From to 1935 2020

Elena and Huang Ke worked in the tunnel for a long time almost day and night. They took turns to rest and work with an assistant in turn.The people stopped and the pits kept digging. After eleven days of digging in one go, they finally succeeded in digging the tunnel to the edge of the underground vault of HSBC Bank.

In the process of excavation, the speed in the middle and early stages is extremely fast, but in the later stage, as the distance goes deeper, more troubles are encountered.In order to solve these constantly appearing abnormal problems, the speed of mining was reduced again in the middle and late stages.

The main problems, one is the water seepage of the four walls and the flooding of the channel.When the length of the tunnel exceeds 150 meters, even if adequate waterproofing preparations are made, the accumulation of water seepage on the four walls is quite serious. Even if the drainage facilities have been installed in advance, the construction workers still have to soak their feet in the water for a long time During the most serious work, the water in the channel even overflowed the knees at one point—in order to prevent the skin from festering, everyone had to wear knee-high rain boots to work.

In addition, it is the problem of oxygen supply. For the more than 200-meter-long underground energy tunnel, a special compressed air pipe must work for a long time to supply oxygen, otherwise it is easy to suffocate in the tunnel if you are not careful.In fact, this kind of accident occurred during the excavation process: at that time, the external compressed air equipment was overheated and damaged due to long-term work, which almost caused Huang Ke and another worker who were working in the tunnel to suffocate to death.Fortunately, Huang Ke, who had been prepared for a long time, still stored oxygen cylinders in the space equipment, and then stopped for a day to repair the compressed air equipment.

When the tunnel was finally pushed to the outer wall of the vault, everyone temporarily stopped to rest.At this time, everyone who participated in the digging operation lost more than ten catties, even Huang Ke and Elena were no exception.

The passage is more than 220 meters long. To enter and exit, it is not possible to walk out standing and bowing your head as you imagine.During the excavation process, the soil layer nearly one and a half meters thick settled down in many places, all supported by the 1700x300x30 steel load-bearing cement box, but the strength of the latter is still not enough.

Everyone knows that a square is not a stable structure, and this kind of cement box has extremely poor resistance to horizontal side pressure.Therefore, in the channel of 1700x1700, every half meter, there are two obliquely inserted wooden columns placed in an X shape and facing diagonally to strengthen the pressure of the side of the soil layer on the cement board. At a distance of more than 200 meters, more than [-] wooden pillars were used!

Due to the obstruction of these crossing wooden pillars, if there is no space equipment to help, it will be even more troublesome to transport the excavated soil.

"Fortunately, we have space equipment, otherwise it would take at least three months to complete this project with "normal" manual excavation!"

For the sake of confidentiality, all the participants lived and ate in the house during this period, and only went out a few times, mainly for supplies and discarding waste soil.

Finally, the method of confirming that the tunnel has been dug to the side of the vault is very simple: Rhubarb Ke from another time and space came to the location of the vault of the HSBC Building in the future by visiting, and used the time-space induction between the two Huang Ke to carry out the first tunnel. One confirmation.

Then in [-], on this side of the world, Elena came to HSBC, deposited another batch of gold, and made a loan.At that time she personally delivered the gold into the vault.Then in the vault, he sensed the approximate location of the source of magic power on Huang Ke who was hiding in the tunnel at the same time, and made a second confirmation.

At [-]:[-] pm on March [-]th, after the staff of HSBC got off work, after making sufficient preparations, everyone started the last and most critical project of "breaking through the wall".

The wall of the vault of HSBC Bank was very thick. Huang Ke used the "strong acid corrosion method" provided by his mother Lin Mei to corrode the outermost cement wall with a prepared strong acid and easily smashed it into pieces. The sandwich steel plate is also defeated in front of the acetylene torch.When the last thick wall was broken through, everyone temporarily stopped working, while Huang Ke and Elena left at this time.

They first took the opportunity to "tour" in Hangzhou, where they made a "high-profile" appearance, played around during the day, and entertained local celebrities.But as soon as it got dark, I immediately rushed back to Shanghai at high speed.Then continue yesterday's work at night.

At two o'clock in the morning on March [-]th, as Huang Ke and Elena teamed up, they raised the self-made door breaker and hammered it hard at the last brick wall. The door" was opened.

What everyone opened this time was the vault where the gold was stored.

As the largest financial center in the Far East, HSBC has stored nearly forty tons of gold here!As for silver, the quantity is more than [-] tons (this is historical data).If it weren't for the impact of the economic crisis, a lot of gold and silver was transferred back to the country by the British for emergency, and there would be more gold in it.

Huang Ke turned on the emergency light he carried with him in the vault. Under the light, the gleaming gold dazzled everyone's eyes.

Lu Chishui was the third person to enter the vault. He was also dumbfounded when he saw countless gold bars and bricks on the shelves and in the boxes.

Lu Chishui panted, "These golds belong to the Chinese people!"

Huang Ke said greedily: "That's right! It's just a small interest. If we have the opportunity in the future, we will move things to the British Museum!"

Dozens of tons of gold were quickly collected by Huang Ke into the space equipment, including the batch that Elena transported over for "loan mortgage" during the day and the batch that was mortgaged at Christmas.

Huang Ke said shamelessly:

"In a few years when the world war breaks out, the value of the pound will be greatly reduced. We owed HSBC money, so we tried to pay it back earlier, and then asked them to pay us back the gold."

Elena, who had already been led by her, nodded, um, no, actually Huang Ke was led by her.

The underground vault of HSBC Bank is not limited to this one. After coming out of the gold vault, everyone walked to the next vault,

Although the vault is located underground, there are also people on night shift here, but the long-term security makes the guards completely unvigilant, and most of the Asan guards guarding it are actually sleeping.

The one who was actually on the night shift was sitting at the desk at the front desk, sleeping on it...

When Huang Ke and Elena rushed out of the vault masked, the man was awakened by the noise, and before he could make a sound, Elena shot him in the head with a silenced pistol seven steps away.

"Seven steps away, the gun is fast!"

"Within seven steps, the gun is accurate and fast!"

Times have changed, and after losing her previous good skills, Elena, like Huang Ke, loves to use guns to solve problems more and more.

As for the group of Asan Sikh soldiers who were sleeping in the nearby duty room, they were also directly beaten to death on the bed by the male and female thieves.A group of vault guards died without any effect.When confiscating the weapons of these guards, Huang Ke unexpectedly discovered that the weapons used by these Sikh guards, except for short guns, were all American-made Thomson submachine guns.

After that, Huang Ke, who had reached the full level of lockpicking ability, easily opened the other vault doors.

There are too many gold and silver reserves in the HSBC treasury. The back and forth, including the weight of the boxes, just used up [-] tons of carrying capacity.

After finishing the work, the last thing everyone did was to break the lock of the door leading to the upper floor.At the same time, all the iron racks, boxes and other messy things that store gold and silver in the warehouse were transported and piled up in the passage to block them.

At five o'clock in the morning, everyone evacuated the bank, and everyone evacuated Shanghai.

Lu Chishui and others took the train at 06:30 in the morning, went directly to Xi'an, and returned to the Ganshan Soviet Area from there.Before leaving, Lu Chishui took someone to "clean" the vault site, removing all traces as much as possible.In order to better destroy the corpses and traces, a time bomb was placed in the house used for camouflage—not powerful, directional blasting, trained by the Soviets, he could blow up the house with a small amount of explosives, and No harm to neighbors.

As for the vault, it was doused with gasoline and a pre-timed explosive device was also prepared, in order to erase as many traces of the crimes as possible.

When the train left Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, Lu Chishui and his party heard the sound of an explosion in the distance.

Huang Ke and Elena drove back to Hangzhou overnight.Then, with the support of the local underground party, the two held a banquet by the West Lake at noon that day, chatted and laughed with local celebrities, and continued to pretend that "they have always been in Hangzhou".

On March [-]th, Huang Ke and Elena woke up after a day's rest at the Hangzhou Hotel. When they went downstairs to have breakfast, all the front-page news on the newspaper shelf beside them was the shocking theft of HSBC Bank. big news.

Afterwards, the two people who were "frightened and pale" rushed back to Shanghai in a "hurry".

When they rushed back to Shanghai as "victims", the outside of HSBC Bank in the concession had already been blocked by layers of military police.The inner circle is the mercenaries and patrols of the Wan Guo Business Group, the middle circle is a large group of reporters who came after hearing the news, and the outer circle is many depositors with deposits in HSBC.

The fire in the vault was extinguished long ago.Due to the special location of the treasury, the damage to the main body of the building is not much, but the damage to the building is not much...

As for the crime scene more than 200 meters away, it has now turned into ruins.

In the inner circle of people, Huang Ke and Elena saw the director of the Wan Guo Business Group, the mayor of Shanghai, and even their old friends, Ye Xiufeng from the Central Command and Dai Yunong from the Military Command— Just in March of this year, Chang Kaishen separated the Fuxing Society from the Zhongtong and officially named it the Juntong. Dai Li also successfully changed from the director of the department to the director of the bureau.

It's just that less than a week after he took office, Huang Ke gave him this super gift in Shanghai.

Director Dai said to the two people who "heard the news and came to inquire about the news":

"It's the fourth time! The same method, the same taste! More than [-] tons of gold and silver disappeared. It must be the mysterious cobra!"

Among the male and female thieves, the male thieves said worriedly:

"Will HSBC go bankrupt?"

The female thief, clutching her recently swollen chest, said worriedly: "We are at HSBC, and we have mortgaged nearly a ton of gold! It's just a mortgage, not a sale. I don't want the British to return the printing paper in the future." Where's our money!"

Bandit Xiong touched her "conscience" on the right side and comforted her:

"It's okay baby, the British Empire has gold!"

Elena's heart grows on the left side like a human being's, and Huang Ke can touch it on the right side. She has no conscience, only breasts that she can't grasp...

In the next few days, the entire concession area entered a state of martial law, and the police searched from house to house.The secret passage connecting the vault and the ruins of a house disguised as a restaurant were immediately discovered by the patrol room.It only took another two days before they found the mysterious precast concrete panel factory that had been emptied long ago.

The painters found in the concession were very high-level, and quickly drew portraits of several major suspects through the descriptions of their neighbors. Arrive in Yan'an.

During this period of time, the radio stations in Shanghai Bund repeatedly reported related news, and various rumors were flying everywhere.HSBC is still stubborn about it, claiming that it only lost a small amount of money.But in fact, the huge amount of gold and silver it lost shocked even the king of England.

Unsurprisingly, HSBC stock plummeted for several days after the news came out.

And Huang Ke, who shorted in advance, and the Soviets made a small profit through the stock market in this matter.

It was on the night of March [-] that Stalin learned that Huang Ke had successfully completed the robbery plan and plundered countless gold and silver.

The moment he got the telegram, he recalled the glorious years when he planned to rob the National Bank of Georgia many years ago.

"My career has successors!"

That night, he held a dinner in the Kremlin in a particularly good mood, and when he gave a toast, Georgia’s chief classical financier held a wine glass and said something that no one around him could understand: “To our dead youth."

At the same time, Huang Ke, a "modern financier" located in Shanghai, Asia, specially opened a room facing it in the hotel opposite the HSBC Bank, and then asked Elena to face the HSBC building where the crime was committed through the window. , celebrating yesterday's victory with his favorite way of "slapping" from behind.

Liu Changfa, who had already "returned to the construction", and the other [-] Red Army soldiers who participated in the "Changsha Zero Yuan Purchase" only learned through the newspapers on March [-] that the "Super Massacre" that could be recorded in Shanghai took place in history. zero dollar purchase".

"Missed, missed, what a pity!"

Liu Changfa knew who did it just by glancing at the newspaper.

At this time, Liu Changfa was leading other comrades to take up the task of "security guard" at Tianma Company's Taiyuan branch.

Liu Fachang thought expectantly in his heart.

"This time in Taiyuan, we should also have the opportunity to make a big news to make up for it!"

The reason why he thinks this way is because the comrade "Lin Changhe" who participated in the zero-yuan purchase in Changsha with him is also in Taiyuan City.He is good at communication, and now he is a guest of Yan Laoxi's family, and he is "talking and laughing" with Yan Laoxi's family recently.

At this time, the Shanxi campaign planned by Chairman Li Runshi is about to begin.As an early infiltrator, Liu Changfa received the task of lurking in Taiyuan City, ready to attack at any time.

On March [-], Fu Zuoyi's troops in Baotou finally arrived at the long-lost Red Army troops.

Late that night, the garrison stationed on the north side of the Yellow River and responsible for the defense of the north bank of the river section suddenly encountered a large number of Red Army crossing the river at night to attack.

The two sides fought for a while in the dark. After dawn, the Red Army crossed the south and retreated. This was just a tentative feint.

Then a large number of cavalry units of the Red Army also appeared in the north of Baotou, and they also harassed and left with one blow.

The news of "Baotou's war is tight" immediately attracted Chang Kaishen's attention.

At the same time, Yan Laoxi was wearing a thick cotton coat, personally inspecting the construction of Taiyuan's city defense project.

"Damn winter!"

Yan Laoxi hated the severe cold weather now.

Chang Tuozi thought that the Red Army really focused on Baotou, but Yan Laoxi was not fooled.

It was only at the end of November that he thought of strengthening Taiyuan's city defense work, and then he realized how difficult and troublesome it is to build concrete fortifications in a sub-zero low temperature environment.During construction in cold weather, the work efficiency of workers is low, and the precious cement is also poor in setting and hardening in low temperature environments. At this time, the Taiyuan fortifications built by Yan Laoxi were not the ones that used a large number of steel reinforcements during the War of Liberation in history. Strong fortifications constructed of concrete.Except for several main fortresses that are planned to use steel and concrete, the rest of the small fortresses are bonded with masonry and concrete.

The problem is that the main fortress has a huge amount of work, the construction speed is slow in winter, and the quality is poor. What's worse is that it happened to be during the Spring Festival.During the Spring Festival, the workers were not in the mood to work, and they just wasted another half a month.After the Spring Festival, the weather was colder and the construction was difficult. One month after the Spring Festival, only two of the ten main fortresses in the plan were barely built, and the rest were all half-finished projects or just started.

"The fortifications here in Taiyuan haven't been completed... Li Runshi, you must not cross the Yellow River at this time!"

After inspecting the construction site in Taiyuan, he was very dissatisfied with the slow progress of the construction. While punishing the relevant personnel who were unfavorable, he also offered a large amount of money to stimulate the reward, demanding to speed up the progress. After the inspection, he immediately moved to the Yellow River by car.

During the inspection, Yan Xishan dispatched with his own guard battalion, and a group of more than 20 vehicles set off from Taiyuan City.These cars were sold to him by the Tianma trading company he cooperated with.Although there are railways in Shanxi, they are not available everywhere.Yan Xishan, who had tasted the sweetness of trucks, bought fifty trucks in one go and formed his own transport fleet.

On March 21, Yan Xishan's convoy arrived at Yongkou Ferry. After patrolling the river defense, when the convoy was about to go to the next target, there was a sudden buzzing sound from the sky.

It was the hum of an airplane's piston engine.

Yan Xishan, who was sitting in the convoy, looked through the car window and found that several black spots appeared in the western sky, and they were rapidly approaching his convoy position.

"Airplane? West direction! Not good!"

In the end it was the old warlord who fought in blood and fire, Yan Xishan realized the situation was not good at the first moment.He hurriedly jumped out of the car, left the convoy, and took people to the nearby field to hide.While running, he cursed at the people around him:

"Scatter, scatter, don't gather towards me!"

The old warlord is an old warlord after all, with a keen sense of smell, he guessed at the first time that his actions may have been targeted by others, and this is very likely to be an "elaborately planned" "beheading" operation aimed at himself .

Yan Xishan led the people to run not far away, and a total of eight Al-5 attack planes had already flown over the convoy.These two-wing reconnaissance attack bombers carry about 50 kilograms of bombs. They fly over the convoy from a height of [-] meters. The target is very clear, which is Yan Laoxi's convoy.

Each aircraft has three pylons, each of which is hung with a 60-kilogram earth-made explosive incendiary bomb. The eight planes attacked in turn, dropping 24 explosive incendiary bombs on the convoy in one breath, instantly burning a fire on the ground. A large sea of ​​flames.

These earth-made incendiary bombs are made of thin iron barrels, and the inside is filled with earth-made gasoline refined from the oil produced by Yanchang Oilfield. The oil quality is very low, but it is enough to be used as incendiary bombs.

After the air strike, a dozen trucks caught fire, and a large number of soldiers were screaming and rolling on fire. After the incident, the plane was still unwilling to leave, and continued to hover over the convoy, repeatedly shooting the chaotic Jin people on the ground with their machine guns. Sui army officers and soldiers.