Before receiving the call from the Koga Clinic, an earth-shattering explosion had already been heard in the back alley of City Hall Avenue, where the Japanese military secret service was located in Bunjo - after all, the Koga Clinic was located on the side of City Hall Avenue.

Masao Kojima, who faintly felt bad, had just ordered someone to follow the sound to investigate, and soon after receiving a call from the Koga clinic. At this time, it was less than half a day before he left the clinic, and he was safe and sound when he left, but something happened in a blink of an eye.

What annoyed the director of Kojima even more was that it was Koichi Koga, the owner of the clinic, who called, not someone from the plainclothes team of his secret service - he had left eight plainclothes team members inside and outside the clinic, but none of them worked when it came to the end?!

"Mr. Koga, where are the people of the plainclothes team? Call them to answer the phone! Listening to the chaotic narration of the incoherent, panicked clinic doctor, Masao Kojima couldn't bear it anymore.

"Chief, he'...... They all got shot, someone attacked my clinic and *......* threw it everywhere! ”

The head of the secret service buzzed in his head: *?! Where did so many *! Immediately, he realized that the so-called * of Dr. Koga, who did not understand military affairs, should be *, * and other weapons.

"What about the attackers? What about the wounded? The anti-Japanese element you rescued is still not there!? Masao Kojima asked sharply with the earpiece in his hand.

"No...... I don't know, I'll call you in my own office, wounded...... The wounded are in the treatment room next door—"

Kojima had just heard this, and suddenly another man's voice came from the earpiece, it was the deputy captain of his plainclothes team who finally rushed to the phone: "Kojima, I'm Aomori!" The clinic was attacked, wounded anti-Japanese elements were killed! ”

"Baga!"

The head of the secret service, who finally figured out the situation, suddenly roared uncontrollably - he was really afraid of anything, and he was worried that this anti-Japanese element who had finally caught him alive would have an accident, so he sent a large number of people to guard inside and outside the clinic, but the situation still collapsed at this joint!

Ten minutes later, Masao Kojima's black car rushed to the front of Koga's clinic, and at this time, there were no less than a dozen heavily armed patrols arriving from nearby.

The deputy leader of the plainclothes team named Aomori, who had just snatched the phone from Dr. Koga's hand, was the first to run in front of the head of the Kojima office and briefly recounted the whole process of the incident, which was that he was wandering around the gate of the clinic with several members of the plainclothes team at the time of the incident, secretly exercising guardianship. He was also the only person who was not shot and retreated across the road to concealment while firing fire. According to his own witnesses, the attackers had escaped by snatching a military three-wheeled motorcycle from the soldiers of the Imperial Army, and there were three of them, and they should all be wearing Imperial uniforms!

"Escaped on a motorcycle? Didn't they break into the clinic? Masao Kojima was a little confused.

"Report to Chief Kojima, there are other people who have attacked the clinic, and they should have attacked from the side of the clinic window at the same time." Aomori, the deputy captain, replied very calmly: "I checked the inside of the clinic, and the * explosion was very bad, and our people were either killed or injured by the explosion. But the anti-Japanese element who was caught last night was obviously shot in the chest. ”

Even in such a chaotic and frustrated mood, the head of the secret service still glanced at his subordinate with appreciation: calm, witty, rare.

But these damn bastards are still messed up!

Entering the treatment room of the clinic that has been unrecognizable, the most eye-catching thing is the hospital bed where the anti-Japanese suspect is still lying, but the suspect's left chest is covered with blood, and the wound is obviously shocking from the close shooting of the pistol - murder and extinguishment!

Holding back the churning rage, the head of the secret service looked at the two broken window lattices of the treatment room, through which there was no doubt that the attackers were fast in and out. They moved in sync with the other group of people who attacked the main entrance of the clinic, and the timing was just right.

"Do you understand?" Masao Kojima rolled his gloomy gaze and said coldly to the Aomori squad leader beside him: "The reason why the anti-Japanese elements took the risk of launching an attack on the street outside the main entrance of the clinic is to attract you guards guarding the main entrance, and when you stupidly go all out to deal with those few people who snatched motorcycles and escaped, the real killer broke in through the window behind the clinic!" ”

Aomori, who was reprimanded, lowered his head, not daring to look directly into Kojima's eyes.

"Of course, this is a group of well-trained, battle-tested anti-Japanese elements," Kojima lowered his voice, almost muttering to himself, "but seeing how our warriors have shown no resistance in the face of the attack, we should still blush." ”

"Kojima-cho, I-" Aomori, who finally raised his head and seemed to want to make some excuses, just opened his mouth to say half a sentence, but unexpectedly was slapped sharply by Kojima Masao turned sideways and raised his hand: "Baga! What are you still rubbing around here, you idiot? Call immediately to mobilize manpower and chase me with clues on the scene! ”

The deputy captain of the plainclothes team, who had been beaten, struggled to "babble" and ran to the next room with a phone as if he had escaped.

"What about police dogs? Why don't you tune it up?! Masao Kojima, who finally began to release his anger, continued to exert his power, turned his head and roared at a squad leader of the plainclothes team who followed him: "How many De* are waiting to have puppies at home?!" ”

What he was referring to were the three purebred German shepherds and dog trainers who had been transferred from Taiyuan not long ago, which were specially equipped to strengthen the search and arrest force of the Wencheng secret service, and they had never been used after they were in place.

The captain of the detachment also ran away as if he had run away from the roar of his boss.

Masao Kojima, who was slightly less angry, began to force himself to calm down and concentrate on thinking about the damage caused by this sudden incident. I had just made a promise to the brigade commander, Major General, that I would squeeze valuable information out of the mouth of this hard-won prisoner of anti-Japanese elements. Now it's a mistake and all the work has been lost! In the face of General Hagiwara, of course, he can't explain, and what is even more tricky is that after such a precious clue is broken, at least for now, his tracking of the Blue Coat Society has fallen back into a blind and dark groping impasse.

This formidable adversary always seems to be able to hide in the shadows, repeatedly attack himself in the open situation, and always get out of the crisis - the attack at the city hall, the explosion in the freight yard of the railway station, the exchange of fire in the shantytown, and to this day, the murder of the Japanese clinic from the sight of his own nose.

It seems that the information and legends about the Blue Coat Society that he has at hand are by no means exaggerated: this is a rather difficult underground armed force, and the quality of its personnel, the state of its equipment, and its style of action all reflect a very high tactical standard.

The plainclothes team of more than 50 secret services under his command was formed on the basis of the old team brought from the Manchurian Empire, and it should be said that it was more than enough to deal with the anti-Japanese elements in Manchuria; However, in the face of the anti-Japanese organizations in the Kannai, mainly the Blue Coat Society, it was obvious that they were unable to do their best.

As for the Zhina Detective Team, which was pulled up by Meng Longsheng, a ruffian in the city, and which had also expanded to more than 50 people, it was even more embarrassing.

This disadvantage must be reversed at the source! The head of the Japanese secret service paced in the dilapidated clinic, contemplating what to do. At this time, his greatest hope was that a group of strong reinforcements that might arrive in Wencheng in the near future -- through the coordination of the North China Front Command, the head of the army's Beiping special service agency personally selected a few spy workers who had been in the Central China region (the name of the Japanese invasion of China in East China) and had rich experience in chasing down and suppressing the Blue Coat Society, and added them to the Wencheng secret service. This will be a powerful move to turn the tide of battle!

"Report to the chief of the island, Kawabe Osa and his party are waiting for you outside the clinic."

A member of the plainclothes team of the secret service who hurriedly ran in whispered to his boss's ear.

Masao Kojima was stunned, and immediately thought that the explosion here might have alarmed the headquarters of the chief of staff along the river in the area of the train station, so that the other party rushed over to find out. But when he came to the gate of the clinic, he saw the brigade chief of staff sitting in the straddle of the military tricycle, waving his hand vigorously at him, and the direction of his finger was pointing east, which should be a metaphor for the brigade headquarters.

The three military three-wheeled motorcycles that had not been turned off immediately started, and the head of the secret service had no choice but to hurriedly give a few words to the deputy leader of the plainclothes team, and then got into his car and followed the motorcycle team of Osa, who was by the river.

Sure enough, they drove straight into the gate of the outer courtyard of the brigade headquarters. Masao Kojima, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, thought dejectedly: It must be the brigade commander, Major General, who has learned about the explosion that has just taken place - on the same city hall avenue, it is difficult not to hear it! - Therefore, he summoned himself and the chief of staff of the river to question. It seems that Shogun Hagiwara's patience is running out, and he is about to face a harsh reprimand.

This time, however, the head of the Japanese secret service was clearly inaccurate. When he and Kawabe Osa walked into Hagiwara's headquarters, the latter directly shook a telegram in his hand, motioned for the two to sit down with a solemn face, and then ordered the only staff officer in the room to go out and close the door.

"You guys, you must have brought me bad news - the explosions on City Hall Boulevard are enough to confirm this - but let's put it down for now, because I summoned you here, and I have the same bad news to report to you first!"

Listening to Hagiwara Akira's dry opening remarks, the chief of staff of the brigade and the head of the secret service first looked at each other, and then turned their eyes on the telegram paper that he had been holding in his hand and had not put it down, and at the same time began to beat his heart faster.