.
After the bombing, Shigeru Honjo sent a telegram to the military headquarters, asking the military to plan retaliatory actions.
After receiving the telegram, the General Staff Headquarters was very angry and determined to find the murderer at all costs. However, since it was unable to use the power of the military in Shanghai, it could only rely on Manchurian Railway agents to take special measures.
"Captain, do you want to transfer all the people from the Black Dragon Society?" A gunner under Ozawa asked for instructions.
"No, we must not use those lunatics. They can do anything, even if they are allowed to have a bloodbath on the beach." Ozawa Seishiro immediately rejected this suggestion.
He considers himself a civilized person and looks down on the Black Dragon Society from the bottom of his heart. In his opinion, the Black Dragon Society should be renamed the Second Lunatic Asylum.
The gunmen under him are already crazy enough. They can basically stay rational during battles. The Black Dragon Society is different. They are more like mad dogs than humans.
In Japan, the Black Dragon Society is equally hated by everyone. Whether it is the government or the people, they all look at them with contempt and fear. I don't know what the people in the military think, but they actually take advantage of these scum.