Chapter Twenty-Three: Extra-High Class Response

The news that there were casualties again in the concession was undoubtedly a cause for celebration for Hu Kai and others, but in Zhao Song's view, this was not good news. If the Japanese use this attack as an excuse to force the Ministry of Industry of the Concession to relent, the forces of the Special High Division may be able to drive straight into the entire Shanghai Concession, and the danger to the Shanghai Station will be even greater.

Zhao Song's worries are not unreasonable, and he is not thinking about his own safety, he is now worried about the entire Shanghai station. Shanghai Station has always been the largest intelligence station in China except for the headquarters of the military command, and Shanghai has basically been under the control of the Japanese army, and the only thing that Shanghai Station can hide in is the concession. If the Japanese army continues to pressure the Ministry of Industry of the Concession because of this incident, it may be that the Shanghai Station will lose even the last hiding place of the Concession, after all, the Ministry of Industry of the Concession has already made compromises with the Japanese army before.

As the captain of the operation team, Zhao Song only considered the dangerous situation that the Shanghai Station of the Military Command might face, but neglected the impact of this incident on the Shanghai Special High School. Just when Zhao Song and the others were carefully questioning Ma Qing'er and trying to figure out the identity of the mysterious person, because of the attack on the special operations team in the concession, the leaders of the Shanghai Special High School were holding an emergency meeting in a conference room of the military police headquarters, and the head of the special team, Haruko Takagi, was also present.

"Captain Takagi, now please tell me in detail about the whole process of the attack!" Presiding over the meeting was Miyamoto Yin, the new head of the intelligence department of the Shanghai Special High School, and Miyamoto Yin, who paused slightly, looked around at everyone, and finally fell on Haruko Takagi. "Captain Takagi, I need to warn you before you start. The Special Squad has suffered heavy losses, and you must be held accountable as the leader, but you are still the leader of the Special Squad until a new order arrives from the Home Headquarters. ”

Miyamoto's last sentence can be regarded as an endorsement for Haruko Takagi, and when the other people in the conference room heard this, they all muttered to themselves in their hearts, and they all felt that Miyamoto was too indulgent Haruko Takagi. The reactions of the participants were all seen by the seemingly impassive Miyamoto Yin, who at this moment not felt angry, but secretly sneered in his heart, because these guys didn't know how hard Haruko Takagi's backstage really was.

Haruko Takagi was transferred to Shanghai from mainland Japan, and all the members of the special operations team came from mainland Japan with Haruko Takagi, according to Miyamoto's observations, the members of those special teams were more like Haruko Takagi's private army. How could you idiots, a young woman with no backstage, be transferred directly from home to Shanghai? And also be able to be the head of a special squad? Miyamoto looked around at everyone, and secretly laughed and gloated in his heart.

People who can engage in intelligence work are not fools and mentally retarded, and Miyamoto's attitude towards Haruko Takagi made the people attending the meeting dissatisfied, but after they secretly noticed Miyamoto's attitude and reaction, some people already faintly sensed that something was wrong. Miyamoto has not been transferred to Shanghai for a long time, although he does not have a deep relationship with other commands of the Shanghai Special High School, but within the Shanghai Special High School, no one has ever underestimated Miyamoto.

Miyamoto is so tolerant of Haruko Takagi, if there is no problem here, it would be strange! As everyone looked at each other and observed, Haruko Takagi coughed lightly before finally speaking. "We went to the concession only after receiving a message, a message about the underground party in Shanghai! At the beginning of the operation, everything went well, and when we followed the target all the way to the location where we were attacked, we were suddenly attacked. ”

"The attacker appeared very suddenly, so we were unprepared!" When Haruko Takagi, who has always been strong, said this, she involuntarily paused for the first time, and after a few breaths, Haruko Takagi continued. "We were caught off guard, the attacker had good marksmanship and was very good at hiding himself, and by the time I pulled out my pistol, most of the members of the team who were tracking the target with me were already dead or wounded."

Miyamoto did not want to put all the blame for the failure of the operation on Haruko Takagi, so under his hint, when Haruko Takagi had a second pause, one of Miyamoto's trace experts interjected at the right time. "We carefully surveyed the scene, and according to the instructions of Captain Takagi at the scene, and the bullet casings we extracted at the scene, we can preliminarily conclude that the attacker was just a person, and the weapon used was a German-style Mauser pistol, which is commonly known as a barge gun by the Chinese."

As he spoke, the expert opened the folder that had been sorted out, and took out a stack of photos from it and distributed it to everyone. "After finding the bullet casings and confirming the weapons used by the attacker, we immediately examined all the bodies at the scene, and based on the location of the bullet holes on the corpses, there was only one conclusion, the attacker had good marksmanship and was obviously a veteran." The photographs distributed by the trace experts at this moment were taken from the corpse, and the content was the part of the bullet.

Among those who attended the meeting were many gun masters, and it was not difficult for them to see the level of marksmanship of the attackers just by looking at the photos in their hands. After the photo in his hand was posted, the expert did not sit still, but walked straight to the vacant area near the window of the conference room and stood still, with a large blackboard behind him. "We have carried out a reconstruction of the attack site based on the traces of the scene and the account of Captain Takagi, so please see here."

The trace expert's words made everyone in the conference room, including Haruko Takagi, look at the blackboard in unison. The Trace Expert, who pulled the sleeves of his shirt up to his elbows, drew a rough street plan on the blackboard with chalk, and then used triangles in the plan to mark the location of the members of the special team at that time. "These three circles represent the targets that Captain Takagi was tracking at the time, and this square is the attacker."

After marking all the signs on the blackboard, the trace expert turned to look at the group, "According to Captain Takagi's statement at the scene, the attacker fired first from this position, and he shot Ikeda more than ten meters away from Captain Takagi, and then almost without a pause, he fired a second shot, this time by Kuroki disguised as a street vendor. The trace expert made corresponding movements as he spoke, as if he had experienced the scene at that time, and actually made the same movements as Tang Cheng at that time.

"The attacker fired two shots in a row from this position, and the two shots were very accurate, and the interval was so short, so short that even Captain Takagi, who was more than ten meters away, did not have time to react." The words of the trace expert at this moment sounded like Haruko Takagi and they were slow to react, but the people present actually didn't think so. Shooting continuously at close range sounds very simple, but in fact it is not easy to do, and it is necessary to hit both shots, and both must hit the vital parts.

In particular, the attacker was using a recoiled pistol like a shell gun, and after seeing the actions just demonstrated by the trace experts, many people, including Miyamoto, realized that they might not be able to do it at the same level as the attacker. "The attacker fired two shots in succession, and the pedestrians in the street were frightened and began to run in a panic, which may have been the purpose of the attackers. He shot in the downtown area in order to create chaos, warn his companions, and use the panic of pedestrians to cover their retreat. ”

"You mean to say that before the attacker fired, he probably found out that we were following those three underground people? Was the shooting because the attackers didn't have time to inform their people, or for some other reason, the attackers weren't coming for a special squad? Haruko Takagi, who had been grim-faced, finally spoke again, but the anger hidden in her voice could be heard by everyone present.

Hearing this, the trace expert nodded silently, "According to the results of our investigation of the scene, this is indeed the case!" The rest of the team members who participated in the operation were all shot and killed in that street by the attackers, and in the end, only Captain Takagi was left alive, which is the best proof of this. If the attacker is coming for a special squad, then he shouldn't have spared your life, and a person who dares to shoot in a downtown area will definitely not have only ten bullets on him. "The trace experts made such a judgment with absolute confidence, and they found 10 bullet casings at the scene.

In this case, the attackers should be members of the Shanghai underground party! But judging from our previous confrontations with the Shanghai underground party, they don't seem to have such skilled operatives! Could there be an inside story that we don't know? "As the head of the intelligence department of the Shanghai Special High School, Miyamoto's judgment is far beyond ordinary people. After a little contemplation, Miyamoto immediately raised his own questions.

"It's not impossible for Chief Miyamoto to be suspicious, especially the attacker's move to leave Captain Takagi at the end is very suspicious, according to the situation at the time, the attacker is fully capable of continuing to shoot Captain Takagi, which is also something we can't figure out." The trace expert didn't pay any attention to Haruko Takagi's cold face, he just followed his own train of thought and made further inferences. "But one thing we can be sure of is that the attacker and Captain Takagi are definitely not strangers."

Because the time of the attacker's departure was too consistent with the departure of the pedestrians on the street, especially Captain Takagi also said that most of the bullets fired by the attacker were carried out behind the fruit basket on the side of the street. This move by the attackers was clearly stalling for time, attracting Captain Takagi's attention and creating an opportunity for his companions to leave. ”