Chapter 341: Entering the Japanese Concession
"This time, the harvest of the Tianjin concession is still full." Meng Xiang said with a smile.
There were garrisons in the Tianjin Concession. The British barracks in the British Concession in the Great Northern Province had reached the size of more than 3,000 people in the thirties. The French Zizhulin Barracks also had hundreds of garrisons. The 15 Wing of the Americans also has about 1500 people. The Italians also had a mixed brigade.
Therefore, the concession was only suddenly chaotic for a while, and when the army reacted, a few hours later, the chaos was completely stopped.
But in just a few hours, it was enough for the vanguard soldiers who were lying in ambush everywhere to take advantage of the chaos to complete the scheduled operation.
They are doing the same activities as those who say they are, looting and killing, but they are plundering against their surnames. Ordinary shops, Meng Xiang disdainful, his target is Europeans and Americans foreign banks and banks, and even some Chinese-run commercial banks with bad reviews, usury money banks and so on.
Their banks in Tianjin were also moved to the concession, especially after they resold their property in Tianjin, most of the funds were deposited in these banks in order to drag Britain and France into the water. Some of the funds were also deposited in banks such as HSBC and Citigroup. The key is that some of the cultural relics and treasures that I have looted have not had time to be transported away, and they have also been deposited in some banks, among which Zhengjin Bank has the most.
Zhengjin Bank is the second largest bank in Yokohama, with a strong political background.
The branch in Tianjin is located at 2 Victoria Road, British Concession. That is, it was later No. 80 Jiefang North Road. That place is now also a bank. Tianjin was the most important port for the trade between China and Yueben. With the increasing number of foreign banks dispatched to the garrison, the bank was ordered to act as the Tianjin agent of the central treasury to handle the expenses of the garrison troops, the income of overseas enterprises, and other secret receipts and expenditures. After the 918 Incident, the sign of "Tianjin Agency of the Bank" was also hung up. The branch was established very early, relying on the borrowing relationship between the Qing political axe and the Beiyang political axe, as well as the absorption of a large number of Qing Dynasty nobles and Beiyang warlords of the "insured deposit" gradually prospered. Its capital is over 100 million.
It is an important institution that he plundered in China, relying on the protection of the signboard of the British Concession, and he transported the cultural relics and treasures here.
He said that he had a good calculation and planned to store these belongings in the concession and slowly transport them out. The vanguard army could only sigh in the face of the British concession. Unexpectedly, after Meng Xiang learned the news, he immediately activated a plan that had been set and expanded the scope of the attack.
"Boom!" The door of the vault was not blown open directly, and in the dust, Tanya walked in, blew a strand of fiery red hair hanging down, and shouted backwards: "Come in!" ”
A group of clones dressed as expatriates rushed in and immediately looted the vaults.
"You're busy, I'll order the next artillery battle!" Tanya chuckled.
In this operation, the danger is not big, and Tanya, dressed as a European and American, followed the horse, specifically showing her third-level genius blasting skills. Although she also followed other demolition experts, there is no doubt that Tanya's level is the highest. The vault of Zhengjin Bank was blown open by her directional blasting, and there was no damage to the fragile artifacts inside.
said that he knew how to use the concession to hide things, and Meng Xiang also knew it. It was very troublesome to transport the obtained belongings, and the direct and operational personnel hid them in different places in the respective concessions.
74 has opened a trading house that distributes oil in Tianjin, with a large store area. As a regular English baron, no one generally dares to search for him. At this time, one of his oil depots was full of antique treasures from the Vanguard, and a group of dogs were guarding it.
The bank was looted, and some parts of the printing machine were dismantled.
"It's an organized operation, and it's definitely not just a few idiots!" Kenji Tsuchihara also learned of all the losses of this turmoil, and couldn't help but be furious. The robbery of the two banks of the British, with the participation of those explosives, is not only a matter of scratching, but also the robbery of the Kim Jong Bank is no longer like it was done by himself.
"Who could it be? Vanguard? Russians? Or someone else? ”
Fermers stood at the door of HSBC, put his top hat on his head with his cane, and looked up at the 24-year-old HSBC business building. HSBC, head office in Hong Kong, set up a branch in Tianjin in 1880, which was the earliest foreign financial institution to open in Tianjin, and was once the largest bank in Tianjin. This time, in order to win over the British, I put a lot of financial treasures here.
The twelve huge Ionic pillars at the entrance, topped with triangular mountain flowers, look particularly tall and majestic. But at this time, Fermos didn't care, just kept searching for all suspicious traces at the door.
He happened to encounter this incident when he came to China from Scotland Yard for a vacation, and after receiving instructions from his superiors, he had to stop taking a vacation and participate in the investigation.
"These bastards have destroyed all the traces." He scolded secretly, when the patrol of the British Concession arrived, there were still more than 30 expatriates around there. Yesterday it was like a hundred cows had been trampled on it, and the jumble of footprints made it impossible for him to identify the original culprit.
He gave up the search in frustration. Not only the footprints, but also many other traces have been destroyed. I can only look for the remaining suspicious traces little by little.
In front of the door of the vault that was blown open, his magnifying glass never moved from his eyes. There are more clues here than on the outside.
Analysis of explosives may have been produced by the Russians! Further research is needed. Fermers put on his top hat again, and after looking for few clues in HSBC, he quickly judged from the remnants of the explosives that it was somewhat similar to a new type of explosive produced in Soviet Russia, which the Russian Cheka had used in the pursuit of Trotsky in Paris, and which was tested at Scotland Yard at the time. He had some impressions of it.
"You must be from the Russians?" Inspector Wallace in the concession who was following next to him couldn't help but ask.
"Further detailed investigation is needed, and this is only a preliminary judgment." Fermers didn't dare to jump to conclusions.
"Only two people died, and their belongings were looted. They come for money. ”
"The suspect in charge of the blasting was estimated to be about 5 feet 7 inches tall, strong, and courageous, and he was very close to the explosion at the time of the explosion, and he was really lucky that he was not injured." Fermers looked at the clues and gathered the information, "There's also a hair here, red hair, I thought he was really Superman from the new American comics, and the explosion still made him lose a hair." ”
As he spoke, Fermus put away his magnifying glass and leaned down to pull a piece of red hair buried in the rubble: "Judging from the distance between the redhead and running to the explosion point, this strong guy is probably a grumpy man, huh...... Long hair? Woman? ”
Fermus was stunned.
"It's still too easy! I need to go to the battlefield! There are still many places that need to be cleaned up. Tanya propped her hands in front of the desk and said to Meng Xiang word by word, yesterday's explosion ignited the violent factor in her blood again.
Meng Xiang quickly glanced at the deep cleavage exposed because she leaned over, and calmly looked up at Tanya's blue eyes and said, "Obeying the commander's orders and arrangements is the first thing a soldier must do. Maintaining a certain level of respect for superiors is also a must for a soldier. ”
In Tanya's blue eyes, the pupils contracted suddenly. Meng Xiang felt a chill rise up his spine, but he still stared at Tanya's eyes without blinking.
"Hmph." Tanya glared at Meng Xiang fiercely, turned around and stomped her feet away.
Meng Xiang slowly relieved, he was sure that Zhibrain would never let Tanya hurt himself for no reason, but the pressure when facing Tanya was also unbearable. Tanya's contempt for herself hurts her self-esteem too much. In order to suppress Tanya and maintain the necessary majesty of himself as a commander, Meng Xiang made this move. It also seems to work well.
After all, Tanya still obeys the orders of her commander, but I don't know if she will obey some other orders? Meng Xiang thought of the deep cleavage he had just seen, and couldn't help but feel dry. I remembered the situation when I first saw Tanya, and I couldn't help but sit there and think about it.
The knock on the door made Meng Xiang wake up suddenly, and he shook his head to make his slightly red face fade.
"Come in!" Rat Two responded in response.
"Commander, this operation of the Brotherhood, news from other places has also come. Two failed operations, three succeeded! Rat Two reported.
"There is no need to investigate, the person who carried out the operation has already come out. An organization that calls itself the Brotherhood declares its revenge against our British Empire. Wallace knocked on the door, waking Fermers, who was experimenting around a circle of test-tube beakers.
"Brotherhood?" Furmers racked his brains and couldn't think of such an organization out there.
"It may be a new organization, and their slogan is to unite the natives of all the colonies ruled by the empire to overthrow the rule of the empire." Wallace fanned the pungent smell of chemicals in the room with his hat.
"Only against us, the British Empire? Isn't Westminster giving them enough? Furmus frowned. In '31, the Act already gave the Dominions a lot of autonomy.
"Yes, only for us. Similar bombings have occurred in several places, including in Ireland, India, Australia, Malaya and South Africa. It's all for us. Like here, they only attacked our banks and merchants, and the other countries, including the Chinese merchants, were probably the damned ones themselves. As for that bill, you also know that they don't protect those indigenous people. Wallace glanced at an Indian Asan, who was standing outside the door, and said.
"That is, this operation is two groups of people acting together?" Kenji Dohihara frowned, he always felt that things were not so simple. This time, the losses in the Jinzheng Bank were very large, and a large amount of gold and silver wealth was robbed, and even the looted cultural relics and treasures were also looted.
"They cooperate so tacitly, isn't there a connection?" Kenji Dohihara kept thinking about it, and the brotherhood that had just emerged seemed to be far away from them. The operation looked like it was just a coincidence.
"Could it be that Soviet Russia has something to do with it?" He thought of the monogram of the Brotherhood, and on a red five-pointed star, the mark of a black axe was particularly visible.
"For the sake of a lie, there needs to be a bunch of lies to make up for it." Meng Xiang sighed.
Copycat companies and umbrella companies already have a reputation in the world, but it is easy to cause bad effects when they carry out some dark deeds in the name of an arms company. And half of the world is fallen into darkness, and there must be a sword that shines in the darkness.
The British, the French, and Yue personally colluded to loot Tianjin's industrial and mining industries, and transferred them all from Yue's own account to the name of the British legal person, which made Meng Xiang furious. The plan to prepare for mere disturbance was suddenly mentioned to looting back those possessions.
But in this way, the intentions of the vanguard army were exposed, and the robbery of foreigners' banks was not small. But seeing that he proudly transported all his property away, and Britain and France and other countries took over these factories and mines, Meng Xiang felt unbearable.
So he detonated the dark organization of this brotherhood in advance to play cover. The purpose and emblem of the fraternity were improvised and expanded the significance of the organization of the fraternity.
"That's not bad, the fraternity can have more room for development in the future." Meng Xiang suddenly thought of the anti-colonial rule boom after World War II, and if the Brotherhood took a driving hand in it, it would be better than Huaxia directly in the future.
In this turmoil, Meng Xiang's target was only aimed at the British and Yue himself, and did not expand to others such as France. It is easy to confuse the target of the attack with too many surnames, and it is easy to reduce the impact of the expatriates. This time, only the losses of the British and Yue himself made the French and Americans cling to this attack of Yue himself.
In particular, the French, after they captured Guangdong, began to infiltrate Guangxi, Vietnam, and other places. This made the French very unhappy. At this time, because some French shops in the French Concession were damaged by the impact of the overseas Chinese, the French strongly demanded compensation from Yue himself.
And he said that he pushed straight to the instigation of the Soviet Russians, and at the same time reminded everyone of the actions of the Soviet Russians in the north, the meaning is very clear, that is, they said that they are still trying to resist the red invasion. This time, the huge loss of hundreds of millions of yuan, if I let the person who also suffered a huge loss to compensate, it will undoubtedly be like a pain of cutting flesh.
There was a lot of noise here, and the vanguard army over there had calmly taken over every inch of Tianjin except for the concession.
"This is the concession of the Great Empire, how can you just break in?" A man said that Ben Ronin was holding a katana in his hand and holding his chest with both hands in front of Huo Mingzhen.
Huo Mingzhen kicked him out with a kick, waved his hand and said, "Keep going!" ”
The vanguard beside him walked with neat steps with Suomi submachine guns, and advanced along the Xu Street of the concession.
Xu Street is the main arterial road that runs through the Tianjin Concession. On both sides of the building, there are more than three floors of buildings, and there are many shops here, and most of the theaters, smoke houses, restaurants, and teahouses are concentrated here. The northern half of it is the place where the Tianjin Upper and Middle School Records Houses gather, second only to the Nanshi not far away, and is a famous casino in Tianjin.
Therefore, because he said that he did not use drugs, but sold drugs on a large scale, he said that drugs were rampant in the concession. Coupled with his indulgence, there are many courtyards and gambling halls. There are also a lot of characters in Tianjin, and they are mixed.
But today, all the people on Asahi Street crowded in front of the nearby shops, gave way to the wide road in the middle, and watched the blue-gray military uniforms of the vanguard march stride with guns, and the neat sound of the pioneers' cowhide military boots stepping on the road seemed to hit the hearts of the people.
"The vanguard army has entered the Yueben Concession!" This kind of news spread all over the country with Pioneer Radio at once. The actions of the vanguard army once again ignited the blood in the hearts of the people.
"Good! It's been so long since I've been fighting with the devils, it's time for this concession to be taken back! Someone applauded.
"The five concessions in the country, the largest Tianjin concession, have been recovered, why are the ones in Yucheng and Hankou still there?" Someone asked.
"The center is soft!"
"Before the war is declared, you will enter the concession and make a mess! Alas! Someone who understands sighs loudly.
"It's a mess of the ball, it's all hit to this point, how are you afraid of messing up?" Someone shouted loudly.
"The British, the French, the Americans will come and intervene! Those concessions are all a pair of trousers. For no reason, our Huaxia army is not allowed to enter the concession, unless we, Huaxia and Xiao Yueben, declare war. Someone explained.
"Then you won't have to declare war!"
"It's so easy there! Alas! ”
"This declaration of war is not such a simple matter!" Zhou Bai shook his head slightly and said, "Once war is declared, other countries will embargo Huaxia weapons." The weapons and ammunition of the central political axe are expected to be imported from outside. This is not as good as saying that I can produce it myself. ”
"The Central Committee does not declare war, and when it has fought to this extent, what are you afraid of? Let's light a fire in their ass! Meng Xiang said disapprerovingly, "We have a way to contact the copycat company, and we can import a large number of weapons, so we shouldn't be afraid of a blockade, right?" ”
"What are you afraid of with an arms embargo? After the embargo, the arms trade in China will all belong to us! He laughed inwardly.