Chapter 43.

The old Wu and Dachun in the lonely army camp, these two people are to fish out, while the Japanese focus of attention is still not the lonely army camp, is the best time.

It is still easy for people from outside to enter the Lone Army Camp, and once the Japanese bully again, the Ministry of Public Works Bureau will further compromise and back down for their own interests.

But unless Britain breaks off diplomatic relations with the National Government now, they will not hand over the officers and soldiers in the Lone Army Camp to the Japanese, and then the British Empire will become an international joke.

But they will not let the national army within the lone army camp go either. In fact, it will be difficult for the lone army camp to leave now, unless it is turned into a whole, hibernating within the Concession for a period of time before trying to find a way to leave through various channels.

As long as you can leave the Lone Army Camp, the next step will be much better.

The Lone Army Camp is at the Jiaozhou Road junction, which was originally a Scottish military camp, used as a refugee camp during the Battle of Songhu, and was only opened as a Lone Army Camp when the Lone Army entered the Concession.

The British not only pulled up barbed wire, but also sent the White Russians of the Universal Merchant Corps to guard it day and night, and any entry or exit had to obtain permission from the Bureau of Public Works before they could do so.

This barracks was, in fact, a prison that ran itself.

I don’t know what Mr. Chiang was thinking, originally even with his bare hands he could have rushed out and then regained his freedom, but he was counting on the British to intercede, and the result was that he left behind these generals who had died for their country and survived the bloody battles, and then kept retreating.

Yang Hu this Shanghai police commander ran away, Shanghai those big officers also ran away, can not say that the state government does not want to save them, only that they are too incompetent and weak, in fact, it was supposed to be them in order to save face and pit these more than 400 people, the result is to fulfill their reputation, but also reaped the number of applause, the bitter is the lone battalion of generals.

Political showmanship has always been their strong point.

Gotta find a chance to get in there.

That was sort of one of his to-do’s for the near future.

He was assigned to the Old Gate Constable’s Office, but the Jiaozhou Road side belonged to the Western District of the Public Concession, and belonged to the Gordon Road Constable’s Office.

Although he himself had a convenient identity, but he, a detective of the Old Gate Constabulary, went to the territory of the Gordon Road Constabulary and entered the Lone Army Camp, then it would be easy to arouse suspicion.

Can not use the identity of the Bureau of Public Works detectives.

Then we can only change the identity, the identity of the Japanese alliance society reporter, that certainly can not, go in may let people killed.

Moreover, most of the officers and soldiers of the first battalion know themselves, once they know their own identity, in case one or two traitors appear here, there may be chaos.

So, also have to disguise makeup.

In fact, it may not be the identity of the reporter, you can use other identities, maybe sister Cheng Hua can help, her resources are much stronger than their own.

She herself also had some trouble, this Yang Hu ran away and left her behind, although she also didn’t care, but she could see this person’s negative heart.

“Sister, do me a favor, I’m going to go into the Lone Army Camp.” Early in the morning, Cheng Mo took advantage of eating breakfast to make a call to Cheng Hua, who had not yet gotten up, at a roadside store, to report that she was safe, but also to beg her for a favor.

“When?” Cheng Hua didn’t ask much, she also knew that Cheng Mo’s current status was different from the past, in the end, it was also her who brought Cheng Mo onto this path.

“As soon as possible, preferably the weekend of this week.”

“Okay, you call me tomorrow night.” Cheng Hua agreed in one gulp, “By the way, how are you doing, are you short of money at work?”

“Not for now.”

“XiaoMo, remember, if you encounter any difficulties, there’s still your sister, don’t die alone.” Cheng Hua exhorted over the phone.

“Uh, I know.” After saying that, Cheng Mo hung up the phone, he had to catch the tram to go to work, it was much less laborious than a pedicab, but it would still be more convenient to have a pedicab.

“Cheng Mo, Mr. Pryde is looking for you.” Early the next morning, as soon as he arrived at the capture room, Pryde’s men came over to call him.

Cheng Mo hurriedly packed and organized himself and headed to Pryde’s office.

“Mr. Pryde, you are looking for me?”

“This woman, the wife of Iwai, the vice consul of the Japanese consulate in Shanghai, she will come to our district today to shop and have dinner with her friends ……,” Pryde handed Cheng Mo a photo of a middle-aged Japanese woman in her thirties, who was not very tall, and her posture was average. Her face was relatively rounded, in line with Japanese aesthetics.

“Mr. Pryde, I’m new here and have never performed a mission like this before, is it possible to find an experienced person to assist me for a while?” Cheng Mo knew that refusing wasn’t a good choice, although the mission was simple, it was to accompany him for covert surveillance and protection, but he hadn’t done it before, it was just a matter of not having any problems, and once something went wrong, a mishandling on his part would be fatal. “I found you someone who is familiar with the ground.” Pryde seemed to know Cheng Mo’s thoughts and shouted at the door, “Come in.”

An old inspector in his forties walked in and nodded when he saw Pryde.

“Old Xu, he is a detective under me, he knows the situation within this district very well, Cheng, you can ask him if there is anything you don’t understand.” Pryde affectionately patted that Old Xu on the shoulder and said.

“Cheng Mo, new scout, just reported to work yesterday.” Cheng Mo politely extended his hand over and introduced himself.

“Xu Qinghe, you can just call me Old Xu.” Xu Qinghe gave a humble cry, just coming in as a scout, this young man obviously had a background, he wouldn’t dare to put on any postures.

“Old Xu, please give me more guidance in the future.”

“Head Cheng is polite.” Xu Qinghe was busy saying, Cheng Mo was a detective, he was an agent, he was one level higher than him, calling him “chief” was also appropriate.

“The task of the two of you is to send this one safely out of this district today.” Pryde tapped twice on the picture of that Mrs. Iwai with satisfaction.

“Yes.”

Coming out of Pryde’s office.

“Old Xu, this Japanese came to the Concession to play tricks and still had to let us provide protection?” Cheng Mo deliberately said, “We’re inspectors, not bodyguards?”

“Head Cheng, you just came here, it’s understandable that you don’t understand, now that we are at war with the Japanese, there are more of those anti-Japanese elements in the Concession, once they are unfavorable to the Japanese entering the Concession, then the Japanese side will have an excuse to enter the Concession, and there’s no way that we can give them that excuse.” Xu Qinghe said.

“Old Xu, I didn’t expect you to know quite a bit about politics.” Cheng Mo let out a sudden realization.

“I also, also heard from others, in fact, I don’t understand these, if I do, why have I been working for almost twenty years, but still only an inspector, others who are good at it have long become inspectors!” Xu Qinghe smiled sarcastically.

“Then what do we do next?” Cheng Mo took out a pack of cigarettes, handed over a modest advice.

“Hurry up, change into civilian clothes and go to the gun room to get a gun.” Xu Qinghe saw that Cheng Mo was on the right track and smiled, “Of course, it’s best not to use it, but this anti-Japanese elements generally won’t lay hands on women and children, so we don’t have to worry too much about it.”

Receiving the gun is very smooth, the Bureau of Public Works plainclothes patrolmen are issued with American-made Colt .38 model pistols, 9mm pistol rounds, in the field of pistols is considered to be more powerful, more suitable for Europe and the United States thick palms, and it is very unfriendly to the Chinese.

Therefore, many rich Chinese arrests are not accustomed to use, buy their own small caliber Browning’s pistol, and then filed in the police station.

Cheng Mo also had a Browning pistol, if he wanted to use it normally, he could also bring it over for record, and could even receive bullets and go for target practice.

Colt pistol is also good, receive a use, their own one will be kept as a spare.

The western arresting officer is issued with a .32 Colt pistol, while the Indian arresting officer is a revolver, in order to show the distinction, so that who fired the gun, it is clear at a glance.

The first time Cheng Mo received a gun, he was able to receive one hundred rounds of ammunition, while Xu Qinghe was only able to receive thirty rounds of ammunition at a time, and had to explain the use.

The use of bullets was recorded for verification.

However, no matter how you use them, as long as you can turn in the recorded numbers, you generally won’t bother, and it’s not easy to check this stuff.

A hundred rounds of bullets were too heavy to carry on a mission, it wasn’t like they were going to war, in fact, thirty rounds were enough, so Cheng Mo kept the seventy rounds of bullets he had received for the first time in the gun room, and only took away thirty rounds.

“Chief Cheng, ever made this 380 horse brand?” Xu Qinghe asked while skillfully pressing the bullets into the magazine.

“I’ve used a flower-mouthed jerk, this is the first time I’ve used this horse brand.”

“That’s good, almost, the flower mouth jerk is a bit lighter, easy to ricochet, this horse sign is more strenuous, you are not used to it the first time, but you will get used to it later.” Xu Qinghe hemmed and hawed, hiding the pistol inside his jacket.

Pistol, Cheng Mo really can’t get used to it, that play power is too small.

He also hid a thirty-eight, that he withdrew from the four rows of warehouses secretly brought out, over the British army checkpoints, was not searched out.

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