East District of Public Concession, Yulin Road Intersection.

Smelling the thick smell of blood in the air, Zhang Xiaolin's chest and abdomen churned, he was about to send someone to invite the Japanese who were watching in surprise on the street in front of him to come over and discuss it, when he suddenly saw about a small group of Japanese marines, loaded with guns and ammunition, running in line from the direction of Huishan Wharf in the south.

According to the customary rules, except for a small number of military and police officers who maintained law and order, the foreign powers were not allowed to formally garrison troops, except for the sailors on board, so the marines of European and American countries and Japanese ships on the Huangpu River constituted the main force of the Shanghai garrison.

The history of the Japanese garrison in Shanghai can be traced back to the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki at the end of the last century, when Japan set up consulates in various treaty ports in China, all of which symbolically stationed marines to protect them. After the Boxer Rebellion, the great powers greatly increased the number of troops stationed in China according to the unequal "Xinqiao Treaty", and Japan was naturally not far behind, and even sent marines to Chongqing, Shashi and other places in Chinese mainland.

As a result of the "128-Song-Shanghai War of Resistance," Japan not only obtained the privilege of continuously increasing its garrison in Shanghai, but also sent a huge Third Fleet to be stationed in Shanghai, Lushun, Qingdao, and other ports and to cruise in China's coastal waters. By the 26th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese Marine Corps had as many as six brigades in the Songhu area, numbering about 2,500 men, stationed in Hongkou, Yangshupu, Huxi, and Pudong areas, with a total of 4,300 sailors on board.

Among them, Huishan Wharf is an important garrison location of the Japanese Marine Corps in the concession, with complete fortifications, and it is also the closest Japanese military camp to Yulin Road.

Seeing that the Japanese finally couldn't hold their breath and used the Marines again, Zhang Xiaolin's heart suddenly sudden, and the time to come is still coming.

For ordinary Japanese, the Green Gang still has a chance to win, but to deal with the regular army, Zhang Xiaolin knows that there is a huge gap between the two, and no number of people can send them to death.

After trotting all the way to the Yulin intersection, more than a dozen Japanese marines dressed in blue wool ship costumes pointed their guns directly at Zhang Xiaolin and others, and the leading naval lieutenant stood two meters in front of Zhang Xiaolin, looking at the dead compatriots on the ground, and the anger in the lieutenant's eyes almost burned Zhang Xiaolin to ashes.

"Mr. Zhang, please come with us to the Imperial Navy's Shanghai Special Marine Corps Headquarters."

Speaking not very fluent Chinese, the Japanese lieutenant seemed polite, but in fact he had already prepared, and if Zhang Xiaolin had the slightest intention of resisting, he would be killed

"Okay"

Zhang Xiaolin took a deep breath, nodded, and said, "I am good friends with your Commander of the Combined Fleet of the Navy, Admiral Nagano, and I have also known Shi Shejun, the Consul General of Shanghai, for many years, so I ......will go with you."

"Bang-"

The muffled sound of a bullet hitting the target instantly stunned everyone present, the Japanese Navy lieutenant's face was covered with red and white things, and Zhang Xiaolin, who was opposite him, directly broke a big hole in the back of his head, and the bullet broke out of his skull, drilled out from the center of his eyebrows, and hit the Japanese Navy lieutenant in the chest.

When the lieutenant of the Navy passed through his chest, he looked at Zhang Xiaolin who was lying straight in front of him in disbelief, looked down at his chest again, and then fell to the ground unwillingly holding his heart. After lying on his back on the ground, as his vitality gradually disappeared, the Japanese naval lieutenant's whole body convulsed, blood flowed from the corners of his mouth, and then he tilted his head and died.

Zhang Xiaolin, one of the three giants of Shanghai, was shot dead in the public concession in full view of everyone

The people of the Green Gang gathered at the intersection of Yulin Road were in an uproar, and they did not dare to accept such a reality for a while

After the death of the naval lieutenant who led the team, more than a dozen Japanese marines were stunned for a moment, and then they all raised their guns and shot at the Green Gang in front, and several Green Gang members fell in a pool of blood at the first time.

At the intersection of Lianwan Road, which intersects with Yulin Road in a north-south direction, about 900 meters away from the site of the incident, the roof of a six-story building that was damaged in the Songhu War five years ago and is currently being reinforced, the air is still filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke that has not completely dissipated.

"Luck, killing two birds with one stone, can be described as an unexpected joy...... Little devil, blame you for your bad luck and make an addition, of course, blame your Grandpa Lei's marksmanship is really good."

Lei Biao, the commander of the spy company, said as he quickly disassembled and packed the sniper rifle with the help of his sniper deputy, and in just over 30 seconds, it was disassembled into parts and packed into the suitcase.

The two quickly walked down the stairs, strode out of the building with steel pipes and protective nets on the outer wall, like cheetahs, flashed into an alley, tossed through several alleys, and disappeared without a trace.

Lei Biao didn't know what to do, no one at the scene of the incident realized that the murderer was being tracked down according to the trajectory of the ballistics, and as the Japanese marines opened fire, several Green Gangs were scattered on the streets, and the situation instantly became out of control

Looking at the brothers in the gang who fell at their feet, the resentment accumulated by the repeated oppression of foreigners, coupled with the anger of the Japanese who had accumulated before to rob the Red Ribbon Pavilion and kill and injure the members of the Green Gang but could not retaliate, all erupted at this moment

Hundreds of green gangs, their blood surging, fearlessly rushed to the Japanese marines in front of them. The Japanese officers and men were extremely tactically literate, and while firing their guns, they had already automatically spread out in the surrounding area, hoping to take advantage of the favorable terrain to cover the fire.

The Green Gang, who had been carried away by the rage, had no guns when their blood was completely burning, but they had machetes, axes and steel rods, and they had not received systematic military training, but they had the will to fight against death

For a long time, in the eyes of the Japanese, the Chinese are synonymous with cowardice, no matter how provocative and humiliating, the Chinese will only accept it.

But today, looking at the Chinese who rushed towards them desperately, their faces were hideous, they forgot to die, and they didn't care that people around them kept being shot and fell, and Second Lieutenant Fujii, who took over the command of the dead naval lieutenant, finally showed a trace of fear in their eyes

A Japanese marine did not have time to shoot, and was chopped off with an axe by the rapidly approaching Chinese, and immediately blood and brains shot out, and he fell to the ground with a miserable howl.

Second Lieutenant Fujii gasped and ordered the soldiers around him to shoot again and again, but the lack of automatic fire support led to the continuous killing of marines in the face of the overwhelming Green Gang, and soon there was no one else around Fujii.

The tenacious will to survive allowed Fujii to play at a super level, and the 94-style pistol bullets in his hand were not missing, and all six bullets were hit, directly causing the three members of the Green Gang to fall in a pool of blood.

However, more of the Green Gang rushed over wielding long knives and axes, Fujii hurriedly pulled out the magazine and prepared to reload the bullets, but it was too late, and in the hideous smile of the Green Gang at a high speed approaching two meters from his side, Fujii subconsciously waved his hand to block, and the axe directly cut off Fujii's arm.

The axe still had no momentum, and it slashed directly into Fujii's face, breaking a large hole. Fujii didn't even have time to scream, and he lost consciousness in front of him.

A small squad of Japanese Marines was completely drowned in the endless flow of people, and they soon died. The Japanese, who had originally relied only on one breath to confront the Green Gang, had already been frightened in the face of the fierce and vicious Green Gang, who had completely lost their minds, and in a panic withdrew from Yulin Road and the nearby Dalian Bay Road, McCreck Road, Kondo Road, Huasheng Road and other neighborhoods, and fled to the headquarters of the Japanese Navy's Shanghai Special Marine Corps in the north and Huishan Wharf in the south.

When there was no Japanese left in the large block, the many Green Gangs were silent for a full minute, and then erupted into a frenzied cry

Du Yuesheng, who hurried to the intersection of Yulin Road, knelt on the ground after seeing Zhang Xiaolin's body, tears rolling down.

Wan Molin, who was traveling with him, saw the corpses of Japanese people all over the ground, especially those of Japanese marines, his face was completely full of excitement, and his round eyes were full of worry.

Jilin Road, near Huishan Park, is about two kilometers away from Yulin Road, and among the Shikumen arcade buildings near and far, there are rows of eye-catching two-story townhouses, and they are all blue-eyed and high-nosed foreigners, which is a high-end villa community at first glance.

It's just that no one knows that this is actually an industry in Zhang Xiaolin's name, and those foreigners are Jews who fled from Germany and have a certain economic strength, and they are currently renting here.

Early that morning, the Jews were driven out of their houses by heavily armed Japanese marines and soldiers and concentrated in Huishan Park to the south, where the Japanese set up checkpoints at both ends of Jilin Road to strictly prohibit pedestrians from passing.

The foreign inspectors, Yin Fishers, and Hua Fishers of the Huishan Patrol House on Maohai Road near them were so silent that they didn't even have the courage to interrogate, and they shrank in the patrol room, unable to sit still.

At this time, all the basements of the villa area had been opened, and the underground warehouses full of munitions were completely exposed. The Jews who live here could never have imagined that they would sleep on a powder heap, and that if they were not careful, they would be left with no bones

After more than two hours of inspection, he found out that the arsenal built under the villa area contained a total of 2,100 Mauser Nl4 rifles, 300 shell guns imitated by the Jinling Factory, and more than 100 Thomson submachine guns imitated by the Hanyang Factory.

The weapons are brand new, and the wooden crates are not even oiled yet. The only fly in the ointment was that there was less ammunition, about 2.3 million rounds of ammunition for matching rifles, about 70,000 rounds of ammunition for barge guns, and 120 boxes of grenades.

No one knows where Zhang Xiaolin got these weapons, but for the new Second Division, which is expanding its armaments, it is naturally Han Xin's troops, and the more the better

Hearing the faint sound of gunfire coming from the west, Steve immediately decided: "Taking advantage of the chaos in the concession now, immediately send weapons and ammunition to Yinxianggang Town in the north, which is located on the edge of the concession and has complex personnel, and it is completely possible to send weapons to the leasing area through Qiujiang shipping." ”

Du Pingzhang, the confidential section chief of the new Second Division, who also carried out this confidential mission, nodded: "I'll do it, try to get it done within three hours, and then erase all traces and let everything return to normal."