At 3:40, the rapid telephone ringing was particularly alarming in the quiet early morning, and Zhou Chengbin, who was lying in his clothes, turned over and sat up, knowing that only Zhang Chi, Tang Jitian, an assistant who served as a peripheral protection 300 meters away from here, and Zhou Fohai's cronies, as well as Liu Zezhi.

Picked up the microphone, no one spoke, someone on the other end of the phone tapped the receiver, and passed a few short words in Morse code: The church has been surrounded, retreat immediately, hurry! Urgent! Number eighty-six.

Zhou Chengbin calmly dialed the phone of the western restaurant, Zhang Chi picked up the microphone, Zhou Chengbin said concisely: "Something happened, immediately organize a retreat!" ”

With a gun in hand, Zhou Chengbin hurried out of the room and rushed to the basement. There was a secret passage that led to a bookstore where Tang Jitian was located. Although it is unlikely that this secret passage will escape the eyes of No. 76, St. Paul's Church is the largest Catholic church in Nanjing, and many dignitaries and eunuchs, including Japanese, come here to worship the Father. The German priest Christian was an upright man who was well known in Nanjing, the son of Guo Xuan's mentor Sir George, and a friend of Mr. Charles, a former pastor of a church in Shanghai. He only needs three to five minutes of his time.

After receiving Zhou Chengbin's urgent order, Zhang Chi immediately woke up Yu Haochen, who was in the same room: "Something happened!" Notify all the people to move separately immediately! Return to the base area. ”

Zhang Chi and his entourage carried five American-made grenades, Yu Haochen picked up three, he knew that the situation was critical, and the possibility of everyone escaping safely was very small, so he decided to break off the cover and leave a glimmer of life to his comrades.

Zhang Chi took the remaining two, called Ge Jiapeng and the others, who were staying in the back kitchen of the Western restaurant, and quickly transferred.

Outside the Western restaurant, Katsuei Tanaka arranged everything, he raised his wrist to look at his watch, and one of his subordinates asked: "Tanaka-kun, do you want to wait for a long time before you start, or do you do it when the time comes?" ”

The net has been laid out, and of course Tanaka Katsuei doesn't want to share the credit, so he ordered: "According to Director Ni's order, start on time at 3:45!" ”

The area where the western restaurant is located is a high-end neighborhood in Nanjing, and many mansions of dignitaries and eunuchs are nearby, so in order to avoid accidental injury, Katsuei Tanaka decided to publicly arrest him.

When the pointer finally pointed to 3:45, Katsuei Tanaka waved his hand and ordered, "Turn on the searchlight and shout inside!" Two action groups rushed in to arrest them, and the other two action groups outflanked them on the perimeter! ”

Four high-powered searchlights that had been prepared were turned on at the same time, and the small two-story western restaurant facing the street was illuminated as bright as daylight, and an agent began to shout with a loudspeaker: "Listen inside, you have been surrounded!" The Imperial Army treats the prisoners preferentially, lay down their arms, or they will die! Listen, people inside, you are surrounded, and there is no way out of stubborn resistance......"

More than a dozen armed gendarmes rushed into the restaurant, gunshots rang out, and the front gendarmes were shot and fell to the ground! Several well-trained gendarmes hurried to hide and saw that the bullets were flying from one end of the cashier in the restaurant, and fired a volley of guns at the place.

After Yu Haochen fired, he had already hidden on the other side of the cash register, avoiding the rain of bullets.

Seeing that no one was fighting back, Katsuei Tanaka also rushed into the hall and ordered: "Spread out in a fan, concentrate the tables and chairs in the back, and search the ...... completely"

Before the words fell, Yu Haochen could understand: The commander of the operation is here! Raising his hand is a shot, and Katsuei Tanaka is shot and falls to the ground!

Yu Haochen immediately flashed into the private room on the side of the cash register and threw out a grenade! Quickly close the solid wooden door and lean down to avoid the blast wave.

In the violent explosion, four or five gendarmes were blown to the ground, and flesh and blood flew everywhere! The American-style grenade was so powerful that half of the roof of the restaurant was blown down, the broken bricks and tiles, the wooden chandelier crackled and fell, and smoke and dust rose everywhere.

The rest of the gendarmes rescued the wounded, and some were bombed, and they were at a loss, and one of the leaders of the action group hugged Tanaka Katsuei and shouted: "Tanaka-kun, how are you?" Wake up! Tanaka-kun—"

Katsuei Tanaka, who was shot in the right abdomen, ordered intermittently: "Leave me alone...... No one will survive if they let go of the military commanders...... There were few of them, and they searched for ...... Hurry up ......"

The team leader had to order the two gendarmes around him: "I'll take someone to arrest you, and you two call an ambulance to send Tanaka-kun and the other wounded to the hospital for first aid!" ”

At this time, Yu Haochen had already jumped out of the window of the private room by taking advantage of the explosion, and there was a small courtyard on the east side of this Western restaurant where a small chartered car for guests was parked, and the four gendarmes who had been ambushed here shot at the same time! Yu Haochen, who had been prepared, rolled on the spot, dodged the bullet, and threw out the second grenade! His target was not these four opponents, but a large car dealership with more than 100 rickshaws across the wall.

From four to five o'clock every day, it is the time for the rickshaw to hand over the night bus and settle the bill, and the day bus to rent it, and twenty or thirty drivers have arrived one after another. The frightened coachmen hid in their rooms and did not dare to go out, chattering in whispers. No one expected a bomb to explode in the courtyard! The drivers were terrified and rushed out of the room to flee for their lives! Some of the driver's car is their own, and the relationship with the car dealer is only to receive pictures and pay taxes, and the rickshaw is their only asset to make a living.

Under the cover of the smoke and dust of the explosion, Yu Haochen took advantage of the chaos to come in, and changed his eyes into a yellow and red shirt of a coachman. The military police of the military police regiment are of good quality, staring at Yu Haochen and shooting him a few times!

Bullets kept flying, and the car shop became even more chaotic, and everyone was running out, mixed with terrible screams.

Yu Haochen, who had served in the action team of the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau for a long time, was second only to Zhou Chengbin and Zhang Chi in the Shanghai Branch, and his gunfight quality was especially surpassing.

At the back door of the western restaurant, Zhang Chi, Ge Jiapeng, and Xiao Kong and other two soldiers of the third column were blocked by more than ten military policemen, and they failed to break through the siege twice.

Nanjing is the capital of the Japanese puppet traitors, the longer the time drags on, the slimmer the hope of getting out, the first explosion came, Zhang Chi knew that Yu Haochen had made a move! If you don't take this opportunity to break through, the whole army will be wiped out. Ge Jiapeng is a talent of the military command, and if there is a glimmer of possibility, he must cover him to get out of danger.

Zhang Chi ordered: "Ge Jiapeng, you take Xiaokong to break through from the main gate!" Remember: don't shoot until you have to! ”

Ge Jiapeng didn't have time to think about it, so he turned around and rushed back to the hall through the back kitchen.

Zhang Chi threw out a grenade and shot at the same time as the subordinate next to him!

Hearing the continuous sound of explosions, the leader of the action group who was in charge of outflanking outside the front door saw Katsuei Tanaka and the other two wounded who were carried out, for fear that his side would not be able to support him, and the military commander agents successfully broke through, thinking that the military commander should not be stupid enough to break through from the front, and ordered: "Leave it to me here, you few, go to the back door for reinforcements!" ”

The restaurant was blown up by Yu Haochen, and several gendarmes ran from the street to the back door of the western restaurant for fear that there were explosives in it.

The gendarme, who had called for an ambulance in a hurry, could not remember the phone number of the military hospital, so he had to call the emergency number and call for a civilian ambulance from the general hospital. After the ambulance arrived, the doctor, who was unaware of the accident in advance, saw everything in front of him, and the gunshots continued in his ears, his face turned pale with fright, and he stammered with the driver to discuss whether to give up the errand and quickly flee the place of right and wrong.

Without waiting for their deliberations to come up with a result, two gendarmes ran towards the ambulance with a temporarily removed door panel carrying Katsuei Tanaka, and when they saw that they were wearing military uniforms, the doctor did not dare to provoke them, and opened the door and got out of the car with trepidation.

Unlike his master Ye Junyuan, Ge Jiapeng's skills are not weak, and when he saw the ambulance, he was overjoyed: God help me! Raise your hand is a shot! The gendarmes carrying the door panel in the back fell to the ground, and Tanaka Katsuei fell heavily to the ground on the door panel. The doctor's legs went limp, and he collapsed in fright. Another gendarme carrying the door panel and the two gendarmes who stayed at the front door were afraid that the opponent would attack Tanaka Katsuei again, so they hurried over and tried their best to protect Tanaka Katsuei and retreat to the safe area.

Xiao Kong covered, fired two shots in a row, and knocked down a gendarme, Ge Jiapeng dragged down the trembling ambulance driver, Xiao Kong rushed into the ambulance, and left with a roar!

In less than a minute, the ambulance rushed to the barricade of the outer encirclement, Ge Jiapeng did not slow down, while stretching out his hand from the window and waving desperately, mixed with the non-fluent Japanese voice hoarsely shouted: "Get out of the way - Tanaka-kun is injured!" Get out of the way—"

The gendarmes who saw the ambulance driving in quickly removed the barricade and let the ambulance pass at full speed.

The gendarmes who were chasing in the car shop only focused on the target wearing the driver's shoulder and opened fire, knocking down several innocent people, and Yu Haochen rushed to the street with the dozen or so coachmen who were running wildly, scattering and fleeing.

He Qixin arrived with the reinforced No. 76 agent and rushed towards the back door of the western restaurant where the gunfire was most intense. Zhang Chi threw out the last grenade, and in the smoke and dust in the sky, Zhang Chi looked calm, martyrdom was today, and calmly raised his gun to his temple and pulled the trigger...... A figure jumped out of the smoke and fell on top of him!

At the same time as the arrest of the western restaurant, in the chapel of St. Paul's Cathedral, when Kwon Kan-hu arrived with people, the pastor Christian was still confronting Head Du, and Christian's face turned pale: "I have said it several times: the church is a place to worship God, and there is no wanted criminal you are looking for!" If you want to search, show proof of your identity, as well as a search warrant! ”

Regiment Commander Du's face was even more ugly, and he said sharply: "I have also answered your question: I can reissue the search warrant afterwards, I was ordered to search, arrest the wanted criminal, get out of the way!" Otherwise, you're welcome! ”

Kwon Kan Hu was furious: The search has not started until now, and the surname Du is really a straw bag! He stepped forward: "If I have to search immediately, where?" ”

Reverend Christian insisted, "Then you step over my corpse!" ”

"Okay, I'll fulfill you!" Kwon Suga-ho took out his pistol and fired two shots at Christian, Christian fell in a pool of blood, and the priests and parishioners behind him were all stunned......

Head Du was also stunned: Christian is German, and many dignitaries and eunuchs in Nanjing are his guests, and Quan Kanhu is actually ...... So ruthless!

Quan Kanhu scolded sharply: "What are you still doing in a daze? Manhunt! Anyone who dares to stop them will be killed! No one else is allowed to leave the hall! ”

Ten minutes later, Regiment Commander Du came over with a few subordinates and reported in a low voice: "Captain Quan, I didn't find Zhou Chengbin...... The church was already surrounded by me, and I didn't see anyone going out, so if the information was wrong, I shot and killed Pastor Christian......"

Kwon Kan-ho coldly swept the people in the chapel, took out a pistol, stepped forward, put it on the forehead of a priest, and asked, "Say, is there a secret room in the church?" ”

Seeing Christian's death on the spot, the priest's legs trembled, and he said in a trembling voice: "Yes, there is a secret passage in the basement......"

"Lead the way!"

This book was first published in Reading Rim