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There are 31 hours left until the uprising.

Sister Qian found the superior comrade who was the chief person in charge of the underground party - she was responsible for liaising with the Military Control Commission, while the person in charge of the underground party was her superior Comrade Li who came from the headquarters.

"Commander, Comrade Anping asked me to bring you a message."

The superior couldn't help but laugh after hearing this:

"I guess Comrade Anping wants me to put pressure on him, right?"

Sister Qian couldn't help but ask in surprise: "How did you know?"

The superior smiled and explained: "Comrade Anping has refused to disclose the detailed plan on the grounds of confidentiality from the beginning to now. Now there are only 31 hours left before the uprising. Shouldn't we know about it?"

"We don't completely trust Zhang Shihao!"

Sister Qian suddenly realized from her superior's meaningful words that she had been getting along with Zhang Anping recently in a competitive and cooperative capacity, and since Zhang Anping had always been arbitrary and unquestionable, she almost forgot about it.

"Commander, you are right."

"Haha, you're just in trouble because you're in this mountain." The superior did not blame Sister Qian for this. Instead, he asked Sister Qian to take him to see Zhang Anping.

30 hours before the uprising.

Military base.

The arrival of Sister Qian and her superior Comrade Li did not bring a welcome from the Military Control Commission, but instead brought Zhang Anping's accusations:

"Is this your sincerity in cooperation? You bring all the cats and dogs to me? Are you going to bring the Japanese here next time?"

"What did I say before? You three are the docking team. My cooperation with you will only be completed through the docking team!"

"Xu Tian, ​​show the guests out!"

Xu Tian had no choice but to step forward, stopped in front of Comrade Li, and gestured for him to come in.

"Zhang Shihao," Comrade Li said angrily, "You keep saying cooperation, but how do you cooperate? You said we should follow your command, and I went to Shanghai on purpose to cooperate with you!"

"You said to keep it a secret. Fine, we have been trying hard not to explore your plan!"

"Tell me yourself whether there is any problem with the sincerity of our cooperation?"

"But what about you? Now we are very close to the time you set, but we still don't know your specific plan. How can you ask us to cooperate?!"

"If you still refuse to reveal the details of the plan, you don't have to chase me away! But our cooperation ends here!"

"I will never put the lives of countless comrades in your hands! Never!"

Comrade Li's words made Xu Tian step back.

When Sister Qian saw Comrade Li’s statement, she stood behind Comrade Li without hesitation to express her attitude.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Anping looked at Comrade Li coldly without saying a word, his eyes sharp and extremely aggressive.

Wang Tianfeng, who had been "just doing the bystander" all the time, had to act as a peacemaker when he saw the situation - it was he who contacted the underground party, so it was appropriate for him to act as a peacemaker at this time.

"Mr. Li, our district chief has his own considerations for keeping the plan secret. He will disclose it to you before the action is taken. Let's sit down and talk. Don't make things tense."

Comrade Li softened his tone: "General Wang, this is not our fault. District Chief Zhang needs to cooperate. We have fully cooperated from the beginning until now, even if we have suffered losses."

"But there are less than 30 hours left until the time set by District Chief Zhang. It is not reasonable for District Chief Zhang to hide it from us—"

After that, he said to Zhang Anping in a more moderate tone: "District Chief Zhang, I was too excited just now, but this is our bottom line."

Zhang Anping asked back, "You don't trust me?"

"Director Zhang, I don't think it's necessary to dwell on this topic. If we didn't trust you, we wouldn't have cooperated with you from the beginning! Now it's not a question of trust or not, but we have the right to know the specific plan!"

Facing Comrade Li's words, the coldness on Zhang Anping's face gradually faded away. After a moment of silence, he said:

"Let's go to the conference room."

After hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and followed Zhang Anping to the meeting room in the basement.

Zhang Anping has always been secretive about his plans for the uprising, and has never mentioned the core idea.

Even in the layout during this period, many puzzled pieces were placed.

For example, due to the reversal of the situation, the factory protection team that he relied on as the vanguard was now surrounded by the British army. At that time, Xu Baichuan was furious and suggested to launch an immediate attack, but was rejected by Zhang Anping.

He even allowed the British army to surround the factory protection team.

He said at the time that he was stalling for time on the pretext of negotiations. But when asked what to do when the uprising happened, Zhang Anping's answer was just two words:
Confidential!

Thanks to the fact that he had proved himself with countless battle examples, no one on the Military Control Commission's side questioned him. On the underground party's side, because he had shown arrogance from the beginning and his several operations were brilliant, they accepted his obvious excuse of "confidentiality".

But whether it is the Military Control Commission or the underground party, the accumulated doubts are enough to fill several sacks. Now that the plan is finally going to be revealed, who can not be looking forward to it?

In the conference room, Zhang Anping dragged a covered blackboard out of a locked secret room, untied the cloth in front of everyone, revealing the map on the blackboard.

Map of Shanghai.

He pointed to the north of Shanghai and said, "Starting from mid-November, your New Fourth Army launched a large-scale raiding operation, and the devils in northern Zhejiang were transferred to this area to encircle and suppress them."

"And starting in the second half of the month, the Third War Zone was in a state of frequent action (Zhang Anping suppressed his shame), and the Japanese army had to transfer troops from southern Jiangsu to strengthen the southern defense line."

"We have achieved our goal of assisting from the outside, now let's look here!"

Zhang Anping placed his palm on the map of Shanghai and said in a deep voice:

"Since you want to know my detailed battle plan now, I can tell you - but once the plan is made known, it must be executed unconditionally!"

"If you oppose or give up, I will regard it as surrendering to the enemy!"

When the threatening words were spoken, everyone looked at him sideways. They seemed to understand why Zhang Anping had been reluctant to reveal the detailed plan.

No one spoke, but everyone straightened up, waiting for Zhang Anping to reveal the secret.

"At 12 o'clock, the battle will start here—" Zhang Anping circled the Hongkou Security Command: "The Japanese army will not regard this place as a priority, but they will definitely form a siege here after we have been silent for a long time. The battle here will be completed by your side."

Facing Zhang Anping's tone that was not a negotiation, Comrade Li did not respond, but just signaled with his eyes to continue.

Zhang Anping was not surprised, and said in his heart: He is worthy of being the king of red agents, and he and I have a real tacit understanding.

He continued, "The Japanese are focusing on the Army Hotel. You are still in charge of this place, but you don't need to use too many people. After the feint attack, you should evacuate immediately. Given the temperament of the Japanese, they will definitely continue to defend here to prevent us from making a surprise attack."

"The actions in these two areas were enough to make the Japanese miss the most critical hour after the uprising."

Everyone nodded silently, agreeing with Zhang Anping's statement.

"Now let's talk about the actions in the concession—"

Zhang Anping took a deep breath and said, "Here is the key point of the uprising!"

He circled out an area within the concession, and everyone looked carefully and confirmed that it was the area where the factory protection team was compressed by the British army.

"I will bring people to talk to the British then..."

talk?
Everyone looked at Zhang Anping in shock. You said you want to talk?
So you haven't solved it yet?

Comrade Li looked at Zhang Anping in shock: "What if we can't reach an agreement? You are so careless!"

He used the word "hasty", and it was obvious that he was shocked to the extreme.

The same goes for others. It's already this late, and you're actually going to talk about it now?
Is this what you call confidentiality?

Facing the questioning and shocked eyes, Zhang Anping hesitated and said in a deep voice:
"Tell me the truth - talk shit!"

His eyes turned cold. "I don't trust the British at all. Tomorrow evening, the factory protection team will call the British Shanghai Defense Commander Fei Liming in the name of negotiation. Then they will delay him outside. I will meet him before the uprising."

"After the meeting, I will control him, and at the same time the factory protection team will be dispatched immediately to capture the British and American defense forces stationed in Shanghai in the shortest possible time!" There are currently three garrisons in the International Settlement, from Britain, the United States and Italy.

There were more than 1700 British garrison troops in Shanghai, and the United States originally had more than 1300 troops. However, in the middle of the year, the Americans withdrew more than people, leaving less than people. It was these two garrison troops stationed in Shanghai that besieged the factory protection team, as well as some vassal troops, such as the White Russian Chamber of Commerce guards and the Indians who made up the numbers.

The factory protection team was facing these more than 2,000 people.

Fei Liming, who was in charge of the control, broadcast again that the Japanese army had launched a sneak attack on the United States. The British Defense Force in Shanghai was leaderless and posed no threat. As for the less than 500 US Marines - the Japanese devils had already raided your hometown. At this time, the American soldiers had only two options to consider: either follow them or wait to be captured. Apart from these two options, there was no other choice.

Zhang Anping did not include the British army. He had only one opinion about the British army: I am interested in your two thousand guns, as for the two thousand people, I don’t care about you!
It's not that he looked down on these armed forces, but the British soldiers were organized into an organization. Even if they were really persuaded to follow him, given the nature of the British soldiers, they would either kick him out as scapegoats at a critical moment and run away, or they would show off their power to the Chinese and then kowtow to the Japanese.

"Get it!?"

No one would regard Zhang Anping's words, which were full of murderous intent, as a joke.

Then, they all went numb.

No wonder Zhang Anping has always refused to reveal anything, and even repeatedly "created confusion" by saying that as long as the Japanese take action, the troops in the concession will not be an obstacle.

No wonder Zhang Anping said before the meeting that as long as he told the plan, opposition or abandonment would be regarded as surrender to the enemy.

Everyone imagined the scene described by Zhang Anping in their minds, with complicated thoughts in their hearts.

Zhang Anping stared at Comrade Li, waiting for his answer.

Comrade Li's solemn expression slowly dissipated, and he said slowly:
"Director Zhang, are you sure there is no problem with the timing? If there is a problem, this matter will turn into a major diplomatic incident!"

Zhang Anping stared at Comrade Li: "I believe the intelligence provided by my people - Mr. Li, what do you think of my behavior?!"

"Indecisiveness leads to disaster."

Zhang Anping suddenly laughed, and his laugh was so bright, as if a stone that had been hanging in the air had finally fallen.

He was actually quite afraid of opposition from the underground party.

That's why he launched a surprise attack.

From the beginning of the planning and preparation, he did not reveal the exact time, but just made various arrangements in the name of preparation. It was not until the meeting on the evening of December 12 that he revealed the exact time - but because of this he had been avoiding Sister Qian and did not give Sister Qian the opportunity to be alone with him.

By today he had run out of ideas and knew he couldn't delay any longer, so he quietly "invited" Comrade Li through Sister Qian.

To put it bluntly, he was forcing people with the nature of "kidnapping".

Fortunately, his comrades were supportive and chose to support his bold plan.

This kind of support was something the National Army could never enjoy - therefore, Zhang Anping did not report his plan to the bureau headquarters at all, and simply dealt with Lao Dai with a single sentence: "It's in preparation."

To be honest, there was nothing that could be done about Zhang Anping's coaxing and deceiving here and there. If he wanted to start an uprising in the concession, the British garrison in Shanghai had to be dealt with.

Even though in the original time and space, when the Japanese broke into the concession, the British and American troops laid down their weapons and surrendered without saying a word, allowing the Japanese to "peacefully" occupy the concession. However, the British were definitely showing off their power when facing the Chinese army, and it was basically a dream to expect them to cooperate.

So the best option is to punch it.

Closer to home.

As Zhang Anping smiled brilliantly, the vague emotions of opposition and suspicion in the conference room disappeared without a trace.

Zhang Anping initially arranged for the underground party to be in charge of Hongkou and the Army Hotel, which made Yuan Nong and Yao Xiuwen suspect that this was a borrowed knife to kill someone.

But now, the doubt is gone.

Then Zhang Anping talked about the rest of the battle plan.

The most critical link is the factory protection team. Once this link is resolved, no one will care about the remaining arrangements. Even the British garrison in Shanghai is not spared. It is not unacceptable for some behaviors that challenge the bottom line of cognition in the remaining arrangements.

After Zhang Anping finished speaking, everyone began to digest this detailed plan of action.

After a while of thought, Comrade Li asked the first question.

"Where are the weapons?" Comrade Li asked:
"District Chief Zhang, based on the information I have so far, the weapons we have prepared are not sufficient."

"Are we going to rely on captured goods?"

From the planning stage to now, the weapons have always been in the charge of the Military Control Commission. Although the specific circumstances are unknown, according to Comrade Li's calculations, the number of weapons delivered is far less than one thousand.

Zhang Anping said: "As for weapons, I naturally dare not transport them on a large scale. I can only transport them on a small scale. Currently, there are 11 storage points, with a total of about ."

"But the factory protection team has no shortage of weapons, so weapons were not a problem at the beginning of the uprising."

The statement that the factory protection team had no shortage of weapons made everyone want to laugh - these were provided by the Japanese with "hard work" and "generosity".

Thanks to the top brother.

Zhang Anping also laughed secretly and continued, "The first wave of weapons replenishment came from the British."

"In addition, the Americans have more than 500 replacement rifles in the barracks, and more than 1,000 spare rifles. As for the bullets..."

Zhang Anping smiled slightly: "The bullets there are enough to support our bullet consumption for this uprising!"

The weapons for the American soldiers were prepared by him through global trade. They were nominally prepared for the US military, but in fact they were prepared for uprising.

It's a pity that he cannot use global trade to solve the arms problem unscrupulously, otherwise it will attract the attention of the Japanese - global trade still has one last job to do.

Comrade Li silently calculated the numbers: the Americans provided fifteen hundred, the British provided two thousand, and fourteen hundred were prepared, which added up to nearly five thousand rifles, a number... barely enough.

But Zhang Anping hadn’t finished speaking yet!

"I also like the French gun, but I have to save it for the middle term."

"So the second wave of attacks must be fast, steady, accurate, and ruthless. The 14 police stations must be taken down quickly. This will greatly alleviate the shortage of weapons."

There were 14 police stations and more than patrolmen in the International Settlement. Although none of them had a rifle, there were guns.

Comrade Li continued to calculate silently:
Five thousand plus three thousand, plus the French Concession...that's enough!
I have never fought such a rich battle!
But he noticed another blind spot:
"If I remember correctly, the number of rifles sent to Hongkou was less than 400. Can you provide some more for our comrades?"

The Japanese military garrison headquarters in Hongkou was organizing personnel for a feint attack by the underground party, and they also had to be prepared for counter-encirclement, so he hoped to be given more weapons.

"Those weapons cannot be used - the Japanese have probably mastered where the weapons are stored." Zhang Anping pulled the blackboard over and circled an area at the intersection of Hongkou and the International Settlement:
"There should be no less than two thousand guns here. Get your weapons from here!"

Comrade Li asked: "Here? Did you put it there?"

"That's it."

"What do you mean it counts?!"

Zhang Anping said calmly:
"Most of the weapons on the black market are stored here. I have recently increased the supply of weapons on the black market. Black market merchants are greedy for cheap and have stockpiled a lot of guns and ammunition."

"I know all the warehouses of the six major black marketeers. When the time comes, we can just take it directly from their warehouses."

After listening to Zhang Anping's words, Yuan Nong's brain froze for a while. He shook his head to clear himself up and then thought about Zhang Anping's words again.

The translation is:

He is a supplier of black market arms in Shanghai? !
Black market merchants bought a lot of arms from him at low prices?

And then... these weapons will be used to launch a feint attack on the garrison headquarters?
He looked blankly at Yao Xiuwen beside him, and after seeing his comrade's equally blank look, he thought to himself:
Look, we are all normal people.

Comrade Li put away his slightly dazed look and gave Zhang Anping a thumbs up. Great, great, so many arrangements were completed right under our noses, and we didn't even notice a single thing!

What's at stake!

He remembered a saying: There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Those unfortunate black market traders probably haven’t heard this sentence.

Zhang Anping glanced at Xu Tian and Wang Tianfeng, who also had dull eyes, and after waking them up with a dry cough, he glanced at the four people from the underground party and said:
"Everyone, is the plan okay?!" (End of this chapter)