Chapter 15: Purge
In the café, the two of them still sat in their original seats, but the table was replaced with Western dishes.
"I won't be able to eat it when I get there in a few days......" Gu Ji put down his knife and fork, wiped the corners of his mouth with a napkin and said.
"It's not as bad as you think. The river is full of barges transporting factory equipment and immigrants who have moved from the occupied areas, and now the mountain town is not what you imagined......"
"I'm afraid you don't believe it, Chongqing is hot now. The national crisis has prompted the people's patriotic sentiment to rise unprecedentedly, and tens of thousands of people gather every day to call for resistance against Japan and national salvation. ”
Pu Su lit a cigarette and told the senior what he had learned there.
"Well, I know a little bit about the situation over there. Chen Gongshu revealed to me that the military commanders sent me back this time to do my old job, to prevent infiltration and arrest Japanese spies. Air raids are now becoming more and more rampant, and there must be someone on the ground who is passing information to Japan. ”
"That's right, the air raids are a headache. The air defense positions of the national army should have been exposed. A squadron of bombers came over and dropped bombs and swaggered home, and when I was there, I wondered if the range of the anti-aircraft artillery had leaked. ”
Although the political positions of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are different. In the face of the major rights and wrongs of foreign invasion, Gu Ji and Pu Su were undoubtedly staunch patriots, and both abandoned political ideology at this time.
Pu Su suggested that after Gu Ji arrived in Chongqing, he should start by listening to the radio. Only through the way of sending a report can the latent Japanese pseudo-spies transmit the real-time information of the day's weather
"You're a lot easier now, at least you don't have to dig a bomb shelter."
"Haha, before the national air defense over there, even Chang Kaishen took a few photos with a shovel and put them in the newspaper."
Gu Ji also laughed when he heard it. just frowned again and said that he was not used to eating spicy food, and his belly was going to suffer when he got there.
Pu Su knew that this senior had a good background and had not suffered any crimes. His father was a member of the Central Committee of the National Government and presided over the committee. In his early years, he followed Mr. Sun Wen, a standard revolutionary (see "Lonely Island" for details).
Because of this, he was very surprised when he heard that Gu Ji had joined our party and had been lurking in Shanghai for several years.
To a certain extent, this is an act of betrayal of family and class, and it is not an easy decision to make.
"In the past, the restaurants opened by mainland compatriots had all kinds of dishes. Chongqing now even has a lot of Western restaurants, both French and Russian, as long as you don't lack money. ”
"Wanglongmen opened a [Sullivan] there, it is said that British Western food and French bread are very famous, but the younger brother is shy and can only look outside......"
Hearing Pu Su say this, Gu Ji took over and said, "Sullivan? There is also one in the Public Concession. It's so famous that I didn't expect it to open over there. ”
"Before leaving, I simply went there to say goodbye to everyone. When you arrive in Chongqing, you will try the Sullivan you said, and I will tell you what it tastes like. ”
"Okay, then I'll be naked......"
Then the two chatted for a while before checking out and returning to Bai Mantong's clinic.
When he arrived at the back warehouse, Pu Su still held the newspaper he had bought before. Sitting at the table, he handed it to Gu Ji and pointed out the number for him to see.
Gu Ji took a look at it in his hand, and there was a black-framed report on the head. It reads:
"Xiao Gangxuan (1903-1940), hometown, Xinhui, Guangdong." The counselor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nanjing Nationalist Government died in a car bombing at his residence on Yuyuan Road in the Shanghai Public Concession this morning. The Nationalist Government immediately sent a note to the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession to lodge the most indignant protest! and ordered that the murderer must be arrested within the prescribed time limit......"
(The "Nanjing National Government" here is Wang's puppet government, so it is in quotation marks)
After reading it, Gu Ji glanced at Pu Su suspiciously, and Pu Su nodded at him.
This Xiao Gangxuan is not an ordinary counselor. It can be said that he is an out-and-out three-surname house slave.
His history is too complicated, and since he is dead, he will skip it. In short, his identity was first a CCP agent, and then he became a Kuomintang "Central Unification" agent, until he was killed this morning, his identity was a "Wang Puppet" agent.
The superiors asked him to do it, except that after Xiao Gangxuan defected for the first time and joined the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, my underground organization suffered a certain degree of damage. After defecting to the Japanese, he frantically arrested the secret service organization lurking in Nanjing, and the Shanghai Zhongtong Intelligence Station was almost completely destroyed by him.
In the context of the national resistance against Japan, everyone was able to punish the traitors.
What's even more serious is that Xiao Gangxuan, a thief, went to Moscow to study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow on the orders of the party organization when the Great Revolution was about to fail, that is, in April 1927.
After returning to China, he engaged in underground activities in Shanghai as a foreign correspondent of the "UBM News Agency", mainly collecting intelligence, and now he is also responsible for translation work at No. 76.
Yesterday the contact person on the phone informed him about the figure.
The superiors judged that this person had most likely seen Pu Su in Moscow, and if he was in Unit 76, he would undoubtedly be a mortal threat to Pu Su.
After the meeting with Gu Ji and them last night, Pu Su returned to the residence, took explosives, sneaked into the garage and planted a car bomb.
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Each shoulders a task, and Gu Ji does not know the specific inside story.
It's just that he also understands that if it weren't for the necessity, this cautious junior wouldn't have killed someone as soon as he arrived in Shanghai, and he would use the explosion as a very deterrent method.
Gu Ji just tactfully reminded him that there are some things that he should try not to do by himself in the future.
Taking advantage of the fact that the person who was waiting for hadn't come yet, Gu Ji and Pu Su talked about some of the past. If I don't talk about it for a few more days, I'm afraid I won't have time.
Alyosha and the already dead Molokov were actually his prisoners.
(For more information, see "Cry Island", just read the public chapter.) )
Then Gu Ji talked about the situation of the year and Pu Su. The main purpose was to give Pusu a deeper understanding of Alyosha and his White Russian forces, so that he could use them later.
Those Tsarist Russian soldiers are now at least in their forties. And the second generation born in Shanghai are also adults. Because of their experience of being displaced, these Russians are highly armed and brave in battle.
According to Gu Ji's assessment, the combat strength of these White Russians in the French Concession is quite amazing. It's just that they have no hope of recovering the country, and now they are gradually breaking their minds, and they just want to live in peace.
And Gu Ji created such conditions for them.
There were too many reasons for Gu Ji to drive these White Russians from the concession in the first place. Even if the current old Ren is crooked, he will find a reason to open up the street in minutes, and then the board of directors will send an armed force to circle the street and drive him away.
These veterans were scattered to Shanghai, divided into many batches, and after arriving, they were all collected and armed. And one of the first White Russian hooligans to arrive developed a group of White Russian thugs in the concession early on, forming a gang, which eats both inside and outside.
Therefore, before Gu Ji came to the French Concession, these White Russians were not only disliked by the French authorities, but also oppressed by their compatriots, and their lives were quite difficult.
Molokov and Alyosha were close comrades-in-arms when they were in Russia, and they also belonged to the same group of Restoration.
The two of them and Gu Ji don't know each other.
After exterminating the original gang leader, with Molokov's original prestige in the White Russian group and Alyosha's strong military base, they were soon organized under the instruction of Gu Ji.
Gu Ji's original intention was not to want them to kill each other, and the scattered White Russia also had a bad impact on the security of the concession. He himself was assassinated by White Russian killers, and his life hung by a thread.