Chapter 54: Provocation (2)
Shooting four plainclothes spies in a row, Lu Yuan, who fell sideways on the steps at the entrance of the dance hall, just rolled over, and the whole person had already slid down the steps, and before the others could fully react, the muzzle of the gun in Lu Yuan's hand was raised again, and this time he was aiming at the black car at the entrance of the dance hall.
The driver in the sedan was still stunned and looked at Lu Yuan who slid down the steps, he only heard a continuous gunshot like fried beans just now, and the four companions who got out of the car first were all knocked to the ground. When Lu Yuan raised the muzzle of the gun again at this moment, the driver who reacted twisted the key and stepped on the accelerator, this guy didn't even dare to get out of the car, he just thought about driving away.
Syllable! Syllable! Syllable! Lu Yuan fired three shots in succession, not only shattering the car window, but also hitting the spy driver in the car. After the driver was shot, he struggled to get the car moving. Lu Yuan, who had already gotten up and stood up, moved his position and fired two more shots. The driver, who was continuously shot in the body, finally couldn't support himself and threw himself headlong into the steering wheel, and the out-of-control sedan immediately hit the curb diagonally, and then stopped the engine.
Lu Yuan, who had changed again*, ignored the crowd squatting at the door of the dance hall, just pushed the bomb and loaded it, and approached to check the inside of the car until he was sure that the threat was completely removed. As soon as the gunshots rang out, the pedestrians on the road screamed and fled, and there was a panic in the dance hall and outside the door, but no one dared to come out to look for death. There was already a faint siren in the distance, Lu Yuan knew that it was the French Concession patrol who got the news or heard the gunshots, turned around and looked at the people who were squatting outside the door of the dance hall, Lu Yuan stretched out his hand and dragged the body out of the car, and then drove away in the black car driven by plainclothes agents.
The sedan quickly bypassed the street in front of him, and Lu Yuan in the sedan let out a long breath gently, and a pleasant feeling arose in his heart. Up to now, Lu Yuan has reached the pinnacle of his later life in terms of reaction and agility, and has even surpassed it. These changes, of course, made him full of confidence and allowed him to live firmly. As for the traitor spies, although they have also been trained, in Lu Yuan's eyes, they are still at the amateur level. On the battlefield, professional and amateur are worlds apart, and life and death are the difference.
Not long after Lu Yuan drove away, the French Concession patrol arrived at the scene, but all the people who were still outside Paramount were gone, and all the French Concession patrols saw were a few corpses and the dance hall manager who was slumped on the steps of the door. Even in the early hours of the morning in Shanghai, the temperature will not feel very cold, but at this moment, Li Shiqun, who is sitting in the back seat of the car, is tightly wrapped in a windbreaker on his body, and the windbreaker that can shelter from the wind and rain does not make Li Shiqun feel warm.
Li Shiqun's brows furrowed, the attack on the Paramount Ballroom was so sudden that he could barely believe his ears when he heard the news on the phone. But it happened, and in just a few minutes, more than a dozen plainclothes agents belonging to No. 76 died in the Paramount Ballroom.
Once again, the army was completely annihilated, and more than a dozen agents were lying in the morgue, and No. 76 was not able to openly receive it. Li Shiqun, who was rushing to the scene by car at this moment, gritted his teeth, who is this, why can't he get along with No. 76? Li Shiqun, who couldn't think of a reason, stroked his forehead, and was very distressed and depressed in his heart, in the recent period, how many times has No. 76 eaten such a dumb loss? After this incident, the traitor agent of No. 76 suffered the most losses.
After Li Shiqun rushed to the scene of the Paramount Ballroom with a gloomy face, Ding Mochun also rushed here with a team of people, but after the trace experts of No. 76 surveyed the entire scene, they did not find many useful clues at all. "The scene was so damaged that we couldn't find any useful clues at the moment, but based on interviews with the ballroom manager, we were able to confirm that the attacker was a person. The portrait expert seconded from the Extra-High School is reconstructing the image based on the description of the ballroom manager, which is probably the only useful clue we have at the moment. ”
The chief of the forensic section, who was in charge of the trace investigation, was reporting to Li Shiqun and Ding Mocun, but one of his trace experts came over with a bullet casing in a clip. After the two whispered in a low voice for a while, the forensic section chief who turned around reported to Li Shiqun again. "We have just found several identical shells at the scene, and according to our analysis, these shells should be related to the bullet casings that occurred in the attack on the New Asia Hotel, but we need to make further trace comparisons."
The bullet casings and some tiny traces found at the scene were all recorded and sealed away by the people of No. 76, and at this time, another team of people who rushed to the morgue of the patrol house in the French Concession returned to the scene, and they did not find any useful clues from the corpse. "We examined all the bodies and found that the weapons and belongings on the bodies were there, and if the attacker did not come for the weapons and belongings, then it can only be certain that he came specifically for the purpose of killing."
The report of the forensic department made Li Shiqun's heart chill, after actually arriving at the scene, Li Shiqun had already come up with such an answer, if this is not the case, why are all the people in the dance hall who died at No. 76? When he was silent alone, Li Shiqun finally couldn't help but link what happened tonight with the previous attack on No. 76, but who would be responsible for these attacks?
Li Shiqun's first thought was the military commander, after all, in No. 76, the plainclothes spies who surrendered from the military commander accounted for a large proportion. In addition, there is the Central Unification and the CCP Underground Party, although the majority of the plainclothes spies in No. 76 are recruited from Shanghai and traitors to the military command, but there are not no traitors to the Central Unification and the CCP Underground Party. Thinking of this, Li Shiqun's thoughts were confused, but he didn't think that what happened tonight would be a retaliatory action.
Was this really just a simple attack? Li Shiqun's heart was completely confused, and he turned his head to look at Ding Mocun, who was whispering to his plainclothes agents, and a haze flashed in Li Shiqun's heart. The internal battle in No. 76 is very delicate, after the assassination of Wu Sibao last time, the generals of the Ding family, Wang Tianmu, He Tianfeng, and Lin Zhijiang, were either injured or killed, and the balance of power in No. 76 was obviously tilted in favor of their side. In order to regain the upper hand and curry favor with the Japanese, and at the same time to take revenge, Li Shiqun knew that Ding Mochun had ordered Zhou Xi, Xu Shouxin, and Yu Yanzhi, the special agents of the Shanghai District of the military commander, to be taken out of prison and shot.
Thinking of this, Li Shiqun suddenly had an epiphany in his heart, could it be that what happened tonight was really a retaliatory action by the military commander? Li Shiqun didn't want to jump to such a hasty conclusion, but he thought about it for a long time, and it seemed that only this answer could explain what happened tonight. But Wang Tianmu and He Tianfeng are the chief and deputy commanders of the "Peace Salvation Army" under the Wang Puppet Purge Committee, if tonight's incident is a retaliatory action by the military commanders, then why don't they directly target Wang Tianmu or He Tianfeng?
Li Shiqun thought too far, on the contrary, Ding Mocun, who rarely made a positive decision, decided that this was a simple attack, and when the opinions of the two could not be unified, No. 76 had to report to the special high school headquarters for technical guidance. The Special High School also launched a series of investigations into this, but they, like the Forensic Section of No. 76, failed to find useful clues from it, and finally had to give a conclusion that the military commander would retaliate.
Lu Yuanque, who did these things alone, didn't care about the conclusion of the investigation of No. 76 and the special high class, and when No. 76 secretly licked his wounds, Lu Yuan once again set his eyes on No. 76. The day after the Paramount attack, Qian Renlong, the deputy director of the No. 76 Fourth Division, and four of his subordinates were shot dead at the entrance of the Cirois Ballroom in the French Concession. Qian Renlong was in charge of liaison with the French Concession in No. 76, so as to spy on the activities of anti-Japanese people in the French Concession, and many spy murder cases in the French Concession were related to Qian Renlong.
Unlike Wu Sibao, this Qian Renlong has always been low-key, whether it is in No. 76 or on the assassination list of the military commander, Qian Renlong is not famous. But such a person was also assassinated at the door of the Concession Ballroom a day later, and for a while, there was a rumor inside No. 76, and the furious Li Shiqun almost smashed his office to pieces. Li Shiqun, who was furious, actually didn't know that Lu Yuan's assassination of No. 76 was completely random.
Lu Yuan used a full-view map every time to confirm the number and location of plainclothes agents in the concession, as long as he found that he had the opportunity to make a move, Lu Yuan didn't care whether the target was the power figure in No. 76 or not, in other words, Qian Renlong was actually just shot by Lu Yuan as an ordinary agent. After Qian Renlong's death, the situation seemed to be somewhat out of the judgment of the special high class, but all the Japanese pseudo-plainclothes spies who entered the concession were shot one after another in the following days.
In just one week, including Qian Renlong, No. 76 has lost more than 30 people in the concession, and more than 10 Japanese plainclothes agents of the special high school have also lost their lives in the concession. The special high school and No. 76 had to use the power and channels of the concession gangsters, but no matter how they investigated, they could never find any useful information, even in the black market. Could it be that the enemy is really out of nowhere? The special high school, which was completely enraged, refused to give up, and successively sent people into the concession, and even temporarily activated some of the shadows lurking in the concession.
All these efforts made by the special high school were destined to be in vain, because Lu Yuan, who had done these things, had already left Shanghai under the compulsion of Hans, and Hans, who was worried that Lu Yuan would stumble, personally escorted Lu Yuan out of Shanghai. When the special high school made up his mind to chase the murderer, Lu Yuan had actually quietly gone north, and the war-torn North China would be Lu Yuan's place and the next battlefield.