Chapter 58: Assassination of Admiral Chen

On the night of August 14, 1940, Chongqing

The air forces of the Japanese army and navy have been carrying out a large-scale bombardment of Chongqing for three days in a row, and the Japanese bombers have roared over the sky and the sun, and bombs have rained down from the sky, accompanied by bursts of explosions, and the entire city has suddenly been filled with gunsmoke, houses have collapsed, bridges have collapsed, and many neighborhoods have been turned into ruins. The once bustling city of Chongqing turned into a mess of corpses in the blink of an eye, and the injured were crushed underneath in the remains of the bombed-out buildings, groaning and screaming. The flesh and limbs of the dead were blurred and scattered, and the blood stained the streets. A large number of car houses caught fire and burned, and the cables were blown off and hung to the ground, causing another fire, which made the situation even more tragic.

The fire station in the city has long been destroyed in the previous bombing, although a large number of military and police military organs have also gone to the streets, but in the face of the ruins of the city, their strength seems so small, the first day, everyone is still desperately saving people, extinguishing fires, cleaning up the ruins, but before they finished, the devil's bombing the next day came again, and the military and police personnel in the city can not compete with the citizens for the air-raid shelter, can only stand up to meet the bombing, so they suffered great losses, and all the losses are elite, This made both the Ministry of Military Affairs and the city government distressed.

Today was originally foggy, everyone thought that the Japanese bomber group was not coming, but never thought that the Japanese bomber group still came, and bombed the city indiscriminately, although compared with the previous two days the bombs scattered a lot, but most of them still fell into the urban area, only later came out the news, it turned out that during the bombing, several nearby commanding heights were inexplicably ignited fires, these fires provided a good guide for the devil group, as long as you compare the map, you can judge the approximate location of the group, and then bombBy the time the nearby garrison extinguished the fire, the bombardment would have been over long ago.

After nightfall, the fires in many parts of the city have not been extinguished, and everywhere is filled with gunsmoke, scorched with the smell of barbecue, and the occasional police whistle and gunshot, it seems that this night in Chongqing will not be peaceful.

And near the sewer alley, in the basement of a dilapidated house, more than a dozen men dressed in ordinary clothes are resting.

If you look closely, you will find that these seemingly ordinary men are very strong, not as thin as most Chinese civilians, but their bodies are strong and their eyes are sharper, and in the middle of the basement, under a dim oil lamp, several men are discussing something around a map.

One of them is Hirata Ichiro Dazuo mentioned by Xue Feng and Zhao Gang not long ago, and what the two didn't expect was that there were also Yamamoto Kazuki and Qian Bojun and others here, at this moment, they were planning an action that would shock the entire Huaxia and the world, yes, they were going to assassinate the Standing Committee Chairman.

The Japanese side has been seeking peace talks with the Chongqing government in order to end the war quickly, but in the past few years, the negotiations have not achieved much, and even after the establishment of the Jinling puppet regime, the negotiations between the two sides have become even more difficult; although the Japanese government is still insisting on negotiations, the military department no longer has any illusions about ending the war through negotiations.

On the one hand, the military department has increased military pressure on the Chongqing government to force them to see the facts clearly, and on the other hand, it has taken active actions to try to split the seemingly united anti-Japanese camp, so that the Standing Committee Chairman has become a core key point, and in the eyes of the military department, as long as the Standing Committee Chairman can be assassinated, the morale of the people in China will be hit only on one side, and the key is that those military leaders under the Standing Committee Chairman will definitely be in chaos, and when the time comes, the Chongqing Government itself will be in chaos. The rotten situation of war can be reversed.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Senior General Okamura Ninji personally returned to Tokyo and presented our plan of action to the Ministry of War and His Majesty the Emperor, and His Majesty very much recognized our idea, and personally named the plan - 'The Final War', and next, we will see our performance!" Major General Yamamoto Kazuki had a smug expression, this time the operation was absolutely secret, on the side of the dispatch army, in addition to the personnel who directly participated in the battle, only Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka and General Okamura Ninji knew about it, for absolute secrecy, when reporting to the base camp, it was General Okamura Ninji who went to Tokyo in person, and until now, almost no words have been formed, and everything is in the minds of the relevant personnel.

If it weren't for someone who happened to have seen Ichiro Hirata, it is estimated that the military command would not have even touched the slightest clue, but what Director Dai didn't know was that Ichiro Hirata didn't come to Chongqing to fight the front station at all, but simply one of the operatives.

"Loyal to His Majesty the Emperor! Tie up Zai! More than a dozen people in the room all responded in a serious whisper, their faces flushed, their voices trembled, obviously, they were all excited, during this time, Yamamoto's troops can be said to be out of the limelight, but like now, it is the first time to directly carry out the mission of His Majesty the Emperor.

"Hirata-kun, are the people involved in the on-site operation ready?" Yamamoto Kazuki asked solemnly, this time they parachuted into Chongqing in a group of night bombing planes, although they used TB3 bombers to deliver, they could carry a lot of weapons, ammunition and materials, so he still only had a dozen people in his hands, and if he wanted to carry out this plan, he had to get help from the local secret services.

"Ready, it's a twelve-person action group of the special high school agency, all of them are some old agents who have been lurking for more than three years, they have eight Jin-made Thomson submachine guns, four Russian-made PPD34 submachine guns, for the sake of insurance, the bullets are all steel core bullets and dummy bullets are mixed one-to-one, and each person will carry a time bomb with a charge of 1 kg of TNT, five minutes of timing, and an artificial detonation button is also set, which can be used as a meat bomb at the last moment." The team of the special high school agency that Hirata Ichiro Osa said, in fact, had the same goal as them at the beginning, but after a few years, they didn't find the slightest opportunity to start, no way, Chongqing's military and police special organs are too terrifying, if there is no support from Yamamoto's troops, even if their firepower is not weak, they don't even have the strength to fight with the police.

"Such a big movement, it won't attract the attention of the Chinese people, right?" Kazuki Yamamoto hesitated, more than a dozen armed men wanted to approach the target area with weapons, and once the horse's feet were exposed, it would be a trivial matter for them to be killed by the military police, but the whole plan would be aborted.

"The West Street side is not considered a trunk road, and the important members of the Chongqing government usually don't go at all, so the force is relatively weak, the two peripheral security points of the military command and the central command, a smoke house, and a restaurant, add up to only six agents, and they are usually busy doing business to earn funds, and they don't notice our people at all.

At present, the personnel and weapons are in place, and the statement I gave to the special high division action team is that they need to assist us in pulling out the material turnover station of the Eighth Route Army, and they also believe it, and the problem now is that although this residential area is all low houses, the situation is very complicated.

It's up to us to clear this area in time, otherwise it will be difficult for the action team to get close to it quickly within five minutes. Hirata Ichiro pointed to an area next to West Street, a little hesitant, as for ambushing the action team directly into the target area, don't be a fool, the Huaxia agents are not stupid, they won't give them a chance at all.

"Chan-san." Yamamoto Kazuki turned his head and looked at Qian Bojun on the side, this guy and his two subordinates are the most "ordinary" and the least likely to arouse suspicion, so most of the work that needs to be shown is actually done by these traitors.

"Here, here, and here, we rented three houses, each with more than 200 kilograms of homemade nitroglycerin, which, if it exploded, would be enough to clear the area of civilian houses and clear the way for the commandos and machine gun crews." Qian Bojun was not frightened by Yamamoto Kazuki's almost crazy plan at the beginning, this guy actually wanted to clean up an entire residential area, in that case, it would cause at least hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties, but compared to letting a twelve-person action team directly enter the target area, this plan seems to be more crazy, but it also has more chances, as a hardcore traitor, Qian Bojun and others, who have no way out, can only go to the dark with one way.

Today, when pushing those nitroglycerin disguised as bottled wine in, Qian Bojun felt that his whole person was not good, we didn't play like this, nitroglycerin, the stability of this thing, as long as one is not careful, it is the rhythm of ascending to heaven on the spot, but Qian Bojun, who has no way out, can only do it hard.

"Saga, Chansang, you're doing well." Kazuki Yamamoto calculated the explosive power of these explosives in his heart, and then thought about the wooden houses in that area, and couldn't help but turn up the corners of his mouth.

"Your Excellency, my machine gun position is set here, two heavy machine guns, Maxim M1910 heavy machine guns, each with five hundred rounds of ammunition, unfortunately the tripod can't be found after landing, but I used sandbags to pile up the machine guns, as long as the target appears in our preset area, it can still shoot normally." Qian Bojun pointed to a location on the map and said, it was a hotel located on West Third Street, a very dilapidated low-end hotel, very messy, very inconspicuous, far from the main road, and the sight conditions were average, it was definitely not the focus of the Huaxia secret service.

But once the operation is launched, the second floor of the hotel can directly see the target area, and two Maxim heavy machine guns can easily cover that area at a distance of less than a thousand meters, the last time he attacked Xi'an Airport, Qian Bojun commanded the heavy machine gun to make meritorious contributions, and this time he really wanted to replicate this achievement, assassinate the chairman of the committee, no matter whether it will be a hundred years old or a legacy for thousands of years, his Qian Bojun's name will eventually be recorded in the history books.

"It's not a big problem, once the firing boundary is blocked, you also have to project all the bullets into this area in the shortest possible time, a thousand rounds of steel core bullets, even if you can't kill Chairman Chang, will greatly kill and injure the entourage, after emptying the bullets, you and your people should not hesitate, immediately go to the predetermined area, and wait to meet us." Kazuki Yamamoto pushed a photo into the middle of several people, and a building in the photo was marked with a special sign, and once the action began, the house facing the street would be completely blown up and emptied.

"Your Excellency General, the snipers and weapons have been dispersed and have entered the target area, tomorrow, the snipers will not act first, but will act after the operation is launched, and then only need to use the silent pistol on the second floor of the two military command agents to start sniping the Standing Chairman, because the distance is only less than two hundred meters, we have also prepared a PPD34 submachine gun and two 71-round magazines for the sniper." Ichiro Hirata pushed two photos over, one of a teahouse facing the street, and the other of a window on the second floor of the teahouse, which was their predetermined area of attack. When the operation started, there would be two military commanders on the second floor of the teahouse, so no one would suspect that someone would attack there, but the agent disguised as a teahouse guy was confident that he could quickly take out the two men.

"Yaga, didn't I say it, I'm going to go over and act as a sniper myself!" Yamamoto Kazuki said sharply, because to ensure the foolproof operation, the plan was that Yamamoto Kazuki was going to act as a sniper himself, but Hirata Ichiro was good at asserting himself and replaced himself, which made him unable to get out of anger.

"Your Excellency, you should know that in that environment, you are not more advantageous than others, and you are too tall, and you have a serious Northeast accent, it is really not suitable to sneak in, and your photos are also very wide." Hirata Ichiro is a very competent intelligence officer, Yamamoto Kazuki is indeed very powerful, but his disadvantages are more obvious, in that environment, even any senior soldier can complete the task, where would a general be used, if it is not for the goal of the Standing Committee this time, such a scale of action, he Hirata Ichiro himself can complete it.

"Watanabe-kun, can your mortar hit New Gulou Street?" Measured the distance from the sewer alley to the new drum tower street again with a ruler, Yamamoto asked Watanabe Yuichi who was overhauling the artillery in the corner with some hesitation, such a distance, Yamamoto Kazuki's favorite Fengzai 150 heavy mortar can only be reached, so all he can count on is the Russian-made 120mm mortar that Watanabe Yuichi is maintaining, which is the trophy of the imperial army at Nomenkan, although it is said that the performance is good, but Yamamoto Kazuki has no confidence in the weapons that have not been used.

"Your Excellency, General, it's completely possible, the only pity is that we only have ten high-explosive bombs in our hands." Yuichi Watanabe stood up and reported in a low voice, after several actions, as an intelligence staff officer, he was going to change his career to be an artilleryman.

"That's fine, just like before, empty the ammunition as soon as the fight starts, and then, together with you, disguise yourself as a firefighter to attack the hospital and cut off their last hope." Yamamen Kazuki nodded, no one dared to guarantee whether their seemingly strict plan would succeed, if the Standing Chairman was only injured, they would have to carry out the next plan, attacking the Chairman of the Committee with heavy protection was obviously not as easy as attacking the hospital, and the hospital they selected also had many valuable targets, not to mention those high-ranking officers and politicians, just the thousands of grassroots officers were very good targets, and eliminating these officers was no different from eliminating tens of thousands of Chinese troops.

"Your Excellency, haven't we planted time bombs in several target hospitals?" Hirata Ichiro hesitated a little, and said in his heart You Yamamoto Kazuki is a major general of the empire, where is there a general who thinks about participating in the battle in person every day, this is simply a little unreasonable.

The most important thing is that after infiltrating Chongqing, Yamamoto Kazuki changed his battle plan several times, using dozens of useless 150 mortar shells to set up a time bomb to destroy all the hospitals and clinics in the city that can perform surgery, and now he wants to make up a raid, isn't this an extra move?

"Hirata-kun, we must have a preparatory plan, nearly thirty explosion points, even if all of them are successful, it cannot be ruled out that the opponent still has a backup plan, such an action, we must ensure that nothing goes wrong!" Yamamoto Kazuki glanced at Ichiro Hirata dissatisfied, this guy has no doubt about his ability, but at the same time, he likes to interfere with his own command too much.

"Your Excellency said yes!" Hirata Ichiro saw that Yamamoto Kazuki's face was wrong, and he also realized that he was talking too much, and he also realized that as Yamamoto Kazuki said, it was impossible for them to eliminate all the backup plans of their opponents.

"Hirata-kun, how are the blockages of nearby bridges and intersections arranged?" Yamamoto Kazuki saw that Hirata Ichiro understood, so he changed the topic, compared to destroying the hospital, the better plan was obviously to let the other party have no chance to run out, let alone have a chance to support, so in the wider area near Xingulou Street, they also set up a blocking net, mainly to block traffic.

"None of the sites we chose were very important at the moment, so the placement of the explosives went smoothly, except for one bridge that was stronger than expected, so I had people add a blasting point in the nearby neighborhood, where directional blasting would be carried out and rubble would be used to block traffic." Hirata Ichiro continued to report that in order to ensure that the plan was foolproof, Yamamoto Kazuki revised the assassination plan one after another, and then the explosives he carried were insufficient, so Hirata Ichiro also bought a lot of fuel and explosives from the black market, which is why he was targeted by the military commander.

The reason why it is necessary to avoid using the hidden personnel of those secret agencies as much as possible is also the consideration of Yamamoto Kazuki, the failure of many plans of the empire in recent years is a bloody example, the more people who know, the greater the risk of exposure, so after coming to Chongqing this time, they will avoid contact with local hidden personnel as much as possible, from the current point of view, this is very wise.

"Very well, gentlemen, then let's look forward to tomorrow!" Kazuki Yamamoto looked around at everyone and whispered.

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"