Spring night.

No month.

In the pavilion of an old-fashioned building in Shanghai's West District. On a gloomy night, a man sitting on the side of the table stretched out his arms, and Mei Enping gave Liu an important order.

"You know all about the situation of Tianxiang Chemical Company in Shanghai. This is currently the largest chemical enterprise in China, this plant produces many dangerous chemicals, according to the information we have now, the largest workshop is here. ”

Mei Enping paused word by word, and there was a fierce light in his eyes.

"We're going to try to get our hands on it, and then blow it up with a bomb and make it bloom in the center!"

At this time, Liu Xin and Wei Kecheng were so nervous that they didn't even dare to take a breath.

"Once that workshop is blown up, the police and fire brigades of all Shanghai will rush there, and Shanghai will be able to launch an uprising!"

Seeing that the two of them looked a little nervous, in order to ease the solemn atmosphere, Mei Enping added.

"The chemical plant is not a military restricted area, it is easy to enter, it is not difficult to find out what is going on there, and the success of the Shanghai uprising depends on your actions! ……”

Then he comforted both of them as well.

"There is no way to do it, there are thousands of military and police in Shanghai, and we only have a few hundred people, to start this uprising, we have to resort to other activities, the factory can be rebuilt if it is blown up, but if the uprising fails, then the dream of establishing a republic in China will be shattered! Moreover, this is the factory of the Emperor of Yucai, if we don't blow it up, will it be left to them to produce explosives to hit us? ”

Who would have thought that in this moonless spring moon, a few people would plot a horrific explosion plot?

On the evening of May 3, Wei Kecheng, who was carrying a Browning pistol, looked at the chemical plant in the distance, and he knew that there was no way out to regret it or retreat now.

But blowing up the factory is not what he wants, after all, this factory is a symbol of China's industrial development, no work is not rich, no work is not strong, but now, in order to ...... That's all there is to it.

At this time, more than a dozen congregants from the gang in the room, holding rifles and cigarettes, all looked indifferent, but in that indifferent look, a trace of nervousness could still be seen.

"Three hours to go!"

Liu Xin took a look at the pocket watch, there were only three hours left, is it ready over there?

The Shanghai branch of the Pudong Imperial Investigation Bureau, there is not a single light in the windows of the three-story building of the bureau, and at the exit, the guard pole is horizontal, except for the two security guards in the sentry box, it seems to be no different from the usual night, but when turning into the parking lot in the courtyard of the substation, hundreds of soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition stand next to 63 trucks, and the soldiers of the Guards carry rifles, submachine guns, and light machine guns, and there are several heavy machine guns next to the trucks.

From time to time, the officers looked up at the unshining building of the Bureau of Investigation.

"Do you know what the mission is?"

A second lieutenant asked the commander, who just shook his head, he also did not know what the task was, but he was ordered to cooperate with the investigation bureau's "anti-black operation", which they were used to, and in order to combat the gang forces, the army often cooperated with the investigation bureau to carry out mass arrests.

Rather than the police, the Bureau trusts the same military, which is disciplined, well-trained, and most importantly never colludes with local gangs.

"Maybe it's the same as before!"

The major muttered, and then loaded his pistol, put on the insurance, when arresting those gang members, there will always be a fight, maybe the police will have some scruples, but as soldiers, in the past arrest process, once they are resisted, they will shoot decisively and directly kill each other.

Although it is quite criticized, since the investigation bureau and the army cooperated in eradicating gangsters and bandits, the public security environment throughout the country has changed in a good direction, and the bandits and gangsters that have been crisscrossing China for centuries have tended to disintegrate under heavy blows.

The destruction of 1,362 bandit gangs in half a year, the execution of nearly 70,000 bandits and gang leaders, and the arrest and sentencing of 150,000 to hard labor in highway and railway construction are undoubtedly a great step forward for China, at least now there are no large-scale bandits in various localities.

"Remember what each and every one of them looked like!"

Yan Jiarong pointed to the hundreds of photos posted on the wall and said solemnly.

"Shanghai is their base camp, scattered from the Chinese border to the concession, in the concession there is an investigation bureau and an additional action team in charge, we are in charge of the Chinese community, these 132 people must be arrested, and there are another 2,313 people involved in this case, our operation time is 1 o'clock in the morning, understand?"

"Yes!"

The hundreds of agents of the Bureau of Investigation in the conference room replied in unison, although they couldn't help but be shocked when they looked at their names and photos when they received the files of the subjects, they still chose to obey the order, leaving no doubts, there was an arrest warrant signed by the judge, a search warrant, and finally a trial, and as agents of the Bureau of Investigation, the only thing they needed to do was to carry out the order and arrest everyone on the list.

"I know that some of you may have doubts, but among them there are the Local Council Councils, and even the Imperial House Councillors, most of them are well-known personalities, and they are all known for their opposition to the Imperial system, but this is by no means a witch hunt, in the end whether they are guilty or not will be decided by the courts, and what we, as judicial officers, have to do is to enforce the law impartially and carry out our tasks! Do you understand? ”

"Understood!"

When Yan Jiarong was deploying the mission, in the Matsumoto Dojo in Shanghai's Hongkou District, hundreds of overseas Chinese were bustling with people, who had already taken off their kimonos or suits, and instead changed into new Chinese-style clothes, black, white, blue, and gray, with red strings wrapped around their sleeves.

The expressions of these people were both nervous and excited, this was an unprecedented action! It is directly related to the life and death of the Great Empire.

Dressed in a Chinese-style military uniform without military rank, Yoshiichi Tanaka, who was standing in the dojo courtyard, looked up at the sky, and the dark clouds obscured the bright moon, making the night darker than usual.

"The night is dark and there is no moon! What an eventful night! ”

"Big brother, there's still an hour, the brothers are ready!"

Rui Debao hugged his fist at the eldest brother who was drinking tea, and looked at Mei Enping with the rest of his eyes, as well as the dozen or so "captains" he brought, who would take their brothers to the municipal axe, the municipal police station, the telegraph office and other key departments.

"Mr. Mei, can you succeed?"

When Fan Gaotou asked this sentence, those eyes looked towards the pile of brothers from time to time, and several of the brothers in that pile were sent by the Investigation Bureau, in fact, as early as the first time Mei Enping looked for him, he sold Mei Enping as soon as he turned his face, isn't this Mei Enping just sent to the door for him to curry favor with the Investigation Bureau?

Gangsters have gangsters to protect themselves, there are not many garrisons in Shanghai, but the Wusongkou Defense Command, there are thousands of artillery soldiers, even if they succeed today, they can't last a day, Your Majesty can let go of this group of people, and the guards can even fight foreign devils without temper, not to mention their rabble.

What righteous flag is raised, the world will respond, and what people turn their backs on, they are all in me, fart! The Guards are vegetarians, the emperor is on horseback to win the world, the world is shot out with a bullet, these casual scholars, can take over the world, can make millions of guards, wave the flag to support them?

Whose salary is eaten for whom! Of course, those who eat the emperor's grain work hard for the emperor.

"Rest assured, Shanghai's righteous flag will definitely respond to the whole world, and the whole country will respond when the time comes, and great things can be accomplished!"

Once again, Mei Enping said something that he didn't even believe in himself, even if he didn't believe it, why did he do it? Maybe it will work! Even if there is only hope for everything, let alone ...... I am a revolutionary, and I know I can't do it!

This night is destined to be a long sleepless night.

From time to time, the burning convoy heard the sound of explosions, and the violent explosion blew up more than a dozen black pits in the asphalt road in the factory, which was filled with water, and the column of smoke rose hundreds of meters high, and the glass windows of several kilometers of Fang Yuan were shattered, and the people in their sleep looked in horror at the direction from which the flames came, which was the chemical company.

When the gunshots rang out, the members of the party next to him were killed one after another by the factory security guards, who were far more secure than he had imagined. At this moment, Wei Kecheng saw Liu Meng collapse to the ground, blood gushing out of his chest, "Liu Xin......"

Just when he wanted to run towards his friend, his left leg was hit by something, and then the whole person collapsed to the ground, the gunfire stopped, and a group of factory security guards dressed in black rushed over, that is, when he Wei Kecheng wanted to fight back with a gun, he was hit on the head by the butt of a gun.

Several of the wounded were carried into the prisoner car, while Liu was carried into another car in a body bag, which was torn open the moment the door closed.

"Do you want cigarettes?"

The person sitting in the car took out a cigarette and handed it to Liu, who was soaked in blood.

Liu Xin shook his head, he wanted to look out, but the carriage was closed.

"How is he?"

Although Liu Xin didn't mention his name, the people in the car still knew who he was talking about.

"The thigh was broken by a sniper, and I survived!"

"Oh!"

Liu Xin, who showed a hint of pain on his face, nodded.

"Where's that over there?"

Leaning on the steel plate of the carriage, Liu Xin took a puff of cigarette, and then closed his eyes, at this time the carriage was still filled with a strong smell of blood, he understood that after today, I was afraid that Liu Xin would disappear, he had died in this rebellion.

"The action is on!"

At 0 a.m. on May 4, at midnight in the dark and starless moon, when the street lights of the auxiliary streets of Shanghai, Pudong and other places were extinguished in turn, and the darkness began to envelop Shanghai, there were almost no pedestrians on the road, and the dim lights of the street lights reflected on the main street of Shanghai, and occasionally some passers-by who returned home at night were in a hurry on the way home.

Then the ground trembled with the sound of footsteps, and then there were fires in the night, and the explosions of gunfire and grenades continued like popping beans.

In front of the gate of the municipal axe in Shanghai, the guards were killed before they could resist quickly, and the municipal axe was quickly occupied by the "insurgents", and at the telegraph office, there were fierce clashes between the insurgents and the guards of the telegraph office, and the insurgents with homemade bombs kept throwing bombs from the windows into the telegraph office building.

The sudden sound of gunfire and explosions shook the whole of Shanghai, and people who were awakened in their sleep looked out of the windows in horror, and there were faint sounds of footsteps on the streets outside. With a "boom", accompanied by a not-so-violent explosion, the gasoline contained in the bottle exploded in the shops on the street, and the fire lit up the street, and through the flames, the awakened people saw a group of people shouting in the street.

"Long live the Republic!"

"Down with the [***] Emperor!"

"Achieve a Republic!"

What's going on? There was a question mark in everyone's heart, they didn't know what was going on, although there was a battle when Shanghai was restored last year, but no one dropped bombs on the store.

As they were shouting, more gunfire suddenly erupted from the corner of the street, and a group of soldiers fired at the thugs along the street, who had disobeyed the order when they heard gunfire coming from the city on their way to the Pudong chemical plant for reinforcements.

"Director, they are rushing towards the automobile company and machinery company in Pudong!"

"What's going on?"

Yan Jiarong's report from his subordinates was shocked, this was not in his plan at all!

Fan Gao head! This bastard!

He cursed hatefully in his heart, looking at the military police in the courtyard who were a little dazed when they heard the sound of gunshots and explosions from the outside world, whether to arrest those people or ...... What if the automobile plant and the machine plant were destroyed...... Cold sweat dripped down his forehead, and those ...... Those are His Majesty's property, but those people ...... He is also an enemy of His Majesty!

"Company Commander Sun, you take a company to the industrial zone, to protect the automobile factory and the machinery factory, and you take all the machine guns with you!"

As soon as Yan Jiarong gave this order, another agent ran over.

"Report to the Director, at least thirteen thugs have now been discovered, ranging in number from a hundred to hundreds per share......"

As soon as he heard this report, Yan Jiarong almost fainted, in order to create an opportunity for the "uprising", the Investigation Bureau coordinated the transfer of the Shanghai garrison regiment to Zhejiang to participate in the Spring Festival, more than 3,000 policemen in Shanghai, nearly 2,000 people were sleeping, most of their guns were in the police station, and more than 1,000 people, except for the civilians on duty, the others were transferred to the industrial zone to protect the chemical plant, and these thousands of thugs came out of there!

"Contact the Director immediately!"

"What's going on?"

Looking at the flames from the bombing on the other side of the office building, listening to the gunshots in the night sky, Ye Zugui asked Shi Tiange next to him, Shi Tiange also shook his head, he knew what was going on!

"Minister!"

A person hurriedly ran in from outside the office, it was the representative of the Navy Yard, who was sleeping at home, but after being awakened by the sound of gunshots, he grabbed his gun, wore civilian clothes, and ran all the way to the shipyard.

"Shanghai, Shanghai is in chaos, there are thousands of rioters in the city! Those people were setting fires everywhere, and some people were shooting towards Pudong. ”

"Riot?"

Hearing these two words, Ye Zugui frowned.

"What about the Shanghai Garrison Corps? And where are the police? ”

"Immediately order the shipyard garrison company to be on alert...... I'll go "" number! ”

More than 300 naval cadets and sailors, armed with rifles, went down the gangway and ran directly toward the Shanghai garrison headquarters under the leadership of Ye Zugui, where they engaged in many fierce battles with the thugs along the way.

After another hour, more than 3,000 sailors and marines who had received an order from Yezusi to arrive at Shanghai at the Wusong Naval Base arrived by car.

"Da, da......"

The Marine officer in his soft-soled boots glanced at the ruffians and rioters who were kneeling in the fire, and behind him was a wooden building still burning with flames, and the scene he witnessed as he entered the city made his face turn blue, and he paced back and forth in the streets, trying to shoot them several times, but in the end he held back.

“…… Bureau...... Director, I'm ...... I don't know how it came to be! ”

Fan Gao, who was crying and mourning, looked at the pale face kneeling on the ground and kowtowed from time to time, he originally just followed the plan to let the brothers capture the municipal axe and telegraph office, and he was just a few hundred brothers, but this was one or two thousand people!

"You don't know!"

Staring at Fan Gaotou who was kneeling on the ground, Yan Jiarong snorted coldly, what happened last night was far more than he imagined, a factory building of Tianma Automobile Company was blown up, the gate of the machinery factory was burned, and hundreds of shops were burned.

Even, even in order to put down the rebellion, he failed to carry out the arrest plan, and I don't know how many people will escape.

Yan Jiarong, who was too lazy to listen to Fan Gaotou's explanation, glanced at his subordinates on the side. Shots rang out, and when the gunshots rang out in the room, so did the gunshots in the courtyard.

"Carry their bodies into the car!"

Yan Jiarong, who frowned and pondered, began to think about the subsidy plan in his heart, this matter was bigger than he imagined, and he had to turn the disadvantage into an advantage.

"Say myself, say I ......"

Repeatedly thinking about the hundreds of people who were arrested, there were only more than 500 Chinese in this rebellion, but more than 1,000 people participated in the rebellion.

"If Mei Enping is related to them, then this crime will be realized, with the help of foreign nationals, to launch an armed rebellion......"

Thinking of this, some smiles finally appeared on the originally stiff face, even if you can't arrest all of them at once, then let this group of people become street rats!

While they were thinking about how to make the evidence credible, hundreds of Chinese and foreign reporters were taking pictures on the streets with heavy cameras, and some of them pointed their cameras at the burned shops and the civilians who were killed.

The most direct message is the "Letter to the Compatriots of the Whole Country" sent from the Shanghai Telegraph Office, which has already spread throughout China before the news has been spread in Shanghai, and on this day, China is destined to be at peace.

(To be continued)