Chapter 41: The Tunnel

The news brought by Hans made Tang Cheng look confused, this Japanese major general named Yokomoto Ichiro had been in Shanghai for two days, and Hans, a self-proclaimed well-informed guy, had not heard any rumors, which seemed to be a bit abnormal. Without waiting for Tang Cheng to ask, Hans took the initiative to explain, "My informant in the gendarmerie headquarters has never had a chance to pass on the news, let alone me this time, in fact, even the British and the intelligence officers of the United States and France have not heard the news at all. ”

"This General Yokomoto is from the Japanese military, so when he came to Shanghai this time, he was responsible for receiving the Japanese military police headquarters, and the special high school could not interfere at all. Moreover, the reception personnel selected by the gendarmerie command were not allowed to leave the place where Yokomoto was staying until this general left Shanghai. It took a lot of work for my insider to get the news, and before you can get started, it's enough to sell for a good price on the black market. ”

I have to say that Hans's ability to collect intelligence is very strong, a day ago, Tang Cheng only knew the name Yokomoto Ichiro, and a day later, he got more detailed information. The summary of the information that Hans handed over to Tang Cheng was quite detailed, and after reading the information after this summary, Tang Cheng finally had a preliminary understanding of this Japanese major general named Yokomoto Ichiro, and he finally knew why the military headquarters wanted him to assassinate this person.

This Japanese major general named Yokomoto Ichiro was not actually an officer in the combat unit, and Yokomoto Ichiro, who was nominally subordinate to the Kwantung Army, was an intelligence officer of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in his early years. After the outbreak of the war, Yokomoto Ichiro went north to Kanwai to serve as the logistics supervisor of the Japanese army's bacteriological unit, and was awarded the rank of major general. Yokomoto Ichiro is not well-known, and if it weren't for the news that the members of the underground party lurking in the Kwantung Army risked their lives to spread the news, perhaps no one would have known that the Japanese army had established a bacteriological unit outside the pass.

The Military Command Department suspected that Ichiro Yokomoto was not only returning to the Japanese mainland to report on his work, but also very likely to have brought with him materials related to the bacteriological unit and was preparing to return to the mainland to report in detail to his superiors. Tang Cheng, who was looking through the information, had not yet comprehended the second task of the Military Command Headquarters at this moment, and he was simply planning to kill this Yokomoto Ichiro in Shanghai.

"Don, I'm not optimistic about your actions this time!" As an intelligence provider, Hans feared that Tang Cheng's friend would get into trouble because of the assassination, and he also had a hint of illusion and tried to convince Tang Cheng to change this unreliable decision. Hans's persuasion only made Tang Cheng's eyebrows slightly raised, if Hans said so before Tang Cheng opened this summary information, maybe Tang Cheng might still change his decision, but now, this Yokomoto Ichiro is already Tang Cheng's killing target.

"Hey! We're old friends anyway, I'm glad I helped you find the information, you didn't say a word of thanks, just turned around and left? "Tang Cheng's purpose in coming to Hans is to get information related to Yokomoto Ichiro, and now that he has obtained the information, Tang Cheng has no mood to stay here. It's just that before he could turn around and leave, Hans shouted first, he really didn't think about Tang Cheng going to assassinate Yokomoto Ichiro.

Tang Cheng, who had already stood up, did not speak, but when he walked to the door of the office, he turned around and made a cheering gesture at Hans. After getting the information, Tang Cheng did not lack weapons and equipment in his hands, and after leaving Hans's restaurant, Tang Cheng immediately returned to the hotel and gave himself a comprehensive disguise. Yokomoto Ichiro came to Shanghai for two days and stayed in Hongkou District, which was tightly controlled by the Japanese army, and if Tang Cheng wanted to successfully assassinate this Yokomoto Ichiro, he had to enter Hongkou District first.

Tang Cheng came to Shanghai this time, and he also brought fake identity documents that he had used many times before, and this time, he planned to repeat his old trick and once again disguise himself as a Japanese expatriate who came to Shanghai to beg for a living. Thanks to the experience of blending into Hongkou District several times before, Tang Cheng did not have to work hard at all after disguise, and successfully passed the checkpoint of the Japanese army and entered Hongkou District with his fluent Japanese language and the document that had been used many times. In the information provided by Hans, there is the specific location of Yokomoto Ichiro in Hongkou District, but Tang Cheng has no way to get close to Yokomoto Ichiro's place now.

Looking at the Japanese military police patrolling outside Yokomoto Ichiro's residence from a distance, Tang Cheng did not choose to continue to approach, but immediately turned around and left here. Knowing that things can't be done and still acting forcefully, that is called recklessness rather than bravery, Tang Cheng has always thought that he is not a reckless person. What he saw in front of him did not allow Tang Cheng to make any moves, so Tang Cheng planned to wait for it to get dark after dark, and sneak in here quietly under the cover of night.

Hongkou District, which was tightly controlled by the Japanese army, was not a concession, and the concession was full of refugees and gangsters, but there were military police patrols in Hongkou from time to time. Tang Cheng wanted to wait for it to get dark in such an environment, but it was impossible to just wander the streets, and the only solution was to find a place to live and settle down temporarily. Tang Cheng had infiltrated Hongkou District several times before, and he had used a fake identity to stay directly in a hotel in Hongkou District, but this time, he didn't plan to do so.

There is a North Korean resistance group hidden in Hongkou District, which Hans told him personally before Tang Cheng left the restaurant, and Hans also kindly told him two addresses. After the outbreak of the Great War, some of the members of the Korean National Salvation Army withdrew from Shanghai with the people, and some of their people lurked in Hongkou District. However, Tang Cheng's influence on the Korean National Salvation Army is not good, and he has used the Korean National Salvation Army before, and this time, naturally, it will not be an exception.

By asking passers-by, Tang Cheng soon found the kimchi restaurant that Hans mentioned, this kind of shop in front and back, which made Tang Cheng secretly happy in his heart. Both the owner and the clerk in the kimchi shop are women, and although Tang Cheng hears them speak Korean, they are dressed in Japanese style. It can be seen that the business of this kimchi shop is good, and from time to time residents living in Hongkou District enter and exit this kimchi shop, Tang Cheng had to slowly detour to the back of the kimchi shop.

In addition to going through the main entrance to enter the kimchi shop, the only way to enter is to turn in from the backyard, and Tang Cheng didn't want to alarm the people in the kimchi shop, so he could only choose to climb over the back wall. The backyard of the kimchi shop is not too big, and there are a lot of kimchi jars, and after quietly turning over the wall, Tang Cheng carefully looked at the situation in the backyard, and then dodged out from behind the kimchi jar used to cover his figure, and hid directly in the utility room in the backyard. The utility room looked like a mess, but after Tang Cheng entered, a palpitation suddenly flashed in his heart.

Wrong! Tang Cheng, who was half-squatting and already holding a ** pistol in his hand, seemed motionless, but his eyes were actually quickly observing the situation in the utility room. The utility room seemed to be normal, and Tang Cheng didn't see anything unusual, but I don't know why, Tang Cheng, who was in the utility room at the moment, inexplicably felt that something was wrong here. Tang Cheng is not a person who likes to be suspicious, and this sudden strange feeling has saved Tang Cheng's life many times, so Tang Cheng must be cautious.

Tang Cheng secretly slowed down his breathing, and the whole person quickly entered a mysterious realm, as if everything had slowed down, and Tang Cheng could even clearly see the dust slowly floating in the light. An inaudible breathing sound quickly entered Tang Cheng's ears, Tang Cheng tilted his head slightly, and what he saw in his sight was a dilapidated wooden box. There must be something strange about this box! Tang Cheng, who noticed that he was different, slowly tilted the corners of his mouth to reveal a smile, raised his hands, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at the box.

The box pointed by Tang Cheng with a pistol is not very big, such a box is impossible to hide the next big living person, seeing that the box is placed directly on the ground, Tang Cheng is more inclined to the place where the person is hidden under the box. Tang Cheng, who had seen the movie Tunnel War more than once in later generations, was no stranger to tunnels, and the time he used the Korean National Salvation Army before, he found that the people of the Korean National Salvation Army were very keen to dig tunnels under their residences.

This kimchi shop was a secret stronghold of the Korean National Salvation Army in Hongkou District, so Tang Cheng concluded that there was a high probability that there was a tunnel or hole under the box. Slowly approaching the box, Tang Cheng held the gun in his right hand and stretched out his left hand to open the box. At this time, Tang Cheng, whose left hand had already touched the lid of the box, suddenly heard someone talking in the courtyard, and the sound was directed towards the utility room. The voice became clearer and clearer, although Tang Cheng did not understand Korean, he could hear that there were two people speaking, and it was a man and a woman.

After a quick glance at the utility room, and finding that there was no place for him to hide in the utility room, Tang Cheng simply gritted his teeth and lifted the lid of the box in front of him. Sure enough, as Tang Cheng expected, the wooden box directly placed on the ground was simply an ornament, and when he lifted the lid of the box, Tang Cheng saw the entrance of a black hole at the bottom of the box. Hearing the sound of talking in his ears, he had already appeared at the door of the utility room, and Tang Cheng jumped directly into the box without thinking.

The box is used to cover the hole in the ground, Tang Cheng only stepped into the box with his left foot, and stepped on the top of the ladder, Tang Cheng, who had settled down a little in his heart, immediately moved down the ladder in the hole, and finally did not forget to close the box. Tang Cheng, who entered the cave, found that the ladder was not very long, about three or four meters, and then he landed on his feet and found that a tunnel had been dug out of the hole to the right. Tang Cheng saw that the tunnel he saw after opening the triple eyepiece was not straight, so he couldn't see how long this tunnel was, and faintly heard the door of the utility room above his head being opened, and he had no room at the moment, so he could only forget to move deep in the tunnel.