"Oh?" This news made Xiao Zhenlei feel that the situation had become a little more complicated, if the revolutionary party didn't care about this matter, he would be able to deal with it better, but if the revolutionary party was also involved, the situation would be a little chaotic, after all, he couldn't command Chen Qimei's gang, and if he couldn't control the situation, Chen Qimei's people would not only not be able to help, but they might also help, which was what he was worried about, and at the same time he was also worried that the revolutionary party would treat him and his people as enemies, which would be bad.

After thinking for a few seconds, Xiao Zhenlei said: "How about Cheng Dù, who is valued and trusted by our inner line in the revolutionary party? ”

Wang Yaqiao on the other side of the phone said: "After all, the time for our internal line to enter the revolutionary party is still short, and we are not very valued, so we can only do some miscellaneous work!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei took a puff of his cigarette, flicked off the ash and said: "Try to let the inside line find out the specific action deployment of Chen Qimei and others, if they have the ability to rescue those people, we will not interfere, if the situation is unclear, then we will wait for them to do it first, it is best if they succeed, if the Yellow Sparrow is behind by the Ena Sea, we will be hunters, what will we do in the end, we will make the final decision the night after tomorrow, you see?" ”

Wang Yaqiao on the other end of the phone thought about Xiao Zhenlei's words, and also thought that he could only do this at present, after all, there was still a long time before the execution in three days, and maybe there would be any changes in the middle, so he agreed: "That's okay, I'll hang up first!" ”

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After just smoking a meal of red clay, Chen Qimei's spirit improved a lot, and he quietly listened to Zhu Baosan talk about the news he had inquired about: "The news has been confirmed, and the Qing court will indeed behead all our arrested brothers at the entrance of the county town in the afternoon of three days. However, it is not clear exactly when the Qing court will escort people over in the morning three days later, which way to go, and how many people will be escorted, and Brother Ade and I also went to the Daotai Mansion and the county government to inquire respectively, but we can't find any useful information. Therefore, they could only obediently obey the order, but they didn't dare to ask anything, and Enahai didn't believe them very much, and now Enahai had completely controlled the Third Patrol Battalion, and could directly command more than 400 people and horses in the Third Patrol Battalion, plus a musket team brought by himself. There are more than 500 people in total, and there are more than 200 foreign spearmen alone, and the price we have to pay to rescue people is not small."

There is a sentence that Zhu Baosan has not yet said, that is, whether he can rescue people is unknown. Not to mention saving people, it's good if you don't put yourself in it.

At this time, Boss Yu spoke: "If you want to save people, you must prepare manpower, in addition to manpower, you must also have weapons and ammunition, if you only use a big knife and spear to save people, I am afraid that if you can't save people, you will put the people who save people into it!" ”

This is a big truth, and it is something that must be addressed. What can save people without weapons and hands?

Chen Qimei said: "In terms of manpower, I can think of a way, how to say that I am also a big character of the Green Gang." It should be no problem to gather two or three hundred people, the key is weapons, the funds that Mr. Sun gave me have been used up to now, and the funds needed to buy weapons are not a few, besides, we can't buy weapons openly and openly from foreigners. You can only go to the black market, and the price on the black market is much higher than the market price! ”

Chen Qimei's brows furrowed high. There were two rich men in front of him, but he couldn't let them take the money out to buy guns. Because these two rich people have taken out enough money, they can't let others go bankrupt and follow you, right? People still have wives and children and a large family, full of children and grandchildren, so many people want to eat, drink and Lazar, what kind of money is not needed?

Boss Yu waved his hand and said: "Now is the critical moment of life and death, of course we people have the money to contribute, and we have the strength to contribute, I can take out the money to buy a gun, the question is where do we go to buy a gun?" Go to the black market? As far as I know, after the last wharf bombing, the patrols and secret agents in the French Concession, as well as the Qing court, have been tracking down the lost weapons. Now that the black market is basically closed, we just can't buy it if we want to."

Boss Yu's words made Zhu Baosan and Chen Qimei helpless, someone has no weapons, this is really fatal, then Zhu Baosan asked: "Didn't the Restoration Society be at the gate before?" Kita and Kure? Are there any military police in the Songshan area? Can we ask for help from the Liberation Society and borrow some weapons from them? ”

Chen Qimei couldn't help but smile bitterly when she heard this: "Brother Zhu, you don't know that Tao Chengzhang of the Restoration Society is very dissatisfied with Mr. Sun and our alliance because of fundraising matters, and we go to find his people at this time, I am afraid that we will touch a nose and expose our intentions, and I am not very familiar with Tao Chengzhang's people, and he is far away in Tokyo, so he can't quench his thirst, so he can't count on it!" ”

Zhu Baosan's face was sad: "How is this good?" We were arrested more than 60 people, and there were more than a dozen innocent citizens, which is more than 70 lives! ”

Boss Yu and Chen Qimei didn't speak for a while, the atmosphere seemed a little depressed and dignified, Chen Qimei took out a box of cigarettes, took out a cigarette and lit it and smoked it, after smoking half of it, he made up his mind and said: "That's it, if there is really no way, I will take the risk to go to the black market to find out the situation, Brother Yu will prepare the front, once I touch the door, I will immediately withdraw money to buy weapons and ammunition back!" ”

The two bosses glanced at each other, and knew in their hearts that they could only do this now, and Boss Yu agreed: "Okay! ”

After the conversation, Chen Qimei immediately left the Ningshang Association, he hailed a rickshaw and went directly to Liu Fubiao's house, and twenty minutes later, he appeared at the gate of Liu Fubiao's mansion and knocked on the door.

"Brother Chen, why did you come here at this time? Has anyone been following you? Come in" Liu Fubiao was very surprised by Chen Qimei's arrival, he didn't understand what Chen Qimei was doing in his house at this time, now this Chen brother should be running away from the pursuit of the Qing court, why is he not afraid of death?

After the two entered the gate, Chen Qimei didn't go inside, he was in a hurry, and his arrested subordinates were about to be beheaded in three days, where did he still have the heart to drink tea and chat at this time, and quickly solve the problem of weapons, ammunition and manpower.

"Brother Liu, I won't go in, you must help me with something!"

Looking at Chen Qimei's anxious appearance, Liu Fubiao's righteous anger exploded, and he immediately said: "Brother Chen has something to say, there is anything that cannot be said between us, as long as I can do it, I will never shirk!" ”

"Then brother, I won't thank you much!" Chen Qimei was also not polite, and hurriedly put things together: "That's the case, you also know that two days ago, Qinggou sent out a large number of arrests to arrest many of our brothers, I got the news that the Qing court will behead all those brothers at the entrance of the county town in three days, so we discussed and decided to rescue them anyway, but now we have no manpower, this is the first, second, we have no weapons, Boss Yu promised to pay for a gun, but we have no way, Brother Liu, you are a person on the road, you should be very familiar with these doorways, I want you to help gather some people to be death squads, and show me a way to buy guns! ”

Liu Fubiao frowned and thought for a while before saying: "After the dock bombing, the rumors on the black market are already very tight, but there is no way to buy a gun, twenty or thirty guns can still be obtained, but if you want to buy more, it is impossible, Brother Chen, is twenty or thirty guns enough?" ”

"Can't you buy more?"

"I'm afraid I can't, after all, the black market is not a market on the surface, and besides, you are now openly looking for foreigners to buy guns, and people don't have too much stock!"

This is the truth, after Xiao Zhenlei and others grabbed the weapons and ammunition, they put a bundle of grenades with a fuse in the arms warehouse at the wharf, which blew up all the arms of the great powers on the beach in Shanghai, even the black market merchants have no way to buy them, where else do they go to get weapons?

"Okay, thirty is thirty!" Chen Qimei felt that now there was only one way to buy as much as he could, which was better than nothing, and he said: "I'm afraid that I have to ask Brother Liu for help in other manpower problems, if Brother Liu doesn't help me gather some manpower to save people, I can only watch those brothers be killed by Qinggou ??????."

Seeing Chen Qimei talking about to cry, Liu Fubiao, a righteous brother, really couldn't bear it, he thought about how dashing Brother Chen usually was, if he wasn't forced to do anything, why was this situation? So he persuaded: "Brother Chen, don't be like this, don't be like this, if there is something, let's figure it out together, the sky can't fall." In this way, I can't be the master of this matter alone, I will take you to see the old man, as long as the old man agrees, I will immediately gather hundreds of brothers for you to drive without saying a word! ”

Chen Qimei hurriedly said: "That's okay, time is pressing, this matter should be sooner rather than later, let's go see my eldest brother now!" ”

Liu Fubiao had to turn around and go back to the house, put on a dress, and took a few brothers and Chen Qimei to see Fan Gaotou. Seeing Fan Gaotou, there are no twists and turns in asking him to help save people, although Fan Gaotou is a little greedy for money, he is still very righteous, Chen Qimei, a brother who worships his son, is in trouble, he can't help it, and there is also an apprentice Liu Fubiao on the side to say that he is even more difficult to shirk, let Liu Fubiao find a hundred brothers who can fight to help Chen Qimei save people.

As long as a hundred people come, this makes Chen Qimei a little lacking in confidence, you must know that Enahai can mobilize the strength of a battalion, but he thinks that it is impossible for Enahai to pull out all the people of a battalion and escort prisoners, right? It would be good for the escort to have a team (company), and if he took these 100 people to ambush in an ambush at a very favorable ambush site, the possibility of success was still very high. (To be continued) R466