Seeing that the time was approaching half past eight, Zhang Shixue called and told Lin Jiangbei that Colonel Price had agreed to his request and sent two soldiers from his Marine Company to patrol the public concession.

After hearing the news, Lin Jiangbei also couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart. Colonel Price's 4th Marine Regiment of the U.S. Marine Corps is stationed on Haiphong Road, just across the Suzhou Creek from the Public Concession Day Management Area. On weekdays, the Japanese will know what happened to the Fourth Marine Regiment under Colonel Price, not to mention that today Colonel Price directly sent two soldiers from the Marine Company out?

One can imagine how panicked and confused the responsible persons of the major Japanese institutions in Shanghai must be, especially the Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters on the North Sichuan Road, which currently controls the only Japanese military force in Shanghai, will certainly transfer the vast majority of its Marine forces to the banks of the Suzhou Creek and closely monitor the US Marines on the other side of the Suzhou Creek in order to guard against any surprise attack by the US Marines.

In other words, with the dispatch of these two Marine companies under Colonel Price, the entire Hongkou area has basically become an empty shell full of omissions, which can be manipulated at will.

Lin Jiangbei returned upstairs and asked Liu Xuan to put the old sole of his shoe into his arms, and he himself stuffed the incendiary pencil into his handbag, then carried the handbag, took Liu Xuan downstairs, stopped a taxi, and rushed to Guangfu Road in the Zhabei area.

The most convenient way to get to Zhapu Road from the residence of Rafeifang in the French Concession where they live is naturally from them, and then all the way north into the British and American jurisdiction of the Public Concession, and then continue north to the Suzhou Creek, cross the Zhapu Road Bridge across both banks, and enter the Zhapu Road on the other side of the river.

However, because of the dispatch of two Marine companies under Colonel Price, several bridges connecting the British and American districts of the Public Concession, including Zhapu Road, must now be heavily guarded by Japanese marines who rushed over after hearing the news. Lin Jiangbei took Liu Xuan across the Zhapu Road Bridge at this time, and he must be strictly checked by the Japanese marines guarding the bridge, so Lin Jiangbei naturally could not choose this most convenient road.

The route he has chosen now is to enter the west side of the Anglo-American Concession from the French Concession, and then from the west side of the Anglo-American Concession to the Zhabei area, cross the Suzhou Creek on the Xinzha Bridge, and enter the Guangfu Road in the Zhabei area, which is under the jurisdiction of the Chinese government. In this way, it was possible to smoothly avoid the forces of the marines that the Japanese had deployed to the banks of the Suzhou Creek in the Japanese area of the public concession.

Sure enough, just as Lin Jiangbei had envisioned, the taxi they took traveled unimpeded through the two concessions and the Xinzha Bridge over Suzhou Creek to Guangfu Road on the north bank of Suzhou Creek.

Lin Jiangbei led Liu Xuan to get off the bus from Guangfu Road, and after walking for dozens of meters, after the taxi that sent them was far away, he reached out to stop a taxi, and then directed the taxi to drive north to Xinmin Road, and then followed Xinmin Road eastward into Xinjizi Road, the northernmost boundary of the public concession day management area.

The taxi continued to drive east along Xinjizi Road for more than ten minutes, and arrived at the intersection of Xinjizi Road and Beishan West Road.

When he got here, Lin Jiangbei stopped the taxi, and he got out of the car with Liu Xuan and walked into Beishan West Road, that is, the road where he, the little dunghead, contracted the business of pouring manure buckets.

The identity of the small dung head who contracted the fecal bucket business on Beishan West Road was also another reliance on Lin Jiangbei's actions tonight.

Because it is impossible for the Japanese to transfer all the Japanese marines in the Japanese area to the banks of the Suzhou Creek, a small number of marines will certainly be left to maintain a minimum of patrol operations in the Japanese area.

In this case, no matter how low the patrol limit of the Japanese is, Lin Jiangbei and Liu Xuan may be stopped and interrogated by Japanese marines.

In this case, Lin Jiangbei wants to show the Japanese his true identity as a little dung head on Beishan West Road, and Liu Xuan is his entourage of this little dung head.

As a small dung head who contracted the dung bucket business on Beishan West Road, he led his entourage to inspect his own territory on the spot, which is a normal thing, and there is nothing suspicious.

Moreover, whether it is the British and American administrative areas of the public concession or the Japanese administrative area, the status of the dung head is very high, even if the Japanese marines are domineering, they do not dare to offend the dung head easily.

What's more critical is that Beishan West Road is only three streets away from Lin Jiangbei and Zhapu Road, Liu Xuan's destination. Lin Jiangbei and Liu Xuan walked from Beishan West Road to the apartment building in Xiachuan, Gucun, opposite the Dongguang Theater on Zhapu Road, which was at most ten minutes.

It is based on this psychology that when Lin Jiangbei took Liu Xuan from the intersection of Xinjizi Road and Beishan West Road from north to south to enter Beishan West Road, his mentality was extremely relaxed.

And when they crossed the first half of the Beishan West Road, just as Lin Jiangbei guessed, there was no shadow of Japanese marines on the road at all.

It seems that most of the Japanese marines have been transferred to the shores of Suzhou Creek, and the density and limit of patrols in the core area of the Japanese management area are much lower than I imagined!

While thinking about it, Lin Jiangbei whispered to Liu Xuan, who was following him half a step and faithfully playing the role of a follower: "Walk a few dozen meters ahead, and you will arrive at the Dajiangnan Hotel." We turned left along the Dajiangnan Hotel, then walked east, crossed three roads in turn, and arrived near the Dongguang Theater on Zhapu Road. ”

Liu Xuan nodded. He used to go to the Dongguang Theater on Zhapu Road to reconnoitre, and he crossed the Zhapu Road Bridge from the Anglo-American District of the Public Concession and directly entered Zhapu Road. Therefore, although I established a concept in my mind before setting off on this route, I was not as familiar with Lin Jiangbei as I had not actually walked it.

Soon, the two of them came to the Grand Jiangnan Hotel. Just when Lin Jiangbei led Liu Xuan to turn left and was about to walk in the direction of Zhapu Road, he suddenly heard a stop. Then a dozen heavily armed Japanese marines appeared from the hideouts on both sides of the road and surrounded the two of them!

If only two or three Japanese marines were seen, Lin Jiangbei would not be surprised. However, more than a dozen Japanese marines appeared at once, which greatly surprised Lin Jiangbei.

Because according to the normal situation, even if the Japanese arrange people to patrol, it will only be a minimum, that is, two or three soldiers will go together. Now more than a dozen Japanese marines have popped up at once, which is basically the strength of a Japanese elite squad.

What went wrong for the Japanese to ambush such an elite Marine force here?