Chapter 35: Bloodbath
Zhao Ziming has already thought of a way to save people. Exchange the lives of the Japanese for the lives of the Chinese, one is not enough for two, two is not enough for three, and it is necessary to rescue Lao Zhang, this thing must be done, otherwise there will be no face to see Xiao Wei in the future.
He came to the opposite side of Mitsui Foreign Company, bought a baked cake and squatted in the corner for a long time, observing the people coming in and out, the foreign company has a truck, a car, a manager in the store, two Xiangli hands, the Chinese guy does rough work, the business is very good, the people who come and go are wholesale merchants from nearby counties, barrels of Japanese kerosene to buy back and sell.
It was dark early in winter, Mitsui was closed at half past five, the door board, and the pedestrians on the street were scarce, Zhao Ziming got up and found a blacksmith shop, looked around, picked up an axe and flicked it, listened to the sound, it was extremely dull, and shook his head.
The blacksmith glared at him and threw the sledgehammer away: "Guest, what do you want?" ”
"Axe, you need a good steel mouth, your shop is full of rags."
The blacksmith left a sentence: "Wait." He turned around and went into the courtyard and took out a brand new axe: "This is custom-made for someone, look at it." ”
Zhao Ziming took it in his hand, the weight was just right, he waved it twice, he was very strong, touched the edge of the blade, and frowned: "Not fast enough." ”
"It's going to be fast and easy, you can't just take it back and grind it."
Zhao Ziming took out five pieces of ocean: "I want two handfuls of polished ones." ”
The blacksmith's eyes lit up, and he didn't do any more work, humming and helping him sharpen the two axes quickly, Zhao Ziming took advantage of this time to go to the noodle restaurant to eat a bowl of red oil and spicy noodles, and came back with a full burp to take away the two axes, and the big bell on the Beitai Railway Station had already struck the bell at seven o'clock.
The power supply of the Beitai Electric Light Factory is insufficient, and the street lights will be extinguished after nine o'clock, so there is no need to worry about public security, because of the curfew at night, and the patrols of the Imperial Army, how dare the thieves come around.
Zhao Ziming has been hiding in the alley opposite the foreign bank, this is a dead end that is inaccessible, and when it is twelve o'clock at night, there is no one outside, the whole city is very quiet, occasionally there are one or two dog barks, every hour, the husband will knock on the bangzi to pass by, shouting that the weather is dry and dry, be careful of the fire candle.
It was very cold, Zhao Ziming was shivering from the cold, but when he thought of Ye Wei, his heart was not as cold as a fire, at one o'clock in the night, everyone was asleep, and even the dog didn't bark, Zhao Ziming finally went out, lifted the placket up, pinned the two plate axes to the belt, and went up to the wall of the foreign bank with a bang.
The surroundings were pitch black, Zhao Ziming fell to the ground, and suddenly two black shadows rushed over, he didn't have time to think about it, pulled out the axe and chopped over, after two wails, the black shadows did not move, it turned out to be two vicious dogs, the dog that bites people does not bark, this is really reasonable, but when the evil dog meets the wicked, it is only the part of the head.
Zhao Ziming first touched into the wing, and saw a guy with a beard lying on the bed, snoring like thunder, and stepped forward with an axe, and his head rolled to the ground, he couldn't help but praise, what a fast axe.
In this way, room by room, the sleeping staff of the foreign bank were all ghosts under the axe in their sleep, the wind was roaring outside, and the foreign company was full of blood, and the manager Sakai and his wife and children who slept in the hall did not know that the danger of death was imminent.
The door latches of the wing rooms are all Chinese-style, but the hall uses Western-style marble locks, Zhao Ziming made a noise when he opened the door, Sakai felt that someone knocked on the door in a daze, and thought that there was a new arrival in the provincial capital, and he opened the door to see that there was a person standing outside, all black, bloody, and he staggered to the ground.
Zhao Ziming entered the house with a cold wind, grabbed Sakai's pajama collar like a chicken and carried him into the bedroom, Mrs. Misako and daughter Nobuko woke up in shock, looking at this uninvited guest in horror.
Zhao Ziming said: "Light the lamp." ”
Sakai could understand Chinese, so he quickly lit the kerosene lamp, and there was no electricity supply at night, so he had to light this.
"I'm hungry, get something to eat." Zhao Ziming killed several people, and he was a little hungry at this time.
Misako tremblingly helped him get some food, Japanese sake, sashimi and sushi, which were served on small plates.
Zhao Ziming put the bloody plate axe aside, picked up the chopsticks and ate two bites, and spit out: "Damn, little Japanese things are just unpalatable." ”
"Please don't kill us." Misako hugged the child and cried.
Sakai also knelt down: "Hero, don't kill us, I'll give you money, give you a lot of money." ”
"Oh?" Zhao Ziming originally only wanted to kidnap hostages, but when he heard the money, his mind moved: "Then it depends on how much money it is." ”
The safe was hidden in the bedroom, and Sakai opened it with a trembling hand, and took out ten gold bars and a stack of banknotes, which amounted to tens of thousands.
Zhao Ziming smiled: "Dog day, this is all the money of the Chinese, all for Lao Tzu to put up." ”
Putting the money in his pocket, Zhao Ziming asked Sakai to take a piece of letterhead, an envelope, wrote on it, and put the envelope on the table.
Things are almost done, the room is warm like spring, Zhao Ziming plans to stare for a while, the Japanese don't need a bed to sleep, the ground is covered with tatami mats, spread out the quilt and sleep, he lay down in the place, two axes are put aside very casually, and gradually snore.
The Sakai family huddled in the corner, and after a while, seeing that Zhao Ziming seemed to be asleep, Sakai quietly reached for the cabinet and opened the cabinet door, where a southern-style pistol was placed.
Suddenly, there was a gust of wind, and the sharp axe was slashed down against the tip of his nose, and it was deeply chopped into the tatami mat, Zhao Ziming frowned coldly: "Lao Tzu is awake when he sleeps, you know no!" ”
Sakai was so frightened that he had to accept the punishment of the hero, stuffing his mouth with stinky socks, Zhao Ziming raised the axe, and smashed his right hand with the heavy axe back, fainting in pain on the spot.
Nobuko was so frightened that her little face turned pale, she wanted to cry but didn't dare to cry, she almost suffocated to death, Misako hugged the child tightly, found Zhao Ziming staring at her, and quickly covered up a touch of snow white in her neckline.
"! Little Japanese girl, who the rarely looks at you, just like you bear, it's far worse than my little sister. Zhao Ziming scolded disdainfully.
The Sakai family didn't dare to move anymore, so they waited until dawn in fright, Zhao Ziming rested enough, got up and stretched: "Let's go." ”
The family slowly put on their clothes, and Zhao Ziming also took out a tweed coat from the closet, although Sakai was short, but his shoulders were very broad, and he fit it well, but the long coat became a short jacket.
There was a car in the foreign bank, Zhao Ziming tied up Sakai and threw it into the trunk, Misako sat in the back seat with the child in her arms, put the bag full of banknotes and gold bars under her feet, opened the big iron gate of the foreign bank, and drove the car straight out of the city.
Mitsui's car had a pass, the puppet army did not dare to check, the Japanese sentry also greeted the car, Zhao Ziming waved his hand outside very calmly, stepped on the accelerator, and the car went away.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the Chinese employees of the foreign bank came to work, and found that the Japanese Xiangli who used to stand in the counter early in the morning did not get up, but the door was open, and when he walked into the yard, he saw that the two watchdog dogs died tragically, and the blood was frozen.
If ordinary people were killed, they were under the control of the Chinese police, and the Japanese were killed, it was the case of the gendarmerie, Captain Ono led his men to the foreign company, searched thoroughly, and found that a total of four Japanese died, all of whom were beheaded with sharp knives in their sleep.
In the hall, the door of the safe was wide open, the three members of the Sakai manager's family disappeared mysteriously, and the car was gone, Captain Ono was very puzzled, could it be that Sakai killed his colleagues and absconded in order to embezzle public funds, shouldn't it, he couldn't help but ask his detective captain: "Hong Sang, what do you think?" ”
Hong Tian said domineeringly: "Captain, there must be something strange about this matter. ”
A warrant officer of the gendarmerie came over with a letter he had just found: "Captain, please look at this. ”
Captain Ono took out his letterhead and browsed it, and it read: Ono Taijian: The Sakai family of three is in my hands, if you want them to live, send the cadres of the Eighth Route Army you arrested to three miles outside the Kushui Well in Nantai, if you don't comply, wait to collect the body, and the payment is Zhao Ziming, commander of the Seventh Route of the Jiangbei Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army.
"Yaga!" Ono was furious, tore the letterhead to pieces, and ordered to send troops to pursue, and the gendarmerie three-wheeled motorcycle roared out of North Thailand, driving towards the south, and chased until South Thailand did not find Mitsui Yoko's car, called back to report, Ono was angry and asked them to come back, saying that the car had been found.
The car was left on the river beach, the Sakai family was still nowhere to be found, Ono suspected that the person had not left, and was still in the city, so he ordered a large-scale search, and arrested all the Chinese employees of the foreign company and tortured them, and at the same time issued a notice that the informant was rewarded with 3,000 yuan.
Some people say that it was done by the guerrillas, some people say that it was the hands of Commander-in-Chief Chen, and some people say that it is a good thing done by bandits outside the city.
The inn outside the city, the mysterious guest has not returned, and the horse is not wanted, the shopkeeper heard the bloody case of the foreign bank, gasped, he can almost be sure that the case was done by this hero, although the gendarmerie offered a reward for arrest, but he did not move at all, today can wash the foreign line, Ming'er people can wash their own inn with blood.
In the gendarmerie dungeon, tortured until the night, the employees were beaten into tricks, admitting that they were involved with the kidnapper Zhao Ziming, but the whereabouts of the hostages still couldn't be said, Ono was angry, the phone rang, and he didn't feel good when he picked it up: "Moxi Moxi, I'm investigating the case, and I'll talk about it quickly." ”
"It's Captain Ono, right?" A Chinese voice came.
"Who are you!" Ono asked.
There was a woman on the other side of the phone, crying and crying in Japanese, saying that she was Misako Sakai, and now she was tied up in an unknown place, and asked the captain to save herself and her child.
Ono was about to ask a question when the phone was hung up.
Ono was simply mad, no one had ever dared to provoke the gendarmerie like this, and suddenly the phone rang again, and he grabbed it and scolded: "Baga! ”
The scolding on the phone was louder than him: "Toshio Ono, you are Yaga!" This is the headquarters of the provincial garrison, and General Sato wants to talk to you. ”
"Hai" Ono broke out in a cold sweat.
General Sato's arrogant voice came: "Ono-kun, I already know about Mitsui Trading, please be sure to ensure the safety of Sakai Manager and his family, that's all." ”
"Hay!" Ono held the microphone and bowed, he knew that Mitsui Trading had a lot of influence in the military, and it seemed that he had to back down this time.
So, the arrested cadres of the Eighth Route Army were released from the water prison, and the wounds were treated, and new clothes were changed.
The car stopped, Lao Zhang was escorted out of the car, the rope was loosened, and the Japanese military police escorting him didn't say anything, got in the car and left.
Lao Zhang bit his fingers, it hurts, it's not a dream.