Chapter 403: The following is better than the above (please recommend and vote monthly)
Author: His Majesty’s Dried Fish
Chapter 403: The following is better than the above (please recommend and vote monthly)
"Night Shanghai, Night Shanghai, you are a city that never sleeps..."
In the high-end private room of Paramount, Li Qiang was sipping red wine and enjoying the song and dance performances on the stage, with a face full of comfort.
"Hey, Cheng, why are you looking so sad? This is the authentic French Sweet Red. Why don't you drink it? Why are you looking at me?"
Acheng said angrily: "Why don't you look at me? The deadline given to me by Fujita is about to expire, but there is no movement from you. Can I not worry?"
"Hey! Is this the reason? Don't worry, I've already arranged everything!"
As he spoke, Li Qiang lowered his voice and whispered a few words to Acheng.
However, it's okay that Acheng didn't listen. After listening to Li Qiang's words, he couldn't help but said with some worry: "Your plan is too risky!"
"There is no other way. Who made the rush up to the peak so tight? I have no choice but to make this decision."
"Well, I hope everything goes well." As he said, Cheng picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank the red wine in one gulp...
After a night of silence, the next morning, Cheng received a call from one of his subordinates.
After hanging up the phone, Cheng immediately took two people to the bank in Hong Kong.
As soon as the group entered the bank lobby, someone came over with a middle-aged man who looked like a manager.
"Manager Zhong, I heard that you have something important to report to me?"
"Yes!" Manager Zhong nodded quickly and said, "We have an employee named Guo Yi who took two days of sick leave two days ago because of illness, but he has not come back to work until now. I felt something was strange, so I sent someone to
I looked for him in the dormitory, but he was missing!"
"On what day did Guo ask for leave? I need an accurate time."
"It was the afternoon when you brought someone here for questioning." Manager Zhong said with great certainty.
"As far as you know, who does the person named Guo interact with on weekdays?"
"I don't know about this, but I heard that he has a cousin working in Zhang Mansion. You can go to him to find out the situation."
"Zhang Gongguan? Which Zhang Gongguan?" Ah Cheng asked knowingly.
"Sir, you are really good at joking. How can there be a second Zhang Mansion in Shanghai? It is naturally the Zhang Gongguan owned by Marshal Zhang."
"So, that person is President Zhang's subordinate? What is his name?"
"The younger one only knows his surname is Lin. As for what his name is, the younger one really doesn't know."
Hearing this, Ah Cheng already had a plan in mind, and immediately left the Hong Kong bank with his people and rushed to Zhang's residence without stopping.
Before the group of people came closer, they noticed from a distance that the inside and outside of the mansion were decorated with lights and people were busy, as if there was some happy event.
Acheng, who was eager to solve the case, naturally didn't care much and went straight to the steward who was in the yard instructing his servants to decorate the mansion and explained his purpose.
"Sir, to tell you the truth, our master does have a bodyguard named Lin, but you came at the wrong time."
"How to say?"
"He went out with the master last week, and he hasn't come back yet."
"Then where is your master now?"
"Younger ones don't know."
Hearing this, Acheng couldn't help but frowned. Although he was unwilling to do so, he politely left and returned to the military police headquarters to give a detailed report to Fujita Yoshimasa.
"So, you suspect the bank clerk named Guo Yi?"
"Yes, judging from the information currently available to my subordinates, this person named Guo is suspected of committing a major crime, and his disappearance may be due to fear of crime and absconding. Of course, it is also possible that he has been murdered and silenced."
"It is impossible for such a big case to be committed by just one person."
Acheng quickly nodded in agreement, "My subordinates feel the same way, and have already investigated his social connections, but..."
"But what?"
"After investigation, the man surnamed Guo has a cousin who is the bodyguard of President Zhang of the Shanghai Maintenance Association. But when his subordinates brought people to ask questions, they learned that the man had followed him as early as last week
President Zhang went out and has not returned yet. If there is really a problem with that person, my subordinates are worried..."
"Well, your worries are not unreasonable." Fujita Yoshimasa said with deep understanding, and then grabbed the phone in front of him, "Hello, I'm Fujita, help me pick the line at the maintenance committee office... Hello? Secretary Shi
? I am Fujita, where is your president now? Okay, I understand."
After hanging up the phone, Fujita Yoshimasa turned to Acheng and said, "I found out. President Zhang is currently a guest at the home of Wu Jingguan, director of the Hangzhou Tin Foil Bureau. You should bring two people there immediately to change into casual clothes, so as not to alert the enemy."
"yes!"
However, just when Acheng and two of his men changed into casual clothes and rushed to the Wu Mansion on Gezhen Road in the French Concession without stopping, they found that many people had already gathered outside the mansion on three floors inside and three outside.
When Cheng saw this, he couldn't help but secretly said "No!", and then he didn't care about anything else. He just bravely led the people into the crowd and squeezed in with all his strength...
An hour later, in the interrogation room of the Military Police Headquarters.
"What's your name?" Under the dim light, Cheng, sitting behind the interrogation table, asked expressionlessly.
"The little one...the little one's last name is Wu, everyone calls me Ah Si."
"What do you do?" Ah Cheng continued to ask.
"The younger one drives for our master."
"I heard that you were at the scene when the incident happened, right?"
"Yes! The younger one is at the scene."
"Okay, tell me what you saw and heard in detail. The more detailed the better!"
Hearing this, Ah Si nodded quickly, "Yes, I was cleaning the car in the yard when the incident happened. I happened to bump into Director Wu's housekeeper coming down from upstairs and going to Cuifang Building to find someone to come and serve wine and gamble..."
"Who told you to say that these things are available or not? Let's get to the point!" Acheng said angrily.
"Yes, yes, let's talk about the important point. Not long after the Wu family's housekeeper left, Dalin came to me and said: He has some personal matters, and he wants me to help him get it upstairs and tell the master that he will be allowed five days off."
"Then what?"
"Of course the master would not agree to such a request. Moreover, the master has rules and no servants are allowed to disturb guests when he is receiving guests, so I did not agree. But he still begged me to go and give it to him.
I asked for leave. Later, I was annoyed by his quarrel, so I started to quarrel with him. But who knew that the quarrel disturbed the master, and he was so angry that he opened the window on the second floor and cursed him. I didn’t want that guy to do the same.
I don’t know which muscle was wrong, but he actually opened his mouth to talk back, which made the master very angry. Then he asked me to remove his gun and told him to get out. But no one expected that just when I was about to remove it,
When he was using his gun, he suddenly pulled out his gun and fired with his hand. I was so scared that I immediately got under the car and I didn’t know what happened next.”
Hearing this, Acheng glanced at Fujita Yoshimasa beside him intentionally or unintentionally. Seeing him nodding slightly, he continued to ask: "Asi, what you just said is true?"
"Of course it's true, sir. I swear to God that everything I just said is true and there is absolutely no lie in it."
"Okay, let me ask you, does that person named Lin have any relatives in Shanghai?"
"There is a cousin who seems to be an employee of a bank in Hong Kong. He brags about it from time to time, saying how awesome his cousin is. Everyone in the mansion knows it."
…
"Acheng-kun, what do you think?" Fujita Yoshimasa asked as soon as the two came out of the interrogation room.
"In my humble opinion, it is most likely that the news leaked out from the Maintenance Committee. The man surnamed Lin probably guessed that we were targeting him, so he took the risk desperately. I heard that he shot President Zhang and
Director Wu did not run away after that, but chose to be captured without mercy. It must be that the mastermind behind him had bribed the patrol house in the concession, so he did such an abnormal behavior after the assassination."
"Well, my judgment is the same as yours, and this is the only way to explain it."
"Then what do you think we should do next?"
"Don't worry, let the government office negotiate with them about this kind of matter. Just call the mayor's office and say..."
However, before he finished speaking, Takagi ran over in a panic, "Report...report to Chief Fujita, something big has happened!"
As he spoke, he whispered a few words to Fujita at a rapid pace.
Fujita Yoshimasa didn't listen, but after hearing Takagi's report, his face suddenly turned extremely pale, and he kept mumbling, "How is this possible? How is this possible? There must be something wrong!
It must be..."
Just like that, Fujita Yoshimasa staggered away under the surprised gaze of Cheng, as if he had lost his mind.
That night, Fujita Yoshimasa was urgently summoned to Nanjing and was severely reprimanded by the military commander.
"Trap! The so-called 'Military Deployment Plan for the Third Theater Zone' and escort missions are all traps! And the recent frequent assassinations and bombings are all designed to contain our energy so that we don't have any extra
It’s such a vicious plan to use all your energy to verify the authenticity of the plan! The lives of the Imperial soldiers were ruined by a piece of false information! These stupid agents must be held responsible for this matter!”
Fujita Yoshimasa almost roared and smashed his office to pieces, and then immediately ordered all the military police under his command to dispatch, and all the people from No. 76 who were involved in the "Third Theater Military Deployment Plan" were passed into the military police headquarters.
Prison.
There was chaos inside No. 76. The superiors were uncertain about their life or death, and the agents were all in danger and were on tenterhooks all day long.
However, perhaps even Fujita Yoshimasa himself did not expect that his crazy orders, which were almost venting his anger, actually allowed the people in the occupied areas of Shanghai to live a rare peaceful life for a few days.
A few days later, the Military Police Headquarters, Fujita Yoshimasa's office.
"Mr. Fujita's condition looks very bad, are you okay?" Minglou sat across from Fujita Yoshimasa and asked pretending to be concerned.
Although at this time Fujita Yoshimasa had been reprimanded by the military for intelligence errors and he looked a lot haggard, he still managed to force out an ugly smile and said feebly: "Mr. Ming, please don't
You asked knowingly, but if such a big thing happened, my condition will naturally not be much better, so you might as well tell me the reason for your visit!"
"Okay, this time I am entrusted by Mr. Zhou to ask Mr. Fujita to release Personnel No. 76 in custody."
"Because of a piece of false information, so many soldiers of the Japanese Empire lost their lives in vain. In Mr. Ming's opinion, shouldn't someone be responsible for this matter?"
"If something goes wrong, of course someone should be responsible, but Minglou really finds it hard to agree with your harsh way of handling it."
"Mr. Ming, are you teaching me how to do things?"
"Minglou doesn't dare. Minglou is just telling the truth. At the same time, he is deeply worried."
"What worries?"
"Of course it's the anti-Japanese elements. When there was no incident on No. 76, they committed crimes repeatedly. Now that No. 76 is close to paralysis, those anti-Japanese elements will probably become even more lawless and unscrupulous."
Fujita Yoshimasa couldn't help but narrowed his eyes after hearing this, "Mr. Ming's words are too exaggerated, aren't they?"
"Is it an exaggeration? I don't think so." As he spoke, Minglou handed a folder to Fujita Yoshimasa, "This is a summary report of the sudden cases of each branch in the recent period. It's not that far away. Yesterday alone
In one day, six pro-Japanese businessmen died tragically at home in the city, two dock warehouses caught fire, and the goods of Hongji Shantang disappeared and their whereabouts are unknown. In addition..."
"Okay! Mr. Ming, there is no need to read it again. It concerns the face of the imperial army. Please let me think about it again."
Seeing that Fujita Yoshimasa finally relented, Minglou did not push too hard. After all, from the perspective of the war of resistance, the later the guys from No. 76 were released, the more beneficial it would be to the underground struggle situation in Shanghai, so he pressed the button
He nodded and said, "Okay then! I hope Mr. Fujita won't keep me waiting too long, so I'll take my leave first."
"No more!"
However, shortly after Minglou left, Fujita Yoshimasa called Takagi over.
Not long after, Takagi's voice rang from outside the door, "Report!"
"Come in!"
Before he finished speaking, Takagi walked in.
"Go and tell those people on No. 76 that if you want to get out of here alive, someone must be responsible for this major intelligence error. As for who will be responsible for this, let them decide for themselves!"
However, what Fujita Yoshimasa never expected was that after listening to his order, Takagi not only did not follow the order and leave immediately, but remained motionless. At the same time, he stared at him with a strange look, which made him
I couldn't help but feel very excited.
"What are you doing? Why don't you just do what I say?"
He didn't want Takagi but still looked at him motionless, and said word by word: "Sir Fujita, I humbly believe that as a soldier of the empire, you can't just care about your own honor and let so many people who are loyal to the empire come here."
Take the responsibility that should be yours!”
As soon as these words came out, Fujita Yoshimasa couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then his face turned cold and he said in a deep voice: "Captain Takagi, what exactly are you going to say? Just say it!"
Takagi swallowed first, and then said as if he mustered up all his courage: "Sir Fujita, you disappoint me so much! I have always followed your example since I entered the special high school, but you
The way you handled this major intelligence error makes me question your loyalty and bravery. There is a problem with No. 76, but the Special High School should also be held accountable! What do you think, Chief Fujita?"