Lost and Spy

Chapter 646 Bizarre Assassination
Meng Shaoyuan heard the most ridiculous sentence in the world:

Yoshikawa Wumen was killed by Meng Shaoyuan!

Meng Shaoyuan tried his best to assassinate Yoshikawa Wumen, but he still couldn't find the most suitable opportunity.

He is still waiting.

But now, Yoshikawa Wumen is dead?
Killed by himself?

Meng Shaoyuan looked at Wu Jingyi in a daze: "Assistant Wu, please tell me again, who killed the Yoshikawa Wumen?"

"You, Meng Shaoyuan! Or to be more precise, you ordered the five families of Yoshikawa to be dealt with!"

Meng Shaoyuan rubbed his nose and smiled wryly: "Why didn't I even know that I ordered the killing of Yoshikawa Wumen?"

"You really don't know?" Wu Jingyi was a little puzzled.

Meng Shaoyuan is elusive in his work, and tasks that seem impossible can always be miraculously realized in his hands.

Meng Shaoyuan didn't know what to say: "I also really want to kill this grandson with my own hands, but unfortunately I don't know what happened!"

Only then did Wu Jingyi reply: "Jichuan Wumen was assassinated at the Xinya Hotel on Beisichuan Road, on the day he arrived in Hongkou..."

……

two days ago.

Accompanied by a large number of bodyguards including Kawamoto Kojiro, Yoshikawa Gomon came to Japan's Hongkou Naval Base smoothly.

Here, he met the "Three Tigers of the Empire", Colonel Hase Shigeruhara Michisa of the Japanese Navy's secret service in Shanghai, and Inoue Hinaki, the person in charge of the "Inoue Mansion".

This Inoue Hinaki is just a ronin, but his strength cannot be ignored.

He graduated from the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy in his early years. After spending some time in the Japanese Army, he felt that his movements in the army were restricted everywhere, so he resigned from the military soon and became a vagrant.

At the beginning of 1937, Inoue came to Shanghai and mixed among Japanese overseas Chinese in Hongkou District. Later, he rented a few houses on the third floor of Hardong Building on Nanjing Road and opened "Tongyuan Foreign Firm".

Using the development of Sino-Japanese trade as a cover, he recruited a group of ronin from Japan as the backbone, bought some traitors as minions, and carried out espionage and terrorist activities.

After the "August [-]" Songhu Battle broke out, Inoue was very active.

In order to assist the Japanese army in combat, he commanded his ronin and traitors to use mirrors to reflect sunlight during the day and fire signal flares at night to instruct Japanese planes to launch bombing at traffic points behind the Chinese army, near army hideouts, or on highways where military vehicles pass. , so that the bomb hit rate of the Japanese Air Force has been greatly improved.

They also put poison in wells and ditches in various towns and villages in the suburbs of Shanghai, poisoning the Chinese army and innocent people.Moreover, many kidnapping, assassination and sabotage activities were planned and arranged in the Shanghai area to create an atmosphere of terror in order to undermine our military and civilian resistance against the Japanese army.

After the fall of Shanghai, Inoue became even more confident.

He used a Japanese-style two-story building on Caichang Hengjie, Tiantong Road, Hongkou as a base for espionage, gathered a group of ronin, frantically carried out intelligence gathering, kidnapping, assassination and other activities, and brutally killed Chinese anti-Japanese figures.

Inoue was in his 40s at the time, with a medium build, a narrow and long face, and a pale face. He often wore a suit and held a cane in his hand.

He usually has a gloomy face and few words, and he treats his subordinates very harshly, so his subordinates are very afraid of him.

Because he has many classmates and colleagues in the Japanese military department and has a very strong background, he is very arrogant and never takes some Japanese military officers or diplomats seriously.

Inoue Hinaki once said that although there are only more than 60 people under him, in terms of the role played, it can be equivalent to a division of the Japanese Army.

Although the Inoue Mansion was only a spy organization composed of Japanese ronin and not an official Japanese agency, they were recognized and actively supported by the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters and the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai due to their outstanding achievements in espionage activities.

Although there are no clear regulations on the funds for the activities, whenever Inoue needs it, he can receive it from the Japanese Army Headquarters in Shanghai or the consulate at any time without restriction.

Therefore, whether it is Inoue himself or his men, life is very luxurious.

The Japanese civilian spy organization in Shanghai, with the fall of Shanghai, the army and navy intelligence agencies scrambled to share the food, so their power quickly diminished.

Only Inoue Mansion is an exception.

Yoshikawa Gomon and Inoue Hinaki knew each other a long time ago, and they paid more attention to this person.

Therefore, as soon as he arrived in Hongkou, he specified that he wanted to meet Hichiaki Inoue.

From the bottom of his heart, Master Tani Shigehara Michi looked down on Inoue Hinaki who was a ronin.

But this is what Yoshikawa Gomon ordered, so what can be done?
Therefore, after introducing the work of the "Shanghai Research Office" under his command, Michi Tanishigehara arranged a meeting with Yoshikawa Gomon and Inoue Hinaki.

The negotiation between the two parties was very pleasant.

The reason why the Yoshikawa Gomen attaches so much importance to Inoue Hinaki is not only because they have known each other for a long time, but the more important reason is to use this person.

In the words of himself and the head of the secret service agency of the five provinces of North China, Yoshikawa Sadasa:

"Once the North and the South start cooperating, it is very important who occupies the leading position... Our power in Shanghai is very weak, and neither the army nor the navy will easily let us intervene. Therefore, those who have a lot of power in Shanghai Inoue Hinaki will be a very good pawn..."

This is his real purpose.

After the two parties met and talked, Yoshikawa Gomon also readily accepted Inoue Hinaki's invitation to have dinner together at the New Asia Hotel.

Colonel Gu Shigehara Michi and others received the invitation at the same time.

The New Asia Hotel was under the control of the Japanese army, and most of the people living in it were Japanese.

In order to ensure safety, Michi Tani Shigehara and his subordinates went to the hotel with Kojiro Kawamoto for deployment.

Inoue Hinaki also mobilized more than a dozen of his most trusted subordinates to carry out strict security work.

In terms of safety, there shouldn't be any problems.

The dinner was held in a special private room.

Eat authentic Chinese food.

Every dish, before being served, will be personally checked by a Japanese named Dafang Xinwen to make sure everything is safe.

Security work has been done to the extreme.

But when serving the third hot dish, Dafang Xinwen brought the dish to the table with his own hands, and then something happened suddenly.

Dafang Xinwen pulled out his gun from nowhere, and fired four shots at Yoshikawa's five doors.

It happened so suddenly that no one could react.

Immediately, Dafang Xinwen reversed the gun and pulled the trigger on his own head without hesitation.

In the chaos, Yoshikawa Gomon was rushed to the hospital, but died.

……

Meng Shaoyuan was dumbfounded.

Who is this generous letter?
Why did he assassinate Yoshikawa Gomon?

There are so many things wrong with this.

Where did Dafang Xinwen's gun come from?
He certainly wouldn't be allowed to carry a gun there.

Assassinated on the spot and decisively committed suicide.

In order not to become a prisoner.

This kind of viciousness.

Another point.

Meng Shaoyuan couldn't help asking:
"Why do you say this has something to do with me?"

(End of this chapter)