After having lunch with Jiangnan and Wang Husheng in the Broadway Building, the three of them went their separate ways. Jiangnan continued to search for the National Army veterans who were lost in the concession. Wang Husheng led a carpet search for people with similar looks to Liang Wuyi, while Xu Rui led
Carrying sweet potatoes, I drove straight to the West District of the Public Settlement.
The modern history of China is a history of humiliation, and the concession in Shanghai is a footnote to this history of humiliation.
Although the public concession is a whole in name, in fact it still has very obvious barriers.
For example, the two districts of Yangpu and Hongkou, which were originally part of the public concession, were the Japanese district. After the Songhu Battle, these two districts were separated from the public concession and included in the Shanghai Chinese boundary. They were nominally under the jurisdiction of the Shanghai Special Municipal Government of the reform government.
But in fact, the entire city of Shanghai has to be decided by the Japanese.
The western part of the public concession is an Italian concession. Not only is the Italian army stationed, but the senior patrol officers in the patrol house are also held by Italians. Even the leaders of various municipal agencies are controlled by Italians. The Chinese can only serve as grassroots civil servants or low-level patrol officers.
There is no human rights at all.
Not long after entering the Western District, we discovered the Italian garrison barracks.
The barracks of the Italian garrison is an independent reinforced concrete building. The building is surrounded by iron fences and is isolated from the outside world. There is a playground inside the iron fence. About a platoon of Italian troops are training on the playground. Directly north of the playground is the gate, with two sides of the gate.
There was a barricade, and behind the barricade was a Czech light machine gun.
However, there were only two Italian soldiers behind the barricade.
It can be seen that the Italian army's defense can be said to be very lax.
Obviously, the fact that Germany, Italy and Japan are about to form an Axis Alliance has seriously weakened the vigilance of the Italian garrison. The reason is obvious. Italy is about to conclude an alliance with Japan and Germany. How can the Japanese army invade the concession at this time? Even if
Even if the Japanese army really invaded the concession, it was absolutely impossible to attack the Italian zone.
Therefore, the Italian army's laxity is completely understandable.
Digua parked the car on the street diagonally across from the Italian garrison camp. While observing the Italian camp through the car window, he said to Xu Rui who was sitting in the back seat: "Commander, are the Italians' defense very lax?"
"Isn't it good to be relaxed?" Xu Rui said with a smile, "It just makes things easier for us."
Digua chuckled and said: "In this case, without you taking action, Commander, Lao Tian and I can kill all the Italian Japanese in this platoon."
"A platoon?" Xu Rui shook his head and said, "You are wrong, sweet potato. The Italian garrison has more than one platoon, there is a company!"
"A company?" Digua said in surprise, "That's not possible. There are only about forty people lining up on the playground. This is obviously a platoon. How can there be people from a company?"
Xu Rui said: "You only see those practicing outside, and there are also those hiding inside the building who have not come out."
"Really?" Digua looked up at the six-story building in front of him and asked in confusion, "Commander, how can you be sure that there is a company of Italian troops stationed in this barracks?"
"Observation, pay more attention to some details." Xu Rui said, "Take another look."
After hearing this, Digua really began to observe carefully, and after a moment he shouted excitedly: "I know, Commander, I know, the Chinese cook just used a cart to push the cart of vegetables into the military camp, which is almost enough for a company.
Eat, so the Italian troops stationed in the military camp should be a company, right?"
"Okay." Xu Rui patted the sweet potato on the head and said with a smile, "There is progress."
Di Gua made a sound and said flatteringly: "It's not because the commander taught me well."
Xu Rui smiled and said: "I never taught you your ability to flatter people. Where did you learn it?"
"I'm not flattering you." Digua snorted and said sternly, "What I said is all the truth."
"Okay, what you said is true." Xu Rui smiled and continued, "Drive around and study the route of action."
Sweet potato said "oh" and immediately started the car.
Di Gua drove the Mercedes-Benz around the Italian garrison camp twice before turning into an alley. He drove not far along this alley and arrived at the prison where the Solitary Army Camp was detained.
The prison was actually a military camp, and it was also the camp where the Italian garrison was stationed before. However, after the building was built, the Italian garrison moved into a six-story apartment building with better conditions, and the previous military camp was abandoned.
After the Gujun camp retreated into the concession, it was forcibly disarmed by the American and British garrison, and then was escorted to this abandoned military camp in the west area of the concession for custody.
The car drove past the wall of the abandoned military camp, and you could faintly hear the sound of chants coming from inside. Apparently, the soldiers of the lone military camp were practicing inside.
Xu Rui asked Digua to park the car on the side of the street, and then found a nearby commanding height. This commanding height was a tap water tower. Xu Rui asked Digua to guard the entrance of the water tower, and then quickly climbed up the water tower like a civet cat.
After going up to the water tower, Xu Rui found that the view from above was very good and he could see the entire military camp at a glance.
Looking down from the water tower, you can clearly see that more than 400 soldiers from the Gujun Camp are on the playground, meticulously practicing their formation. The entire square is divided into nine front and rear rows, with more than 40 people in each row.
It's easy to count. From the formation and mental outlook of the soldiers in the lone army camp, it can be seen that they have been maintained quite well.
It seems that as recorded in history, the military training of the Lone Army Camp has not fallen behind.
Xu Rui nodded secretly, as long as the military training of the soldiers in the isolated camp did not fall behind.
The official designation of the Gujun Battalion is the first battalion of the 524th Regiment of the 88th Division of the Revolutionary Army of the National Army. It can be said to be the elite of the elite. In the past two years, as long as military training has not fallen behind, then this is still a battalion.
As long as a usable army is provided with a full set of weapons and equipment, they can fight a tough battle when brought to the battlefield.
Xu Rui carefully observed the defense situation of the abandoned military camp and found that there were only half a platoon of guards guarding the abandoned military camp. From the style of the military uniforms, they should be British troops rather than Italian troops. In addition, there were about a dozen Belarusian mercenaries.
These dozen Belarusian mercenaries should be thugs hired by the British army.
Then, Xu Rui carefully observed the surroundings of the military camp and drew a sketch.
It was nearly evening, Xu Rui had obtained all the information he wanted, and immediately turned around and descended from the water tower.
After returning to Broadway Building for dinner, Xu Rui summoned Wang Husheng, Jiang Nan, Liu Mei and Wu Han together and began to deploy an action plan.
In order to better hide her identity, Liu Mei did not leave Paramount, but still worked as a dancer at Paramount. However, no one dares to harass Liu Mei anymore, because now the entire Shanghai Beach knows that Liu Mei is Liang Ershao
The master surnamed Wang next to me is not scary, but no one dares to provoke Mr. Liang.
Xu Rui first asked: "Old Wang, have you found the substitute I asked you to find?"
"I found two." Wang Husheng said, "You decide which one is suitable."
"Okay, let me look back." Xu Rui nodded, took out the sketch he drew on the water tower during the day, then pointed at the sketch and said, "Digua and I have already mapped out the streets and alleys around Gujun Camp and the Italian Military Camp.
I went through everything and combined with our situation, I drew up such an action plan."
The expressions of Jiang Nan, Liu Mei, Wu Han and Wang Husheng immediately became serious.
Xu Rui added: "After reconnaissance, we found that the Italian army's defense was more lax than imagined. Therefore, we can concentrate all our efforts on rescuing the solitary army camp first. After the solitary army camp is rescued, we can then use the power of the solitary army camp to occupy it in one fell swoop.
Italian military camp, seize the weapons and equipment of the Italian army."
Wang Husheng asked: "Is it possible to do this in time?"
"There's enough time." Xu Rui replied, "Under normal circumstances, we can kill the guards of the lone army camp in five minutes at most, and then in another ten minutes, we can take the lone army camp to take a shortcut to the Italian army's station, and in such a short time
Within a certain period of time, it is absolutely impossible for the little devils on the periphery to get the news and react, so we will still have enough time to evacuate the city."
After a pause, Xu Rui added: "But to be on the safe side, we can first destroy the power supply system in the Western Concession before starting the operation, so that the lighting and communications in the Western Concession will be paralyzed."
"Okay." Wang Husheng nodded and said, "Then there will be no problem."
Xu Rui added: "This operation does not require too many people. Just me, Digua, and Wu Han will participate in the operation. Lao Wang, Secretary Ye, and Jiang Nan will not participate. Secretary Ye had better go to Paramount. Lao Wang, you still have to go to Paramount."
I have to go to No. 76 again and bring the two social beauties from No. 76 to the Broadway Building for Young Master Liang’s pleasure."
When Jiang Nan and Liu Mei heard this, they couldn't help but frown.
Liu Mei and Jiang Nan both had opinions on Xu Rui's substitute plan.
Wang Husheng felt a little embarrassed when he heard this: "Old Xu, is this really necessary?"
"It's necessary!" Xu Rui said seriously, "Old Wang, you must not underestimate Yingzuo Zhenzhao. This old devil is a professional agent and is not that easy to fool. Even if there is a shadow to cover him,
We must not take it lightly. As the old saying goes, don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the unexpected. It is always right to be cautious."
"Okay." Wang Husheng could only nod, "I'll go to No. 76 in a minute."
"Okay, let's break up the meeting." After Xu Rui finished speaking, he asked Digua to take the two stand-ins to his office.
After a while, the two stand-ins were brought to Xu Rui's office. Not to mention, these two stand-ins were 70% similar to Liang Wuyi after Xu Rui's disguise in terms of height, body shape and appearance. For those who are not familiar with it, they really look like
You may not be able to tell the difference, but this is just about the image, and the momentum is very different from Xu Rui.
