"You're just from China?" Kurokawa Ichiro, who was wearing a military uniform and wearing the rank of second lieutenant, looked at the young man standing in front of him expressionlessly, the young man's ID was in Kurokawa Ichiro's hand at the moment, which could prove that this young man was from the mainland, and the young man's obvious Dongdu accent all proved the identity of the other party. As a second lieutenant, Kurokawa Ichiro asked knowingly, not because he found anything in the other party's look, but because as a second lieutenant in the Imperial Army, he always looked down on those guys who looked like little white faces.

Unfortunately, the young man who is standing in front of Kurokawa Ichiro at this moment happens to be the kind of person that Kurokawa Ichiro dislikes very much. Moreover, this young man is almost a head taller than Kurokawa Ichiro, so that Kurokawa Ichiro, a dignified imperial lieutenant, has to tilt his head when talking to the other party. "Yes, I just came from China, and I wanted to go to Manchuria to join my uncle, but I heard from the people on the same boat that Shanghai is a good place to make money, so I want to stay in Shanghai for a while."

The young man who was coldly faced by Kurokawa Ichiro replied with a smile, and there was no impatience for Kurokawa Ichiro in his expression, but his white teeth made Kurokawa Ichiro hate this young man even more. "Maybe Shanghai isn't as good as you think, boy, don't say I didn't warn you, the people here aren't very friendly to us Japanese people." Kurokawa Ichiro was a little unwilling to return the documents to the other party, but he still used words to intimidate the other party a little, and then waved his hand to signal that he could leave.

Lu Yuan, who is alias Kenichi Kusakawa, stretched out his hand to take the documents, smiled and bowed to the Japanese soldiers at the checkpoint, and then carried his box and slowly walked into the Japanese concession with the flow of people. Tang Cheng's documents were forged by the Shanghai underground party, but the person of Kusakawa Kenichi did exist, but this Japanese named Kusakawa Kenichi was receiving political studies in the cave of Yan'an at the moment, and Tang Cheng entered the Shanghai Japanese Concession instead of him.

This is the first time that Lu Yuan has stepped into the Shanghai Japanese Concession since he came to this era, in fact, strictly speaking, the Shanghai Japanese Concession cannot be regarded as a formal Japanese Concession. In 1870, the Japanese in China began to settle in Hongkou, Shanghai, and in the same year, the Shanghai Public Concession authorities began to build roads across the Hongkou District, and the Hongkou area was informally incorporated into the jurisdiction of the Public Concession. In 1873, the Japanese government established the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai at No. 3 Minhang Road, Hongkou, Shanghai.

After the former British and American public concessions were renamed the Shanghai International Public Concessions, Japan began to participate in the management of the concessions. Since then, the public concession has been divided into four districts: northern, eastern, central and western, and the Japanese expatriates occupy a dominant position in the northern and eastern districts, and the Japanese have organized the Japanese team of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps in Hongkou, as a self-defense organization In 1910, the number of Japanese expatriates in the Hongkou area exceeded that of other countries, ranking first.

In 1916, the Shanghai Public Concession Bureau of the Ministry of Industry set up a Japanese arrest unit, and 30 Japanese patrolmen took over the public security affairs in the Hongkou area. On May 30, 1925, the May Day Massacre broke out, and Japan sent marines to Shanghai on June 9 under the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese and stationed in the Hongkou area. On January 28, 1932, the Japanese army stationed in Hongkou instigated the 128 Incident and set out from the Marine Corps Headquarters to attack Zhabei and fought fiercely with the 19th Route Army. In July of the same year, the Ministry of Public Concession decided to return the Hongkou cross-border road construction site to China, which was rejected by the Japanese troops who actually occupied the area, and since then, the Hongkou area has been known as the "Shanghai Japanese Concession".

Lu Yuan followed the flow of people into the Japanese Concession and found that the patrols that could be commonly seen on the streets had been replaced by Japanese soldiers in military uniforms, and even the occasional patrols in the Japanese Concession were all carrying rifles. All of this made Lu Yuan's mood heavy at the moment, the Japanese were ready for war, but I don't know if the Nationalist Government was prepared for the same. Thanks to the Great Purge of the Jews after Hitler came to power, there were many Jews in Shanghai, even in the Japanese Concession, and the Japanese called these Jews stateless.

Lu Yuan did not stay in a Western-style hotel run by Jews, but chose a hostel with Japanese characteristics opened by Japanese expatriates, although the area of the room was not very large, but Lu Yuan was very satisfied. After simply washing up in the hotel, Lu Yuan, who had changed into a suit, began to wander around the Japanese Concession, not only observing and familiarizing himself with the terrain in the Japanese Concession, but also intentionally and secretly observing the Japanese soldiers and barricades on the street.

It can be seen that the Japanese have spent a lot of effort in Hongkou, otherwise they would not forcibly occupy this place and not return it to the Nationalist Government, and along the way, Lu Yuan even saw two schools. Looking at the Japanese flag hanging outside the school gate from a distance, Lu Yuan was full of emotion, as if the schools under the rule of the national government rarely hung the national flag outside the gate. Standing outside this school and sighing for a while, Lu Yuan turned around and left, and after a while, Lu Yuan stopped outside a bungalow on the side of the street.

In order not to arouse suspicion from others, he stopped in place for a while, and then Lu Yuan turned around and turned into the alley beside him. Not far from entering the alley, Lu Yuan saw an iron fence, and when he saw that the iron fence was not locked, Lu Yuan pulled the iron fence and entered the building. Along the dark staircase, Lu Yuan went directly to the rooftop of the top floor, where the rooftops of old-fashioned houses in Shanghai were often separated by only a narrow alley or only one roof. So after Lu Yuan went to the rooftop, he only observed the surrounding environment a little, and then quickly climbed onto the roof of another house on the side.

Walking to the edge of the roof, Lu Yuan looked at the street below very secretly, and couldn't help but secretly praise that this location was really good. The location of this building happens to be at a crossroads, and Lu Yuan, who is standing on the roof, can see the situation of the entire intersection effortlessly, and if a firing position is set up here, it will definitely be able to form an effective fire suppression in several other directions. After carefully observing the buildings on the other side of the street, Lu Yuan turned around and walked around, and after determining the route of retreat, he returned to the alley along the back staircase just now.

In the next few hours, Lu Yuan took this intersection as the center of the circle, walked around these streets in great detail, and once again identified several suitable shooting positions for himself. Night fell little by little, and the hungry Lu Yuan remembered that he hadn't eaten for almost a whole day, and a hot meal was a small celebration for Lu Yuan for his harvest today.

After having dinner in a Jewish restaurant, Lu Yuan did not immediately return to the hostel where he was staying, but walked into a Jewish-owned shoe store on the street. "I need two pairs of boots for hunting, not good material, but definitely sturdy, preferably black." Lu Yuan explained his requirements, and the smart boss immediately brought Lu Yuan more than a dozen pairs of cowhide boots, and signaled that Lu Yuan could choose at will.

The boots used for hunting in this era are actually similar in style, Lu Yuan just selected two pairs at random, and then bought a few pairs of thin leather gloves from here, but he didn't expect to meet a big customer when he was about to close, and the shopkeeper's face was full of joy. Carrying boots and gloves, Lu Yuan returned to the hostel where he stayed very leisurely, if there was no problem with his memory or history was biased, the day after tomorrow, it would be the day when the war broke out, and Lu Yuan, who had made all the preparations, only needed to wait quietly for the war to break out.

Lu Yuan didn't actually have to enter the Japanese concession three days in advance, but he was worried that the Japanese army might close the Japanese concession in advance because they wanted to conceal their intention to start a war. The night was already a little late, but Lu Yuan hadn't fallen asleep yet, and was satisfied with the wooden bathtub provided by the innkeeper, and Lu Yuan, who was wrapped in hot water, comfortably thought about whether he was still unprepared. Although Lu Yuan's storage space is only one cubic meter in size, his modified rifle can be disassembled, and Lu Yuan has not prepared any large equipment and weapons.

Two modified rifle bodies of the same structure, 6 spare barrels, 400 rounds of Tomosaka rifle cartridges that have been fully loaded into the magazine, 20 wooden-handled grenades, and 20 Japanese-style oval grenades, these are all of Lu Yuan's weapons and ammunition. In addition, Lu Yuan's storage space also has a lot of braised pork jerky and flatbread pickles prepared for herself, which have filled Lu Yuan's storage space to the full, so that the two sets of hand-sewn combat uniforms that Lu Yuan ordered can only be packed in that box.

After thinking about it secretly for a while, Lu Yuan, who was soaking in the bathtub, reached out and patted his head with remorse, almost everything he could think of was prepared, but the trauma medicines he prepared were not brought into the Japanese concession, could it be that he would have to go back again tomorrow? Although he has a full-view map and storage space, Lu Yuan never thought that he would be as unbeatable as Superman, the battlefield is dangerous, and Lu Yuan has to be afraid of guns and bullets himself.

Busy with mistakes, Lu Yuan can only comfort himself in this way now, perhaps because of the tension caused by the lack of medicine, Lu Yuan, who hurriedly jumped out of the bath bucket, almost didn't sleep all night, and checked the weapons and equipment he brought into the Japanese concession one by one. After confirming that there was no problem with his weapons and ammunition, that there was no abnormality in the dry food prepared by Aunt Fu for herself, and that there was no problem with the combat clothes, boots and gloves, Lu Yuan relaxed at this time, and found that the sky had already appeared white.

The first night he spent in the Japanese concession would be such a failure, looking at the white fish belly that had appeared outside the window, Lu Yuan, whose eyes were bloodshot, was very unhappy. After thinking about it for a while, Lu Yuan immediately changed his plan and decided not to return to his residence to get medicine, he wanted to use this last time to rest and recharge his energy and wait for the outbreak of war.