Seeing this situation, Hua Yinghao slowed down the car and asked softly, "Brother Feng, what do you think?" It must be to check the vehicle, did we force our way over? ”

"Let's pull over and I'll go up and negotiate and see if I can get through. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Feng Chen replied.

After the car pulled over and stopped, Feng Chen had just pushed open the door of the passenger seat, and a group of Japanese marines with guns surrounded them menacingly.

"I'm Ichiro Ishikawa from the Imperial Japanese Consulate in Shanghai, and I would like to ask your commander to come and talk back." Feng Chen jumped out of the car, raised his hands above his head, and said loudly.

"Ishikawa-kun! How could it be you?! Yamamoto Taro Nakasa, carrying a box of kings in his hand, walked to the front from behind the soldiers surrounding the car, looked at Feng Chen in surprise and asked.

"Yamamoto-kun, why are you here? Aren't you stationed in Gu Village? Feng Chen looked surprised, put down his raised hands, and asked loudly.

"I just changed my guard here today, Ishikawa-kun, ...... you?" Taro Yamamoto looked at Feng Chen's clothes, and asked with a little puzzlement in his eyes.

"Oh, the last time I was in Gucun, because of the important military situation, I didn't explain it clearly to Yamamoto-kun, I was actually the first secretary of the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai, and Consul General Hiraoka was my teacher."

"Yaxi, it's so late, what is Ishikawa-kun's business here?" Taro Yamamoto waved his hand behind him, and the soldiers surrounding the car immediately retreated to the side with their guns down.

"Chief Hiraoka asked me to bring a letter to Takeda Daisa, will Chief Takeda be on the ship?"

"Just came back from the headquarters, you can go, Ishikawa-kun."

Feng Chen turned around and was about to get into the car, thought about it, turned around again, walked up to Taro Yamamoto and asked, "Yamamoto-kun, has the password changed?" I'm afraid that if I stay at Takeda Daisa's place for too long, it will be inconvenient to return later. ”

"It changed at nine o'clock in the evening, the password is, cherry blossoms, and the return order is, the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, and they will be used until nine o'clock tomorrow morning." Taro Yamamoto told Feng Chen the password of the night without any doubt.

"Thank you, Yamamoto-kun, I'll invite you to drink another day!" Feng Chen thanked him, and then turned around and got into the car.

Taro Yamamoto was the last sentry close to the port, and he had never been checked again, and the car drove directly to the place agreed with Yu Likui and others.

Hua Yinghao turned the front of the car towards the river, flashed the headlights three times, and then turned off the engine and got out of the car, Feng Chen followed and pushed the car door down, and said in a low voice: "Brother Hua, Commander Yu can't arrive so soon." ”

"It should have arrived, they were diving from the 19th Route Military Defense Area, and the distance was close."

The two were talking, leaning against the river, not far away, the light of the flashlight flashed three times, and Hua Yinghao said in a low voice: "They are here." ”

After a while, several figures in the dark night touched over, Hua Yinghao gently slapped his palm three times, and the opposite side also replied three times, only then did he hear Yu Likui ask in a low voice: "Is it Brother Hua?" ”

"It's me!" Hua Yinghao replied in a low voice.

The daredevils quickly and agilely surrounded from different directions, and Hua Yinghao commanded in a low voice: "Hurry up, unload the mines and explosives on the car, whether you can succeed or not depends on all of you." ”

The daredevils moved two bucket-sized mines and a box of high explosives from the car.

Hua Yinghao explained: "From tonight to nine o'clock tomorrow morning, the enemy's password is cherry blossoms, and the reply order is cherry blossoms. I wish you all success! ”

When the task was completed and Hua Yinghao sent Feng Chen home, it was already more than two o'clock in the morning, Feng Chen couldn't sleep, and after pouring half a glass of wine and drinking it, he went upstairs.

Turning on the light, Feng Chen took out an old suitcase from under the bed, opened the box, took out the painting of Tang Bohu's "Autumn Wind Fan" from it, put it on the table at the head of the bed, opened it carefully, and slowly admired it.

Feng Chen doesn't know how many times he has admired this painting, which depicts a courtyard with lake stones, a lady holding a fan in her hand, staring sideways, with a slightly resentful look between her eyebrows.

The background in the painting is extremely concise, only a corner of the slope stone is painted, and there are a few thin bamboos on the upper side, and the large blank space gives people a feeling of emptiness and loneliness, highlighting the theme of "abandonment in the autumn wind" and touching sadness.

In the painting, the ice and jade beauty and the exposed corners of the beast-like stubborn stones form a strong contrast and contrast, showing Tang Yin's freehand talent.

This painting is my mother's favorite, the meaning of the painting, but also a portrayal of my mother's life, when my mother left Shanghai and returned to her hometown, she solemnly handed over this painting to Feng Chen for safekeeping, Feng Chen was convinced that this was the true work of Tang Bohu.

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Walking to work in the morning, the newsboy on the street held a newspaper and shouted: "Look at the newspaper!" Newspaper! The latest news, the Japanese cruiser Oi was bombed, and the captain Takeda was killed......"

"Well, isn't it the Izumo capital ship that was blown up? How did you blow up the Big Well? Feng Chen thought to himself, beckoned to the newsboy, bought a copy of the "Declaration", and looked at it carefully.

On the front page of the "Declaration", a large headline was published "Last night's mine broke out, and the Japanese ship "Oi" was blown up", which read:

"At about 2 o'clock in the morning, outside the Japanese Oi warship, about two yards away from the ship, the sound of two mines suddenly exploded in the river, and the explosive force of this mine was huge, and the water on the river flew several feet high, and the land along the Huangpu River was shaken, and the nearby houses were also shaken."

"The Japanese ship Oi was badly damaged, swayed, and sank about an hour later, and its captain, Nobuyoshi Takeda, was killed on the spot. If the Izumo, the capital ship of the Japanese army, had been a little closer, it would have been spared. ”

Later, Feng Chen learned the truth of the matter from Hua Yinghao.

Due to the turbulent current, the mines drifted away from the best position of the Japanese Izumo ship, and after drifting to the nearby Oi, the two mines exploded one after another, although they did not sink the "Izumo", but they sank the "Oi" and killed the captain, which also dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army.

When I got to the office, everyone was talking about the Japanese ship being blown up at night.

Fang Xiaoman ran to Feng Chen's office even more excitedly and asked, "Team leader, who did you say blew up the Japanese ship?" ”

"Who else can there be but the Nineteenth Route Army?"

"I've heard that the anti-Japanese death squad that assassinated the king Wang Yaqiao did it." Fang Xiaoman said mysteriously.

"Where did you get the news?"

"Listen to what Director General Zhang said, now you believe it."

As he was talking, the phone on Feng Chen's desk rang, and when he picked up the phone receiver, the voice of Chen Zhigao, the lawyer of the legal arrest room, came from inside: "May I ask Mr. Feng Chen, is Mr. Feng here?" ”

"Hello, I am."

"I've made an appointment to meet at the Varsha West Restaurant on Xiafei Road at seven o'clock in the evening."

"Okay, I'll be there on time."

Putting down the phone, Feng Chen looked at Fang Xiaoman and asked, "Xiaoman, Commissioner Zhang didn't arrange any tasks today?" ”

"No, Commissioner Zhang analyzed that the Japanese attack was frustrated this time, and it is possible to ask Britain and the United States to mediate, and the two sides will strike the war and negotiate a cease-fire." Fang Xiaoman got up and added water to Feng Chen's cup and said.

"Alas, I guess, I'm afraid this is another Japanese delaying tactic!" Feng Chen sighed.

Feng Chen's guess was very correct, after the Japanese army failed to attack Miaoxing, Japan was shaken, and because of the mobilization of laborers, the war was difficult to resolve quickly. To this end, the Japanese Cabinet decided to send reinforcements to the army as soon as possible.

As a result, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters decided to set up the Shanghai Dispatch Army Command, with Senior General Shirakawa Yoshinori taking over the command of Lieutenant General Kenyoshi Ueda, the Minister of Land Affairs of the Maeda Naka Cabinet, and sending more than 100 additional 11th and 14th Divisions and planes to China for reinforcements, so as to launch a larger-scale offensive in Shanghai.

On the other hand, in order to delay time, the Japanese army asked Britain and the United States to mediate and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

Under the mediation of Britain and the United States, the Board of Directors of the League of Nations adopted a four-point plan for mediating the Shanghai incident at its 14th meeting, which was to the following effect:

China and Japan should quickly conclude a local armistice agreement with the help of civil and military officials of various countries stationed in Shanghai, and then a round table meeting should be convened by representatives of various countries with special interests in Shanghai to discuss measures to ensure the safety of the public and French concessions and residents, as well as measures to solve other problems.

Subsequently, the representatives of France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and other countries unanimously expressed their approval of the plan, and the Chinese representative Yan Huiqing and the Japanese representative Naotake Sato also expressed their general agreement in principle.

But these are also another smokescreen bombs released by the Japanese side!