Shanghai: The First Warlord of the Republic of China

"Never mind. I can just get that trainload of gold back from Old Man Yan later."

After thinking for a while, Ye Yunfei finally spoke.

In the future anyway.

He wants to deal with warlords like Yan Laoxi.

Therefore, even though Yan Laoxi has robbed him of a trainload of gold now, he will still be able to get the gold back when he kills Yan Laoxi later.

Therefore, there is no need to worry too much.

Use the gold now and talk about it later.

Ye Yunfei said: "Put all the gold into Longmen's vault, and then you can go and rest. You must have worked hard on this trip to dig for gold. Take a good rest. There may be a big battle to fight in a while."

Tan Xiong said: "Okay, then Brother Fei, if you have anything, call me anytime."

"Well, let's go."

After making some arrangements, Tan Xiong transported the gold away.

There is now a huge vault in Shanghai, which is used to store Longmen’s property.

Including gold, oceans, and some treasures brought from various other places.

All in the vault.

There are already quite a lot of assets in the vault now.

After this batch of gold is delivered, it should be able to greatly increase the funds in the treasury.

After dealing with the matters at the gold mine, Ye Yunfei and Ding Li returned to Lido.

"Brother Fei, what should we do now?"

Ding Li said.

Ye Yunfei said: "There is nothing to worry about for now, but we have to make some preparations in advance."

"The Japanese may come at any time. We must strengthen the defense of Shanghai Beach."

Ding Li said: "There are now 400,000 troops around Shanghai, so there shouldn't be any big problems."

"It all depends on when the Japs will show up."

Ye Yunfei nodded and didn't say anything more.

In the following time, Ye Yunfei went to the vault to take a look, and also went to see Feng Jingyao.

Feng Jingyao is still imprisoned in Lido Prison.

Ye Yunfei didn't plan to let him go in the short term.

Moreover, if nothing unexpected happened, he planned to lock him up until he died.

So, just let him stay in there.

For nearly half a month, Shanghai was peaceful.

The whole of Shanghai is thriving, quite quiet and peaceful, and it seems to have entered a period of peace.

However, this is not the case at all.

Beneath the apparent calm, there are undercurrents. Once the Japanese start attacking Shanghai, this place will immediately become a hell on earth.

Half a month later, Ye Yunfei was listening to the radio in Lido.

Recently he has been listening to domestic radio, which often broadcasts some information. Although it may not be very accurate, some of the information can still be used after analysis.

However, after analyzing the information over the past few days, Ye Yunfei didn't understand anything.

However, at noon that day, Si Gong, who had not been seen for a long time, returned to Lido.

After Si Gong came back, he immediately went to find Ye Yunfei.

"Hey, Si Gong, I haven't seen you for a long time, where have you been?"

Ye Yunfei looked at Si Gong and asked curiously.

As far as he could remember, he hadn't seen Si Gong for a long time, probably more than half a month.

Si Gong said: "Brother Fei, I went to an island country and just came back."

“You went to the island country.”

Ye Yunfei looked at Si Gong in shock and said, "What were you doing in the island country and when did you go there?"

He didn't expect that during this period of time when Si Gong disappeared, he actually went to the island country.

Si Gong said: "Last time you asked me to investigate the time of the Japanese attack, I knew that it would be impossible to find out the exact time of their attack in Shanghai, so I went to the island country."

"Only in an island country, after careful investigation, can we find out everything about them."

After listening to Si Gong, Ye Yunfei nodded.

If you want to investigate the exact time of the Japanese attack, going to the island country is indeed the best choice.

However, going to the island country at this time is undoubtedly very dangerous.

Once the islanders knew that Si Gong was from Longmen, he would most likely die there.

After all, the island country is not Longmen’s territory, and it would be extremely dangerous if his identity was discovered there.

Fortunately, Si Gong returned safely.

Ye Yunfei asked: "So how was your investigation? Did you gain anything?"

Si Gong nodded and said, "Yes, I spent a lot of energy and money in the island country, and finally bribed someone in the island country's military."

"From him, I learned the exact time when the Japanese invaders attacked Shanghai."

Upon hearing this, Ye Yunfei's eyes fixed and he asked, "What is the exact time?"

This time is very important, it would be great if you could know it.

The palace official said, "It is August 13th."

August thirteen.

Ye Yunfei's face changed.

He looked at the date. Today was the first day of August.

Doesn’t that mean that, in just thirteen days, the Japanese will launch a massive attack on Shanghai and start the Battle of Shanghai?

Ye Yunfei said solemnly: "Is the time you found out accurate?"

Si Gong said: "I have confirmed this time through many sources, there should be no problem, it is August 13th."

Ye Yunfei nodded.

He vaguely remembered that the Battle of Shanghai broke out on August 13.

The time investigated by Si Gong was the same as the time in his memory.

That should be correct, it is August 13th.

"There are only thirteen days left."

Ye Yunfei said in a deep voice.

Si Gong said: "I also found out that the entire island nation is preparing for war. They are constantly training, purchasing weapons, and manufacturing guns and cannons."

"The entire island nation is filled with a war atmosphere. I talked to ordinary people there and learned from them that this situation has never happened before."

"It can be seen that this battle is not ordinary."

Ye Yunfei nodded and said, "Have you investigated how many people the island nation will send to attack Shanghai?"

Si Gong said: "The island nation's military strength is extremely strong now. I haven't found out the exact number of their troops, but according to some rumors and my observations, their total strength should be over five million."

"What? Five million and up."

Hearing Si Gong say that the Japanese had five million people, Ye Yunfei was also shocked and asked, "Do they have so many people?"

Si Gong said, "Yes, absolutely. It is even much more than five million. There is no doubt about that."

"However, it is unclear how many troops they will send to attack Shanghai."

"I guess they won't send all of them here. They will probably only send some of them."

"After all, they still need to leave people to guard their homeland..."