Chapter 32: The Dead
What Uncle Nine took Lei Zhen to find was a warehouse that had been abandoned for an unknown period of time, and even the windows had been completely sealed with bricks and cement.
Pushing open the heavy door, there was a strong smell of dust mixed with the smell of rotting wood in a tooth-aching "squeak-la-la" sound. In the face of this disgusting smell, the expression on Uncle Jiu's face was still very calm, and he stepped on the thick floating soil on the ground, walked into this warehouse, and left a clear line of footprints on the cement soil slab.
Look at the iron lock that was thrown aside by Uncle Jiu, because of the violent treatment, the chain spring popped out, and the sunlight that spilled into the entire warehouse through the gate, look at this tattered warehouse, the ghost knows how long no one has been to take care of the warehouse, Jiangdong Sun Shangxiang blinked her beautiful big eyes, and whispered cautiously: "Isn't Uncle Nine going to prepare weapons for me?" He probably, probably, never, is going to take us to dig treasure out of the garbage heap, right? ”
Everyone shook their heads, and the warehouse was empty, except for a few broken tables and chairs, and a horse lamp that had been thrown on the ground and shattered even the lampshade, except for a sledgehammer hanging on the wall. Although Uncle Nine is their elder, although he can be called shrewd and capable, it is impossible for him to turn his hands into clouds and rain to conjure up a few machine guns for them, right?
Uncle Nine set his eyes on Lei Zhen's face, looking at the faint smile that rose at the corner of Lei Zhen's mouth, Uncle Nine suddenly asked, "You understand?" ”
"According to my eyesight, this warehouse is about 42 meters long and 16 meters wide, but as soon as I walked into this warehouse, I found that the actual size of the interior was slightly smaller than the scale it appeared on the outside. And I can see that the wall on the left side of the warehouse is cleaner than the other walls, and if I'm not mistaken, there should be a compartment on the left side of this warehouse! ”
Luo Sanpao's face suddenly showed an expression of sudden realization, no wonder he had a strange feeling in his heart as soon as he walked into this warehouse, but he hadn't found the source of this strange feeling for a while. You must know that professional masters who are good at using guns must know how to use object comparison to accurately judge the distance, and it is definitely not an exaggeration to say that their eyes are a ruler that can control the error within a certain limit!
"And ......"
Lei Zhen stretched out his hand and pointed to the heavy hammer hanging on the wall, and said: "That hammer is hanging one and five meters above the ground, the most suitable position to reach out and pick it up, its position and volume are enough for anyone to ignore its existence." The entire warehouse has been emptied, and even the floor has been roughly cleaned, but the fact that this hammer, which is also of considerable value, is still here, which can only show that it was deliberately left here. ”
Speaking of which, everyone present already understood what Lei Zhen was going to say, and Jiangdong Sun Shangxiang blurted out: "Smash the wall?!" ”
Seeing Lei Zhen nodding slightly, Sun Shangxiang patted the rabbit behind him who looked like an iron tower, and shouted, "Look at you, rabbit, on!" ”
The rabbit's eyes widened, "Up?" Where?! ”
"Stupid!" Sun Shangxiang stood on tiptoe, bent her right index finger, and knocked the rabbit's head, and the light and crisp sound echoed throughout the warehouse, she rolled her eyes and said, "Of course it's to smash the wall!" This kind of hard work, it's not you stupid cow who does it, who does it?! ”
The rabbit nodded vigorously, he rubbed his head that had been knocked hard enough by Sun Shangxiang with a sincere smile, strode over, and took the large heavy hammer from the wall. Seeing that the rabbit was carrying the heavy hammer like pinching a straw and walked to the wall on the left side of the warehouse, Uncle Jiu's lips moved, and just as he wanted to say something, he heard Lei Zhen's deep shout: "Stop!" ”
The rabbit looked back at Sun Shangxiang, Sun Shangxiang looked at Lei Zhen, and Lei Zhen was staring at Uncle Nine at this time. He looked so serious and so focused, facing his dark eyes, which were even more intelligent and confident, even Uncle Jiu couldn't help but have a feeling of uneasiness in his heart that he was completely seen through by the young man in front of him, and there was no longer a trace of **.
"It looks like there's a decent amount of weapons and ammunition in the compartment behind that wall. Judging by the scale, it may even equip a small army, am I right, Uncle Nine?! ”
In the face of Lei Zhen's inquiry, Uncle Nine let out a light "hmm", which was regarded as answering his question.
Lei Zhen walked over and took the heavy hammer from the rabbit's hand, he reached out and gently tapped the wall beside him, and sighed lightly: "Uncle Jiu, your old man can really endure it, you can really call it a hundred forbearance!" Seeing that the rabbit was about to raise the hammer, he still endured it and didn't speak, just by virtue of this, I, a junior, had to sigh to myself and praise the ginger for being old and spicy. However, Uncle Nine, do you have to shout 'stop' when the hammer in the rabbit's hand has been pulled off?! If the rabbit reacts a little slower, or if your old man happens to have such a mouthful of thick phlegm in his throat at that time, he coughs and gasps involuntarily, I'm afraid we will all have to answer here. ”
Hearing Lei Zhen's sensational words, everyone's eyes widened.
Playing with the heavy hammer in his hand, Lei Zhen said: "But what I admire the most is the person who left the hammer." What he left behind was not only the key to open the secret room next door, but also the person who discovered the secret uninvited and prepared to smash the secret room with a hammer, leaving behind a death trap! ”
"Although the existence of the Green Gang is already a recognized fact, I think that neither the army of Yuben who invaded Shanghai by force nor the British authorities in the concession will allow it, and there is an arsenal of arms that can arm small troops in this city, right? Once the secret of this warehouse is exposed, it is believed that in Shanghai, a clean-up operation against the Qing Gang will immediately break out. The best way to prevent this is to destroy them before they are exposed! ”
Lei Zhen looked at Zhao Da Plague God and said with a smile: "Plague God, please tell me, if it were you, what method would you use to prevent this secret from being exposed?" ”
Zhao Dawen God blurted out: "Blow them up!" ”
"If you know the news in advance, of course you can do it quietly." Lei Zhen reminded: "But don't forget, this is a seemingly abandoned warehouse, and it has become a transfer station for disposing of garbage, within a radius of four or five hundred meters, no one lives, there is no way to send people to supervise it for a long time, what can you do to prevent people from secretly infiltrating for reconnaissance?" ”
"That's easy to do." Zhao Dawen said: "When I build the wall of the mezzanine, I can bury steel wires in it, and connect them directly to the detonating device that can detonate the entire arsenal, once someone tries to forcibly destroy the wall with a hammer, it will drive the steel wire and destroy all the secrets, along with the invading enemies, in the big explosion!" Of course, I have a better way, I can completely put an initiating device made of rolling steel balls behind the wall, as long as the wall is violently shaken, the steel ball rolls under the force, falls into the preset steel pipe, and uses the force of its falling, it can be ......"
Lei Zhen interrupted Zhao Dawen, whose eyes lit up and became even more eloquent, and smiled: "I think, such a question, a few years ago, Old Man Zhao or another elder who was closer to you also asked you with a casual attitude, right?" ”
"Well, you seem to have a slight impression when you say that......
Speaking of this, Zhao Dawen's voice froze.
Everyone looked at the oversized heavy hammer in Lei Zhen's hand blankly, and then looked at the wall that was almost smashed by a rabbit's hammer, cold sweat suddenly flowed out of everyone's body.
Lei Zhen put down the hammer in his hand, touched the wall with steel wires buried in it with his fingers, and walked slowly, and after walking from beginning to end, Lei Zhen turned back and continued to walk slowly with the same movements. His fingers touched the cold wall, and when he felt the slightly dented mark again, Lei Zhen stopped his steps.
"The initiation device is made with rolling steel balls, so that its sensitivity is too high, and if there is a slight wind and grass, for example, in the event of an earthquake of a small magnitude, it may swing its own oolong. And with such a device, no matter where you knock on the wall, you can't avoid the danger, this batch of weapons in the secret room, it must have its role and significance, but it's not just to set a trap and kill a few enemy minions, if I am the head of the Green Gang, I will never choose a detonation device that I can't even crack myself. ”
Lei Zhen turned his head to look at Uncle Jiu and said indifferently: "So I believe that in this wall, there is a place like those windows that have been resealed with bricks, which are not integrated with the whole wall, and in it, there is no deadly steel wire." Only by finding such a position, combined with the sledgehammer that is deliberately hung there, and showing that it is not worth the life of the dead, will a real path be opened. ”
"And such an additional wall, no matter how carefully finished, no matter how smooth and seamless it was at the time, but after all, they are not the same as this wall, after a few years of deposition, there will always be a slight deformation, as long as you feel carefully, you can find the difference between the two."
Lei Zhen and Uncle Jiu's eyes met again in the air, surprised, shocked, faintly jealous, and admired...... All kinds of complicated emotions flashed on Uncle Jiu's face one by one, and finally turned into a thick appreciation. Looking at the young man in front of him, Uncle Nine finally understood why he was recognized by Du Yifu, the current acting head of the Youth Gang, and he even understood why Du Yifu gave Lei Zhen such a high evaluation.
In Du Yifu's secret letter to the nine elders of the Green Gang, when he mentioned Lei Zhen, he only used four words to describe it: the talent of the general!
The rabbit was like holding a toy, wielding the heavy hammer, and with just a few hammers, it smashed a path. When they passed through the smashed "door" and entered the secret room, even if they were mentally prepared, everyone was still stunned by the scene in front of them.
And Lei Zhen also had to correct his evaluation of this secret room just now, in this secret room that is sixteen meters long and five meters wide, the weapons neatly placed on the brackets are enough to arm a whole battalion!
In the wooden box that has been waterproofed, there are Czech-style squad light machine guns, American-style submachine guns that were once mass-equipped on the personal guards of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the German Mauser Military Factory's fully automatic hand Mauser pistol with a magazine capacity of 20 rounds, and the Chinese formal rifle manufactured by the Hanyang Military Factory...... And in the corner of the secret room, there are two Maxim water-cooled heavy machine guns and two mortars!
In order to make more efficient use of space and store more ammunition, several steel shelves that look like bookshelves welded with thick steel plates are placed in the secret room. More than 200 boxes of bullets, grenades and mortar shells, one after another, were stacked on these steel racks, all the way to the top of the twelve-meter-high warehouse.
On the walls, there are steel helmets, military kettles, sapper shovels, bayonets and other tools.
Lei Zhen and Luo Sanpao exchanged a strange look with each other, the weapons stored in this secret room have long exceeded the limit of the fire and possible development of the Shanghai gang, which gang have you ever seen arrogantly use the Makqin Shuiling heavy machine gun or even the mortar when the fire is merging?
Lei Zhen checked the formal rifle neatly placed in the box, and his eyelids suddenly jumped slightly, because he saw a bullet hole on the butt of one of the rifles! A bullet hole that has blown up the entire butt, but has been re-glued with adhesive tape!
Lei Zhen continued to check quietly, and he saw several "tens" drawn with bayonets on the butt of another medium formal rifle in this box.
Lei Zhen, who has participated in the Sixing Warehouse Guard Battle, and spent a year with those [***] people in the lonely army camp, and has a considerable understanding of the profession of soldiers, clearly understands that on the butt of this rifle, every "ten" character represents the former owner of this rifle, and used this rifle on the battlefield to harvest the life of an enemy!
This is a batch of weapons that have been used, they lie there silently, the smell of gunpowder on their bodies that has not yet dissipated, and their bodies that are still strong although they are old, are still silently telling everyone about their extraordinary experiences!
"Every gun, every bullet, every bayonet here is left to us by [***] when we retreat."
Uncle Jiu gently stroked the weapons displayed in the secret room, tears, I don't know when, had crawled into his eyes, "Back then, thousands of disciples of our Qing Gang used this batch of weapons to fight constantly on the streets and alleys, and used their lives to resist Yue himself's attacks again and again. Lei Zhen You are in the Sixing warehouse, at least there are strong walls, there is a reason why I dare not bomb with cannons, and I can't bomb with planes. But what do our Green Gang disciples have? They had never been to the battlefield, they had never been to the barracks, and many of them had their guns for the first time, and they didn't even know how to load them, but we threw those young men on the battlefield and left them to fend off our planes and tanks...... They're all so young, and they still have a long way to go...... They...... They died so badly! ”
Uncle Nine looked at a helmet hanging on the wall and pierced by heavy machine gun bullets, and he couldn't stop crying.
"Uncle Nine has two sons and a daughter, and they all died in battle to cover [***]'s retreat from the battlefield." Luo Sanpao whispered behind Lei Zhen: "That helmet was used by Uncle Jiu's eldest son, even if he wore a helmet, but this kind of thing still didn't save his life." The second son's thigh was cut off by shrapnel, and he couldn't move, so a tank pressed over him and crushed him into a pulp, and we finally used two buckets to retrieve his body. There is also Uncle Jiu's daughter, she was caught by herself, stripped naked and tied to the pillar, just to save Uncle Jiu's daughter, knowing that there was a trap, knowing that she would be shot as soon as she showed up, but the doormen of the Green Gang still pounced out, they were shot one by one, and their bodies surrounded Uncle Jiu's daughter in three circles, and the blood that flowed from them stained the entire street, and finally ......"
Speaking of which, Luo Sanpao couldn't go on any longer.
"In the end, I shot that girl to death!" Uncle Nine stretched out his hand and pointed to a rifle hanging on the wall, and hissed, "I just used that gun to shoot a bullet into my own daughter's head!" Nier is my most painful, favorite child, usually I don't even want to hit her, as long as I can make her happy, even if it is to pick the moon in the sky, I will put together my old bones. However, why is she so uncompetitive, since she insists on going to the battlefield, she must have the consciousness of death, I obviously gave her a 'chastity guard' before she went to the battlefield...... Why didn't she use this chastity guard to stab her chest before she was arrested, why did she have to force me, the father who loved her the most and liked her the most, to end her life with her own hands! ”
Looking at the old tears, facing this steel helmet, facing the rifle, and the ninth uncle, who could barely straighten his waist anymore, Lei Zhen finally understood that the reason why the ninth uncle joined him in this operation was definitely not to monitor him, let alone to forcibly take over his command when necessary.
Uncle Nine is here to avenge his children, Uncle Nine is here to ...... Dead!
Everyone's eyes were red, and Sun Shangxiang began to sobbed in a low voice, it was obvious that she and Uncle Jiu's daughter had a pretty good friendship.
Lei Zhen inhaled lightly and turned to everyone: "Pick the weapons you have handy, and carry as much ammunition as possible." Whether we come back alive or not, no matter what our final outcome is, I have only one request for everyone, worthy of the weapons in your hands, worthy of the blood shed by those brothers! ”
(To be continued)