Shanghai, which temporarily "lost" Meng Shaoyuan, never stopped for a moment.
The war in Shanghai between the military commanders and Japanese special forces has entered a fierce stage.
Assassinations occurred one after another, and casualties were reported from time to time.
Like the Japanese secret service in Shanghai, the military's influence in Shanghai is also relatively complex.
The most important ones are the three forces:
Zhou Weilong, secretary of the military reunification Shanghai latent area, Cheng Yiming, and Meng Shaoyuan, director of the military reunification Shanghai special office.
Among these three forces, Meng Shaoyuan is the least qualified and the latest to come to Shanghai, but he is the most powerful.
His military strength is strong, his weapon capital is sufficient, his personnel reserves are abundant, and above all, he has money.
From the time Meng Shaoyuan entered Shanghai for the first time, Meng Shaoyuan adopted the method of cutting both sides of the problem and not offending anyone, because his relationship with Zhou Weilong and Cheng Yiming was at least on the surface good.
Cheng Yiming had worked in the Workers' and Peasants' Party in the past, so he knew how to behave with his tail between his legs.
At the end of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, due to poor command, he was transferred to Suzhou to serve as the leader of the Lieutenant Colonel of the Suzhou Special Group of Military Reunification.
He was only a lieutenant colonel until now, and his promotion was relatively slow. Moreover, as a dignified secretary of the Shanghai District, he served as a team leader in Suzhou, which was considered a demotion.
The big reason is also his previous identity issue.
But Cheng Yiming still has no regrets and does his job diligently without any complaints. This also made Dai Li very satisfied.
After the fall of Suzhou, Cheng Yiming was transferred to Shanghai again, and his official position was restored as secretary of the military command's Shanghai latent area.
This person has a deep rhyme with the word "forbearance".
Zhou Weilong is different.
He is considered a "rooted and mature" and a veteran spy. During the fourth phase of Huangpu, Ninghan split, and he defected to the chairman of the committee under Dai Li's persuasion, which caused a violent commotion.
It is precisely because of this that he and Dai Li became life-and-death friends, one of the members of the "Ten Men", and his status in the military system was extremely high.
The shortcoming of this person is that he likes to rely on his elders, relies on his own qualifications and status, likes to point fingers, and when things don't go his way, anyone dares to scold him when his temper gets angry.
But everyone would give in to him because of his qualifications and status.
In Shanghai, he did not take Cheng Yiming seriously at all, but instead favored Meng Shaoyuan later. He also often told his cronies that the number one person in charge of military control of Shanghai in the future would definitely be Meng Shaoyuan.
Even in a few years, it is not known that Meng Shaoyuan will be able to rise to the top of the military hierarchy.
Therefore, the three military forces in Shanghai have internal conflicts and cooperation. However, under the current situation, cooperation is still greater than infighting.
After all, who with a little conscience is willing to be a slave to the subjugation of the country?
During the period when Meng Shaoyuan was not in Shanghai, Wu Jingyi was temporarily in charge of the special office.
This woman, known as "the woman standing behind Meng Shaoyuan," began to take on her own role for the first time.
Her talents have been fully demonstrated since she first became an agent.
First, they successfully killed Yamazaki Takeoka's advancing team.
Then, Wu Jingyi went non-stop and launched a series of anti-rape operations in Shanghai.
In particular, the death of Pan Daijiao, a former representative of the Shanghai feminist movement and who had dealt with Meng Shaoyuan, caused an uproar in Shanghai.
Pan Daijiao, who claims to be leading the new wave of the feminist movement in Shanghai and even across the country, was a well-known figure during the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War and was even an idol for many women.
Although many men criticized some of her actions, due to her reputation, they could only act politely in front of her.
After the war of resistance broke out, Pan Daijiao quickly exposed another side of her.
She actively cooperated with Japan. On many occasions, she reversed her past image as a pioneer in the feminist movement and repeatedly praised Japanese women for their virtuous and kind-heartedness.
Even disregarding the remarks that have been preached everywhere before, that women should not only have equal status with men, but also sit on top of men, slap themselves in the face, and say that the kind of submission and tolerance that Japanese women treat their husbands and children is the most advanced expression. It is worth learning from every Chinese woman.
Her performance naturally won the favor of the Japanese.
It is rumored that Pan Daijiao will serve as the pseudo-Minister of Culture in the Nanjing puppet regime of the Republic of China's reform government that is being prepared.
Zhou Weilong sent people to contact her many times, hoping that she could rein in the situation and return to her lost ways, but Pan Daijiao ignored her. Instead, he said: “Women’s affairs don’t need to be decided by men.”
Zhou Weilong had also thought about assassinating her, but considering that Pan Daijiao had great influence among those new women and had even been interviewed by many celebrities in the past, it was difficult to control the reaction that would arise once she was assassinated.
In addition, many members of the Pan family work in the National Government, and her brother even holds an important position in the Executive Yuan, so it has been difficult to make a decision.
Just when he couldn't make up his mind, Wu Jingyi decided to take action.
"Regardless of men and women, regardless of new or old women, once they decide to surrender to the enemy, they are enemies of the country and the nation!"
This is the order given by Wu Jingyi.
There is one more name on the assassination list of the Military Command Shanghai District Special Office:
Pan Daijiao!
Wu Jingyi learned from the information she had that Pan Daijiao, who advocated women's liberation, had a revolving door of men around her, and she especially liked men with fair faces and tall figures.
In view of this weakness, Wu Jingyi specially selected one named Chen Hong from among his agents to work as a waiter in a French restaurant where Pan Daijiao often went.
Sure enough, Pan Daijiao fell in love with Chen Hong at first sight, and Chen Hong was successfully "hooked" by her. That night, he took Pan Daijiao's car to her apartment.
Pan Daijiao has a special characteristic. Although she keeps changing men, she never lets a man stay at her house overnight. After a storm, she will send a driver to take the man away.
But that night, the bodyguards were listening to the noise outside the door, and they all looked at each other and smiled, not surprised at the bursts of shouts coming from the opposite side.
After the sound subsided, the bodyguards were all ready. According to the rules, the man would come out soon.
However, after waiting outside for a long time, Chen Hong was not seen coming out.
The bodyguard knocked on the door outside and asked in a low voice, but there was no movement inside.
The bodyguard felt something was wrong and quickly kicked the door open.
The scene in front of them shocked them.
Chen Hong was fully dressed and had almost finished smoking a cigarette.
Pan Daijiao was lying on the bed, covered with quilt, but her face was bruised and her eyes were bulging. She had obviously been strangled to death.
Chen Hong put out his cigarette butt and stood up: "I'll kill her. Please take me to the patrol room."
This is the "face-to-face murder case" that caused a sensation in Shanghai.
When Chen Hong arrived at the patrol room, he looked calm and confessed that Pan Daijiao liked him and promised himself that as long as he was satisfied with her service, he would give him two hundred yuan.
But when she got to bed, she tried her best to serve Pan Daijiao, but the woman said that she was not good at Kung Fu and that men were most afraid of such humiliation. In a rage, she killed Pan Daijiao.
Even the murder process was clearly explained.
He first covered Pan Daijiao's face with a pillow to prevent her from speaking out, and then strangled Pan Daijiao's throat with his other elbow. Pan Daijiao died not long after.
Detective Li, who was in charge of interrogating him, patiently and carefully listened to Chen Hong's confession. After asking him to sign a pledge, and before taking him away, he suddenly sighed and whispered:
"I just tried your killing method. It sounds easy, but it's actually very difficult to do. You have to go through professional training. Not long after you became a waiter, something like this happened. Isn't it a coincidence?"
"It's hard to kill, but it's easy to kill a traitor." Chen Hong looked calm: "I have confessed everything, are you still not satisfied?"
"Satisfied, of course I am satisfied." Inspector Li smiled bitterly: "If I put on this layer of skin, I am the detective. If I take off this layer of skin, I am an ordinary person. I have no control over the affairs of the Japanese, but I don't care about your affairs. I don’t dare to care. In short, it’s whatever you say, as long as someone can take the blame.”
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The murder of Pan Daijiao, the famous Shanghai feminist movement leader, was exaggerated by newspapers and immediately caused an uproar in Shanghai.
There are various versions. Some people say that Pan Daijiao was ready to surrender to the enemy, and the military commander resorted to a beauty trick to get rid of her. Some people say that the pretty boy Pan Daijiao found thought the price was too low and killed him in a rage during the quarrel.
There is also an even more ridiculous theory, saying that Pan Daijiao called out two men that night, and they became jealous of each other, which eventually led to tragedy.
In view of Pan Daijiao's identity and influence in Shanghai, the public concession did not dare to neglect and quickly made a judgment on Pan Daijiao's murder case.
In court, Chen Hong insisted that he killed someone because his dignity as a man was insulted.
Someone even quietly gave Chen Hong a message. As long as he told the truth, or even if he tactfully let the judge know that he was a member of the military commander, an ordinary murder case would become complicated.
The Japanese will not intervene openly for a dead man. Pan Daijiao's identity as a traitor will also win Chen Hong's sympathy, and then the judge will delay the verdict, which will buy the military commander time to rescue Chen Hong.
But Chen Hong only said lightly: "I don't know what military command is. I killed Pan Daijiao myself."
In the end he was sentenced to death by hanging, which was to be executed immediately.
Before walking to the gallows, he saw Wu Jingyi in the crowd. He smiled slightly and was fearless.
He knew that as long as he could buy time, Wu Jingyi would have a way to save him.
But he didn't want to do that.
He didn't want Pan Daijiao's death to have anything to do with military commanders.
During the Battle of Shanghai in 1932, his father, a battalion commander of the National Army, died on the battlefield. In 1937, his brother was a platoon leader of the National Army and was killed in the Yunzaobang battle.
His mother and sister are both in Zhenjiang, and they don't know whether they are alive or dead.
Now, it's his turn to do something for the country.
The Chen family is a loyal family!
"I will smile to the sky from my horizontal sword, leaving my liver and gallbladder intact!"
Chen Hong thought quietly in his heart and walked to the gallows calmly.
Wu Jingyi turned and left.
At this moment, there were tears in her eyes.
If Master Meng were here, maybe Chen Hong wouldn't be like this.
Why hasn't Master Meng come back yet?
It is really too tiring to carry this burden alone.
