Hearing what Zhang Ziyang said, Lu Ming felt relieved. He was most worried that the people on Hou Liang's line would not evacuate in time. If one or two more people were caught, it was hard to say what would happen.
Not everyone in the underground party can withstand the torture like Hou Liang. In recent years, various branches of the Fuxing Society have successively arrested some underground party members, and a certain proportion of them have fully confessed or even rebelled.
Fortunately, the underground party already has a relatively mature operating model and implements single-line communication. If one group is seized, the safety of other groups will not be affected.
Although Lu Ming suspended cooperation with Mr. Dong, he did not want to see the underground party organization being destroyed on a large scale.
He wholeheartedly hoped that the Communist Party could grow stronger and at least form a structure like Shanxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan that appeared to obey the central government but was actually completely autonomous. In this case, there would be an additional force to resist Japan in the future.
Lu Ming is not a separatist. He is also a stubborn supporter of unification. He has always believed that only when China is truly unified can it become stronger and resist the invasion of external forces.
Looking at the half-dead state of the Republic of China government, it will take at least two to three generations of efforts to truly unify the country and adopt a peaceful approach.
But Japan will not give China such a long time. At most five to ten years, a full-scale war between China and Japan will inevitably break out.
The heavy rain suddenly became lighter around dinner time, and then turned into a heavy rain again around eight o'clock.
The wind was howling, the rain was pouring, and the waves on the Huangpu River were rough.
Under the cover of heavy rain, a dozen people wearing raincoats walked into the gate of Shanghai Army General Hospital. They bypassed the outpatient area, went directly to the inpatient area, and then quickly dispersed.
"Who?" someone shouted loudly.
Unfortunately, the wind and rain were so strong that his voice was drowned and disappeared.
"Ah." Someone screamed in one place.
This voice was shrill and high-pitched, and even in the rumbling wind and rain, it still broke through the obstacles and emanated.
"Be careful, be careful of someone attacking you."
The man had just finished shouting when suddenly his heart seemed to be hit by a sledgehammer and he fell down with a thud.
The dozen or so agents of the Fuxing Society located outside the hospital were quickly eliminated. They were not far away from each other. If the stormy night had not blocked their sight and seriously affected their hearing, they would have been able to see each other.
Yes, they can also hear each other's voices, but at this time, each of them seems to have become blind and deaf.
The capable personnel of the Shanghai Underground Party Central Committee's Special Operations Group chose this time to rescue people, and they really had the right time, place and people.
The information provided by Guo Songtao is very accurate.
After several days of careful observation, the operators basically grasped the enemy's security arrangements outside and inside the hospital, the number and location of the guards, and the changing patterns of enemy sentries.
Therefore, operating in such weather is like a duck in water for them.
They also practiced rescue strategies many times in another place, including how to quickly eliminate enemies, how to break into the hospital, eliminate hidden enemies at targeted locations, and finally how to rescue Comrade Hou Liang from the hospital.
Of course, they could not replicate a hospital model. They could only use pieces of paper and stones to mark the location and number of enemies in an open field, and then repeatedly deduce and practice action plans.
They estimated that they would have twenty minutes to rescue people. From the time the enemy reacted to the time the enemy mobilized troops to surround the hospital, it would take at least twenty minutes.
For them, these twenty minutes are precious.
If you delay for one minute, you may be surrounded by enemies in the hospital. If you delay for one minute, the rescue mission can be completed and everyone can evacuate safely.
Today's heavy rain and storm are gifts to their doorstep. This is God's care and favor for them, creating an ideal rescue atmosphere for them.
The agents of the Fuxing Society were also a little slack.
In the first two days, they kept their eyes wide open and their ears pricked up, observing any movement around them. However, after a few days, there was no abnormality at all, and they relaxed.
Especially in this kind of bad weather, it is difficult for people to walk normally and it is extremely inconvenient to move. They do not believe that underground party members will cause trouble for themselves, so they come to save people at this time.
The underground party members did the opposite and came when they least expected it, and the people who came were the best members of the Central Special Operations Team.
The Central Special Operations Group is an elite group selected from thousands of Red Army soldiers. All of them are sharpshooters. They are not only agile and courageous in action, but also highly disciplined and have perfect cooperation with each other.
The Central Special Operations Group is so famous that it frightens the Kuomintang secret service agencies and underground party traitors.
The Anti-Traitor Team is the nickname of this action group. They are responsible for eradicating traitors within the party. No matter where the traitors are hiding, they can accurately find them and kill them with one shot.
Fuxing Society agents arranged a total of fifteen people outside the inpatient department. In just a few minutes, all of them were killed. They were unable to make a sound to alert the people inside, and no one was able to fire a shot.
Several gunshots were made by members of the Special Operations Group. They were discovered by agents of the Fuxing Society and had no time to deal with them with daggers, so they had to use pistols.
The members of the action team met at the entrance of the inpatient department, checked the number of people there, and found that there were many of them, so they rushed into the hospital as planned.
They did not hide their figures, but ran rampant and were swept in like a whirlwind.
Agents of Fuxing Society located on various floors discovered them and guessed their identities, so a gun battle broke out.
Although Fuxing Society arranged more than ten agents inside the hospital, they were all scattered. The people from the Special Operations Team knew their approximate locations in advance.
The action team started a gun battle with Fuxing Society agents in a two-on-one situation.
Soon half of the Fuxing Society agents fell down, and the remaining half relied on various bunkers to confront the members of the Special Operations Group.
All the patients in the hospital were alarmed. Many patients walked out of the ward to see what was going on. When they discovered it was a gunfight, they quickly turned around and hid in the ward.
Most of these patients were the sick and wounded who participated in the 128th Songhu Anti-Japanese War. They knew very well how lethal the bullets were.
There is a Communist criminal living in the hospital, and he is a very important figure. This is not a secret. The Fuxing Society sent such a large team of agents to hide inside and outside the hospital. It is obvious that they want to seize the Communist rescuers.
Catch them all in one go.
Unexpectedly, the Communist Party did a very good job. They seemed to have figured out the placement situation of the Fuxing Society outside and inside the hospital, and broke into the hospital with bold and decisive actions.
After the gunshots rang out, doctors called for help, but the calls couldn't be reached at all, and the phone lines from inside the hospital to the outside had been cut off.
The doctors and nurses could only hide in their offices. The brave ones remained calm, while the timid ones were so frightened that they started to cry, fearing that someone would break in and kill them.
The Special Operations Team encountered a strong resistance at the last step. Although they successfully entered the hospital and took the initiative, they were stopped by four Fuxing Society agents at the stairs leading to the third floor.
The agents of the Fuxing Society relied on the cover at the corner of the stairs and kept changing people to shoot. The members of the action team were unable to attack for a while, and two people had already suffered gunshot wounds.
During the exercise, the action team also expected that the enemy would mount the most intense resistance and would not wait to be captured, but they did not expect that the enemy's resistance would be so intense.
In their original preview, the enemy wouldn't react until they rushed to the third floor.
In fact, when they started shooting the agents of Fuxing Society on the first floor, the agents on the third floor had already reacted and immediately took up a favorable position at the corner of the stairs to block the action team members who climbed the stairs.
Suddenly there was loud gunfire, and the stairway on the third floor became a battlefield for attack and defense.
From bottom to top, it is inherently easy to defend and difficult to attack. The defender does not need to show up, but the attacker has difficulty hiding.
At this time, although the Special Operations Group had an absolute advantage in numbers, they were unable to successfully attack the third floor.
There is still a thunderstorm and heavy rain outside the hospital, and the hospital's information cannot be transmitted in a short period of time. There will be no accident for the time being, but the longer the time goes on, the more likely the operation will fail.
The Special Operations Team still hoped to compress the time within twenty minutes, but time passed by and it seemed difficult to complete the task as planned.