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"No need to thank you, I just want to see what tricks you are up to today." Yan Xiaohui smiled as he turned the car key in his hand.

"Am I that complicated? I was frightened yesterday, and today I just hold a dance party to suppress the shock. Let's get together to have fun and welcome the New Year! Haha."

After a while, Mingzhu arrived, and her appearance was even more frightening. She and Ning Xiner were driving two cars respectively, followed by three large military trucks with forty gunmen sitting neatly on them.

Each of the forty gunmen was equipped with a powerful pistol, and 20 of them actually held a Thompson submachine gun, a weapon commonly known as a Chicago typewriter.

One shot of this kind of gun can turn a person into a sieve full of holes.

This kind of formation is that the police have to retreat when they see it, and they are not opponents at all. Only when the garrison of the Shanghai Garrison Command is dispatched can they hold their ground.

In fact, the Cao Gang has only this little wealth, and they are all dispatched tonight.

"Pause action, pause." Seeing this posture, Ozawa panicked, and hastily issued a pause order to all his subordinates.

"Damn it, Lu Ming is a lunatic, what on earth is he trying to do? This is simply playing hooligans!" The beautiful woman felt that she was out of breath, and still wanted to curse a few words.

Ozawa had already passed the point of cursing, and wanted to rush out to kill people, but he didn't dare, because his hundred men really couldn't defeat the forty gunmen of the Cao Gang.

He had heard of the prestige of the Cao Gang before, but felt that the Cao Gang was still slightly inferior to the Qinghong Gang. It was only after seeing today's battle that he realized the depths of the Cao Gang.

Afterwards, carriages, rickshaws, and taxis came from all directions one after another. Cailian invited more than a dozen girls from Changsan Shuyu, almost all of whom Lu Ming knew.The circle is not large, and the people who show up often know each other.

Lu Ming greeted them one by one in front of the gate of Wanguo Apartment, said some greetings such as "Gong Xi Fa Cai" and "Auspicious Ruyi" to welcome the New Year, and then Zi Yang led them directly into the ballroom, and then someone entertained them with wine and tea.

Naturally, the bachelors in the apartment that Lu Ming invited all arrived early, and there was free wine to drink and beautiful beauties to see. Could there be such a beautiful thing in the world?

An Gonggen and the others had already changed into the clothes Yuan Mingzhu had brought. They were all dressed in black, wearing sunglasses, which were wide enough to cover half of their faces, and the peaked caps on their heads were pulled down.

With this attire, even people who usually know them are completely unrecognizable in the night.

They pretended to be gunmen and blended in among the invited Caogang crowd, as inconspicuous as a few drops of water falling into a pool.

After about an hour of fuss, all the guests who were supposed to come arrived, the lights in the ballroom were brightly lit, the band had already started playing famous songs one after another, and there were already couples dancing on the dance floor, and this was just a prelude.

Lu Ming entered the ballroom with a happy smile, knocked on the microphone, coughed twice, delivered a welcome speech of "Happy New Year", and then announced the official start of the dance.

The band began to play a waltz, and everyone below entered the dance floor and began to dance ballroom.

"Didn't you say you wanted to dance tango with me?" Ning Xiner was forcibly pulled by Yuan Mingzhu, her face full of displeasure, when she saw her favorite dancer among the people dancing on the dance floor, she immediately became happy, Can't wait to dance the tango.

"You dance with me for the first dance." Yan Xiaohui came over, regardless of Yuan Mingzhu being beside Lu Ming, and directly dragged Lu Ming into the dance floor.

"Sister, can you bear this?" Ning Xiner asked in surprise

"Never mind him, since he is holding a ball today and welcoming the New Year, let him be free."

This is not the time to be jealous. Among all the people who came to the New Year's Ball, except Zhang Ziyang, Mingzhu guessed what Lu Ming meant, so she persuaded her elder brother to call out all the elites of the Cao Gang.

It is not accurate to say that the Cao Gang has only this family background. Strictly speaking, there are only so many gunmen with guns.Guns are expensive on the one hand, on the other hand, the government will not sit idly by. If the Cao Gang allocates too many subordinates, it will become an army.

In comparison, there are even fewer gunmen in the Qinghong Gang. The main reason is that there is no need for this. Whether it is bullying the city or scrambling for the docks, it is enough to have enough heads, knives, axes, and sticks. After all, they will not go with the army. Compete for high and low.

After dancing a waltz, tango followed. Lu Ming didn't break his promise and came over to ask Ning Xiner to dance tango.Handsome guys and beautiful women are really good-looking, but the strings in Lu Ming's heart are actually tense.

Most people know how to dance ballroom dancing, but very few people can dance tango. The main reason is that the body movements of tango are somewhat difficult, and it is even more difficult to dance well, like that.

People who can dance tango invited their pre-appointed dance partners one after another, stepped onto the dance floor in pairs, danced lightly, and the atmosphere in the venue suddenly became lively.

The dancer who danced with Ning Xiner full-time was a little disappointed, because Ning Xiner didn't find him as a dance partner, so he had no choice but to invite Yuan Mingzhu to dance.

Yuan Mingzhu didn't know how to dance and didn't like dancing at first, but in the past two years, Ning Xiner took her to the ballroom frequently, no matter what kind of dance she could take, she could still take a few steps.

Yan Xiaohui went over and pulled Sheng Di to dance.

People outside the dance floor chatted with wine glasses, watched the dance, applauded and whistled from time to time.

The dozen or so bachelors living in the apartment chatted up the girls in Changsan Shuyu in broken Chinese, hoping to take them away.

They don't understand that these girls are not those working girls outside, they are professional courtesans, and they are not so gullible.

With professional smiles, they were polite and well-proportioned. They captivated more than a dozen bachelors, but they couldn't find a reason to take them away.

Zhang Ziyang didn't dance, he led four police officers to patrol around the scene nervously, while An Gonggen and the others hid in the shadow of the lights, waiting for the best time to leave.

In the opposite building, Seishiro Ozawa heard the melodious dance music coming from the apartment building, he jumped like thunder, his face turned purple.

Manchuria's agents in Shanghai are already very strong. In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, Ozawa mobilized all the elite forces of Manchuria in Shanghai. Judging from the current situation, he was still defeated.

The main reason is that he didn't dare to provoke a gun battle. Once he opened fire and the situation got out of control, he couldn't bear the serious consequences.

The main task of Manchurian agents is not to catch criminals, but to collect intelligence under the guise of doing business, and intelligence is their core job.

This time, because of the explosion at the Yamato Hotel, several Japanese people were killed, and more than 20 people were injured, ranging in severity.

The target of this bombing operation was Commander Shigeru Honjo, which was even more intolerable.

After the bombing, Shigeru Honjo sent a telegram to the military, asking the military to plan retaliation.

The General Staff Headquarters was very furious after receiving the telegram, and decided to arrest the murderer at all costs. However, in Shanghai, the military could not be used, so they had to rely on Manchurian special agents to take special measures.

"Captain, do you want to transfer all the members of the Black Dragon Society?" one of Ozawa's gunmen asked for instructions.

"No, those lunatics must not be used. They can do anything, even if they want to wash Shanghai Bund with blood." Seishiro Ozawa immediately vetoed this suggestion.

He considers himself a civilized person, and looks down on the black dragon society and the mob from the bottom of his heart. In his opinion, the organization of the black dragon society should be renamed the second lunatic asylum.

The gunners under him are already crazy enough, that is when they are fighting, and they can basically maintain their sanity at ordinary times.The Black Dragon Society is different, they are not so much human beings as they are mad dogs.

In Japan, the Black Dragon Society is also hated by people. Whether it is the government or the common people, they all look at them with contempt and fear. I don't know what the people in the military think, but they even use these scumbags.