Chen Chao is self-aware, and he knows that whether it is luck or ability, he is not a big mistake.

After leaving the inner city and finding Fang Buwei, Chen Chao took all the people from the agent headquarters to Dongguo City.

The west of the inner city, that is, to the north to the Xingzhong Gate, to the south outside the Zhonghua Gate, and all the way to the Yangtze River, it is handed over to Fang Buwei.

Fang Buwei is responsible for searching for the area of less than 20% of Outer Guo City.

It sounds unreasonable, but when combined with the facts, it's not surprising at all.

The city of Dongguo, which Chen Chao is in charge of, is mostly farmland villages, and a small part is hilly forest farms, with a sparse population and simple terrain, and is not a good place for Tibetans.

Xiaguan has been the commercial center of Nanjing since the Ming Dynasty.

Wharves, docks, markets, warehouses, all concentrated here, and there are shantytowns and slums that account for more than half of Nanjing.

After waiting for the redivision of the groups, the sky was already bright.

Whether it is the spies of various agencies or the two regiments of the gendarmerie, they usually carry out tasks such as besieging and searching the city, and as soon as the order is issued, they will take their places and begin to pull the net to investigate.

But until noon, the entire Xiguo City was searched, and there was no news.

"Say, where are the people hiding?" Zhao Shirui asked.

He was talking about the shopkeeper and his men at the grain store, the two janitors at the sand factory, and Masao Konoe, who the porter had seen, and two other Japanese.

and the boat that Konoe Masao pulled the rice grain on, as if it had suddenly disappeared.

"It's understandable that Masao Konoe and that boat can't be found, but it's impossible for those people in the grain store and the sand field to disappear for no reason! The search is so strict, it is impossible to hide......" Zhao Shirui said again.

Fang Buwei frowned tightly and didn't say a word.

He was thinking about it too.

The Japanese in these two strongholds all fled suddenly after the martial law was imposed on them last night, and even if they hid, they could only be in Xiaguan, let alone escape the encirclement.

Under such a strict search, it should have been searched a long time ago.

In order to achieve a quick solution, Fang Buwei adopted the method explained by Gu Zhenlong: first clear the street, and then recognize each other.

All those who are cleared out of a store must be recognized by their neighbors in front of and behind each other, and as long as one neighbor does not recognize this person or does not attach the information registered during the inventory, they will all be investigated as suspects.

Moreover, the shopkeeper of the grain store, but he has left a photo at the police station for the record, and the relevant wanted warrants have already been issued to all groups in Xiaguan and posted on the main roads at the corners of each street.

Unless the search team members were careless, no hidden passages or secret rooms were found.

But they are all old spies, and the focus of this investigation is to search people, so it is impossible to ignore this.

Where can that man hide?

Fang Buwei stood at the window on the second floor, looking at the sparse boats on the riverside.

At the beginning of taking people out of the city, Fang Buwei let the Fifth Regiment surround the outer city wall, and even the riverside of Xiaguan was also fenced, all the upstream and downstream checkpoints were blocked, and all the ships in the river docked and were inspected.

The previous investigation department had already searched once, and Li Dengke of the Third Police Station had led people to search for the second time.

Not underground, is it hidden in the water?

In this era, there are no oxygen cylinders, no underwater breathing apparatus, how can they be hidden for that long?

Reeds, bamboo pipes......

Fang Buwei thought of several ways.

"You go and inform Feng Jiashan, exchange with Li Dengke, and search the riverside ships again...... Tell Feng Jiashan and let him pay attention to the fact that there may be people hiding under the ship......" Fang Buwei explained to Ye Xingzhong.

"Underwater Tibetans? Impossible! Zhao Shirui asked suspiciously.

It is indeed impossible for ordinary people, but it is not difficult for specially trained agents to hide underwater for a long time without showing their faces.

No matter how bad it is, tie a stone to your body and hang it at the bottom of the boat, even if you drown, you won't float up.

"Check it out and then talk about it!" Fang is not a return.

Feng Jiashan took the second group of the counter-espionage unit, changed the defense area with Li Dengke, and started the search again.

He first asked all the boats on the river to go offshore, regardless of the wooden boats and steamers, to start at the fastest speed to see if there were people hiding under the boats.

After making sure that there was no one under the boat, Feng Jiashan ordered the team members to cast nets seamlessly and fish along the coast.

At this level, someone must have been hidden in the water and fished out by the fishing nets.

The river bank is short, Feng Jiashan's movements are also very fast, in less than an hour, he has finished searching the near shore, and he took people to take a boat to search the other side.

"There's no one underwater!" Zhao Shirui put down the binoculars.

In fact, there is no need to search the other side of the strait at all.

The river was always guarded by soldiers, and all boats were forbidden to go down the river, and the people on this side could not reach the other side at all.

On both sides of the Yangtze River in Xiaguan, the shortest place is nearly ten miles, the river is turbulent, and only manpower can swim across the river, at least there must be water like the white strip in the waves.

But Fang Buwei did not stop it.

Feng Jiashan could naturally think of this, he must have taken his men to the other side for interrogation.

"Hell yes!" Fang Buwei muttered.

Where did the Japanese go to the grain store and the sand field?

"It's just a few small shrimps, what's the big deal?" Zhao Shirui said indifferently, "Even the commander and the director of the hall have said that there is no more fish that have slipped through the net, and the credit this time is big enough......"

"!" Fang Buwei scolded angrily, "These Japanese escaped after I took people to Xiaguan and saw that the situation was not right." Although there was no martial law at that time, troops had been sent to blockade Waiguo City and Jiangbian, where could they go? ”

"Where else can I run?" Zhao Shirui squinted and said, "It's not in the outer city, it's naturally the merchants who follow Xiaguan and mix into the inner city!" ”

Fang Buwei was just about to scold, and his heart jumped violently.

What Zhao Shirui said is not impossible.

At that time, the gates of the inner city could only enter and exit, and it was very likely that these people would blend in.

But in this way, doesn't it mean that he deployed martial law, searched twice, went out of the city by himself, and after Ma Chunfeng searched twice, there were still Japanese strongholds in the city?

Otherwise, there was a curfew last night, and these people couldn't hide it at all.

What should I do, do I want to transfer people into the city again and search them again?

Seeing that Fang Bu looked at himself with stunned eyes, Zhao Shirui also reacted: "Is there really a fish that slipped through the net?" ”

"Don't rush!" Fang Buwei breathed, "Just notify the city gates to check, and if you enter the city, you can't run away!" ”

From 10 o'clock the night before yesterday to now, the inner city has been under martial law for nearly 40 hours, and although the city gate has not been sealed, the inventory has been several times stricter than usual, especially since yesterday morning.

The three city gates in the area around Xiaguan are only open to merchants transporting people's biological resources, and no idle people are allowed to enter the city.

If you want to enter the city, you must not only pull goods in, but also have a business management certificate issued by the Ministry of Industry and a business license issued by the police station.