While Chang Kai-shek smiled smugly, Li Xian had already returned to his familiar newspaper office.

He was in the same room where he had previously requested to join the Special Operations Company.

Chen Sichuan and Feng Junya had clearly never been to the foreign concession before. They were amazed by the streets, buildings, and trams running along the main roads.

Especially those women walking on the streets with their fair arms and legs exposed.

They stared with their eyes practically popping out.

If Li Xian hadn't urged them to hurry,

they could have spent the whole day walking along the street.

Li Xian had the newspaper staff entertain them outside.

It wasn't that he didn't trust them, but they weren't yet members of the organization.

Some precautions were still necessary.

Chen Sichuan and Feng Junya didn't mind. Their mission was to protect Li Xian, the deputy company commander.

Lin Fan hadn't given them any other tasks. Now that they had arrived on Li Xian's turf,

they felt relieved.

Li Xian went into the inner room, where only the director was present.

Li Xian quietly recounted everything the Special Operations Company had done since leaving the Sihang Warehouse.

The director listened to Li Xian as if he were hearing a story. "Hongqiao Airport was your doing?"

Li Xian said proudly, "Yes! I was the first one to charge into the airport!"

"But there were only a little over a hundred of you!" The director almost couldn't contain his surprise, and his voice grew louder.

Li Xian said softly, "We have Lin Fan!"

"Is Lin Fan really that powerful?

What you did the night before yesterday was only published in today's newspaper.

And there are photos of Hongqiao Airport now." The director handed over the newspaper.

Li Xian scanned it quickly and said with a smile,

"Their imagination is still lacking!

We not only blew up all the Japanese planes parked at Hongqiao Airport,

but we also shot down five enemy planes that flew in from who knows where.

They only sent five planes in total, and all of them were shot down."

The director was clearly very interested in this. "Can you be sure that those planes didn't take off from Hongqiao Airport?"

Li Xian smiled. "Under Lin Fan, no plane can take to the skies; they can only go into the ground."

"This is big news! I want to report it and make everyone happy."

Li Xian continued to talk about the battle that had just taken place. "Just five hours ago, we fought a team of Japanese soldiers in Zhenru."

The director opened his mouth in surprise and didn't close it for a long time. "Your combat frequency is a bit too high!"

Li Xian smiled. "There was nothing we could do. We just happened to pass by and encountered a completely unprepared group of Japanese soldiers.

A Japanese company transporting poison gas bombs.

It's like a peach blossom in spring; no one would just walk by after seeing it, right?

You have to get closer to admire it."

"What was the result?" The director was very nervous.

"We used their methods against them. We used the poison gas bombs they were transporting to attack them.

The Special Operations Company suffered no casualties." Li Xian said casually.

The proud expression on his face was so obvious.

The director was even more surprised. "You mean to say that since retreating from the Sihang Warehouse, you have killed more than two thousand Japanese soldiers

without a single casualty?"

Li Xian nodded affirmatively. "Yes!"

The director held up his hand to stop Li Xian from continuing. "Let me sort things out first and clear my head.

This completely subverts my understanding of the Japanese army."

The director wasn't just a scholar; he had fought on the battlefield for many years.

He had fought guerrilla warfare, frontal warfare, and worked behind enemy lines.

Over the years, he had fought against Chang Kai-shek's elite troops, various local warlords, and had many clashes with the Japanese.

Of all the opponents, in terms of strength,

the director still believed that the Japanese were the most powerful.

Today, he suddenly heard this story from his subordinate, who had never been a soldier or fought in a war.

He almost believed it!

"What you're telling me is very important and needs to be reported to higher authorities, Comrade Li Xian!" the director said seriously.

Li Xian replied equally seriously, "I am responsible for everything I have just said!"

The director then relaxed. "Did you come back specifically to report on your work?"

Li Xian smiled. "That was the original plan! But when I asked Company Commander Lin Fan for leave,

he gave me a few temporary tasks that require the organization's help."

"What is it? Tell me about it!" The director became serious.

"The first thing is that Company Commander Lin wants to buy one hundred and twenty-nine watches!" Li Xian said.

The director didn't even blink. "Continue!"

"The second thing is to set up four trading companies and rent a warehouse in each of the four directions on the edge of the concession, close to the sewers, for easy access."

"It's a good idea to allow more than one hundred members of the Special Operations Company to enter the concession through the sewers," the director said.

"The third thing is that he asked me to buy something called a handheld walkie-talkie," Li Xian said.

"What is that?" The director was puzzled.

"Lin Fan said it's a kind of telephone that can be used without wires." Li Xian repeated Lin Fan's explanation verbatim.

"If we can find such a thing, we want ten of them!" Li Xian added.

"That's like a radio, but made so small that it can be held in the hand.

I understand, I'll inquire about it," the director said.

After a pause, he continued, "Did you send out the open telegram?"

"Yes!" Li Xian said.

"Do you have a telegraph operator?"

"No dedicated one, Lin Fan does it himself." Li Xian said normally.

The director was surprised again. "Is there anything he can't do?"

"Haven't found any yet!" Li Xian was very honest.

The director immediately said, "Use the current frequency and keep in touch!"

Li Xian suddenly asked, "Does anyone in the newspaper know the situation around Jiangwan Airport?"

Having already learned about the combat effectiveness of the Special Operations Company, the director immediately became alert. "Are you going to attack Jiangwan Airport?"

Li Xian nodded. "We have a plan, but we don't know the situation around the airport yet, so we haven't made a final decision."

The director thought for a moment, got up and went out, and soon brought back a stack of photos. "It's easy to expose your target by directly asking people about this kind of thing.

Take these photos with you; they were taken by someone who went there in the last half month."

It had to be said that the director was a qualified combatant with a high degree of vigilance.

Li Xian pocketed the photos and said, "I'm going to buy the watches now."

The director was surprised. "Do you have that much money?"

Li Xian said with a smile, "We found the Japanese treasury when we captured the airport."

Then he took out a stack of legal tender. "This 50,000 is for opening four foreign firms.

For the time being, our goods only include the anti-gas masks, weapons, and canned goods we just seized."

The director's eyes lit up. "You not only don't spend money fighting, but you also make money?"

Li Xian said smugly, "We still have a large batch of weapons that we can't take away."

Thinking of the batch of weapons and ammunition that Lin Fan had sent into the concession a few days ago,

the director instantly felt that he had found a way to transport weapons and equipment to the rear.

Li Xian talked with the director for an hour and a half, and then left when he saw the time.

The number of watches he had to buy today was really a bit too many.

Fortunately, the director was a well-known figure in Shanghai and directly found a familiar foreign firm to transfer a batch of goods in.

This prevented Li Xian from running to the mall for retail purchases, where his wealth might be exposed and attract attention.

Having completed his task, Li Xian walked out of the concession with a relaxed expression, accompanied by the two hicks, Chen Sichuan and Feng Junya.

Feng Junya and Chen Sichuan already knew that there were one hundred and twenty-nine watches in the leather suitcase they were carrying, and one of them was theirs.

They were both happy and nervous.

Feng Junya was carrying the suitcase, gripping it tightly, his fingers a little pale.

Chen Sichuan's eyes were scanning every suspicious person walking on the street, as if they were all about to rob the small suitcase in Feng Junya's hand.

Seeing their expressions, Li Xian couldn't help but regret it: He shouldn't have told them what was in the suitcase.

That way, they might have been more natural.

The trio was very noticeable in the Shanghai concession of this era, a paradise for adventurers.

They hadn't walked two hundred meters down the street before they were spotted.

For some, robbery was a profession.

The group that targeted Li Xian and his companions today was one of them.

Bu Gaochi had just come out of his lover's house and was taking a stroll in his territory.

He immediately spotted the fat sheep. The three people in front of him, one of them was carrying a small suitcase.

By the way they were holding it, it was either a heavy suitcase, or the contents inside were very valuable.

In any case, it was heavy.

The two people walking with him, one of them looked nervous, like a servant.

The one with the calm face was the master.

These three were walking in a hurry, not looking left or right.

This was a gift of money!

Bu Gaochi also noticed that there was something protruding a little at the waists of the three men as they walked.

They must all be carrying weapons.

But in his own territory, Bu Gaochi wasn't afraid.

With his boss backing him up, why would he be afraid of three reckless youths?

Bu-ge was a professional when it came to this kind of thing.

With his order, in less than five minutes: there were more pedestrians on the road ahead of Li Xian and his companions.

When this group of more than twenty pedestrians walked in front of them,

they forcibly squeezed in, and the three of them were immediately separated.

But they could still see each other.

Feng Junya only felt a sour sensation in the numb spot on his arm, as if someone had hit his arm hard.

His arm went numb, and the small suitcase he was holding tightly was snatched away.

Feng Junya shouted loudly, "My suitcase has been robbed!"

Hearing his shout, the twenty or so people quickly ran away.

Chen Sichuan had been following closely behind Feng Junya, but he had been separated just now.

He couldn't see who had snatched the suitcase from Lao Feng.

At this moment, he panicked: he reached for his waist.

He pulled out two pistols and fired.

Two consecutive gunshots knocked down the two people blocking his way!

He shouted loudly, "Don't move! I'll shoot anyone who moves!"

As he spoke, some of the people who had just rushed over stopped, while others were still running away in the distance.

The sound of Chen Sichuan's gunshots rang out continuously.

Feng Junya's right hand had just been hit and was still numb, but his left hand also pulled out a gun and fired.

Everyone who blocked his path was his target.

He was the kind of person who dared to stab even Lin Fan in the back, so he didn't care about the surroundings at all.

Now he understood: this group of people were all in cahoots.

They were a team of robbers!

Li Xian had never expected that the three of them would be robbed while walking down the street.

He wasn't good at shooting with both hands.

Seeing three people running away quickly not far away,

Li Xian shouted as he fired at them, "They're over there."

His marksmanship was a bit poor, and he was shooting too hastily, so he didn't hit anyone.

However, Chen Sichuan shot one person down with one shot, and the other two carried the suitcase around the street corner and disappeared from sight.

Feng Junya and Chen Sichuan stopped Li Xian, who was about to chase after them.

They didn't stop firing their guns.

They gave everyone who had just squeezed over and hadn't run away a shot each

before stopping.

Bu Gaochi was mixed in with the people who hadn't run away.

He had never imagined that in the concession, in broad daylight,

someone would be so bold as to injure people with guns, and injure such a large group of people all at once.

In fact, he had thought of Feng Junya and his companions as kind.

These days, the three of them had been following Lin Fan and killing so many Japanese soldiers.

Every corpse had to be stabbed again according to Lin Fan's instructions.

Now, Feng Junya looked at the long wound on his arm.

He said to Chen Sichuan, "You go first! Let me bandage it!"

Without saying anything, without asking anything, he shot a man who had fallen to the ground in the chest, then stepped on the man's body and tore off a strip from his clothes, gritting his teeth as he bandaged his wound.

Li Xian was a little panicked: Such valuable items were lost, how could he explain it to Lin Fan when he got back?

Chen Sichuan heard Feng Junya tell him to do it.

He started asking the closest person, "Who's the leader here?"

The first person hesitated, and Chen Sichuan shot him in the chest.

He ignored that person.

He continued to ask the next person, and then fired another shot.

Bu Gaochi and the dozen or so people who were still alive were so frightened that they wet themselves.

When Chen Sichuan asked the third person, he pointed at Bu Gaochi without any hesitation. "He's our Si Hai Gang leader!

Hero, please spare my life!

I have an eighty-year-old mother and a three-year-old wife and children!"

Chen Sichuan said coldly, "Don't the people you rob have them too?"

He stepped heavily on the man's arm. "I'll spare your life!"

Then he walked up to Bu Gaochi. "Si Hai Gang leader?"

Bu Gaochi said in a trembling voice, "I... I didn't recognize Mount Tai.

I guarantee that I will return the stolen items in their original condition.

I guarantee that I will return them in their original condition."

At this moment, Feng Junya, who had just bandaged himself, walked over and kicked him twice. "Why aren't you hurrying?"

When Bu Gaochi got up, Feng Junya saw that the injury on his arm was too light.

Feng Junya said to Chen Sichuan, "You were too careless."

He raised his hand and fired two shots, crippling Bu Gaochi's other hand, and then shot him in the foot.

Then he said to Chen Sichuan, "I saved your life."

He reached out and took a gun from Bu Gaochi's waist.