Chapter 853 There is something inside
Although the gunman was not captured, thus proving that the assassination at the front entrance of the Licha Hotel was carried out by the military commander, his intuition told Li Cuiqun that the mastermind behind the scenes must be Chongqing, or to be more specific, it was the Shanghai station of the military commander. for.
The most direct evidence is that the gunman shot and killed Liu Wen.
Jun Tong found Jing Muyun and asked for his photo. What Jing Muyun provided to Jun Tong was a photo of Liu Wen, and then Liu Wen was killed. The whole chain was very clear.
“Brother Li, as the saying goes, those who survive a catastrophe will have good fortune in the future...” Jing Muyun said.
“I want to express my gratitude to Dai Chunfeng.” Li Cuiqun gritted his teeth and said, “Brother Jing, thank you. I cannot thank you enough for your kindness.”
Jing Muyun was overjoyed when he heard this. The two talked again before hanging up the phone.
Li Cuiqun's face was gloomy, sitting on a chair and thinking about something.
He was able to escape this time because he owed Jing Muyun a favor.
Jing Muyun is a member of the underground special city party branch of the Kuomintang in Shanghai. This person also has a special identity. He is Du Yongsheng's favorite disciple.
In the Kuomintang, Jing Muyun also had a good background. He had contacts with Dai Chunfeng and even Xue Yingzhen, Er Chen and other central officials.
After the fall of Shanghai, Jing Muyun was ordered to lurk in Shanghai.
It is ironic to say that the identity and whereabouts of such a high-level latent official should be kept strictly confidential. However, after a brief inquiry about Mu Yun’s identity and where he was hiding, Li Cuiqun found out:
Jing Muyun was "lurking behind enemy lines" and was frightened, so he took refuge in the Qinggang. Many people within the Qinggang knew where he was hiding.
The reason why Li Cuiqun secretly found and contacted Jing Muyun was mainly because he had access to the upper echelons of the Kuomintang Party and was able to establish a line with Du Yongsheng who was hiding in Hong Kong through Jing Muyun.
Jing Muyun did not hesitate to accept the olive branch offered by Li Cuiqun.
The Shanghai Underground Special City Party Committee member seems to have a high position of power, but in Jing Muyun's opinion, he was abandoned by the top officials of the national government, or was exiled to the occupied area to die.
‘There is no political way out’ and ‘life is not guaranteed’, these were Jing Muyun’s inner thoughts at that time.
Of course, Li Cuiqun’s most direct weapon to impress Jing Muyun is: money to open the way.
One thousand French coins!
For Jing Muyun, who was trapped in Shanghai, in financial distress and frightened at that time, one thousand French coins was not a small amount. He even felt flattered:
Li Cuiqun could have arrested him directly in order to ask for credit from the Japanese, but instead of arresting him, he even gave him a lot of money!
In this way, Jing Muyun secretly fell into the water and became a traitor.
Neither the military nor the Central Unification authorities know anything about this.
Wang Tiemu planned the assassination of Li Cuiqun, but he did not know Li Cuiqun's appearance, so he arranged for Yu Zhengze, the chief of the operations unit, to secretly meet with Jing Muyun, a member of the Shanghai Underground Special City Party Committee.
Jing Muyun indeed "did not disappoint the Shanghai Station" and provided "Li Cuiqun's photo" to the military commander within a few days.
Li Cuiqun lit a cigarette and smoked it silently.
With his right hand, he pulled the ashtray on the desk over and put out the half-remaining cigarette.
He enjoyed the sweetness of wooing Jing Muyun——
Dingmutun's influence and appeal within the Kuomintang are its huge advantages. However, now he is focusing his main attention on the 'conspiracy' with Qingshui Dongsan. This is an opportunity for him, and he must seize it. The people in front of Dingmutun try to win over as many old colleagues as possible.
At the same time, he was assassinated by the military commander. Although this incident made him angry and "chilling", it seemed to have another purpose.
He has a question he wants to ask the Japanese:
Why did the military commander choose to focus on assassinating Li Cuiqun instead of Dingmutun?
Without him, Mr. Li is a great threat!
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French Concession, No. 2, Haitang New Village.
The secret base of Juntong Shanghai Station.
"Did you succeed?" Wang Tiemu looked at Yu Zhengze expectantly and asked.
“Fortunately, I have lived up to my mission!” Yu Zhengze said with joy in his eyes.
“Great!” Wang Tiemu was overjoyed when he heard this, his face flushed with excitement, and he patted Yu Zhengze’s shoulder hard.
His current situation within the military system is quite unfavorable. Dai Chunfeng is quite dissatisfied with him, and Zheng Lijun within the Shanghai Station has been fighting openly and covertly with him.
In this situation, being able to successfully get rid of Li Cuiqun would be enough for him to stabilize his position in the military command, and at the worst, it would give him a temporary respite.
"Sit down and talk." Wang Tiemu personally handed Yu Zhengze a cigarette, "Tell me the detailed process."
Yu Zhengze felt impressed, and then he talked eloquently about the process of successfully assassinating Li Cuiqun.
He once pretended to be a fortune teller to investigate the enemy's situation, and he was quite eloquent. He told the story of the assassination of Li Cuiqun with ups and downs, and he actually felt like a storyteller.
"Li Cuiqun was shot twice in the body and should have been killed on the spot. However, for safety reasons, I ordered another shot in his body." Yu Zhengze said.
"That should be the case!" Wang Tiemu nodded with satisfaction and asked a few more questions. He was full of praise when he heard that Yu Zhengze immediately evacuated without any hesitation and successfully escaped from the side entrance of Broadway Building with his car.
“I hit the target with one blow, without any delay, and even escaped with my whole body!” Wang Tiemu praised and said, “Brother, I want to ask for credit for you, I want to ask the headquarters for credit for you!”
Wang Tiemu was in a high mood. He waved his right hand forcefully, "No, I want to personally ask the leader for credit!"
Yu Zhengze was overjoyed.
Fighting in occupied areas at the risk of losing one's head, even though there was a trace of determination in his heart to kill the enemy and serve the country, why wasn't it for this moment?
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Although there is no evidence, Cheng Qianfan is privately 90% sure that the person who assassinated Li Cuiqun should be the Juntong Shanghai Station.
There are few other forces that are the most powerful in Shanghai:
The red party’s operational strength is relatively weak, and currently it mainly focuses on collecting intelligence and secretly developing anti-Japanese forces.
On the Central Unification side, the negative impact caused by the vote of most of the entire Party Affairs Investigation Department represented by Wu Shanyue is still there. Although the Central Unification Shanghai District has been rebuilt, perhaps its number of people and weapons and equipment have been completed, but the will to fight is still there. And ability is really not flattering.
From the Shanghai special situation team, he had received a coded report from the little Taoist priest, and Liu Yuchu did not fire.
Then, the only one with the strength and motivation to attack Li Cuiqun is Juntong Shanghai War. The most important thing is that this kind of assassination operation is also in line with Juntong's style.
He took out a very beautiful gold-embroidered cloth bag from his briefcase and shook it, making a pleasant sound of blinking.
Five large yellow croakers.
This is the surprise fee given to Mr. Xiao Cheng by the knowledgeable and knowledgeable manager of the Licha Hotel.
Cheng Qianfan weighed it and found that it was quite heavy to start with.
He took out two large yellow croakers and put them back into his briefcase, and casually put the remaining three large yellow croakers into the drawer together with the Su embroidery bag.
Assassinating Li Cuiqun was not wrong in itself.
Liu Yuchu’s finger was on the trigger!
What was wrong was that the assassination failed.
Cheng Qianfan didn’t have much contact with Li Cuiqun, but this person gave him a strong feeling:
This is a very capable person, and the more this kind of person is, the stronger the desire for revenge!
Cheng Qianfan could already imagine that Li Cuiqun's secret service would pounce on the military commander like a vicious dog, or rather on the Chongqing elements.
Suddenly, Cheng Qianfan held the cigarette between his fingers and narrowed his eyes. He thought of a question that seemed inconspicuous but was actually very critical:
Why did the military commanders kill the wrong people?
He checked on Li Cuiqun's subordinate who was shot dead by a gunman. This man only slightly resembled Li Cuiqun. In fact, he could tell the authenticity just by looking at him at a close distance, because there was a big difference in the appearance of the two.
This is because the Shanghai Station did not arrange people to verify at close range like the Shanghai Special Intelligence Team. They only shot from a distance, so they decisively shot and killed two men who looked like Li Cuiqun when they saw them?
This explanation seems to make sense!
It’s not that Cheng Qianfan looks down on his colleagues at the Shanghai Station, it’s actually that the things done at the Shanghai Station are a bit rough.
Then the question arises again. Li Cuiqun chose to arrive at the Licha Hotel through the side entrance, but arranged for this 'substitute' to arrive through the main entrance. What's the secret?
Is this normal operation due to Mr. Li’s caution?
Or, Li Cuiqun suspected something, so he tested it - what did he suspect? Who do you suspect?
Cheng Qianfan frowned and thought, then shook his head.
He has not had much contact with Li Cuiqun, and at the same time he thinks that since he has always been cautious, the possibility of Li Cuiqun suspecting him and testing him is extremely slim.
In addition, Li Cuiqun, who is willing to surrender to the Japanese, will never risk his own life.
Because, if Li Cuiqun doubted him, then Li Cuiqun would not take the risk to invite him to meet.
What if the gunman arranged for an ambush at both the main entrance and the side entrance? Or was it an ambush on the way here?
In this case, there are only two possibilities left:
The matter of substitutes is a routine operation for Li Cuiqun. This person is extremely afraid of death, so he takes precautions.
Perhaps Li Cuiqun knew that someone was going to kill him, or even knew that the military commander was going to kill him, so he was prepared for it!
So, here comes the problem again.
If it was the latter, how did Li Cuiqun get the information that someone was going to kill him?
In addition, this stand-in only has a slight physical resemblance. How can Li Cuiqun be sure that the assassin will target the "stand-in" instead of verifying it at close range before taking action?
Cheng Qianfan rubbed his temples and tried to think.
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"Webmaster, from the committee members..." Yu Zhengze reminded Wang Tiemu.
This time they were able to successfully eradicate the traitor Li Cuiqun, and Jing Muyun, the Shanghai underground special city party committee member of the Kuomintang, also contributed a lot. Without the photos provided by Jing Muyun, they would not have been able to quickly lock in the target.
This is not because Yu Zhengze is generous and not greedy for credit. In fact, it is because his credit cannot be erased. The Kuomintang Party Headquarters is its own faction and there is no suspicion of competing with him for credit.
Furthermore, Jing Muyun is an important member of the party, so Yu Zhengze is naturally happy to do things that go along with the situation, isn't it just a matter of words?
“Brother Jing, I will take credit for him truthfully.” Wang Tiemu said.
Although the Military and Central Unification are old enemies, the Party Headquarters and the Central Unification are not the same family, and there are some differences between them. This is why the Shanghai Station is willing and able to seek help from Jing Muyun, a member of the Party Headquarters.
He glanced at Yu Zhengze and nodded with satisfaction.
Wang Tiemu admires the fact that he can think of other relevant people when he has meritorious service. A person with such character is expected to be a loyal person.
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Central patrol room, Lao Huang's infirmary.
Lao Huang cooked up some dishes to go with the wine and invited Mr. Xiao Cheng to have a drink.
For this kind of situation, the patrol officers in the Central Patrol Room have long been accustomed to it. This old Huang relied on some "home remedies" to climb the high branches of "Little Chief Cheng", and then became Deputy Chief Inspector Cheng's drinking buddy. I consolidated the old man's once shaky position in the patrol house.
“The assassination of Li Cuiqun was carried out by the Shanghai Station?” Lao Huang asked in a low voice as he gnawed on the chicken leg and muttered that the chicken leg was not as delicious as the fragrant meat.
"I guess so." Cheng Qianfan nodded, "What, is there something going on?"
“Dandelion” sent a signal to meet. Today, Lao Huang, on behalf of the French Concession Special Party Branch, secretly met with Comrade “Dandelion”.
“The organization has received information that the Shanghai Police Department will launch a home inspection operation tomorrow to clear out the ‘thugs’.” Lao Huang said.
Cheng Qianfan frowned.
The so-called ‘house inspection’ operation is to search the house.
This kind of search will cause great harm to both our party and Chongqing.
No one can guarantee that they can clean the room completely without leaving any suspicious flaws.
It is not only a huge threat to the Red Party and Chongqing, but in fact, ordinary citizens are most harmed by this kind of "house inspection" operation.
Meeting a fake policeman whose conscience has been completely eaten by dogs, he can force a family to a desperate end by simply suspecting that anti-Japanese elements are harbored in the family, and then take the opportunity to extort money and women.
“Wu Shanyue deserves to be killed!” Cheng Qianfan said in a deep voice.
Li Cuiqun was assassinated in Hongkou District. The case involved the involvement of Japanese patrols from the public settlement, or even the involvement of the Japanese military special agencies. In fact, it had little to do with the Shanghai Puppet Regime Police Station in the Chinese border.
The current actual person in charge of the Shanghai Police Department is Wu Shanyue. This person suddenly launched this "household inspection" operation, which was actually an opportunity to take advantage of him.
Not to mention the harm this action will cause to the anti-Japanese forces, Wu Shanyue must have taken advantage of the opportunity to make money.
“What’s going on with Wang Kangnian? Has he admitted that he is ‘Chen Zhou’?” Lao Huang pondered for a moment, raised his sleeves and wiped his mouth, and asked.
"Not yet." Cheng Qianfan shook his head. He went to the hospital to visit Harima Araki and asked Araki casually. Wang Kangnian knew that he would definitely die if he admitted it, but he actually withstood the torture of the extra-high school course for so many days.
In this way, the extra-tertiary education department became even more convinced that Wang Kangnian must be ‘Chenzhou’.
This is an unsolvable proposition.
He pinched a peanut and chewed it slowly, eh?
Cheng Qianfan looked thoughtful, and he somewhat understood why Wu Shanyue was going to war at this time.
“The detective brigade also wants to participate in the ‘house inspection’ operation?” Cheng Qianfan frowned slightly and asked in a deep voice.
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