The firefighters were well-trained after all. They found a fire well on the street, quickly threw out the hose, and jumped into the well to connect the hose. However, even when they opened the gate with a special wrench, water could not come out!
The firefighters were also panicked and ran back and forth to find the cause.
Ten minutes later, they finally discovered that a very hidden fire gate had been closed!
When the fire hose finally sprayed water, the brick-and-wood structure building had turned into a blazing mountain of flames! It burned down after only half an hour, causing the citizens watching around to let out a burst of horrified shouts.
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At this time, a rumor spread among the citizens, saying that this was Hongmen’s revenge on the Cangchuan Gang! Because the freight building is the property of the Cangchuan Gang! As for why Hongmen wanted to take revenge on the Cangchuan Gang, no one could tell!
15-28
By about five o'clock in the evening, a fire broke out at Jiangdong Trading Company in Wuchang!
At this time, people in the trading company were getting ready to get off work. Some people working the night shift had just arrived at the company, and some customers who came to handle business had not yet left. Therefore, many people saw that the fire was arson!
They were shocked to see a dozen rough men suddenly appearing outside the company door. They were carrying wooden sticks in one hand and gasoline barrels in the other. As soon as they entered the gate, they poured gasoline on them and ran inside!
When the people in the business hall downstairs discovered that those people were throwing gasoline, they all screamed in fear and ran outside. At this time, the fire started! The entire first floor was instantly engulfed in a sea of flames!
Those people came out from the back door, rushed directly to the warehouse, and poured gasoline on the warehouse door.
In a moment, all the warehouses were on fire, and the flames rushed to the roof!
The big arsonists watched the fire burning, whistled to each other, and climbed over the wall and left!
The fire burned until midnight! Above the second floor, many people failed to escape and were burned horribly!
Some people say that this is the Pengchuan Gang’s revenge on Hongmen! Jiangdong Trading Company is Hongmen’s industry!
15-29
In the middle of the night, the fire at Wuchang Jiangdong Trading Company had just been extinguished, and countless ships on the Hanyang River broke out in fire again!
The entire Hanyang River is a large wharf, with countless wooden boats, sailboats and fishing boats moored, as well as countless black boats and small cargo ships. These large and small ships are connected together and arranged one after another along both sides of the Hanjiang River.
At night, all the boat people fell asleep. The large and small wooden boats, sailing boats and fishing boats, as well as countless awning boats and small cargo boats, were closely packed together. They were really like a forest of masts and masts, and the fishing fires were like stars.
However, when the fire started, all the ships were unable to move, and it spread continuously! The entire riverside suddenly fell into a sea of fire, burning like a fire dragon on the riverside, and there were a lot of cries and shouts!
Many burning ships drifted downstream along the river. The lower reaches were Hankou Pier.
The docks in Hankou are all large docks, and large merchant ships and cargo ships berth there.
As soon as the people on these boats saw the fire boats going down the river, they immediately sent out small boats to push the burning wooden boats away, or they directly used the fire hoses on the boats to spray water on the burning fire boats.
15-30
The fire on the river continued to burn until dawn and was not completely extinguished! The boat people who had lost their boats all came ashore!
Just after dawn, these crazy boat people swarmed onto the streets!
There were tens of thousands of them, stretching along several streets from Hanyang to Hankou and even Wuchang. Each of their faces was burning with anger!
They rushed to Hongmen's shops, companies, bars, and restaurants with extremely accurate targets. As soon as they rushed in, they smashed them crazily, smashed them to pieces, lit a fire, and then rushed out to find the next target!
Afterwards, a large number of Hongmen members also poured into the streets and frantically attacked the boat people of the Pengchuan Gang!
The people on both sides used all the weapons they could find, including wooden sticks, iron bars, machetes, and even guns! They roared, stared at the blood-red eyes, and attacked each other, and soon they became a melee!
15-31
What is strange is that a group of Hongmen members rushed south along the Beijing-Hankou Railway. They passed the intersection of Yunqiao Street and quickly rushed to Shuiyu Street.
The leader is Meng Jixiong, the leader of Qiaokou Hall!
His target today is very clear, which is the Military Police of the Investigation Department on Shuiyu Street!
What Yang Qingshan told him was: "That group of military police have no weapons! You rush in and kill them all! Leave no one behind!"
Meng Jixiong had hundreds of people with him. If he really stormed into the gendarmerie station, none of Chen Zifeng and the others would survive!
But Yang Qingshan ignored an important point! There are many shops selling aquatic products in Shuiyu Street, and the people in those shops are water people! This area is an important territory of the Pengchuan Gang!
Therefore, when Meng Jixiong led his people into Shuiyu Street, the Cangzhou Gang members in the street had already gathered together. As soon as they saw the Hongmen people rushing towards them, they immediately shouted and rushed towards them!
People from both sides started a melee on the entire Shuiyu Street!
However, Chen Zifeng's brothers didn't know what was going on and stood together in front of the window looking out.
None of them understood what was going on. Besides, they had no weapons and no orders from their superiors! So, they could only stand in front of the window and watch, not knowing what to do!
Meng Jixiong was intercepted by people from the Pengchuan Gang. They rushed to kill him several times, but they couldn't get past him!
The Shuishui people of the Pengchuan Gang have always been brave and aggressive, and they killed Hongmen people like madmen!
Meng Jixiong had no choice but to save his own life first! He yelled with all his strength: "Bullshit! Bullshit!"
15-32
At around 11 o'clock in the morning, the gang fight spreading across Wuhan became even crazier!
Thick smoke billowed everywhere in the city, and there were scenes of destruction and destruction everywhere! Many people were dead and injured, lying on the streets!
The police from Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang were mobilized to try to suppress the fighting gang members, but to no avail!
People on both sides were furious and would beat anyone who stood in their way! The police also had their families, and no one dared to rush forward.
As a result, the police stations in Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang urgently requested help from the Wuhan Security Command.
15-33
At this time, the Wuhan Security Headquarters was also in an unusual state of restlessness!
There was a large-scale gang fight in Wuhan, and Bai Chongxin was the only insider! He was even the one who secretly instigated it!
But he never thought that the fight between the two sides would get so serious!
Just now, he received a call from Boss Yang, telling him that the Hongmen people were blocked in Shuiyu Street! Chen Zifeng and those people were unscathed!
"I have no choice! You must find other ways!" Boss Yang yelled at him on the phone!
Bai Chongxin's originally white face became even whiter now! His fat body was trembling as if it had fallen into an ice hole.
Others are completely unaware of the inside story of the gang fight. But maintaining public security in Wuhan is their unavoidable responsibility, and it is also related to the black veil on their heads!
At this time, He Guixiang, Bai Chongxin, Jiao Juncai and others gathered in Commander-in-Chief Ye Peng's office to discuss countermeasures.
Even Division Chief Li Chengguo heard the news and came over to ask them how to deal with it.
After calculation, they discovered that they had no troops to send!
The Wuhan Security Command has many targets that require them to provide security, such as city halls, residences of senior officials, and other important institutions such as radio stations, power plants, military docks, and military warehouses.
The First Member of the Nationalist Military Commission also has many important departments that need them to provide security, such as the Military Commission Telecommunications Room, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, and even state hotels and foreign embassies, they also need to provide security tasks!
However, the Wuhan Garrison Command only has one security brigade, with two conservative regiments under it, and the number is less than 10,000!
He Guixiang calculated again and again, and finally came to the conclusion that he could only send two companies to the streets to maintain law and order!
Everyone was stunned by this result and speechless!
They all know in their hearts that this is absolutely impossible! If public security in Wuhan is not maintained well, none of them will end well!
At this time, Li Chengguo, who had been sitting on the sofa and listening, said softly: "Don't you still have an investigation office? There should be some people in the investigation office, right?"
He Guixiang immediately said: "There are only a hundred and ten people in the investigation office, so they may not be able to make any difference!"
But Li Chengguo looked at him steadily, as if he had something else to say.
15-34
Last night, Luo Jiang came to visit Li Chengguo and told him many strange and dangerous things that Chen Zifeng's team had done in Shanghai! Except for "Qing Jun's Side", Luo Jiang told him everything, which made Li Chengguo's eyes widen in surprise.
He kept saying: "Really! Really!" He even patted the armrest of the sofa and laughed.
Li Chengguo came to Wuhan this time to supervise military trials. On the surface, it was to punish corruption, but his hidden purpose was for those large quantities of medicines! Chief Chen said: "Such medicines are urgently needed for combat! We must find a way to get them back!"
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But Li Chengguo knows that officialdom is like a battlefield. He wants to get the medicine back, but he must not be caught and accused of harboring corruption! Therefore, he has been waiting for the opportunity!
After a long conversation with Luo Jiang last night, they all came to the same conclusion. If Chen Zifeng's team does not resume their duties and regain their ability to move, they will not be able to recover the medicines! They will not be able to complete the tasks assigned to them by their superiors!
15-35
At this time, Li Chengguo was sitting on the sofa, smiling and said nonchalantly: "And that military police team, what's the name of that captain?"
He Guixiang looked at him with a little fear, "Sir, are you talking about Chen Zifeng's military police team?"
Li Chengguo pointed at him, "Yes, that's him! The court tried them for two days, did they find any problems? They said he only had about two thousand yuan in total. What about you? How much money did you collect from them?
Do you have a number?"
He Guixiang said cautiously: "I heard it's a lot of money!"
Li Chengguo refused to budge: "How much is the big sum you mentioned? Tell me the number!"
He Guixiang had no choice but to look back at Bai Chongxin and Jiao Juncai, hoping they would give him an explanation.