Thinking about this clearly, Xie Bo no longer stayed where he was, but just let Tang Cheng, who was greatly interested, continue to walk north with them, and came to the intersection of North Sichuan Road and Qiujiang Road, Xie Bo stopped again. "Did you all see the building with a Japanese plaque at the intersection in front of you?" Xie Bo turned back to Liu Goat and said, "If I were the commander of the Japanese army, I would use this place as one of my fortresses, and the wall on the ground floor would be camouflaged with a few firing holes on the side of the Qiujiang intersection, and if there was a war, I would be able to lock up the entire intersection by putting a few light and heavy machine guns on the top floor of the building." ”

Liu Goat and the others took a closer look at it, and their faces changed at that time, if the Japanese army also had Xie Bo's idea, once the war started, the national army troops entering the Japanese theater would definitely increase a lot of casualties, and such a fortress would not be easy to break through. If the Japanese commander had been more insidious, would have never exposed the machine-gun firing port until the battle had begun, and would have waited for the Nationalist troops to enter the street before using the firing hole, the result would have been a river of blood.

This Tang Cheng can interject, Xie Bo and Liu Goat He has entered the building they paid attention to, "Brother Xie, this building has a total of three floors, it is the property of a Japanese trading company, their building is all reinforced concrete, stronger than the church where I live, the first floor is their hall, the second floor is some offices or something, and the third floor is the guest room, only people who have business dealings with them stay." Tang Cheng, who was outspoken, scratched his head a little embarrassedly when he saw Xie Bo and the others looking at him, and smiled, "The kid I know is in charge of cleaning up there, and I went in to find him." ”

Xie Bo, who was overjoyed, asked, "Then does this trading company have an armed guard?" In addition to the special marines directly under the Japanese Navy and the two marines who had just been withdrawn from Hankou, there were also the armed escorts of the Japanese merchant groups that had split off from the International Merchant Corps, and most of the members were retired soldiers of the Japanese army, or Japanese Lang people, and their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

Tang Cheng lowered his head and thought for a while and said, "I only saw a Japanese with a rifle on their back in a room on the corner of the second floor, but I don't know if it's the escort you said." Tang Cheng said very generally, but Xie Bo had a very methodical way, he took out a pen and paper and drew a few sketches of Japanese-style rifles, and then asked Tang Cheng to identify them one by one, and finally confirmed that the Japanese-style rifles that Tang Cheng had seen were the golden hook rifles that the Japanese army had once equipped with the pioneer regiment in the Northeast.

The Golden Hook Rifle is the predecessor of the Japanese Army's current 38 cover, it is estimated that the equipment eliminated by the Japanese Army was used by the merchant group to equip their escort team, this rifle is only less than the 38 cover of the dust cover, but the shooting accuracy is extremely high, and there is no smoke and no flame, the recoil is small, the disadvantage is that the caliber is small, and the collateral lethality is weak, but overall it is still an excellent rifle. Xie Bo made a mark on the notebook, and then the group followed Tang Cheng to continue north.

I walked a long way to the north, crossed more than a dozen intersections, and finally saw the building of the headquarters of the Japanese Navy Special Marine Corps in Shanghai from a distance, which was a castle-like fully enclosed building, the whole building was rectangular, surrounded by four-story office buildings, close to North Sichuan Road, and facing Duolun Road. After approaching, Xie Bo found that except for the sentry post at the gate facing Duolun Road, and there were Japanese soldiers who strictly checked the crowds and vehicles entering and leaving, there was no guard in all other directions, and the Japanese army not only allowed Shanghai citizens to move freely around the building, but also did not even prohibit citizens from approaching the gate, but only strictly forbade them to enter.

Xie Bo and his entourage, who were mixed with the flow of people, swaggered towards the gate of the building. However, this is the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps, and the gate is heavily guarded, and machine guns are even erected behind the makeshift barricades. Xie Bo didn't dare to make another attempt this time, but just stood on the side of the road, glanced at the gate from a distance, and found that in the middle of the box-shaped closed building was a large playground, and many Japanese soldiers were training in formation.

Xie Bo and the others were not only secretly looking at the interior of the Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters, but also looked at the situation arranged by the Japanese army in the circular barricade, and Xie Bo also secretly recorded everything he saw in his small notebook. The Japanese troops in the Marine Corps Headquarters are far stronger than the Japanese soldiers they have seen, these guys are all red and oily, and they look like strong people, and Xie Bo sees the murderous aura in their eyes, these Japanese soldiers must be some veterans, and only those who have killed people will have murderous aura in their eyes.

Xie Bo and the others circled around the entire building twice, and finally stopped at the gate of the Japanese Navy Hospital, diagonally opposite the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps. "See? The Japanese are loose on the outside and tight on the inside, watching the Chinese enter and exit their control areas at will, but their core parts don't even think about it. Xie Bo took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and lit it with the help of a match drawn by Liu Goat, "We have found at least ten places that can be used as barricades along the way, if there is a war, these places will become our nightmare, as long as a few Japanese soldiers and some light and heavy machine guns can block our way." ”

"It's very troublesome, but we can't get into those places, what is the layout inside, we are all black-eyed, if we really fight, attacking from the outside is not a problem at all, these houses are all concrete and steel bars are added, I estimate that small cannons below 70 caliber can't be bombarded at all." Liu Goat deeply sympathized with Xie Bo's words, but Tang Cheng, who was suffering from the excitement, couldn't understand what Xie Bo was talking about.

"Let's go, let's go back, go back the way we came, and see those places again." Xie Bo finished his cigarette in a few puffs, extinguished the cigarette butt with his foot, turned around and left. Xie Bo's mind was in a mess, and according to the information he received from the division headquarters, the Hongqiao Airport incident was simply a reason for the Japanese to come up with their own intentions, and their intention was to find an excuse to attack Shanghai. If the Japanese War Concession is really like what I see today, it means that the Japanese army is ready to attack Shanghai, at least the Japanese troops stationed in the Japanese Concession are ready for a fierce battle.

Xie Bo and his entourage spent a whole day with Tang Cheng, they not only turned around the Japanese theater, but also walked through all the places where the Japanese army appeared under the leadership of Tang Cheng. The bigwigs of the Ministry of Military Affairs were still chattering about whether the Japanese army would use troops against Shanghai, but they didn't know that the Japanese army in Shanghai was ready to deal with it, not only those Japanese soldiers, but even the Japanese expatriates and armed merchant groups living in Shanghai were also ready to participate in the war at any time, and if the Nationalist army wanted to start a war with the Japanese army in Shanghai, then it must regard all the Japanese in Shanghai as a great enemy, otherwise they would suffer the secret losses of the Japanese.

Xie Bo and they passed through a number of Japanese trading companies along the way, although on the surface it seemed to be no different from usual, the old people who negotiated business and bought goods still came in and out, but the careful Xie Bo found that in addition to those rich people in Shanghai, the Japanese who entered and exited these Japanese trading companies were Japanese disguised as Chinese, and these people obviously had the aura of soldiers, if they were not the active soldiers of the Japanese army stationed in Shanghai, then they could only be members of the escort team hired by the merchant group.

With the news that Tang Cheng had previously inquired about by his friends, it was not difficult to explain why these guys in and out of the Japanese trading company had to disguise themselves as Chinese, and Xie Bo even guessed that the suitcase carried by one of the guys should be filled with bullets or grenades. It is an indisputable fact that the escort of the trading company has guns, and the ammunition hoarded by the trading company may not be enough to support them to participate in the whole battle, but the Japanese warships in Shanghai have a huge amount of ammunition, especially the Marine Corps headquarters where they have been there has a lot of weapons and ammunition, if they want, these trading companies can also have the firepower of light machine guns.

"Go and two people follow them and see where they go." After a few men who had entered the trading house with boxes came out, Xie Bo's bolt followed with another companion, but Tang Cheng, who was eager to try, was left behind by Liu Goat. The result of the tracking was the same as Xie Bo's thoughts, these suspicious guys didn't go far at all, they got into a military truck after walking out of two streets, and when they came down again, they had two more heavy boxes in their hands, and they followed them all the way, and found that these people had entered another Japanese trading company.

They only waited for a cigarette outside, and the men in black came out of the trading house, but the boxes they were carrying looked like they were empty, and the contents should have been placed in the trading company. "These guys then deliver ammunition to the trading house, and they pack it in those boxes." By this time, Xie Bo had been able to confirm his suspicions, and all the trading companies in Shanghai with escorts were ready to participate in the war at any time, and once the war broke out in Shanghai, these armed merchant groups would take up guns and become paramilitary weapons.

"Okay, little brother, thank you for your help today, you can take these silver dollars to buy some food for yourself, we are going back, and we have a chance to come to you again to play." Xie Bo, who had a plan in his heart, just wanted to report the results of the investigation to the division headquarters immediately, and took out a few silver dollars from his pocket at random and handed them to Tang Cheng, then urged Liu Goat and them to return to the army.

"Hey, you said that you were going to invite me to dinner, and I was sent away with a few silver dollars, it's really boring, I still want to go to your place to have a ride." Tang Cheng chattered while putting the silver dollars into his pocket, and Liu Goat, who looked like a fan of money, couldn't help laughing.

"Boy, this is what you want to follow us with, remember, it wasn't Lao Tzu who forced you to tie you up." Without waiting for Xie Bo to answer, Liu Goat reached out and grabbed Tang Cheng's collar, regardless of whether Tang Cheng agreed or not. It is already a habit for the national army to catch strong men, and Liu Goat himself was caught by strong men and entered the national army, how could he let go of such a living treasure as Tang Cheng.