Chapter Eighty-Three: Doubts
was politely rejected by Xu Huanshan, Lu Yuan did not show any abnormality, but continued to learn from Xu Huanshan about the movements of the Japanese army and the special high-tech in the near future, and learned that the Japanese army had strengthened its control over the urban area, and the special high-tech department had increased its manpower, but Lu Yuan didn't care about it, as long as he wanted, he could kill them again. Xu Huanshan rejected Lu Yuan's self-recommendation, but this meeting with Xu Huanshan, Lu Yuan was not completely without gains, at least Lu Yuan had learned from Xu Huanshan that the Japanese army in Shanghai had strengthened the defense in the Japanese concession.
Almost all of the old hotels in Shanghai are on the side of the stalls, I don't know if they are worried that the stalls will be unsafe, and the Japanese army's move to strengthen the defense of the Japanese concession this time, in the eyes of people like Lu Yuan, is the instigation of the Japanese army, and they are preparing to arrange Wang Jingwei to meet with the emperor's envoy in the Japanese concession. Lu Yuan, who returned to his temporary residence, did not rest immediately, but went out again after taking a shower and changing clothes, and he wanted to see with his own eyes what the Japanese concession was like after the Japanese army strengthened its defense.
When Lu Yuan, who was dressed in a suit, slowly slipped to the side of the Japanese Concession with the flow of people, the sky was about to get dark, and what Lu Yuan saw at the moment was similar to what Xu Huanshan revealed, there were already a lot of Japanese patrols here in the Japanese Concession, and the rented policemen who were originally responsible for the daily patrols of the Japanese Concession would all be replaced by Japanese soldiers with rifles on their backs. Lu Yuan quietly picked out cigarettes from the cigarette stall on the street, but in fact, he was using the full-view map to search the surroundings on his side, but except for the patrol he saw and a few Japanese soldiers on the checkpoint, Lu Yuan did not find that there were still mobile forces of the Japanese army hidden here.
Could it be that because this is the Japanese Concession, the strengthening of the defense of the Japanese army in Shanghai is actually just a tightening on the outside and a loosening on the inside, Lu Yuan, who infiltrated the Japanese Concession with fake documents, thought silently. Lu Yuan walked around the entire Japanese Concession, and finally locked down this hotel called Jiayou, because only this Jiayou Hotel in the entire Japanese Concession can still be seen, and there are Japanese officers here from time to time.
Lu Yuan did not stay at the Jiayou Hotel, but found a Japanese-style hostel not far from the Jiayou Hotel, although the conditions of the ordinary hostel are not as good as the hotel, but if you push open the window of Lu Yuan's room facing the street, the people in the window can see the door of the Jiayou Hotel. But Lu Yuan didn't expect that the development of the situation had been somewhat unexpected by him, he just stayed in the Japanese concession for one night, and after getting up the next day, Lu Yuan suddenly found that there were suddenly many idlers with a military atmosphere in the street where the Jiayou Hotel was located, even in the hostel where he stayed.
Lu Yuan had already searched the entire street with a full-view map yesterday, but he didn't find anything unusual, but after a night, there were a lot of guys in this street who seemed to be ordinary but actually had a military atmosphere, Lu Yuan had to be vigilant, could it be that this was a trap? Lu Yuan couldn't help but secretly ponder, if it was to protect the safety of Wang Jingwei and the emperor's envoys, the Japanese army in Shanghai could have closed the entire street or the entire Japanese concession, why did they arrange so many shadows?
Lu Yuan, who was in a mess in his mind, immediately checked out and left the hostel, in order not to attract attention, Lu Yuan also deliberately went to the dock to buy a ticket to Tianjin in the afternoon. "Of course, this could be a trap, otherwise why would the Japanese let this matter leak out." Rushing to Hansen's bar, Hansen, who learned about this, laughed, "But I didn't expect you to come back for this matter." ”
Han Sen's words obviously meant to show off, and Lu Yuan couldn't help but roll his eyes at Han Sen, but Han Sen simply ignored Lu Yuan's contempt and dissatisfaction. "Wang Jingwei has been forming his so-called new government in Nanjing, and if the Japanese emperor really sent an envoy, he should also go to Nanjing to meet, after all, Wang Jingwei and his cronies are all in Nanjing. Although there were a lot of Japanese soldiers renting houses in Shanghai, there were many concession forces here, and the emperor's envoy met with Wang Jingwei here, and the actual effect was not as good as going to Nanjing. ”
Lu Yuan still has a sentence that Hansen has not said, that is, Nanjing was once the capital of China, and in terms of political status, Shanghai, a commercial city, is incomparable. "If that's the case, then why do the Japanese go to such great lengths to set traps? Who are they trying to deal with? Underground? Military commanders? Or is it some other force? Lu Yuan's series of questions did not get a response from Hansen, and in fact, Hansen did not know what the Japanese were doing this for.
This is a matter for the Japanese, and Han Sen doesn't want to spend more effort on this matter, but Lu Yuan can't help but care, because the underground party has decided to join forces with the military commander in order to assassinate Wang Jingwei, a big traitor, in Shanghai. Lu Yuan, who had no clue, pondered for a long time, and finally failed to come up with a suitable solution, but before he left the bar, Hansen mentioned something that made Lu Yuan's eyes light up.
In the wee hours of the morning, on the road from the 16th Pu Pier to the city, a truck covered with a tarpaulin was speeding towards the city. It was early in the morning, the road was already empty, and it was the last trip of the day, and the escorts and drivers on the truck were a little absent-minded, they were already tired. When passing by another intersection, the escort next to the driver looked at his watch, and it was almost one o'clock in the morning. The escort's brow furrowed involuntarily, he had been in this car for more than ten hours, running six rounds on this road.
The driver driving next to the escort was also exhausted, and by the time the driver noticed the anomaly ahead, it was too late to step on the brakes. "Bang-" The front wheel of the truck suddenly burst, and the truck, which immediately lost control, first rolled over on its side, and then a turtle rolled over on the road. The escort sitting in the passenger seat hit the thick windshield, but compared to the driver next to him who had lost his breath, he was already lucky with his head bleeding.
When the truck completely stopped on the side of the road, it had already rolled over on its side, and someone immediately ran over from the side of the road, and the dizzy-eyed escort vaguely saw that it was two people. After the two men ran closer, the escort saw that the two people approaching the truck were wearing masks. The masked man in front of him reached out and knocked on the window glass, still shouting loudly, but the escort's ears were buzzing at the moment, and he couldn't hear what he was saying at all.
After a few more hard knocks, the masked man pointed ahead. The escort looked up and saw that another person was holding a rope to the edge of the windshield. With a whistle sounding, not far from where the truck had flipped over, there was a sudden sound of a car starting. A black sedan struggled forward, the rope between the sedan and the truck was tensed for a moment, and the entire windshield of the truck was dragged off the body of the car by the rope.
Before he could figure out what was going on, the escort was vigorously dragged out of the escort car, and before finally passing out, the escort saw the head-on smashing*. A few moments later, a truck drove up, and a dozen men in masks jumped out of the truck and began to load the worries in the back of the overturned truck into the bed of the truck they were in. In less than ten minutes, all the boxes were loaded onto the bed of the truck behind. Before leaving, the masked man, who had banged on the window earlier, threw an oil drum into the empty truck, and by the time the Japanese arrived at the news, the truck had exploded, and ten gallons of gasoline were enough to burn all traces on the car.
The goods intercepted by the masked man came from Tianjin, and they all belonged to a Japanese trading house called Hayada Trading Company, which is said to have a background in the Japanese military and was very popular in Tianjin and outside the Kansai. When the nearby Japanese troops arrived, the truck was burned and could not be seen from its original appearance, but they only found the driver's body in the wreckage of the truck, and the escort who belonged to the Hayata Trading Company was nowhere to be found.
If you only look at it on the surface, this should be a robbery case carried out by a family thief in collusion with outsiders, but the information given by Hayata Trading House shows that this missing escort is a collateral child of the Hayata family, and such a person will never betray Hayata Trading Company. The Japanese troops near the 16th shop were dispatched urgently, not only blocking the entire 16th shop wharf, but also carrying out a large search around the area overnight, but unfortunately, they did not find any clues.
In fact, when the Japanese army was blockading the Shiliupu Wharf, the truck full of goods had already quietly parked in a secret warehouse in the concession, and Lu Yuan and the others, who had taken off their masks, were scattering and leaving the warehouse according to Hansen's arrangement. The Japanese had all the fulfillment around the 16-shop wharf, and they had no idea that the goods and the people who had committed the robbery had already entered the concession, and that the secret warehouse was just a street away from Hansen's bar.
"Lu, what are you going to do with these things? The place is not really safe, and once the Japanese notice the concession, they will find it sooner or later. "The welding wire personally drove Lu Yuan back to his residence, and asked Lu Yuan questions on the way." The quantities of these drugs are too large, and the Japanese will definitely pay attention to the changes in the number of drugs shipped on the black market, and I don't want to ruin the rest of my life because of these things. ”
Lu Yuan didn't joke that Hansen was timid and afraid, because he knew that Hansen was not that kind of person, "Let it go for the time being, I will contact the next family tomorrow and try to send these things away as soon as possible, so that we can also have one less big trouble." "Lu Yuan's so-called next family is naturally Xu Huanshan, these are all trauma medicines, I believe that the underground party will not refuse.