Chapter 13 Relief

When night fell, the personnel of Operation No. 76 had already been in place one after another, Liu Zezhi led people to leave No. 76 and finally arrived at the designated place, and he asked the four agents assigned to him to each lead a few newly recruited people who were in the screening period, each responsible for a section, and asked these people to provide a written report afterwards. He found a relatively hidden stone bench by the Suzhou Creek and sat down and waited quietly. He estimated that the time for action was approaching, and the group of people he brought with him was the last group to be in place. If no miracle happens tonight, the Chongqing Military Command Station will suffer a second catastrophe before it has been completed! The two sides of the match are comrades-in-arms who have just arrived in Shanghai, have not yet gained a stable foothold, and are completely unprepared; Their opponent was a well-prepared army that had deciphered the code, had a lot of information, and was heavily ambushed. And he is just the least important backup link in Li Shiqun's actions, and inaction is also doomed. At 22:40 minutes, there was a commotion in the distance, and the sound of gunfire rang out, first becoming more and more dense, and soon falling silent, and after a few minutes, the sirens sounded loudly, and several more gunshots were faintly heard, and it seemed that it was not far from the Suzhou Creek. Liu Zezhi became alert, pulled out his matching gun, and approached the direction where the gunfire came. He thought that he should go to the four ambush points arranged in advance and look at the other people's respective tables, so that he could explain when he went back, and then he would collect the team and go back. Walking along the Suzhou Creek, the first two ambush sites are normal. The third point is a little farther away, when the night shift workers of Guangming Textile Factory, the largest cotton yarn factory in Shanghai nearby, get off work, and the streets suddenly become lively in the middle of the night, and nearly 1,000 female workers and a few male workers pour out of the factory gate, crowded. Liu Zezhishan waited on the side of the road.

Suddenly, a figure appeared: "Liu Zezhi! It's you? ”

Liu Zezhi was taken aback, it was actually Zhou Chengbin! The ace killer who wanted to take his life in Vietnam. He was overjoyed, and then his heart hung again, looked around, and resolutely said, "Follow me!" ”

Zhou Chengbin was injured and it was extremely inconvenient to walk, Liu Zezhi made up his mind in an instant, and the two of them took advantage of the cover of the crowd, more than 20 meters later, walked into a dark dead alley in the night, Liu Zezhi leaned over the ground and pulled up a manhole cover: "You hide here first." I'll pick you up. ”

Liu Zezhi quickly returned to the Suzhou Creek, and it seemed that the qiē just now had never happened. He looked at the other two ambush points, and was about to order the team to close. Ni Xin ran over with someone: "Zezhi, is there any movement here?" ”

"I arranged four ambush points, I just turned around, and I didn't find it, what's wrong?"

"There was a shootout and two people fled."

Liu Zezhi pretended to be surprised: "With such a tight defense, can anyone really escape?" Where did you flee to? Let's go after it. ”

Ni Xin said tiredly: "If you know where to flee, then it's still called escaping?" Director Li personally took command, and just now ordered some people to escort the arrested prisoners back to No. 76 for surprise interrogation, and the other part continued to conduct a comprehensive search. ”

"So which group did I and the people I bring get into?"

"I'm here to inform you, Director Li asked you to bring someone back to collect the team."

Liu Zezhi was cold, the professional agents of No. 76 searched and arrested, Zhou Chengbin couldn't hide for long, what should I do? He smiled: "That's great, Secretary Ni is biased." He turned back to one of the agents and ordered, "You go and inform our group of three other ambush sites to assemble here." ”

"Old Ni, come, smoke a cigarette and take a breath. You continue to arrest people, and I'll go back and listen to the new recruits report on the situation, and I guess I'll have to stay up all night tonight. Oops, what's wrong with you? I just saw, are you hurt? Let me see. Come, I'll help you, and sit down here. ”

Ni Xin sat on the bank of the river, and Liu Zezhi looked at his injury: "It doesn't look serious, it's actually not light, it's not a gunshot wound, I touched it, and my shoulder blade was fractured!" The first bandage was not good, and now there is no condition at hand, and you can't move anymore, you must treat it quickly, in case you hurt the nerve, your left arm may be crippled. ”

Ni Xin was taken aback: "Fractured? How do I feel like my arm can move? Listen to what you say, don't scare me. ”

"You forgot? I studied surgery at the Royal College of Physicians in London for two years. You can move now because your arm bone is not broken, the fracture is the shoulder blade, do you feel more and more pain? ”

"Oops, it really hurts more and more as soon as you say it. When I was arresting someone just now, I was hit by a man with a chair. So what to do? Zezhi, otherwise, I'll take your people back, and you will lead the team to search for me, okay? ”

God really help me, this half a year has been how bad luck comes, it turns out that God also has a time to open his eyes to help. Liu Zezhi pretended to be silent: "Your injury can't be delayed, and I don't know when the search will end, and I should help my brother to help, but it's best to ask Director Li for instructions." ”

"Hmm...... Don't use it, right? Such a trivial matter, and still bother the director? Isn't it just a shift change? Now Director Li should be busy, don't touch the nails. In this way, I will lead the team back and take the time to report to the director, Director Li does not agree, I will find someone else to replace you. ”

Ni Xin led people away, and Liu Zezhi ordered: "Let's search this area carefully first, gather in ten minutes, and go to the other side of the river to continue the search." Let's go. He casually gestured to the two nearest agents, "You two follow me." ”

The three of them came to the dead alley where Zhou Chengbin was hiding, and Liu Zezhi ordered an agent: "It's too dark here, you can't see anything clearly, you go and ask a few people over there for a flashlight." ”

The man ran and borrowed a flashlight, Liu Zezhi ordered him to be on guard at the entrance of the alley, and took another agent into the dead alley with a flashlight. ”

The agent ran to find the wooden stick, Liu Zezhi leaned over and opened the manhole cover again, Zhou Chengbin stuck to the wall of the well, raised his gun and was ready to fire, his eyes were facing each other, and he instantly understood in his heart, Liu Zezhi looked at him deeply and closed the manhole cover. He said to the agent who hurried back: "This manhole cover is not tight, it can be opened by hand, let's go, continue the search." ”

Led the team to the other side of the river, found a corpse in the river, salvaged it for preliminary examination, the two gunshot wounds on the corpse were caused by the No. 76 issued point four or five pistols, this should be a Chongqing agent who escaped from the encirclement. Liu Zezhi sighed secretly, the god of luck did not have a second favor, and only Zhou Chengbin escaped. The search continued until it was dark, and then the order to close the team from Li Shiqun came.

When I returned to No. 76, I saw people coming and going, all of them in a hurry, and they were nervous and busy. Liu Zezhi was surprised to see Ni Xin with his left shoulder bandaged, and asked, "Why didn't you go to the hospital?" Why? ”

"Zezhi, I'm back, hard work. You can really be regarded as half a surgeon, let you say right, the shoulder blade fracture, fortunately, it is the left shoulder, it does not affect the writing, I will write a simple report and go to the hospital, the two of us will change the guard halfway, I will write the first half of the report, and then you will continue. My injuries have been initially dealt with in our infirmary, and now we can't count on them, and the people who are busy rescuing the torturers are too busy. When I met the director just now, he also asked me to go to the hospital quickly. ”

Liu Zezhi seems to have always been "outspoken" in front of Ni Xin: "Yes, Lao Zhao is in charge of interrogation, alas, he is the person, it's not me talking about him behind my back, doing what we do, although torture interrogation is a common thing, but like him, there are few people who take torture as fun." ”

Ni Xin was reluctant to continue the topic and smiled silently.

Liu Zezhi was worried about the injured Zhou Chengbin, he was anxious, the sky was about to dawn, in case someone found a trace of the extraneous branch, it would be a big trouble, and he might be swept into the whirlpool. He must be placed in a safe place immediately. But what place is safe? And how can I get out? Suddenly, he thought of a good excuse and said to Ni Xin: "I knew that you could still draft a report, so I wouldn't be in a hurry to come back." There's something I want you to cover up, it's still in a state of emergency today, and the director has ordered me not to go out at will, but I have to go out right away, you know...... The director ordered me to get rid of that batch of grain quickly, and I didn't know that there was any action today, so I made an appointment with a grain merchant a few days ago to make a deal today. After a while, I said that I would take you to the hospital, and you dragged me to accompany you for a morning, okay? ”

Ni Xin smiled: "No problem." That's right, take advantage of this rush to sell, don't do these things recently, it's a special period, let the Japanese find out, maybe the director can't protect you. ”

"Come on, you, I know my own affairs, and besides, you haven't spent the money I got it."

Ni Xin didn't care too much about Liu Zezhi's tricks on money, and said with a smile: "I was dragged onto the thief ship by you, without further ado, let's go." ”

This book was first published in Reading Rim