Chapter Eighty-Eight: Recruitment

During the three days and four nights of fierce fighting in Hongkou District, Lu Yuan deeply realized the inadequacy of being alone, if he had a few decent helpers around him when he occupied the bank building before, maybe he would have held the bank building for a longer time and shot more Japanese soldiers. Therefore, after Lu Yuan successfully escaped from the apartment building, he did not continue to attack the Japanese army according to the previous plan, but chose to lie dormant temporarily, and while recuperating from his injuries, Lu Yuan formulated a new plan of action.

Leaving Hongkou District, although there are still many plainclothes spies or spies on the street, Lu Yuan, who has a new look, swaggers back to the French Concession, where he wants to find a few useful assistants. Wang San has a big name, but I don't know when the people around him have forgotten Wang San's big name, only Wang San himself still remembers that when his wife and children died under the bayonets of the Japanese army, he had become a floating person with no name and no family.

For two years, the muddy Wang San was planning to kill the Japanese soldiers to avenge his wife and children, but he was just a powerless person, and in the face of the bayonets pierced by the Japanese soldiers with a cruel smile, Wang San was awakened from the nightmare more than once. There is nothing left at home that can be sold, and Wang San, who has long been accustomed to being hungry and full, is unwilling to sell his ancestral house because he gritted his teeth, so he can only faint in an empty home.

Lu Yuan, who was dressed as a rich man, appeared in front of Wang San's eyes at this time, and a fried rice with heat was in his stomach, and Wang San, who was on the verge of death, came back to life. "Wang San, come with me, I can take you to kill the Japanese soldiers to avenge your family." Although Wang San ate the fried rice brought by Lu Yuan, the vigilance in his eyes was undisguised, Lu Yuan only smiled at this, and then squatted down in front of Wang San. "I have the same purpose as you, and I have enough weapons and ammunition, but I lack a few helpers."

Using his body to block the inquiring eyes of those behind him, Lu Yuan grinned at Wang San again, and then slowly opened the placket with his right hand, and the pistol under the placket appeared in Wang San's eyes. "It's just pistols, I still have rifles and machine guns, and * and *. I need an assistant, go with me to kill the Japanese soldiers, this is a matter of nine deaths, if you need time to think about it, I will give you a day, and it will not wait for the expiration date. After speaking, Lu Yuan got up with a smile, and Wang San, who was already sitting in the corner, also struggled to stand up, and water vapor faintly appeared in his cloudy eyes.

"I'll go with you, but I won't buy the ancestral house." Wang San's voice did not show the slightest hesitation, but Lu Yuan could hear the cowardice hidden in Wang San's voice, but Lu Yuan didn't care about it. Lu Yuan didn't care if the person he found was cowardly, he only cared if this person would defect to the battle, their bravery was not worth mentioning in Lu Yuan's eyes, not to mention that Lu Yuan came to them just to replace a few more observation posts that could replace him to rest, and they were not needed in battle.

When Wang San left the alley, almost all the people in the alley went out to watch, looking at Wang San, who was following behind Lu Yuan but gradually straightened his back, but the people in the alley didn't think that this little person, whose name they had forgotten, would soon be involved in such a big event. In Shanghai, a metropolis that has been fully controlled by the Japanese army, there are still many small people like Wang San who have a blood feud with the Japanese army, but they don't have the ability to avenge their families.

Lu Yuan soon found 12 people like Wang San, some of them were unemployed like Wang San, some were well-mannered and cultured, and some were gangsters on the streets, but they all had one thing in common, they all had their families killed at the hands of Japanese soldiers, and they all wanted to avenge their families. Lu Yuan first found a bathroom, gathered these people together, took a bath, got a haircut, trimmed their faces, and changed into new clothes, and then took them to a secret warehouse left by Hans.

"I don't care what you did before, I know that you all have family members who died at the hands of Japanese soldiers, and you want revenge, but you don't have the ability." As Lu Yuan spoke, he opened the wooden box in front of him, then took out the equipment from the box and put it on himself one by one. "Since you have all decided to follow me, then I will not be stingy with you, each of you will have a set of such equipment, exactly the same as mine."

Lu Yuan, who had finished dressing, stood in front of these 12 people in a daze, looking around at the envy and surprise in everyone's eyes, Lu Yuan then opened another box, took out weapons and ammunition from it, and put them on the equipment. "This is Thomson*, with a magazine of 30 rounds and a drum of 100 rounds, making it the most melee weapon to date. Once we fight the Japanese army in close quarters, the Japanese army's bolt-action rifle will definitely not be the opponent of *. ”

"This is Japanese*, don't look a little worse, but the power is not small." Lu Yuan held a Japanese-style * in his hand, and after pretending to pull open the safety bolt, he knocked the * in his right hand in his left hand. "You all have to keep in mind that this kind of * of the Japanese army, after pulling the safety bolt, you still need to knock it on a hard object like this before you can throw it, otherwise the * you throw out will not explode." Lu Yuan didn't tell these people in detail why the Japanese army was like this, because he didn't have so much time to teach them by hand.

Lu Yuan explained almost all the weapons and equipment he had at hand to Wang San and them one by one, and finally in this warehouse, Lu Yuan taught Wang San some simple tactics and formations of their melee combat, and at the same time familiarized them with these weapons and equipment. For the whole afternoon, Lu Yuan was with Wang San and them, but after nightfall, Lu Yuan went out alone, and when he came back, he not only brought back a lot of food, but also cigarettes and wine.

Lu Yuan found 12 people, this illness was not Lu Yuan's whim, but because the number of a Japanese patrol was 13 people, and a junior officer or military cao commanded 12 ordinary soldiers. After a full meal and drink, Lu Yuan gathered everyone together again, "Our target this time is the Japanese military police headquarters, I plan that we will first sneak across the Suzhou Creek into Hongkou District at night, and then disguise ourselves as Japanese patrols, as long as we enter Hongkou District, we will have many ways to approach the military police headquarters." ”

Among Wang San's 12 people, most of them are just ordinary people who can't read big characters, and their resources follow Lu Yuan, just to kill the Japanese soldiers to avenge their families, and they actually don't know what the Japanese military police headquarters represents. Only Dong Peng, the only one of them wearing glasses, subconsciously glanced at Lu Yuan, but he didn't know that Lu Yuan was secretly paying attention to their reactions at the moment, and Dong Peng's knee-jerk reaction was also remembered by Lu Yuan.

"The Japanese military police headquarters sounds quite bluffing, but it is actually not a Longtan tiger's den, except for a small number of escort soldiers, more of them are just civilians. Because the Japanese army would never believe that anyone would attack their headquarters, we had to go to their military police headquarters and let all the Chinese in Shanghai know that there were still people in Shanghai who had not given up resistance, and as long as the Chinese did not die, this kind of struggle would not stop and end. ”

Lu Yuan's words were uplifting, Wang San and the others, who couldn't say anything big, listened to their blood boiling, and they couldn't wait to enter the Japanese military police headquarters immediately. It was late at night, but Dong Peng still tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and after losing contact with the organization, Dong Peng was like a kite off the string. Witnessing the death of his companions one by one at gunpoint of the Japanese army that day, Dong Peng, who escaped by luck, would have already regarded himself as a dead man, if it weren't for the fantasy in his heart that he would be able to contact the organization one day, Dong Peng might have ended his life long ago.

Promising Lu Yuan was actually just Dong Peng's impulse, and at the same time, he also wanted to know what the purpose of this young man who looked like a rich kid was. It was only after Lu Yuan took out those equipment and weapons that Dong Peng suddenly discovered that what the other party said to him was all true, and these people were just going to trouble the Japanese army. When Lu Yuan said that he was going to attack the Japanese military police headquarters, Dong Peng still couldn't help but want to raise a different opinion, although he didn't speak, but the gaze he cast on Lu Yuan had already revealed what he was thinking.

"I don't know if you're a military commander, a central commander, or an underground party, in fact, I don't really care." Just as Dong Peng got up and sat up, Lu Yuan's voice suddenly sounded behind him. "Maybe we people are not as organized as you like you, but we are also Chinese, and we gathered together to kill devils. If you regret quitting, you can, but you have to make sure that you don't tell you what you know, including the organization behind you. ”

Just let go of himself so easily, Dong Peng, who was already covered with cold sweat, couldn't believe it, and the idea of quitting just flashed in his mind, and was replaced by the scene of his companions falling down one by one. Secretly gritted his teeth, Dong Peng lay down again, and the * without bullets next to the pillow seemed to give Dong Peng great courage, and then replied in a hoarse voice. "I am also Chinese, and I also want to kill the little devil for revenge." Dong Peng's answer made Lu Yuan very satisfied, with such an eye-catching person around him, he might be much more relaxed.

In the next few days, Lu Yuan trained Wang San and them with all his might, while waiting for the arrival of the rainy day, and at the same time, according to his memory, he hand-drew a plan of the Japanese military police headquarters. With this plan, Lu Yuan began to conduct targeted training for Wang San and others, Lu Yuan did not ask Wang San to be reborn and become a fierce pawn with one enemy and one hundred, but at least they must have a certain self-protection ability.