The news brought by Hans made Tang Cheng confused. This Japanese major general named Yokomoto Ichiro had been in Shanghai for two days. Hans, a guy who claimed to be well-informed, had not heard anything about it. This seemed a bit unreasonable. normal. Before Tang Cheng could ask, Hans took the initiative to explain, "My informant at the Military Police Headquarters has never had a chance to spread the news. This time, not to mention me, actually even the intelligence personnel from the British and the United States and France , and I didn’t hear any news at all.”
"This General Heng Yuan is from the Japanese military, so when he came to Shanghai this time, the person responsible for receiving him was the Japanese Military Police Headquarters, and the Special High School had no involvement at all. Moreover, the reception staff selected by the Military Police Headquarters were in charge of this Heng Yuan. Before General Yuan left Shanghai, he was not allowed to leave the place where Heng Yuan was staying. My insider spent a lot of effort to find out this information. Before you took action, this information was enough to sell it at a good price on the black market."
It has to be said that Hans's ability to collect intelligence is very strong. One day ago, Tang Cheng only knew the name Heng Yuan Ichiro. A day later, he got more detailed relevant information. The summary of information Hans gave to Tang Cheng was quite detailed. After reading this summary, Tang Cheng finally had a preliminary understanding of the Japanese major general named Yokomoto Ichiro. He also finally knew why the military command headquarters wanted to Assassinate this person yourself.
This Japanese major general named Yokomoto Ichiro was not actually an officer in the combat force. Yokomoto Ichiro, who was nominally affiliated with the Kwantung Army, had been an intelligence officer at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in his early years. After the war broke out, Yokomoto Ichiro went north to the border and served as the logistics director of the Japanese bacterial force, and was awarded the rank of major general. Yokomoto Ichiro's reputation is not well known. If the underground party members lurking in the Kwantung Army had not risked their lives to spread the news, perhaps no one would have known that the Japanese army had established a bacterial force outside the Kwantung Army.
When Ichiro Yokomoto came to Shanghai this time, he actually just took a navy ship from Shanghai to return to Japan. The military command headquarters suspected that this Yokomoto Ichiro not only wanted to return to Japan to report on his work, but he also probably carried information related to the germ force in preparation. Return to your hometown to make a detailed report to your superiors. Tang Cheng, who was looking through the information, had not yet understood the second mission of the military command headquarters. He simply planned to kill Yokomoto Ichiro in Shanghai.
"Tang, I'm not optimistic about your action this time!" As an intelligence provider, Hans was worried that his friend Tang Cheng would get into trouble because of this assassination operation. He also held a trace of fantasy and tried to persuade Tang Cheng to change this unfair situation. A solid decision. Hans's persuasion only made Tang Cheng's eyebrows slightly raised. If Hans had said this before Tang Cheng opened this summary of information, Tang Cheng might have changed his decision. But now, this Yokomoto Ichiro is Tang Cheng's sure-fire target. .
"Hey! We are old friends after all. Fortunately, I helped you find the information. Did you just turn around and leave without saying thank you?" The purpose of Tangcheng's visit to Hans was to get the information. Now that he has obtained the information related to Yokomoto Ichiro, Tang Cheng no longer has the mood to stay here. But before he could turn around and leave, Hans started shouting. He really wasn't optimistic about Tang Cheng's assassination of Yokomoto Ichiro.
Tang Cheng, who had already stood up, did not speak. Instead, when he reached the door of the office, he turned around and made a cheering gesture to Hans. After getting the information, Tang Cheng had no shortage of weapons and equipment. After leaving Hans' restaurant, Tang Cheng immediately returned to the hotel and made a comprehensive disguise for himself. Heng Yuan Ichiro came to Shanghai for two days and stayed in Hongkou District, which was tightly controlled by the Japanese army. If Tang Cheng wanted to successfully assassinate Heng Yuan Ichiro, he had to enter Hongkou District first.
When Tang Cheng came to Shanghai this time, he also brought a fake identity document that he had used many times before. This time, he planned to repeat his old trick and once again pretend to be a Japanese expatriate who came to Shanghai to seek life. Thanks to his previous experience of sneaking into Hongkou District, Tang Cheng spent no effort at all after disguising himself. With his fluent Japanese and the certificate he had used many times, he successfully passed the Japanese army's checkpoint and entered Hongkou District. The information provided by Hans included the specific location of Heng Yuan Ichiro in Hongkou District, but Tangcheng had no way to get close to where Heng Yuan Ichiro lived.
Looking at the Japanese military police patrolling outside Yokomoto Ichiro's residence from a distance, Tang Cheng did not choose to continue approaching, but immediately turned around and left. Knowing that something cannot be done but still forcefully doing it is called recklessness rather than bravery. Tang Cheng has always believed that he is not a reckless person. What he saw in front of him did not allow Tang Cheng to take action, so Tang Cheng planned to do the same as the previous times, waiting for it to get dark and sneaking in quietly with the cover of night.
Hongkou District, which was tightly controlled by the Japanese army, was not a concession. The concession was full of refugees and gangsters. However, military police patrols appeared in Hongkou District from time to time. If Tangcheng wanted to wait for it to get dark in such an environment, it was impossible to just hang out on the streets. The only solution was to find a place to live and settle down temporarily. The last few times Tang Cheng sneaked into Hongkou District, he always used false identities to stay directly in hotels in Hongkou District, but this time, he did not intend to do so.
There is a Korean resistance organization hiding in Hongkou District. Hans personally told Tang Cheng before he left the restaurant, and Hans also thoughtfully told him the two addresses he knew. The most active place of the Korean National Salvation Army in China is Shanghai. After the outbreak of the war, some members of the Korean National Salvation Army followed the Kuomintang to withdraw from Shanghai, and some of their members were lurking in Hongkou District. However, Tang Cheng's influence on the Korean National Salvation Army was not very good, and he had used the Korean National Salvation Army before, and this time, naturally, there would be no exception.
By asking passers-by, Tang Cheng quickly found the kimchi restaurant Hans mentioned. This kind of shop with a front store and a back store made Tang Cheng secretly happy. Both the boss and the clerk in the kimchi shop are women. Although Tang Cheng heard them speaking Korean, their clothes were Japanese. It can be seen that the business of this kimchi shop is good. Residents living in Hongkou District come in and out of this kimchi shop from time to time. Seeing this, Tang Cheng had to slowly go around to the back of the kimchi shop.
In addition to walking through the main entrance, the only way to enter the kimchi shop was through the backyard. Tangcheng didn't want to alarm the people in the kimchi shop, so he had no choice but to climb over the back wall. The backyard of the kimchi shop was not very big, and there were a lot of kimchi jars placed there. After quietly climbing over the wall, Tang Cheng took a closer look at the backyard, then ducked out from behind the kimchi jars used to hide his figure and hid directly in In the utility room in the backyard. The utility room looked like a mess, but after Tang Cheng entered, a sudden palpitation flashed through his heart.
Something's wrong! Tang Cheng, who was squatting half-crouched and already holding a pistol in his hand, seemed motionless, but his eyes were actually observing the situation in the utility room quickly. The utility room seemed normal, and Tang Cheng didn't notice anything unusual. But for some reason, Tang Cheng, who was in the utility room at the moment, felt that something was wrong here. Tang Cheng is not a person who likes to be suspicious, and this sudden strange feeling has saved Tang Cheng's life many times, so Tang Cheng must treat it with caution.
Tang Cheng secretly slowed down his breathing, and his whole body quickly entered a mysterious realm, as if everything had slowed down. Tang Cheng could even clearly see the dust slowly floating in the light. An inaudible breathing sound soon entered Tang Cheng's ears. Tang Cheng tilted his head slightly and saw an old wooden box in his sight. There must be something weird about this box! Tang Cheng, who discovered the strangeness, slowly tilted his lips to reveal a smile, raised his hands, and pointed his gun at the box.
The box that Tang Cheng pointed at with his pistol didn't look very big. It was impossible for such a box to hide the next big living person. Seeing that the box was placed directly on the ground, Tang Cheng was more inclined to believe that the person was hiding under the box. place. Tang Cheng, who has watched the movie "Tunnel War" more than once in later generations, is no stranger to tunnels. Moreover, when he used the Korean National Salvation Army before, he found that the Korean National Salvation Army people were very keen on digging tunnels under their residences.
This kimchi shop was a secret stronghold of the Korean National Salvation Army in Hongkou District, so Tangcheng concluded that there was a high possibility of a tunnel or cave under the box. Slowly approaching the box, Tang Cheng held a gun in his right hand and stretched out his left hand to open the box. At this moment, Tang Cheng, who had already touched the lid of the box with his left hand, suddenly heard someone talking in the yard, and it sounded like the voice was coming from the utility room. The voice became clearer and clearer. Although Tang Cheng didn't understand Korean, he could tell that the speakers were two people, a man and a woman.
After a quick glance at the utility room, Tang Cheng found that there was no place for him to hide in the utility room. Tang Cheng simply gritted his teeth and opened the lid of the box in front of him. As expected by Tang Cheng, the wooden box placed directly on the ground was just a decoration. When he opened the lid of the box, Tang Cheng saw a dark hole entrance appearing at the bottom of the box. Hearing voices in his ears and already appearing at the door of the utility room, Tang Cheng jumped directly into the box without thinking.
The box was used to cover the hole. Tang Cheng stepped into the box with his left foot and stepped on the top of the ladder. Tang Cheng, who had calmed down a little, immediately moved down the ladder in the hole. In the end, he did not forget to close the box. . After entering the cave, Tang Cheng found that the ladder was not very long, about three or four meters long. Then when he landed with his feet on the ground, he discovered that a tunnel had been dug out to the right of the cave. The tunnel Tang Cheng saw after opening the triple eyepiece was not straight, so he couldn't tell how long the tunnel was. He faintly heard the door of the utility room above his head being opened. He had no room at this moment. I can only bite the bullet and forget to move deep into the tunnel.
