Except for Andrei and another seriously injured person who remained in the clinic for further treatment, the other minor wounded were taken back to the mansion by Alyosha after their wounds were treated.

At that time, the team members on the Huangpu River freighter did not find Lao Ren, so they had no choice but to push the body on the ship into the river first. Then they sent someone to swim to the workshop, and the barge used as the workshop unloaded the cargo from the freighter.

After arriving at the warehouse, it was already dark, and the workers of the spring factory pretended to have received information from other workers at the shore factory, and instigated the nearby factories and residents to launch a looting to dismantle all the materials that were useful to them on the freighter and transport them back.

The river behind the workshop can't dock the freighter, and even if it can be parked, the target is too big, so it can only be disassembled in this way. They dismantled and brought back mainly some instrumentation equipment and steel, and the remaining useful things were also divided among other factories near the shore.

By the time the water patrol found the freighter, it had become an empty hull, and the law did not blame the public, so they didn't want to get into trouble with such an ownerless freighter full of bullet shells and blood, and after a few officials came to inspect it, they let the empty shell ship that deviated from the course stay on the river, and finally the workshop was dispatched several times one after another, and the remaining steel plates and materials were dismantled.

It's just that until the next day, Lao Ren has been missing, which makes Pu Su and them worried. Even the three traitors brought back from Huxi did not bother to interrogate, and all of them were imprisoned in the dungeon for a few days.

Pu Su went to Lao Ren's house first and found that his fat wife didn't know what was going on at all, and thought that his man was working overtime in the patrol room. Pu Su couldn't say anything, only said that he was looking for him to eat and drink, so he went to the patrol room to look for him.

This matter cannot be made in a big way, and then only a few White Russians can be scattered to inquire about the news. It was supposed to be the best bag, but you can't ask them at all.

Then a copy of the number was sold at a completely unexpected speed, and it was sold in the streets and alleys of Shanghai for the first time. Pu Su took a few copies of the issues published by different newspapers and found that the content of the report was almost the same as the facts.

It's just that there is a lot of speculation about the cause. Some reporters said in their newspapers that it was because of the gangsters. The newly rising power of the Green Gang caused the dissatisfaction of the old people of Boss Du's faction, so under the mutual tilt, a fierce shootout occurred, which attracted the attention of the public concession, and as a result, a three-way melee was launched.

Some newspapers also reported that it was the Kuomintang guerrillas who were latent in the gang and raped them, which led to a large-scale shootout when punishing the traitors of the Green Gang.

The closest to the truth was that they had received inside information that several armored vehicles (actually trucks) had been stolen from the International Merchants, and that a large-scale exchange of fire had taken place during the pursuit.

And the gang of vehicle thefts was so fierce that they blew up two armored vehicles of the International Chamber of Commerce, which was obviously not committed by the Green Gang. The implication is that the group of people who hijacked the car should be professional soldiers, and as for which side it is, I think for myself.

However, some witnesses saw the corpses at the scene, and several of the Green Gang hooligans lying on the road were recognized, all of whom had names and surnames. In this way, it seems that the first argument is not unreasonable.

There are also some tabloid reports, and there are all kinds of speculation. Most of them are a little bit sidelined, but none of them are all right, and they can't even piece together a complete story line. Because, the most important thing is that none of them guessed that there was a White Russian intervention.

It's just that two things happened in one night. In addition to the shootout on the Bund, on the other hand, Pu Su also ransacked the tobacco shop, executed the traitors, and distributed leaflets. It's just that this matter has not been exposed, and not a single newspaper has mentioned it. There were hundreds of people present, but they suppressed the matter so strangely. Come to think of it, only No. 76 has this deterrent in western Shanghai.

From early March to April 1940, a series of gun robberies occurred throughout the French Concession and the Public Concession in Shanghai.

Many banks, jewellery stores and post offices were looted with unprecedented ferocity at the time.

Details of these robbery crimes. It is recorded in the files of the Concession Police.

Everywhere in the concession, from south to north, many banks were robbed by men armed with pistols, long guns or machine guns, almost every day.

During that time, it was not uncommon for Jewish and Indian-run jewelry stores to be broken down and expensive jewelry to be snatched.

The patrol of the concession, faced with the trembling and bleeding jewelers and shop assistants, had not had time to deal with it, and another similar case occurred in their jurisdiction.

As people rose up to defend themselves against robbers, several bank clerks were shot dead in different banks. In the first few days until the end of March, the situation got worse.

For the first time, the armed security forces of the French Concession Public Board, an anti-violence force familiar to every resident of the Concession, were composed entirely of French soldiers and were armed with machine guns for the first time.

Those who go to the bank must first be checked in the hall by black-uniformed security guards, each armed with a loaded machine gun. People have become accustomed to this.

Bankers from several major banks and jewellers of different skin colors strongly criticized the concession authorities for the robbery.

For this reason, the police increased the number of patrols at night, but to no avail.

Since these robbers were not thieves who specialized in stealing, the ones who quietly pried open bank vaults in the middle of the night, but a group of armed and masked thugs who were ready to shoot if they were slightly angered.

The most dangerous time is during the day, when any bank or jeweler may suddenly see two or three masked men with weapons in hand burst through the door and shout "Hands up!" ”

At the end of April, three robbers were injured and caught in different gun robberies. Some of these three people are nameless gangsters who carry out ordinary illegal acts under the sign of "secret rangers", and some are former deserters who recently admitted that they were members of the "secret rangers".

No matter how harsh the interrogation was in the patrol room, none of the three could explain why the wave of robbery had swept the city so suddenly.

They only confessed that they were instructed by their superiors to rob a certain bank and a certain jeweler.

In the end, the police believed that the prisoners did not know the purpose of the robbery, they were only ordered to rob, and they were small people who sat on the ground and shared the spoils. It was not until May that the French Concession Board of Directors discovered that "No. 76" was behind the previous sudden wave of robbery.

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