Under the jurisdiction of the Japanese army's Bunjo secret service, there is a plainclothes team of more than 50 people, and the personnel are all carefully selected from the army's combat units by the head of the secret service, Masao Kojima; Many of them were his old subordinates when he was in the secret service of the Manchurian Empire. This plainclothes squad is divided into four detachments, except for one detachment on standby on weekdays, the other three detachments are scattered and lurking in many key locations in the city, mixed with the civilian population, monitoring movements.

In the vicinity of the railway station, at least one plainclothes detachment has been roaming for a long time, and more than a dozen Japanese spies dressed in the uniforms of the Chinese people have been haunting day and night, searching for all suspicious targets with wide eyes.

In addition, the head of the island agency also ordered Meng Longsheng to send a detachment of the Shina Detective Team to the area in front of the station to cooperate with the plainclothes team to carry out the task.

Therefore, when Xiao Junping and his members of the enemy workers were in the shantytown on the side of the square in front of the station, forced to shoot and kill the soldier ruffian Zhang Shaonian and others, it didn't take long for six or seven people from the nearby Japanese plainclothes team and Meng Longsheng's detective team to quickly rush to the edge of the shantytown from different directions.

The fastest-moving Japanese soldiers in plainclothes took the lead in breaking into the shantytown in the general direction of the gun. As a result, they found Xiao Junping and the three of them, who were arguing about whether to retreat or not, and immediately shone a flashlight from afar, and shouted to the other party not to move.

Seeing this situation, the enemy engineer captain of the Eighth Route Army had no choice but to give up the plan to get back the 100-yuan ocean bag and retreat in the opposite direction of the enemy. But they didn't get far away when they were confronted by a small group of heavily armed Japanese patrols—the Japanese soldiers who had rushed into the shantytown from the station square, and the one who led the way, with the help of the street lamp, saw at a glance the Mauser* carried by Xiao Junping and the others, and immediately asked in Japanese if it was a plainclothes team of the secret service.

Xiao Junping, who knew Japanese, was stunned at first, and then immediately understood that this was a cautious move made by the Japanese soldiers for fear of accidentally injuring their own people, and he just wanted to answer in Japanese so as to get through the test in confusion, but unexpectedly, the two enemy engineers next to him raised their guns at the same time and raised their hands to shoot.

The two enemy engineers could not understand what the Japanese soldiers with Type 38 rifles were shouting, and they naturally and decisively chose to open fire.

In the midst of the gunfire, the Japanese soldiers at the front fell to the ground in response, and the rest began to return fire in a panic.

This is a typical encounter, Xiao Junping and the three of them are shooting while urgently looking for concealment, and then the two sides are engaged in a ping-pong firefight.

At this moment, the two soldiers of the 391st Regiment Special Service Company who had just rushed out of the nearby shantytown houses rushed to the flank of the firefight.

The Japanese soldiers who were flanked were caught off guard by the sudden and rapid attack, and lost the fire suppression of Xiao Junping and the others in a short time, which made the latter seize this opportunity and quickly leave the scene.

Squad Leader Shen and Peng Sanxi succeeded in one blow, and they didn't dare to fight at the moment, so they turned around and ran back in the direction they came. But this time, they ran onto another complicated path, and almost tripped over Zhang Shaonian, who was lying in the middle of the path.

At that time, Zhang Shaonian, a ruffian of the Jin Army who was shot in the chest, had already entered the dying, and the squad leader of the Central Army spy company Shen was worried that this person would be a fellow anti-Japanese person, so he leaned down to check on his head, but Zhang Shaonian regarded the other party as a Japanese puppet spy, and spit out a sentence with his last strength: Cheng Ruixiang's shopkeeper Xiao...... It's anti-Japanese.

Shocked by this, squad leader Shen instantly understood that this strong man who was shot and fell to the ground was not a friend or an enemy, so he raised his right hand without hesitation, and hit Zhang Shaonian's temple with the hard handle of Mauser*, and immediately said to Peng Sanxi beside him: Run!

However, before they could run a few steps again, several Japanese plainclothes agents suddenly turned out of a nearby alley, spotted the backs of the two of them running, and immediately called out in Japanese. Seeing that the other party did not stand still, he immediately shot and chased him.

In the messy rain of bullets, Peng Sanxi, who was running behind, was unfortunately hit in the back and stumbled two steps to the ground. Although he had noticed that his comrades had been shot, the enemy was outnumbered and chased closer and closer, and squad leader Shen did not dare to stop and continue to run wildly, until he was about to turn into a fork in the road, he risked his life to look back, which allowed him to witness the moment when several Japanese spies captured Peng Sanxi.

Masao Kojima, the head of the secret service, received an urgent call from the leader of a plainclothes detachment cruising around the area in front of the train station. After listening to the report with the microphone, Masao Kojima couldn't help but be shocked and angry.

- It's a shanty town next to the square in front of the station again! The last time there was an attack by anti-Japanese elements in that area, no clues have been sorted out so far, and I can't imagine that there was an accident in that place again tonight!

What gave the head of the Japanese secret service a glimmer of hope was that his plainclothes squad had just captured alive an anti-Japanese element who was making trouble with a gun in a shantytown, and this was the first time that anyone had been arrested alive since the first anti-Japanese incident occurred in Wencheng! Perhaps, the gap will break through from here.

Knowing that the suspect had been shot in the back and was not seriously injured, the head of the Kojima Office ordered him to be immediately sent to the hospital to save his life—there was a Japanese-style clinic west of the city hall, and Koga Koichi, the attending doctor, had a close history with the Bunjo military and was trustworthy.

After arranging all this, Masao Kojima immediately drove to the front of the railway station with a few of his subordinates.

After this toss, the area in front of the station is already rumored at this moment, and the Japanese soldiers who are responsible for guarding the area of the railway station have blocked the nearby streets and alleys, and focused on surrounding the shantytown on the north side of the square in front of the station from the outside.

Dozens of Japanese puppet spies from the plainclothes squad and the detective squad of the secret service were conducting a large-scale search of the shantytown with the cooperation of the heavily armed Japanese infantry squad.

Masao Kojima was led directly to the shantytown, and successively inspected several places where the firefight had just taken place. The commander of the plainclothes squad proudly reported that in addition to capturing one anti-Japanese activist, two other suspects were killed at the scene and a suspicious body was also seized.

The head of the secret service had a look of surprise on his face: this was indeed an unprecedented achievement, but the problem was: the anti-Japanese elements did not attack any important targets near the station, and the gunfire was originally coming from the shantytown - and what was there to make a big deal about the anti-Japanese in this dilapidated shantytown?!

As soon as Masao Kojima's question came out, the fluttering Japanese plainclothes agents suddenly calmed down, and they began to re-inspect the firefighting area, reviewing and checking several crossfire scenes at the location where the suspect's body was found, and gradually, an embarrassing fact surfaced: After reviewing and recalling, near the location of the body of one of the suspects who was shot, there was no shooting exchange between plainclothes team members and detective team members and the suspect, so it can be basically determined that the suspect was not shot by our personnel! Another suspicious male corpse not far from the suspect who was shot should have died by being stabbed into the heart with a short knife, and it has been verified that it was not committed by our personnel!

"Baga!" The head of the island finally couldn't help but curse, this group of brainless warriors had just been self-righteous to show off their achievements, but they didn't expect that two of the three corpses had nothing to do with them.

The only place where the exchange of fire was absolutely confirmed was that the man had been shot in the chest, and the plainclothes team had shot another suspect and captured him alive in the immediate vicinity. However, it didn't take long for the man's corpse to announce that a small cloth bag full of silver dollars had been found near the man's corpse.

The situation has become unpredictable and is likely to turn towards a case of robbery. The suspicious head of the Japanese secret service ordered to continue the careful search here, and finally found a different one from several left bullet casings, Kojima Masao recognized at a glance that this was a 7.62 caliber bullet casing, and the plainclothes team member who had just shot and killed the suspected suspect here was holding a 14-caliber Southern 14 pistol, and the 8 mm caliber bullet fired by the gun was obviously different from the 7.62 caliber bullet casing.

"What does that mean?" The head of the secret service raised the bullet casing he was pinching at his fingertips, and said coldly to several subordinates around him: "Of the three suspects who died, none of them should have died in your hands!" - Immediately investigate the identity of the deceased, and then cooperate with the confession of the suspect who was captured alive to find out the identity and motive of the murderer! ”

The captain of the plainclothes detachment, who was constantly breaking out in a cold sweat on his back, answered the order in a panic, and the complacent feeling just now had disappeared completely.

Masao Kojima left behind his stupid subordinates and walked towards the outskirts of the shabby and chaotic shantytown.

Who could have done it? What is the connection between the dead and the murderer? How could there be cloth pockets with large quantities of silver dollars in the barren shantytowns? Murderers come only to rob money? If the 7.62 caliber bullet was a short gun, it would undoubtedly be a Mauser*, which was a common sidearm used by the Chinese Army and the Blue Coat Society. What happened in this shanty town this night? Based on past experience, there is little hope of obtaining clues for the large-scale manhunt that is still being carried out in the net. It seems that the only way to find the answer is from the mouth of the suspect with the gun who was captured alive.

Thinking of this, the head of the Japanese secret service suddenly whispered to the entourage beside him:

"Go to Koga Clinic, quick!"

On the street in front of the station, a black car with two military three-wheeled motorcycles driving the road in front and behind and accompanying them quickly started and galloped towards City Hall Boulevard.