Chapter 64: The Secret War (1)

As time passed, Lu Yuan was still gradually refining this plan, but the medical staff hired by Hogg from Xuzhou had already rushed to Nanjing in batches, and Lu Yuan had to arrange for Schuhman to continue to rent houses in the area of Xiaofenqiao in order to accommodate these people sent by Hogg from Xuzhou. In November, the battle in Shanghai had basically been decided, as in history, and the Nationalist army finally lost Shanghai.

Nanjing is so close to Shanghai, only more than 300 kilometers away, after the Japanese army fully controlled Shanghai, Nanjing was actually under the threat of the Japanese army. On November 11, Chiang Kai-shek, who had been stranded in Nanjing, convened a group of his generals to gather in Nanjing for a meeting to discuss countermeasures, because most of the plains between Shanghai and Nanjing were unsafe to defend, and the main force of the Nationalist army suffered heavy casualties in the battle in Shanghai, so some of the generals of the Nationalist army who attended the meeting advocated abandoning Nanjing.

However, just when Chiang Kai-shek's German military advisers also agreed to abandon Nanjing, Tang Shengzhi, who had participated in the second anti-Chiang movement and had been in a cold bench state in the Nationalist Government for a long time, suddenly put forward different opinions, refuted the claims of other generals with righteous and awe-inspiring words, and proclaimed that he swore to live and die with Nanjing, and finally Chiang Kai-shek had to appoint Tang Shengzhi as the commander of Nanjing's urban defense.

In fact, Chiang Kai-shek was also in favor of abandoning Nanjing, but Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that if he ordered to abandon Nanjing without a fight, he would be accused of surrender and betrayal by public opinion and his political enemies. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek hoped to carry out a symbolic short-term resistance in Nanjing to deal with public opinion, but Tang Shengzhi's proposal to defend Nanjing with patriotic passion gave the moral upper hand, so Chiang Kai-shek had to agree to Tang Shengzhi's plan to defend Nanjing.

On the day of Chiang Kai-shek's military conference, Lu Yuan learned the content of the meeting through Luca, and secretly lamented that while Chiang Kai-shek did not know people clearly, Lu Yuan had to use his ability to do what he could for this doomed city defense war. From the day after Chiang Kai-shek convened his important generals for a military meeting, people disappeared in Nanjing one after another, and in the early morning of the next day, there were always Japanese spies in sacks who were sent to the gate of the Nanjing City Defense Headquarters, which made the people of the City Defense Headquarters secretly surprised.

"Stop, Schuchman, tell your guy to keep an eye on the guy over there who is buying fruit." Lu Yuan, who had been napping in the back seat of the car with his eyes closed, suddenly called to stop, and his gaze through the window fell straight on a middle-aged man who was buying fruit on the side of the road. Schuchman, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked at Lu Yuan's gaze, and after he saw the middle-aged man on the side of the road, he immediately nodded at Lu Yuan, pushed the car door and walked down.

Schuchmann stepped out of the car and did not cross the street to approach the middle-aged man, but gestured to two blonde men not far behind him with the help of a hat. The latter two saw Schuchmann's sign language, and immediately walked directly through the street, pretending to be also buying fruit, and quietly approached the middle-aged man. There were suddenly two more people around, and the middle-aged man who was taking out his wallet from his pocket subconsciously glanced at his side, and found that there were two blonde foreigners next to him, which eased his stiff body.

The two blonde men who pretended to buy the fruit left quickly, and after the middle-aged man paid the money, he also left slowly with the fruit he bought, but the two blonde men who left earlier happened to be walking in front of him. "Damn ghost animals, when the Japanese Empire occupies the whole of China, I will definitely drive all of you ghost animals back to your hometown." Looking up at the two blonde men walking in front of him who were laughing in English, the middle-aged man scolded in his heart.

Walking out of a street along the street, just when the middle-aged man was about to turn into a side street, the two blonde men who had been walking in front of him suddenly turned around and walked back, and the middle-aged man who was stunned didn't react at all, and was slapped heavily on the back of his neck. Shuchman, who attacked the middle-aged man from behind, reached out to support the other party, and the two black cars stopped directly beside Shuchman, and with the help of the two blonde men, the middle-aged man who was stunned by Shuchman was immediately stuffed into the car behind.

From Schuchmann's attack on the other party, to the other party being hit hard and falling into a coma, to Schuchman's three people working together to stuff the middle-aged man into the car, the whole process was only a few dozen seconds. By the time the two black cars parked on the side of the road left, no one else on the street knew what had happened here, and the middle-aged man who had been knocked unconscious by Schuchmann was like he had never been seen in the low street.

This kind of operation, Schuchmann and a three-person team he selected, have done it many times in the past few days, and the cooperation between Schuchmann and the three members of the group has become more and more tacit. The two cars, traveling together, quickly pulled off the street, and after making sure there were no watchers behind them, they drove into a warehouse that Schuchmann had rented temporarily.

Nobuo Takeda, who had woken up from a coma, struggled hard, but it was only in vain, not only was he tied with a rope like a rice dumpling, but also gagged Takeda Nobuo felt that he was very sad, just to buy some fruit, he was knocked out and kidnapped for no reason. "Who are you? American? Briton? After the rag head was removed from his mouth, Nobuo Takeda, who had a sad face, took a breath and asked the two blonde men standing in front of him.

The two blonde men who were asked by Nobuo Takeda glanced at each other, but did not answer Nobuo Takeda, but slowly walked to the side and showed Lu Yuan who was sitting in the chair. "Don't tell me that you are Chinese, if you can be tied here, it means that we have recognized your identity." Don't think you'll be able to get out of here easily, I don't believe you can break free from the ropes on your body, and the only way to get out of here is to answer my questions honestly. Lu Yuan smiled and raised the index finger of his right hand at Nobuo Takeda, and then asked the other party the first question.

"First question, what's your Japanese name?" Lu Yuan's question frightened Nobuo Takeda, he has been lurking in Nanjing for more than a year and a half, sometimes even he thinks he is an authentic Chinese, why does this young man in front of him identify himself as a Japanese at a glance? Do you say that you have been exposed? Also, what's going on with these foreigners here? Could it be that Chinese intelligence has already cooperated with European intelligence organizations?

Forcibly holding back the shock in his heart, Nobuo Takeda replied to Lu Yuan consciously and calmly, "I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about, I'm a native of Nanjing, my name is Xu Shuhuai, and I am a teacher in Nanjing No. 4 Middle School, if you don't believe me, you can go to the school where I work to verify." ”

"Hehe" Nobuo Takeda's answer Lu Yuan couldn't help but laugh softly, and said in his heart, you are a fool, you have such a big red dot flashing in Lao Tzu's full-view map, and you dare to say that you are not Little Japan. "Okay, since you chose not to cooperate, then I have no choice but to hand you over to the military commander, I believe that the interrogation room of the military commander will definitely let you tell the truth." Lu Yuan didn't plan to spend too much time with the guy in front of him at all, since the other party chose not to cooperate, then he could only send him to the military command.

What kind of place is the military commander, how can Takeda Nobuo, who is a Japanese intelligence officer, not know, of course he does not want to be sent to the military commander, but he can't frankly admit that he is a Japanese. Shu Herman and the others don't care if Takeda Nobuo is Japanese or not, since it was Lu Yuan who spoke, Shu Herman stepped forward and smashed the back of Takeda Nobuo's neck with a fist, he planned to knock the goods out and stuff them into a sack.

"Wait, wait, what the hell do you want to know?" The coldness in Schuchman's eyes made Nobuo Takeda change his decision in an instant, and he hurriedly shouted at Lu Yuan, who had already stood up. Schuchman's fist landed on the back of Nobuo Takeda's neck, and he frowned a little unhappily, as if he was a little dissatisfied with not being able to knock Nobuo Takeda unconscious again. Shuchman's movements stopped, which made Takeda Nobuo breathe a sigh of relief, but before he could breathe again, Lu Yuan gave Shuchman a look.

With a muffled snort, Shu Heman, who received Lu Yuan's hint, smashed his fist, and Nobuo Takeda, who was caught off guard, suffered a heavy blow, and directly rolled his eyes and fainted. "Idiot, I'm just trying to confirm that you're Japanese, and I'm not interested in what you're trying to confess." Looking at Nobuo Takeda, who had slipped off the stool to the ground, Lu Yuan's face showed a hint of a smile, but there was a hint of disdain in his eyes.

Half an hour later, a rickshaw driver with gray sideburns appeared outside the gate of the Nanjing City Defense Headquarters with a sack, but no matter how the military commanders who rushed to hear the news inquired, the rickshaw driver only said that someone had paid him to send the sack here, but he could not say anything else. "This is already the ninth, and of the 8 sent here earlier, 6 of them have not survived our interrogation and have already admitted that they are Japanese intelligence officers, and this one, I guess, is almost a Japanese spy who was ordered to lurk in Nanjing."

There were several experienced interrogators in the military command who almost all made the same judgment after seeing Nobuo Takeda who was sent by rickshaw, which made Dai Li, who was in charge of the military command, interested in this mysterious person or organization. After sending Nobuo Takeda to the city defense headquarters, Lu Yuan and the others did not stop, after a brief lunch, Lu Yuan and the others continued to drive around the city, before dark, two more Japanese spies who were ordered to lurk in Nanjing were successfully captured by Schuchmann's action team.