Masao Kojima, who hurried to the scene of the attack on the city hall, his face was almost out of the water, and his heart was full of anger when he looked at the steps outside the city hall building, which was full of dead and injured - damn it, this horrific incident actually happened just a step away from the secret service! It's definitely a great shame for him to be the head of the secret service!

Just now, when he was running out from Major General Hagiwara's brigade headquarters, Masao Kojima vaguely heard the general summoning the chief of staff of the river on the phone - Bunjo now has an independent infantry brigade directly under the brigade headquarters to be specifically responsible for the defense of the whole city, and the chief of staff of the brigade and regiment, Toshio Kawabe, is in charge of command.

Kojima Masao knew very well that the four squadrons of the independent infantry brigade were usually scattered to guard the three city walls and gates in the southeast and north, as well as the railway station in the west of the city, and there were no mobile forces to deploy, and the only garrison in the city that could be used at the moment was Iwata Shaosa's cavalry squadron.

But at this moment, no one can redeem him, the head of the secret service - this armed attack obviously came from anti-Japanese elements, and the one who needs to be responsible for apologizing is undoubtedly the head of the first Twitter secret service and the head of the first Twitter special service.

Too careless!

The island leader had a splitting headache, and his heart was as painful as if a small snake was biting and devouring it. He tried to force himself to compose: the tragedy had happened, and what he needed most now was calm, and only by being calm could he make quick judgments and reactions.

The plainclothes operation team under the intelligence squad of the Wencheng secret service is organized into five detachments, each with 12 or 3 people, two of which are specially responsible for the railway station in the west of the city and the long-distance bus station near the railway station; The two detachments patrolled other key areas of the city. The last detachment is on standby in the small building of the secret service, and now the plainclothes that Masao Kojima saw in the courtyard of the city hall are from this detachment; They heard a burst of gunfire in the front yard in the small building and immediately pounced, but still pounced.

"Chief Kojima, a large number of bullet casings were found at the scene, which should have been left behind by the perpetrator's gun, and I suspect that it was fired by Mauser*."

The detachment leader of the plainclothes detachment reported to him. Masao Kojima reached out and took a bullet casing and rubbed it, sure enough, it was 7.63 caliber, most likely belonging to Mauser, which was the type of gun that the soldiers fanatically liked.

"How many perpetrators are there? Did you find a close eyewitness? ”

Before Masao Kojima's words fell, he saw a familiar face with a big head shaking - Meng Longsheng, the captain of the Shina Special Service Team. He leaned over in sincere trepidation, stopping a few paces away from him. The head of the secret service couldn't help but be stunned: Why is this guy here? He immediately noticed that what Meng Longsheng was carrying at the moment was a Mauser pistol, which was the pistol assigned to the special team of China by the secret service.

"Meng, come here!"

Masao Kojima gestured to the other man, who immediately approached him in three steps and two steps.

"Captain Kojima, you are frightened, you have just led your subordinates in a fierce battle with the anti-Japanese elements, but unfortunately you didn't catch any of them!"

The head of the secret service became more and more surprised: "What did you say? Captain Meng, have you found the perpetrator of the assault on the celebration? How many people are there approximately? ”

The captain of the ruffian traitor suddenly paused in embarrassment - he wanted to ask for credit in front of the island chief, but he was speechless by the other party's question: except for hearing the gunshots just now, he himself didn't actually see any of the attackers.

Seeing that Meng Longsheng was silent, Kojima Masao raised the empty bullet casing in his hand again, and asked suspiciously: "These bullets were fired by you and your men?" Where were you at the time of the incident? ”

Meng Longsheng didn't dare to brag anymore, so he had to tell what had just happened. However, when answering the question of why he and his men were at the town hall, he still made up a nonsense that he had already thought of:

"I heard that President Yang said that there was going to be a celebration today, so I specially brought my subordinates here to help maintain law and order. But the yard was too crowded for the lowly to enter, so they patrolled outside. ”

He also recently learned the word "policing" from a Japanese instructor.

Kojima Masao didn't think about the water in the words of the captain of the Shina secret service, and he secretly thought in his heart that he was ashamed: as a veteran spy chief, his vigilance was not as good as that of a Shina market who had just become a spy! He couldn't help but be really impressed by the Meng Longsheng in front of him - after all, the female anti-Japanese element killed a few days ago was from his hand!

What is the identity of the anti-Japanese elements who committed murder today? Are they related to the female anti-Japanese element named Zhou Yi? Could they be the Blue Coat Society of the Zhi Na people?!

The sound of horses' hooves interrupted Masao Kojima's train of thought, and he looked up to see that there were dozens of cavalry from the Iwata Cavalry Squadron, who were deployed at the brigade headquarters of General Hagiwara and the wing headquarters of the Otsuka Wing in the north of the castle on weekdays, and some cavalry patrolled the main streets of the castle during the day. Presumably, they had just received an order from Major General Hagiwara and rushed to the scene to support.

Leading the team was the cavalry squadron leader Iwata Shaozo himself. Iwata's cavalry squadron was once ambushed by the Shina Army at Little Elm Hill and suffered heavy losses, and the original three cavalry squadrons have been reduced to the current two.

"Commander Kojima, on the orders of the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade, I specially led the first cavalry squad to come to support, and my second squad is on emergency patrol in the streets;" Iwata did not dismount, but grabbed the reins and saluted Kojima Masao on his horse: "Also, the brigade commander asked me to tell you that he has ordered the city gate to be closed, and at the same time ordered a squadron of the Nara Infantry Brigade to make a detour to the railway station to strengthen the blockade, and another squadron is ready to enter the city at any time to carry out a search. ”

Kojima Masao quickly recalled the content of Iwata Shaoza's words, and greatly admired the deployment of the brigade commander Major General: In the end, he is a general who has experienced a hundred battles, and in such a short time, he made a quick and rapid transfer of troops. He understood that the general was waiting for his on-the-spot report and then coming up with his next course of action.

At present, the three gates have been closed, and although there is a huge gap in the western part of the city, where the railway station is located, the chief of staff of the river is personally in command (he himself is usually stationed in the railway station), and second, the Nara Infantry Brigade, which is deployed on the outskirts of the eastern city as a mobile force, has sent another squadron to support, and in addition to the fact that there are two plainclothes detachments of his secret service operating in that area, he should be fine.

The most important thing at the moment is to find out the size and identity of the attackers.

It was already certain that the bullet casings under his feet had come from the assailants' guns. One of Meng Longsheng's men was nearby at the time and clearly heard the continuous sound of bullets; In the case of the wounds of the attackers, each of them was shot at least twice, indicating that the attackers had opened the speed of Mauser* and carried out strafing.

The gunner's marksmanship was very accurate, and the place where the bullet casings jumped out was more than thirty meters away from the steps of the town hall building; Using a pistol at this distance, it is impossible to hit so many targets in one go without excellent marksmanship. Of course, there are all indications that the attacker at the scene was only one man, a man, who had fled with the crowd after the shooting.

According to the experience of Meng Longsheng's special team outside the gate of the city hall compound, it can be proved that at least one respondent was waiting outside the compound and shot and killed a member of the special team of China, causing the flow of people who were blocked in the courtyard to rush out. The agent who was shot was dead, and a bullet hit him in the back of the heart; This also shows that the person who fired the shot was also quite accurate, and the bullet casings picked up on the street were exactly the same as those fired in the yard, both of which were 7.63 calibers.

Then, the following can be determined: the attacker is an organization of at least two people, with the ability and background of professional military personnel; In view of the fact that the target of the shooting was the chairman and vice chairman of the city's public security maintenance association, it is almost certain that the attackers were anti-Japanese elements. Further speculation shows that the Blue Coat Society is extremely likely.

Masao Kojima looked at the gold watch on his wrist: judging from the time when the brigade commander, Major General, quickly ordered the closure of the entire city, the possibility of the attackers escaping from the city was slim, and they should be hiding somewhere in the city! The head of the secret service gritted his teeth and thought: they must be pulled out of the rat hole!

He handed over the scene to the commander of his plainclothes team, who focused on questioning the member of the special service team of China who had witnessed the attacker in the courtyard, and asked the technicians of the intelligence squad to immediately carry out a portrait based on his description.

"Shaozuo, this place is safe, please join your cavalry to patrol the streets, keep an eye out for suspicious people, etc."

Masao Kojima gave the order to the cavalry squadron leader, and then ran to the secret service building behind the city hall building and dialed the phone number of the commander of the Hagiwara Akira brigade.

"General, I request that the search and arrest be carried out immediately, and I ask the general to send that squadron of the Nara Infantry Brigade to enter the city as soon as possible and obey the dispatch."

Hagiwara Akira immediately agreed, and at the same time reminded: "An infantry squadron is close to two hundred people, including Iwata Shaosa's cavalry and your plainclothes team, there are only more than three hundred, how can there be no omissions in the search for such a large city?" ”

"I have already thought about it, and I will maintain the help of the original arrangement of the association to prepare for the investigation of the household registration, more than 500 people, and mobilize all of them to search for strangers in the place of residence - I analyze that the perpetrator is unlikely to be a local - and assist the imperial army in the search. Today, the anti-Japanese elements are attacking the leaders of the maintenance association, and most of those who investigate the household registration have some nepotism with the leaders of the maintenance association, and they will do their best to help the Imperial army out of righteous indignation. ”

Hagiwara was satisfied and asked the head of the secret service to carry it out immediately.

Up to now, the brigade commander and Major General have always been in a state of shock and anger, and Bunjo, a stagnant "city of shunmin," has had such a serious anti-Japanese incident, and Masao Kojima, the head of the secret service, cannot escape the blame. In particular, there has just been an incident of a female anti-Japanese activist, although the impact is not large, but it is enough to arouse vigilance; But the captain of the island is obviously seriously negligent!

Yang Yaokang was reportedly shot and killed, and the leading figures of the maintenance association were killed and wounded, which was a heavy blow to the city-wide household registration survey that was originally scheduled to be carried out, and directly affected the secret recruitment of comfort women.

Moreover, will the anti-Japanese elements make other moves after this incident? What is especially dangerous is that they will threaten the safety of the comfort women camp?!