The area of Japanese-style houses is generally not very large, but unlike Chinese-style houses, Japanese-style houses generally have front and backyards, and the backyards are more exquisitely decorated. Tang Cheng clung to the top of the wall with his backhand, slid down slowly against the wall, then squatted and knelt beside the wall, carefully observing the small yard. The yard is not large, but it is very clean. A few flowers and trees are scattered in the corners of the yard, and in the center is a gravel path paved with small pieces of gravel.
Tang Cheng's current position was behind a flower and tree. After carefully observing the situation in the yard, Tang Cheng stood up and walked around the flower and tree, following the gravel path straight to the house closest to him. There was a faint sound of footsteps outside the yard. Tang Cheng, who was already leaning against the wall, had no time to pay attention to it. He just slowly leaned forward and tried to see clearly what was going on in the house from the window. There was no one in the room. Outside the window, Tang Cheng only saw a tabby cat squatting on the windowsill. Tang Cheng raised his eyebrows, reached out and pushed open the window and got into the room.
The tabby cat owned by the head of the household didn't seem surprised by Tang Cheng's appearance. It just stared at Tang Cheng for a while, then turned around and jumped onto the shelf next to the window sill, facing Tang Cheng with its buttocks and falling asleep. When Tang Cheng saw this, he couldn't help but laugh secretly, thinking that this tabby cat was really cool. Just when Tang Cheng hid in the backyard of a house and looked for an opportunity to hide himself, the Special High School Division who got the news had already sent people to the scene. Although Kenichi Yamamoto directly accepted the local command, he was still nominally from the Shanghai headquarters.
Kenichi Yamamoto, who was shot in the neck and back, didn't look terrible at his death. Kenichi Yamamoto, who died from massive blood loss, looked just a little pale at the moment. However, the two corpses that the military police pulled out of the car looked very scary, especially the driver who was shot first, missing half of his head. Of the four people in the car, only a guard sitting in the front passenger seat survived. Unfortunately, his chest was penetrated by a bullet and he was in a deep coma at the moment.
Not only Kenichi Yamamoto and three others were killed at the scene, but also a military police captain and two ordinary military police were killed. Trace experts from the Special High School Division have inspected the bodies and found no special clues. "Captain Yamamoto and others were all hit by bullets of the same caliber. According to the answers of the military police at the scene, they never saw the gunman's figure. This means that the murderer should be a very experienced man. A veteran." The trace expert from the Special High School gave a concise judgment.
"Based on the bullet holes in the car, we have analyzed and preliminarily determined that the bullet that penetrated the front windshield of the car should have come from the rooftop of the cinema over there. The military police have already found out about this." When all the spies, big and small, heard this, they were all shocked. The cinema was at least 300 meters away from the intersection where the car was located. To shoot and kill several people one after another from such a range, no one among them could do it.
"Bullets don't all come from that direction!" Just when everyone was shocked, the trace expert named Heiteng suddenly pointed to the left side of the street and said. "The bullet that penetrated the car did come from the direction of the cinema, but the bullet that killed Colonel Yamamoto and three military policemen in the end should have come from this direction. The military police have sent people over to investigate, and there will be answers later. If They can find relevant clues, which means there is more than one murderer, maybe the murderer is a team of more than two people."
Kuroto's judgment still needs relevant clues to support it. The only thing he can rely on at present is to use the positions of bullet holes on Yamamoto Kenichi and others to simply guess the direction of the bullet. The bullets that penetrated the car and killed Kenichi Yamamoto obviously came from two directions. In Kurotou's natural understanding, it was impossible for the murderer of Kenichi Yamamoto to escape from the movie theater building over there in such a short time in broad daylight. Ding moved to this side of the street, so the murderers must be two or more.
At first glance, Heiteng's judgment didn't seem to have much basis, but everyone present just pondered for a moment before nodding. Without exception, these people made the same mistakes as Heiteng, but they didn't know that what they couldn't do was not something that others couldn't do as well. The military police sent to the roof of the building on the left side of the street soon made a discovery. They found several bullet casings upstairs. After identification by people from the special high school, these bullet casings all belonged to 7.92-caliber Mauser rifles. bomb.
The 7.92-caliber Mauser rifle cartridge is not rare in China. After all, there are so-called German weapon masters under the Nationalist Government, and Mauser rifles have a large market in China. The explosion site on the roof of the cinema was quickly cleared, and the dead and wounded military police were carried off the roof. They also found three Mauser rifle shells on the roof. "Look, I said the murderers were in a group, and they should all have used Mauser rifles." The same Mauser rifle shells made Kuroteng excited.
The military police's search for the entire Hongkou District was continuing, but no trace of the murderer was found. An hour later, bad news came from the Special High School. They compared the bullet casings found at the two sites. , it was finally discovered that these bullet casings were fired from a rifle. This news made Kuroto, who speculated that there were more than two murderers, very angry. While everyone else was wondering how the murderer managed to move quickly between two locations, Kuroto was secretly cursing this damn murderer for embarrassing himself. .
In fact, for the Special High School, the question in the assassination case of Kenichi Yamamoto is not only how the murderer managed to move quickly between two places, but also the shots fired by the murderer on the roof of the cinema. He shot two bodyguards and a driver of Kenichi Yamamoto continuously with a shooting range of over 350 meters. Such shooting skills could only be accomplished by a few special shooters even in the Japanese army.
The Japanese military intelligence department, which has been conducting intelligence infiltration into China since the early years of the Republic of China, has a fairly good understanding of the strength of the Chinese army. The so-called sharpshooters in the Chinese army do not have such marksmanship. Soon, there was a new theory within the Special High School. They were more inclined to believe that the murderer of Kenichi Yamamoto was a lone killer hired by the Intelligence Agency, because they believed that neither the Chinese army nor the Intelligence Agency had such marksmanship. Good shooter.
But no matter what judgment the Special High School makes, the most important thing at the moment is to find the guy who assassinated Kenichi Yamamoto. As time passed, the gendarmerie troops that blocked Hongkou District once again increased their strength. With the cooperation of the police, they conducted a second round of detailed searches in Hongkou District. All buildings in Hongkou District were carefully searched by the military police. Even places like banks and hospitals were not immune. However, the results of the searches disappointed both the military police headquarters and the special higher education department.
The murderer who shot and assassinated Kenichi Yamamoto in the street seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. Two searches by the military police and the police found no trace of him. "This is impossible. Kenichi Yamamoto was still alive when the explosion occurred on the roof of the cinema. It was after hearing the explosion that the military police began to seal off the various passages connecting the outside of Hongkou District. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for this murderer to escape from Hongkou District. He is definitely still in Hongkou District, we just haven’t found him yet.”
There has been no news about the murderer. The people in the Special High School concluded that the murderer had left Hongkou District, but the Military Police Headquarters refused to accept this inference. People on both sides couldn't argue, and finally decided to conduct a comprehensive search before dark. Three consecutive house-to-house searches have made people in Hongkou District panic. The Japanese living in Hongkou District are better off. Others, such as Koreans or people from other countries, will inevitably be taken advantage of by the military police and police who search. Harsh words.
The movement of the military police blocking Hongkou District is not small. Some thoughtful people who pay close attention to the developments in Hongkou District can give full play to their imaginations even though they cannot enter Hongkou District to understand it personally. Soon, a rumor appeared on the intelligence black market in the concession. Unlike the last murder in the izakaya, this time the matter may be more troublesome because Hongkou District has been blocked by the military police for a whole afternoon. People from outside Hongkou District can't come in, and people inside can't get out, which makes this rumor more and more believed by more people.
Bai Zhanshan also heard this unconfirmed rumor, but he believed it more than others because the Shanghai Station of the Intelligence Department arranged a secret agent in Hongkou District. After he prepared clothes and water for Tangcheng, One day ago, they temporarily withdrew from Hongkou District according to Tangcheng's instructions. It must be Tang Cheng who took action. Bai Zhanshan already had a judgment in his mind, but he had no way to confirm his judgment yet.
The third search in Hongkou District finally found nothing. Seeing that it was already dark, the Military Police Headquarters had to admit the previous inference of the Special High School that the murderer had probably left Hongkou District. The martial law in Hongkou District has been lifted little by little, but the checkpoints at various checkpoints still look serious. People entering Hongkou District, regardless of whether they are Japanese or not, need to undergo strict interrogation before passing these checkpoints.
No one knew that Tang Cheng had not actually left Hongkou District. Just when a large number of military police and police were searching the entire Hongkou District, he continued to change hiding places and finally hid in the cellar, where he was sleeping contentedly and contentedly. The cellar where Tang Cheng finally hid was only one street away from the izakaya he once turned into a Shura place. Neither the Special High School nor the Military Police Headquarters expected that Tangcheng would play a dark trick with them.
