Raindrops pattered on the eaves, the ground, and the windshield of the vehicle.
Li Hao sat silently in the driver's seat. He was always vigilant. His left hand seemed to be on the steering wheel, and within reach of his right hand was a Browning shotgun.
Cheng Qianfan sat quietly in the back seat, looking through the windshield at the wet, dark and long rainy night.
The vehicle stopped at the entrance of the alley.
This is a relatively hidden alley entrance, but the location is wonderful and the view is very good.
The rain is getting heavier.
Two car lights penetrated the rain and fog.
When the vehicle passed the street entrance, it was traveling very fast and splashed some muddy water.
"Brother Fan." Li Hao turned his head and looked at the back seat.
"Is it this car?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"It's hard to be sure." Li Hao frowned and shook his head, "Originally, the car happened to pass under that street light and I could see it more clearly. Unexpectedly, it suddenly started raining heavily."
As he said this, he thought deeply, "I can only say that it is very similar."
While Cheng Qianfan was having a drink with Araki Harima and Koike, Li Hao was waiting in the yard, and he would secretly observe the situation in the yard.
Just now, as soon as Cheng Qianfan came back, Li Hao reported a situation:
There was a black car in the yard with a license plate I had never seen before.
Cheng Qianfan speculated that the car belonged to the mysterious man in Araki Harima's office.
"Brother Fan, do you want to follow?" Li Hao asked.
"No need." Cheng Qianfan shook his head.
For him, there is actually a potential safety hazard at the moment. To put it more seriously, it can even be described as a crisis.
Because he can't figure out why Sanbonjiro secretly eavesdropped.
Cheng Qianfan's mind was running rapidly like a machine.
In this situation, he knew that his most rational and correct approach was to focus on stability and not act blindly.
You never know if there is a pair of eyes peeking in the dark!
"Check that license plate number." Cheng Qianfan thought for a moment and said.
"yes."
"I'm back," Cheng Qianfan said.
"yes."
…
It rained heavily that day and lasted all night.
When Cheng Qianfan arrived at the patrol room the next day, he came to see Lao Huang for a throat ointment. Lao Huang also told him that many places had been flooded, and that the gangsters had taken advantage of last night's heavy rain to break into houses and rob them.
"The one who was robbed was Pang Laoyou from Nanshi." Lao Huang said.
Cheng Qianfan knew about Pang Laoyou. He opened a cloth shop in Nanshi and the business was pretty good. The Japanese occupied the Chinese border, and Pang Laoyou and his family fled into the French Concession.
There are many families like Pang Lao who took refuge in the French Concession.
"Pang Laoyou was beaten half to death, his wife was snatched away, and the girl was almost raped," Lao Huang said.
"Lawless." Cheng Qianfan cursed.
When the deputy chief inspector of the patrol room of the Central District of the French Concession cursed these words, he had a smile on his face. It was obvious that he did not take the tragic experience of Pang Laoyou's family seriously at all.
Lao Huang glanced at Cheng Qianfan, lowered his voice and said, "If I hadn't known, I would have been itching to hate you just by looking at you."
"I know." Cheng Qianfan nodded, "I also know that many comrades have always wanted to kill me."
His expression became serious, "During this period of time, I will temporarily enter a state of silence. Unless there is an urgent matter, I will not take any action."
"What happened?" Lao Huang frowned and asked.
"It's hard to say yet." Cheng Qianfan took the cigarette handed over by Lao Huang, "It's over there in the extra-high school class. I noticed someone was secretly eavesdropping on my conversation with Araki."
"Is it Sanbonjiro?"
"Maybe." Cheng Qianfan nodded. He lit the cigarette and took a puff, with a satisfied expression on his face. "A lot of things happened during this period. I was originally worried that it would attract the enemy's prying eyes. I will take advantage of the situation to be stable."
A few would be nice too.”
"Okay." Lao Huang nodded.
He understood the meaning of Comrade Huo Miao's greeting. When Comrade Huo Miao was temporarily 'unable to take charge of the work' for some reason, the work of the special party branch in the French Concession was temporarily in charge of the deputy secretary, Comrade Qin Qin.
…
Cheng Qianfan decided to enter a state of ‘silence’.
He didn't just let go of organizational work temporarily.
At the same time, he also strictly ordered the Shanghai special situation team to enter a state of temporary silence.
It's silence, not silence.
Silence means that you will not take any active actions for the time being, reducing unnecessary contact between outings and various units.
Silence means that on the basis of silence, each group will also cut off contact before, with the preservation of personnel as the first priority.
In his free time, Cheng Qianfan is busy with four things.
First, make money, the war in Europa is raging, and the most direct benefit to Cheng Qianfan's black market business is that he immediately ordered a significant price increase for all materials from Europa!
Secondly, 'Mr. Xiao Cheng' was busy dealing with his wife Bai Ruolan and his two mistresses Ying Huaizhen and Zhang Ping, and was extremely happy.
Third, the conflict between 'Jiujiu Trading' and the New Asia Peace Promotion Association intensified, and the two sides had several bloody clashes, and at one point shots were fired.
Fourth, Cheng Qianfan's hobby is to "talk on paper" with Peter, always paying attention to the war in Poland.
Britain and France formally declared war on Germany.
According to normal logic, since war has been declared, Britain and France should naturally send troops to fight the Germans.
Moreover, the main force of the German army was on the Eastern Front at this time, which was extremely beneficial to Britain and France in terms of military strength on both sides.
Cheng Qianfan and Peter were able to roughly grasp the current situation based on news in newspapers and telegrams with mainland France.
The German army indeed deployed an army group on the German-French border to prevent Britain and France from taking the opportunity to send troops.
There should be roughly thirty divisions in this force, but only ten of them may be active divisions, and there does not seem to be armored units or motorized units.
On the opposite side, the British and French allied forces had more than a hundred divisions, occupying the absolute initiative in terms of strength.
It can be said that once Britain and France launched an attack, the German army could only mobilize its main force on the Eastern Front, which would directly affect the war on the Eastern Front.
Pitt even learned to use the idiom "encircle Wei and rescue Zhao" to describe this military situation choice.
In addition, if the British and French troops cross the Rhine River and attack Germany's Ruhr area while the German army is attacking Poland, it will undoubtedly be a drain on Germany, because the Ruhr area is Germany's industrial center.
Moreover, the French newspapers published news on the 5th that Poland once again made an urgent request for help from France and asked General Gamelin to keep his promise.
This was in August. Gamelin swore to the Poles that if Germany dared to invade Poland, France would definitely send up to fifty divisions to assist Poland. The French army would move west along the Polish Corridor,
German Cut'.
However, in the face of the Polish people's hoarse calls for help, the French military remained silent.
Even after Britain and France declared war on Germany, they still stood still, which greatly damaged the morale of the Polish side.
Polish Commander-in-Chief Leeds has ordered that all troops be withdrawn to the east of the Vistula River to build a new line of defense.
In addition, the Polish government fled Warsaw in panic and headed for Lublin.
A German newspaper described it this way, "From a military point of view, the war is over, and all that remains is to hunt a rabbit."
…
Faced with huge pressure from international public opinion.
Britain and France finally took action.
On the 7th, British and French ground forces launched a probing attack against the German army.
Newspapers immediately reported wildly, saying that the British and French allied forces had achieved a victory over the German army.
"What's going on? Didn't it mean that a small victory dampened the German army's arrogance?" Cheng Qianfan smoked a cigar and teased Peter, who looked unhappy.
Peter glared at Cheng Qianfan, which meant that you had also read the telegram and knew the truth, so you should stop making such sarcastic remarks.
Unlike many French people in the French Concession who cheered for the small victory achieved by the British and French forces, Cheng Qianfan and Pitt, a team of non-staff war observers, knew the inside story:
The British and French forces did have an attack on the Western Front, but this attack was very funny. After the Germans fired back, the British and French forces withdrew, and the two sides faced off again.
The ‘war situation’ on the German-French border was understood by the German side.
The Germans understood that the British and French allied forces had no real plans to engage in a large-scale war with the German army. Therefore, the German army on the eastern front suddenly began to speed up its raids in Poland.
On the same day, Rundstedt's Army Group South severely damaged the two Polish armies "Cracow" and "Lodz" and occupied Poland's second largest city Krakow and the industrial center Lodz.
Subsequently, the German armored forces approached the southern suburbs of Warsaw and cut off the Poznan Army Group's retreat.
The German Army Group North completely annihilated the Pomeranian Army, severely damaged the Modlin Army, and occupied the Polish Corridor.
A senior general of the German armored army named Guderian led the 19th German Armored Corps under his command to quickly advance to the line of the North Sva River and advance wildly across the land of Poland. After completing the encirclement of the Pomeranian Army, they again
He led his army from East Prussia and went south to outflank the Polish army's retreat.
While the German troops were sweeping across fallen leaves on the Eastern Front, the British and French allied forces on the Western Front finally could no longer sit still.
They successfully advanced as much as eight kilometers into the German defense lines in five days.
However, the Polish side angrily complained, saying that the British and French sides were engaged in a passive war, and that the British and French allied forces would even deliberately leave time for the German troops to retreat when attacking.
"Poland will not be able to hold on any longer." Peter looked at the map and shook his head.
On that day, the Europa war report came. Guderian's 19th Armored Corps, which had made such a splash on the Polish battlefield, had surrounded Brest, east of Warsaw, and was about to complete the final encirclement of the Polish army with Army Group South.
"I heard that the coalition bombed the German defense area yesterday." Cheng Qianfan said casually, shaking a red wine glass in his hand.
After hearing this, Peter seemed to have been greatly humiliated, his face turned red, and he snorted coldly.
After successfully advancing eight kilometers in five days, the British and French forces stood still again.
To be precise, they strategically gave up the eight-kilometer victory and withdrew to the Maginot Line.
Currently, hundreds of thousands of British and French troops are quietly hiding in the concrete piers of the Maginot Line.
The daily task was to throw several "paper bombs" containing stacks of leaflets promoting peace at the German positions opposite.
This incident was exposed by a troubled American reporter, and there was an uproar for a while.
"Are you deliberately making me angry again?" Peter was angry.
"My friend, you have to understand that whether it is a personal friendship or a business standpoint, I am firmly on the side of the powerful France." Cheng Qianfan said seriously, "I feel the same as you, but I am a little aggrieved.
, I feel unable to understand the current situation.”
After hearing what Cheng Qianfan said, Peter sighed and smiled bitterly, "I can't even understand it."
Because he had a better understanding of the current situation of the French army, Peter was mentally prepared for the fact that the war between the British and French forces against Germany would be difficult in the initial stage. However, he never expected that France and Britain would declare war on Germany, and it would turn out like this.
War situation:
Declare but not fight.
…
Return to your office.
Cheng Qianfan opened the window and held a showerhead in his hand to water the flowers.
At this moment, his eyes caught sight of the car on the road opposite the patrol house yard.
A strange color flashed in his eyes.
Cheng Qianfan raised his hand and glanced at the sun. It seemed that because of the glare of the sun, he closed the window.
The frosted glass window was not completely closed, leaving a gap.
Cheng Qianfan's expression was solemn. Just now, he caught a bright color, and this bright color came from the car.
This is the reflection of the telescope.
In other words, someone in the car was observing him with binoculars.
A smile appeared on Cheng Qianfan's lips. He did not hesitate and did whatever he decided to do.
Then, Cheng Qianfan quickly took out the telescope from the drawer, closed the curtains, and hid behind the curtains to observe with the telescope.
That's right.
The license plate of the car across the road was the same license plate of the strange car that Li Hao saw in the yard of the Special High School that day.
It was also the vehicle that Cheng Qianfan suspected was used by the mysterious man who was hiding in the lounge in Araki Harima's office at that time.
What was this car doing outside the patrol house?
Cheng Qianfan was secretly wary.
…
Inside the car.
"Kentaro Miyazaki discovered us." Toshihiko Okada lifted the car curtain, glanced at the building of the Central Patrol Room, and said with a slight smile.
"Your Excellency," Umezu Sagami, who was sitting next to him, said, "Isn't it just to attract Cheng Qianfan's attention that you ordered the car to stay here for a long time?"
"Yes." Toshihiko Okada nodded slightly, "The response was quite quick and I was not disappointed."
However, then, Toshihiko Okada shook his head and said, "Just cover the window and use the gap in the window to observe."
He pointed to the window of Deputy Chief Inspector Cheng's office on the second floor of the Central Patrol Building, "With the curtains drawn, it's a bit of a cover-up, but it will arouse alertness and suspicion."
"Miyazaki is just an ordinary agent after all. Naturally, he cannot compare with you." Umezu Sagami complimented.
After saying this, Sanami Umetsuzumi showed a hint of hesitation.
"Sajo-kun, if you have something to say, it doesn't hurt to say it." Okada Toshihiko said.
"Hai." Umezu Sagami said, pointing to the office building of the patrol room, "You want to verify the relationship between Miyazaki and Section Chief Sanbon..."
"No, no, no, I'm not interested in those things, and Sanbon-kun is my good friend." Okada Toshihiko shook his head, "I just fell in love with the talent of Miyazaki Kentaro."
After learning more about 'Cheng Qianfan' from Sanami Umezu's residence here, and learning more about the background of Cheng Qianfan, the orphan of the Kuomintang martyr, through other channels in the past few days, he was determined to second Miyazaki.
Kentaro's determination.
For this trip to Nanjing, Cheng Qianfan, impersonated by Kentaro Miyazaki, is simply the most suitable talent tailor-made for this mission.
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