Last time, a batch of stolen goods of the Nanjing devils disappeared out of thin air in the area between Nanjing and Zhenjiang, and even the people and belongings were gone, not only those coolies, but also a small group of Japanese soldiers who were escorted, and they did not come back to report for duty for a long time.

If it's just that the luggage of those personal belongings is missing, it is estimated that the above does not pay much attention, but a small group of more than a dozen soldiers is missing, which has to be paid attention to.

Besides, those devils who lost the stolen goods were angry, although it is difficult to say about the large amount of stolen goods in the luggage, but it can increase the importance of the missing people, so a certain unit of the Japanese army in Nanjing sent personnel to investigate the matter.

After checking, I found that this matter is not so simple, it turns out that those registered local coolies in Nanjing, their families have left a few days ago, not one, but all, which is very puzzling.

Then, the investigators followed the main road from Nanjing to Zhenjiang and investigated all the way, and the Japanese army, the puppet army, and the provisional government agencies along the road also vigorously cooperated.

After Qixia Town, Baohuashan Town, and all the way to Qiaotou Town, there are local organizations to prove that this Li team passed by, but after passing Qiaotou Town, there was no trace in the section of Zhenjiang.

Along the road, finally all the way to Chaohuang Village, some people said that a few days ago, a team of people carrying goods, lived in the Xu family compound at night, in the middle of the night the Xu family compound fire, the house was burned down, and the team of people also burned out.

The locals originally wanted to report to the officials, but now the provisional government is not perfect, and many places are in a power vacuum, and the people do not know who to report to, but only tell the village chief about it.

The chief of the village naturally knew about it, and the locals knew it that night, the fire burned and red half the sky, but fortunately, the Xu family compound was a single family, otherwise even the houses in the whole village would burn down.

The chief went to the township office to report to the official, but the township office was long gone, only an empty house, and the chief thought that he was not an official, and now that the government had withdrawn, he was unwilling to report to the puppet army or the Japanese army in the town, so the matter was put on hold.

The puppet army traitors in the town took the Japanese reconnaissance personnel to the burned Xu family compound to take a closer look, the Xu family compound was burned to the point that only a few load-bearing walls were left around, and all of them were charred black, except for coke and firewood ash, there was almost nothing.

"What about people? The luggage can be burned out, but dozens of people, not all of them will be burned clean. "The Japanese puppet asked the local security chief, if you live to see people and die, you must see corpses.

The old Xu Baochang shook his head and said: "Those people were burned so badly, they were all burned to a small piece of charcoal, and our people thought that the dead were the greatest, and they were buried in the ground." ”

"Have you counted? How many people were burned to death? ”

"About a dozen." Xu Baochang can't be sure, it seems that there are about ten, he is old, he doesn't remember very clearly, and in the face of these Japanese pseudo-personnel, he is a little panicked and does not dare to make a mistake.

A team of more than 30 people, only about a dozen were burned to death? And where did the other twenty or so go? Who are the dozen or so people who burned to death? Is it a soldier of the Imperial Army? Or is it a coolie?

In order to find out the number of people, the Japanese puppet personnel also asked the locals to take them to dig up the mass graves where the dead were buried.

It was all burned to charcoal, and it was indeed impossible to identify who it was, and the Japanese puppet personnel reconfirmed some basic information of that day to the villagers.

For example, there were indeed more than 30 people entering the Xu family's compound, not only these eleven people, but also a team composed of a team of Japanese soldiers and a team of porters.

It is said that the Japanese soldiers in the escort team are indeed eleven people, but there are no traces of soldiers found on this fire ground, such as steel helmets, steel parts of rifles, and some iron fragments on their bodies, etc., which will not be completely burned by the fire, right?

"When you were collecting these dead bodies, did you see any scraps of steel parts or anything in the fire?" The Japanese puppet officer asked.

"Nope." Xu Baochang replied categorically, this, there was really no, he was the commander at the scene, and many villagers who came to help at that time also wondered that there was nothing of value at the scene except for the dead body, only grass ashes.

Moreover, this issue is very sensitive, and it is important not to let the Japanese think that the villagers have embezzled some of the property left behind in the fire, because this is very dangerous, and when the time comes, no one knows what the beast-like Japanese will do to the villagers.

Fortunately, in the past few days, the pseudo-personnel, including the interpreters, were still relatively polite, did not embarrass the villagers, just took some photos at the scene, and took some grass ash and charcoal corpse fragments, wrapped them up, and left.

The devil took it back, and according to the analysis of the collected materials, he basically came to the conclusion that these eleven dead people should be the escort team.

It is estimated that the more than 20 coolies did not know what they used, maybe they put something in the food, and poisoned the escort team, because the local villagers said that they did not hear any noise, not even gunshots.

After these coolies succeeded, they then took away all the things with the Japanese army's logo on the escort team, and finally burned down the house together, destroying the corpses.

And these more than 20 coolies, fearing that in the end, the family members in Nanjing would be implicated, and some of them immediately returned to Nanjing and took all the family members away.

If it is one or two people, then in this vast sea of people, you really can't find it, and you can't find it if you sneak into the place controlled by the Chinese army.

However, these 20-odd people, in addition to some of them who were alone, and more than half of them, took all the family members of Nanjing with them, and this adds up to dozens of people, and it is impossible for so many people to enter the occupied areas of the Chinese army.

It is estimated that in the vicinity of the crime site, such as the area of Jurong in Zhenjiang, Nanjing, there should be someone hiding somewhere, and as long as a coolie is caught, he can find out what happened that night.

When the case analysis was sent to the Japanese troops who were sending the stolen luggage, most of them were disappointed, thinking that the scouts were completely perfunctory in doing so.

Under the banner of avenging the dead comrades-in-arms of the escort team, they offered to search around the scene of the crime to see if they could find anything out.

For those scouts, this matter is just a job, and it must not be as concerned as the people who have lost their belongings.

As for tracking down those coolies, it was a thankless task, and they couldn't find anyone for a few years, and they all killed so many people, and even the people from that family were taken away, obviously flying away.

In times of peace, it may be relatively easy to find people who have escaped, but in war years, it is more than a little more difficult to find people, especially fugitives.

Therefore, the people of the reconnaissance agency pushed the boat down the river and let the troops who lost their luggage track it down by themselves, and if they found it or not, they would no longer bother them.