At night, most of the shops in the streets of the Third Special Zone of Hankou are closed, but the Qinglou Tobacco House, Wine Restaurant, and Restaurant are bustling with the lights at the beginning of the year, and this concession, which was originally barbarously occupied by the British Empire, has returned to the hands of the Chinese nation since February 19 at the beginning of the year.

After the Northern Expeditionary Army conquered Wuhan during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the workers' movement and patriotic movement led by [***] swept through the three towns of Wuhan, and the British colonists could only sign a treaty with the Nationalist Axe to abolish the Hankow Concession under the siege of hundreds of thousands of angry soldiers and civilians night and night, and the Nationalist Axe immediately renamed the British Concession, which has the longest history and the largest area, as the Third Special Zone.

In the past few months, a large number of shops, companies, warehouses, schools and other entities opened by Chinese people have been stationed in the Third Special Zone, and Wuhan's most prosperous business district has continued to maintain its prosperity.

Before and after the split of Ningkou and Hankow, the economic blockade of European and American countries and the political axe of Nanjing, and the collapse of a large number of industrial and commercial enterprises in Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou, only the third special zone of Hankou still maintained its original scale, foreign banks of various countries were still in business, goods gathered from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and all parts of central China were still loaded and shipped at various wharves in Hankou, batches of luxury goods from the West were still shipped, and the opium smoke houses, large quantities of red pills, and guns and ammunition were still traded.

The busiest northwest corner of the Third Special Administrative Region is full of pedestrians, and the telegraph and telephone office at the intersection of Hubei Street and Baoshun Road is still open. Turning the street and facing the second floor of the Baoshun Tea House dozens of meters to the east, two businessmen in robes and coats were leisurely drinking tea and chatting, and the tall businessmen sitting on the east side touched their freshly shaved heads, casually looked at the Taipei trading company diagonally opposite the street, and whispered to the rather wealthy businessmen opposite: "Isn't this Taipei also our land?" When did Xiao Yuben take it up? ”

"I don't know this, you read more books than I do, and I don't understand even more if you don't understand me." The stocky man who replied was Li Fuqiang, the deputy of An Yi's special brigade, and it was the captain Ding Zhicheng who asked the question, Li Fuqiang glanced at the green building next door to the Taipei trading company, and then sighed:

"As soon as the British left, Xiao Yuben occupied half of the shops on this street, opened a kiba kiln and did not let us Chinese enter, and those women all wiped their faces as white as dead corpses, what a fucking strange thing."

Ding Zhicheng grinned: "You don't understand this, those short-legged Oriental women with a mouth like birds calling are called Yiji, don't you see those mother-in-laws still holding fans and pretending to be on such a cold day?" That's for dancing. Also, you see that those Oriental women all have a small pillow tied to their backs...... See? You don't know why every Oriental woman has a small pillow tied to her back! ”

Li Fuqiang glanced at the girl who was nodding across the street to greet the two sailors entering the door, and thought about it and turned to Ding Zhicheng, who was drinking tea leisurely: "You don't say that I really don't know, let's talk about it?" ”

Ding Zhicheng raised his chin reservedly: "Haha! It doesn't hurt to tell you, all the Oriental women have such a small pillow tied behind their backs, the reason is that before and after the invention of the musket, there was a civil war with the surname of the whole country, and the fight was very bad, and the men were dying, and the rest of the battle was not right! There is no strong labor for heavy work, and I am afraid that if I go down, I will have to cut off my children and grandchildren! So their little emperor issued an edict ordering all women in the country, whether they are married or not, whether they are married or not, must have children unconditionally, otherwise they will be killed. This edict, all the Oriental women are anxious, plus the man who has fought for decades is about to die, in a hurry, he catches a man and strips naked and sleeps down to beg someone to do something, and the streets and alleys can't take care of it, anyway, everyone is like this, no one laughs at whom, I'm afraid that I can't see a man and I will lie down to do things, I am tired for a long time and I always have to rest for a while, and I just lie on the grass and pour it, but it is always uncomfortable to sleep without a pillow, I don't know who first thought of bringing a pillow, and bring a pillow everywhere just in case, The other mothers-in-law looked comfortable and did the same, and over time, every Oriental mother-in-law tied a pillow behind her back, and as soon as she took off her clothes, she put the pillow under her head, which has continued to this day. ”

"This ...... No way? You old Ding looks dazzling and makes it up, right? Li Fuqiang's eyes widened.

Ding Zhicheng glanced at Li Fuqiang, picked up a fried peanut and threw it into his mouth: "I knew that you would definitely widen your eyes when you said it, the boss trained with our top soldiers a while ago, and we chatted and said this allusion during the break, and a few of us were half-convinced, but the boss scolded us disdainfully for not seeing the world, and then asked us why Xiao Yueben's surnames are Tanaka, Panasonic, Takeshita, Watanabe, these nonsense?" It's because after the Oriental woman gave birth to the child, she couldn't remember which man planted the wild seed, so she remembered that the place where she was doing the work was in the field, so she called the child Tanaka, remembered that it was at the foot of the mountain, and called Watanabe when she remembered that she was doing something at the ferry. Later, the brothers pondered that this was indeed the case, otherwise there would be no other source. ”

Li Fuqiang was stunned for a long time, and finally nodded with relief: "It makes sense, our boss is not a mortal, he walks in a wide range of places, up to people like Commander-in-Chief Jiang, Mr. Ou, and Mr. Kong, and down to the peddlers and pawns in the wilderness on the street, all of them can talk to him, they are all good at writing books and making guns, and they are all wise and brave, and they are capable of writing and martial arts, and they are definitely right when he says it." Alas...... Grandma's, this little man has spent a lot of time in our China to learn etiquette for hundreds of years, but he has learned nothing except that he is brave and greedy, and he is not as good as a beast! ”

"Okay, don't sulk, let's get a few dogs out of the air in two or three hours." Ding Zhicheng picked up the empty teapot and shouted to the man to add tea, took out a cigarette and handed it to Li Fuqiang, lit the cigarette and took a puff and slowly spit out the smoke, a pair of half-open and half-closed eyes did not stop observing for a moment.

Just after ten o'clock in the night, the cold wind of early winter blows up, the confetti garbage on the street blows all over the sky, there are few people in the large area from the river street in the river to the downtown Fuchang Road in the downtown area, and the wine shops on both sides of the lively Baoshun Road are all closed and the lights are turned off, and even the telephone and telegraph office at the corner of the street is closed.

At the gate of the kiln next to the Taipei Trading Company, the seven officers and men of the Saiben Marine Corps were so drunk that their tongues were shaking, and they said goodbye to the kiln proprietress and a group of Oriental girls with a nod and a bow, laughing loudly and walking to the east riverside very presumptuously, as if they were returning to the barracks along the main road by the river.

This group of unobtrusive officers and soldiers walked to the former British consulate at the corner of the street and turned to the north, and for some reason stopped at the boundary intersection directly opposite the six piers by the river, pointing to the top of the lamppost at the intersection and chattering non-stop, as if the street lights on both sides of the street were still on when they came, why was it not on at this time?

Just when this group of drunks stopped shouting, three flatbed rickshaws pushed out from the side of the outer wall of the six piers slowly passed through the middle of the road in front of the seven people, each car seemed to be very heavy, and one person pulled four or five people to push, just blocking the way of the seven unlucky guys, these seven soldiers drank a lot It was the craziest time, seeing a group of lowly coolies who didn't stop letting them go first, but slowly blocked the way, two of them went up in anger and grabbed people to beat them, who knew that the approaching coolie hand was just stretched out and was choked by the neck, Then he lost consciousness, and before the other five could see what was going on, they were captured by a group of big men who suddenly rushed up, and before they even had a chance to shout, they were all put into marijuana bags and thrown on the cart.

On the other side of the street, a few beggars dressed in rags and straw mats crowded in the dilapidated doorway looked at the three carts heading west in astonishment, and their upper and lower teeth clicked together and were speechless, and the old beggar didn't want to get up immediately, so he woke up his companion who was still sleeping and ran south, shouting loudly that the group of brothers who had eaten the leopard's gall just now even dared to rob themselves, and it would be strange if the whole city was not chaotic for a while, and leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible to save his life.

The three carts crossed the Jinghan Railway and rushed westward, turning into the woods on the edge of the racecourse of the Six Nations to the west before stopping, and a group of brothers quickly dragged the seven stunned soldiers out of the sacks, quickly set them up under the big tree, tied them up firmly, and gagged them with rotten cloths, and then searched all the valuable things of the seven Japanese soldiers.

Ding Zhicheng, dressed as a coolie, saw that the brothers had finished their work, picked up an arm-thick wooden stick from the board cart, and without hesitation, he smashed the two kneecaps of a sailor under the first tree, and another brother took the wooden stick in Ding Zhicheng's hand and walked to the next one to concoct it in the same way, and in a few minutes, the two Cao Chang and the three sailors were beaten to pieces and their kneecaps were shattered and fainted.

Just as the two brothers were about to raise their wooden sticks to clean up the last two lieutenants, a medium-sized brother hurriedly stepped up and grabbed the action, spoke in standard Guilin dialect, and begged Grandpa to take out a cigarette and give it to the two brothers who were going to do it.

Although the two lieutenants who were tied to the big tree were frightened, when the three thugs in front of them lit matches and lit cigarettes, they clearly saw the revolutionary army uniforms in the torn cotton jackets on the two thugs less than half a meter away, and clearly saw the words "Seventh Army" on the white breastplate, the guy who lit the cigarette had a sinister smile on his face, took the wooden stick and slammed it at the two knees of the desperately struggling officer, "snapped" twice and worried that it had not been broken, and then slammed it five or six times in a row. There was a crackling sound, and then he threw down his stick and caught up with his companion who had already walked out of the woods, not caring whether the seven unfortunate ones in the woods lived or died. This executioner, who can speak Guilin dialect, is none other than An Yi's current engineer battalion commander and Huangpu senior brother Huang Hanqian, who is from Guilin.

It was past 11 o'clock in the evening, and the lights were still bright in the barracks of the Yue Army Marine Corps at No. 26 Yamato Street in the Yue Concession, and almost an hour had passed since the lights were turned off, and the seven officers and men who had been given a half-day vacation to go out to prostitute were gone, which had never happened in more than a year, and the enemy Marine Corps Shao Zuo finally roared angrily, and more than 300 officers and men were all urgently dispatched to look for them in parts except for leaving a team to look for them.

In less than 10 minutes, the Concession Patrol House, the Ministry of Industry Bureau, and the Overseas Chinese Volunteer Brigade were mobilized, and the entire streets and alleys of Hankou were filled with shouts and iron hooves, and Cheng Qian, commander of the Sixth Army, Hu Zongduo, commander of the Wuhan garrison, and the generals and colonels of the Seventh Army stationed in Hankou and the Political Department were all frightened and gathered their troops to leave the camp, and the whole city was on alert, and the air was suddenly filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

When the first gunshots were heard in the direction of Hankow, the eighteen special operations elites had already landed on the south bank four kilometers downstream, and disappeared in the blink of an eye in the cold wind and gusting night.

(To be continued)