"Kojima-kun, I'm still more worried about the attack on the city hall," Hagiwara Akira Brigade Commander stared at the head of the secret service standing opposite, "If it was really the Blue Coat Society, I would have to connect the matter of the military police captain of the Songjiagou secret camp being followed." There is an idiom in the people of China called "worrying about the sky", do you think I am worrying about the sky? ”

Masao Kojima moved his feet uneasily, unable to find the words to answer for a moment.

Seeing that the other party was silent, Hagiwara Akira stood up from his chair and walked to Kojima Masao's side: "The army secret agencies in Beiping and Tianjin will quickly transmit the information of the Blue Coat Society, but we can't wait, and the information they have there can only be used for reference here." You, the head of the secret service of Wencheng, must come up with-for-tat action. ”

Under the close beating of the brigade commander Major General, Kojima Masao became more and more cramped, and at this time, his subordinates (including the Shina special team) were still casting nets in the city, but it was uncertain whether this net could catch the big fish.

"General, one thing you can rest assured is that this attack is aimed at the maintenance meeting, and the anti-Japanese characteristics are very obvious; If it was indeed the Blue Coat Society's doing, their actions would stop there. ”

"How?" Hagiwara didn't understand.

"That's right," Kojima Masao somewhat regained some confidence, and his tone of voice became neat: "According to the experience of the Central China region, the assassination operations of the Blue Coat Society often have a clear goal, and once they are successful, the operation will be over. Taking Wencheng's attack as an example, since they have already killed several leading figures of the maintenance association, and the goal has been achieved, it is very likely that they will stop. If this group of blue-clothed society personnel had come to the Songjiagou secret camp, then they would not have carried out such an attack in the city hall. ”

This time, the brigade commander of the Japanese army understood, blinked his eyes a few times, slowly pondered and savored, and gradually nodded. What he was most worried about was that the news of the secret camp of the comfort women had leaked out, and as for the anti-Japanese elements who had killed a few people who maintained the association, it was still secondary.

"Will the manhunt be effective?" After a moment of silence, Hagiwara continued: "If it's just a walk-around form and can't catch the murderer, I think it's better to let the people of the Nara Brigade go back to their camp earlier, and don't make the city a mess!" ”

Masao Kojima smiled bitterly and did not answer. The search was still ongoing, and he was hoping for a miracle in his heart.

"Also, Yang Yaokang was killed, who will come out on the maintenance side? You should be aware that the registration of the population must be carried out immediately, and there must be no delay. ”

This question is easier to answer, the head of the secret service has already taken remedial measures, so he said loudly: "General, I have redrawn the candidate for the president, this person's name is Qiao Bingde, he was a small official in the Beiyang government that year, and then the Beiyang government collapsed and he returned to his hometown Wencheng, this time the establishment of the maintenance association, I dug him out, and became the vice president under Yang Yaokang, Yang died, and I am ready to promote him as the president." ”

"Is this Qiao Bingde loyal to the imperial army?"

"Loyalty is no problem, and the current provisional government in Beiping (author's note: that is, the puppet provisional government of the Republic of China in Beiping, the "capital"), is also mostly presided over by the remnants of the Beiyang government back then. However, this guy was too timid, Yang Yaokang was shot, and he was so scared that he refused to come forward, so I had to use some means. ”

The brigade commander, Major General, glanced at the head of the secret service with a blank look, and couldn't help but ask what he wanted - he was not interested in the details, and what he was most concerned about at the moment was still the need to implement the city's population registration as soon as possible, which was directly related to the progress of the secret recruitment of comfort women. Masao Kojima assured him that the registration of the population would begin immediately, and that the files would soon be submitted in a steady stream.

"Remember," when the head of the secret service was about to leave, Hagiwara Akira gave another special order: "If you can't catch the real culprit who attacked the city hall, you must also catch a few scapegoats and shoot them, so that the citizens of Wencheng can't think that the Imperial Army is weak and incompetent!" ”

The white shopkeeper of Baoyuan Restaurant has been very popular in the past two days. Originally, the city's maintenance committee had already booked a few tables of celebration banquets with him, but unexpectedly, before noon, several people who were about to eat the banquet were thrown down by bullets in front of the city hall building, including Yang Yaokang, the president of the maintenance association. Speaking of which, Yang Yaokang has always been the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Wencheng, and he can be regarded as a perennial customer of Baoyuan Restaurant. With his death, the restaurant's future business will obviously suffer.

As soon as a gun rang out in the city hall, Bai Baoyuan's side quickly knew that the maintenance committee had sent someone to help set up the banquet in the restaurant in the morning, but when they heard the news, they all ran to the city hall. Bai Baoyuan waited until it was dark, and he didn't see anyone else who had booked the banquet. However, at noon the next day, a few people finally came, and the leader turned out to be Meng Datou, the captain of the special task force he didn't want to see the most!

Meng Longsheng took a few of his subordinates and slipped into the private room of the restaurant, and directly asked Bai Baoyuan to quickly put the table that the maintenance meeting had ordered at noon yesterday. Bai Baoyuan secretly complained while coping: because of Yang Yaokang's face, he never had to pay a deposit for a reservation at Baoyuan Restaurant, and he never paid credit on credit after every meal and drink. However, in order to prepare for the sumptuous banquet yesterday, the restaurant prepared the ingredients in advance, and if he did not come to the banquet, he would have suffered a lot of losses.

"What? The white shopkeeper is grinding, don't want to entertain us? Seeing Bai Baoyuan's uncertain expression, Meng Long lost his temper: "Tell you, this is the banquet that Chairman Yang promised to invite our special team!" His old man has returned to the West, and the banquet can't be yellow, so let's see him off! ”

Bai Baoyuan said with a smiling face: "Captain Meng doesn't know, President Yang hasn't made any money for these tables, since they can't come, the money for this banquet for you——"

Meng Longsheng's face sank, and he immediately pulled out the box in his waist and slapped it on the table: "Banquet money? You're looking for a maintenance club to go! President Yang has ascended to heaven, and the cards of the maintenance club are still there! Lao Tzu just eats and drinks, and tells you, after eating Lao Tzu still has military affairs, and now the city is under martial law, our special team and the imperial army are searching and killing the anti-Japanese elements who maintain the president, if you are slow to serve wine and food, and delay military affairs, don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite! ”

Bai Baoyuan is an old Jianghu after all, seeing that Meng Longsheng pulled the banner as a tiger skin, and this loss is inevitable today, he simply showed generosity, instructed the kitchen to stir-fry the vegetables and serve the wine immediately, and repeatedly said that he would accompany Captain Meng to drink a few cups, which coaxed the other party to turn his anger into joy. He naturally has his own little abacus, yesterday's attack has been discussed so far, and there is no accurate statement, and after all, the special team participated in the search, and he plans to put some information out of Meng's mouth.

Meng Longsheng had seen Masao Kojima at the scene of the attack at the city hall, and after asking him a lot of questions, the latter ordered him to immediately lead the entire special team of the Chinese Special Forces to the streets to check for suspicious people. One of his men saw the murderer's men in the town hall compound, and was asked by the chief of Kojima to describe the murderer's appearance and use it as a portrait. However, after tossing and turning until the next day, the anti-Japanese elements did not catch a single hair. Meng Longsheng's enthusiasm for meritorious service had long been extinguished, and by this noon, the banquet that he had not eaten had become impatient.

"It's all his grandmother's bold anti-Japanese elements," chewing on the authentic Shannan Road dishes and sipping the mellow Xinghuacun wine, the special agent captain spoke to Bai Baoyuan with great interest: "The guys in their hands are all box guns, and the ones who killed the presidents of the maintenance association were the box guns!" ”

"Do you know where these anti-Japanese elements come from?" Bai Baoyuan heard too much exaggeration and fiction from Meng Longsheng's narration, so he picked up the important question.

Although Meng Longsheng didn't dare to let go of the amount of alcohol he drank, in case the island chief summoned him urgently, he still drank a lot of liquor in small sips, and his already flushed face was full of pride: "White shopkeeper, you are asking the right person, others don't know, I can hear from the island chief, what is the name of the Blue Coat Society!" ”

When Bai Baoyuan heard this, his heart moved: Blue Coat Society, he once heard the officers of the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army talk about it, it seems to be the Imperial Forest Army of Chairman Jiang, and they are secretive. Could it be that Wencheng now has the Blue Coat Society? He continued to pour the wine on Meng's head, but this guy couldn't say anything specific, except for bragging, it was nonsense.

In the afternoon, a few Japanese soldiers with loaded guns suddenly broke into the restaurant under the guidance of the maintenance figures. They searched every corner of the restaurant, and then questioned and searched the few diners, and the Japanese soldiers immediately sat down at the dining table and asked for food. Bai Baoyuan was almost so angry that he turned his back on it, so he had to swallow his anger and bring a few kinds of wine and food. Fortunately, the Japanese soldiers had strict military discipline, and they didn't dare to leave their military affairs to eat and drink like Meng Longsheng and them, so they hurriedly ate for a while and ran back to the street to continue the search.

At the end of the night, the wind finally came from the street: the Japanese soldiers scattered in the streets began to assemble, and then boarded trucks and drove away through the east gate. Bai Baoyuan went out for a walk on the street, and sure enough, he found that many Japanese sentries who had appeared on the streets since yesterday had disappeared. It seems that the operation to hunt down anti-Japanese elements has come to an end.

Bai Baoyuan breathed a sigh of relief: in a few hidden places in this restaurant, there were several fast guns of different lengths hidden, all of which were goods on the underground arms black market that he was going to trade, but fortunately they were not found by the Japanese. However, Meng Longsheng, a bastard who came today, now has guns and men, and there are Japanese people behind him to support him, and he has lost Yang Yaokang, a big backer, and I am afraid that the restaurant will have a hard time in the future.

He had already sent someone to report to the big boss at the Black Stone Cliff of Guanmen Mountain, telling her that Meng Longsheng had changed his identity and asked her to be careful. But the messenger has not yet returned, and the great boss has not returned from the mountains. I once had the heart to make friends with Meng Longsheng: the number of roads on the rivers and lakes, if you can't be the right one, find a way to be friends. However, the attack on the city hall that happened just now suddenly made him, an old Jianghu, realize that there was a infiltrating force in Wencheng, which was working against the Japanese, and it was fierce, and he killed several maintenance presidents as soon as he came up. This is tantamount to announcing to the people of Wencheng: If you are a traitor, there is no good end!

When did this force sneak into Wencheng? Baoyuan Restaurant is the most well-informed place, but before this, I have never heard the slightest rumor of it.

Suddenly, Bai Baoyuan remembered something, and suddenly, the images of several men and women flashed in the mind of the restaurant shopkeeper!