Lost and Spy

Chapter 1843
On December 1941, 12, U.S. President Franklin Delano Ross delivered a "Day of Infamy" speech to Congress!
The Senate voted unanimously to declare war on Japan.

In the House only Montana anti-pacifist Janet Rankin dissented.

At 4 p.m. that day, President Roosevelt signed the resolution to declare war on Japan.

The United States officially declares war on Japan!
On the same day, that is, in the early morning of December 12, the Japanese army in China issued an ultimatum to the American and British warships moored on the Huangpu River, asking them to surrender immediately, and began to attack and take over the British and American concessions, and at the same time launched an attack on Hong Kong.

The Japanese navy stationed in Shanghai issued an ultimatum to the USS Wake, the only remaining American gunboat in the Huangpu River, and the ship was forced to surrender.

The Japanese army entered the concession in large numbers, and posted notices in Chinese, declaring that the purpose of Japan's entry into the concession in Shanghai was to ensure the safety of the concession.

The British and American troops there at that time were quickly disarmed because they did not dare to resist. Soon at noon, except that the French Vichy had surrendered to Germany and were not occupied, the Japanese army successfully occupied the entire concession.

For a time, the streets of the Shanghai International Settlement were full of Japanese soldiers, and the whole of Shanghai became an occupied area.

The isolated island period is over, and the Shanghai International Concession has fallen!

The dark age, finally, shrouded the whole of Shanghai!

Every Chinese is living in fear.

However, there is a group of people who continue to fight.

Elite agents under the leadership of Meng Shaoyuan.

On the 8th, the day when the Japanese army fully took over the concession, agents of the Military Control Bureau launched more than [-] attacks, large and small.

Since the struggle between China and Japan in the public concessions, on this day in 1941, the attack by the Military Command Bureau reached its climax!

The darker the times, the more light is needed!
Meng Shaoyuan blew up the arsenal and told his agents:
I am still in Shanghai!
And his agents, using successive attacks, told the citizens of Shanghai:
Shanghai, still fighting!
China is still fighting!
These more than 100 attacks have something in common.

The longest attack event will not exceed 5 minutes. Regardless of whether it is successful or not, once the time is up, evacuate immediately, and never give the enemy time to react and counterattack.

Secondly, they have a very good grasp of intelligence and know when and where they should attack.

One last note, after every successful raid there is always a message left on the scene:
The murderer, Meng Shaoyuan!
Meng Shaoyuan is everywhere!

In just one day, this name continued to spread among Rites like a plague.

Even, You Rite said in private that Meng Shaoyuan really knows magic.

Otherwise, why is there him everywhere?
And this is also based on the deep-rooted fear of Meng Shaoyuan in the previous Japanese special agencies.

Public Enemy of Japan, the strongest agent on the surface, an invisible warrior, and the undefeated tiger of the empire!
This person cannot be caught or killed!
And this kind of emotion is also the most headache for Habara Hikari.

He can accept failure after failure, but he cannot accept low morale.

Especially after the full takeover of the public concession, the morale should have been booming, but with the bombing of the arsenal, such frequent attacks began to happen again, which made their morale low.

It's true that many military agents were captured and killed, but it didn't make any sense.

As long as Meng Shaoyuan is still in Shanghai, this emotion will continue!
He sent out almost all the people he could use under his command.

The gendarmerie also joined the hunt.

Even, through Kagesa Haruka, Hikaru Habara first asked the military for help.

Those people in the navy were unexpected. The army, at the request of Kagezuo Shakiaki, dispatched a group of soldiers to join the ranks of the hunt.

The question now is, where is Meng Shaoyuan hiding?
The captured military command agents immediately started interrogation with only one purpose:
Find out Meng Shaoyuan's whereabouts!
But the result was disappointing.

According to what these people explained, Habara Koichi can basically piece together some information:
Few people know the specific whereabouts of Meng Shaoyuan, even Wu Jingyi may not know where Meng Shaoyuan is hiding now.

He has at least twelve personal guards with him, with powerful firepower.

Unless he takes the initiative to contact you, otherwise, you can't find him at all.

There is only one way, that is to catch his absolute confidant, maybe there is a way to contact Meng Shaoyuan.

But how easy is it to catch these people?
"Post a reward!"

Hahara Koichi made a decision: "If you can provide clues to Meng Shaoyuan, and successfully capture and kill him, the bonus will be 500 taels of gold!"

"Hay!"

This is the second time that Rites has offered a reward for Meng Shaoyuan's capture.

Compared with the last time, this time seems to be more sure.

Looking around, Japanese troops are everywhere in the concession.

The Navy and Army each have their own area of ​​responsibility.

Although there are many contradictions among each other, those who resist are their common enemy.

On December 12th, the International Settlement fell completely into the hands of the Japanese.

At the same time, the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, which had managed the Shanghai International Settlement for a long time, was also assigned a large number of Japanese directors.

The Bureau of the Ministry of Industry exists in name only.

The Japanese are also ready to do something about the patrol room in the concession, but they don't have so much energy for the time being.

They replaced the inspectors in large numbers, and they were replaced by Japanese.

The duty of the patrolmen has also become to assist the Japanese army and be responsible for the security in the concession.

In order to scare chickens and monkeys, the Japanese side also arrested some detectives and police officers.

The crime is to assist hostile forces and wreak havoc on the concession.

The purpose of the Japanese is to cut off these channels that can provide help to the military agents.

Habara Koichi watched all this closely.

He has only one idea:
Find Meng Shaoyuan's whereabouts!

As long as this person is caught or killed, the resistance of the entire concession will be completely paralyzed.

"Report, someone is asking to see you outside."

"Who?"

"He didn't say his name, but he said you must know him."

"Oh, really?"

Habara Koichi pondered for a moment: "Let him in!"

After a while, a middle-aged man walked in.

Upon seeing this person, Habara Koichi could hardly believe his eyes:
Kohei Takuma!

"Mad Dog" Takuma Takahira!
Takuma Takuhira, who has been missing for a long time and has been included in the death list!
"Gao Ping-jun."

Habara Koichi hurriedly stood up: "Are you still alive? Where have you been for so long?"

"I was arrested by the military commander." Takuma Gao Ping admitted frankly.

"Ah, what about you?"

"Originally, I was going to be secretly buried alive." Gao Ping Tuozhen smiled: "But at the moment of life and death, a person saved me."

"Who?"

"I'll let him in now."

Therefore, Habara Koichi saw a Chinese with a gloomy face.

As soon as this person came in, he took a look, and said in a cold tone:
"My name is Li Hongguang, and my code name is Zhang Liao!"

(End of this chapter)