The few people in Tangcheng are both miserable and happy at the moment. The happy thing is that the gold has finally been obtained, but the painful thing is how to safely transport the gold back to the concession. There are only five of them in Tangcheng, and they want to take everything here.
After taking away the gold, each person must carry close to 60 kilograms of gold after sharing it. If it were normal times without danger, it would be nothing even if each person carried a weight of 60 kilograms. But this is Hongkou District.
In the Hongkou District, which was tightly controlled by the Japanese army, no one could guarantee that they would be able to leave safely with 60 kilograms of gold.
In order to leave here safely, Tang Cheng, who was originally planning to store the U.S. dollars in his personal equipment bag, had to change his decision temporarily. While the four people were busy carrying the gold out, Tang Cheng quietly used his own personal equipment bag to store it first.
A few gold bricks. After several upgrades, Tangcheng's carry-on equipment bag has a current storage limit of 35 kilograms. Excluding pistols, bullets and some useful equipment, Tangcheng has already vacated it for tonight's operation.
Carry-on equipment bag.
30 kilograms of gold is already the limit that Tangcheng can store in a carry-on equipment bag. This is equivalent to reducing the weight of each of the five of them by five kilograms. The gold in the basement was quickly moved to the corridor on the first floor.
, Hans's four men put these self-smelted gold bricks into several canvas backpacks, and then carried them on their backs and tried them. As a result, they found that these gold bricks did not seem to affect their actions.
Tang Cheng just watched and said nothing. If he was just carrying more than 50 kilograms of weight in a backpack, maybe an adult man could do it. But if he was carrying more than 50 kilograms of weight, he would move all the way from here to Suzhou.
Going to the river, and having to carefully avoid the military police patrols during the process, is not an easy task. The US dollars that Tangcheng couldn't bear to throw away were also divided among several people and put into their backpacks, even if they were to prevent them from being stored in the backpacks.
A mat where gold bricks collide with each other.
Tang Cheng doesn't look very strong, but when it comes to carrying weight, Tang Cheng can still carry 70 kilograms of weight, let alone more than 50 kilograms. After weighing it in his mind,
Tang Cheng and others left from the main entrance of Jincheng Branch. Several people carried heavy backpacks and carefully moved towards the Suzhou River along the shadows on the street. As Tang Cheng expected, only two of them walked out.
After crossing the street, some of Hans's four men were already out of breath.
"We can't stop. The closer we get to the Suzhou River, the more Japanese patrols there will be. If we encounter them, let alone Huang
Jin, even you may die here." Tang Cheng, who had been walking at the front, slowed down slightly. As he spoke, he stretched out his right hand to pull the guy who wanted to stop and rest. "Keep on holding on.
, after passing the intersection in front, find a place to rest."
It was still early before dawn. When leaving the Jincheng branch, Tangcheng had already calculated the time. As long as the five of them were not discovered and pursued by the Japanese patrol, it would not be difficult to leave Hongkou District safely. Unfortunately, things are unpredictable.
, Tangcheng did not expect that the man sent by Hans looked tall and powerful, but had such poor physical strength. And just when he fooled the other party to persist a little longer, the man in black who was walking in front of him suddenly stopped.
Stopped.
In the quiet night, the footsteps coming from the street in front were very clear. Tangcheng couldn't help but change his mind secretly. Listening to the footsteps, it was likely that a Japanese patrol was about to appear from the street in front. What should I do?
The men in black carrying dozens of kilograms of gold all turned to look at Tangcheng. There were only five of them in Tangcheng, and they were carrying dozens of kilograms of gold. In this case, they did not resist the Japanese patrol at all.
possible.
"David, take them back to the intersection. If you hear gunshots or shouts, go left and go into the first alley on the street. After exiting the alley, go east for 2 blocks.
Then turn to the concession, your boss will be waiting at the place where we cross the river." Tang Cheng did not hesitate at all, and immediately made arrangements. The man in black who was named by Tang Cheng wanted to persuade Tang Cheng to leave together, but saw Tang Cheng
Already running quickly towards the front.
Tang Cheng, like the other four people, was carrying a backpack full of gold, but looking at Tang Cheng's speed at the moment, it didn't seem to be affected. David, who was named by Tang Cheng, was Hans's confidant. Before Tang Cheng
David had participated in several cooperations with Hans, so he naturally knew how skilled Tang Cheng was. In just such a moment of confusion, Tang Cheng had already run a dozen meters away. By the time David came to his senses,
Tang Cheng had knelt down on one knee, his whole body hidden in the shadows on the street.
"Let's go back!" David knew that he must not be hesitant at this time, otherwise none of them would be able to leave. The four of David turned around and walked back. Tangcheng, which was hidden on the street, was already there.
We are ready to shoot at any time, and now we have to see whether the Japanese patrol that is about to appear will turn into this street along the street intersection. Tangcheng has never left its fate to God.
habit, so whenever he encounters a crisis, he is always used to facing it positively instead of retreating.
The footsteps coming from the street became clearer and clearer, and Tang Cheng's expression became more and more serious in the night. Meeting a Japanese patrol was not the most dangerous thing, but once a gun was fired, that was the most dangerous thing. Tang Cheng's pistol
A silencer was installed early on, but there is only one pistol and only two spare magazines. It is quite difficult to kill a Japanese patrol with three magazines. I don’t know if God is listening.
At this moment in Tangcheng's mind, the Japanese patrol that appeared at the street intersection actually walked straight through the street intersection and went to another street.
Tang Cheng, who was squatting in the shadows on the street, did not relax immediately. He waited until he could no longer hear the footsteps of the patrol. Then Tang Cheng turned on his flashlight and sent a signal to David and others who were retreating to the intersection behind them.
Tang Cheng, who had planned to use his body as a bait to lure away the Japanese patrol, could finally breathe a sigh of relief. He felt a chill on his back and swore to himself that he would never do such a thing again.
"Let's go!" Tangcheng was squatting on the street, waiting for David and the others to come over, then got up and continued walking forward. Now was definitely not the time to stop and rest.
Tang Cheng didn't talk much and walked alone. David and the other four could only endure their fatigue and quickly followed Tang Cheng through the street and disappeared into the night. At this time, Hans had already been waiting.
Somewhat unable to sit still, I looked at the other side of the river through the car window countless times, but the expected signal never appeared. When Tangcheng led people to swim across the river, he also brought two hemp ropes with him.
One end was connected to two small sampans, and the other end of the hemp rope was fixed under the water on the other side of the river.
As Hans waited anxiously, time seemed to pass very slowly. Hans looked down at his watch again and again. Just when he was about to lose all patience, a flashlight beam finally appeared on the other side of the river. The flashlight beam cut through the dark night.
It flashed by, and then there was the prearranged signal. After one long signal and two short signals, the hemp rope hidden under the water was pulled out of the water, and the sampan parked here was slowly pulled by the hemp rope.
"Go down and help!" After confirming that there was no problem with the signal, Hans immediately got out of the car and called to the two men who had been hiding in the alley next to him.
Jump down the river embankment. There are hemp ropes fixed on both sides of the sampan. Once they move the gold onto the sampan from Tangcheng on the other side of the river, Hans' two men here will immediately drag the hemp rope backwards.
, quickly pulled the sampan loaded with gold across the Suzhou River. The Suzhou River was not very wide, and Hans was well prepared. The sampan that was dragged across the river was quickly pulled back.
Those who followed the sampan across the river were not only the gold, but also the five people from Tangcheng. Hans, who went to the battle in person, did not bother to chat with Tangcheng. The few people were busy at work. First, they took the few people on the sampan.
A backpack was carried onto the river embankment. "Thank you! I brought back the gold and your people." Tang Cheng got into the passenger seat of the car and didn't say much. He just gave Hans a knowing look.
Looking at him, the latter then grinned.
Half an hour later, in the office of Hans's restaurant, Hans opened the five backpacks one by one. The gold bricks smelted by the Jincheng branch, one after another, were soon piled up on the floor of the office to form a small pyramid.
"The actual situation is different from the information I have. The gold we found is almost 300 kilograms, and there is also a lot of US dollars." Tang Cheng, who had changed his clothes, was lazily leaning on the sofa at the moment.
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"There are 300 kilograms of gold?" When he actually dragged the sampan back to the concession, Hans had already discovered that the amount of gold was wrong. At this moment, Hans's eyes were full of joy. Tang Cheng originally said that the gold was only 100 kilograms, but now
The weight suddenly doubled, and Hans was already calculating how much he could get. In addition to gold, there were many US dollars in the backpack. Hans only roughly counted the US dollars, which seemed to exceed 300,000 at least.
"I'll give you more gold. I'll give you half of it, but all these dollars belong to me, and you have to promise to rearrange people to smelt the gold into gold bars, and don't let the Japanese find out." Tang Cheng gave Hans more.
Dozens of kilograms of gold were not given to the other party for free, because he still needed Hans to leave Shanghai, and half of the gold that belonged to him also needed Hans' help to exchange it for foreign currency.
"No problem!" Hans was naturally happy to get dozens of kilograms of gold for free. "I will immediately arrange for someone to resmelt the gold. I will convert your half into pounds and US dollars, and then arrange for someone to send it to Chongqing."
Completely opposite to Tang Cheng, Hans prefers to use gold bars, especially when dealing with intelligence dealers, gold bars are more useful than banknotes.