Chapter 51: The Tanuki Prince
Dai Li had a headache after receiving the order. Jiangbei is behind enemy lines, and it is absolutely not an easy task to send the Japanese prince to Chongqing without fail, whether it is to take the route of Hong Kong and Shanghai, or to cross the enemy-occupied areas of Daqingshan and Hubei, he will have to take great risks, but he must carry out the order to the letter.
Who is the best to send? Dai Li used his brain, thinking about it, it was still the most suitable for Shen Kai, this young man was recommended by Chen Zikun, he performed well in the Hong Kong meeting, and he was forced to sit on the cold bench for a period of time after the East Window incident, and now is a good time to reactivate him.
At the beginning of 1941, the Air Force's planes and fuel were nearly exhausted, and there was no ability to carry out airdrops behind enemy lines, so Lieutenant Shen Kai had to fly to Shanghai through Hong Kong in disguise, and then go to Jiangbei from Shanghai.
Time passed day by day, Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro of the Jiangbei Countermeasures Headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army finally pieced together the strength of a brigade and regiment, and went to Jiangbei with murderous spirit, and recaptured Beitai without bloodshed, in fact, the Nationalist Army did not defend the city, and after years of fighting, they have become well versed in the essence of guerrilla warfare, and will no longer fight the Japanese army.
Jiangbei was completely destroyed, every sleeper, every section of railroad track was gone, it took at least a year to rebuild the railway, the artillery towers that had been built with countless manpower and material resources were all demolished, every few hundred meters on the highway was a big pothole, cars could not travel at all, all the electric poles were broken at the waist, and it would take some time to restore telephone communication.
A letter sent from the Daqingshan area to Beitai was a handwritten letter from His Royal Highness the Prince, and the payment was also stamped with the king's seal, the content was that he was a guest here with the Chinese, and he was not mistreated, and asked the Japanese commander to be sympathetic to the people and not to use the sword soldiers.
Shen Kai disguised himself as a merchant and came to Beitai, and the military branch in Jiangbei had collapsed, so he could only do everything himself, personally going to the countryside to find guerrillas.
After many years of war, the economy of North Thailand withered, and the mule carts that could be seen everywhere on the roadside in the past were gone, Shen Kai walked to the countryside with his luggage on his back, and was intercepted by a team of people and horses as soon as he walked out of the city, and searched him up and down.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm my own." Shen Kai said unhurriedly.
"What part are you?"
"Brother is from Chongqing."
Shen Kai was covered with a black cloth and taken all the way to the Daqingshan National Army Base, where Chen Zikun met with him.
Knowing his intentions, Shen Kai took off his clothes, tore off a piece of rubber wrapped around his back, and took out the chairman's warrant, Chen Zikun took a look at it and said, "It's not easy to escort the Japanese prince back to Chongqing." ”
Shen Kai said: "What's the difficulty, get some ecstasy, turn it over, and put it in a box, who knows what it is." ”
Chen Zikun didn't argue with him, ordered someone to take Shen Kai to take a bath, eat and rest, and convened his subordinates to discuss.
"Hand over the prince, we won't have any cards in our hands, and the Japanese won't be crazy to report us." Gai Longquan was the first to object.
Wang Sanliu also said: "The prince is in our hands, the Japanese are still a little jealous, send it to Chongqing, and die with a live chess hand, inappropriate, inappropriate." ”
Chen Shou said: "The commission personally gave the order, who dares to disobey, I don't have an opinion, listen to the commander-in-chief's arrangement." ”
Chan did not make a decision on the spot, but only said that he would discuss it again.
After the meeting ended, Chen Zikun found the three captives and told them straight to the point that Chongqing had asked for the deportation of the prisoners.
After half a month of getting along, the prince's resistance had weakened a lot, and he asked Chan Zikun: "What does the general plan to do?" ”
Chen Zikun said: "If you send it to Chongqing, there are only two possibilities, one is to return it to the Japanese side at an appropriate price, and the other is to put you under house arrest until the end of the war, in short, you will not be executed." ”
The prince said, "Well, I am willing to go to Chongqing, but there is one condition, please send my adjutant Shimizu Nakasa and my friend King Ryūo back to Shanghai." ”
Chan said: "The prince's courage is admirable, but you seem to have forgotten that if you put forward conditions, you must come up with appropriate conditions. ”
The prince looked at Shimizu Kaede and Ryūo with an inquiring gaze.
Shimizu Feng said: "It is not in the interests of the general to send His Royal Highness to Chongqing, this move is not beneficial except to anger His Majesty the Emperor and the base camp, and to raise the morale of the imperial army, I think the general is desperate, but for the sake of peace in Jiangbei, if the general is willing to send us back to the Japanese occupation area, His Royal Highness will guarantee in the name of the prince that there will be no more war in Jiangbei." ”
Chen Zikun nodded slowly.
King Ryu said: "The negotiation is not so simple, the military department is afraid that the martial arts are going to take the opportunity to use the sword, I don't think it is as good as this, Your Excellency first let Qing Shui Zhongzuo and me go, we will go to mediate for you, His Royal Highness the Prince will stay in your place for the time being, and wait for the peace agreement to be reached, and then release the people is not too late." ”
The prince nodded solemnly: "I think it can." ”
Chen Zikun laughed heartily: "The prince is bold, Chen admires, Yusang's proposal is also good, so let's go back first and run for us, so please leave it to you." ”
King Ryu said: "Your Excellency, Shimizu Zhongzuo is very well-connected in the military department, and he will go back with me, so he will get twice the result with half the effort." ”
Chen Zikun said: "I don't think it's necessary. ”
The King of the Imperial Ryu still wanted to fight for it, and Chen Zikun said: "The King of the Imperial Ryu will go back, the prince will send it to Chongqing, and Qing Shui Feng will stay, this is the choice that is most in line with my interests." ”
After a moment of silence, the king shouted, "Your Excellency has gone too far! ”
Chen Zikun smiled and said: "If you don't have any opinions, it's decided." ”
"I have an opinion!" King Goryu raised his hand.
"Rejected." Chen Zikun shook his hand and left.
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Shen Kai wandered around the camp and walked to a corner, where he heard someone talking, and the agent's occupational illness made him immediately stop and listen quietly.
"Have you heard that someone from Chongqing wants to take the prince away."
"This can work, even the chairman can't empty the white wolf, the prince let them take it away, let's drink the northwest wind, we all expect this meat ticket to make a fortune."
"Yes, there is no such cheap thing in the world."
"I think it's better to kill the kid from Chongqing, it's a hundred ......"
Shen Kai was shocked into a cold sweat, tiptoed back, like a pins and needles in the house, he came alone, there was no one to discuss, in the face of complex problems, he was confused, thinking about it, thinking of a sentence he had heard in the Jiangbei Army, things need to be bold when it comes to all difficulties, the matter has come to this, presumably Chen Zikun is also unwilling to let go, it is better to give it a go, and sneak back to Chongqing with the prince single-handedly, wouldn't it be a big achievement.
Thinking about it, I felt my blood boiling, and a picture appeared in front of Shen Kai's eyes, and the chairman of the committee personally awarded the Yunlu Medal, patted his shoulder and said, "Xiao Shen, you have made great contributions to the party and the country." ”
was daydreaming, and suddenly someone tapped him on the shoulder, Shen Kai woke up suddenly, and saw that it was Chen Zikun's adjutant Shuangxi, and hurriedly said: "Adjutant Chen, is there something wrong?" ”
Shuangxi put on a straight face: "The commander-in-chief is looking for you, come with me." ”
All the way to the office, Chen Zikun said: "Xiao Shen, my army is a little unstable, you will take the prince away tonight." ”
Shen Kai's nose was sour, but General Chen still knew the general situation, and he was moved: "Commander-in-chief, you bothered." ”
Chen Zikun waved his hand: "Those who know me say that I am worried, and those who don't know me say what I want, I hope that one day everyone can understand." ”
Without further ado, Shen Kai immediately began to arrange, Chen Zikun sent four capable subordinates to him, drunk the Japanese prince, put it in a coffin, and boarded the ship at Nantai Wharf, and his own Zeng Jiao's men took over the baton, and sent people all the way to the provincial capital, and it was easy to do when they arrived in the provincial capital.
The pro ** was taken away, and the king of the royal ryu was also escorted out, his face was covered with a black cloth, he got on a mule cart, and after a few hours of bumping, he finally came to the outside of Beitai City, and one person took off his mask and preached: "The front is the Japanese defense area, we won't send you." ”
The king was still dressed as a peasant, but he combed his hair parted, and his padded jacket was a silk shirt, which looked nondescript, and he was taken down by the detective team as soon as he walked to the edge of the city.
Lost a prince, the Japanese strictly ordered the detective team to investigate the news, Hong Tianba successively sent more than a dozen spies to the countryside, all of them went to the countryside without returning, and suddenly caught a suspicious guy, and did not beat him to death, first greeted him with a big-eared scraper more than a dozen times, and the handsome face of the king of the fan was deformed.
"Say, are you a guerrilla spy?" The detective asked viciously.
"I'm Japanese." Oro Road.
"Dare to play tricks in front of Lao Tzu, give me a shot!"
There was another fat beating, and the king said in his heart that if I didn't recruit him, I was afraid that I would not be able to return to Japan alive, so he replied humiliatingly: "Okay, I am a guerrilla spy, I know the whereabouts of the prince, take me to the military police." ”
King Ryūo was taken to the gendarmerie, and after Captain Ono was killed in battle, a new gendarmerie captain was transferred from the Dispatch Army Headquarters, who was said to have worked in Manchukuo before and had a lot of experience in clearing out guerrillas, this man was called Takayoshi Hashimoto, with the rank of captain, and he could speak authentic Chinese.
He recognized at a glance that the king of the imperial court was not Chinese, and after learning that the other party was the head of the imperial organ, and his rank was far higher than his own, he immediately withdrew from the idle people and asked him: "Is Your Highness okay?" ”
King Ryu said: "Your Royal Highness is still in the Daqingshan area, in the hands of Chen Zikun, send me to Nanjing, I want to meet the commander-in-chief of Xiwei." ”
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Chongqing, Baishiyi Airport, a passenger plane from Hong Kong slowly stopped, the airport has long been under martial law, the military police are like a great enemy, and four agents in black top hats who came down the gangway are vigilantly scanning the surroundings.
Shen Kai walked down the gangway with a short person, several military commanders took the person and sandwiched him into a car, Shen Kai also got into the back seat of a black Chevrolet, there was already a person sitting in the car, and the face of the yin owl actually had some smiles, and stretched out his hand to Shen Kai: "Xiao Shen, you have worked hard." ”
"Boss Dai!" Shen Kai was very excited, and Dai Li personally went to the airport to greet him, how much attention he attaches to himself.
Dai Li shook Shen Kai's hand vigorously: "It has been decided from above to give you a promotion to the military rank, from tomorrow, you will be a captain, and I will have a more difficult task to hand over to you, by the way, you will change your clothes first after you go back, and the commission will talk to you in person." ”
Shen Kai spoke incoherently excitedly: "See me, is it true?" ”
Dai Li smiled and nodded.
Shen Kai came back dizzy all the way, and was congratulated by his colleagues in the unit, and everyone smiled and said, "Xiao Shen wants to have a treat." ”
"Definitely, definitely." Shen Kaichun was proud, took a shower first, changed into a straight lieutenant uniform, and was combing his hair with a comb dipped in hair wax in the mirror, when suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Shen Kaidao.
It was a colleague who came in.
"You can help me see which pair of leather shoes to wear, and you can't be sloppy when you see the commission." Shen Kaidao.
The colleague's expression was unnatural: "Xiao Shen, Boss Dai wants to see you, he is a little unhappy, you should be careful." ”
Shen Kaizhang and Er King Kong were puzzled, put down the comb, came to the door of Boss Dai's office with a worried heart, knocked on the door and entered, Dai Li's expression was calm, and he said with a pleasant face: "Xiao Shen, who is this person you brought?" ”
"It's the Prince of Kiyomizu Palace of Japan." Shen Kai faintly realized that something was wrong.
Dai Lian waved his hand: "You go out." ”
As soon as Shen Kai went out, his two arms were twisted, and two expressionless agents escorted him down.