On August 1, 1941, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress officially ordered the establishment of the American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force.
Colonel Chennault was appointed commander of the group.
The "Flying Tigers" were born!
At the same time, the Nationalist Government purchased one hundred Hawker-81 fighter jets at a unit price of US$45,000.
Sino-US cooperation begins.
In August, Meng Shaoyuan, director of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai Provincial Supervision Office of the Military Unification Bureau, who organized the Suzhou Uprising, and Wu Jingyi, director of the Shanghai District of the Military Unification Bureau, returned to Shanghai.
Shanghai in August is sultry and the depression in the air seems to make people breathless.
The weather was gloomy and a heavy rain could fall at any time.
The day Meng Shaoyuan was waiting for was getting closer and closer.
The evacuation of military intelligence agents and their families has basically been completed.
Those who stay will face an arduous struggle.
Meng Shaoyuan knew what was about to happen.
The Suzhou Uprising caused the Japanese and puppets to suffer heavy losses again.
The Qingxiang Movement, which the Japanese and puppets had high hopes for, also began to stagnate.
Japanese secret services in Shanghai, Nanjing and other places were severely reprimanded by the military.
This makes the life of Zuo Zhenzhao, the head of the Shanghai Agency, even more difficult.
To be honest, Koichi Hahara's performance during the Suzhou Incident was remarkable.
It's a pity that he once again met his lifelong enemy and his lifelong nemesis:
Meng Shaoyuan!
Not only that, not long after returning to Shanghai, Hahara Koichi received a piece of bad news:
Manjing Hangshu is dead!
That's right, this confident "hunter" who was ready to kill Meng Shaoyuan was killed by his prey instead.
This is completely bad news for Shanghai.
Manjing Hangshu and the special forces team he commanded had high hopes when they first arrived in Shanghai.
And in the early days, they performed really well.
However, as Meng Shaoyuan's counterattack began, one after another the special forces members died.
Now, even the captain of this special force is dead.
There are also twenty-one special operations team members.
Kage Sasaki appointed Tetsuya Akiyoshi as the new captain of the special forces team.
However, both Akiyoshi Tetsuya and the special team members clearly showed a lack of confidence.
This is completely opposite to when they first arrived in Shanghai, they were full of fighting spirit.
When they first arrived in Shanghai, far away from the frontline battlefield, they thought it was a small mission like a vacation.
They also performed very well.
However, in the face of huge threats, Meng Shaoyuan began to constantly design traps and even resorted to cheating tactics.
This caused the casualties of the special forces to increase.
Now, when their commander Manjing Hangshu also died in the hands of the enemy, this was undoubtedly a huge blow to the special forces.
After learning from the painful experience, Koichi Hahara proposed a comprehensive rectification proposal to Kage Sasaki.
This suggestion was also agreed by Yingzuo Zhenzhao.
Meng Shaoyuan! This person is like a nightmare, always haunting Koichi Hahara!
He didn't know when he would be free.
Even sometimes, Koichi Hahara would be awakened from his sleep. When he got up, he found that his whole body was soaked in sweat.
In his dream, he dreamed of Meng Shaoyuan again.
Meng Shaoyuan smiled and said to him: "You can't, you will never be able to defeat me, ever!"
Whenever this happens, Koichi Hahara will sit on the bed in a daze, and then sit there until dawn!
While the Japanese special agencies were undergoing rectification, Tian Qi received an order personally sent to him by Meng Shaoyuan:
Get ready to evacuate!
The deadline for evacuation is before the end of this year!
Tian Qi didn't expect it at all.
From the first day of lurking, he had been looking forward to the day when his mission would be over.
But he knew this was impossible.
His mission will never end.
But when his day finally arrived, he became confused.
Evacuate?
Are you really going to evacuate?
Meng Shaoyuan once mentioned evacuation to him, but Tian Qi always thought that the other party was there to comfort him.
But this day, unexpectedly, really came!
There are still four months to go.
"Evacuate?"
Lin Xuan didn't expect it at all.
After learning the true identity of Seventh Brother, Lin Xuan willingly stayed by his side, and she was ready to sacrifice every day.
Go and die with your seventh brother.
At this moment, her mood was just like Brother Qi's: fear, excitement, and confusion.
"He said that there is a new task for me to perform."
The "he" in Tian Qi's mouth is of course referring to Meng Shaoyuan: "Moreover, we will go to a very far away place, in a completely unfamiliar environment, to perform a mission that is very likely to be impossible to complete!"
"A task that is very likely to be impossible to complete?" Lin Xuan said in a daze.
"I don't know what the mission is." Tian Qi said in a daze: "He said that on the eve of the evacuation, he would hand over the mission to me."
No one knows what kind of mission this is.
No one can guess what Meng Shaoyuan will do next.
"Then let me prepare." Lin Xuan whispered: "Don't be too late when you receive the order to retreat."
"Don't prepare anything."
Tian Qi's expression suddenly became serious: "Listen, there is no retreat order. It was the same as it was in the past, and it is still the same now. Any abnormality may arouse the enemy's suspicion.
If the order to retreat is officially issued, don't ask for anything. You can take your children and leave first. I'll be responsible for the aftermath. "
Lin Xuan nodded: "I understand, the commander will definitely make proper retreat arrangements."
"Really?" Tian Qi smiled: "There are no proper arrangements. The nature of our work is different from others, especially me, 'Blood Fox' Tian Qi! All retreats can only be completed by ourselves."
With that said, he stood up, walked to the window, opened the curtains and looked outside.
Several agents were patrolling there.
Among them, there is "Lv Zibin" who has become Tian Qi's confidant.
His real name is Lu Meng, who was sent to Tian Qi by Meng Shaoyuan.
Tian Qi knew very well that Lu Meng was used to protect him, and he could be sacrificed when necessary.
Even, Lin Xuan can be sacrificed.
But now, Tian Qi suddenly understood that Lu Meng had another task that even he didn't know about:
Cover Tian Qi’s retreat!
From the first day when Lu Meng was assigned to Tian Qi, Meng Shaoyuan had already made a comprehensive plan.
Meng Shaoyuan has already made clear arrangements for how long Tian Qi will lurk and when his specific retreat time will be.
Tian Qi had no idea how he did it.
He turned around, glanced at his wife, and then at his daughter:
"We must survive!"
Live!
When receiving the lurking mission, Tian Qi already regarded himself as a dead person.
But now, he doesn't want to die, he wants to live.
Not only for his wife and daughter, he was also curious:
What is the almost impossible task that Meng Shaoyuan mentioned? Where are you, your wife, and your daughter going?
