mentioned that snatching salt was exchanged for money and spoils, and Tong Guozhong suddenly came to his senses.

The small leaders of these gangs make money much easier than the low-level Qinggang disciples, in addition to the fact that there will always be expenses in Anqing, and their subordinates extort protection money on the street, they also have to take a piece, and they also make some dividends from tobacco smuggling.

But then again, their daily expenses are also very amazing, mainly drinking wine and eating meat to find women, anyway, what they do is to pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers.

"This is Danyang, not far from Taihu Lake, if our action is successful, simply drive these boats into Taihu Lake overnight, go to our secret dock, unload all the salt, and then find someone to transform the boats, ten machine ships are also a lot of money, it would be a pity to burn them!" Tong Guozhong's eyes were full of greed.

"Isn't that good? In case the leaked news is known to Boss Chang, we change our plan of action privately, but we can't eat and walk around? Miao Fengchi said with a frown.

"What's not to do, Boss Chang means to fight the surnamed Han, we robbed his salt, robbed his salt ship, the goal has been achieved, what does he have to say?"

"Besides, more than a hundred brothers, coming out in the middle of the night to do such a thing, there is no real benefit, and we can't mobilize everyone's enthusiasm, Chang Boss's upper lip touches his lower lip, it's easy to say, he doesn't even have the least expression, who is willing to give him his life?" Tong Guozhong said.

The benefits of the Anqing Association, the big head let Chang Yuqing swallow it, he eats meat, others can only drink soup, after all, the Qing Gang is not the government's army or police, it is said that the gang rules are strict, the discipline is actually very poor, the best stimulus is money, what else do you do if you don't give money?

"Well, tell the brethren that when the shooting is fired, try to scare the boatmen and the salt guards as much as possible, and don't break the salt boat, for this is everyone's welfare." Miao Fengchi still agreed.

Such a big piece of fat, Tong Guozhong and he must not be able to swallow it alone, and it is not impossible to tie up the personnel participating in the operation with interests, and to have interests evenly.

Half an hour later, the flashlight behind the tree in the distance flashed three times, indicating that the target had arrived.

With the roar of the machine, several lights shone on the water, and ten wooden boats loaded with table salt, driven by the machines, struggled to drive through the river.

"Tell the brothers that there is an ambush circle not far ahead, and our task is to delay as much time as possible, pay attention to safety when shooting, and the Japanese military police follow behind, so that they can behave and not take it for nothing." Fang Zhaoan said with a smile.

"Chief of Staff, the boss specially explained that we should shoot a few gendarmes." Said the operational staff officer.

"This is the most important task, I specially organized a temporary action group, hiding behind their backs, once the Japanese military police approached, they would take action against the military police, and when there was chaos, they could catch a few alive." Fang Zhaoan said.

A few miles away, two patrol boats of the Japanese military police were following unhurriedly, and the driver did not have much gas pedal.

This kind of small and medium-sized river gunboat was specially developed by Japan for the Japanese army to fight in the south, with a displacement of a little more than 25 tons, called a 25-ton gunboat, 18 meters long, 3.6 meters wide, and a maximum draft of 1.6 meters.

In the cockpit of the front ship, a military police captain and several lieutenants and ensigns were looking at the things on the table.

On the table are Japanese sake, roast chicken, cooked meat, and half a box of Sijunzi brand cigarettes, and a big red envelope, which is all paid for "attendance" tonight, and the people of the salt company specially sent it.

For the water patrol of the Japanese military police, so many things are earned in vain, but they can follow the salt convoy to the border of Changzhou and return, what can happen?

It's not the first time I've escorted, in their eyes, it's a very easy beauty!

"If there is a situation ahead, slow down and stop the ship immediately!"

The searchlight of the head boat shone far into the river and was blocked by obstacles, and hurriedly yelled at the boats behind.

The ship, which was not sailing fast, slowly stopped in the river, lowered the anchor and fixed it, and at this time, the fleet was more than 20 meters away from the blocked ship.

Da da da, a light machine gun is a shuttle bullet on the water next to the head boat, and then, there is also a machine gun fire near the tail boat, which is the meaning of a warning, but also to show strength, we have a machine gun!

"Listen, the people on the boat, you have been surrounded, we are doing a business without capital, we just want to ask for money and don't want to hurt people, bring the boat over and give you a way to live, otherwise, don't blame us for being ruthless!" Tong Guozhong shouted loudly.

"There is something to discuss, how much money do you want, you can talk slowly!" Fang Zhaoan shouted.

"If you don't want to eat guns, immediately bring the boat to the shore, everyone will get off the boat, don't talk nonsense with me!" Miao Fengchi was worried that something would change, so he hurriedly shouted.

At the same time as the searchlight of the salt carrier shone brightly, the salt guards opened fire, dozens of guns and four machine guns, constantly strafing the shore, and with a bang, a grenade exploded.

It's a pity that in the eyes of these operatives of the Green Gang, the salt guard team is just a group of straw bales, and they didn't find the right place to shoot.

"Damn, call Lao Tzu! The machine guns intensified their firepower, and when they were caught, Lao Tzu buried them all alive! Tong Guozhong was furious.

How did they know that the dense gunfire and grenade explosions were a message to the patrol boats behind!

"Turn off all the lights, the patrol boat taxied a section close to the battlefield, we divided into two teams, went ashore with rubber boats, and when we fired signal flares, the patrol boats first attacked with mortars, and then approached and fired with twin machine guns, there are really water bandits robbing salt boats, these things that don't know whether they are alive or dead!" The gendarmerie lieutenant was very annoyed by such a situation.

The river boat was equipped with an 80-mm mortar in the bow and a twin-mounted Type 93 13-mm heavy machine gun at the rear of the cockpit roof, which was not armoured.

The rear half of the hull is the crew compartment, which can accommodate two infantry squads of soldiers, above the crew compartment there is a Type 92 heavy machine gun, again unprotected, and a gunboat is composed of fourteen people.

The patrol boat stopped anchor and lowered the rubber boat, and the military police captain commanded several lieutenants, ensigns, and military officers, with four squads and more than 50 military policemen, and specially sent additional troops on the mission, carrying light machine guns and Type 38 rifles, carrying grenadiers, and coming from the boat along the rope ladder to the rubber boat.

They divided into two groups, quietly rowed the rubber boat to the shore, fixed the rubber boat, and groped along the river bank on both sides towards the ambush circle. To say that this gendarmerie captain is also insidious enough, and has actual combat experience, he wants to quietly carry out a sneak attack.

It is a pity that such an operation has long been seen by the ambushed temporary action group, which raised its guns and aimed at the target.

There were several gunshots in a row, and the Japanese military police, who had just touched the ambush circle, were immediately knocked down several times, including a second lieutenant and a sergeant.

Just as he was about to attack, his side was shot by the bandits first, and the gendarmerie captain felt that he had been humiliated, and immediately became furious and ordered his men to fire signal flares.

(End of chapter)