Murakami looked serious when he heard this, "Ikeda-kun, this is not something we can decide. That Shina man killed King Asaka Palace Hatohiko, the commander of Hisao Tani's division, and the commander of Nakajima's current division. From the emperor, the base camp, the army, and the navy , all issued a death order. Even if we intelligence personnel are broken, we must solve this murderer.
Otherwise, our intelligence personnel in Wuhan will need to commit suicide. "
The major loss Ikeda mentioned was the previous takeover of the Japanese Concession by the Nationalist Government.
In fact, Japan's intelligence activities in China are mainly covered by diplomatic activities and enterprises, and the base camp in each place is undoubtedly the concession.
The Chongqing Japanese Concession is Japan's only concession in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the southwest region, but it was taken back many years ago.
Therefore, many espionage activities use the Japanese Concession in Hankou as their base camp to radiate to Chinese provinces in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
Before the Nationalist Government took back the Japanese Concession in Hankou, even the Japanese intelligence agencies were prepared, but they were not as able to use the concession as a cover to engage in espionage activities openly as before.
Now everything has to change from light to dark, and some intelligence personnel have been captured, so the intelligence network established before has suffered a heavy blow.
In fact, Japan's intelligence network is still there, but it lacks a command organization. The intelligence it probes cannot be transmitted externally, and it cannot receive instructions from superiors.
The intelligence network in Wuhan has been restored a lot through the efforts of Murakami and Ikeda.
But now, in order to carry out the mission of assassinating Li Hang, they dispatched more than thirty intelligence personnel. Most of these people are not operatives at all. They were only responsible for gathering intelligence before, but now they are organized.
The reason for such a big battle is naturally because the little devil Murakami felt pressure from all aspects. The superior intelligence department was urging him almost every day, and his words became increasingly harsh.
The original idea was for the navy to remove Li Hang through bombing, but the air raid on December 22 failed and the retaliatory action was not carried out.
In this way, the task of removing Li Hang was handed over to intelligence personnel lurking in Wuhan.
There are basically no professional operators among them. After all, in the past, their mission was only to gather intelligence through bribery and wooing, not to assassinate high-level officials of the National Government.
Fortunately, some of them are retired soldiers, and they don't have any combat experience.
As mentioned above, as long as Li Hang can be removed, even if the intelligence officers in Wuhan are dead, Murakami will be credited with great contributions.
In this way, Murakami naturally took the risk.
Except for some left-behind personnel and those deep-lurking intelligence officers, the rest were pulled over, more than thirty people.
Hearing Murakami's words, Ikeda couldn't help but feel chilled.
He was not from the military, so he naturally did not have the fanatical samurai spirit of those imperial soldiers. He was naturally chilled when he heard the attitude from above, but he could not refuse.
"Murakami-kun, in that case, you will sit here and take command, and I will personally lead the team to perform the mission." Ikeda bowed heavily, not wanting everyone to take risks.
"Yoshi." Murakami nodded, and then changed the topic, "Ikeda-kun will be responsible for the first round of operations. If the operation fails, I will continue the mission with the remaining personnel."
Ikeda couldn't bear it and immediately said, "Murakami-kun..."
"Ikeda-kun." Murakami interrupted the other party's next words with a serious look on his face, "Our mission this time can only be successful and cannot fail. If we fail, I will not be able to survive the anger of His Majesty the Emperor and the military. Go down."
"Hi!"
Ikeda knew the importance of this mission from the other party's attitude. After bowing, he left the private room. A kind smile instantly appeared on his serious face. Paired with the suit, it looked like the success of Hankou. person.
After Murakami watched the other party leave, he stood behind the wall next to the window and stared at the cafe.
He saw Ikeda walking calmly to the cafe, accompanied by an intelligence officer wearing a gray gown and glasses.
No matter how they looked at each other, they both looked like intellectuals, so no one suspected anything.
It's just that everyone entering and leaving the cafe at this time is being watched by secret military commanders.
Just as Ikeda and I entered the cafe, a truck and several rickshaws appeared on the street outside the cafe.
Trucks are rare things. When they appeared on this street, they immediately attracted some people's attention.
. . . . . .
"Sir Shen, in the past half hour, a total of 13 people entered the cafe and 9 people left the cafe. According to the request of the chief, we mainly focused on the customers, who are all men.
There are three suspicious characters. Two of them are still in the cafe, less than ten meters away from Li Hang's position; the third person left the cafe ten minutes ago and went to a restaurant dozens of meters away next to us, and finally went to the second floor of a private room.
You should be able to see the cafe through the window of that private room. "
In a five-story building directly opposite the cafe, in a room on the second floor, there were also several men with guns, some in suits, some in long gowns, and some dressed as ordinary people.
The leader is a man in his twenties wearing a suit.
In front of him, there was a man wearing a black gown and a black round hat, who was respectfully saluting the man in the suit.
"Tens of meters? So close to us? Hasn't it been discovered?" Shen Shuyi was a little surprised.
"Don't worry, Chief Shen. Our people are very careful. They are just downstairs and did not follow them upstairs. They did not alert the snake."
"Is there any problem with our people in the cafe? It's best not to put Li Hang's life in danger, otherwise we will be sinners." Shen Shuyi reminded.
It's not that he, a military commander, is too cowardly, but that after the first two days of air battles and celebrations, Li Hang became famous and everyone called him the fifth king of the air force.
Even the principal and his wife praised him very much and personally awarded him the Yunhui Medal. This is not a treatment that ordinary people can enjoy.
If something really happened to the other party, it would be a trivial matter for him to be punished, and it would very likely implicate Chief Dai.
"Don't worry, Chief Shen. We have two forces in the cafe. There are two people pretending to be lovers, and there is an operator with good marksmanship pretending to be a customer drinking coffee alone. They are both not far from Li Hang's cubicle. Support is always available.
We have two ships at the dock a street away, each equipped with a platoon of soldiers. As long as action starts here, they can provide immediate support.
As long as we hold on inside the cafe until our large force arrives, there will be no danger. "The man in the long robe explained.
"That's good..."
"Boom!"
Just then, someone knocked on the door.
The people in the room suddenly became alert, their hands subconsciously placed on the pistol at their waist, and their eyes stared at the door of the room warily.
