After all, the bank is open to the public. If there are five steps, one post, ten steps and one sentry, all guarded by troops, no one will dare to come in.
Therefore, although the bank is very important, it only has a small team of troops, and most of this team's troops are guarding the backyard of the bank, especially around the vault where the gold is hidden.
However, there are many secret agents and plainclothes teams.
Although many people were transferred to the vicinity of the Military Police Headquarters, there were still nearly a hundred spies, large and small, scattered around the bank.
Ordinary people dressed up, with box cannons hanging on their waists, bulging, were moving around the bank, staring at every Chinese who entered and exited the bank.
As night falls slowly, the bustling city of Nanjing gradually becomes quiet.
Except for the Japanese and puppet army patrols, there was not a single ordinary person in sight on the wide streets.
The plainclothes and spies operating around the bank also dispersed.
Only a dozen people were left on duty at the bank.
The Japanese infantry squad stationed at the bank did not relax their vigilance just because it was dark.
At least twenty Japanese soldiers stood at their posts, holding rifles and staring around with wide eyes.
Nanjing is as hot as ever in August and September, even though it is already late at night.
There were beads of sweat on the sentry's forehead, and it was flowing down his face like rain.
The heat and exhaustion were destroying their willpower little by little, and their tense nerves and ultra-high vigilance slowly relaxed as the night got darker and darker.
At one o'clock in the morning, commandos dressed in black appeared around the bank.
The cover of night allowed them to blend in with the surrounding environment. Crouching in the corner, if you didn't get closer and observe, you would definitely not be able to see them.
Dozens of people, covering each other and avoiding patrols, approached the bank like ghosts.
"You guys stay outside and keep an eye on the little Japanese sentries at the entrance of the bank. If there is any movement, kill them immediately." Li Hao ordered in a low voice.
After saying that, he led people directly around the bank gate and walked towards the backyard.
"This is it!"
Li Hao found the mark left on the wall by the intelligence personnel and ordered.
"Alert, Xiao Yuan, go up first and confirm that this is indeed a blind spot for the enemy to alert!" Li Hao ordered seriously.
The two team members immediately stood in the corner hand in hand.
Xiao Yuan put the box cannon in his mouth and trotted towards the two team members.
The moment his left foot was placed on the hands of the two team members, the two team members pushed up hard. Xiao Yuan grabbed the top of the wall with both hands, and then used both hands to push his head out of the courtyard wall little by little.
After observing carefully for half a minute, he suddenly used his hands hard and climbed to the top of the courtyard wall.
The last leap landed inside the courtyard wall.
"Gu Gu Gu Gu..."
The most common sound of crickets now came from inside the courtyard wall.
Li Hao looked happy and ordered decisively: "It's safe inside, climb over the wall and get in."
In three minutes, all twenty team members entered the bank.
Except for a few team members who held rifles and submachine guns in their hands, most of the team members held crossbows with arrows protruding from the arrow slots. Even though it was night, they still could not hide the cold light they gave off.
Xiao Yuan led two commandos to the front, taking turns to cover and rush forward.
Soon, two sentries came into view.
The men in black provided them with the best cover. Without alerting a single sentry, they reached a position more than ten meters away from them.
Pick up the crossbow, aim it at the target, and pull the trigger without hesitation.
The trembling sound of the bowstring was very faint, but it still attracted the attention of a sentry.
Subconsciously, I turned my head to see clearly what the sound was.
But the speed of the crossbow is too fast and the shooting distance is too short.
As soon as he turned his head, the crossbow arrow appeared in front of his eyes and pierced his neck in a flash.
This is a well-deserved sword sealing the throat.
The crossbow arrow penetrated the devil's neck easily, and then stayed on the neck. The arrowhead and arrow tail were exposed, and blood dripped out.
Death was imminent. The little devil's eyes widened and he opened his mouth to speak, but the crossbow arrow had sealed his throat and he could not say a word.
He wanted to pick up the rifle on his back and shoot to give his comrades an early warning, but his rapidly disappearing physical strength left him unable to exert any strength with his hands.
His eyes were full of despair and panic, as if all the bones in his body were instantly shattered and paralyzed on the ground.
Inside the bank, the bowstrings were constantly trembling, and the crossbow arrows were flying, taking away the lives of the Japanese one after another.
An hour later, the near-massacre operation finally came to an end.
There is a distinct smell of blood in the air.
"Captain, the operation is over, there is no one alive in the bank!" Xiao Yuan came over excitedly.
"Clean the battlefield and take away everything you can, especially the gold and foreign currencies in the vault!" Li Hao ordered seriously.
The tense nerves did not relax because of this good news.
Eliminating the bank garrison is only the first step in the task. How to transport the gold seized by the bank out of Nanjing City, and how to safely evacuate the team members participating in the operation from Nanjing City.
Xiao Yuan quickly replied: "We have found the vault. Each team member carries thirty kilograms. They should be able to take away all the gold and foreign currencies in the vault."
Li Hao nodded and continued the order: "I asked Director Zhou to bring in all the explosives prepared by him. Let's arrange them now and create a few more explosion points. The detonators will be placed in the vault and let the little devils who search the vault trigger the mechanism.
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"All the gold will be delivered to the meeting point we agreed on, and we will leave the city as soon as the city gate opens at dawn."
"The city gate opens at six o'clock, and the bank opens at nine o'clock. As long as nothing happens, there are three hours in between for us to get out of the city smoothly, and we ask the Japanese and puppet troops to pursue us."
With the cooperation of the underground party and Chongqing intelligence forces, the commando team was at ease and all arrived at the meeting point before six o'clock.
Dozens of large trucks filled with feces were parked at the meeting point, and a strong stench could be smelled from a distance.
The excrement has just been collected by the dung workers and will be transported out as soon as the city gate opens.
This was the underground party's plan to get out of the city. They had used the same method to send things out of Nanjing many times before, without ever failing.
"Wrap the things in raincloths, wrap them in two layers, and put them in the dung truck." Li Hao ordered in a deep voice.
"We also changed our clothes, pretended to be small vendors walking around the streets, and went out of the city with the dung truck."
Dung trucks have to leave the city every day. The first thing to do is to transport the feces produced in Nanjing City in a day. The Japanese and puppet troops guarding the city gate building have long been accustomed to it. They cover their noses and urge dozens of dung trucks to leave quickly and not to affect them.
Put them in a good mood.
Although the city of Nanjing is heavily guarded and plainclothes agents are everywhere, they only target strangers who enter the city.
In the absence of an order to close the city, there was not much difficulty for the people leaving the city.
After all, everyone will not pose a threat to Nanjing City after they get out.
So the commandos left Nanjing city easily.
Looking at the increasingly distant city wall behind him, Li Hao's tense nerves finally relaxed.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the bank had not opened yet, and the sentry guarding the door was nowhere to be seen.
The plainclothes and spies operating nearby realized something was wrong and immediately broke in.
"Woooooooo..."
Soon, piercing sirens sounded in Nanjing City, and groups of troops rushed out of the station and rushed straight into the bank.
In less than ten minutes, the bank was tightly surrounded by Japanese and puppet troops.
A colonel rushed in with a group of imperial troops.
"Rumble..."
Not long after, an explosion sounded in the backyard of the bank, and black smoke rose at least ten meters high.
On the street, people hurried back to their homes. Everyone realized that something had happened in Nanjing.
After another ten minutes, the gates of Nanjing City began to close. The gendarmerie, the garrison, and the spies all went to the joints to search door to door...