Chapter 640: Arms Smuggling
Ask the director and ask him to check if this letter firm has any dealings with Asahi & Co.! Fang Buwei said to Zhao Shirui, "Also, send the characteristics of this steamer to the director, and ask him to send someone to check if it has appeared in the city!" ”
There are nearly 70 people hidden in the tunnels of the two newspapers and the Dong Mansion, how did these people eat and drink?
Fang Buwei had already inquired during the day, and there was no record of bulk shipments from the nearby grain stores, and the rice and grain used were also sent out from here nine times out of ten.
"Let's go back then!" Zhao Shirui nodded and said, "You can't make a call here!" ”
"Seal this place first!" Fang is not a finger to Feng Jiashan.
Two people with four guards returned to the light smoke building.
As soon as the car reached the halfway point, it was stopped by Zhao Shirui's people.
"Director, the arsenal has been found!" One of the chiefs of the Investigation Section had a strange look on his face.
"Exhausted?" Zhao Shirui reprimanded.
The chief gritted the back of his teeth: "But it's not a Japanese ......"
"What do you mean?" Zhao Shirui's eyes widened violently.
"You'll know when you go, and you don't dare to guess!" The chief replied, "Two warehouses, full of bullets......
"No guns?" Zhao Shirui asked in a deep voice.
"Yes, there are 500 Bailanglin, 500 Huaning heavy machine guns, and the rest are all bullets......"
Fang Buwei's heart jumped, and he subconsciously looked at Zhao Shirui.
Zhao Shirui also looked similar, his chest bulged violently, and he gritted his teeth fiercely.
I didn't find the Japanese, but I found my own people first?
Not surprisingly, the things in the arsenal that Zhao Shirui's subordinates said could only come out of the Jinling Arsenal.
The Jinling Arsenal mainly produces bullets, as well as imitation six-inch and eight-inch Browning pistols. A small amount of Maxim Shuiling heavy machine guns were manufactured, which was what the unit commander called the Huaning heavy machine gun.
Type 82 mortars, aircraft bombs and yellow explosives were also manufactured, but the production was very low.
"Is there any gunpowder and mortars?" Fang Buwei asked again.
"There is no cannon, there is a part of gunpowder, but not much, less than a hundred catties, it is all gunpowder ......"
Gunpowder is smokeless gunpowder, and the production volume of the Jinling Arsenal is not large, and it can produce four or five hundred catties a month, most of which is used to make bullets.
"I'll fuck you!" Zhao Shirui said angrily, "What happened to the Jinling Arsenal to get to Xiaguan?" ”
"I caught a few people looking at the warehouse, and according to them, they were ...... preparing to be transported to Shandong," the head of the unit replied.
"Fuck shit?" Zhao Shirui roared.
The Jinling Arsenal has no warehouse at all in Xiaguan.
The Central Army's supplementary equipment, or the procurement of local armies in various localities, also took the waterway. But it was always loaded from the arsenal, escorted to the dock with heavy troops, and then loaded onto ships.
This is clearly the smuggling of people inside the arsenal.
"Let's go check it out first!" Fang Buwei sighed.
He wasn't very angry.
The Japanese still don't look down on domestic things.
Not surprisingly, these guns and ammunition were smuggled into the local army.
But for the chairman's family, this is a great event, as if the sky has fallen.
Zhao Shirui's heart was angry, in order to make the car run faster, he actually drove all the guards down, and took the unit chief.
Afraid that something would happen to him in a hurry, Fang Buwei didn't dare to let him drive, and left the driver behind.
The car flew to the place where the chief of the unit had spoken.
After getting out of the car, Fang Buwei took a look, this place has just come out of the west gate of the water, and it is less than half a mile away from the light smoke building.
Less than 100 meters is the Qinhuai River, you can enter the city through the Xishui Pass, and through the moat, you can directly reach the Jinling Arsenal located outside the Zhonghua Gate.
Not surprisingly, the contents of the warehouse were all transported through inland rivers.
"Don't worry, let's go first!" Fang Buwei patted Zhao Shirui on the shoulder.
The warehouse is not big, only forty or fifty square meters, but the pile is full, all of which are wooden boxes.
Some have been dismantled and scattered on the ground.
Fang Buwei glanced at it, and indeed as the head said, most of them were bullets.
On the side of the wall, there was a long row of large wooden boxes, more than half a person high, and several of them had been dismantled.
The artillery-like Maxim Shui Ling heavy machine gun was exposed, reflecting a cold glow.
Fang Buwei has never understood that the Maxim Shuiling machine gun is the first general-purpose machine gun in history, and it can even shoot anti-aircraft projectiles.
Looking at the bullets and machine guns, Zhao Shirui trembled with anger.
Among the four major arsenals, the Mukden Arsenal has fallen into the hands of the Japanese, and the remaining three arsenals are all under the control of the Nationalist Government.
During the Central Plains War, one of the reasons why the warlords in various places were defeated so quickly was that they could not replenish their weapons and equipment in time, while the Central Army had a steady stream of supplies.
After reunification, more than 90 percent of the equipment purchased by the local armies in various localities also came from these three major arsenals, which was also one of the main means used by the Nationalist Government to control the local armies in various localities, and was also one of the main sources of taxation.
These three major arsenals have long been regarded as the lifeblood of the chairman of the NPC National Committee.
There are tens of thousands of bullets in two warehouses, and this is only a one-time shipment, and God knows how many have been smuggled out.
Zhao Shirui couldn't wait to lead people to rush to the arsenal, and all the people were killed.
"What about people?" Zhao Shirui roared.
The people escorted up by the personnel of the Investigation Bureau were all bloodstained and looked like they had been tortured.
Zhao Shirui pulled out a pistol with a "pout", put it on the head of one of them, and roared: "If you don't tell the truth, Lao Tzu will collapse you immediately!" ”
Fang Buwei sighed secretly.
If he had gotten the news in advance and acted faster, there was a great possibility that he would have been able to find out the specific direction of this batch of munitions before dawn.
It will definitely not be sold to the Japanese, who simply do not look down on these things.
Eighty percent are local warlords, and even rear base areas.
"Sir, it's really a ...... shipped to Shandong" was only halfway through the words, and he was kicked down by Zhao Shirui.
Zhao Shirui was cold, and he couldn't wait to shoot immediately.
Fang Buwei gently raised Zhao Shirui's hand holding the gun, pointed to the wooden box in front of him and said, "Don't mess around, be careful of misfire!" ”
In addition to guns and bullets, there were explosives in the warehouse.
"Take it back and give it to the commander!" Fang Buwei persuaded again, "Check the Japanese first!" ”
Zhao Shirui gritted his teeth and kicked over again.
The few who watched the warehouses were all escorted back to the military police headquarters, and Fang Bu ordered Zhao Shirui's subordinates to pass on the order, and ordered the fifth regiment of the military police to transfer a company and seal the two warehouses.
As soon as he and Zhao Shirui returned to the Qingyan Building, Fang Buwei was about to call Gu Zhenlong and report the matter in detail, when the phone on the first floor rang first.
"Sir, you've found the Japanese arsenal!" Zheng Lixin, the leader of the third group of the counterintelligence unit, reported excitedly, "It's all good guns, new goods, and I haven't ......even opened the box."