Chapter 260 Assassination
The golden sunlight of the early summer evening shines on the magnificent Huitong Bank Building, reflecting a colorful halo of light, which is intoxicating.
The waiting time passed minute by minute
The people sitting in the café were all focused on the window, they didn't notice that there was a waiter missing from the bar of the café, and the owner of the café sitting at the bar was Mr. Aomatsu, who was a fashionable man in a suit, with black hair with shiny hair oil, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his white face, which looked polite.
These two groups of people, who should not have appeared in Huhai, strangely converged in this French-style café, each scheming and snooping on each other.
I don't know how long it took
The sun has set, there is only a trace of sunset left in the sky, two four-wheeled carriages drove in front of the headquarters building of Huitong Bank, and several big men in suits and leather shoes walked out accompanied by a group of bodyguards, stood on the steps and said goodbye with a smile, and then entered the front and rear carriages respectively.
Bergson's gray-blue eyes were staring into the distance like a falcon, and he could confirm that the middle-aged man with a slightly fat posture was the target Zhu Wei, who was dressed and looked very different, and Zhu Wei and the two gringos sat in a carriage behind.
The two armed bodyguards immediately sat next to the driver in front of them, and the other two bodyguards sat on the wooden frame behind the rear of the car, and the driver threw out a loud whip to drive the luxurious carriage with two horses all the way forward.
Pressed for time
Bergson just glanced at Sheng Yeyun quickly, saw that his eyes were full of expectation, nodded heavily, and immediately got up and walked out quickly.
The action team had entered the ambush site ahead of schedule as expected, and to really pull the trigger, Bergson, the head of the operation team, had to personally command the scene and launch a thunderous blow.
After they all left, Sheng Yeyun stood up unhurriedly, holding the cheongsam Miss Shi Shiran and left.
Adjacent to Nanjing East Road, there are many high-end hotels, casinos and nightclubs.
The carriage had to pass through an arched stone bridge from the Ten Mile Ocean, and it was an excellent place to ambush here, which naturally slowed down.
In the carriage in the rear
On the main seat sat two proud Westerners, one was Sir Mason, a senior director of HSBC who had just arrived from England, and the other was Mr. Junirio, a French director of the Ministry of Industry of the Shanghai Public Concession.
"Mr. Hou, I found that you are very similar to His Excellency Sir Zhu, and you actually confused me at first, don't you think you think it?"
"Huh...... Sir Mason, who I used to work in Europe, knew that Europa people often had difficulty distinguishing Orientals, and thought that Orientals all looked the same, and we called it face blindness, which was a very interesting phenomenon. ”
"Well, it's possible that I was mistaken." Sir Mason smiled and turned to Mr. Junilio; "I am very satisfied with the progress made in today's talks, the two sides have reached a preliminary agreement, HSBC will have a comprehensive and in-depth cooperation with Huitong Bank and Normandy, we have a very tacit cooperation in Samarinda, and we hope to strengthen comprehensive financial cooperation in Australia, Manchuria and the entire South Seas region in the future, I think this will make the shareholders of the British Isles very satisfied, and I would like to thank Mr. Junilio for connecting us with each other, and I will highlight this in my special report to the Board of Directors."
"Thank you, Sir Mason, both the Huitong Bank and the Normandy Company are large and well-known enterprises, and have worked with the Public Concession and the Ministry of Industry for many years, and I myself have cooperated with them as a director in charge of the Financial Services Committee, and I am especially familiar with Sir Chu, although it has been rumored that I myself have a considerable estrangement with Sir Chu, I can responsibly say that this is completely nonsense." Mr. Junilio was also very satisfied with the results of today's emergency talks, and he raised his glass with a reserved expression, which contained a bright red French red wine, and raised his glass;
"Let's toast to the breakthrough that has been made in today's talks, and I think it's a very good start."
"Hahaha...... That's fantastic. Sir Mason raised his glass as well.
Hou Guanghai sat in front of these two big men and felt deeply honored, he was quickly promoted from a little-known small clerk, and he couldn't find the north, and he also raised his wine glass with both hands and said with a smile; "Congratulations to the two adults, Sir Zhu attaches great importance to the relationship with the Ministry of Industry and HSBC, and has specially organized a grand reception tonight, and will invite some leading figures in Shanghai and the Strait to attend, and some official bigwigs even want to personally post to invite, specially entrusted to accompany him temporarily, please don't be surprised."
"Hahaha...... Sir Zhu was too polite. ”
The two four-wheeled carriages, one in front and one behind, slowed down as they crossed the arch bridge, when an ox cart in front of it suddenly broke its axle and overturned, and piles of sacks like hills were scattered everywhere, completely blocking the road.
As a last resort, the two carriages stopped one after another.
Nanjing East Road is a very prosperous main road, and after the carriage turned and passed the curved arch bridge, the front was blocked, and several rickshaws soon followed and had to stop.
The rickshaw driver who pulled the cart looked a little anxious and wiped the hot sweat on his face, and looked forward on tiptoe, seeing that the road was blocked but helpless.
A strong man wearing a hat and carrying a burden passed by the carriage and stopped, and the bodyguard sitting in the back looked at him with a puzzled expression, always feeling that something was wrong.
This man with a hat was tall, and the coarse cloth clothes he was wearing were a little too clean, and what was especially surprising was that the skin color was too white when viewed from the neck under the hat, almost like a Caucasian.
"Not good...... There is a ...... of fraud"
The two bodyguards sitting on the wooden frame behind them looked at each other in horror, and in a panic, they pulled out their revolvers to stop them......
Right here and now
Several Western men sitting in the rickshaw behind suddenly stood up, drew their revolvers and fired them intensively at close range, and the crisp dense gunfire beat the two bodyguards in the rear into a blood sieve.
The strong man carrying the burden ignored it, quickly twitched his hands on the front and rear burdens, and then threw it the luxurious carriage, two slimy weights were firmly nailed to the carriage, and the fuse on it emitted a dazzling spark, which was particularly conspicuous in this quiet evening.
"Oh sell, run."
The Westerner standing on the rickshaw and shooting with all his might was the cold-faced Bergson, who saw that the explosive bag had been ignited, and was so frightened that he ran down like a rabbit and ran wildly into the scattered crowd.
There were only a few helpless rickshaw drivers left at the scene, one was hit by a stray bullet and fell in a pool of blood, and several other people shivered and hid next to the car and insisted.
At this time, the gunman in front had already reacted, and was drawing his gun to shoot at the rear, and the strong man carrying the burden ran back a few steps before being hit by a hot bullet, and a few red blood flowers bloomed on his back, and he fell on the side of the curved arch bridge.
"Boom ......" two earth-shattering loud sounds
The shock wave generated by the powerful explosion swept through like a violent wind, and the scraps of meat and iron produced by the explosion knocked down a large number of people nearby who had no time to dodge, and the sturdy bulletproof carriage was twisted and deformed, and the stumps and broken arms of the horses and the bodyguards in the front seat all flew into the air, forming two tragic bloody mushroom clouds.
The bulletproof carriage in front was also overturned by the powerful impact, and the two horses were knocked to the ground with a wail, and were severely injured by the strong shock wave.
After the thick smoke of gunpowder, the scene was a tragic scene.
The carriage at the center of the explosion was completely destroyed, crumpled and torn apart like a toy, and there were splatters of blood and stumps and broken arms everywhere, a blown wheel was thrown to the side of the curved arch bridge more than 10 meters away, and a wheel was thrown to the side of the ox cart dozens of meters away, which shows that the explosion is extremely powerful, and there will be no survivors left at the scene of the explosion center.
It didn't take a few minutes
The sharp whistle sounded everywhere, and a large group of red-headed Ah San and the concession patrol rushed all the way......
It didn't take long
The British executive of the patrol room with the logo of the senior inspector on his shoulder arrived, and he took a large group of Western police officers to carefully investigate the scene.
There was a wailing sound everywhere at the scene, like a bloody slaughterhouse, and dozens of people were lying down radioactively, killing and wounding.
Four Westerners were rescued from the four-wheeled carriage in front, including the attaché of HSBC and the foreign attaché of the Ministry of Industry, two of whom had been shocked to death on the spot, and two of them were seriously injured and vomited blood.
After a long time
Report by the senior police officer in charge of the investigation; "Report to the Inspector, we found the body of a white Western man dressed in coarse cloth at the scene, who had been shot five times in the back, and according to eyewitnesses at the scene, it was he who threw two explosives into the carriage and was the culprit in this shocking bombing.
The on-site investigation and the confession of eyewitnesses can basically restore the original face of this vicious explosion.
This is a highly targeted and vicious attack planned by a foreign force, and the targets may be the victims, Sir Mason and Mr. Junilio, directors of the British HSBC Bank, and the motive for the crime is unknown, and further investigation is pending. ”
"Oh Sellga, pray to God Almighty to punish these wicked people, what has happened to me?" The British Senior Inspector had a splitting headache and was going crazy.
"Lord Inspector, do you still want to investigate this case?"
"Check, mobilize all forces for me to find out, if we can't find out the real culprit behind the scenes, none of us here, including me, can afford such serious consequences, this is not a vicious explosion case, but a serious diplomatic incident, we must know who is so daring? He will pay a heavy price for it. The Senior Inspector shouted with his hands waving his hands, his expression a little out of shape.
This is really a closed-door house, and disaster comes from heaven.
Whether it is Sir Mason, a senior director of HSBC, or Mr. Junirio, a director of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau, his immediate boss, they are both very influential figures, and they both died in vain under the curved arch bridge on Nanjing East Road, which makes people want to cry without tears.
This big black cauldron is firmly buckled, even if it is the British senior inspector of the patrol room, he can't bear it!
He felt a blackening in front of him, his face turned even paler, and his lips trembled as he commanded; "I want you to use all your power to find out which bastard did it? No matter if any informant provides important clues, we will reward me heavily, and give me a reward of 500 taels of silver to solicit clues, no...... A reward of 1,000 taels of silver, I want to know the result within three days, otherwise you will all give me a hook bar to sell my ass, this time I am serious, do you understand? ”
"Yes, Inspector." A group of foreign police officers received the order in horror and complained bitterly.
This is really a hornet's nest, and you have to fight with all your energy to deal with this level, otherwise everyone will not be pleased, and they will all die.