Chapter 49: Arms
On a small pier in Hojin-ri, North Korea, several black shadows quietly moved several large wooden boxes down from a small boat, and then quickly disappeared into the darkness.
About 10 miles away from this wharf is a branch of the Korean anti-Japanese organization "Koryo Blade", and the people on the wharf are members there, and they have just smuggled in a batch of munitions.
"Head, these are the weapons bought from the Qing army, a total of 5 boxes, 4 boxes of rifles, and 1 box of bullets!"
The man known as the head took an iron rod, pried open one of the boxes, took out the rifle, looked at it, and threw it back into the box.
"What? This old rifle dares to ask us for so much money, you guys are blind! ”
"Head, the Qing army is using this kind of rifle in their hands!" It was the middle-aged man dressed as a North Korean peasant just now.
Syllable!
He was immediately slapped in the face.
"Stupid! To fight with the Japanese with this weapon is to sacrifice our revolutionary comrades in vain! The "head" then pried open another box, saw that it was still the same old rifle, and angrily threw the iron rod to the ground.
"Head, I heard from the Qing army officer who sold weapons to us that they had recently bought a batch of rifles at a high price, and he smuggled out a box while his boss was not paying attention, and it should be in the remaining two boxes!" The "peasant" picked up the iron rod from the ground and respectfully handed them the "head".
The "head" glanced at him, impatiently priing open another box.
"Oh my God!" The crowd shouted softly, this time full of brand-new rifles, shiny Mauser 1898, the favorite of militants of the early 20th century.
While everyone was busy taking out Mauser rifles and examining them, their "heads" were staring at the words on the outside of the wooden box, looking thoughtful. The top of the box reads in German: Made in Qingdao.
It has been more than a month since Chen Tian returned to Qingdao, and he did not transform the Governor's Mansion into a fortress, after all, there are not many opportunities to meet a master like Nohara. Rainey's injuries gradually healed, and the two members of the Thorny Bird did not leave, but joined the newly established security force in Chentian.
"Your Highness, the munitions factory has reported that there are several strange people who want to buy weapons from us, but refuse to reveal their identities!"
Chen Tian and Lisa were having afternoon tea, he did not express surprise when he heard this report, now his arms factory business is prosperous, in addition to taking over all the German arms business in Asia, it is also sold to the Qing government and some local armed forces at a high price, and some other revolutionary parties and even bandits will also come to buy arms, but Chen Tian in order to avoid unnecessary disputes, at most only provide them with a small amount of light weapons.
"Didn't I say that? It's good that such unidentified people sell them a couple of rifles! Tatsuten lazily put down the teacup.
"But they offered to buy it in large quantities, and they said that they could trade it with us directly with gold!"
"Let's find out if they're in the same league as the Japanese last time!" Some time ago, the Japanese consul offered to buy a large number of arms, and Chen Tian simply rejected them, thinking that this time it might just be the childcare sent by the Japanese.
"Forget it, just tell them we don't have stock lately!"
Late the next night, the munitions factory in the German concession of Qingdao. A group of dark shadows climbed over the wall and quickly reached in the direction of the warehouse......
Sergeant Adler was a duty officer in the munitions factory guard unit when he was patrolling the factory with a small group of soldiers.
"Sergeant, I want to go and shhh A soldier shouted.
"Sergeant, I want to go too!"
"Alright! I just want to boo too, let's go boo! It's ****** far from the toilet! Let's go to the root of the wall and solve it! Adler had completed three years of military service in Germany and had been transferred to the reserve, and he had joined the Far East when the troops were recruiting, so he came to this faraway place, and he had not seen his relatives for two years. However, the pay here was not bad, and he planned to return to Germany if he could not be promoted to lieutenant after three years.
"Sergeant, sergeant, look up there!" While everyone was having a good time, a soldier suddenly pushed Adler.
"I'm going to die, I want to make Lao Tzu pee on his pants!" Adler glanced up complainingly, and a large hole appeared in the barbed wire fence high in the wall.
"Someone intruded!" Adler reacted immediately, he ordered 4 soldiers to ambush nearby to prevent the intruders from escaping from here, and he quickly rushed to the duty room with several other soldiers.
Soon, all the lights inside the factory came on, the sirens whined violently, and the factory guards began to search around.
Syllable! Syllable!
At this time, a burst of gunfire was heard near the factory wall.
"Quick! Follow me! Adler quickly led a group of soldiers to support, and the gunfire intensified. When he reached the vicinity of the section of the fence where the wire had been cut, he saw several corpses lying on the ground, and two of the four soldiers who had been lying there had fallen to the ground in agony.
"Sergeant, they've retreated to the pump room!"
At this time, more than a dozen men in black in the pump room were shooting out of the window.
"Head, what to do? We are already surrounded! One man in black looked at the other in alarm.
"These dead foreigners, the warehouse is obviously full of brand-new weapons, and they actually say that there is no stock! Damn, we almost got it! "The men in black had already retrieved hundreds of rifles and some pistols from the weapons warehouse, but as they were on their way to the ammunition warehouse, the factory alarm went off, so they had to retreat to the place where they had entered, and then exchanged fire with Adler's soldiers who had been lying in ambush there.
A block away in the Governor's Palace, Tatsuten was awakened in his sleep.
"Guards! What's going on? Chen Tian hurriedly put on his clothes and ran to the door of the room.
"Your Highness, I don't know what's going on, the gunshots are coming from the munitions factory!" The guards at the gate reported that the guards in the courtyard were assembling.
Chen Tian asked half of the guards to stay behind to protect the governor's palace and Lisa, and he hurried to the factory with the other half of the guards. By the time he got there, the gunfire had stopped.
Chen Tian found Sergeant Adler, who was on duty, and only then did he know that someone had broken into the factory warehouse, and there had been an exchange of fire between the two sides just now. There were 22 people on the other side, but the fire was not strong, and they were quickly surrounded by soldiers who rushed to reinforce them. Seven of the intruders were killed on the spot, the remaining 15 were all captured, and four were killed and nine wounded by the factory guards.
"You interrogate those people in a moment, and if it's Japanese, then they'll all die in today's firefight, understand?" Chen Tian instructed Adler.
"Your Highness......" Adler looked at Chentian suspiciously, and after a while, he suddenly stood up and saluted, "Yes!" I see! ”
"Report! Your Highness, a few of those people are the same people who came to buy arms from us yesterday. Plus, we found out that their leader was a woman! At this time, another officer ran towards Chao Chentian, and the two soldiers behind him carried a woman in black with her head hanging down.
"She's hurt?"
"Yes, Your Highness! She's been shot in the shoulder, and we've stopped the bleeding for her! ”
Chen Tian walked up to the person, lifted her chin, and saw a familiar face, how could it be her?
Savage beauty......
"Quick! Take her to the hospital to get the bullets out first! ”