"Approximately how many enemies are there?" Lu Ming asked.
Although he had often shot at the shooting range before, this was the first time he had seen a real gunfight. To say he was not afraid at all would be a lie. Bullets do not have eyes, but he could still calm himself.
"The number of people should be about the same as ours, but the enemy's firepower is too strong and we can't handle it," an agent said.
"What is the possibility of a successful breakout with three vehicles?" Lu Ming asked again.
"The enemy has prepared a well-prepared ambush. The road ahead has been dug up and there are many nails scattered on the road. There is almost no possibility of breaking out." The other party replied.
"What about going down below?" Lu Ming asked.
He pointed to the overgrown wild road below the highway.
Before the agent had time to answer, the loudspeaker on the left sounded again.
"Lu Ming, hurry up and get out of the car and surrender. As long as you surrender, all your men will survive. Otherwise, no one will get out alive."
Lu Ming felt that the voice sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was.
"Ozawa-kun, you are wasting your time. There is no need to waste it here with them."
In a ditch on the left that could barely hide people, a prostrate woman said.
"Just beat them all to death. Why are you still hesitant? Ozawa-kun, this is not like your style."
There were about five people hiding in the trench, and there were also five people in the trench on the right. There were three more people blocking the front, and the remaining five people were blocking Lu Ming and others' retreat.
The one who kept shouting words to the road was Ozawa Seigoro, the leader of the Mantetsu special agent's action team.
The woman next to him, Lu Ming, must have known her. She was Yu Ying'er, the deputy leader of the Manchuria Railway Action Group.
"I only want Lu Ming's head. It doesn't matter whether the others die or not, but it's best if fewer people die, otherwise there will be a lot of trouble later." Ozawa said with a gloomy face.
It has been a week since Ozawa Seigoro and a group of people came to Nanjing. The purpose was very simple, just to find an opportunity to assassinate Lu Ming.
This was a long-planned act of revenge.
The suicide of Ozawa Seishiro, the former leader of the Manchuria Railway Action Team, was related to Lu Ming's kidnapping of him. Lu Ming first kidnapped him and then released him. Unexpectedly, he felt humiliated and committed suicide.
Ozawa Seishiro is Goro's brother and Yu Ying'er's current lover, so these two people hate Lu Ming deeply.
Ozawa Seishiro vowed to kill Lu Ming, otherwise he would not return to Japan. Yu Ying'er also proposed assassination plans many times, but unfortunately she was suppressed by the superiors and could not take action.
After the explosion in Hongkou Park, Manchuria Railway also intervened in the investigation of the case. Analyzing from different angles, they found that Lu Ming was highly suspicious.
Yu Ying'er directly identified Lu Ming as the mastermind of the bombing. Shortly afterwards, another robbery of the Japanese arsenal occurred. This time, Lu Ming was even more suspicious.
The two cases have been investigated together for a long time, but no direct evidence of Lu Ming's involvement has been obtained.
The Japanese insiders in the Kuomintang government and the Renaissance Society also reported to them that the Kuomintang is now also investigating whether Lu Ming used this method to deliver arms to the Communist armed forces.
So they made a special file for Lu Ming in an effort to investigate Lu Ming. The name of the file was "Detective Lu Ming participated in planning and commanding the destruction of the empire."
Ozawa Seishiro submitted their reasons for filing the case to the Manchuria Railway Headquarters and also submitted it to the domestic military department, hoping to give them the green light to conduct a comprehensive investigation and even assassinate Lu Ming.
Unfortunately, after the file was handed in, there was no news. They pressed again and again, and the Manchurian Railway headquarters responded that the evidence was seriously insufficient and the case was purely random conjecture, and they did not agree to open the case.
The case was rejected, and of course the assassination could not be carried out.
After the decision was made, they sat in the office of the Manchurian Railway Building and cursed the pro-China faction in the country.
In fact, there are no pro-China elements in Japan at all, they are just some mature and prudent people who do not like the complete breakdown of Sino-Japanese relations.
In the northeastern region, the Japanese-controlled Manchukuo has not yet completely stabilized. The Kwantung Army is still being attacked by various anti-Japanese armed forces, and the anti-Japanese sentiment among the people across the country is still very high.
Under such circumstances, the Japanese side does not want to have a full-scale confrontation with the Nanjing government, especially not long after the negotiations on the January 28 incident. The Japanese side also hopes to ease the conflicts between China and Japan and strive to expand the market of Japanese products in China.
market.
Japan's power structure has three pillars, and national policies are formed on the basis of the three foundations. They are the authority of the emperor, the power of the military and the financial resources of the plutocrats.
Japan's chaebols are different from the military. Most of them still hope to develop business relations with China. Even if it is an equal business relationship, Japan will take advantage of it.
After all, Japan is an industrial country and is much more advanced than China commercially. The industrial products sold to China have high added value, while the prices for buying Chinese handicrafts and agricultural products are very cheap.
The so-called China-knowledge faction and China-loving faction in Japan want to make money from the Chinese people. Of course, normal trade is best conducted in a peaceful environment.
Although the military does not agree with the chaebol's opinions, some upper-level generals do not want to break relations with China. They believe that Japan is not ready for a full-scale war against China.
In addition, the United States, Britain and other established powers put great pressure on the Japanese military in order to protect their interests in China.
Of course Ozawa Seigoro would not think about these deep-seated matters. He only thought about one thing, which was how to catch Lu Ming, torture him to his heart's content, and finally kill him for revenge.
Shortly after Lu Ming was brought to Nanjing, they formed an assassination team through secret planning and lurked in Nanjing a week ago, looking for opportunities to carry out an assassination operation against Lu Ming.
Ozawa Seigoro's crazy actions did not receive support from the Japanese side. Even the pro-Japanese faction within the Kuomintang government was unwilling to get involved in this matter and shunned them.
After the upper management of the Manchuria Railway headquarters learned of this information, they repeatedly ordered them to strictly prohibit their assassination of Lu Ming, and finally reluctantly agreed to their secret kidnapping operation.
The purpose of kidnapping Lu Ming was to find out the truth about the arms hijacking case, not to take revenge on Lu Ming personally.
The Manchuria Railway Headquarters believes that the assassination of important leaders of the Renaissance Society in the Chinese capital will seriously damage Japan-China relations. Japan-China relations are now in dilapidated condition and cannot be made worse.
Due to various reasons, Ozawa Seigoro had to wait and see and did not dare to take action easily.
This time they received an urgent report from an insider within the Fuxing Society, saying that Lu Ming was in a hurry to return to Shanghai.
They couldn't wait any longer and knew this was their best and possibly last chance to kidnap.
It is relatively easier to carry out blocking operations on the highway outside the city than to carry out assassination operations in the city. This opportunity cannot be missed and will never come again.
So they took a step out of the city first, then drove at full speed to this relatively hidden section of the road. They first dug up the road, then simply dug bunkers on both sides, preparing for an ambush.
In addition to long and short firepower, they also borrowed four machine guns from the Japanese garrison in Shanghai. This was not an espionage operation, but a small group operation.
Under the crossfire of four machine guns, it was obvious that neither Lu Ming nor his bodyguards could survive.
However, both Ozawa and Yu Ying'er believed that letting Lu Ming die in a gunfight was too cheap and not enough to let them vent their anger. They must capture Lu Ming and imprison him for half a year before he can torture him.
Kidnapping Lu Ming falls within the scope of investigation, and doing so can also be considered as an explanation to the Manchurian Railway Headquarters.
Therefore, they did not use machine guns at first, but used rifles and pistols to shoot at each other, consuming the bullets of the agents around Lu Ming.
They estimated that the agents protecting Lu Ming had almost run out of bullets, so they began to persuade him to surrender.
The reason why Lu Ming sounded familiar to Ozawa's voice was because the voices of Ozawa Seigoro and his brother were somewhat similar, but Lu Ming had never met Goro himself.
"Delay as much time as you like, Captain An has already brought people over to respond." An Gonggen's people said.
"Have you informed An Gonggen?" Lu Ming asked.
"Notice, Captain An is also afraid that the Japanese will ambush us halfway, so when we set off, he also took others with him."
Lu Ming felt confident that if An Gonggen brought people here, even though it would take a little longer, as long as they could hold on, the situation would be reversed.
As for surrender, that would never happen. He would rather commit suicide with a pistol than let himself fall into the hands of the Japanese.
On the highway from Shanghai to Nanjing, four cars and a large truck were rushing all the way. An Gonggen was coming with all the people of the First Action Brigade of the Shanghai Station of the Fuxing Society.