The people who were bought and intimidated by Li Shiqun were a small minority, and a large number of loyal patriots were not afraid of guns and bullets, did not greed for silver bullets, and did not waver in the face of coercion and temptation.

Li Shiqun, Ding Mocun, and Ye Jiqing conducted secret discussions and decided to bloody the Shanghai press.

This task was handed over to Wu Sibao again.

The knife first fell on the head of a wandering element, that is, Qian Zhongyang, the editor-in-chief of the "Great Beauty Evening News".

After this Qian Zhongyang was secretly arrested by Feng Chen and them last time, under the pressure of the Americans, he was released the next day, and he is now hesitating whether to cooperate with the Japanese, but definitely not with No. 76.

Wu Sibao's operatives have been following him for several days, and they have already figured out the pattern of Qian Zhongyang, the director of the English edition of the "Damei Evening News".

Qian Zhongyang used to be the head of the intelligence section of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government, spoke fluent English, was fickle, and liked to show off his cleverness.

After receiving the threatening letter from No. 76, Qian Zhongyang was shaken for a while, and he privately negotiated with Nanzao Yunzi of Shanghai Xingya Academy, who had interrogated him, and accepted a reward from Nanzao Yunzi.

Qian Zhongyang had already promised Nan Zaoyunzi to immediately change the newspaper's position, but, for some unknown reason, he wavered again, and the newspaper continued to publish anti-Japanese articles.

Nanzao Yunzi sent someone to urge, but Qian Zhongyang was perfunctory at first, and then avoided it.

This time, Li Shiqun used both soft and hard, first issued a threatening letter to Qian Zhongyang, and then sent someone to give him a gratuity, and after he took the honorarium, he still did not publish the article according to Li Shiqun's intentions.

Qian Zhongyang knew that Li Shiqun's No. 76 would not let him go easily, and he originally liked to walk to work, so he took a car instead. He drove his car to and from work every day, and hired a bodyguard.

For the sake of all things, Qian Zhongyang simply moved to the newspaper office, so that after two days, he was safe, and he gradually relaxed his guard, and there was nothing he could do about the people of No. 76.

On the third day, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Qian Zhongyang went out to visit friends in a car without bodyguards.

When the car passed by the racecourse, Qian Zhongyang suddenly thought that he hadn't been to the Eiffelsie restaurant for a long time, so he got out of the car, walked into the restaurant, found a seat and sat down, and ordered a few dishes.

The waiter brought Qian Zhongyang a glass of whiskey, he had just taken a few sips, and suddenly four people broke in outside the door, and the first one was Xie Baoqing.

The four people surrounded Qian Zhongyang, and each took out a gun and shot wildly, and in an instant, Qian Zhongyang's whole body was beaten like a hornet's nest, and he fell to the ground, bleeding like an infusion, and immediately went to Huangquan.

Xie Baoqing and the other four killers, seeing that Qian Zhongyang was too dead to die anymore, they were afraid that the patrol of the concession would chase them, so they hurriedly chose a way to escape.

In the panic, one of the last agents fell down.

"Come on! Don't let the killer escape! "In the Eiffel restaurant, there was a foreigner who, out of righteous indignation, immediately stood up and hugged the murderer tightly.

Xie Baoqing and the other three killers, who rushed to the front, heard that their accomplice had been arrested, turned around, and couldn't help but say that there was another burst of random shooting, killing the foreigner on the spot and then walking away.

When the patrols of the French Concession heard the news, they saw two bodies lying in a pool of blood in the Eiffel restaurant, and the murderer had already fled without a trace.

The patrolmen knew that Agent 76 had done it, so they had to go back and get back to their lives.

Qian Zhongyang was killed, Li Shiqun felt that he had done a very clean and beautiful job this time, and then he extended his claws to another news media, Guangming News Agency.

Li Shiqun wants to make the media organizations in Shanghai afraid of him and No. 76.

Xiang Watson, the president of the Guangming News Agency, has always been cautious and timid, and the news agency he runs does not have a newspaper itself, so there is no public criticism of No. 7.

However, Xiang Huasheng is Chinese after all, and his patriotism is still untouched, and it is inevitable that he will sometimes scold the spies and traitors of No. 76 in private, and these words will eventually reach Li Shiqun's ears.

Therefore, Li Shiqun listed Xiang Watson as another assassination target.

On the evening of the second day after Qian Zhongyang was killed, he called a rickshaw from Xiafei Road to Watson and prepared to go back to his home on Lafitte Road in the French Concession.

When the car arrived at the Lafid intersection, the killers of No. 76 had already been ambushed on the side of the road, and when they saw Xiang Watson coming, they couldn't help but say, and there was a burst of gunfire, and Xiang Watson was angry on the spot.

The poor rickshaw driver was also so frightened that he collapsed to the ground.

For a week in a row, in addition to Qian Zhongyang and Xiang Huasheng being killed, there were also reporters and editors of the "Declaration" and reporters and editors of the Dazhong News Agency, and none of Li Shiqun was included in the assassination list, but these people finally saved their lives because someone reported the incident in advance.

Compared with Feng Chen's gentle methods, the approach of No. 76 has caused unprecedented disasters to the Shanghai press!

For a time, Shanghai was in the midst of a bloody storm!

However, Li Shiqun and Ye Jiqing are still unsatisfied, and their murderous nature has not diminished.

Li Shiqun, Ding Mocun, Ye Jiqing, and Wu Sibao conducted some secret discussions and drew up a larger-scale assassination plan.

They are ready to extend their claws to Shanghai's educational, judicial, and financial circles.

In Shanghai's educational circles, with the exception of a small number of principals of universities and middle schools who expressed their support for Wang Jingwei's peace movement after Wang Jingwei's telegram was sent, the vast majority of school principals bitterly denounced Wang Jingwei's actions and said that they should fight to the end.

No. 76 wrote a threatening letter in the name of "supporting Wang Jingwei's peace movement" and sent it to Wu Zhiqian, the president of Shanghai Women's University.

Wu Zhiqian took the case, scolded Wang Jingwei for defecting to the enemy and treason, and scolded the traitors and lackeys of No. 76 for being shameless.

"I, Wu Zhiqian, would rather lose my head than bow to you bloodthirsty animals!"

Nie Haifan, the principal of another girls' high school, was also undaunted, and she said indignantly at the school-wide teacher-student meeting: "Since ancient times, it has never been heard of in the world to rule the world with pistols and bombs. ”

On the assassination list of No. 76, the first ones on the list are Wu Zhiqian and Nie Haifan.

As a result, Wu Zhiqian was shot dead at home by the assassination team sent by Wu Sibao, and Nie Haifan died on the way to school.

However, during the assassination of Nie Haifan this time, two spies under Wu Sibao were caught red-handed by the patrol who rushed to hear the news in the concession.

The two spies were taken to the Shanghai No. 1 Special District Court in the Public Concession and sentenced to death.

At the same time, the spies dispatched by No. 76 were also arrested by patrols when they were preparing to assassinate the editors and reporters of the "Declaration" and sentenced to death by the First Special District Court.

The review of both cases was presided over by Yu Hua, president of the Second Division of the Jiangsu High Court.

Yu Hua is the eldest brother of the famous writer Yu Dafu, also known as Mantuo, graduated from Hosei University in Japan, and after the fall of Shanghai, Yu Hua served as the president of the Criminal Division of the Second Branch of the Jiangsu High Court.

Yu Hua has a strong personality and has always been jealous and hateful, and he is ruthless to the No. 76 spies who betray the country for glory and are willing to be traitors, and enforce the law like a mountain.

For a time, the people of Shanghai were concerned about whether these murderers could be punished justly.

On the eve of the trial, Yu Hua receives dozens of threatening letters every day.

Among them, there is a threatening letter with a picture of a high-ranking official on one side and a judge lying in a pool of blood on the other.

Written below the picture are the words "Where to go, let yourself choose".

Yu Hua scoffed at these threats and letters.

On the day of the trial, Yu Hua wore a robe and sat solemnly on the trial seat.

Yu Hua first glanced around the courtroom, and saw that there were many people in the auditorium, all of them with angry eyebrows, he knew that these were thugs sent by No. 76.

Yu Hua was undaunted and conducted a solemn interrogation of the criminals.

In the face of hard evidence, the criminals could not quibble.

Next, Yu Hua read out the indictments of several criminals and prepared to start the sentence.

At this moment, the crowd in the auditorium suddenly stirred, some people stood on their chairs and howled about the injustice of the trial, some overturned the chairs in the auditorium, and some rolled up their sleeves and waved their fists.

Obviously, the agents of No. 76 tried in vain to obstruct Yu Hua's verdict.

At this time, I saw Yu Hua majestically glance at the noisy spies, picked up the magic hammer and struck it a few times, and loudly announced the verdict in a loud voice: "This court upholds the original verdict!" ”

After a pause, Yu Hua shouted in a louder voice: "Death penalty, execute immediately!" ”

There was applause in the courtroom, and everyone admired this impartial judge.

However, the next day, Yu Hua was killed by agents of No. 76 near Zhiren Yong Girls' Middle School on Weihaiwei Road.

The news of Yu Hua's killing was told to Feng Chen by Hua Yinghao.

At this time, Feng Chen had been staying in Hanoi, Vietnam for nearly a month.