Shanghai, let’s start the war!
When Meng Shaoyuan said these words, Shanghai entered a state of war!
A war without planes and artillery, but one that will be no less brutal than the Battle of Songhu!
But to be honest, the order to start the war was a bit sudden.
No one had any psychological preparation before this.
An order from the top can often plunge an originally peaceful city into a sea of fire.
The first assassination after the war was also personally directed by Meng Shaoyuan.
Jun Hirakura, 43 years old, is a senior Japanese spy stationed in Shanghai. He has been active in the public concession for a long time and can speak Chinese, Japanese and English. Seniority.
The assassination of Wu Jingyi was led by him.
Lu Yuji, the driver of the minibus of the Shanghai Special Office of Military Reunification, was also dragged into the trap by him.
According to Lu Yuji's confession after his arrest, after he learned about Wu Jingyi's driving patterns, he immediately secretly sent the information out. This also resulted in the assassination.
However, Ping Cangshun did not know that Meng Shaoyuan and Wu Jingyi were sitting in the car at that time, otherwise, he would definitely increase his assassination efforts.
According to Lu Yuji's explanation, every time he sends information, he can receive a bonus in a few days. This time, the place where he received his bonus was in the "Krona Cafe".
It was a cafe run by French people, so safety was guaranteed.
Meng Shaoyuan gave Lu Yuji two ways, one way of life and one way of death.
Lu Yuji is not a fool, of course he should know which way to choose.
July 29, noon.
Krone Cafe.
Lu Yuji sat there without taking two sips of a cup of coffee, a little absent-minded.
There were two tables of foreigners sitting in the cafe.
Even Lu Yuji didn't know where the people sent by Meng Shaoyuan were and when they would take action.
11:15.
The coffee shop door opened.
Lu Yuji saw Ping Cangshun walking in at a glance.
Behind him were two bodyguards.
"Ping...Mr. Ping."
Lu Yuji quickly stood up.
"Mr. Lu." Ping Cangshun sat down opposite him: "I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." Lu Yuji said repeatedly.
Ping Cangshun ordered a cup of coffee, then took out an envelope from his pocket and pushed it in front of Lu Yuji: "Mr. Lu, this is your reward."
Lu Yuji nervously put away the envelope, his hands trembling slightly.
As a veteran spy, of course his move could not be hidden from Ping Cangshun: "Mr. Lu, you look very scared. Is something wrong?"
Before coming, Meng Shaoyuan had expected that Lu Yuji would be nervous and scared, and he had already been taught how to answer.
Lu Yuji swallowed, his voice trembling: "I...I only found out later...in that car, in addition to Wu Jingyi, there was...and...Meng Shaoyuan!"
"who?"
"Meng Shaoyuan!"
Pingcang Shun was stunned.
Meng Shaoyuan!
He was actually in that car?
He wanted to give himself a few hard slaps.
If he had known it at that time, he would have killed Meng Shaoyuan no matter what, even if he lost all his money!
such a pity!
It's too late to say anything now.
"I understand." Ping Cangshun stood up: "That's it for today, Mr. Lu, we will contact you later."
"Okay, okay, Mr. Ping, please walk slowly."
…
With great frustration, Ping Cangshun walked out of the coffee shop.
Outside, everything was calm.
Opposite, a beggar sat.
Beggars are not allowed to beg outside coffee shops.
Not far away, two rickshaws were parked there.
Pingcang Shun observed very carefully. When he arrived, the rickshaw driver was two other people.
If it's always the same faces out there, there's something wrong.
To the left, a pair of young students were whispering. Seeing someone coming out of the cafe, they stopped talking and prepared to cross the street.
Everything is normal.
The bodyguard waved his hand, and the rickshaw driver immediately ran over with the rickshaw.
"One car is enough..."
Just after Pingcang Shun said these words, a sudden change occurred.
The young student who was about to cross the road suddenly drew his gun.
The rickshaw driver flashed his gun.
Even the beggar on the opposite side suddenly pulled out his gun and kept shooting while running towards here!
Hirakura Shun and his two bodyguards were caught off guard and fell into a pool of blood almost instantly.
Meng Shaoyuan put away his gun and tidied his student uniform.
This was an action he personally directed and executed.
When the war started in Shanghai, he fired the first shot!
He took out a playing card and threw it on Ping Cang Shun's body.
This is a 7 of spades!
It had been a long time since he had killed someone with his own hands, and it had been a long time since he had used playing cards.
On the back of the playing card, three words were written in black pen.
Yu Yanchu, who cooperated with him on the mission and played the role of a female student, never understood why Meng Shaoyuan wrote these three words on the back of the playing cards.
She had asked about it before, but Meng Shaoyuan always laughed it off.
Later, when they inspected Hirakura Jun's body, the Japanese discovered the playing card, and the "Poker Killer" appeared again!
They also discovered the three words on the playing cards.
They had no idea what it meant.
Even the Japanese special agency organized a group to study the meaning of these three words.
Unfortunately, until the end of the war, they were unable to decipher the code contained in these three words.
Shit code.
These three words on the playing cards are nothing more than another bad joke of the overfed Meng Shaoyuan.
These three words are:
Crane and double eagle!
He originally wanted to write the words "Heroes Crane and Double Eagles", but unfortunately he couldn't write it on the back of the playing card.
He even had an image of a hero with a crane and two eagles in his mind:
Always wearing a leather jacket and a pair of sunglasses, he passes through thousands of troops without even a leaf touching his body.
In the 1930s, holding an AWM sniper rifle that only came out in the 1980s did not feel out of place.
What a pity, where can I find an AWM?
Meng Shaoyuan has believed for a long time that since he wrote the three words "Crane and Double Eagle", he can be regarded as the originator of divine drama, right?
And Meng Shaoyuan's bad taste was out of control with the success of this assassination operation.
It is said that during a military unification meeting, the absent-minded Meng Shaoyuan suddenly asked: "Do you think it would be possible to invent a bun mine if a grenade was hidden in a bun?"
Always rigorous, Wu Jingyi, who was drinking tea at the time, squirted out.
I had long known that Master Meng had a hole in his mind, but I didn’t expect that the hole would be so big...
…
Jun Hirakura's murder was called the "7.29 Incident" by the Japanese.
This also marks the official start of a full-scale war between the Chinese and Japanese secret services in Shanghai!
Under the planning of Kenji Doihara and personally commanded by Yasumi Yanagawa, the Japanese spy agency launched retaliation immediately.
On the 30th, Kenji Doihara's assistant Qingyin Haruki arrived in Shanghai with a large number of spy reinforcements.
On the morning of the 30th, Japanese special forces launched a raid on the military unified contact point on Chengdu Road and killed two military unified agents.
At noon that day, the Military Command Shanghai Special Office retaliated with tit-for-tat by launching a forceful attack on Marutani Trading Company on Gordon Road, killing four Japanese special officers and wounding one.
Tooth for tooth! Blood for blood!
In just a few days, both China and Japan suffered huge casualties.
Moyes, general director of the Shanghai Public Settlement Bureau of Industry, together with Police Commissioner Sinclair, made an urgent meeting with the heads of the Chinese and Japanese secret services and asked them to cease the war immediately, otherwise the Bureau of Industry would have to intervene.
As the Chinese representative, Wu Jingyi, and as the Japanese representative, Colonel Matsumoto Nitsugi, both coincidentally denied that the bloody incident was related to them.
"It has nothing to do with you?" Regarding this denial, Moyes felt that it was extremely ridiculous: "Could it be that there are other forces in Shanghai?"
Wu Jingyi and Matsumoto Nitsugi remained silent.
"Please go back and tell General Dofeihara that no matter what he does in Hongkou, I can't control it, but please don't continue to mess around in the public concession." Moyes endured his anger, and then said to Wu Jingyi: "Please go back and tell you too Meng’s immediate boss, the public concession is in chaos, which is not good for anyone, this is not a battlefield!”
…
During the meeting with the Ministry of Industry Bureau, Meng Shaoyuan issued several instructions in succession.
Ask He Ru to advise a large number of students from the Taihu training base to be transferred to Shanghai.
He ordered the local military under his command to unify the guerrillas and select operatives, especially those who were brave and good at shooting, to urgently reinforce Shanghai.
The war has begun.
No matter how reluctant they were, Zhou Weilong, the head of the Shanghai latent zone, and Cheng Yiming, the secretary of the military command, were passively involved in this war.
The two people originally maintained a wait-and-see attitude and were unwilling to get involved, but the development of the situation exceeded their imagination.
From July 31 to August 1, several contact points of Zhou Weilong were pulled out one after another.
This completely angered Zhou Weilong. He quickly contacted Cheng Yiming and learned that the other party was in the same situation.
"Old Cheng, let's fight." A somewhat helpless Zhou Weilong said: "It's impossible if we don't fight. If we don't fight, not only will we suffer losses, but the people below are also very dissatisfied, and we will definitely pursue the case at the top. Damn it, Meng Shaoyuan, let the whole Shanghai... It’s chaos!”
"Fight, let's fight." Cheng Yiming also sighed: "He is protected by Mr. Dai, and he does things unscrupulously. Let's make chaos happen. Let the whole Shanghai be in chaos."
They had tacitly planned to squeeze out Meng Shaoyuan bit by bit, but Meng Shaoyuan suddenly started a war in Shanghai, disrupting their entire plan.
Following the "Mr. Gong Incident", the three military leaders in Shanghai reluctantly had to join forces again.
Everyone knows that it will be difficult to stop this fight...
…
"Ms. Wu."
Coming out of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, Matsumoto Nitsugi asked: "On behalf of General Doihara, I would like to ask a question, are you really prepared to dye Shanghai red with blood?"
"I can answer this question for you."
Wu Jingyi said calmly: "Shanghai has long been stained red with blood. We are ready!"
"Bang bang bang"!
In the distance, there was another gunshot.
No one knows who attacked whom.
Matsumoto Nitsugi felt a little scared for no reason.
As soon as General Doihara arrived, the entire situation in Shanghai changed rapidly.
Who will the next bullet hit?
Is there any safe place in Shanghai?
"Please take care." Wu Jingyi said before getting in the car: "Maybe the next bullet will target you!"
