Lin Yuan asked Chen Fei: "Have you conducted a reconnaissance of HSBC's warehouse?" ”

Chen Fei frowned when he heard this question, and Lin Yuan realized that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "Is there anything strange about this HSBC warehouse?" ”

Chen Fei said: "Although HSBC has three warehouses, but two of them are empty, and their large deposits are placed in a warehouse by the Suzhou Creek, which is 30 meters high and 20 meters long, with six floors on the ground, and the entire floor is full of walls and no windows, so we did not get the internal structure of the warehouse due to the high confidentiality of the warehouse." ”

"However, according to our long-range optical reconnaissance analysis, the wall should be made of reinforced concrete, and according to the bank's executives, the warehouse is a semi-underground structure, ten meters deep underground, and mainly stores gold and silver."

Lin Yuan thought for a moment and asked, "What about the guards?" ”

Chen Fei replied: "There are about a hundred British soldiers. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "There's nothing difficult to fight for, why are you frowning?" ”

Chen Fei walked to Lin Yuan's table, opened a map of Shanghai, pointed at it with his hand, and said: "This is the warehouse, we don't have data on the thickness of the walls of the warehouse, but according to the practice of bank warehouses, the walls must be very thick, our rocket charge is too small, it is impossible to penetrate the wall, and we can't use large-caliber artillery to attack, the warehouse is only fifteen meters away from the houses on the side, a street away, Large-caliber artillery can cause damage to nearby houses even if they are fired at close and direct aim. ”

Lin Yuan said to himself: "Our 122 mm caliber shells have a killing radius of 50 meters, no matter how they are bombed, they will hurt the houses on the side, it seems that heavy weapons cannot be used in this battle!" ”

Chen Fei shook his head and said, "Not necessarily, if we clear all the nearby residents, we can use heavy artillery to blow up!" ”

Lin Yuan said: "It's better not to disturb the people, let's find a way, by the way, is there fresh water and grain reserves in it?" ”

Chen Fei nodded firmly and said, "Yes!" The food and fresh water inside are enough to sustain the people inside for more than two years! ”

"Two years!" Lin Yuan exclaimed in surprise, and then said, "What are these British people doing!" What do you do with so much grain and fresh water in one warehouse? ”

Chen Fei said: "We also asked at the time, and their people explained it like this, it turned out that in 1863, when the Shanghai Xiaodaohui uprising, a rebel army besieged the British Concession, and they hid in the warehouse at that time, and the rebels outside had no heavy weapons and could not enter the warehouse, so these British expatriates survived. ”

"Two years ago, due to our crossing, the Boxer Rebellion happened earlier than our era, and the British consul in Shanghai stockpiled a large amount of fresh water and food in the warehouse in order to protect the expatriates, and they determined the amount of reserves in this way: the grain and fresh water in it must ensure that the people inside can hold out until the fleet of the British mainland arrives in Shanghai!"

Lin Yuan said in surprise: "It won't take two years for the British home fleet to arrive in Shanghai!" ”

Chen Fei said: "When the reserve was in reserve, there were several thousand British expatriates, but now the number has become a hundred guards, so the time has become longer. ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "It seems that the siege is not good, then there is only a strong attack!" ”

Chen Fei said: "It is not easy to attack, if we adopt the tactics of attacking windows, the first floor is all walls, there are no windows, we can only climb up to the second floor to attack after we arrive, the enemy's firepower points are on the second and third floors, and a large number of casualties may be unavoidable; As for the tactics of attacking the door, don't think about it, that big iron gate is said to weigh dozens of tons, and it can only be opened with mechanical force inside, and if you want to open it from the outside, you can only blow it up with explosives! ”

Lin Yuan said: "What if we block the window with a machine gun in the back as a cover? ”

Chen Fei said: "Then we can get close to the window, but we are not familiar with the situation inside, and the casualties will be greater after the hard fight after entering!" ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "Let's stop talking about it here, let's take someone to the warehouse now!" After the two finished speaking, they set off and came to the vicinity of the warehouse, which at this time was already facing a great enemy, the door had been closed, and there was not even a person outside.

Lin Yuan called a soldier and said, "Take the loudspeaker, go up and shout, just say that we are going to take over the warehouse, let them immediately lay down their weapons and accept our control!" ”

The warriors went and shouted for a long time, and the people inside also shouted: "Impossible, we only obey the orders of the consulate of the British Empire, you have no right to take over the warehouse!" ”

Chen Fei said: "Don't say more, you still have to be tough!" ”

Lin Yuan said: "That's right, bazooka class, go up and shoot a few rounds to try first, load armor-piercing shells, delay the fuse, and see if you can blow up the wall?" ”

The two soldiers approached the position of 200 meters of the warehouse, launched a rocket, after a loud bang, a burst of smoke rose from the wall, and when the smoke dissipated, Lin Yuan raised the telescope in his hand, only to see that the place where the explosion point was only a large piece of wall skin fell, revealing the steel skeleton and concrete core inside, and the wall showed no signs of blowing through.

Lin Yuan muttered in his mouth: "It's really hard to meet the bones!" At this moment, a few people who looked like ordinary people appeared in the binoculars, they were watching curiously from the street to the location of the explosion, Lin Yuan scolded in his heart: "Don't look at the place when you look at the excitement, is the battlefield a place to see the excitement?" ”

Lin Yuan put down the binoculars and said to the soldiers on the side: "Go and let those fellows hide!" While he was talking, those fellows actually walked towards Lin Yuan, and soon they had already walked in front of Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan saw that it was a few men, so he asked: "A few fellows, do you have anything to do?" ”

An old man in his fifties asked, "May I ask you are Lin Shuai's team, right?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "I am Lin Yuan, what's wrong?" ”

The old man hurriedly said: "It turns out that you are Lin Shuai, disrespectful and disrespectful, the old man wants to tell you that the wall of the British warehouse is very thick, and you can't blow it up at all without a big cannon!" ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Thank you for reminding me." ”

The old man said again: "Then hurry up and get the big mouth cannon, and blow up this group of foreign devils into the sky as soon as possible!" ”

Chen Fei said helplessly on the side: "Uncle, we also want to use large-caliber heavy artillery, oh, it's the big-mouth cannon you said, but the warehouse is too close to your home, our shells blow up, the foreign devil's warehouse is not good, your warehouse is flat!" ”

When the old man heard this, he slapped his thigh and said, "So that's the case, I asked my family to move out, and you can blow up our house at will!" ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly said, "Then how can it be done?" I know you've worked hard all your life to build a decent house......"

The old man interrupted Lin Yuan and said, "What's not to do." At this time, there were many people around the old man, and he turned back to the crowd and said, "Are you right?" ”

Everyone talked nonsense: "That's right, Lin Shuai, let's just move out, let's blow it up with a cannon!" Lin Yuan listened to the chaotic voice, and a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind!