Chapter 6: Family Background
When Pu Su took the key and left the shikumen with Lao Ren, Scar and the others had already found a few stout White Russian women to clean inside and outside the house.
The furniture here is ready-made, but it used to be a pair of sisters who lived in it, which seemed a bit feminine.
Before leaving, Pu Su took care of them and put away unnecessary superfluous things and put them in the box in the annex house.
He has long been accustomed to simplicity, and when there are too many things in the room, he feels redundant.
Pu Su's car needs to be done a little bit because of the formalities, and it will be in place tomorrow. Lao Ren drove a Citroen, which was issued by the Board of Directors to the Political Department of the Capture House, which was equivalent to his special car.
Gu Ji asked him to take Pu Su to a few places to show up today, so that he could familiarize himself with the situation here as soon as possible.
Before going out, Pu Su was wearing an unusually bloated outfit, and he also tied a velvet scarf around his neck, such a simple disguise could roughly cover his figure and appearance.
Gu Ji's previous painstaking management results, he naturally will not sit idly by. The value of the clinic and the improvised soldier workshop alone that could get scarce medicines is incalculable.
And there is also a paramilitary force composed of hundreds of White Russians, which can play a big role once it is used.
Before coming, the little girl Wang Lan told him that these White Russians were now led by a former Tsarist professional soldier. This person has a deep relationship with Gu Ji and their sisters, and their feelings are very deep.
In the end, Wang Lan also asked Pu Su to bring something to help her hand it over.
Driving the car, Lao Ren's mouth didn't stop for a moment. After inquiring about Lao Hong for a while, and inquiring about Wang Lan for a while, I couldn't see that this middle-aged man with an obscene appearance was a very emotional person.
The embarrassing thing is that it is difficult for anyone to discover his inner beauty.
No way, this guy really ...... It's too much of a bad guy indeed.
Of course, Pu Su doesn't judge people by their appearance. Just from a professional point of view, this conclusion will probably be reached.
If he were asked to pick agents, whether he was in charge of intelligence or operations, he would not choose a comrade like Lao Ren to join.
The reason is also that his image and temperament are too prominent.
There are actually two kinds of swagger, handsome or ugly.
And neither of these people is suitable for joining the secret service.
Generally speaking, except for some special tasks that need to be performed, handsome men and beautiful women will be recruited in a targeted manner. In addition, as an agent, of course, the more low-key and unobtrusive it is, the better.
Unless they have expertise or are in charge of logistics, personnel with distinctive characteristics are not usually sent as field agents. For example, baldness, or facial moles and birthmarks, etc., these people will try not to absorb into the training class from the perspective of Pusu.
Although it is a little harsh, it is a kind of protection for them.
He himself has an ordinary appearance, his facial features are not handsome or ugly, and his figure is neither fat nor thin. If you change your outfit, you will be unremarkable everywhere you go. Even if you meet again soon after passing by, the other person may not be impressed.
Obviously, Ren Liansheng's condition is that he is too "prominent".
Of course, he is the inspector of the patrol house. It doesn't matter what it looks like.
The first place they arrived was a mansion on Luban Road. It is said to be the lair of the biggest gang leader of the White Russians in Shanghai.
The courtyard walls on both sides of the mansion are high, and the gate is also very wide.
It's just that on both sides of the gate there are not only strong White Russian guards with submachine guns and peaked caps, but also a Ford sedan blocking in the middle.
When they arrived, the guards whistled inside as soon as they saw the old man in the car.
A man came out of the door, got into the car, moved the car forward, and when they drove in, they reversed back and blocked the car at the front entrance.
After getting off the bus, Pu Su looked at the two-story British building in front of him, next to Fuxing Park. The milky white exterior wall and white eaves decoration design are atmospheric and compact.
The entrance is a protruding two-story building, the downstairs is a passageway, the west side is rectangular, there is a corridor on the south side of the downstairs, and there is a balcony on the second floor.
Pu Su thought to himself while watching, if a firepower point is arranged here, the firepower level of this terrain will be difficult to attack from the outside.
It is worthy of a mansion, and the area is quite large. The main building covers an area of about 800 square meters, and there is a hall downstairs.
There is a 60-square-metre terrace outside. Standing on the terrace, Pu Su looked at the large garden in front of the building, which was about 4,000 square meters, and was planted with various flowers and trees such as camphor, cedar, and wisteria.
It's a pity that this season is not yet the time to enjoy the flowers. The lawn is Manila-style, and there are swing racks that can seat several people.
At this time, someone on the lawn with three columns of disheveled white Russians was training assassination with wooden guns. Two bloodhounds were chasing Sa Huan'er in the woods in the distance......
Pu Su stood on it and looked at it with interest for a while. It was found that the movements of these miscellaneous armies were very standardized, and the orders and prohibitions were obviously often trained.
Soon here Pusu met the titular owner, Alyosha.
At first glance, it's hard to tell his real age, and his figure looks thin but very muscular. Typical dressed thin type, full of muscles as soon as you take off your clothes.
Alyosha is good at Chinese, so Pu Su changed to Chinese with him. After praising his authentic Chinese speaking, Alyosha directly said that he learned it after coming to China - an angelic little girl taught him Chinese.
At this time, Lao Ren just rubbed his nose when he heard it on the side, and it was rare that he didn't interject.
Alyosha knew Pu Su's intentions, and obviously bought Gu Ji's arrangement very much. Then I reported to him in the mansion about the current situation.
There are 120 paramilitaries directly on his side who are listed for training and under his command. Those who were not on the roster but had combat effectiveness, he coaxed that all the young and strong White Russians in the concession were all right.
At the same time, Alyosha said that now it is not considered a combat state for them. In normal times, they are mainly responsible for assisting the patrol houses to maintain order on the streets of the concession.
Lao Ren made additions on the side. Before the White Russians were organized, there was a mixed and chaotic order. Not only are Russian gangs entrenched, but they also collude with the Green Gang to do evil in the concession, and several other forces are making waves in the French concession.
The previous French director of the Central Patrol Office only knew about taking bribes, resulting in no one in the entire police department from top to bottom not being greedy. It wasn't until the French government replaced the original director back to China and appointed a new director to take office that the situation improved after Gu Ji joined.
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Speaking of which, Alyosha is an outsider even in Shanghai and Belarus.
He only came to Shanghai in 33 years, and then controlled the entire underground forces of the concession with the support of Gu Ji. It's just that he passed by this experience, and Lao Ren squeezed his eyes at Pu Su next to him.
A few years ago, a group of veterans who participated in the Tsarist War followed Lao Hong to the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation. The Belarusian Russians who were exiled to Shanghai have spent many years here, and they are much closer to their homeland in the northeast, which is somewhat psychologically comforting.
They will not be able to go back to Russia for the rest of their lives, and the original tsarist Russia is now in the hands of the CPSU. As long as these former defeated soldiers return to the territory of the Soviet Union, the fate can be imagined.
After a general understanding of the situation, Alyosha asked the whole team to give him an introduction. Pu Su waved his hand and said no, he didn't want to attract too much attention.
Alyosha then took him to see the ammunition depot where the weapons were stocked.
The ammunition depot was built underneath the mansion, which was originally a dungeon and storage place for the gang leaders.
Descending the iron escalator to the ground, and as Alyosha turned on the electric light, Pu Su was immediately stunned by what he saw.
Rows of American-made M1921 "Thomson" submachine guns lay on the gun racks, and this is only the smallest number of small arms.
The largest number of Bergman MP34 submachine guns in the entire basement was stacked in crates, at least about 200 units. There are also quite a few MP18 and 28 submachine guns, which are called "flower organs" by Chinese soldiers.
In addition, there are also several boxes of M24 grenades brought on Pu Su Road. Pu Su actually saw the American-made MK2 grenade, which made him overjoyed.
This grenade is much smaller than the M24 grenade, but the weight is the same, both are actually 595 grams. This is also when the M24 has a handle that is useless against killing.
The difference is obvious just like that.
The lethality of the M24 is only 2-3 meters, while the radius of the fragmentation projectile of the American-made grenade can reach at least 6 meters, and the fragmentation may fly farther in actual combat.
During the training in Moscow, Pu Su remembered that a trainee who was more than 10 meters away from the point of impact was still injured by shrapnel.
It's just that in terms of throwing distance, the M24 has no problem throwing 40 meters accurately. And the American-made MK2, even a fighter like him, who has undergone rigorous training, can throw about 30 meters at most.
Therefore, soldiers generally use fragmentation egg grenades such as MK2 as defensive grenades. The M24 is very useful when attacking positions because of its throwing distance.
In Pu Su's case, in fact, the most suitable thing for him to carry on this road is the MK2 grenade, which is small in size and lethal. It's just that there is no border area at all, and he can only take two M24s with him on the road.
There was no room for any more rattan crates, and the long wooden handle alone took up a lot of space.
Shanghai is not a real battlefield, and the MK2 grenade is obviously more in line with his requirements in terms of carrying concealment.
In addition, Pu Su also saw more than a dozen Czech ZB-26 light machine guns. All the oil seals are intact, apparently not used once, and the maintenance of the guns on Alyosha's side is very good.
When he saw six German MG34 heavy machine guns with tripods and 300-round magazines, he had little interest in the two poor Makqin heavy machine guns in the corner.
When he walked to the innermost, Alyosha lifted the tarpaulin and showed Pu Su the real killer weapon of this underground arsenal: the German-made Gr.W.34 80mm mortar.
The maximum firing range of this model mortar is about 2400 meters, and the maximum dispersion diameter is up to 65 meters. Although the cost at the time was only 81 pounds, and the shell was 1.5 pounds a piece, the problem was that it was difficult to buy it for money.
There are also six mortars of this model.
Judging by the reserves of this arsenal, it is enough to equip a reinforced battalion. And it's based on the German army or the American army.
Not to mention the Red Army, even the Central Army of the Nationalist Government could not reach the firepower configuration here. The elite 74th Division of the 58th Army of the National Army was only 6 75MM mountain guns in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty in 38 years.