Chapter 58: The Beginning of Confusion
"What have you been doing all these days? Why did the military commander say that the Americans were also looking for you, and they even gave you a plus, saying that as long as we handed over your information, the Americans would immediately provide us with a meal of medicine free of charge. If they can persuade you to go to the United States, they will also support us with a batch of heavy weapons, including planes and tanks. When I made phone contact with Xu Huanshan, Xu Huanshan on the other end of the phone line smiled very happily, the attitude of the Americans and the military commanders and everything positive, Lu Yuan is indeed a baby, and he is the person who knows the hero.
"I don't care if I change it or not, it depends on what your brother means." Hearing that Xu Huanshan was joking with himself, Lu Yuan also made a joke, making Xu Huanshan laugh and curse a few words on the other end of the phone line. Xu Huanshan then explained the matter to Lu Yuan carefully on the phone, and learned that the Americans were really contacting him through the military command and the underground party, Lu Yuan couldn't help but be a little surprised, and he couldn't figure out what the purpose of the Americans was.
"Don't get involved in this matter, I have nothing to do with the Americans, and I don't want to have anything to do with them." Lu Yuan's answer sounded very simple, in fact, this was also Lu Yuan's statement to Xu Huanshan, lest Xu Huanshan would use this matter to test him. Seeing that the Japanese army was about to implement their southern strategy, and in the event of a war between Japan, the United States and Japan, in order to ensure that their interests were not damaged, it was impossible to say that Mr. Robert would betray himself to the Japanese.
Lu Yuan's attitude was resolute, Xu Huanshan didn't say much, and he didn't have a good impression of the Americans and the military commanders. The answer given by the underground party made Sun Jin a little disappointed, thinking about it carefully, if that mysterious person was in the same group as himself, he might not introduce such a person to other forces, even if the conditions given by Robert were very generous. The underground party said that the mysterious person could not be contacted, Sun Jin had to relay the depressing news to Robert, at first Robert thought that the underground party was dissatisfied with the conditions he offered, after Sun Jin's explanation, Robert finally understood that it seemed that his goal could not be achieved.
Refusing the Americans' solicitation, Lu Yuan did not give up his attack on the plainclothes spies in the concession, and in addition to the continuous reports of some concession newspapers, Sakata Goichi has been continuously reprimanded by the military police headquarters and the special high-tech base camp in the past few days. Li Shiqun's life was also not easy, Lu Yuan concentrated on dealing with the plainclothes of Tegaoke and No. 76 in the concession, and the loss of weapons and equipment was nothing, mainly the loss of personnel, which made Li Shiqun miserable.
"Director, a few more brothers are missing." One of Li Shiqun's henchmen brought bad news early in the morning, and the disappearance he was talking about was not killed by Lu Yuan, but the soles of his feet were smeared with oil and escaped from No. 76. Every day, a few plainclothes people were beaten to death in the concession by mysterious people, but no one is willing to take over the tasks sent into the concession now, and these plainclothes No. 76 who escaped at night were forced by their superiors to enter the concession to find out the news, so they chose to smear oil on the soles of their feet.
When Li Shiqun heard such bad news early in the morning, he naturally couldn't be in a good mood, but before he could rush to No. 76, he was called to the military police headquarters by someone sent by Tsuyoshi Sakata. "Li Sang, you tell me the truth, can you No. 76 still guarantee the collection of information on the concession?" When he saw Sakata Goichi, Li Shiqun was continuously questioned by Sakata Goichi, and he had not yet figured out the situation, so he had to tell the truth and inform Sakata Goichi of the current situation of No. 76.
Sakata Goichi did not reprimand Li Shiqun, because Li Shiqun's answer was basically the same as his prediction in advance, after all, the same is true of the Shanghai Special High-tech Technology he is in charge of. "Li Sang, I called you to the gendarmerie headquarters, mainly because the gendarmerie force is about to carry out an operation soon, this operation requires the full cooperation of our special high-tech department and your No. 76, and this is also an advance arrangement for the mysterious person." Hearing that it was aimed at a mysterious person, Li Shiqun relieved himself.
As soon as Sakata Goyi and Li Shiqun chatted a few words, there were more and more people in the conference room, but except for Sakata Goichi and Li Shiqun, the others were all officers of the military police. The meeting lasted until lunchtime, and the truth about Li Shiqun, who was fortunate enough to attend the meeting, to leave the gendarmerie headquarters had long since dissipated, and was replaced by excitement and eagerness. Li Shiqun, who left the gendarmerie headquarters, went directly to No. 76, and according to the order of Sakata Goichi, Li Shiqun immediately recalled all the manpower.
Tegaoke and No. 76 suddenly recalled all the expatriates and strengthened personnel management, so that neither the military commanders nor the underground party's internal lines among them could find an opportunity to pass on the news. The strange behavior of Tegaoke and No. 76 attracted Xu Huanshan's attention, but the underground party's inner line lurking in No. 76 is currently under strict control, and Xu Huanshan is not able to connect with him at all.
The same is true for the military commander, but thanks to Lu Yuan's continuous actions in the concession these days, the military commander is currently recovering, and the military commander does not pay much attention to the strange behavior of Tegaoke and No. 76. Lu Yuan received a call from Xu Huanshan, it was already after dinner, with this call from Xu Huanshan, Lu Yuan realized that no wonder he had wandered around the concession for an afternoon today, and he didn't find any shadow of a plainclothes agent.
Like the military commander, Lu Yuan didn't care much about this phenomenon at first, he mistakenly thought that it was his continuous attacks that forced Tegaoke and No. 76 to make a move to shrink their manpower. But before going to bed, he received a call from Xu Huanshan again, and Lu Yuan realized that something might really be wrong. The underground party could not contact the inner line of the Japanese pseudo-intelligence agency, so they immediately contacted the hidden line lurking in Hongkou District, and finally learned before going to bed that the Japanese military police were secretly assembling in Hongkou District at the moment, and Tegaoke and No. 76 were also involved.
The Japanese had such a big operation, but there was no rumor at all before, Xu Huanshan naturally thought that this was a big operation carefully planned by the Japanese, but he didn't know what the purpose of the Japanese was. Hanging up the phone, Lu Yuan, who was already sleepy, also fell into deep thought, and in a trance, Lu Yuan suddenly realized something, just a fleeting thing in his mind, but Lu Yuan couldn't really grasp it.
Anyway, he couldn't sleep, so Lu Yuan simply left the residence, and he planned to go and find out in person. After midnight, the streets have completely quieted down, and even the wandering warblers who stand on the side of the street to solicit customers and the small food burdens that walk the streets and alleys have disappeared. Lu Yuan, dressed in black, walked quickly against the side of the street, carefully avoiding the two groups of concession patrols, Lu Yuan stepped on the wall and climbed into a courtyard, and then went up the stairs to the top of the building.
Lu Yuan did not dare to approach Hongkou District directly, but chose this building not far from Hongkou District as an observation point. Squadrons of heavily armed Japanese soldiers came out of Hongkou District and, under the guidance of a large number of plainclothes spies, went straight to the French Concession. Seeing this scene, what Lu Yuan couldn't grasp before suddenly became clear, and at this moment, Lu Yuan became nervous for no reason.
In this era, absolutely no one can understand the history of World War II better than Lu Yuan, who has completely defeated the Anglo-French forces and forced the French government to surrender. Japan was an ally of Germany, and after its ally Germany succeeded in forcing the French government to surrender, the Japanese, as an ally, were naturally able to take advantage of the situation to take over France's interests in Asia, and the French Concession in Shanghai was one of them.
Because of Lu Yuan's existence and intentional targeting, the operations of the Japanese puppet intelligence agencies in the French Concession have almost completely stalled. But now that the Japanese army forcibly took over the French Concession, Lu Yuan's previous efforts were all in vain, because after receiving the French Concession, the Japanese army could station troops in the French Concession openly. The combat effectiveness of the army and the intelligence agencies are completely different things, Lu Yuan can fight the plainclothes agents of the Japanese pseudo-intelligence agencies in the concession, but he can't do this to the Japanese army in Shanghai.
Lu Yuan, who finally understood, immediately left the roof of the building, left quickly along the way he came, and immediately called Xu Huanshan. After receiving a call from Lu Yuan, Xu Huanshan's first reaction was that he felt impossible, but after listening to Lu Yuan's analysis, Xu Huanshan's face immediately changed. The war in Europe was full of twists and turns, but on the whole, it was the German army that had a large advantage. If the Japanese army had taken the French government's surrender to Germany as a basis, it would indeed have been able to take over the French Concession, and if that were the case, the living space of the underground party in Shanghai would have been suppressed again.
As the sky gradually brightened, the residents of the Concession who got up early to go out were immediately frightened by the Japanese soldiers and plainclothes spies that could be seen everywhere in the French Concession. As a result, the French Concession became quiet on the surface, but in fact it was chaotic on the inside, and it was not until just before lunch that the news of the transfer of control of the French Concession to the Japanese army in Shanghai came out, and the French Concession was finally in an uproar. The news that the French Concession was forcibly received by the Japanese army made people panic in the public concession, but in most days, a large number of residents of the old concession left Shanghai.
Xu Huanshan did not leave Shanghai, but some of his underground party members went to Suzhou and other places among ordinary people. Fortunately, there was Lu Yuan's warning in advance, compared to the calm and unhurried underground party, the unprepared army was considered to have suffered heavy losses, and their intelligence network, which had just been restored, was continuously cracked by Tegaoke and No. 76 with the strong help of the Japanese army.