Chapter 56: Surprise and Joy
A few people in Tang Cheng are in pain and happiness at the moment, happy that the gold is finally in hand, but the pain is how to safely transport the gold back to the concession. There were only five of them in Tang City, and if they wanted to take all the gold here, after everyone shared it, they had to carry nearly 60 kilograms of gold. If it was a time when there was no danger in peacetime, even if everyone carried 60 kilograms, it would be nothing, but this is Hongkou District, which is strictly controlled by the Japanese army, and no one can pack a ticket to say that they can leave here safely with 60 kilograms of gold.
In order to get out of here safely, Tang Cheng, who was originally going to use his carry-on equipment bag to store US dollars, had to temporarily change his decision, and while the four of them were busy carrying the gold out, Tang Cheng quietly used his carry-on equipment bag to store a few gold bricks first. After several upgrades, Tang Cheng's carry-on equipment bag is currently limited to 35 kilograms, excluding pistols, bullets, and some useful equipment, Tang Cheng has already vacated the carry-on bag for tonight's operation.
30 kilograms of gold, this is already the limit of Tang Cheng's storage in the carry-on equipment bag, which is equivalent to helping the five of them reduce the weight of each of them by five kilograms. The gold in the basement was quickly moved to the corridor on the first floor, and Hans's four men packed the gold bricks they had smelted themselves into several canvas backpacks and tried them behind their backs, only to find that the gold bricks did not seem to interfere with their movements.
Tang Cheng just watched and didn't speak, if he was just carrying more than 50 kilograms of weight in his backpack, maybe an adult man could do it. But if you carry more than 50 kilograms of heavy loads and move all the way from here to the Suzhou Creek, and you have to carefully avoid the military police patrol during the process, it is not a simple matter. The dollars that Tang Cheng couldn't bear to throw away were also divided into the backpack by several people, even if it was a cushion to prevent the gold bricks in the backpack from colliding with each other.
Tang Cheng didn't look very athletic, but when it came to weight, not to mention a weight of more than 50 kilograms, it was a weight of 70 kilograms, and Tang Cheng could still carry it. After secretly weighing in their hearts, Tang Cheng and the others left from the main gate of the Jincheng branch, and several people carried heavy backpacks and carefully moved towards the location of Suzhou Creek along the shadows on the side of the street. Sure enough, as Tang Cheng expected, after they only walked out of the two blocks, some of Hans's four men were already panting.
"You can't stop, the closer you get to the Suzhou Creek, the more Japanese patrols there are, and if you touch them, let alone gold, even you may die here." Tang Cheng, who had been walking in the front, slowed down slightly, and when he spoke, he had already stretched out his right hand to pull the guy who wanted to stop and rest. "Hold on a little longer, cross the street in front of you, and find a place to rest."
It was still early in the morning, and when he left the Jincheng branch, Tang Cheng had already calculated the time, as long as the five of them were not discovered by the Japanese patrol and entangled in pursuit, it was not very difficult to leave Hongkou District safely. It's a pity that the world is unpredictable, Tang Cheng didn't expect that the people sent by Hans looked tall and big, but their physical strength was so poor. And just when he fooled the other party to hold on a little longer, the man in black who was walking in front instead of him suddenly stopped.
In the silent night, the footsteps coming from the front street entrance were very clear, and Tang Cheng couldn't help but secretly change color, listening to the footsteps, it was likely that the Japanese patrol would appear from the front street entrance. What to do? The men in black, who were carrying dozens of kilograms of gold, turned their heads to look at Tang Cheng in unison. There were only five of them in Tangcheng, and they were carrying dozens of kilograms of gold on their backs, and in this case, they had no chance of resisting the Japanese patrol at all.
"David, take them back to the corner where you just now, and if you hear gunshots or shouting, you go left into the first alley on the side of the street. Go out of the alley all the way to the east for 2 blocks, and then turn to the concession, where your boss will wait for us to cross the river. Tang Cheng didn't hesitate at all, and immediately made arrangements, and the man in black named by Tang Cheng wanted to persuade Tang Cheng to leave together, but saw that Tang Cheng had already rushed to the front.
Tang Cheng, like the other four people, was carrying a backpack full of gold, but looking at Tang Cheng's speed at the moment, it didn't seem to be affected. David, who was named by Tang Cheng, can be regarded as Hans's henchman, and David has participated in several previous collaborations with Hans, so he naturally knows how Tang Cheng is skilled. It was just such a stunned effort, Tang Cheng had already run out of a distance of more than ten meters, and by the time David came back to his senses, Tang Cheng had already knelt on one knee, and the whole person was hidden in the shadows on the side of the street.
"Let's go, let's go back!" David knew that there was absolutely no room for indecision at this time, otherwise none of them would be able to leave. The four of David turned around and walked back, Tang Cheng, who was hidden on the side of the street, was ready to shoot at any time, and now it was up to him to see if the Japanese patrol that was about to appear would turn into the street along the street. Tang Cheng has never been in the habit of entrusting his fate to God, so whenever he encounters a crisis, he is always used to facing it positively, rather than retreating.
The footsteps from the street corner became clearer and clearer, and Tang Cheng's expression became more and more serious in the night, and the patrol that ran into the Japanese was not the most dangerous, but once the gun was fired, it was the most dangerous. Tang Cheng's pistol has long been equipped with ***, but there is only one pistol, and there are only two spare magazines, and it is quite difficult to kill a Japanese patrol with three magazines. I don't know if God heard Tang Cheng's heart at this moment, and the Japanese patrol that appeared at the corner of the street actually went straight through the street and went to another street.
Tang Cheng, who was squatting in the shadow on the side of the street, did not relax immediately, and waited until he could not hear the footsteps of the patrol, so Tang Cheng turned on the flashlight and signaled to David and the others who retreated to the street behind him. Tang Cheng, who had already planned to use his body as bait to lure away this Japanese patrol, was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, only to feel a chill in his back, and secretly swore in his heart that he would never do this kind of thing again in the future. "Let's go!" Tang Cheng, who was squatting on the side of the street, waited for the four of David to come over, then got up and continued to walk, now is definitely not the time to stop and rest.
Tang Cheng didn't say much, just one left, and the four of David could only endure their exhaustion, followed Tang Cheng and quickly crossed the street and disappeared into the night. At this time, Hans had already waited a little too much to sit still, and looked at the other side of the river through the car window countless times, but there was always no expected signal. When Tang Cheng led people to swim across the river, he also brought two hemp ropes, one end of which was attached to two small sampans, and the other end of the hemp rope was fixed under the water surface on the other side of the river.
Time seemed to pass slowly as Hans waited anxiously, and Hans looked down at his watch again and again, and just as he was about to lose all patience, a pillar of flashlight finally appeared on the other side of the river. The flashlight pillar that pierced the night flickered, and then there was a pre-arranged signal, and after a long and two short signals, the hemp rope hidden under the water was pulled out of the water, and the sampan that stopped here was slowly pulled by the hemp rope.
"Go down and help!" After making sure that there was no problem with the signal, Hans immediately got out of the car and beckoned his two men who had been hiding in the nearby alley to jump off the embankment. Twine ropes were fastened to both sides of the sampan, and as soon as they carried the gold onto the sampan from Tangcheng on the other side of the river, Hans's two men on this side would immediately drag the hemp rope backwards and quickly pull the sampan loaded with gold across the Suzhou Creek. The Suzhou Creek was not very wide, and Hans was well prepared, and the sampan that was dragged across the river was quickly pulled back.
Those who crossed the river with the sampan were not only gold, but also five people from Tang City. Hans, who went into battle in person, didn't bother to greet Tang Cheng, and several people were busy for a while, first carrying the backpacks on the sampan onto the river embankment. "Fortunately, I was not dishonored! I brought back both the gold and your people. Tang Cheng, who had slipped into the passenger seat of the car, didn't say much, but just gave Hans a knowing look, and the latter grinned.
Half an hour later, in the office of Hans's restaurant, the five backpacks were opened by Hans one by one, and the gold bricks smelted by the Jincheng branch itself, one by one, soon released a small pyramid on the floor of the office. "The actual situation, unlike the information I have, we found almost 300 kilograms of gold, and a lot of dollars." Tang Cheng, who had already changed his clothes, was lazily reclining on the sofa at the moment.
"300 kilograms of gold?" When the sampan was actually dragged back to the concession side, Hans had already found that the amount of gold was wrong, and at this moment Hans's eyes were full of joy, Tang Cheng originally said that the gold was only a hundred kilograms, but now it suddenly doubled the amount, and Hans was already calculating how much he could get. In addition to gold, there are also old and young dollars in the backpack, and Hans only roughly counted, and these dollars are more than 300,000 at least.
"Give you more gold, give you half, but all these dollars will belong to me, and you must promise that you will rearrange people to smelt these gold into gold bars, so that the Japanese will not see anything wrong." Tang Cheng gave Hans dozens of kilograms of gold, not because he wanted to give benefits to the other party for nothing, because he still had to rely on Hans to leave Shanghai, and half of the gold that belonged to him also needed Hans's help to get rid of it and exchange it for foreign currency.
"No problem!" Dozens of kilograms of gold were obtained for nothing, and Hans was naturally happy. "I will immediately arrange for someone to re-smelt this gold, and I will exchange your half for pounds and US dollars, and then arrange for someone to send it to Chongqing." In contrast to Tang Cheng, Hans preferred to use gold bars, especially when dealing with intelligence dealers, which were better than paper money.