Zhenjiang is located in the southeast of Nanjing. It is the intersection of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Yangtze River. It is the key point between the north and the south and has beautiful landscapes and beautiful scenery.

It was 11:30 that night, 16 kilometers west of Zhenjiang City.

The cold wind is biting, white frost is condensing, the full moon approaching the Lantern Festival is disappearing and appearing in the misty clouds, the ancient cypresses are swaying outside the mountain gate of Ciyun Temple, the forest waves are undulating, and the eighty-one ever-burning lights of the Main Hall are shining day and night.

The high-rising cornices are dyed golden yellow, and the copper bells hanging below the dragon claws on the eaves make a long, disorderly and slightly distant sound in the cold wind.

Six hundred meters west of the Zen Temple, upstream of the Tanzhu Bridge, a black Citroën sedan, pushed by three strong men, slid almost at an angle for several meters and fell into the cold river, causing a splash of water.

, then slowly sank, and was completely submerged in a blink of an eye, with only strings of gurgling bubbles emerging.

In the darkness of the bridge, a burly middle-aged man wearing a military police uniform looked at the silvery ripples of the river more than ten meters away. He raised his right hand and waved it several times before three men pushed the cart down the river.

Quickly leave the river embankment, nimbly touch the road, and look

He glanced at the brighter car lights to the east and immediately crossed the road. One of them picked up a heavy square bag and followed his accomplices to the north. Together with the man hiding at the bridge, they disappeared in an instant among the rolling hills and mountains.

Among the messy vegetation.

The search convoy full of military policemen rushed over at this time. The strong wind blew down most of the frost on the grass on the roadside. The last troop carrier slowly stopped at the bridge. Eleven military policemen with loaded guns and ammunition were waiting for them.

He jumped out of the car at the sound of the command and quickly set up a security checkpoint at the head of the bridge. The truck unloading the soldiers started again, drove across the bridge, and accelerated to catch up with the convoy that was retreating in front.

More than a hundred meters north of the river, a middle-aged man wearing a military police uniform glanced around cautiously, slid down the hill quietly and silently, moved quickly to the small tree at the foot of the slope to the north, and reached out to push the tree lying on the ground.

The black bag felt the violent twisting of the human body in the bag, and a smile appeared on his face. Then he took a deep breath with relief, lowered his voice, and ordered the three half-kneeling partners beside him:

"Even this inconspicuous bridge has set up a warning checkpoint. It seems that all roads are blocked and the land route is indeed impassable. The situation is not good... Third brother, please turn off the radio first and remain silent for the time being. Everyone

The dog skin on his body has come off, Jing Cheng is responsible for hiding it until he sees it

Where he couldn't reach, Jing Tao suddenly stepped forward to explore the way, getting as close as possible to the estuary pier four miles north, trying to find a way to get a small boat to float quietly downstream. He had to move quickly, otherwise the military and police departments would soon block the river and strictly control the river.

After more interrogation, it is too dangerous for us to carry such a big living person."

"Second brother, I didn't expect this woman to be so beautiful and fragrant. She's absolutely beautiful! If second brother is tired, let me carry you. Hehe... I've also had a blast with it... Ouch

…”

The middle-aged man punched the man named Jing Tao in the stomach, causing him to roll three feet away. He held his stomach and looked pale and had difficulty breathing. The corner of the middle-aged man's mouth twitched, and a cold light shot out of his eyes, and he warned fiercely:

"Come on! Jing Laoliu, I'm warning you, if you say such nonsense again or have such dirty thoughts, I will do it to you now! You kid, you don't even look at what time it is.

Don't want to think about home

My wife and children, I tell you, if you make this move, everyone will be promoted and make a fortune, and they will live a life of being superior to others; if you make this pile of corpses, it’s nothing, our brothers and the whole family will have to suffer along with you, this idiot, I understand.

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"Second brother, please calm down. My younger brother doesn't dare to do anything anymore..." The man named Jing Tao struggled to get up from the ground, covering his stomach with his hands, and looked at the middle-aged man who exuded murderous aura in fear, with a look on his face.

They are all begging for mercy.

"Humph, that's pretty much it! Remember, we all do things with our heads up, and nothing can go wrong in this dangerous place!" At this point, the middle-aged man unbuttoned the military police school uniform and urged.

: "Take off these unsightly clothes quickly, grab the thing, and leave quickly! This is not a place to stay for a long time. The faster we go, the longer our lives will be!"

"yes!"

At 0:15 midnight, Hekou Pier.

Several small fishing boats of different sizes were tied to the wooden piles of the muddy small pier. As the river waves undulated and swayed, an iron-clad speedboat more than ten meters long walked from far to near on its own channel.

Driving quickly towards the small pier, the bright white beam of the searchlight on the ship illuminated the dozens of meters long small pier.

The small shed made of bamboo mats on the pier made a "chirping" sound. Soon the bamboo door opened from the inside, and an elderly fisherman with mottled hair walked out of the small shed wearing a tattered quilt whose color could not be seen clearly.

The cold wind hit me, I tightened my quilt, rubbed my eyes hard, and discovered that it was an iron-clad boat that was rarely seen on weekdays. I quickly ran down a few stone steps to see what was going on.

The patrol speedboat slowed down and soon lay on the water about ten meters away from the shore. A loud voice came along with the light beam:

"Sir, we are from the Marine Police Division. I would like to ask you if you saw any strangers passing by? Have the boats on the pier moved in the past two hours?"

"No! It's freezing cold, and it's not the Lantern Festival yet. Who would go down the river to fish at this time? They haven't even touched it. My old guy came back after drinking a few drinks before dark, and the eight boats were still there.

It's sitting here motionless." The old man replied loudly, putting his hand on his eyebrow to block the dazzling light.

The patrol boat moved the searchlight pole and shined it towards the four corners of the pier. The loud voice continued to come: "Thank you, uncle! If there is any movement, please go up immediately and notify the village chief or security chief. Our team is all on the road. Look for it."

They can report it, and they will all thank you very much!"

"Remember, remember... Military Master, what happened that made you mobilize the troops in the middle of the night?" The old man asked a little strangely.

"It's okay to tell you, old man. You will know tomorrow morning anyway. Uncle, the sister of General An Yi, the commander-in-chief of our An's army, was kidnapped by robbers. General An was commanding his brothers on the front line in Shanghai to fight against Japan, but how dare anyone dare to do so?

If we sneak into the capital city and kidnap General An's sister, will the brothers be able to sleep? Sir, thank you for your hard work. We have to notify the villagers along the river to help."

After the officer finished speaking, the speedboat slowly accelerated and headed downstream.

The old man was so frightened that the quilt fell to the ground. When he saw the speedboat leaving, he shouted loudly: "Master, please don't worry! An Jiajun is the person we respect the most, and General An is the great hero of our Chinese people. Old man

I admire him the most in my life. When my son comes to take over in the middle of the night, I will run back to the village and tell all the guys to go down to the river and help stop all the boats on the river!"

"Thank you, sir! Brother Marine Police, thank you and the fellow villagers..."

The old man watched the speedboat leave, shook his head slightly, then tremblingly grabbed the quilt and put it on his back, climbed up the stone steps of the pier, and started talking to himself as he walked:

"Who would kill a thousand swordsmen to do such an immoral thing? He's so bold... No! Isn't this causing trouble for General An, who is fighting on the front line? No... I have to rush back to call for help immediately, and try to get rid of the bad guys as soon as possible.

Seize... uh——"

Quietly, a thin black steel wire tightened the old man's throat accurately and powerfully. The unsuspecting old man subconsciously tried to grab the wire around his neck, but no sound came out of his mouth, and he kicked sharply.

The kicked legs were entangled in the slipped quilt, and the neck

A circle of blood quickly overflowed on his chest, and the blood gushed out quickly. Several sounds of severing the throat and crushing the cervical vertebrae were heard one after another. The old man's blood-covered hands weakly waved in the air a few times, then hung down softly, and his tongue lolled out.

The hair is so long that the eyes almost pop out of their sockets.

The steel cable was quickly released and disappeared in an instant. The old man who collapsed on the ground was immediately wrapped in a quilt soaked in blood and stuffed into a small bamboo shed. Three black figures quickly rushed from behind a half-repaired broken boat on the pier.

He came out, quickly went down to the pier, untied the cable of a awning boat, and the radio and heavy cloth bag he was carrying were thrown into the cabin in an instant.

"Second brother, the reaction of the national army is so damn fast!" Jing Tao's breathing became slightly rapid, and the other two people looked around warily.

The middle-aged man did not answer Jing Tao's words. He looked around, and finally withdrew his gaze from the light of a patrol boat on the other side, turned to the third child and whispered:

"The third child immediately turned on the radio and contacted the 'pacification team' that was responding to us. He told them about the blockade along the river and asked them where to wait for us. The sixth child went to the stern of the ship to steer and walked close to the shore to observe. Jingcheng, do

After all preparations are made, if it doesn't work out, I can kill this bitch and throw her into the river, cut off her left hand which only has a cinnabar mole, and return to life. Half of the task will be completed."

"Remember, second brother!"

Jing Cheng, who had a tiger-like back and a thin face, replied in a low voice. He grabbed the heavy bag and dragged it to the corner of the cabin effortlessly. He stretched out his hand and aimed at the head that was whining in the bag and gave it a slap.

The struggling body in the bag immediately tilted to the side and made no sound.

At 1:50 in the morning, the north and south ferries of Zhenjiang were brightly lit. The gendarmerie company stationed at the ferries and a regiment of the Jiangxi Provincial Government Security Corps set up machine guns to guard both sides of the river. Ships of all sizes on the river slowly searched, and dazzling searchlight beams flashed back and forth on the river.

When strafing, even a piece of wood drifting with the current will be approached and inspected by a small speedboat.

In the grass on the shore one kilometer above the ferry on the south bank, four big men crawled and waited for more than half an hour. Finally, they discovered in despair that there was no way they could go down the river to reach the pick-up point at Ximawei Pier on the north bank before dawn. The only way was.

The way to survive is to go ashore and cross the border

The patrol team shuttled back and forth across the embankment, crossing dense forests and weeds with dense streams and connected ponds, sneaking into the city from the west of Zhenjiang City, and then finding a way to bypass the heavily guarded waters in the north of Zhenjiang City, using a boat to paddle to the other side with all its strength to escape the increasingly tight waters.

Blockades.

The middle-aged man gave instructions in a low voice for a moment, then spotted the figure of the patrol passing by on the river embankment. With a wave of his arm, he climbed up the river bank first. Among the three people behind him, two were carrying bags and radios, and the other took out two pieces of paper that had been filed off the front sight.

A shell gun was fired, and the back was cut off cautiously.

The four of them quickly reached the river embankment and crawled cautiously in the grass. After a brief observation, they jumped up and crossed over thirty meters of open space in the blink of an eye. They quickly rushed down the gentle slope and entered the woods to crawl and hide again.

At 2:30 or 40 in the morning, in the waters from Zhenjiang South Ferry to the upstream Longmen Port, the Marine Police Division No. 103 medium-sized patrol boat slowly drove upstream. The lookout soldiers on the boat suddenly shouted a few times, and the searchlights immediately shone on the four

The robbers abandoned the awning boat. After receiving the emergency report, Sun Delong, commander of the 1st Brigade of the Marine Police Division, came to the port side and ordered a closer observation. He immediately ordered the ship to be on high fire alert, lowered the boat and boarded the awning boat for careful inspection.

Twenty minutes later, an urgent report flew to the communication vehicle that was traveling westward through Changzhou City. An Yi read the translated message and immediately issued an order loudly:

"First, order the 1st Brigade of the Marine Police Division to cordon off the 20-kilometer riverbank of Zhenjiang waters, and the Marine Brigade immediately search down the Yizheng Riverbank; secondly, call General Gu Mosan to request the urgent deployment of Zhenjiang security divisions to start a city-wide alert, and then call

Please ask General Gu Zhenglun's Sixth Military Police Regiment in Zhenjiang to block all road checkpoints outside the city and only allow entry but not exit;

An urgent telegram was sent to General Ruan Zhaochang of the 55th Division of Jiangbei, asking General Ruan to urgently mobilize a regiment of troops to blockade Zhenjiang to the Ximawei Pier downstream, and to arrest any suspicious persons; an urgent telegram was sent to General Huang Shaohong, Minister of the Interior, to ask him to dispatch a waiting railway station at Nanjing Station.

The patrol team took a railway patrol car and drove to Zhenjiang, launching a rigorous search along the way."

"yes!"

The three communications staff immediately immersed themselves in writing messages.

Shen Fengdao asked in a low voice: "If it were you, if you couldn't escape by water and couldn't pass by the highway, which way would you choose?"

"Go back." An Yi replied.

Shen Fengdao shook his head: "We can't go back, let alone reentering the tiger's mouth. Since all roads on land and water are tightly blocked, isn't going back a dead end? Unless we kill the hostages and escape empty-handed, there is no way to escape.

Opportunities, but I forgive them for not daring to do this until it is a life-or-death situation, otherwise why would they bother to go to all the trouble to sneak into Nanjing and rob people?"

An Yi raised his eyebrows: "You mean to hide in the city..."

Shen Fengdao nodded: "In my place, I would enter Zhenjiang with a population of more than 100 or 200,000 people as quickly as possible, find a single family, kill them all, and then quietly live there and endure it for a few days, Nanjing, Zhenjiang and other places along the way.

I can't catch anyone, I

My accomplices will definitely spread the news in Shanghai or Suzhou and Hangzhou, saying that the operation has been successful and the hostages have been delivered to such and such a place, so that An Yi can come out to negotiate. In this way, the martial law will be lifted in Zhenjiang City and even along the river, and I can retreat quietly.

Already."
Chapter completed!