Chapter 654: Bold Assumptions

Xiaguan is not only the commercial center of Nanjing, but also the largest shantytown, with a dense flow of people and a mixture of dragons and snakes.

If you set up a stronghold here and lurk spies, it is naturally a good place, but if you want to use it to build a secret vault, it will be easy to expose.

That's why the Japanese abandoned the half-built vault in the bomb shelter.

Combined with the fact that the Japanese were sure to avoid the Enziju checkpoint near the Jinchuan Gate, there was only a very small piece of land left that connected the northernmost part of Shimonoseki Ward to the western part of the northern part of the city.

On the one-meter-square map of Nanjing, there is no slap in the face of Fang Buwei.

Coincidentally, the fort sand field used by the Japanese to hide munitions and the half-built abandoned vault in the air-raid shelter in Lion Rock are also in this area.

If you look closely, on the side of the fort, there is the mouth of the Jinchuan River.

The Jinchuan River originates in the Drum Tower, is divided into six branches in the city, spreads throughout the northern city, and finally flows into the Xuanwu Lake, through the pagoda bridge, into the Yangtze River.

Drum Tower?

Fang Buwei's heart jumped again.

The Consulate General of Japan is located in the Drum Tower.

If you drive a small steamer and go upriver through the Jinchuan Gate estuary, you can drive directly to the Japanese Consulate......

Fang Buwei let out a long breath.

If there are too many coincidences, it will no longer be a coincidence, but an inevitability.

He threw down the map and grabbed the phone receiver.

"Send someone to check now, starting from the mouth of the Sanchai River where the Qinhuai River flows into the river, to the area around the Yinzizhou checkpoint, and ask the fishermen on both sides of the river and in the river if they often see people driving steamers to buy live saury......

Yinzizhou, north of the fort, was the first checkpoint before the Yangtze River left Nanjing, and all passing ships had to be checked, and the steamers would only go there as far as possible.

Fang Buwei's tone was a little solemn, although Zhao Shirui was strange, he didn't dare to talk nonsense, hung up the phone and began to give orders.

He was still secretly thinking, why did Fang Buwei suddenly think of the swordfish, and also narrowed the range to such a small size?

From the mouth of the Sanchai River to the bank of Yinzizhou, it is less than ten miles.

Zhao Shirui didn't know that this was just an order issued by Fang Bu to confirm the direction of the steamer after it left the river.

If it is found that the steamer has indeed often stopped in this area, the next step will be to exclude the densely populated area of Xiaguan District, focusing on the northwest corner of Chengxiaguan and the section of the river bank near the river in the North New District.

This section is even shorter, less than two miles.

Throwing down the phone, Fang Buwei walked over quickly and picked up the rice bowl.

"Eat quickly, maybe there will be a clue soon!" Fang Buwei urged Ye Xingzhong.

Zhao Shirui and Zheng Shifei are leading more than 2,000 people to investigate, how many fishermen can there be on the ten-mile-long riverbank?

If you don't judge wrongly, you'll find clues soon.

Fang Buwei directly picked up the lion's head, poured half a basin into the rice, and then stirred it with chopsticks, stirred it into bibimbap, and quickly pulled it into his mouth.

In the blink of an eye, he went down to half a basin, and Ye Xingzhong, who was watching, bared his teeth.

I don't even take it so fast when I go down.

In less than five minutes, a large pot of rice was served.

Seeing that Fang Buwei stood up, Ye Xingzhong also got up, and was pressed back by Fang Buwei.

"You eat yours, I'll wait for the call!"

Ye Xingzhong nodded and stretched his neck hard.

I was in a hurry and choked.

Fang Buwei poured two cups, served one himself, and handed one to Ye Xingzhong.

Ye Xingzhong forced out a smile.

After taking two mouthfuls, Ye Xingzhong wiped his mouth and walked in front of Fang Bu.

Fang Buwei pondered for a while and then said, "You go now, and the helmsman is on the fire wheel, waiting for my order...... Don't rush out of the lake and into the river, just drive at a constant speed to ......"

Since there is a great deal of certainty that the scope can be narrowed down to the two-mile-long riverbank, there is no need for Fang Buwei to take the steamer to calculate the time himself.

Once Zhao Shirui had a reply and confirmed that the steamer had bought fish downstream of the Sanchai River estuary, Fang Buwei would take a car directly to the fort and conduct a further search.

"Where!" Ye Xingzhong asked.

"Let's stop after the next pass!" Fang is not a return.

He was afraid of getting too close and being recognized by the Japanese guarding the vault.

"Understood!" Ye Xingzhong responded.

After Ye Xingzhong left, Fang Buwei pulled the map again.

Out of Xiaguan, all the way to Yinzizhou, is the two-mile river bank of the Chengbei New Area.

Fang Buwei looked at it, and the fort ferry was also among them.

Because the fort is in the coal port, it is also called the coal port ferry.

This ferry port is specially used to transport trains across the river to the Pukou commercial port area on the other side, and it is also the only train ferry in China so far.

Less than half a mile after the Fort Ferry, there was the checkpoint at Yinzizhou, and no matter how bold the Japanese were, they did not dare to build an arsenal under their noses.

Fang Buwei thought about it, and ruled out the possibility that the treasury would be built in Pukou District on the other side of the river.

The train ferry was built not long ago, and it is still in the trial adjustment stage, and the high price is somewhat touching, and most commercial banks will not use it.

With the money of the train ferry, a big steamer of the Great Ocean Company was hired, and three times the cargo was also transported.

As a result, ferry operating hours are extremely volatile, with only two passenger lines operating normally.

How stupid do the Japanese have to be to use gold, silver, or gold by hand-based trains?

Fang Buwei threw away the map, leaned back in his chair, and waited quietly for the phone.

It was nearly dark, and the phone on the desk finally rang.

He exhaled heavily and picked up the earpiece.

On the opposite side was Zhao Shirui: "Found it...... According to the scope you mentioned, there are indeed several fishermen on both sides of the river who claim to have seen people who come to buy Yangtze River saury on a fire boat, and their behavior is relatively random, sometimes on the shore, and sometimes they will stop the fishing boats directly on the river......

The shape of the steamer mentioned by the fisherman can basically match the one behind the Baoyue Tower, but the color is different......

In addition, some fishermen said that in the early morning or dusk, the river would smell from time to time, and two fishermen directly saw people dumping dung buckets from the steamer......

"Where's the place?" Fang Buwei asked.

"Huritaus!" Zhao Shirui replied.

Fang glanced at the map, but did not find the place name by the river.

"There is no ...... on the map" Fang Buwei replied.

Zhao Shirui was stunned for a moment, and then thought that for a period of time after Fang Buwei's amnesia, he didn't even know the location of the presidential palace.

"The ...... of the place half a mile north of Shimonoseki Railway Station"

Fang Buwei quickly glanced at the map, and his heart was relieved again.

Shimonoseki Station is at the northernmost end of Shimonoseki Ward, and it is here that he estimated that the two-mile range began.

After the Shimonoseki station, the population gradually thinned out, and many places along the coast became desolate, until the largest building was the train ferry, and down was a wharf in the coal port, and there were only a few coal and sand yards.

There are no villages, no markets, few people, and it is safe and easy to hide.

There is also the Kanegawa River, which leads directly to the Consulate General of Japan......

Not surprisingly, the vault is here.