Judging from the intelligence, it seems that there is also a direct radio connection between the military commander Dali and Zhou Huhai. And there were a number of key operatives well hidden in the Nanjing regime's police and security apparatus, sometimes for the military and sometimes for the puppet regime, including arrests, tortures, and executions of patriots.

The question of whom to ultimately be loyal to throughout the war was the biggest one for patriots and collaborators, and there was no very clear choice. Just like the situation of resistance in France after that.

Chinese historians have never adequately confronted the problem of collaborators (in part because there are so many collaborators, there are so many). Historians studying this subject will have to deal with the question of "clarity of choice," if only to show how the purposes of people at the time were different.

When agents of at least three governments (the Kuomintang government in Chongqing, the puppet Restoration government in Nanjing, and the government in Yan'an) competed in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the coastal provinces against the Japanese occupation forces in order to gain a favorable position in the post-war period, the distinction between friend and foe was indeed difficult to discern between friend and foe.

Taking Gu Ji as an example, the French regarded him as a capable man, and the same was true of the Nationalist Government, only knowing his true political beliefs.

Interestingly, for a long time, he did work for the French Concession, and at the same time tried his best to protect the interests of the Kuomintang, and when he did these things, he also received instructions from his superiors in the border areas.

In this chaotic situation, all parties will make the necessary compromises and make wise choices between the interests and the stakes. This is why many of the intellectuals who remained in Shanghai felt about their common situation. The good ones are at most conflicted, and the bad ones are guilty of it.

When Xu Enzuo and them were re-examined from this angle, Pu Su found that his previous judgment seemed to have been greatly deviated.

Since Xu Enzuo was captured by him in Huxi, it was natural that the Japanese did not kill him. It's just that he betrayed his boss for glory and relied on rebellion to save his life, which seems to be a bit unfair to them.

Xu Enzo and the others were extradited to Hongkou by the Public Concession, and after continuous interrogation day and night in the black prison of the Mei Agency, they finally stayed in it for an unknown amount of time, and they were transferred to No. 76 with a certain death mentality.

Several people have suffered all the hardships in the Mei Organ, and life is better than death. It had never been like that, and Xu Enzo wished that he could die as soon as possible. In that case, not only can you become benevolent, but in a sense, you will satisfy your desire to serve the country with your body, and you can also get rid of that boundless pain.

It's just that after moving to No. 76, life suddenly got better. Although they were still held in their cells, they were no longer held in solitary confinement, several prisoners were held in one cell, and there were skylights on the roof, so that they could see the long-lost sky and know when the night would come.

After a period of recuperation, there was not even a normal arraignment. The explanations of the three people all showed that the treatment of No. 76 was at least much better than the life on Pusu's side. In the basement under the mansion before, they were not beaten, they were not interrogated, and they lived in darkness. The daily supply of cold water and steamed buns is barely enough to keep them alive.

Later, one day, after the jailer who brought them food left, Xu Enzuo ate a note from the steamed bun, on which were written eight words: "False and wronged, complete explanation." Xu Enzuo was a studious young man, and while raising anti-Japanese funds at his own expense, he did not forget to go to night school to improve his political accomplishment.

It's just that he didn't understand the meaning of these eight words after studying them for a long time. The meaning of "false and wronged and thorough confession" is obviously contradictory.

At this time, Xu Enzuo, who was already desperate in prison, was at least sure that this note must have been passed on by the comrades of the military command.

This matter cannot be discussed with the other people who are locked up together. Being able to pass a note in this way is obviously not an ordinary person here. At this time, Xu Enzuo, although he has not been interrogated, but he doesn't need to think about it, except for No. 76, there is no other place in Shanghai for people like him to stay.

After thinking about it, he finally decided to take one step at a time for the "false and wronged snake", the meaning of this sentence is nothing more than that he is acting, but he doesn't know which step he can take. However, the "thorough explanation" in the back is very straightforward, and it probably means what to say.

He didn't know at the time that almost none of the people who had a relationship with him before were still outside at that time. Most of them were sent to the Japanese, just like him. It's just that most of them don't have his luck. At that time, when he was caught, the whole system had not collapsed, and he was still valuable, so he was asked by No. 76.

Now, it makes no difference whether he says it or not.

Xu Enzo, who made up his mind, didn't care about it after thinking about it. Just waiting for when he will be interrogated, he will follow the instructions on the note, and what will he say when he pours beans into a bamboo tube.

Anyway, this note did come at a good time. There was no movement for so many days before, and in the middle of the night on the day he received the note, Xu Enzuo, who was sleeping in a daze, was kicked up by the jailer and went to the interrogation room with shackles.

Four people interrogated him. At the time, he couldn't tell who was who, and after pretending to be dishonest for a minute or two, he asked for a cigarette and confessed in a completely broken manner.

Judging from the materials that Pu Su saw and the three of them can corroborate each other, Xu Enzuo is actually a hot-blooded young man with great feelings of serving the country. What's even more rare is that he not only has ideas, but also actions.

It can be seen from the fact that he sold the shop, raised funds, and formed small groups to participate in the event. After suffering a setback, he continued to open a store to save himself, and then when the business situation improved, he used the fiat currency he earned to continue to carry out the national salvation operation. Moreover, he participated in the actions of the regular army several times, and also organized a large number of patriotic young people to participate in patriotic actions together.

The only pity is that before and after the actions that eventually led to the arrest of his team, his sloppiness and recklessness were fully exposed, and he was extremely unscrupulous, and there were no rules that should be followed in special work.

He is also the head of the secret service of the military commander, but in the appointment of these patriotic young people, the military commander really only treats them as disposable cannon fodder. It seems that after one time, every time you can use it again, you earn it for nothing.

First of all, they are not provided with the necessary targeted training, not even some foundation. The material reacts, that is, a short military training has been carried out. As for training in intelligence and special missions, it may be just word of mouth, with a few words of mouth.

And it is not difficult to see that he was fooled more miserably. In the self-reported materials, he always believed that he had joined the "Blue Coat Society". In 1937, after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Blue Coat Society that Daley had formed before seemed to be completely different from before. The absurdity lies in the fact that the name itself is called the "Blue Coat Society" by the military commanders or loyal and righteous members who carried out underground activities in Shanghai to deal with the puppet regime and the occupation army.

In fact, insiders who know a little bit about the inside story of the military command know that the Japanese signed the "Tanggu? After the agreement, the Blue Coat Society was formally dissolved in 1935 at the request of the Japanese.

As a result, the former members of the Blue Coat Society, who were engaged in security and intelligence work under Daley's command, were transferred to the second department, and eventually became the backbone of the Military Administration. However, the name "Blue Coat Society", which is closely related to them, is still passed down orally by others. As a result, the name was used more and more frequently after 1937 to refer to all secret Kuomintang agents operating in the "isolated island" and in the enemy-occupied areas of Shanghai.

For example, Gu Ji mentioned earlier, he is the first batch of members of the pure "Blue Coat Society", that is, the group established in March 1932 and publicly called the "Lixing Society". Because the uniform of the members is blue clothes and yellow pants, it is called the Blue Coat Society.

And when did Xu Enzo and the military commander get into a relationship? Therefore, the gang of military commanders is really unkind. Knowing that the "Blue Coat Society" was famous and could attract these patriotic youths, he told them that they had joined the "Blue Coat Society". In fact, they can also justify themselves, and all the agents who undermined the Wang puppet regime and the Japanese government can be counted as members of the "Blue Coat Society......

Therefore, after this, the so-called "Blue Coat Society" seems to be ubiquitous and famous.

In the autumn of 1939, for example, five Shanghai newspapers published a complete roster of eight squads purportedly from the Blue Coat Society, listing the names of the captains, vice-captains, and intelligence and communications officers.

As guerrilla activities became more frequent in mid-April around Shanghai, especially along the Shanghai-Ningbo railway line (before the Japanese established a 'model zone for peace') in July of that year, the public naturally associated the Blue Coat Society with these activities.

During the week of May 3 to 10, Japanese marines and gendarmes claimed that they had arrested a large number of Chinese agents from Chongqing who had infiltrated Hongkou. They said that "Hongkou was so infiltrated that Japanese soldiers and sailors did not dare to move in the area unless more than two men traveled in groups." As a result of the recent successful attack by Chinese agents, even the sentry posts on duty have become afraid of terrorist activities. ”

The Japanese authorities claim that these terrorists entered the region disguised themselves as ordinary people. The rags of beggars, the clothing of clerks, and the clothing of hawkers were often used to disguise their identities as anti-Japanese and pro-Chongqing elements.

As a result, the level of terrorist activities supported by Chongqing has intensified.

On June 20, 1939, two Chinese puppet policemen were killed in Gangtu near Hongqiao Road. Three days later, 10 Chinese guerrillas wounded a Japanese man in a car and killed a Japanese tourist bureau employee who tried to save him. On July 1, a Chinese interpreter from the Japanese gendarmerie was shot dead in front of his home on Haining Road.

Five days later, a Chinese gunman fired at the Japanese chef of the embassy's naval attaché as he walked Jingzhou Road, 40 yards north of Huade Road.

The Shanghai police and the French police were glad that there were no major shootings or explosions, but outside the concession, a powerful time bomb blew up 48 meters of railroad tracks on the Shanghai-Nanjing line and damaged 15 sleeping cars.

Another time bomb exploded at the office of the pro-Nanjing "Guobao" newspaper at 1926 Jing'an Temple Road, located in the bad land. The explosion injured a Chinese, deafened a person's ears and set the building on fire. In addition, a grenade was thrown into the Japanese gendarmerie dormitory on Penglai Road in Nanshi.

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The next two weeks were relatively quiet, except for Hua Gang, a collaborator in Nanjing, who was chilling out in front of his house at Lane 82 of Baili South Road.

However, on July 21, when Wang Dezhou, a member of the Nanjing regime's security team, was killed, the Japanese gendarmerie really began to panic. Wang Dezhou is stationed in Songjiang, where terrorists in Chongqing have killed several of his family members. He went to Shanghai to seek asylum.

However, early on the morning of the 21st, his end came. As he left his apartment at Lane 51 Grochslu, eight gunmen shot him to the ground. Just as the Japanese gendarmerie received the news of Wang Dezhou's death, news of the murder of the Russian police officer Db Siaj of the Ministry of Industry Bureau also reached them.

At about the same time, they learned from a Chinese spy in the Japanese navy that "a group of dangerous armed terrorists" was being ordered to attack the occupants of a house in Hongkou. When the Chinese spy left the Japanese military police headquarters on the North Sichuan Road, he thought he saw a terrorist walking down the street, so he pulled out his pistol and opened fire in the air.

As a result, the Japanese authorities ordered all bridges leading to Hongkou to be blocked, and all traffic came to a standstill for five hours, with long queues of parked vehicles lining up along the Bund.

The same blockade was issued on July 26, when a Japanese naval guard at the corner of Kunming Road and Baoding Road in the Yangshupu area was shot at as he was about to inspect the belongings of a Chinese man. Three days later, the bridge was reopened, and terrorists in Chongqing shot and killed a mechanic employed by the French Tramway Company, the leader of the tram union supported by Nanjing.

After that, after ten days of relative calm, on August 9, an explosion and fire broke out on the fourth floor of the building where the official mouthpiece of the Nanjing regime, the pseudo-Central Daily, was located. Five staff members were injured and the interior of the building was completely destroyed, and the newspaper had to be printed and distributed through the printing house of Xin Gaze (a Japanese-funded Chinese daily newspaper located at 288 Xihuade Road, Hongkou), which had been greatly reduced.

The destruction of the JoongAng Ilbo office was a harbinger of an impending outbreak of terrorist activity, a "frenzy of terrorist activity" that began shortly after the August 13 anniversary of the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. There were no major incidents on the day of the commemoration, as both the Ministry of Industry and the Japanese authorities took many precautions to avoid riots. They set up roadblocks, increased patrols with the International Chamber of Commerce and Special Police (i.e., reserves), stationed search teams at major intersections, canceled all police holidays, prevented officers and men from leaving barracks for emergencies, and Japanese planes flew at low altitudes to "impress the Chinese with Japan's military might."

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