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Chapter 763: All-round Counterattack (3)

In the second year after the victory of the Northern Expedition, Qingdao, located at the southern tip of the Shandong Peninsula and with a history of more than 400 years, was designated by the Nanjing Nationalist Government as one of the few municipalities directly under the Central Government of the Executive Yuan in the country due to its important strategic location and economic position. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In modern times, Qingdao, which had been forcibly occupied by the Germans and then enslaved by the Japanese for several years, returned to the Beiyang government ten years ago. Under the painstaking management of the German colonial government for many years, the city of Qingdao has expanded exponentially, with all kinds of tall and majestic European-style buildings on Taiping Road, which is more than seven meters wide and paved with asphalt, as well as exotic street lamps, exuding a strong colonial color everywhere.

Compared with the Germans living in Qingdao, who have nothing to do and like to visit St. Michael's Church, which has been built with yellow granite stones, and to pray and worship in the castle-like Christian church in the diaspora, Qingdao locals prefer to visit the Tianhou Temple, which occupies a treasure land of feng shui and is full of incense all year round, in the eastern section of Taiping Road. Tianhou Temple is an ancient Ming and Qing Dynasty style building, was built in the early years of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, has a history of more than 400 years, enshrines the Virgin Mary of China - Mazu, the dragon king of Zhenhai and the god of wealth that everyone likes, Qingdao people have a saying called "there is Tianhou Temple first, and then there are Qingdao people", which is the origin of this long history.

Although the mountain gate of Tianhou Temple has been closed in this cold and cold winter night, the rich businessmen and celebrities and literati of Qingdao still flock to the Guantao Pavilion diagonally opposite the Tianhou Temple, leisurely sitting on the platform on the second floor of the teahouse full of Chinese style, bathing in the secret sandalwood fragrance that wafts out of the Tianhou Temple, looking at the famous navigation lantern on the small island of Qingdao Bay in the south, listening to the sound of waves crashing on the sea, holding warm and fragrant hot tea. Spend a warm and comfortable time with your friends.

In the night, a dark green Ford sedan with an ordinary license plate drove from west to east to the parking lot in front of the teahouse, and the shrewd man sitting in the passenger seat quickly got out and respectfully opened the rear door, and a middle-aged man wearing a black suit and a dark tweed coat, tall and thin and elegant, calmly got out of the door, and politely thanked the middle-aged man who had already come to him from the other side of the car door, and then walked side by side to the door of the teahouse with the middle-aged man in bright clothes and a smile on his face.

Xu Boqian, the shopkeeper of the teahouse who returned from studying at Kyoto University in Japan, waited respectfully at the door, bowed politely to each other and greeted each other for a while, Xu Boqian bowed and made a gesture of invitation, and then led the guests into the door and ascended to the second floor to enter the elegant private room that had been prepared.

The tall, thin and energetic middle-aged man is Yasuo Yoshino, one of the Japanese spy chiefs stationed in North China who has been stained with the blood of the Chinese people for several years but has been hiding deeply. Yasuo Yoshino, who rarely appears outside the world on weekdays, came to Qingdao this time to inspect the work of the local secret service organs, and second, to consult and commend Yan Rubin for providing important information such as data on a British-made destroyer newly equipped by the Third Fleet and the specific situation of the officers and men on board.

Yan Rubin is a fat-headed, big-eared wealthy businessman who accompanied Yasuo Yoshino, 27 years old, from Weifang, Shandong, due to excessive wine, his eyes are deep, his skin and flesh are loose, and he looks like a middle-aged man of 35 or 6 years old. Yan Rubin was born in a landlord family, in his early years he went east to Japan, and just began to enter the Japanese Zhenwu Military Academy Artillery Department to study, after half a year of study, he really couldn't stand the barbaric education method of the Japanese instructors, who were like wild beasts, and transferred to Kyoto University to study business after dropping out. After graduating, Yan Rubin returned to Qingdao, and under the care of Mitsui Trading Company, he began to operate Japanese goods in Qingdao, and in less than five years, he became a newly wealthy businessman with a net worth of millions, and because of his embarrassment with the Japanese, he unscrupulously annexed the assets of his business peers in Qingdao, and became a traitor comprador who Qingdao people were extremely despicable but helpless. In the second half of last year, Yan Rubin was secretly developed into a Japanese spy agent, collecting information from all walks of life in Qingdao in the capacity of a businessman, especially collecting intelligence on the Third Fleet of the Nationalist Government Navy stationed in Qingdao, and on several occasions he won the trust and reuse of the Japanese intelligence organs because of his accurate and timely reports on the personnel changes of the Chinese Navy and its attitude toward Japan.

At this time, the table of the Eight Immortals in the center of the private room was already full of dazzling snacks, Yasuo Yoshino was as cautious as ever, walked to the platform flying in the air, looked left and right, and then returned to the table and sat down, waved his hand to let the two personal guards leave, and politely thanked Xu Boqian, who poured himself tea:

"Xu Jun, your teahouse is very good! When Mitsui-kun passed by Tianjin last month, he also specially mentioned Xu Jun to me, praising Xu Jun's pharmaceutical company for purchasing a batch of special drugs that were extremely scarce on the market for my great Japanese empire, saving many precious lives, Mitsui-kun also said that when he was studying at Kyoto University, Xu Jun was the youngest of his many classmates, but he was constantly striving for self-improvement and diligent, and his grades in all subjects were among the best, which made him admire, and told me that I had the opportunity to come to Qingdao and must meet Xu Jun in person, haha! Xu Jun is really exactly the same as the one introduced by Mitsui-kun, polite and talented! ”

Xu Boqian smiled and shook his head: "Where, where!" Senior Brother Mitsui praised falsely, the experience of studying at Kyoto University back then, I still remember it vividly, Senior Brother Mitsui and Senior Brother Yan are rare talents, where can the younger brother compare? It's Yoshino-kun, Senior Brother Mitsui and Senior Brother Yan are highly respected, and it's really my luck to see Yoshino-kun today...... After returning from Japan, the younger brother relied on his father to struggle for half his life, took over the burden of the family, and worked hard to guard several pharmacies and this teahouse, after five years there is still no progress, ashamed! In the future, I would like to ask Yoshino-kun for your kind attention. ”

Yan Rubin heard Xu Boqian praising himself, and interjected happily: "Yoshino-kun, please rest assured, I have always had confidence in my old classmate, he is smart and capable, has a generous personality, and is worthy of deep friendship like his old father!" However, his character is too stubborn, unwilling to open up more business areas, guarding a few pharmacies and this teahouse to enjoy himself, usually Xu Jun rarely comes to the teahouse, saying that it is too noisy here and does not like it, if it is not in the afternoon to say that a private room is set to greet guests from afar, maybe Xu Jun is still at home with his old father chanting poems and painting tea and arguing, haha! ”

Yasuo Yoshino was extremely dissatisfied with Yan Rubin's unauthorized exposure of his whereabouts, but he still maintained a humble and gentlemanly smile on his face, nodded, and asked Xu Boqian appreciatively:

"Xu Jun, please sit down and talk in detail, I heard Mitsui Jun inadvertently mention that Xu Jun only established contact with a pharmaceutical company in Shanghai this summer, and obtained a small batch of penicillin special drugs for domestic sales from Jiangnan Pharmaceutical Factory, I don't know how Xu Jun can contact the famous pharmaceutical company in Shanghai?"

Xu Boqian smiled humbly, sat down and replied earnestly: "The deputy general manager of Shanghai Keats Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is also an old friend who met Xu Jun and Mitsui Jun in Xia, his name is Lu Qijian, he graduated from Yingqing University with a major in engineering, and the Lu Jun family has a lot of roots with the Feng family in Shanghai, so after graduating from Japan, he returned to China and joined the Feng company, and now he has become the deputy general manager of Feng Keats Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. It is precisely because of Lu Jun's special care that he can get ten boxes of penicillin special drugs every month, which is not easy, this affection is extraordinary! ”

"Oh, I said brother, why did you never mention to me about Zijing (Lu Qijian) brother? Are you afraid that the foolish brother will squeeze you out? It's not enough of a friend, right? Yan Rubin laughed jealously, and the loose fat on his face trembled.

"Where, where, Brother Yan laughed, Brother Lu also mentioned Brother Yan many times, saying that Brother Yan is the most capable entrepreneur in our group of students studying in Japan, and also said that if he has the opportunity to come to Qingdao in the future, he will definitely slaughter Brother Yan severely." Xu Boqian hurriedly smiled politely.

Yan Rubin was very satisfied, nodded proudly, Yoshino looked interesting, also smiled, lifted the chopsticks under the warm greeting of Yan Rubin and Xu Boqian, and tasted the very characteristic Qingdao local food with great interest.

At a table by the window in the hall downstairs, two well-dressed young men and two charming women with flowers and branches were enjoying tea together, talking and laughing in a low voice, and most of the seven or eight plates of exquisite food on the table had been used.

The young man in the suit and leather shoes with a camel-colored scarf around his neck saw the two women whispering, and also turned to the young man with a sword eyebrows and a square face and a sturdy figure next to him, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Yuling, it's half past ten, it seems that this place is really difficult to start, but as long as you let the old dog Yoshino get in the car and go, turn a corner is Taiping Road, and you can reach the Japanese embassy in a few minutes. I'm afraid that Brother Haichuan and a few of them are waiting outside in a hurry at this time, you have an idea! ”

Twenty-five-year-old special service captain Xia Yuling raised his wrist and looked at his watch, although he was anxious but couldn't come up with any way, according to more than two hours of repeated observation and detection, Yoshino Yasuo's security measures were quite tight, it seems that Yoshino only brought two guards to follow Yan Rubin, in fact, long before Yoshino's arrival, there was already a car parked outside the door, and the four bodyguards in the car looked like Japanese masters, and the unique temperament of Japanese samurai could not be hidden by wearing any clothes. In addition to these five tricky guards, there were also two of Yan Rubin's bodyguards sitting in the hall, and there were also two tables of soldiers in police uniforms and navy uniforms drinking and chatting.

Again, Yoshino, who has always been a dragon and has not seen the head of the dragon, is very cunning, this person was finally inadvertently learned of his whereabouts and identity by Xu Boqian, the head of the Qingdao station of the headquarters intelligence station, after the urgent report to the northern headquarters, in less than half an hour, the boss of the headquarters came down through three consecutive urgent orders from the northern headquarters, such a special order that has never been seen since the establishment of the intelligence station, so that Xu Boqian and Xia Yuling deeply felt the weight of the burden on their bodies, if Yasuo Yoshino escaped this time, it would not only insult the honor of all the brothers in Qingdao Station, but more seriously, The next time I want to have this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I don't know if I will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.

Xia Yuling, whose ancestral home is Cangzhou, has a calm face, but he can't figure out the chaos in his heart, this son of a martial arts family who joined the Hujialin Guards during the southern retreat of the independent division in the later period of the Northern Expedition, experienced the Western Expedition to the Gui Department and the Central Plains War, from a guard to the deputy captain of the special detachment, and then to the lieutenant and deputy of the special battalion assault company, and grew rapidly in the baptism of blood and fire, becoming a brave and resourceful, promising special elite. A year and a half ago, after his uncle Hu Jialin solicited opinions, he resolutely entered the special class of the non-commissioned officer school for further study, and finally took off his military uniform and returned to the northern land where he grew up. Today, he suddenly received the arduous task assigned by the Northern Headquarters and the Nanjing Headquarters, Xia Yuling was full of enthusiasm, and he was excited but also knew the difficulty of the task, if he was assassinated, he could come up with more than a dozen plans in the blink of an eye, but if he wanted to catch it alive, the difficulty would increase tenfold and hundredfold.

The young man with the scarf saw his captain staring blankly at the lights on the ferry terminal in the distance outside the window, and he was so anxious that he couldn't help but ask again.

Xia Yuling seemed to have made a lot of determination, retracted his gaze, and commanded in a low voice: "Qingfeng, you listen carefully, it is estimated that Yoshino will leave soon, you take a woman to go first, and inform Senior Brother Wan to send two brothers to the dock, no matter how you want to get a small machine boat, we only have one way to go by water, and you and Senior Brother Wan will lead two teams to prepare at the bend of the road above the dock, at the critical moment, we will not hesitate to use weapons and grenades, no matter how much it costs, we must succeed!" As long as we can capture Yasuo Yoshino and go out of Qingdao Bay to Huangdao, the other brothers, except for the third group that stayed at home, half of them will follow me and half of them will withdraw to Shijiazhuang, and we will no longer be able to stay in Qingdao after this operation is exposed. ”

Qingfeng was stunned for a moment, and then asked worriedly: "If this is the case, I'm afraid Brother Xu won't be able to get out of it!" ”

"You just go, I'll have a way to inform Brother Xu how to deal with it later, and now I can only give it a go!"

"What about these two kiln sisters?"

"You take yours away, give some money and send it away, I have my own way to deal with this, go!"

"Yes!"