Lu Ming walked over and said a few words to Dai Li.
Dai Li also briefly talked about what happened in the hospital.
Lu Ming finally understood the general idea, although he didn't know many details.
"What's going on recently? The Japanese are going crazy, and the underground party members are also having fits." Dai Li said angrily.
Lu Ming agreed, thinking to himself, isn't this exactly what you want? Otherwise, why would you mobilize all the troops, cast such a wide net in the hospital, and set up such a situation?
It's a pity that the game was broken, the net was broken, and the fish ran away.
"Sir Lu, we must retaliate against the underground party and retaliate severely against them. Avenge these brothers." Dai Li said fiercely.
"I agree." Lu Ming said lightly.
Lu Ming thought to himself, when did the Kuomintang show mercy to the Communist Party? When did it not retaliate harshly? It's just that they are usually arrogant, but today they were hurt by the beating, so they wanted to retaliate even more.
Lu Ming didn't know how this happened, and he didn't agree with such a rescue operation. First of all, Hou Liang was still in critical condition, and rescuing him might not be a good thing. Secondly, it also exposed the underground party's armed forces in Shanghai.
Underground work is different from fighting the enemy with bayonets on the battlefield. It cannot be said that causing certain casualties to the enemy is victory. The score is not calculated that way.
Ensuring the smooth flow of information in a city, delivering important information to higher-level organizations in a timely manner, and doing basic work for the revolutionary cause are the top priorities of underground work.
Of course, Lu Ming didn't know what the underground party members were thinking. He was looking at and thinking about the problem from the perspective of an agent.
That evening, the Fuxing Society held a plenary meeting. Dai Li gave a speech at the meeting and introduced the general situation of the emergency at the Army General Hospital.
"Comrades, the current struggle situation is becoming more and more severe. The Communist Party has issued an open challenge to us. Please prepare for battle. The Renaissance Society will carry out powerful retaliatory actions against the Communist Party." Dai Li
At the end of the speech, he shouted with all his strength.
After that, there will be a vigil for the fallen brothers. This matter has been reported to the Fuxing Society headquarters and the Ministry of National Defense. Tomorrow, important officials will come to inspect in Nanjing.
Dai Li ordered the memorial tablets to be made for more than a dozen fallen soldiers, and then he personally took the incense and bowed in front of the memorial tablets to express his condolences.
The people in the Fuxing Society all had heavy expressions on their faces. In fact, the office staff in the building were not very familiar with these operatives. They were more like people from two systems.
Originally, Lu Ming wanted to capture the people of the Second Operation Brigade, but before he could take action, he was taken to Nanjing and placed under house arrest.
Currently, all highway terminals in Shanghai leading to the outside world have been put under martial law and are guarded by special service personnel from the Songhu Garrison Command and the Police Department, who strictly check the documents of people coming and going to prevent Communist Party militants from escaping from Shanghai.
The attack on the hospital also shocked people at the Songhu Police Station and the Security Headquarters, because underground party members have always secretly obtained intelligence and rarely launched armed attacks in the city.
This fierce confrontation resulted in heavy casualties among the Fuxing Society, giving them a deeper understanding of the power of the underground party.
That night, all units agreed to conduct a large-scale joint manhunt by the military and police systems tomorrow. However, it was still raining heavily the next day, and it was impossible to launch such an operation, so we had to wait until the rain stopped.
The commander of the Songhu Garrison Command and the director of the Shanghai Police General Bureau came by car the next day to express their condolences. Soon after hearing the news, the mayor of Shanghai also came to express his condolences in person.
Dai Li and Lu Ming entertained these distinguished guests in the conference room, and Dai Li introduced the incident to these big shots.
"Does the underground party want to come to the forefront again? This reminds me of many things before the April 12th Incident in the 16th year of the Republic of China. At that time, the Communist Party had always been open to the public." The director of the Shanghai Police General Bureau narrowed his eyes.
Said with eyes closed.
"Is the old Communist Party going to engage in armed riots again?" the commander of the Songhu Garrison Command warned.
"It's hard to say. I think the Communist Party can no longer sit still, and it is not impossible to launch an armed riot." Dai Li replied vaguely.
He has received intelligence from inside sources, saying that the Communist Party headquarters has issued a call to underground parties in major cities to organize workers and students to launch armed riots at the appropriate time and seize power in the cities.
Dai Li is not worried about this. He welcomes the Communist Party to go from underground to the ground and openly challenge the government. In this way, they will have the opportunity to uproot the underground party.
Armed riots may bring turmoil to major cities, and suppressing riots will naturally have a great impact on normal life, such as the breakdown of urban order, destruction of buildings, and massive casualties.
But this is something that can be done once and for all, which is far more cost-effective than a long-term struggle with the underground party.
Recently, Dai Li has obtained more and more relevant information, but he has not disclosed it to the outside world. He only reported it to Mr. Jiang alone, which was also meant to remind Mr. Jiang to make strategic arrangements.
In addition, due to confidentiality considerations, the secret information provided by insiders must be carefully processed before others can know it, otherwise the insiders will easily be unearthed by the Communist Party's security department.
As for whether the attack on the hospital was a rehearsal for an armed riot, Dai Li didn't think so. He thought it was the underground party's attempt to rescue Hou Liang.
The underground party armed forces spared no effort to rescue Hou Liang, which far exceeded Dai Li's imagination and also illustrates the importance of this person.
Under the mediation of the mayor, Dai Li, on behalf of the Fuxing Society, reached a verbal agreement with the Songhu Garrison Headquarters and the Police General Administration to launch a series of joint operations against the underground party in Shanghai. It was necessary to suppress the "arrogance" of the underground party's armed forces.
What the mayor of Shanghai considers is nothing else but the order and stability of Shanghai, which must not be destroyed.
In the afternoon of the next day, Mr. Jiang personally called to ask about the entire incident, and Dai Li also gave a truthful report.
Mr. Jiang was silent for a long time, and then said: "Those comrades who died must be buried properly, their pensions must be generous, and the requests made by their families should be met as much as possible."
Dai Li put down the phone and said to Lu Ming: "Sir Lu, you have to come back and take charge."
Lu Ming smiled bitterly and said: "Yunong, I am in charge of finance. My task is to ensure that we provide you with financial support. It doesn't matter whether I work here or not."
"Chief Lu, you can't say that. You are a leading figure in Shanghai. Your intervention on many matters will have different effects than mine. In addition, I can see that everyone in this building also believes in you." Dai Li said.
Originally, Dai Li was really happy that Lu Ming would not come to work, so that he could treat this place as his own secret service. If Lu Ming came to work, he would have a lot of worries, but what happened today made him feel a little troublesome.
Later, he will be responsible for carrying out joint operations with the Songhu Garrison Headquarters, the Police Headquarters, and even the Japanese side, and a large part of his energy will be dispersed.
In this case, a heavyweight figure would be needed in the Fuxingshe building to come forward to deal with the local bosses in Shanghai. Weng Bailing is obviously not powerful enough.
Besides, Dai Li knew that he could not stay in Shanghai for a long time. Although Shanghai was important, Nanjing was even more important.
From the perspective of short-term goals, as long as Shanghai does not cause him any trouble, he will be satisfied.
"Okay, I'll come back to work tomorrow. If there's anything you need me to do, Brother Yunong, just tell me." Lu Ming said.
"Tomorrow we are going to launch a city-wide manhunt. We will arrest everyone suspected of being a communist. We will not let anyone go. We would rather arrest the wrong person than let the wrong one go. We would rather kill a thousand wrong people than let one go." Dai Li
He said fiercely.
Lu Ming did not answer. Of course he disapproved of such retaliation. This was not so much retaliation against the Communist Party as it was an abuse of the law.
Through random arrests, no one knows how many people will be labeled as Communists and imprisoned unjustly for inexplicable reasons.
During their long-term detention, these people were subjected to brutal torture and either died in prison or were shot.
Lu Ming did not express any disagreement with Dai Li's point of view. He knew that saying so would be in vain and would not have any effect.
Mr. Chiang has made it clear long ago that when dealing with the Communist Party, there is no need to follow normal legal channels and there are no moral constraints.
In a word, no matter how convenient it is, no matter how cruel it is, the only way to eradicate the Communist Party is to do whatever it takes, no matter the cost.
After the April 12th Massacre, this was how the Kuomintang dealt with the Communists. But for some reason, the Communist Party's ranks grew stronger and stronger, and it seemed that they could not catch or kill them all.
Just like a Tang poem: Wild fire cannot be burned out, but the spring breeze blows it again.