Although Tangcheng had been exposed, the goods yard was so chaotic that the Japanese troops chasing Tangcheng quickly lost track of Tangcheng. The fire in the cargo yard will be impossible to extinguish for a while. The Japanese troops stationed at the dock can only concentrate their manpower to evacuate materials close to the fire in advance. Tang Cheng took advantage of this moment to quietly leave the goods yard and went straight to other warehouses guarded by the Japanese at the dock. Because of the fire, most of the Japanese troops stationed at the dock went to the cargo yard to help, but the guards guarding the important warehouses were still left in place.
This place had long been expropriated by the Japanese army in Shanghai as a military wharf, so Tangcheng judged that there should be more than one place where oil was stored. Tang Cheng, who had been careful to avoid the Japanese army, began to wander around in the dock. About a quarter of an hour later, Tang Cheng appeared at the back of a warehouse. Discovering that there was a patrol here, Tang Cheng was moved and immediately walked around the warehouse. Seeing the two guards standing outside the main entrance of the warehouse, Tang Cheng felt that he might have found a key location, otherwise there would be no guards or patrols here.
The two Japanese guards guarding the main entrance of the warehouse did not find Tang Cheng hiding in the dark. After Tang Cheng confirmed his previous suspicion, he quickly walked around to the back of the warehouse. Tang Cheng planned to use the previous method, using the empty equipment bag to make a hole in the wall at the back of the warehouse. But before he could find a place to start, he suddenly heard footsteps not far away. Tang Cheng hurriedly lowered his figure and moved quickly eastward along the back wall of the warehouse.
Just after Tangcheng left the back wall of the warehouse, a group of Japanese patrols appeared here. The leader of the Japanese army was obviously very responsible. Not only did he shine a flashlight on the back wall of the warehouse, he also took a look at the eaves of the warehouse. After making sure that there was no abnormality here, he led his patrol soldiers and walked south along the back wall of the warehouse. Hiding in the darkness, Tang Cheng wanted to return to the back wall of the warehouse, but heard footsteps again.
Because of the fire in the cargo yard, the Japanese troops stationed at the docks intensified their patrols. Especially in these important warehouses that were closely guarded by the Japanese troops, the patrol force was doubled. Fortunately, Tang Cheng could endure it and waited for the patrol that appeared for the second time to leave. Then he quickly returned to the back wall of the warehouse and used his equipment bag to cut a big hole in the wall. Like the previous arms warehouse, there was no one on duty in this warehouse. Tang Cheng, who entered the warehouse through the hole in the wall, immediately turned around and blocked the hole in the wall.
This warehouse was obviously much smaller than the previous arms warehouse, but there were a lot of boxes stacked. Tang Cheng carefully pried open a box on the wall, only to find that the box was filled with bullets. Unwilling to give up, Tang Cheng pried open several boxes in succession, but the results were similar to what Tang Cheng expected. These boxes were filled with ammunition. Since they are things that you can't use, destroy them to make the Japanese suffer even more. Tang Cheng, who did not dare to waste time, immediately began to arrange explosives and triggering devices in this warehouse.
The dock was noisy, full of Japanese soldiers and dock workers helping to transport the wounded. However, Tangcheng took this opportunity to place explosives and triggering devices in many warehouses. The Japanese troops on the dock had no time to pay attention to other things now. Before the fire in the cargo yard was extinguished, they had no idea that something had happened to the closely guarded warehouses. He had used up very little of the explosives and grenades that Tang Cheng had collected earlier. Seeing that time was almost up, Tang Cheng took advantage of the chaos and left the dock.
The Xinya Hotel was naturally safe. He ran all the way to get back to Tangcheng in the Xinya Hotel before the sky lit up. He managed not to sleep because he was waiting for a more lively situation to appear. After washing, Tang Cheng was only wearing pajamas. With nothing to do, he simply sat cross-legged on the bed and began to wipe and maintain his weapons. Time passed by minute by minute, until it was bright outside and almost past breakfast time, there was a violent explosion outside the window.
There was a loud bang, and Tang Cheng, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, even felt the hotel room shaking. Feeling secretly happy, he immediately jumped off the bed, walked directly to the window, and looked in the direction of the dock. Sure enough, a huge plume of smoke had risen in the direction of the pier. Tang Cheng was looking carefully at the moment. According to the shape and size of the plume of smoke, the explosion must have been huge. Tang Cheng, who chuckled softly, immediately put away the weapon parts on the bed, changed his clothes and went downstairs to eat.
Tang Cheng went downstairs to have breakfast. It seemed normal, but in fact he was inquiring about news. A big explosion occurred in the direction of the pier, and many guests in the New Asia Hotel heard and saw the huge plume of smoke that rose up after the explosion. When Tang Cheng went downstairs to the hotel restaurant, many guests who had breakfast here were talking about the explosion just now. Tang Cheng found a table and sat down, and then quietly listened to the discussions of the diners while eating breakfast.
Someone with understanding would have guessed at this time that the place where the explosion occurred should be the military dock controlled by the Japanese army in Shanghai. And judging from the noise of the explosion just now and the size of the smoke column, the explosion might have been weapons and ammunition stockpiled by the Japanese army at the pier in Shanghai. At this time, someone with better information immediately spoke. The speaker lowered his voice and told the news that a fire broke out at the pier last night. First there was a fire, and then there was a sudden explosion. These smart people who were talking in low voices looked at each other and immediately ended the conversation.
The smart people were very obedient and stopped talking about the topic just now, because they all knew that fires and explosions would never occur at the dock that was strictly controlled by the Japanese army in Shanghai. Since it was not for no reason, there is only one explanation. Whether it was the fire last night or the big explosion just now, it was all caused by someone attacking the dock. Attacking the military dock was the enemy of the Japanese army in Shanghai. If their discussion just now was overheard by plainclothes agents, they might be charged with a random crime by the secret service.
Although he didn't get any useful information in the restaurant, Tang Cheng, who finished his breakfast hastily, followed the crowd and went directly back to his room to rest. "Boom!" Tang Cheng, who had eaten and drank enough, had just gone to bed when another explosion sounded from the dock, and looking at the smoke column rising this time, the scale of the explosion was also not small. There were people standing behind all the windows of Xinya Hotel that could see the pier. Everyone was silently watching the huge smoke column rising from the window through the windows.
Taro Murakami, an officer of the Young Forces, had long forgotten that he was a major officer at this moment. With his face covered in black and gray, he was assisting two military policemen to rescue the corps commander whose lower body was pinned down from under a pile of rubble and bricks. . When the explosion occurred just now, Taro Murakami was not here. Taro Murakami, who had been busy in the goods yard all night, was only in the duty room to hand over to his shift companions according to the duty schedule. The explosion occurred so suddenly that many people, including Taro Murakami, were unprepared.
When the explosion sounded, all the window glass in the duty room was shattered immediately. Taro Murakami, who was about to light a cigarette, was knocked over by the air wave that was pushed along by the heat wave. After the heat wave dissipated, Taro Murakami, who was dizzy after being thrown, carefully got up from the ground. Through the deformed window of the duty room, Taro Murakami, who had not yet fully recovered, could clearly see the huge column of smoke rising not far away.
Taro Murakami, who was transferred to Shanghai to guard the dock because he was injured on the front line, is now secretly glad that the duty room is some distance away from the place where the explosion occurred, otherwise he might have died in the impact of the air wave after the explosion. Supporting his companions who got up from the ground, Taro Murakami and others came out of the duty room and staggered all the way to the outside of the warehouse where the explosion occurred. Taro Murakami's scalp went numb when he saw the tragic scene in front of him. The roof of the warehouse had been completely lifted. There were rubble and bricks everywhere, and there were also many corpses lying on the ground.
Taro Murakami and others were now aware of the importance of the problem. After discussing in low voices, they decided to send one person to look for a phone outside the pier and report the situation to the military police headquarters. The remaining people immediately organized manpower to search for and rescue survivors at the explosion site. "Boom..." Before the officer who was sent to make the call had gone far, another huge explosion sounded from the northeast corner of the pier. Taro Murakami and others, who were unable to stand and fell to the ground, saw another blast. Pillars of smoke rose.
Seeing the smoke column rising again, Taro Murakami, who fell to the ground, did not immediately get up, but looked panicked and at a loss. A fire broke out in the dock cargo yard last night, and some people said that attackers attacked the imperial soldiers fighting the fire at the fire scene. The Military Police Headquarters sent people to the fire scene to investigate the cause of the fire, but no trace of the attacker was ever found. The reason why Murakami Taro was anxious to hand over his shift was to avoid getting involved in this trouble.
But he had calculated everything, but he never expected that a big explosion would occur in the dock just after his shift started, and the place where the explosion occurred was an arms warehouse. As the officer on duty last night, Taro Murakami wanted to get rid of the trouble last night. He could still think of a way before the explosion in the arms warehouse. But things are different now. When an arms warehouse explodes, the responsibility becomes even greater. Murakami Taro is not sure whether his connections will help him.
The second explosion that just occurred really destroyed Taro Murakami's luck, because he knew that a batch of oil had recently been temporarily stored at the northeast corner of the pier. Arms and oil are the top priority, and they are both items that need to be focused on by officers on duty. However, explosions have occurred one after another in the arms warehouse and oil area. At this moment, Taro Murakami, who looked pale, felt that his unlucky time had finally arrived.
