Chapter 52: Worries (Part 1)

"Eugen, this is Salted Fish One! Ahh This is Sailfish One, the signal is clear, and we are preparing to return home. "Adrian. Ensign Yeager reported with his oxygen mask in his mask.

"This is the last spot, and it needs to be turned around again." Backseat observer Sergeant Hann shouted loudly, and Jaeger gave a thumbs up in response.

"Look below, there's at least one infantry battalion." Hann let out an exclamation as he pressed the camera shutter.

"Shoot it clearly, this is for the Führer to see, don't mess it up." The pilot held the joystick, and the water reconnaissance plane gently circled in the air.

"You can rest assured of my technique, okay, the last two negatives, the mission has been completed, before it gets dark, hopefully we can find a wide area of water to land." Hann said as he withdrew the high-powered lens of the reconnaissance camera, and did not forget to rush to the Suzhou Creek below. The chaotic Japanese troops waved goodbye.

"Red deer, fool! Don't run around, what does this look like, that is just a reconnaissance plane. Zong Fang Cao Chang waved his Ninety-Five Saber angrily.

"Can you tell which country it's from?" Zongfang turned his face and asked in a low voice.

"It's a plane for the Independents." Da Gu held the ninety-three-type telescope of Zongfang Cao Chang, and his eyes were fixed on the seaplane that was hovering overhead.

"Are you sure? Isn't it a china plane? ”

"It's from an independent country, I've seen it in foreign magazines, and the logo on the plane is also from a single country." Dagu nodded affirmatively.

"Yaoxi, worthy of being the son of a big family, is more knowledgeable than this group of countrymen." Munakata patted Dagu on the shoulder as a sign of encouragement.

"Listen, this is a plane of a friend of a single country, don't run around, red deer. Do you still look like soldiers of the Imperial Kingdom? Ono Superior, give me a stand now! I have to show you what the Yamato soul of a Japanese man is today. Cao Chang rolled up his sleeves and walked towards an unfortunate senior soldier.

"That's the attitude of the special mission at the moment, we need to wait for a reply from the Berlin side. Given that the Führer is currently visiting Rome, it is possible that a decision will be made a little later. Colonel Davidson said to Sir George, the British Consul General in Shanghai.

"You mean that Germany is ready to stay out of it?" Sir George fiddled with the pipe in his hand.

"It's not what you think, Sir. This was only temporary, and Germany maintained a neutral position in this incident until a firm order was given. Colonel Davidson raised his hand, and an Army staff officer handed him a folder.

"This is also what Marshal Brumberg meant, and at the same time, the marshal also hopes that you can increase your efforts to solve this assassination case as soon as possible, and the marshal hopes that before he leaves Shanghai, he can see the murderer and the mastermind behind the scenes arrested and brought to justice." Davidson said, placing the folder in front of George.

"Here are some of the photos taken at the scene, I hope it can help solve the case."

"From what I have learned, it is likely that the assassination was related to the Chinese government in Nanjing, perhaps to express dissatisfaction with the German-Chongqing partnership." Sir George opened the folder and looked through it.

"Do you have evidence of this? If this is true, then the Chinese Nanking side will face retaliation from Germany, and they will know what the price will be paid to challenge the dignity of the Greater German Reich. Colonel Davidson frowned.

"There is no conclusive evidence yet, but our agents are intensifying their investigation and have some relevant clues. Inspector Waldson, who had worked for Scotland Yard for 20 years, was experienced in handling such vicious cases. So for this assassination, I trust Mr. Wadson's professional judgment. Sir George took out his tobacco bag and twisted a handful of golden tobacco.

"If it's possible, sir, I'd like to meet with Inspector Wadson." Colonel Davidson reached out and pressed Sir George's arm.

"No problem at all, Colonel, you just need to tell me a specific time, and I'll arrange the rest." Jazz struck a match and lit his pipe.

"The Germans said they remained neutral? It's really incomprehensible that the Japanese rebels had just killed three German soldiers. Colonel Fabre, the director of the French Concession Patrol House, made an exaggerated look of surprise on his face.

"Don't, I know what you mean, Fabre. This is politics, and it seems that the Germans have their own calculations, and for the time being they will not be able to rely on their strength. But it doesn't matter, in twenty-four hours, the whole world will know what is happening here, and these pesky Japanese monkeys will have to pay a price that satisfies us in order to appease the entire Western world for their barbaric behavior. Occi turned his head to look out the window, the setting sun had already stained half of the sky red, and the French Consul General in Shanghai raised his hand to light the lamp on his desk.

In the end, it was Foreign Minister Matsuoka himself who took the action to bring back the Japanese army and navy units that had been encircled so much, and it can be said that the Japanese Government had lost all face in this incident, but it is conceivable that after the internal investigation was launched, it was not known how many people would be implicated.

Matsuoka Yoyo's nose was almost crooked, this group of army red deer really couldn't be trusted, and he still handed over the matter to Sawada Shigeru to be responsible, but he turned around and found that the lieutenant general had not arrived at the scene at all, and only after asking the army headquarters did he know that this guy had gone to Sichuan Road to fight with the marines.

The presence of a lieutenant general and a rear admiral on the ground like two street hooligans in front of a group of subordinates was a frenzied and absurd thing that Matsuoka had never heard of until now.

Matsuoka was determined to write a memo to the emperor, and in addition to severely punishing the perpetrators of this incident, he also made every effort to impeach the commander of the 13th Army, Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, and several other high-ranking officials for the crimes of dereliction of duty, incompetence, recklessness, disregard for the overall situation, rudeness, disregard for military regulations, and reckless action.

Anyway, this matter must be thrown out of the blame, Sawada Shigeru's official position and military rank are just right, and a military commander should be able to block the mouths of Western powers.

Matsuoka didn't have much to think about as to how to compensate for the damages, after all, the south building of the Chinachem Hotel was beaten like a sieve, and half of the exterior walls of the north building were blackened by the burned trucks.

What makes people vomit blood even more is that in this way, the army still lost, and there were almost 200 casualties before and after, many of whom were seriously injured and probably needed to retire after recovering from their injuries. The losses of the other side added up to less than a fraction of the Japanese, and everyone could see that the Japanese army had suffered a crushing defeat in Shanghai.

Matsuoka could foresee that once this spread in China, it would certainly deal some blow to the morale of the Japanese front-line combat units, and at the same time give Chongqing and the anti-Japanese organizations in the north the confidence to continue to resist.

What makes Matsuoka even more uneasy is the huge hidden danger behind this incident. Houdong very readily confessed to Matsuoka that he had planned the assassination and personally found someone to assassinate the German marshal, the purpose of which was to arouse the dissatisfaction of the Germans with the Chongqing government, and at the same time to warn Germany not to continue to cooperate with China.

Judging from his starting point, this staff officer is indeed thinking about the great cause of the imperial country, but the problem is that this guy is simply a fanatic with great ambitions and talents, and he didn't think about what serious consequences would be caused once the truth was exposed.

Now Matsuoka can only pray that the assassin Liu Agen will hide in the slums of western Shanghai according to Houdong's arrangement, but now that the matter is so big, this Liu Agen is not an idiot and will definitely be vigilant.

Matsuoka was worried that this idiot should not be clever and chose to hide in the two concessions. If this person falls into the hands of the concession side .... Matsuoka didn't dare to think about it anymore.

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