Chapter 683 Traces
Zuo Boyang left, Jonathan and Field did not see each other, but just sent two patrol houses to escort them and left the concession, and they had to hurry back to report this good news.
Henry and the others were still in the vicinity of Citibank at this time, waiting for the clean-up work to take over. After listening to Jonathan, Henry was the first to react, and said happily: "Adjutant Zuo is worthy of being a person who can follow the supreme commander of the advance army, and he can handle it well. ”
George also praised: "Indeed, Adjutant Zuo Gao Yi! It's a beautiful hand, and we do owe it to others. ”
The two ambassadors' statements confused everyone for a while, and they didn't know what they meant.
Henry saw everyone's doubts, so he explained: "First, for the sake of Field and Jonathan's face, he did not interrogate those people again, which shows that he absolutely trusts the two of them and the results of the trial." ”
"The second is that Adjutant Zuo didn't take anyone away, he said, he didn't want to affect our friendship because of some shrimp, and besides, not taking away is definitely respecting us, and avoiding the interrogation process, involving things that shouldn't be there, because the confession of the interrogation did not involve whether there was state support behind them, and the left adjutant shot them, that is, let the results of the interrogation be finalized and pass on the news to us, they will let this matter come to an end, no longer dig deeper, no longer spread the branches, as for killing those people, how can we have an opinion? He did this to send us a signal that the advance troops would not be our enemy, at least not for now, and that we would not have to pay anything to them for it. ”
Oh......
Everyone was stunned.
In the end, it is to play politics, and the consideration is meticulous, and with such an explanation, everyone has a bottom in their hearts, and the haze of repeated bank explosions has dispelled a lot.
They're comfortable here. When Zuo Boyang returned to the Hongkou barracks, Dong Ku also returned, except for the Huya soldiers who were still sorting materials and classifying and storing them, they did not return, and the other main responsible persons had arrived.
After listening to what Zuo Boyang said, everyone laughed.
It is still impossible to count how much wealth was robbed. But at least nearly 1,000 tons of gold can't be wrong. Each of these banks has dozens of tons of gold stored in each house, and they have no concept of cultural relics protection, and the gold ornaments, golden Buddha statues, etc., as long as they are not exquisite, are all melted into gold bricks. This is two shipments a year, but recently, because of the advance army in Shanghai, countries did not dare to transport a large amount of gold away, worried that the news would leak out. caused the looting of the advance army, so there were a lot of stocks in the national banks.
In addition, the number of individuals deposited in the bank is also quite large, how can large households have one or two hundred catties of gold, or even more, and the specific figures will be weighed and counted tomorrow.
But the amount of money is inevitable. This is what everyone laughed at, they robbed eighty percent of the wealth of the concession. How ironic is it that the concession is still asking the advance army to continue to blockade the concession?
Dong Ku waited for everyone to laugh. Waving his hand, he said: "This operation was very successful, but the last step is to make those guys in the concession think that the wealth is gone, whether their bank goes bankrupt, or they borrow money from Tianjin, we don't have to worry about it anymore." Tianjin ordered the blockade to be lifted. Inform the concession authorities and let out the wind that we are going to retaliate! ”
Zuo Boyang said after Dong Ku's voice fell: "The last tremor is ready, Liu Zhong and they have not yet arrived in place for revenge, and it is estimated that it will take two or three days to arrive." Blowing up traffic cannot come one by one, but must be unified, otherwise it will attract heavy troops to defend important bridges and other places, causing trouble for sabotage, and also bringing resistance to hunting, so that some important people can hide and not look for opportunities. ”
"Well, it is necessary to reunify, especially to blow up railways and highways, not to come in a scattered manner, but to act in unison, and at the very end, their sappers must also block the road in real time."
They discussed, and HSBC took the lead in clearing the way into the bombed-out vault. But after the people who went in cleaned up the mess inside, they didn't find gold and silver and other materials, and they had obviously been emptied.
"It's okay......"
The bigwigs who received the news came one by one, there was hope if they were not blown up, such a large amount of materials could not evaporate, and they must be hidden in a secret place in the concession.
With the results, these bigwigs urged special personnel to be responsible for cleaning up the blown up banks, and all the banks that were not attacked were lit up and heavily defended.
After consultation, they reported to the countries the attitude of the advance force of the concession and the resolution of the crisis, reported that the bank had been ransacked, and then returned to their respective residences.
On this night, the people who were most worried were the people, who did not know what was going on in the road, but the residents near the bank could see that the bank was broken, the lights were bright, and people were shuttling around, clearing the rubble.
The glass in their house is gone, and the light bulbs are not lit, but they no longer care about the fun, they are more worried about the money they have in the bank.
The news was not blocked because of martial law on the street, and when the bigwigs went home to sleep, the phone kept ringing in the concession, and all of them had identities, passing messages to each other.
As the information was transmitted, they learned that the ten largest banks in the concession had been attacked, and although it was not clear that the explosion of the list would destroy their deposits, it was inevitable.
Before dawn, panic was already spreading.
The panic caused by the previous robbers who had entered the house made them deposit all their belongings in the bank, and it was unknown whether the bank was destroyed and whether their wealth would remain.
On the other hand, in the Tianjin Concession, the advance army withdrew, and the commander of the local garrison personally explained to the concession that the murderer who attacked Dong Ku in Shanghai had been found, and that it was the Japanese, and they would settle accounts with you Japanese.
The news was quickly revealed by the Japanese, and they immediately became nervous. Judging from the fact that they poisoned more than 100,000 Japanese nationals and soldiers because of the killing of civilians in Baoqing, and because of the massacre, they attacked the mainland with poison gas bombs and caused the deaths of more than 200,000 people, their supreme commander is destined to retaliate fiercely.
With the movements of various departments, the large army gathered in Jilin, and Ji Lu was drawn in the enemy's artillery defensive position, layer by layer, ready to meet the retaliation of the advance army.
On the mainland, all warships and planes have been put on the highest alert to prevent any further air raids on the mainland, and the antiaircraft artillery has ordered the artillery shells to be loaded day and night to intercept the planes attacking at any time.
In addition to desperately digging coal in Zaozhuang and transporting it back to Japan by steamer, the Japanese army in Shandong was even more frenzied in mining other mineral deposits, and was ready to evacuate Shandong. However, the Japanese army in Shanxi was extremely quiet, still quiet, without the slightest movement.
These were all done in the middle of the night, and the Japanese army believed that Dong Ku would not survive, that kind of poison would not be solved at all, and unless the strong man broke his wrist when he was shot, there would be no help once it spread. And they are more convinced that the Chinese's habit of infighting will not change because it is the advance army, as long as they survive the initial offensive of the advance army, and then when internal contradictions arise due to the struggle for power, it is when they fight back, and the advance army is no longer monolithic, but scattered.
God, it didn't stop lighting up because of these undercurrents. In the concession, in the spread of panic, dawn was ushered in.
After a night of excavation, all the bombed banks cleared the approximate passages and entered the underground vaults, and the result was the same, that is, the vaults were empty, and the bombed ones were also empty, leaving no belongings behind.
The early concession bosses were not frustrated because the banks were looted, they first inquired about the intersection, and learned that the advance army was still defending, and it was impossible for any people or things to leave the concession, so the looted materials were still in the concession.
So, everyone got together, first discussed briefly, and began a new round of concession search.
Those who had been attacked by the bank were already terrified and walked around their homes in a state of apprehension, wondering if their wealth would be lost. The next search of the house again, and it was very thorough, made them even more uneasy.
In the process of searching, a team of police, led by Inspector Qiao, searched several warehouses.
"All carefully searched! Don't let go of any of the traces!! ”
Inspector Qiao, who was rewarded, shouted in high spirits and walked into the warehouse to check it out in person.
As soon as he entered the gate, he stood on his feet, and his gaze fell on the soles of his feet.
On the ground, the ruts were messy, and it was clear that quite a few trucks had passed through them.
He hunched his waist and walked along the rut to a stone wall, knocked on the stone wall with his hand in confusion, and then looked at the traces on the ground that seemed to pass through the wall, his eyes suddenly lit up, waved his hand and called out a few exclamations, and silently pointed to the ground, and then pointed to the wall.
Inspector Qiao's comparison, no matter how stupid these agents are, they also understand that there is a problem with this wall, and they are tired, and it is estimated that they have not had time to clean up the rut marks on the ground, leaving this clue, otherwise, they really can't find anything from this stone wall.
So, with a silent notice, everyone gathered, and soon, surrounded the place, and notified Jonathan.
Jonathan, of course, was excited, and he hurriedly ordered the troops to arrive to assist Inspector Joe, and see if you have found the hiding place of the bank stolen money.
Twenty minutes later, it was surrounded by a group of people, three layers inside and three layers outside, and the surrounding residents were also cleaned up, and all of them walked to the distance to avoid accidental injuries and miscalculations in the shootout.
After half an hour of preparation, when everything was ready, a dozen soldiers with crowbars and pickaxes began to pick at the stone wall.
After a pick, everyone quickly discovered that the exposed stones outside the stone wall were only ten centimeters thick stone slabs, all on an iron shelf.
And that iron frame is actually a gate,
So secretive!!
Everyone was excited, and they knew that this place was so secret, there must be a big problem, and if it was not possible, it was really a place where wealth was hidden. (To be continued......)