It was late at night. Before, Pu Su asked Yu Dabao to drive back, and asked him to go over the passage and inform Li Wenjuan when he arrived, that he would not go back tonight. If you don't say hello, the people in the courtyard over there will be nervous all the time and wait for him to open the door.

Among these materials, there are explanations made by Xu Enzuo and the three of them based on what they have learned. There are also many summaries of the situation in Shanghai specially brought to him by two political work cadres appointed by the superiors, plus the materials accumulated by the political work cadres themselves.

This information is invaluable. It was not only a multi-faceted display of the chaotic situation in Shanghai, but also the ways and characteristics of various forces participating in the competition. It also made him clearly understand the complexity and danger of the situation in Shanghai in the past few years.

The logistics comrades brought the covers. Because of the simplicity, in this room, I built him a few benches, and if he was sleepy, he could rest here, and by the way, he also made him a cup of tea.

After the logistics left, Pu Su blew the foam in the teacup, unfolded the material and continued to read.

Tan Baoyi was accompanied by two people, Zhu Shanyu, and a commander named Xu Guoqi. Around February 1, 1939, Tan Baoyi arrived in Shanghai via Ningbo. When Xu Guoqiyi reported to Zhao Guangyi, Zhao Guangyi asked him to tell the others to wait for further orders.

Subsequently, Tan Baoyi lived with a cousin in a grocery store on Fu Luli Road in the French Concession. After that, he hastily gathered a few local citizens, such as petty clerks and apprentices, who were unofficial members of the Kuomintang assassination group.

However, Tan Baoyi, as a graduate of the Linli Special Training School, believed that he was a professional secret agent and a "descendant member" sent by the General Administration of Military Command, but in fact he knew nothing about the "local organs" of the Shanghai Branch of the Dali Military Command.

A week before the Spring Festival, Tan Baoyi went to the Cathay Pacific Hotel room next door to the Great World Entertainment Hall to visit Xu Guoqi and Zhu Shanape. Xu Guoqi took care of Tan Baoyi to wait for an emergency call at any time, and asked him to move to the Dongchang Hotel on Xiafei Road. Ping Fuchang was also reminded of the impending assassination.

The order was issued by Zhao Guangyi, who had learned that it might be February 16 or 17 – that "Foreign Minister" Chen Zhan planned to secretly return to Shanghai to spend the Spring Festival with his family and friends at his mansion at No. 25, Lane 668, Yuyuan Road. His information came from Chen Zheng's two bodyguards, He Peng and Zhao Yuding, both of whom were from Fengtian in the northeast and recommended to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by a head of the Military Command Bureau.

While everyone was in Nanjing, they were the only ones who knew that Chen Zheng would make this dangerous trip on February 16. The reason why Zhao Guangyi was able to develop these intelligence resources was first of all because Chen Zheng was surrounded by guards from the Northeast, and they all joined the guards when the sister of Zhang Xueliang, the "young marshal" who ruled the Northeast, became his daughter-in-law.

However, it is very dangerous to appoint a group of fellow villagers, especially if they are strangers. Because if one person spoils it, everyone else will respond quickly.

Under these circumstances, Zhao Guangyi first came into contact with Liu Haishan, the former captain of the Northeast Guard, of the young marshal. Liu Haishan agreed to serve the Military Command Bureau and participate in the assassination operation. After that, through Liu Haishan's contact with the northeastern bodyguards of Chen Zheng's family, Zhao Guangyi obtained information about Chen Zheng's travel plan and the layout of the mansion.

On 17 February, Chen Youtao arrived in Shanghai with his bodyguard, He Peng, to make advance arrangements for his father. At 10 a.m. the next morning, Chen Zheng called from Nanjing, saying that he would arrive at Shanghai North Railway Station at 3 p.m.

At half past two in the afternoon, Chen Youtao hurried to the train station with two cars. Chen's private car was driven by his driver, Huang Yonggui, and was carrying bodyguard Zhang Shuwen and his relative, Miss Hui Chen, who was also a staff member of the Restoration government.

The gang waited on the platform. At 3 o'clock, Chen Zheng's carriage drove to the North Station on time, and Chen Zheng got off the train with his bodyguard Zhao Yuding. The second car, driven by Chen Youtao (with bodyguard He Peng on board), was parked at the corner of North Sichuan Road and Qiujiang Road.

After that, the two cars drove together to the Broadway Building, where the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Restoration government was on the fourth floor, and which Chen used as his living place when he came to Shanghai. After a short stay of 10 minutes, the Chen family and their bodyguards returned to two small cars, which drove towards the Chen Mansion on Yuyuan Road.

They all wore the same camel fur coats and felt hats, "so much so that it was difficult to distinguish between them when there was a pedestrian on the way."

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve (Saturday), Zhao Guangyi learned of Chen Zheng's whereabouts in Shanghai. He had previously asked Ping Fuchang if he had the courage to do some active work for the Nationalist Government.

Now, he told Ping Fuchang about Chen Zheng's appearance in Shanghai, and ordered Ping Fuchang to meet him at the Cangzhou Hotel the next morning.

On the morning of the next day (i.e., the first day of the Lunar New Year), Ping Fuchang came to the hotel and was sent by Zhao Guangyi to the home of a man surnamed Liu on Ragna Road to get the weapons needed for the operation. Ping Fuchang left Ragnar Road on time, and when he returned to the Cangzhou Hotel, he brought a wooden picnic box with him. Afterwards, he said, the box contained four Browning pistols with four rounds of ammunition each, as well as a Japanese-made pistol with 15 rounds of ammunition.

At the same time, other members of the action team were in contact. Tan Baoyi was taken to the Cangzhou Hotel at 4 p.m. on the first day of the Lunar New Year in Xu Guoqi's car, when the other six workers were already present: Ping Fuchang, Zhu Shanping, Xu Zhihao, You Pinshan, Liu Haishan and Zhao Guangyi.

Zhao Guangyi took out 4 pistols from the picnic box and handed them to Xu Guoqi, You Pinshan, and Ping Fuchang each, and kept one for himself. According to Tan Baoyi, "He then told us that we were going to assassinate a man surnamed Chen, a high-ranking official of the Restoration government who had just arrived in Shanghai from Nanjing. He asked us to divide into two or three groups and then assemble outside Yuguang Village on Yuyuan Road. ”

Ping Fuchang and Xu Zhihao took a double-decker car to Yuyuan Road. You Pinshan, Liu Haishan and Zhao Guangyi took a rental car to the meeting place. The five waited until 6 p.m., when Tan Baoyi, Xu Guoqi and Zhu Shanyu, who were on foot, arrived.

After some investigation, they decided that there were too many guests to attack them immediately. So I decided to spend time in a nearby bar first. It wasn't until after 7 o'clock that it rained heavily, and the eight of them wore raincoats and long robes, and quietly passed through the small alleys on the north side of Yuyuan Road around the Chen Mansion.

Usually, there are two guards at the front door of the Chen Mansion, but Shao Fusheng, the main guard at that time, left his post. One of the remaining guards, Song Hailin, was wearing an unlicensed revolver and was on solitary duty.

He saw agents coming up from both sides, one of whom (probably Liu Haishan) asked him in Chinese with a northern accent if he was carrying a gun. Before he could reply, the others swarmed to unload his gun.

Liu Haishan and Xu Zhihao stayed in the alley to guard the gate. Zhu Shanyu and Ping Fuchang dragged the guards to the courtyard, and the assassination team composed of Xu Guoqi, Tan Baoyi, and You Pinshan pulled out their weapons and quietly pushed open the unlocked kitchen door. In the house, there was still a Spring Festival dinner on the table, and Chen Zheng and his wife were entertaining Luo Wengan and his wife in the living room.

Chen Zheng and Luo Wengan, the former minister to Denmark, were leaning on a couch, while the two ladies sat in armchairs on either side. Suddenly, a man walked in through the back door of the living room, and he pulled out his pistol and fired three shots at Chen Ce at close range. Mrs. Chen fell between the gunman and her husband, while Mr. and Mrs. Luo Wengan rushed to another door in the living room.

They fumbled with the lock and opened the door, but bumped into Zhao Guangyi, who was standing in the hall. Zhao Guangyi fired all the bullets at "Foreign Minister" Chen Zheng, causing him to be fatally shot in the temple.

When Chen Zheng slid from the couch to the ground, Zhao Guangyi took out a piece of paper that had been prepared in the hotel room and threw it on the traitor's body. The paper read in large black letters, "Execute the collaborators!" Long live President Chang Kaishen! On another piece of paper that was removed from the sofa, it was written, "The War of Resistance will be won, and the country will be built." Destroy the traitors together and protect China forever!'"

At the end of both sheets, they are signed "Chinese Youth Iron Army!" The four members of the action group and the two Northeast bodyguards He Peng and Zhao Yuding immediately withdrew from the Chen Mansion, and after saying "the matter is done", Tan Baoyi and Zhao Guangyi left in a taxi. The others disengaged into the alley after releasing the guards, dropping their pistols along the way.

At 7:30 p.m., when the police department of the Ministry of Industry received a frightened phone call from one of the witnesses, the Kuomintang agents were already on the bus or rickshaw back to their apartments.

The success of Chen's assassination was a major victory for the military command led by Daley after the fall. In the meantime, I am afraid that no other assassination attempt has made the collaborators more aggressive.

However, this incident further intensified the conflict between the Western powers and Japan over the control of the public concession, leading to several major actions by both sides, which eventually led to the Pearl Harbor attack in the future.

Chen's assassination made Chinese patriots very excited, including Xu Enzuo, who also heard about it in prison. By that time they had already been transferred to number 76. According to the confessions of the three people, the treatment after arriving at No. 76 is like a heaven and a place compared with that in Hongkou before.

The next day, the citizens of Shanghai saw a rather informative headline in the newspaper: "A Heroic Man Descended from the Sky Last Night, and the Collaborator Immediately Became a Ghost Record." The Japanese were furious, as expected.

After Chen Zheng, it was difficult for them to find the right person to be the puppet foreign minister. However, they could not accuse the British of negligence in protecting Chen.

Because, even if the concession police who arrested the house on Jing'an Temple Road arrived at the scene of the murder, the police department of the Ministry of Industry Bureau soon discovered that No. 25, Lane 668, Yuyuan Road, was the address under the jurisdiction of the Japanese gendarmerie. Once this was pointed out to the Japanese, all they could do was to complain that the Ministry of Industry and the police had not informed them of the arrival of the puppet foreign minister in Shanghai as soon as possible.

On the same day that Chen Zheng was assassinated, four Japanese were also attacked, one of whom was seriously injured, so the Japanese authorities took it very seriously, almost as a substitute for Chen Zheng's case.

Of the four, one is the official photographer of the Japanese army (Jiichi Koyanagi), one is Yoshiko Morioka, a taxi dancer, the other is a man named Ryoo Sato, and a Japanese prostitute.

They had lunch at a Chinese restaurant in the concession and were about to leave in a taxi when a man dressed in Chinese clothes stepped forward and fired indiscriminately into the window. Miss Morioka narrowly escaped death, with a bullet grazing her ribs on the right side of her chest.

Mr. Sato's right wrist was bleeding profusely. The police opened fire on the assassin and accidentally injured a beggar nearby. Two Chinese patrolmen and an Indian policeman chased the attacker down a nearby alley, but he escaped.

Although some people who watched the hilarity said that the attacker was a Japanese or Korean, and speculated that he was an admirer of the Rent a Car Dancer. However, the Japanese military authorities described the attack as a "premeditated attack on those related to the military."

The Continental News quoted the terms of the January 3, 1938 agreement between the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry and the Japanese Special Service Department, which stated that "the Japanese military authorities have the right to take independent action in response to repeated similar situations." Other Japanese newspapers urged the seizure of the French and Public Concessions in order to "finally and effectively resolve the terrorist activities in Shanghai."

Considering the situation at the time, the U.S. State Department commented: "On the one hand, through organized terrorist activities, the Chinese government clearly wants not only to intimidate the Chinese who serve Japan, but also to involve foreign powers in disputes with Japan." ”

"On the other hand, Japan seems to be seeking to further demean the Ministry of Industry in order to pursue its policy of eventual seizure of the Public Concession and perhaps the French Concession; The Japanese found a convenient excuse for terror on the Chinese side. ”

The Asahi Shimbun newspaper quoted the Japanese military, whose spokesman did not say so, that "terrorist activities are a symptom of the decline of the Chang Kaishin regime." The recent criminal incidents, especially the ill-fated fate of Mr. Chen Zheng, have caused the authorities of the Japanese Expeditionary Force to pay close attention to Central China. ”

This kind of war intimidation has led to frequent diplomatic activities between the United States and Britain, and has caused great anxiety among officials in the Ministry of Industry. On February 22, the Japanese Consul General in Shanghai, Yoshiaki Miura, accompanied by the commanders of the Japanese Marine Corps and the Japanese garrison, visited C. Frankl, the director of the Ministry of Industry, and handed over a letter.

In my heart, I not only blamed the Ministry of Industry for failing to take proper security measures during the Spring Festival. The letter also demanded strict implementation of the July 1, 1938 declaration of the Ministry of Industry on the arrest and expulsion of criminals, allowing the Japanese police to take the necessary measures to protect Japanese subjects in the public concessions, and guaranteeing the strengthening of the Japanese arrest unit of the Ministry of Industry Bureau.

Immediately after that, the Ministry of Industry Bureau took strict measures in the public concession to set up barricades at the entrance of the lanes, conduct regular raids, and conduct continuous patrols on the streets of the city. They also sought to control the terrorist activities of the Chinese anti-Japanese elements through two other channels, personal contacts and diplomatic channels for the Chinese.

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Change the name of a person, and everyone can take it seriously. I think it will help you at least know what each of the various forces was doing at that time. As ordinary people, what do the vast number of young people think and do?

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