The heavy rain and wind have already come, will it be more violent?
Lu Ming was sitting in his office, looking at the wind and rain outside the window and thinking.
Of course, Liu Qiwen was also called to work temporarily. She yawned constantly and drank strong tea from her cup.
Lu Ming was not sleepy at all. He had secretly arranged for An Gonggen to send someone to guard outside Wanguo's apartment, fearing that Weng Bailing would attack An Yi privately.
Lu Ming was thinking in his mind whether to move Mr. Dong and An Yi to a safe place again. Where should they go?
After thinking for a long time, I felt that it would be better to stay still for the time being. Keeping moving around will not only make people suspicious, but also cause psychological pressure on Mr. Dong and An Yi.
At noon on the third day after the incident, He Zhonghan and a section chief of the Intelligence Committee of the Second Department of the Ministry of National Defense drove to Shanghai with two accompanying bodyguards.
They set off at dawn and headed straight for Shanghai with Mr. Chiang's orders.
When they arrived in Shanghai, under the guidance of Lu Ming and Dai Li, they first paid tribute to the memorial tablets of the fallen soldiers enshrined at the Shanghai Station of Fuxing Society, then went to the hospital to visit the three wounded, and then went to the morgue to say goodbye to the bodies.
Afterwards, a grand mourning ceremony was held, and He Zhonghan distributed pensions to each family member on behalf of the Ministry of National Defense.
Then there is a series of aftermath matters, which are all handled by the Shanghai Station General Affairs Office of Fuxing Society.
Although the Chinese attach great importance to burial and do not like cremation, there is really no way to preserve the body in this kind of weather, so we have to cremate it first.
After a while of busy work, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. Lu Ming chose a Hunan restaurant to entertain He Zhonghan and the personnel of the Ministry of National Defense. Dai Li and Lu Ming were at the table to accompany them.
"Brother Lu, I'm relieved to see you're okay. I received the report yesterday morning and I'm really worried about you." He Zhonghan smacked his lips and said.
"Thank you, Sir He, for thinking about me." Lu Ming smiled and toasted with a glass of wine.
The director of the Intelligence Committee of the Second Department of the Ministry of National Defense is called Luo Dayou. He came here today because next year Lu Ming's secret service will be under the management of the Intelligence Committee of the Second Department of the National Defense Department, and he and he are considered colleagues, so he came to get to know him.
This man was about thirty years old, with a square face and a beard. He looked upright, but his military rank was a bit low, and he was just a lieutenant colonel.
The two of them had been chatting for a while before lunch, and also talked about the secret secret service that Lu Ming would establish next year. Luo Dingyun told Lu Ming that the establishment had just been officially approved, and that everything was in place for the establishment of the secret service. All it needed was east wind.
In other words, we can actually recruit troops and establish this secret service now, but Fuxing Society Shanghai Station will still need Lu Ming to maintain it for a while.
Lu Ming is not in a hurry. Anyway, he doesn't have many people now. Instead of setting up an empty secret service, he might as well work here at the Shanghai Station and continue to find the needed candidates.
During lunch, the piercing police sirens sounded one after another, one after another, and the manhunt in Shanghai had officially begun.
Except for the First Action Brigade of the Fuxing Society Shanghai Station, all the rest of the people joined several search teams composed of the Shanghai Police Headquarters and the Songhu Garrison Headquarters to participate in this joint operation.
The targets of this round of arrests are very broad. We must arrest all those who are usually suspected but cannot be proven to be the Communist Party and who need to continue to be observed and monitored.
In addition, all suspects reported by informants from different intelligence agencies must be arrested and brought to justice.
The purpose was to create an atmosphere of white terror in Shanghai in response to the attacks on hospitals by underground party armed forces.
"How dare you forcefully break into a hospital and seize hostages? How can Shanghai's underground party be so rampant?" Luo Gangdao asked uneasily.
"This is not only the case in Shanghai, but similar news has also come from Guangzhou, Wuhan and other places. Recently, the Communist Party is ready to make moves." Dai Li said.
"Could it be that the Communist Party's plan for armed riots in big cities has been revived?" Luo Gangda asked.
"I think it's a bit similar. Although they failed in the past, they wouldn't give up. They might make a comeback sometime," He Zhonghan said.
"So we must kill this trend very hard, and we must not let the Communist Party's consciousness of seizing power rise." Dai Li waved his fist and said.
"Well, chaos can happen anywhere, but Shanghai must not be chaotic. Brother Lu, your Shanghai station is at the forefront of the battle this time." He Zhonghan said.
"Actually, there is no need to worry so much. What happened the night before yesterday was because the underground party wanted to rescue their comrades, and it was not a precursor to armed riots." Lu Ming said with a smile. Among the people present, his expression was the most relaxed at this moment.
Lu Ming didn't want to pretend to be so sad, as if those who died were his biological brothers. He only met those people on a casual basis, and he was not familiar with many of them at all.
The same goes for He Zhonghan and Luo Dayou. These people are used to seeing hundreds or thousands of people die at a time on the battlefield. This kind of death of more than a dozen people is a piece of cake on the battlefield.
Shanghai has always been China's economic gateway. Since the 128 Incident, it has been in turmoil and has attracted attention from all walks of life across the country.
Does the attack on the hospital by armed members of the underground party in Shanghai herald the beginning of urban riots again, and the main contradiction in the society of the Republic of China once again shifted from China and Japan to the Kuomintang and the Communist Party?
This is an issue that everyone is concerned about, and it also adds a confusing color to this rescue operation.
The gunshots at the hospital last night shocked most of Shanghai.
Because gunshots rarely sound in Shanghai, gang fights are resolved with sticks, machetes, axes, etc. Guns are rarely used.
Shortly after the gunfire and artillery fire of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War subsided on 128, and the shock had subsided, many citizens were worried about the commotion, thinking that the Japanese were coming again.
Guo Songtao also vaguely heard the sound of gunshots, and immediately felt something was wrong. He immediately made several phone calls to inquire about the situation, but the other party did not understand what happened.
In desperation, Guo Songtao quickly asked Song Zhenyang to go to the streets to find out the news.
About half an hour later, Song Zhenyang came back to report that someone had indeed attacked the Army General Hospital, and a fierce gun battle started between the two sides.
The hospital is now surrounded by military police and no one is allowed to enter or exit. As for whether a gun battle broke out because of the rescue of Comrade Hou Liang, the details are not yet known.
After dawn, Guo Songtao went to the street to inquire about news, and the various legends became quite confusing.
Some people said that a group of armed thugs attacked the Army General Hospital, others said that it was Japanese ronin who did it, and some even spread rumors that the Japanese fleet was coming to attack Shanghai again, etc. There are all kinds of rumors.
Guo Songtao's basic judgment is that the Special Operations Team must have rescued Hou Liang. This is correct, but whether the rescue was successful is a big question mark.
At noon, Guo Songtao finally received the news from the Special Branch correspondent that their rescue operation against Comrade Hou Liang failed, and there were heavy casualties, with two dead and two injured.
When Guo Songtao received the news, he stood there stunned for a long time and couldn't believe it.
He had no idea how powerful the enemy's resistance was to the members of the Special Operations Group, which actually caused them such heavy casualties.
Since the April 12 Massacre, the Special Operations Team (also known as the Anti-Corruption Team) has never failed in Shanghai and has always suffered zero casualties during operations.
The young men in the action team are the most elite soldiers in the army. They are not only brave and good at fighting, and are always on target, but also agile and courageous. They are a sharp knife for the underground party to stab into the heart of the enemy.
On the afternoon of the next day, Nanjing's "Central Daily News" and many official newspapers in Shanghai published news that Communist militants brazenly attacked the Army General Hospital and killed many national army soldiers who were injured in the 128th Songhu Anti-Japanese War.
This official rumor made many Shanghai citizens who did not know the truth become indignant. They cursed the Communist Party for only caring about partisan disputes and not upholding national justice. It was so crazy that it killed soldiers of the national army who had been injured in the service of the country.
Many gang members from the Qinghong Gang coerced some workers and students who did not know the truth and held a large demonstration to protest against the attack by Communist militants.
Of course, the underground party was not willing to be slandered by the enemy. They printed many pamphlets in a secret printing house to reveal the truth of the incident. These pamphlets were secretly distributed in major factories and universities and middle schools.
A war of public opinion between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began.
At the end of the day, thousands of "suspects" were arrested, and the Songhu Police Headquarters Prison was overcrowded.
Dai Li actually knew very well that among those arrested, there were probably only a few real Communists, and most of them were innocent citizens and many outsiders.
They were all busy with their own business, and without doing anything, they were taken away by the wolf-like police and military police inexplicably.
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