20 years of the Republic of China

Chapter 406: Luda·Player of chess
The bullet casings fell to the ground with a clanking sound.

The rain stopped, making the sound of gunshots all the more deafening.

The heavy rain and the successive explosions had already cleared the entire block. Everything was silent except for the sound of killing echoing among the buildings for a long time.

The moment Jiang Lianheng shot Mr. Rong Wu, a group of Oriental patrol police appeared at the T-junction at the southern end of Zhenyuan Town. Several of them rode bicycles and rushed to the front of the group.

"Stop! Stop!"

Big Cap rang the car bell and shouted loudly in this direction. This seemed to be the only Chinese they could speak. When he opened his mouth again, it was blatant Oriental dialect.

The three or five patrol officers who followed him jogged a few steps, then picked up their rifles, knelt down on one knee, and pulled the trigger twice.

"Crack! Crack!"

The bullet came through the air and penetrated the windshield of the black car!
Jiang Lianheng hurriedly leaned down, pressed against the car body, and walked around to the back of the car, splashing glass shards all over him.

At the same time, Zhao Guoyan came out from the diagonal stab on the north side of the hotel, raised the box cannon with one arm, and fired three shots in the distance with "bang bang bang".

Jiang Lianheng nodded, took a deep breath of Dantian Qi, and immediately jumped out from behind the car. Under the cover of Zhao Guoyan, he ran towards the open space around the corner of the Yamato Hotel.

Upon seeing this, the other bodyguards immediately threw away their guns, raised their hands high, and knelt on the ground, not daring to say any more nonsense.

The Oriental patrol officer roared fiercely. Although he opened fire one after another, he never hit the target due to the darkness in front of the hotel.

A team of Toyo patrol officers walked into the Yamato Hotel, holding rifles and holding their breath, knocking on the door of each guest room one by one to hunt for "anti-Japanese thugs".

"Master used to walk on the line?"

"Don't shoot!" The leader walked down the stone steps panting, "We are the bodyguards of Lord Rong Rong, Rong Sang, our own people, our own people!"

"Bah-"

……

On the second floor of the hotel, the few surviving bodyguards heard the noise and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then they all dragged their heavy footsteps down the stairs and walked out of the hotel door covered in bruises.

Under the vast darkness, only the voices of people were heard fading away, but no trace of people was seen.

"it is good!"

"That's right, that's right!" The old man driving the car nodded repeatedly, "Young people like you are rarely seen nowadays. In the past, no one doing business could do without an escort agency!"

He lit the pipe for the old man who was driving the car. The tobacco in the pot burned and cast a red light on the old man's face.

While the aftermath of Zhenyuan Town in Xinshi Street was still unsolved and the Toyo Patrol was busy hunting down "anti-Japanese thugs", Li Zheng and others also began to make moves in Oshima Town in Old City Street.

Jiang Lianheng and Zhao Guoyan ran into the weeds, but saw two tall horses neighing in a low voice, already eager to try. They immediately put on their stirrups, mounted their saddles, held the reins and whips, facing the west direction of the old city street, first towards the outskirts of the city, and then in a roundabout way. North, running all the way.

"That's not the case! I have been practicing Tongbei Quan and Tongzi Kungfu for more than ten years, and I am very solid!" A hoarse voice responded, "I used to work as an escort in Daoer. Once the train passes, the agency will stop Now that the economy is booming, I can’t help it. Now that I’m old, I’ll work as a coachman at a carriage and horse racing company to make a living!”

The maroon horse's mane was wisps and wet. The lightning and thunder in the night sky just now frightened the beast. He tried to kick his legs several times to "strike", but he was tamed down by the experienced coachman. .

"Hi!"

It was dark inside the carriage, and each other's faces could not be seen at all.

Not long after, a brigade of Japanese patrol officers arrived in front of the hotel. While sealing off and searching the crime scene, they detached two bicycle teams to pursue the thugs.

"We need more manpower support!" the patrol captain told his subordinates in Japanese dialect, "Go to the Old City Police Station and ask them to send someone to help search for the rioters!"

When they arrived at the banquet hall on the second floor, many guests had already died. Mr. Ishikawa, the representative of the Okura Consortium, was hit by two shrapnel fragments. One blinded his left eye and the other penetrated his throat. His expression was extremely ferocious and he had already lost blood. And die.

Several Japanese patrol officers couldn't understand what he was talking about. They only knew that the other party had a gun in his hand and was slowly approaching them. They simply killed him to avoid trouble.

The Oriental patrolman raised his rifle and immediately became alert.

"Hewu! It turns out that I am a bodyguard, thank you for your hard work!"

"boom!"

Someone chuckled quietly.

Vaguely, there was a whisper inside the carriage.

"Hey! Is it possible that some of you have also escorted escorts?"

It was really frustrating and frustrating for six old men to be squeezed into a carriage. Unfortunately, the rain was so heavy that everyone could only rest here for a while.

"Brother Dao, this way!"

Li Zheng was lighting a match, and the bean-like flames reflected a face with permanent wrinkles.

Everyone sat tightly hugging each other's knees, and the slightest movement would inevitably bump into each other.

A two-wheeled carriage parked alone on the roadside.

……

"Don't move! Don't move!"

The young Toyo Patrolman was full of energy. After responding, he immediately turned around and left the Yamato Hotel.

"I'm not an escort." Li Zheng threw out the match, "But I have dealt with an escort a long time ago."

"So, Master was also a practicing practitioner before?"

"Bang bang bang!"

A gunshot was fired, and he was immediately knocked down - if you still move after being asked not to move, who is your friend?

"That's necessary. I used to run a lot when I was young, so I'm considered number one!" the old man who drove the car said plausibly, "Don't look at how old I am now, but if you compare it, you young people may not be the same. Tongbei Fist, open and close, click, you know?"

In the darkness, Li Zheng and others looked at each other in silence.

Although walking around the world, it is normal to sell goods for 30 cents or 70 cents, but after several trials, it was obvious that the old man who drove the truck had only half-open eyes, and all his efforts were focused on his mouth. Sometimes he deliberately missed a few words and was unable to respond.

So, a brother opened the car curtain, looked out, turned around and said, "Brother, the rain has stopped."

Li Zheng nodded, suddenly patted the old coachman and said, "Smoking nice? Okay, I'll go down and pee, and then we'll be on our way!"

"Hey, good, good!" the old coachman said, while moving to the side twice.

Li Zheng jumped off the carriage, walked to the grass beside Oshima Town Road, unbuttoned the leather buckle, and opened the gate to release the water.

At this moment, the carriage behind him suddenly shook violently. The old man driving the carriage grunted a few times, and the bay-red horse that was pulling it took two steps back restlessly and snorted.

After a while, Li Zheng's shoulders shook twice. When he turned around, the old driver had been kicked out of the carriage and fell to the ground like a sandbag with a "bang".

The two brothers immediately jumped out of the carriage and dragged him to the grass while cursing and saying: "What a fucking brag, don't you bother me!"

Li Zheng sat on the carriage board as if he didn't see anything, picked up the eight-pronged whip, became the driver, and called out: "Brothers, let's go!"

There is a dragon river between New Market Street and Old Market Street. Li Zheng didn't know what was going on at the Yamato Hotel. He just counted the time and estimated that there should have been a "ring" there. Jiang Lianheng and Rong Wuye must die. As for who lives and who dies, the gangsters have no idea. They don't care much, they are more concerned about how much harvest they can get from this trip to smash the kiln.

The carriage stopped in front of the small western-style building owned by Mr. Rong Wu at No. 18 Oshima Town.

There were no bodyguards outside the house. Perhaps they hid inside the house because of the heavy rain just now, or perhaps they were transferred to the Yamato Hotel on Xinshi Street in advance by Master Rong Wu.

All in all, although the lights were on in the foreign-style building, it was inexplicably too quiet.

Li Zheng couldn't help but frown, and looked around at the door of the house, but found no sign of an ambush.

"Screwdriver, go in and explore!"

"it is good!"

One of the brothers agreed, and immediately stepped up to his waist. In the blink of an eye, he climbed over the courtyard wall, walked around the two-story small foreign-style building, listened to the door and opened the window, his movements were very skillful, his feet stepped on the rain-wet grass, and even There was no sound at all.

While drinking tea, the screwdriver pushed open the iron fence gate from the inside and shouted softly: "Brother, there is no sound in the kiln!"

"No sound?"

Li Zheng's eyebrows were raised high. After hesitating for a moment, he simply stopped acting. He opened the suitcase directly on the car board, distributed the guns and ammunition inside to each brother, and then strode into the courtyard.

Kaizi was about to raise his leg and kick the door, but was stopped by Li Zheng.

He walked sideways to the door and knocked gently twice.

Footsteps gradually sounded in the house, and everyone's hearts tightened, and they quickly raised their guns.

"Who is it?" A sweet voice answered the door in the house and asked.

After a while, the door was pushed half open, and everyone immediately hid their guns again. They saw a young girl of sixteen or seventeen standing at the door, wearing servant clothes, and asked timidly: "You guys?" Are you looking for Mr. Wu?"

Li Zhengzhen couldn't bear Jiang Lianheng's fake smile, so he had to keep a straight face and asked: "We were sent by Master Cai to deliver the payment. Is your Butler Zhang here?"

"No."

The girl subconsciously took half a step back, still holding her hand on the door panel, as if she was about to close the door at any moment.

"Aren't you here?" Li Zheng frowned and asked, "Is Fifth Master Rong here?"

The girl shook her head in confusion, but said: "The fifth master Rong is not here anymore. He is not usually at home. If you are in an emergency, you can go to Xinshi Street to find him. Butler Zhang should be there now. He just left a while ago. ”

"Just left?" Li Zheng felt a fire rising in his heart.

This girl was really a bit dull and silly. As a servant of Master Rong Wu’s family, she seemed to have never seen much of the world. She immediately replied honestly:

"It's past five o'clock, probably six o'clock! The Fifth Master just sent a few people over, and then Butler Zhang left with them, taking a lot of things with him. He might be moving. I don't know what the specific situation is. It’s clear, come back tomorrow!”

"Pfft-"

Li Zheng pulled out his Japanese bayonet with his backhand, pierced the girl's throat with a cold blow, then kicked the door open with a "bang" and strode into the house angrily.

After this set of actions, it was just a flash of lightning. Not only did the girl lying on the ground "clucking" and twitching didn't react, but even the brothers around her were shocked!
"Oh shit! Brother, why are you killing me? You just let me play with you!"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk! What a pity, I think I'm probably still a chick!"

Li Zheng held a knife and a gun, and without saying a word, he rushed into the living room at the same time.

To the girl, killing was a "gift" or even a "liberation". Otherwise, if she was captured alive by the bandits, she would have to suffer all kinds of humiliation before she died.

However, Li Zheng did not kill her out of any good intentions. He simply did not want to mess up the brothers because of a woman, which made everyone's actions extremely delayed.

Five gangsters rushed into Mr. Rong Wu's small western-style building and killed two old ladies who were looking after the house one after another. They smashed, burned and killed them. They searched everywhere, but the result was as Li Zheng expected - they didn't find anything valuable. , not to mention large and small gold bars, not even a single penny of commemorative tickets and military tickets!
The gangsters tried to fetch water from bamboo baskets but in vain. They were so angry that they gnashed their teeth. Finally, they got angry and burned the entire small foreign-style building to the ground.

It turns out that Rong Wuye realized that there was something wrong with "Cai Yunsheng"'s identity, and had already ordered Butler Zhang to transfer the gold and silver belongings at home to the heavily guarded Laoshanren residence in advance.

The old fox anticipated that Jiang Lianheng might split his forces into two groups, so he took shelter in advance. Although he is now dead, he still maintains his reputation as a "thorough person".

It's just that, as the saying goes, "the agencies are too smart in their calculations", this reputation for "being thorough" ended up being a wedding dress for others!
……

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Xinshi Street, Tsukimi Town, Fengwaiju.

Under the hollow tatami floor of the reception room, Chuanghu endured the musty smell emitted by the dampened wood, and lay on the damp and cold ground, falling asleep.

For nearly an hour, the so-called Laoshan man had been sneaking over his head, gloomily "teaching" his adopted daughter Yoshiko how to speak Oriental dialect.

Listening and listening, Chuang Hu couldn't help but sigh with sincerity in his heart:
When it comes to perversion, Xiao Dongyang has to be good at it!

Suddenly, a shout came from the middle courtyard, which cheered up Chuanghu's originally depressed spirit!
"The prince is here!"

"Fangzi, get dressed." Lao Shanren ordered in a leisurely manner, "Get ready to see your father!"

Father! ?
When Chuanghu heard this, he was so excited that he almost jumped up from the ground - the old devil's adopted daughter turned out to be a princess! Not only is she a princess, she is also a serious royal princess!

In the span of a pack of cigarettes, the sliding paper door clicked, and two old men greeted the young Yoshiko.

"Brother, you are well!" Laoshanren's voice was calm and restrained, "Please sit down quickly, Fangzi, I'll meet your father soon!"

"Father."

The sound was so small that it was almost inaudible.

It can be seen that Yoshiko not only has no good impression of her adoptive father, but even when facing her biological father, there is no affection at all in her words and deeds.

The prince waved his hand, as if he didn't care much about his daughter, but instead gave all his sincerity to the old mountain man in front of him.

"Brother Xian, just now Rong Chen sent someone to ask me to come find you quickly." The prince's tone was a little urgent, "He also said that there might be danger at the reception. I was on the way here when I came, and I did hear the noise at the Yamato Hotel. Xiao, what exactly is going on? "

The old mountain man chuckled and said, "Brother, don't panic. Come, please have some tea. Let's calm down the shock first."

The prince immediately frowned and said in confusion: "But if there is really danger at the reception... I hope that my dear brother can come forward and ask your country's military police and garrison to protect the safety of the clan and search for the rebels throughout the city. Thugs for good!”

"Come, come, brother, please have some tea."

The prince had no choice but to have a drink in a hurry, but he heard the old mountain man say quietly: "Brother Zun, our gendarmerie and garrison will not be dispatched. Let the patrol police handle this matter!"

"What...what does this mean?"

"Brother! Your Majesty!"

Laoshanren sighed: "You haven't seen the current situation clearly. Under Tanaka's instigation, the imperial cabinet has become more and more inclined to support Zhang Yuting. Time has run out for you and me, or the entire Zongshe Party." too much."

The prince sighed silently and subconsciously glanced at his daughter huddled in the corner.

Lao Shanren continued to say quietly: "In the current situation, if we continue to follow the steps and raise funds everywhere as before, it will be too late. In extraordinary times, when extraordinary means are available, Rong Chen, let him go!"

(End of this chapter)