The figure who appeared in front of the customs building was the person who had followed Yang An with Takahashi. Strictly speaking, it should be the Japanese who followed Lin Xiaocheng and his wife.

This Japanese man is the Japanese spy Qiao Yishan, who came from the investigation class of the South Manchuria Railway Corporation of Japan. This summer, he had just arrived in Shanghai from Northeast China.

Japan's Nanman Railway Corporation was established in 1906. It seems to be a railway company on the surface, but it is not just an ordinary railway company. It is actually a colonial invasion agency that carries out and operates Manchuria and promotes mainland Japanese policies, serving Japan's invasion of China.

In the second year of the company's establishment, the company's General Affairs Department, Transportation Department, Mining Department, and Affiliated Administration Department established investigation courses in Dalian, responsible for engaging in general economic and customary investigations in Manchuria and its surrounding areas, and successively established offices in many places in Northeast China, including Fengtian, Harbin and other places. Soon, the investigation course tasks of Japan's South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd. were expanded to "investigate various laws and systems in China, especially Manchuria and Mongolia, investigate industries, commerce, transportation, etc.", and began to set up offices in Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, even New York, the United States and Paris, France, to extend its intelligence tentacles.

Before the July 7 Incident, this spy agency had grown to more than 2,000 people. Its tentacles had extended to many fields such as China's politics, military, economy, agriculture, meteorology, transportation, geography, rivers, news, books and magazines. It collected and spyed many fields such as resources, mining, industry, transportation, and general economy in North China and the Yangtze River Basin. The investigation and mastery of local geographical data in the Yangtze River hydrology and local geographical data was even far deeper than that of the National Government. It is the intelligence agency with the deepest heritage and the largest spy agency in Japan.

Qiao Yishan's work in the Northeast was not going well, so he was transferred to Shanghai to work because of his old friend, the same ethnic group and fellow villager Yoshihito Takahashi. As soon as he arrived in Shanghai, he was taken by Takahashi and followed Lin Xiaocheng and waited for an opportunity to kidnap and kill Lin Xiaocheng to solve the problems of Chinese medicine prescription improvement and paste that had plagued Ikeda for many years. He had just conducted a tracking mission with Takahashi. He didn't know Takahashi's purpose, so he was assigned by the superiors to carry out infiltration reconnaissance missions in Nanjing.

After the outbreak of the Shanghai war, Japanese warships at the Huangpu River, the Yangtze River estuary and the Japanese Marine Corps Command were frequently bombed by the Chinese Air Force. However, due to the strong typhoon passing through Shanghai, the reconnaissance aircraft of the Japanese Navy Third Fleet were unable to take off and reconnaissance due to meteorological conditions. In this case, Qiao Yishan was ordered to go to Zhenjiang and Nanjing to infiltrate and investigate the situation of the Chinese Air Force's advance airport.

There were many spy intelligence agencies in the Japanese Empire, but each spy intelligence agency was in a system, and there were still certain gateway barriers between each other. It was impossible for different spy intelligence agencies to share resources. For the success of an intelligence personnel, the ready-made intelligence resources and the intelligence resources established by themselves would naturally be a difference between the two. When Qiao Yishan, who was not satisfied with the Northeast, arrived in Shanghai, his personal luck changed, and Takahashi privately told him that he could use his tentacles. Qiao Yishan's luck was really good. Under the leadership of Takahashi's two subordinates, he ran from Shanghai to Zhenjiang. Relying on the resources established by Ikeda and Takahashi in the local area, he quickly obtained the news that the Chinese Air Force built a new airport in the western suburbs of Yangzhou. In this way, he completed the infiltration reconnaissance mission without much effort.

When he returned to Shanghai with full confidence, he saw that Rongchang trade became a ruin. He didn't know whether it was because of bombing or arson, the Rongchang trade in Suzhou and Hebei had already turned into ruins.

Seeing this small piece of the only house that was burnt all, Qiao Yishan had an ominous premonition. He led the two people into the ruins, and the increasingly strong stench came. Of course, Qiao Yishan knew what this smell was, and his heart's premonition became stronger. The three of them twitched their noses, endured the stench, and continued to search in the ruins. They found more than ten burnt corpses in the ruins without much effort. They could no longer tell who they were.

Seeing so many people being burned to death, Qiao Yishan looked in disbelief. However, all this in front of him told him a fact. When he understood what might happen, the enthusiasm for making achievements in his heart was finally extinguished.

Qiao Yishan hoped that there were no Ikeda and Takahashi in these corpses, but these more than ten corpses were basically found in the same room. He guessed that something must be discussed here. At the meeting here, how could there be no Ikeda and Takahashi? Qiao Yishan couldn't convince him. Seeing the degree of corruption in the corpses, he could know that no one from him came to clean up the scene after the accident. He thought, could they all... Thinking of this, he knew that this meant that maybe he was going to start over in Shanghai, and Qiao Yishan felt desperate.

Qiao Yishan is a pragmatic spy. He knew that the war had begun and how important the ready-made resources should be to him. He just fired the first shot based on Takahashi, but he could not fire the second shot because of this damn bombing. He didn't know how fast the war would be, but he knew how many difficulties would be there to re-establish his intelligence channel at this time and how many opportunities to make merits would be missed.

Qiao Yishan regarded the transition to Shanghai as a turning point in his life. He had just experienced the joy of spying on intelligence and his mood suddenly fell into the cold valley. He felt like he wanted to cry. However, the pride of an imperial warrior made his tears stop in his eyes. He gritted his teeth tightly, raised his head, and did not let the tears flow.

After a long time, his heart finally completely returned to the calmness and vigilance of a spy. In an instant, his right hand slowly reached into his bag, held the handle of the pistol, opened the security in the bag, and glanced at the surroundings.

I have to say that Takahashi is lucky because it is still part of the battlefield in Shanghai's urban area. The Military Control Commission has no time to take care of itself and has not arranged people to stare at the ruins.

Takahashi finally ended his gaze around, and he quickly ruled out the possibility of the enemy surveillance here. At this time, he once thought that Ikeda, Takahashi and his members were extremely lucky, and also felt that they were extremely lucky. When he walked out of the ruins with two hard-core traitors, Takahashi stopped. He suddenly remembered something, bent down and picked up a sharp piece of glass from his feet, and returned to the ruins.

At this time, Takahashi's inner concentration made him no longer feel the stinky smell. He squatted next to a corpse and used glass pieces to cut the trachea on the neck of the corpse. There was no carbon black in the trachea. When he cut the trachea of ​​three corpses in succession, Takahashi felt that he had found the answer to the burning scene.

Squatting next to the smelly corpse, Takahashi said to himself: "They were not burned to death!"

"What?" a traitor said in surprise.

"They weren't burned to death!"

"No way?"

"Their bodies are intact and the trachea are clean. If they are burned by fire, then there will be carbon black in their trachea. Before the fire broke out, they had closed their mouths and eyes and had stopped breathing. Besides, how could so many people be burned here in a concentrated manner? They wouldn't run away after watching the fire burn? Look at the corpse corrupt situation, it should be what happened yesterday or the day before yesterday. After they were killed, the enemy set a fire to burn it down, trying to cover up the truth of the matter."

"Killed? How is it possible? How could these ten people be? Oh--! There are a few shells here!"

"What is this? Ah--!" A traitor made something with his feet and screamed.

"This is a broken hand!" Qiao Yishan said after stepping up to check. Then, he stood up to check around and said, "There are bullet holes on the wall, which shows that there have been fierce shootings here, and they all died of gunfire."

Seeing Qiao Yishan scraping off the carrion from the head of a corpse with glass pieces, the two traitors covered their noses tightly with their hands.

After a while, Qiao Yishan found a deadly bullet hole in the skulls of four corpses at the scene. Only three types of bullet shells were found. The most common ones were the Mauser pistol and Browning, which the Chinese call mirror box.

Now, he was sure that all these people were shot and were hit on the head by bullets, but he didn't know which of the dead people was Ikeda and Takahashi. Looking at these corpses, Qiao Yishan didn't know how many enemies were injured and killed in this battle. However, thinking of the shocking bullet holes in the skulls, Qiao Yishan felt a chill on his back. He suspected that this might be a bullet shot by one or two excellent shooters, and said intimidated: "Ikeda, Takahashi, you are so unlucky to encounter such a gunman! I, Takahashi, must find the real murderer and avenge you!"

After leaving Rongchang Trading, Qiao Yishan still fantasized about Ikeda and Takahashi's ability to survive. In fact, Takahashi Yoshihito did escape this misfortune. Although they were all good brothers, because of Shanghai's hatred of the Japanese and traitors and the security needs, Rongchang Trading was their only meeting place. Even after the war in Shanghai started, they lived in their own places and contacted every three days. In this way, even if Takahashi was still alive, Qiao Yishan and the two spies could not contact and find him.

When Qiao Yishan thought of avenging Ikeda and Takahashi, it was painful for Qiao Yishan to find no clues except for shooting. Qiao Yishan thought of Lin's clinic, but he soon realized that this was completely impossible. When he had no clue, he was glad that Takahashi still left him two obedient dogs, so he was sent to the battlefield hospital for information.

What surprised Qiao Yishan was that the two dogs quickly brought the 36th Division's truck to the attack of the spy, and said that the spies had just destroyed the communication route of the National Army. At this time, Qiao Yishan remembered the mission reported by the superior telegram. However, he could no longer implement this mission. Qiao Yishan looked along the location where he found the incident and found a broken jade pendant. At this time, he saw the special Chinese knot on the jade pendant and the belt, and confirmed that he would never see Takahashi Yoshihito again, because this was something he had snatched from a wealthy Chinese businessman in the northeast and a gift he gave.
Chapter completed!