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Chapter 236 Equipped Mounted Police, Attack!How dear you are so you won't be out of breath

"Dedicating one's life for righteousness, how can one convict in the name of a thug?"

"To warn the world with one's own sacrifice, how heroic!"

"Fu Wei, this is the heart of serving the country with fists, please reduce the sentence for him!"

"Injustice! Injustice! Injustice!"

The parade with dozens of large and small banners approached quickly, shouting loudly as they walked.

More than 2000 people shouted in unison. This kind of situation is not insignificant. Passers-by rushed to avoid it, and the rows of shops on the west side of Chaoxi Avenue quickly closed their doors.

On the other side, more than a thousand young and middle-aged men were not to be outdone, and faced them head-on fearlessly.

Several leaders in the team raised their megaphones while commanding, and shouted loudly in standard Nanjing Mandarin: "Everyone! These people with ulterior motives in front of us talk about righteousness, but their actual actions are so unbearable. This is not a so-called petition, this is a riot that attracts people's attention!"

Crowds of people collided, causing thousands of waves!

Shouting, cursing, and fighting sounded one after another, and the scene of confrontation between left and right quickly changed from mutual pushing and shoving to gang fights.

The more than 200 patrol and criminal police officers of the Shanghai Municipal Police are working hard to maintain order on the periphery. Because the numbers of the two sides are far apart, they are currently unable to respond effectively.

The reinforcement police force is still being mobilized urgently, because such a situation exists in more than one place in the huge counties at this moment.

The last time the Shanghai government police felt that there was insufficient police force was when the economic crisis affected Daming six or seven years ago. Before and after that, the order and public security in the economic capital have always been quite good.

Big but not chaotic, rich but not bad, this has always been the pride of the Ming people who have lived in Shanghai for a long time.

However, the turmoil after the "Jimao Disaster" broke what everyone believed in.

"gentlemen……"

"What are you afraid of, am I here?"

In a cafe decorated in European style, Xia Xiaoshi held Zhou Changfeng's forearm tightly, fearing that she would be swept away by the turbulent crowd.

Around the two of them, the originally spacious cafe was full of people. According to visual estimates, there were more than 40 to [-] people.

Through the bright and large windows, the people who took refuge inside could clearly witness the fierce confrontation between the two teams on the avenue outside after they collided.

Seeing this, most of the women were pale and trembling. Although there were some cowards among the men, some of them took up benches or chairs to defend themselves.

For a moment, the room was filled with an extremely tense and restless atmosphere, and the cries of the children made the tense string in everyone's hearts tremble violently.

Zhou Changfeng reached out and slapped the brown round table, and shouted: "Come and move the table with me, and block it behind the door and window."

After saying that, he started to move the table, and then several men and women began to cooperate to move other tables and chairs.

Just at this time, four young men hurriedly rushed outside the house, two of them were quite strong, eager to come in, pushing and patting.

Everyone thought they were also fleeing to avoid danger, so they hurriedly opened the door to let these four people in.

But who would have thought that as soon as they came in, they turned their faces instantly, and pulled out iron pipes or pointed daggers from their sleeves, and the strong and strong man at the head even pulled out a revolver.

"Hurry up! Take out all the valuables!"

"Who dares to procrastinate, I will give him a knife!"

These hooligans, who took advantage of the fire, yelled sharply while waving their weapons.

The people in the cafe were terrified and subconsciously backed away. As a result, some people kept being pushed and fell, and the scene became chaotic in an instant.

The behavior of these guys made Zhou Changfeng seem to have returned to the disaster area of ​​Caozhou three months ago. Those who fear that the world will not be chaotic and take advantage of the fire to loot are really hateful.

If there were no guns, people would definitely dare to resist. What's so scary about everyone rushing forward?

But the unremarkable lucky six-shot revolver shocked everyone present, and the timid women began to pull out the hairpins from their buns.

Immediately, other people next to them also began to take off jewelry, watches, and banknotes.

Zhou Changfeng patted Xia Xiaoshi's back lightly, then took her handbag calmly, and said in a low voice, "Squat down directly later."

He turned his back to the bandits, and quickly took out the honor that can only be obtained by the top ten students of Yingtian Army's martial arts from his bag.

Insert the magazine, open the safety, and load it!
After finishing all this, Zhou Changfeng quickly turned around and fired three shots in a row with the most basic Weaver-style shooting method.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Three 7.65×17mm Browning pistol bullets flew out of the muzzle one after another, and in a flash, the bandit holding the revolver was shot three times in the body and collapsed to the ground.

But Zhou Changfeng still fired two more shots at him, and then turned his gun to shoot at several other guys.

Things turned around so quickly, the other three robbers who were frantically stuffing property into cloth bags were already stunned.

Until one person screamed and fell to the ground, the other two fled in horror.

"Crack!" It just so happened that the last bullet failed to feed and failed to enter the chamber smoothly.

This is because Xia Xiaoshi has not unloaded the bullets in the magazine since last year - the spring force will gradually weaken when the bullets are filled for a long time.

Zhou Changfeng threw the gun decisively away, rushed forward in three steps and bent down to pick up the lucky six-shot revolver dropped by the armed robber, and then chased him out of the cafe.

After shooting four shots in a row and knocking down one person, the other person had already run out for three to 40 meters, which was already an unlikely distance for a pistol to hit, so he put away his gun and returned to the house.

The man who had been shot five times had died, but the other man was not dead and was still howling miserably—the .200ACP pistol bullet with a muzzle kinetic energy of only more than 32 joules was really weak.

He, as well as the other robber who escaped outside the cafe but was knocked down, were dragged to the corner by everyone. Among the people taking refuge at the scene happened to be two nurses from the medical center who were shopping together, and they began to bandage them urgently.

Now, the attention of the nervous prefectural police is all on these huge crowds.

Due to the chaotic situation at the scene, the police in the nearby area misjudged the situation at the scene due to the continuous firing of more than a dozen gunshots. They thought it was two fiercely confronting parade teams firing at each other.

Finally, a group of "cavalry" rushed over from the south of Chaoxi Avenue.

Bright red half body armor, frontier helmet, ring arm armor, blue-gray clothes, leather soap boots, holding a half black and half white long wooden stick, and a steel horse face and a armor-shaped helmet on the tall horse on the crotch. Chicken Neck (Neck Guard).

Grass, so handsome!
These half-suited "cavalrymen" are the mounted police team of the Shanghai prefectural police, dedicated to dispersing the parade.

Blue and red, full of armor, the costumes of the mounted police can be said to be very cool and mighty.

"Side by side, let's go!"

"drive!"

More than ten riders just covered the entire avenue. After a short formation, they quickly attacked and moved forward side by side.

The speed of the mounted policemen is not fast, roughly similar to that of ordinary people jogging, but even so, it can be said that the hooves of the horses are rumbling and full of oppression.

On the one hand, wearing armor is to prevent being hurt by cold weapons, and on the other hand, it can also increase deterrence; at the same time, there are patrolmen with guns on both sides to accompany the mounted policemen in the middle.

Facing the mounted police rushing towards them like steamrollers, the 3000-odd parade crowd who had been fighting inextricably just now broke into a commotion. Many people fled around subconsciously. run wildly.

Generally speaking, mounted police can play a unique and significant role in controlling and dispersing large-scale crowds. Later generations of police agencies believe that one mounted police can be as deterrent as ten walking patrols, and often a dozen mounted police It can effectively control the situation where thousands of people gather to demonstrate.

Human beings' fear of horses is derived from physiological instinct, and it is difficult to suppress. The army that can still hold its ground in the face of a large number of cavalry has always been a minority.

When the Russians were filming "War and Peace", the mechanized infantry who cameo in the group would still subconsciously avoid the cavalry swarms and cause the formation to be scattered.

"stop!"

"Call-"

The mounted policemen of the Shanghai government police are definitely well-trained, or they don’t want to cause trouble—they will slow down and stop every 30 meters they advance, so as to give the panicked parade crowd a little time to escape from the scene and accidentally fall Some people can also take the opportunity to get up and run away.

After waiting for more than ten seconds, the mounted policemen moved forward again and continued to put pressure on the crowd.

In just a quarter of an hour, the thousands of people who had been so powerful before were successfully dispersed, leaving only a mess on the scene.

People who were injured due to fighting and trampling were carried to the side of the road, lying or sitting, there were hundreds of people in a row.

At this point, after the situation was completely stabilized, the police officers had time to take care of the surrounding area.

"Hey, it was you who fired the gun earlier."

"Who did it? Come out."

As a result, as soon as Zhou Changfeng came out, two patrolmen came up and captured him as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

Because of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou dialect, communication has become a big problem. Fortunately, although Zhou Changfeng and Xia Xiaoshi can't speak the dialect, the police officers can understand the official language.

After understanding the cause and effect, one of the thin and tall deputy police superintendents couldn't help but sigh: "You are so powerful, you are so ruthless."

Although the two bandits who survived the bullet were given emergency bandages, they were still dead because of Mr. Zhou's marksmanship—both of them were shot in the torso. It doesn't mean you can't kill people.

"Can you all testify? Well... it is reasonable to guess. But I would like to ask you and my wife to follow me, it only takes a moment."

Since Zhou Changfeng has no important official duties, even if there are dozens of people who can testify, the basic process still has to go through.

When they arrived at the Inspection Department of Minhang County, the staff were amazed almost the whole time, and Zhou Changfeng also praised the mounted police in turn.

The two sides recorded the process while bragging about their business. Finally, after taking pictures and signing the pledge, this innocent disaster was finally settled.

Although it said "a moment of work", it actually took more than an hour before and after.

Before leaving, Zhou Changfeng bought a box of .32ACP pistols for free from the Inspection Department—Xia Xiaoshi would not be idle to play with guns, so the eight bullets she used before were more than a year ago.

After such a long delay, they didn't have the energy to go to other places now, so the two took the tram back to the inn where they were staying.

As the most economically developed place in Ming Dynasty, the development of the service industry is not inferior to that of Europe. Many things have already taken shape, at least in terms of opening rooms in hotels.

Although there is no identity information identification, there are document registration and fingerprint retention - the rich and powerful Shanghai government was the first to popularize fingerprint comparison criminal investigation technology in Ming Dynasty.

Storing identity information for millions of people and being able to quickly retrieve it seems unimaginable in this era without electronic computers?But human beings still do it with wisdom-this is a kind of electric mechanical equipment, which records information through punched cards, and then quickly stores, classifies, retrieves, and retrieves it.

Historically, this technology was monopolized by the famous IBM Corporation, and widely used by the U.S. Census Bureau; this technology was also sold to Spicy at a price of 135 million Reichsmarks for rapid statistics and accurate oil removal.

Because the population is too large, Daming is naturally very interested in it, but IBM also knows that Ming people really need it, so it sits on the ground and raises the price.

The Minister of the Household Department at the time felt that this was not cost-effective, so he decided to conduct research on his own. Anyway, he was not in a hurry, and it was a routine operation of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times to copy the data of "Keeping the Population of the World" from previous years and modify it.

In the end, Shanghai Gezhi University cooperated with Songjiang Electric Institute to develop it, and soon achieved results.

"Phew - after tossing for a long time, take a shower!"

"Then let's go first, sir."

As soon as he entered the room, Zhou Changfeng called for a bath, Xia Xiaoshi, who was wearing a white blouse and a black pleated skirt, replied casually, then bent over to take off her shoes and put down her handbag.

But when she looked up, she found that Zhou didn't move at all, but stared at her with a smile.

This kind of gaze is like... a hunter who has seen his prey.

"What... why?" For some reason, she suddenly panicked.

Zhou Changfeng leaned against the wall and asked half-jokingly, "Do you want to go together?"

As soon as these words came out, Xia Xiaoshi's cheeks turned red.

Weak, pitiful, helpless, wrong.

Weak, cute, helpless, yes.

"Don't don't..."

"Hahaha——then... when do you want it?"

"Ah," the blushing Xia Xiaoshi gritted her teeth and complained, "You hate me to death!"

"It's okay, there's no rush, we'll talk about it later." With a smile on his lips, Zhou Changfeng looked his fiancée up and down, and then pretended to be serious and said, "Isn't it too much to kiss now?"

The latter snorted softly, then tiptoed and kissed.

"Just one shot? It's not enough."

Apparently Zhou has a lot of actual combat experience in this area, and when Xia Xiaoshi leaned over on tiptoe again, he quickly took a step back.

Ever since... Xia Xiaoshi, who lost her balance, threw herself into his arms.

This touch was so wonderful that Zhou Changfeng couldn't help but hugged her waist slightly.

The two hugged each other for a long time, Xia Xiaoshi, who was blushing, was out of breath after she broke free.

She yelled softly, "I can't even breathe..."

"Really?" Zhou Changfeng pinched her nose casually, and said nonchalantly, "If you practice more, you won't be like this."

"Heh!" Xia Xiaoshi once again felt that she was really weak and helpless in front of him like a rabbit on Cailang's mouth, and she couldn't resist at all, so she could only tilt her head and hum: "Sir, go take a bath!"

(End of this chapter)