1937 is a thing of the past, 1938 is quietly coming.

This is the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China.

On New Year's Day, the Shanghai Public Concession was still bustling with activity, and people didn't seem to be affected much by the war in China.

The Japanese consulate in Shanghai also invited consuls from Western countries to attend a dinner specially held by them, and publicized to them the tremendous "efforts" made by Japan to maintain Shanghai's stability and restore Shanghai's order and economy after the occupation of Shanghai.

In addition, they also solemnly invited the consuls to visit some of the current situation in the Japanese-controlled area of Shanghai.

It's just that those consuls were not particularly interested, and even at the dinner, some consuls raised the question of what is the Japanese explanation for the rumored massacres that took place in Nanjing?

Of course, the Japanese side categorically denied it, believing that it was a slander against the Japanese Empire by people with ulterior motives.

The Japanese, of course, want to cover up their crimes, especially in the current situation.

Although the progress on the battlefield was relatively smooth, Japan occupied the richest part of China and controlled the country's important political and economic centers. However, they failed to conquer the hearts of the Chinese people, let alone defeat China completely.

Even the main forces of the Chinese army fighting against Japan were still active on the battlefield. Japan's dream of completely subjugating China by means of a quick victory is becoming increasingly slim.

As a result, a number of forces in Japan, for the purpose of securing possession of Northeast China, North China, Shanghai, and the occupied areas along the coast, came forward to act in an attempt to force China to submit and surrender through soft means, through bribery, inducement, and recruitment of surrender and rebellion, and to train traitors.

The development of a large number of traitors has become the current focus of the Japanese intelligence agencies.

Shanghai, on the other hand, has become the base camp of the Japanese special organization.

It is rumored that in order to thoroughly resolve the contradictions between the Japanese Army, Navy, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Japanese side may set up a new organization.

If Meng Shaoyuan was here, he would definitely know that this rumor was true, and this was the "Tufeiyuan organ" that would soon appear and gradually change the chaotic situation of the Shanghai Rite Agency.

A large number of traitors have appeared, and the puppet regime is also in full swing. The Japanese even worked out a plan for "Southern Tang and Northern Wu".

The puppet regime in the south was in charge of Tang Shaoyi, who lived in Shanghai; The puppet regime in the north is in charge of Wu Peifu.

Tang Shaoyi's influence is too great, from the Qing Dynasty to Yuan Shikai and then to the Republic of China, he has always held important positions, and even served as one of the seven presidents of the National Government.

Once he was rebelled by the Japanese, it would have a great influence on the war of resistance.

The Japanese are doing his job, and the Chinese are fighting for him as well.

At this time, the Special Office of the Shanghai Hidden Area of the Military Command also held an emergency meeting.

Yuan Zhonghe, Ji Shuang, and Zhao Changle, all the agents of the military command who stayed in Shanghai to lurk and continue the struggle against the enemy were all present.

The meeting was chaired by Wu Jingyi.

Without any greetings, as soon as she came up, Wu Jingyi elaborated on the current serious situation in Shanghai, and focused on those traitors who had openly come to the forefront, or were about to move.

Especially several people who are more famous and have a certain influence: Lu Zhengfang, Chen Zhongfu, Wen Zongyao and so on.

"We came to Shanghai, especially after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, we killed a lot of traitors, and the blood was about to dye Shanghai red, why are there still endless traitors?" Yuan Zhonghe's voice was a little annoyed.

"Kill one, and five will pop up. If you kill five, ten or a hundred will pop up. At this time, Zhao Changle was no longer the mechanic in Nanjing, as the backbone of the special office, he sneered:

"Our task is to find as many traitors as there are and kill as many traitors as possible. Assistant Wu, kill it, kill the bloody rain in Shanghai! ”

During the days when Meng Shaoyuan was not in Shanghai, Wu Jingyi's identity was the acting commander-in-chief of the former enemy, but Zhao Changle still habitually called "Assistant Wu".

Wu Jingyi glanced at him: "The contest between us and the Japanese special organs, assassination and counter-assassination, revenge and counter-retaliation, has been going on for a while, and both sides have suffered heavy losses. On the Japanese side, we killed a lot of people, we also sacrificed a lot of comrades, and we changed six of the squadron leaders alone.

The public concession has already expressed serious dissatisfaction, believing that the continued assassinations have seriously affected the public order in the concession and caused panic among the people, and have warned both sides to immediately stop such bloody assassinations and quickly restore order in the concession. ”

"What?" The young and vigorous Ji Shuang shouted as soon as he heard it: "Reduce the number of assassinations? Let's show weakness to Japan? In the past, Grandpa Yue's Northern Expedition was about to smash Huanglong, but he was recalled by the twelve gold medals of the Dumb Monarch, which led to the failure of the Northern Expedition. ”

He is a fan of drama, and he sings in the play when he opens and closes his mouth.

When Yuan Zhonghe heard this, he quickly coughed a few times and motioned for Ji Shuang to shut up.

Comparing Grandpa Yue with each other is a bit unusual. Twelve gold medal recalls? Isn't this saying that Wu Jingyi is the "unenlightened king"?

Sure enough, Wu Jingyi's face was displeased.

Ji Shuang didn't care, he was from the "youth department" in Meng Shaoyuan's group, he came out of Nanjing, and the "youth department" was especially taken care of by Meng Shaoyuan's descendant "Bingzi department", and after arriving in Shanghai, he participated in countless battles and had already become the backbone of Meng Shaoyuan's group.

Therefore, he really didn't take Wu Jingyi's "internal service department" in his eyes.

When Meng Shaoyuan was there, he was arbitrary and arbitrary, no matter which faction you were from, whatever Meng Shaoyuan said was what he said, and no one would raise any objections.

However, after Meng Shaoyuan went to Chongqing, Wu Jingyi, who was born in the internal logistics department, served as the acting commander-in-chief, which naturally caused the dissatisfaction of these young Zhuang factions.

Especially, it's still a woman.

Meng Shaoyuan also took this into account, so he especially left Yuan Zhonghe in Shanghai to mediate the conflict.

"Commander-in-Chief Wu." Yuan Zhonghe still called him so according to the rules: "Ji Shuang is young, you don't pay attention to what you say, don't take it to heart." However, rashly reducing the number of assassinations will only make the arrogance of the Japanese even more arrogant, and our front-line agents fought bloodily, and their morale was high at this time, and although they were sacrificed, they did not give up.

We really need to carefully consider the attitude of the public concession, but while we are under pressure, the Japanese are also under pressure from the Ministry of Industry, and in this extraordinary period, it depends on who can withstand it. ”

Wu Jingyi still attaches more importance to Yuan Zhonghe's attitude, and listened carefully: "Old Yuan, I have also considered what you said, what I mean is not to stop the assassination, but to change the assassination against Japan to focus on the assassination of traitors, so as to serve as a warning." Changed indiscriminate assassination to focused assassination, selective assassination. ”

Zhao Changle said: "The indiscriminate assassination was a plan made by Director Meng before leaving, and now it is rashly modified, I'm afraid it's not good, right?" I think that until Director Meng returns, he will continue to implement his plan. ”

"Now things have changed." Dealing with Meng Shaoyuan's subordinates, Wu Jingyi still hates patience: "Especially indiscriminate assassination, as the defense of Rite and traitors becomes stricter, assassination is becoming more and more difficult. Last time, we assassinated the traitor Gao Jiwen, and because of insufficient preparation, we lost four agents before we wounded him.

This mission was actually a failure. I reviewed it carefully afterwards, and at that time, there were a total of seven squads working on assassination missions at the same time, and the forces were so scattered that if we had been able to concentrate our forces and clench them into a fist, we would not have caused such a situation. This is my responsibility, and I will report to Director Meng when he comes back and ask for punishment. ”

Wu Jingyi is a woman, careful, and thoughtful.

In this matter, she took the initiative to take responsibility first, but instead made Zhao Changle and a few people difficult to understand.

Immediately, Wu Jingyi immediately said: "I am the acting commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and I will bear the reformulated plan, and any problems that arise will be borne by me." Now, I order, shrink the front, Ji Shuang and Zhao Changle's squadron, focus on assassinating the traitor Lu Zhengfang, and Yuan Zhonghe's unified coordination and command, this is the final decision, and there must be no mistakes. ”

"Understood."

Despite the serious dissatisfaction in their hearts, several people quickly accepted the order.

After accepting the task and going out, Ji Shuang couldn't help but mutter: "I have no opinion on assassinating Lu Zhengfang, but what about my current mission?" I've been staring at Nomoto's line for a long time. ”

"Don't talk about you, I've been staring at the Xishan Club for half a month." Zhao Changle sneered: "Give up now?" What exactly does this acting commander-in-chief think? ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly lowered his voice: "You say, will Wu Jingyi have other problems?" But I saw with my own eyes that she had a secret contact with a Japanese guy the other day. ”

"Don't talk nonsense." Yuan Zhonghe's face was pale: "She is the acting commander-in-chief appointed by Director Meng personally. ”

"Old Yuan, I'm not talking nonsense." Zhao Changle said seriously: "If someone else reported to me, I would definitely not believe it, but it was what I saw with my own eyes, that Japanese is called Kano Hirokazu, who belongs to the Japanese Special 'Shanghai Research Office', and is a spy of the Japanese Navy, what did Wu Jingyi do when he went to see him?" Especially now that she has put forward a plan to focus on dealing with traitors.

Director Meng has been away from Shanghai for a while, and those of us have made up our minds to follow Director Meng and fight the Japanese to the end. But what about Wu Jingyi? Her husband and children have been sent out of Shanghai, she is a woman, and her willpower may not be as firm as ours. If Director Meng comes back, who will bear the responsibility for the chaos in Shanghai? ”

Yuan Zhonghe's brows were tightly locked together, and he thought for a while before saying:

"For the time being, do as she said, Xiao Zhao, you send two people out and stare at Wu Jingyi, what you said is not wrong, Shanghai must not be chaotic before Director Meng comes back!"