The bombing of the Japanese Navy Headquarters' munitions depot on Baoshan Road in the Zhabei area of Shanghai was not a trivial matter, and after the explosion, which lasted for nearly five minutes, abruptly stopped, it immediately caused a sensation throughout Shanghai.

Except for the Japanese military and political personnel stationed in Shanghai and the Japanese nationals, everyone else, whether they were Chinese living in Shanghai or foreigners other than Japan, applauded after learning the news, and felt that blowing up the munitions depot of the Japanese Navy Headquarters was a great joy for the whole world.

The main reason is that since the Japanese army captured Shanghai Tang, not only the Chinese people stationed here have suffered, but even the foreigners in the public concession and the French concession have been under pressure and provocation from the Japanese army all the time.

The attitude towards the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai can be said to have reached the level of common indignation.

After the explosion, the metal of the house in the northwest corner of the compound of the Japanese Navy Headquarters was destroyed, and the fire continued to burn for more than an hour before it was finally extinguished.

Thanks to the fact that the Japanese Navy Headquarters is an independent compound, and there is a residential area within 200 meters of it, the explosion and fire did not have much impact on the residents of the Zhabei area living here, at most the window glass of the house was shattered, and no injuries were caused.

In stark contrast, a large number of munitions in the warehouses of the Japanese Navy Command were destroyed, and it is self-evident that dozens of soldiers of the Japanese Navy Command were killed and injured by explosions and fires.

Not only that, but the so-called fire at the city gate affected the pond fish, and the rows of hundreds of cherry blossom trees planted in the northeast corner of the compound of the Japanese Navy Club, which is only one wall away from the Japanese Navy Headquarters, have been blown up to the ground, and all the branches have been scorched into charcoal, and the only surplus value that can be used is to cut them into firewood and use them to make pots.

At about 9 o'clock in the evening, in his office on the street side of the second floor of the Japanese Navy Club, Taro Tano, commander of the Japanese Navy, summoned relevant personnel to an emergency meeting.

There is only one topic for this emergency meeting, which is how to deal with the aftermath and how to find out as soon as possible the cause of the bombing of the munitions depot.

As the deputy consul general of the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai, Chen Lei, a Chinese assistant to Ichiro Iwai, was naturally fortunate to attend this urgently convened meeting, and it was also named by Taro Tano himself.

Other participants in the meeting were all heads of Japanese secret services in Shanghai, such as the head of the Special High School Division and the Bamboo Agency, the head of the Mei Agency, and Iwai Ichiro, the head of the Special Investigation Office (Iwai Mansion).

Of course, many heavyweights of the Wang puppet regime in Shanghai are also indispensable, they are Zhou Fuhai, the puppet mayor of Shanghai, Ding Mocun, director of the No. 76 Secret Service Headquarters, and Li Shijun, deputy director of the No. 76 Secret Service Headquarters.

At the beginning of the meeting, Taro Taro Taro sighed bitterly: "My dignified Japanese naval headquarters has always been heavily guarded, and I really did not expect that one day, the arms depot would be blown up. The losses were very severe, and dozens of Imperial soldiers were also killed or wounded. The purpose of organizing this meeting is to hope that all of you here will offer suggestions and suggestions to find out the cause of the explosion at the arms depot. ”

At this point, Taro Taro Tian paused for about three seconds, then turned his head to Dochi-en-en, who was sitting not far from his left-hand side, and after a moment's notice, he asked, "Dochi-en-kun, you are the head of the special high school and the bamboo agency, and you are the person with the most experience in intelligence and espionage among the participants here. Can you tell me about the explosion at the munitions depot of our Navy Command, was it caused by an accident or by human causes? ”

In the face of Taro Tano's inquiry, Doto-en-en-Yuan did not dare to be the slightest slack, and after thinking for a while, he did not draw conclusions, but replied very cautiously: "Your Excellency Commander, the current situation is not very clear, and I can't make an accurate judgment yet, so I have to wait until the fire is completely under control, go to the scene to conduct on-the-spot investigations, and inquire and check the imperial soldiers guarding the munitions warehouse one by one, whether they have neglected their duties."

"Judging from the current situation, according to my personal judgment, the bombing of the arms depot of the Navy command may have been an accident. Of course, for the time being, the possibility of artificiality cannot be ruled out. I also ask Your Excellency the Commander to give me a little time, and I will pursue this matter as soon as possible. We will strive to find out the real cause of the explosion at the munitions depot in the shortest possible time and give a satisfactory answer to Your Excellency the Commander. ”

After listening to Dochido's answer, Taro was not satisfied, and he asked Kagesa, who was sitting next to Doto, about this question.

Kagesa didn't dare to jump to conclusions when he saw his predecessor Tu Feiyuan, and naturally he couldn't determine whether the explosion at the munitions warehouse was caused by an accident or man-made, and he was vague when he answered, which was similar to Tu Feiyuan's opinion.

In the end, Taro Taro pinned his hopes on Iwai Ichiro and Chen Lei, asked them to answer this question separately, and specifically reminded the two of them not to prevaricate him like Dochido and Kagesa, but to give him a clearer and more definite statement.

Iwai Ichiro was originally a professional diplomat, and the Iwai Mansion, which he led, an intelligence agency at Japan's diplomatic outlet in China, had only been established for a short time, and he was not an intelligence espionage officer, so naturally he did not dare to say anything to death.

On the contrary, Chen Lei made a bold assumption at the meeting, holding that the possibility that the explosion at the munitions depot was an accident was extremely unlikely, and that nine times out of ten it was caused by man-made people who had premeditated it for a long time.

Moreover, Chen Lei also insisted that this was likely a retaliatory action by the military command agents lurking in Shanghai, in order to fight back against Wang Tianmu, the head of the Shanghai station of the military command, at the No. 76 agent headquarters.

After listening to Chen Lei's analysis, Taro Taro nodded very approvingly, because in his opinion, if the explosion was finally characterized as an accidental accident after investigation, then he, the commander, would bear the main responsibility, and the final result of being responsible for this matter would be to be removed from his post as a commander and return to the Japanese base camp to be tried and punished.

If it had been determined that it had been done by the anti-Japanese elements who had been planning for a long time, the result would have been completely different, and Taro Taro would at most be considered negligent by the Japanese base camp, and the punishment he would have accepted would have been much lighter.

As soon as Chen Lei's words fell, Taro asked thoughtfully: "Chen Leijun, tell me, are they the agents of the military command or the central command who are lurking in Shanghai, who took advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese Navy Club to celebrate the new government in Shanghai and the establishment of the special committee at the Japanese Navy Club tonight, took advantage of the loopholes in security measures, and then implemented the plan to blow up the arms depot of our headquarters. How likely is that? ”