The war in Europe caused many Westerners to leave Shanghai, and every day the departing ships were full of people, and the wharf was full of parting feelings, melancholy and sadness played out every day in this adventurer's paradise. More Chinese did not care about this, and a large number of refugees fled from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Shanghai to escape the increasingly serious fighting.

The fighting at home and abroad in Shanghai is also intensifying, the Pudong guerrillas organized by the GCD, the loyal and righteous rescue [***] jointly organized by the military commander and the Youth Gang are becoming more and more active in the suburbs of Shanghai, the Shanghai garrison has organized several encirclement and suppression, but it has not had much effect, the Han annihilation and small groups of Yue troops in various places are still often attacked, after each short fierce battle, both sides will leave a few corpses, and the bodies of the attackers are often more than double the number of the soldiers, but even so, the attacks still occur frequently.

Life in the concession area became more and more difficult, and some bosses who were unwilling to cooperate with the army gradually withdrew their funds, quietly withdrew from Shanghai with the help of the Shanghai office of the Resources Committee, and moved to the mainland through Guangzhou. On the other hand, the army strengthened grain control, and grain ships from Jiangsu and Zhejiang no longer entered the concession so smoothly, and the concession authorities frequently lodged protests with the army, and such protests could be effective for a few days, after which the army continued to strictly investigate.

After the outbreak of the European war, the situation in the concession became tense, all kinds of rumors were full of rumors, the people in the concession were panicked, and the action of No. 76 became more and more public. Immediately, the military commanders and the central commanders launched a retaliation against the pseudo-newspaper company, and this retaliation then spread to the pseudo-political axe organization, and then the 76th immediately launched a larger-scale retaliation, and there was a bloody storm in the concession.

Under the blow of No. 76, the Shanghai station of the Central Military Command was cracked one after another, Wang Tianmu, the head of the Shanghai District of the Military Command, was arrested, and Liu Peixiong, the head of the Shanghai District of the Central Union, died. The momentum of the military command and the central command was defeated at once, and both of them went underground, secretly brewing a counterattack.

"Dingding!" The telephone rang in a room in the building opposite the temple, and after a while the window was opened and a pot of flowers was placed on the windowsill.

Two silver-gray sedans came from a distance, rickshaws on both sides of the street dodged one after another, the hawkers in front of the Jing'an Temple still listlessly greeted tourists, the newsboys shouted loudly in the crowd, and the two gangsters were bored at the intersection and whistled at the passing beauty.

The car slowly drove through the main gate of Jing'an Temple, and was about to turn into Jisfeier Road, when two rickshaws suddenly rushed out on both sides of the street, one left and one right sealed the intersection, the gunfire immediately became loud, a white smoke flew out from the window of the opposite bungalow, and the car behind it suddenly flew into the air, and then fell heavily, two figures passed through the smoke of the explosion, regardless of the flying shrapnel, quickly approached the previous car, threw two grenades into the car, and there were two explosions, and the car burst into flames.

Everything happened in just two minutes, and by the time the 76th agent arrived at the scene, the attacker had disappeared without a trace, and Qingqi Qingyin was furious after receiving the report, and immediately ordered Li Shiqun to come to Chongguang Hall and report in detail. Qingqi was about to put down the phone, and then remembered something and asked, "Who are the people in the car?" ”

The phone was silent for a while, and his voice became a little cringe: "He Tianfeng, Chen Mingchu are all in the car, and...., and Wang Tianmu." ”

Qingqi's teeth were rattling, and the fingers holding the microphone became white because of the force, and when he heard Wang Tianmu's three words, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, and smashed the microphone on the phone in anger, and then he was still angry, and the whole phone was raised and smashed to the ground, "Bang Dang", the phone fell apart.

The door immediately opened, and the adjutant and guard quickly rushed in, "Eight grids, get out!" The adjutant hurriedly exited the room, and then he heard a small commotion in the room, and he couldn't help but wonder what made his boss so angry and out of shape.

After a while, he heard the sound in the room calm down, he still didn't dare to push the door in, and after a while, the door opened, and Qingqi came out, by this time he had calmed down, and the adjutant hurriedly called the guards to go in and clean up.

"Call Chief Kawahisa," Qingqi ordered coldly, and then sat down on the sofa outside, and the adjutant hurriedly called, and then brought Qingqi a cup of tea. Kawaku Kogoro came quickly, and he was startled when he entered the door and saw Qingqi's appearance.

"Your Excellency, what happened?"

"How many things did Wang Tianmu say?" Qingqi didn't explain, but asked directly.

"It's not a lot," Kawahisa Kogoro replied hesitantly: "There are a lot of explanations from the Military Command Shanghai Station, but most of the content has already been explained by Chen Mingchu. ”

Wang Tianmu did not confess all the things he mastered, this kind of traitor is like this, he will never give all the information he has at one time, but squeeze it little by little, on the one hand, raise his value, seek a good position, and on the other hand, prevent the other party from unloading the mill and killing the donkey.

"What about North China? Beiping Station, Tianjin Station, Shandong Station, Qingdao Station, Shijiazhuang Station? What did he reveal? ”

"Only a small part of it has been revealed, and most of it is already in our possession." He Jiu said with confidence: "However, I have decided to transfer him to North China after breaking the Shanghai station." He worked in the military command of North China for six years, and almost all the stations in North China were founded by him, and there were a large number of his old subordinates in North China,...。 ”

"You don't have a chance!" Qingqi interrupted him loudly: "Wang Tianmu and Chen Mingchu were assassinated outside Gate 76 just now. ”

He Jiu suddenly poured down from his head like a bucket of cold water, and the excitement and pride just now immediately disappeared, and he asked angrily after a while: "Impossible, who reported it?" I talked to them with Nakanishi Kojun at the Manchurian Railway Office just now, and, No. 76, the guards are very strong, and there is a squad of the Imperial Army stationed opposite him, who has such the guts to be there? ”

"I'm afraid the guards of the Nanjing Headquarters are tighter than the 76th," Qingqi said coldly: "It was Li Shiqun's personal call, and the attack took only two and a half minutes from the beginning to the end, which was swift and accurate, well-organized, and bold in means. ”

"You mean...., General Shina made the shot? But this is Wang Tianmu. "What he said was that it was impossible for Zhuang Jihua to act for the people of the military commander, and it was impossible for Dai Li to ask Zhuang Jihua for help because of the betrayal of his subordinates.

"Except for the outlaws who dared to enter General Shunroku Hatata's office, I can't think of anyone else who has such guts." Qingqi tried hard to suppress his anger, with Wang Tianmu, it was possible that the layout of the military command in North China would be completely cracked, and it was even possible to crack the spy hidden inside the secret service organization, but now with Wang Tianmu's death, everything is gone. The feeling that victory is in front of you, but suddenly it is not in sight, is especially infuriating.

Li Shiqun didn't let Qingqi wait long, he quickly rushed to Chongguangtang, and walked into Qingqi's office nervously, ready to meet Qingqi's stormy scolding.

"Li Jun, please take a seat." Unexpectedly, Qingqi was still kind and pleasant, Li Shiqun sat on the sofa with some trepidation, and Qingqi then asked: "Has Wang Tianmu been confirmed to be dead?" ”

Seeing Li Shiqun nodded, Qingqi asked again: "You tell me all about their activities today." ”

After the clear air was vented, his emotions gradually calmed down, he still believed in Li Shiqun, and more importantly, the secret service headquarters was created by Li Shiqun, and the loss of this person was more serious than the loss of Wang Tianmu, so before Li Shiqun entered the door, he and He Jiu reached a consensus and continued to envelop him.

According to the arrangement, Wang Tianmu and Chen Mingchu went to the Shanghai office of the Manchurian Railway today to exchange economic information on the military command, and in addition, the intelligence personnel of the military commander in the northeast were also arranged by Wang Tianmu, and this meeting was requested by Zhong Xigong, director of the Manchurian Railway Office, a few days ago.

"Wang Tianmu himself has always been very careful, only two or three people in the secret service headquarters know about his whereabouts, and the car is all temporarily arranged." After Li Shiqun got the news of Wang Tianmu's assassination, he immediately conducted an internal investigation, first of all, the vehicle arrangement, and his words also implied that the problem was not in the secret service headquarters.

Qingqi also heard the meaning of Li Shiqun's words, he didn't say anything, and He Jiu stood up with some dissatisfaction: "Li Jun, Chen Mingchu, is it possible that they have not leaked secrets?" Don't be too arbitrary. ”

Li Shiqun made up his mind and hurriedly explained: "He Jiujun, after Wang Tianmu was arrested, Dai Li had already issued an order to hoe and annihilate, Wang Tianmu was very familiar with the practices of the military commander, he has always been careful, and I also stipulated that his whereabouts only need to be reported to three people, me, Ding Mo Village, and Chen Mingchu, the director of the office, but this time I went to the Manchurian Railway, Chen Mingchu also found out this morning, only I know that Ding Mo Estate went to Hong Kong the day before yesterday, and the driver was temporarily arranged. ”

"When did Mantetsu inform you?" Kawa Jiu also felt that if this was the case, the possibility of leaking secrets from the secret service headquarters was very low, and if this was the case, it would be suspicious on the Mantetsu side.

"Li Jun, you go back now to organize an internal investigation, and launch a large-scale search in the concession, contact Zhang Xiaolin, see if he can provide some clues, and you must arrest this group." Qingqi interrupted Ha Jiu's interrogation, he didn't want Li Shiqun to know the internal problems of the imperial army in such detail.

"Hey." Li Shiqun stood up, bowed slightly to Qingqi and Ha Jiu, and then turned to leave.

Waiting for Li Shiqun's back to disappear at the door, Qingqi said: "To carry out such an assassination, they must have obtained accurate information, and they must have Wang Tianmu in the car, well, check if those people know that Wang Tianmu is going to Mantie." ”

Those few people are the five suspects who discounted, and I don't know if the false information was sent out last time, and the Chinese army did not adjust the deployment of the army according to the deployment of the false information, and it stands to reason that the suspicion of the five people should be lifted, especially the three people who went out, but Qingqi did not, but the control over them was relaxed, especially Daze, the base camp strategy section asked them to pay close attention to collecting intelligence from the United States, Britain and France, and Daze has been engaged in this work and has achieved remarkable results.

(To be continued)