above the point of the knife

Chapter 205 Fuyuan
Dinner is simple.

To Zhou Sen and others, the food in front of them was a little bland, but to a prisoner of war who had been captured for more than a month and had no food in his stomach.

This dinner was most sumptuous.

Whether he can escape or not is the key to tonight.

Therefore, after sailing, Zhou Sen kept watching on the deck to ensure that the direction of the boat was always within his own setting.

The wind on the river is very windy, and there are many unpredictable risks when sailing at night. Even if you cross the river, you must be careful.

In the deep mountains and old forests on the border, there are many heroes who are active in robbing houses, that is, bandits.

Some of them, under the banner of anti-Japanese war, have secretly robbed and robbed houses. There are also Jiang bandits haunting them.

They went directly to Fuyuan by water along the way. When they arrived in Fuyuan, there would naturally be someone to pick them up. Saburo Shibuya had already told them in the telegram.

But he had left the radio station to the hunters, so they couldn't get in touch with anyone during the journey from Khabarovsk to Fuyuan.

In other words, this section of the road is very dangerous.

There are two ways to go to Fuyuan, one is to go up along the HLJ, close to the south bank of the river, and go west to Fuyuan.

Another way is to enter the Wusuli River to the east, walk along the west bank, go down, and then enter the Fuyuan Waterway to reach Fuyuan.

Both paths have pros and cons.

Although the first way is upstream, but they have steam turbines as power, the speed will not be too slow, and the time is the shortest.

If it is fast, start at night and arrive in Fuyuan early the next morning.

The journey of the second route is much farther, almost double the distance, and it has to be folded up, so the time and accidents are out of control.

So after thinking about it, Zhou Sen decided to choose the first road, going up the Shuo River, taking the waterway between Yinlong Island and Heixiazi Island, and reaching Fuyuan.

The Soviet Union and the Puppet Manchukuo defaulted to the HLJ center as the boundary, and the double and reverse sides each occupied half of the waterway, and their respective ships were usually within their own waterway range.

Occasionally crossing the border, as long as it is not a provocative act, both sides will turn a blind eye, but now the two families are hostile to each other.

Once you encounter a patrol ship, if you are strict, there must be trouble.

Hope not to encounter the best.

Their ships are mainly black, which is naturally very conspicuous during the day, but at night, it is the best protective color.

The waterway from the north bank to the near south bank took at least half an hour to walk. It didn't go straight, but went up obliquely.

The boat breathed a sigh of relief when it crossed the middle of the river, and then headed west along the south bank.

Not too fast.

As long as the direction is correct, you will not go wrong.

"Krasnov, do we have enough diesel?" Zhou Sen came to the cockpit and asked Kraslov.

"I prepared twice the amount of the distance we set, and it should be enough." Krasnov said.

"Okay, you've worked hard tonight."

"Steven, go and rest, I'll keep an eye on it here, I promise it's okay." Krasnov said.

"It's okay, I slept in this afternoon, and I can't sleep right now." Zhou Sen chuckled and stared at the river condescendingly.

"Rudolph, do you know what it means to follow us?" Zhou Sen asked Rudolph who was at the helm.

"In the past, I used to call the shots on the pier, but since the downfall of Director Feorov, my arm has not been as good as before. There is no place for me on the pier. How can I live if I don't find another way out?" Rudolph said .

"You can also go to other places, you don't have to follow us?" Zhou Ran said indifferently.

"Doctor Steven, you seem to be a man of real ability. It must be right to follow you." Rudolph said.

"You know what I do, so you want to follow me, aren't you afraid of losing your life?" Zhou Sen asked back.

"You are a doctor and can treat diseases. How can I lose my life if I follow you!" Rudolph said quickly, obviously feeling a little nervous at the moment.

"What you said is that doctors are not omnipotent, but your life is your own, as long as you don't regret it when the time comes." Zhou Sen said with a chuckle.

"Don't worry, I don't regret it!" Rudolph said without hesitation.

"It's fine if you don't regret it. I can remove one of your arms in the police station, and I can send you to hell without a sound. As long as you are loyal and practical, I will definitely not treat you badly." Zhou Sen said slowly .

Rudolph was shocked immediately, and quickly nodded and promised that he would not "betray".

During the journey, Rudolph showed great energy. From the middle of the night until dawn, the boat sailed smoothly without any trouble.

Then it turned into the waterway between Yinlong Island and Heixiazi Island.

It's basically safe here, but you can't take it lightly, so you have to be careful, after all, they are a strange ship.

Once you encounter the Jiang Shangjun of the puppet Manchukuo here, you will inevitably have trouble.

They have Ando Shenghou on board, so there is nothing to be afraid of, so as long as they don't meet a fool.

There is a saying that what you worry about comes.

An inland river patrol motorboat sailed towards him. The five-color flag of the puppet Manchuria was flying on the boat. It should be the patrol boat of the Jiangshang Army.

There were more than a dozen people on the gunboat, wearing black navy uniforms (similar to the Japanese navy), and their boat was called out and stopped.

The first lieutenant boarded the ship.

"Who are you, where is the ship?"

"We are businessmen from Khabarovsk, and we came to Fuyuan to do business." Zhou Sen hurriedly explained.

"Are you smuggling in?" The second lieutenant sneered.

"Second Lieutenant, you'd better not accuse us of such a crime at will, otherwise you won't be able to afford it." Zhou Sen said coldly in Japanese directly.

That was a bit of a surprise. He patrolled this waterway and had never encountered such a situation, but this was the frontier, and any strange things were not unusual.

"Your Excellency is..."

"Asano troops." Zhou Sen whispered.

The second lieutenant stared at Lao Yuan immediately, obviously he had heard of the name "Asano Troop". The Asano Troop was a special troop composed of White Russians, and often sneaked out of the country in small groups to carry out intelligence activities.

There are Russians on this boat, are they really members of Asano's army?

"If the second lieutenant doesn't believe it, you can take us to Fuyuan, where someone will prove our identities." Zhou Sen also knows the reason why strong dragons don't overwhelm local snakes, there is no need to conflict with these people, even if we can be found later , the bitterness has already been eaten.

"Okay, then your boat will follow behind us." The second lieutenant thought for a while, and nodded in agreement. Zhou Sen's boat is not as fast as his motorboat, and there are not as many people as him, so what are you afraid of?
Therefore, Zhou Sen asked Rudolph and Krasnov to follow the patrol boat and head towards Fuyuan County.

Fuyuan County.

In a restaurant in the city.

Ono and the head of the JMS branch, Major Sato, have already been waiting. According to the time calculation, if everything goes well, they should be here.

But from morning to noon, there was no news at all, if it weren't for the inability to spread the news wantonly.

He really wanted to send a boat to meet and search for it along the way, but this would inevitably arouse the vigilance of the other side.

"Mr. Ono, you are too worried. It's only noon. Even if they can get ashore safely, it will take at least seventy or eighty miles to come here. If you go on foot, there is not enough time in a day." Sato Shaozuo Haha laughed.

"Ms. Shibuya told me that I must let me bring them back to Ice City safely. I dare not slack off in the slightest." Ono said.

"Mr. Ono, let me ask a question, are we planning to withdraw people from the opposite side?" Sato Shaozuo asked, "Or did we reach an agreement with Soviet Russia secretly?"

"Satou-kun, it's about the secrets of the Kwantung Army. Don't inquire about it. It's up to you to know, so I won't let you know." Ono cut back directly.

"I'm just curious, is this going to stop for a while." Sato Shaozuo said.

"The crusade will continue. According to relevant information, the anti-Japanese team has signs of moving on the border of Manchuria and the Soviet Union. If these people are allowed to retreat there, it will still be a disaster in the future!" Ono reminded, although his position is not Tall, but he is from Saburo Shibuya.

"That's, that's..."

"report!"

"Come in."

"Officer Sato, a patrol boat of Jiang Shangjun went up today and found a suspicious Soviet merchant ship in the east waterway of Yinlong Island..." A Japanese agent came in.

"It must be them!" Hearing this, Ono stood up from his seat in an instant and said excitedly.

"Ono-kun, are you sure?" Sato asked in surprise.

"Among the people on board, there is a Manchurian, young, thin, and slightly taller than me..." Ono asked excitedly, gesturing to the agent who came to report.

"I, I haven't seen it..." The agent was stupid and could only answer like this.

"Satou-kun, please take me there, as long as you go and see it, you will recognize it." Ono said impatiently.

"Well, where is that boat?"

"Jiang Shangjun's supply pier..."

Although they already believed what Zhou Sen and others said, there were still women and children among them, so Jiang Shangjun did not dare to let them go easily.

While detaining the ship and people, he reported the situation to his superiors.

But Jiang Shangjun and the secret service are not in the same system. Before Jiang Shangjun responded, Major Sato from the JMS spy agency had already brought Ono and others over first.

As soon as Ono saw Zhou Sen, he excitedly came over and gave him a warm hug, which made Zhou Sen quite embarrassed.

His relationship with Ono can only be described as average.

"Ono-kun, I'm so happy to see you!" Zhou Sen responded with a bright smile on his face.

Then Ono also shook hands with Anna, especially Ando Morihou, and Ono bowed very respectfully.

This basically confirmed Zhou Sen's guess. This Ando Morihou must be a child of the royal family, maybe his status is not low.

Along the way, he had a good chat with Ando Morihou, except that he didn't tell himself the identity of the royal family, he talked about everything else.

This guy was also suffocated in the prisoner-of-war camp. He couldn't find anyone to chat with openly. In addition to the physical and psychological torture, he was almost depressed.

If he hadn't been rescued, if he stayed in the prisoner-of-war camp, he might really suffer from depression.

Being captured was a major stain on his military career. If he was exchanged as a captive again, it would be a disgrace, a disgrace to the royal family.

So, he is dead, but now it is different, he is rescued, and the identity of the prisoner of war will not be made public.

As long as the news is kept within a certain range, no one will know, the royal family's face will be saved, and he will not have to die.

Zhou Sen guessed it, but he wouldn't ask, pretending he didn't know it, knowing it might not be a good thing, so he deliberately reminded Anna not to make trouble for himself.

For the sake of the royal family's reputation, it is not impossible for the Japanese to kill people and silence them.

As long as he pretends not to know, nothing will happen, at least if he wants to silence him, Saburo Shibuya will bear the brunt of it.

(End of this chapter)