Near noon, when the Green Gang was searching the houses around Wusong Road, they were attacked by a group of Japanese ronins passing there, and eight of the Green Gang members were hacked to death on the spot, 11 were seriously injured, and 25 were slightly injured.

When the news came, the crowd was furious, and the Green Gangs in the nearby neighborhood hurriedly rushed to reinforcements, and soon confronted the Japanese who had also gathered, and the scene was extremely chaotic, and some angry people rushed into the Japanese shops and began to set fires.

Previously, the Japanese ransacked the Red Gang Pavilion and the Green Gang property in the eastern area of the public concession, resulting in the injury of hundreds of gangs, which had already brewed a monstrous anger in the minds of the Green Gang, but there was no way to attack under Zhang Xiaolin's strong bullet pressure, and now this incident has happened, and many Green Gangs can no longer bear it, and their anger erupts like a volcanic eruption.

The situation gradually became more and more difficult to control, and some of the Green Gangs could not find the Japanese to vent, and began to storm the shops that hung Japanese shop signs, which then turned into large-scale robbery.

The more than 30,000 Japanese expatriates who have settled in Shanghai are concentrated in the Hongkou area, which is known as "Little Tokyo" and whose lingua franca is Japanese.

The Japanese have mixed feelings about Shanghai, and on the one hand, they yearn for it. There are such lyrics in the Japanese ballad "Shanghai Route": The ship is sailing, the pleasant sailing, thinking of the dream Shanghai, the main road and the four roads are the flowers blooming at night, the red lights are swaying, Shanghai, the longed-for Shanghai.

However, many Japanese overseas Chinese who have settled in Shanghai look arrogant but are actually inferior, and Japanese businessman Kishida Ginka once expressed his views on his compatriots in this way: In Shanghai, it is not unreasonable that the Japanese are often ridiculed by people from Western countries, and everyone wears short cotton clothes instead of Western clothes, and wears a three-foot-long belt, or wears a straw hat made in Omori on their bald heads, and wears clogs on their bare feet, and walks around the streets around Hongkou with "squeak" and "squeak", and the dress of these compatriots is extremely shameful.

It was these Japanese expatriates with complicated feelings, who were unwilling to see their compatriots' shops robbed, and even more unwilling to be humiliated, quickly organized to confront the Qinggang gangs, and the Japanese samurai and students in the Hongkou Dojo and Yangshupu Martial Arts Hall were also reinforced one after another, and a large-scale weapon fight began.

After the eventually, the situation became more and more intense, and the scuffle spread from the eastern area to the entire area east of Suzhou Creek.

Tens of thousands of stimulated Green Gangs started a crazy duel with the Japanese, and some of the Green Gangs who could not find an opponent began to openly rob the Japanese property

During this period, Cheng Xiaoxin, Ah Ming, Debao and other Zhang Xiaolin's henchmen tried to stop them, but as soon as they settled down the people of the Green Gang around them, they were attacked by the Japanese.

Among them, Cheng Xiaoxin was hit on the head by the iron rod swung by the Japanese who were beaten, bleeding profusely, and fainted to the ground, and Ah Ming, Debao and others were also chased and jumped. No one dissuaded them, and the situation got out of control again and quickly turned into a major riot involving the entire Eastern and Northern Districts of the Public Concession.

When Cheng Xiaoxin woke up, he found that things were out of control, so he had to hurry back to report the news.

Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng gasped after listening to the report, things have come to this point, I am afraid that it will not end well The Qing Gang is involved in the dispute between China and Japan, and it is very likely that it will never be recovered.

Zhang Xiaolin was almost stunned by the continuous bad news, he stumbled back on the Taishi chair, with a straight face, holding the teacup tightly with his right hand, and asked, "Where are Debao and Ah Ming?" ”

Cheng Xiaoxin lowered her head with a hint of crying: "I haven't seen them since I woke up...... I don't know where I'm hiding......"

Listening to Cheng Xiaoxin's words, Zhang Xiaolin couldn't hold back any longer, threw the cup in his hand and smashed it to pieces, and roared angrily: "Niang Xipi, I must have seen that the situation was wrong and slipped away two white-eyed wolves, and when Lao Tzu came to his senses, he must clean them up."

Zhang Xiaolin didn't know what to do, and in the chaos, Wu Ming's subordinates pretended to be Japanese and the Green Gang, fished in troubled waters, and cut off Zhang Xiaolin's wings in a big way, and many of the backbone of the Green Gang, including Debao and Ah Ming, were quietly eliminated, so the situation became more and more chaotic.

"The second brother is angry, and the top priority is to calm down the current matter first...... If there are large-scale casualties among the Japanese, no one can afford to take this responsibility," Du Yuesheng reassured softly.

Zhang Xiaolin, whose mind had regained a trace of clarity, nodded emphatically, after so many years of going to the wind and rain, this little psychological endurance is still there, and soon he had an idea, stood up again, and said sharply: "Let's go with Lao Tzu to see, what are the stupid things about the turtle grandson, isn't this going to kill me Zhang Xiaolin?" ”

"Yes"

The Green Gang gathered in the hall suddenly agreed, and no one dared to question Zhang Xiaolin's decision at this moment.

After all, Zhang Xiaolin's prestige is extraordinary, even if he is in a difficult situation now, he can still respond to a hundred calls, in just half an hour, four or five hundred children of the Green Gang gathered in front of Zhangfu on Huagezhen Road, Zhang Xiaolin personally drove and led people to the east bank of Suzhou Creek to kill.

Huang Jinrong, who was sitting in the middle of the lobby and didn't have the slightest intention of leaving, looked at Du Yuesheng, who got up to say goodbye, and said softly: "This trip to the muddy water is not so easy." ”

Du Yuesheng was stunned for a moment, then shook her head and smiled bitterly: "No matter what, Brother Xiaolin is my brother, I don't feel at ease if I don't see it with my own eyes...... Brother Xiaolin is too impulsive, what we need now is to be calm, instead of shouting and killing in the hope that Brother Xiaolin can control the situation, otherwise I really don't know how to end up in the road."

After that, Du Yuesheng didn't leave Zhang's mansion without looking back, and a large group of people quickly followed.

Huang Jinrong, who was old and long, saw the backs of everyone leaving one after another, and still drank the good West Lake Longjing tea unhurriedly, smacked his lips, closed his eyes and savored it for a while, and said to the people serving beside him: "Let's go back too...... Zhang Xiaolin's catastrophe may not be able to escape. ”

The public concession on the east bank of the Suzhou Creek has long been chaotic, with green gangs besieging Japanese expatriates with machetes, axes, and sticks, and Japanese ronin wielding katanas and clubs chasing and slashing down the Qing gang and Chinese passing by, and the situation is chaotic

Because it was in the concession, considering the interests of all sides, the Japanese marines did not act rashly, and all the people patrolling the house were turtles with shrunken heads, so the situation was far worse than Zhang Xiaolin imagined.

Zhang Xiaolin's convoy crossed the Suzhou Creek, gathering the Qing Gang along the way to stop them from attacking the Japanese.

The surrounding Japanese bullied the weak and feared the hard, and when they saw that the comers were invincible, they scattered in a hurry.

Zhang Xiaolin rode all the way to the east and ordered his men to block the two sides of the melee encountered on the road and let the Japanese leave, so as to avoid further escalation and expansion of the situation.

When Zhang Xiaolin arrived at the intersection in front of the Red Tassel Pavilion, although some local Green Gangs were still burning and robbing the Japanese shops, the whole situation had been brought under control.

Zhang Xiaolin hunched out of the car door, coldly glanced at the Japanese who were hiding in the distance at the turn of the street and watched vigilantly, turned his head, and asked the surrounding Qinggang gang: "Who is in charge here?" ”

A big man about thirty years old, with a big bald head and a machete still dripping blood, stood up with a big grin: "Dashuai, Ala is a leper A Bing, helping the backward of Lijue's generation, following Dashuai for eight years, and is currently the head of the table foot of Liyuan Casino, this time he was ordered to lead people to look for suspicious people in the East and North Districts, who wanted to be attacked by the Japanese, and he got up in a daze, hehe, Allah didn't disgrace you, so far I have lost eight Japanese......"

"You're a sixty-two"

Zhang Xiaolin didn't have the heart to listen, and scolded: "I asked you to bring people to find people, didn't I ask you to kill the Japanese, do you know how much trouble you have caused?" Take his machete down."

"Didn't you just kill some Japanese? What's the big deal, they also killed many of our brothers, don't we fight back and wait for them to kill them? ”

The leper Ah Bing shook his head disapprovingly, and let the people brought by Zhang Xiaolin take the machete down.

Zhang Xiaolin took the sharp machete, glanced at the blood condensed on it, and sighed: "So majestic and murderous, when Lao Tzu came out to kill, your grandson didn't know where to hit the street Since ancient times, even if Lao Tzu spares you, the Japanese can't spare you...

Speaking of this, the machete in his hand suddenly swung out without warning, and before Ah Bing could react, his neck had been cut off by the machete, and his head fell to the ground with a "grunt", rolling around a few times before stopping, his eyes were wide open, as if he couldn't believe that Zhang Xiaolin would attack his brother.

Hot blood shot out from Ah Bing's severed neck, and Zhang Xiaolin, who couldn't dodge it, was all over his face. Zhang Xiaolin flew out with a kick and kicked Ah Bing's struggling corpse to the ground, and the severed body and limbs were still spasming at this time.

Zhang Xiaolin's bloody and cruel methods immediately shocked a group of subordinates, and almost all of them subconsciously took a step back, wanting to stay away from Zhang Xiaolin, who was like a murderous demon king.

"Bang-"

Zhang Xiaolin threw down the machete, took the towel handed by the person around him, and pretended to smile arrogantly, looking around with a pair of leopard eyes, looking at the wolf with an eagle look.

At this time, Zhang Xiaolin was very helpless in his heart, although this would chill the brothers, but in the face of the heavy casualties of the Japanese, he could only hope to use such a thunderous means to express his position in exchange for the sympathy and understanding of the Japanese.

Du Yuesheng, who was still rushing to the eastern area of the public concession, heard the news on the road, and immediately beat his chest and shouted, "Mistake" - so naked betrayal of his brother in exchange for his own safety, the hero and hero do not bother to do it at all, even if Zhang Xiaolin can be forgiven by the Japanese in the end, he will definitely end up in a bleak situation of personal discouragement, and I am afraid that Shanghai will no longer be able to gain a foothold.

In Du Yuesheng's view, Zhang Xiaolin can use any means to seek benefits, even if there is no problem in opening brothels, gambling houses, big smoke houses, etc., and even if he takes refuge in the Japanese, as long as he can find some excuses, some people will be willing to follow, but no matter what, the brother's righteousness cannot be lost, if it is lost, everyone will be spurned on the rivers and lakes, and no one will treat you as a leading brother sincerely

Zhang Xiaolin has unconsciously buried a pit for himself, and there is no possibility of turning over