Hearing Zheng Lijun's words, Lu Xingge was obviously stunned for a moment. After about a few seconds, he shook his head and smiled.
It was a bitter smile filled with anger.
He just looked at Zheng Lijun.
He seemed unable to believe that this was what an acting webmaster should say!
Zheng Lijun is a very capable person. Lu Xingge has never doubted this. As the ace agent of the Military Command Bureau, Zheng Lijun is an operational master and an extraordinary operational commander.
Zheng Lijun is not Lao Hutu, so it is impossible not to know whether his analysis is reasonable or not.
However, the key is that Lu Fei is Zheng Lijun's confidant, and he, Lu Xingge, is not.
This is the essential reason.
Lu Fei is a close confidant, so Zheng Lijun can forgive and tolerate Lu Fei's mistakes, even in Zheng Lijun's opinion, Lu Fei's behavior is not worth mentioning at all.
Lu Xingge was not his confidant, and Lu Fei had complained about Lu Xingge to Zheng Lijun many times before. Therefore, although everything Lu Xingge said was reasonable, in Zheng Lijun's eyes, Lu Xingge was "unreasonably making trouble".
', or even 'slandering colleagues'.
Lu Xingge's gaze made Zheng Lijun even more annoyed, which made him feel offended.
"Team Leader Lu, please pay attention to your attitude. Who are you glaring at?" Zheng Lijun cursed angrily, "I have no superior!"
In the corridor outside the room, Cheng Xuyuan was sitting on a bench. He crossed his legs and took a puff of cigarette.
There was a smile on his lips.
Looking down at his watch, Cheng Xuyuan decided to wait a few minutes before going in yet.
During the meeting just now, he saw Lu Xingge shut up under Zheng Lijun's gaze, and he guessed that Lu Xingge would not give up, and this person would definitely seek advice from Zheng Lijun in private.
Cheng Xuyuan understood Lu Xingge's character relatively well. He was a person who would not bow his head and would rather bend than bend. This kind of person only sees right and wrong and does not think too much.
As expected, Lu Xingge did not go to Hongyun Tower with the others, but secretly asked to see Zheng Lijun.
Hearing the quarrel coming from the room, Cheng Xuyuan felt quite secretive in his heart.
Lu Xingge's move was to contradict and offend Shangguan. After this incident, the relationship between Zheng Lijun and Lu Xingge would only get worse. This was his opportunity for Cheng Xuyuan:
Cheng Xuyuan knew that his biggest shortcoming was that he had no "military power" and no one under his command.
If we can take the opportunity to win over Lu Xinge, one of Shanghai Station's top action experts, then his voice within Shanghai Station will be enhanced. Even the position of station chief seems to be up for grabs.
After all, Zheng Lijun is still just the ‘acting webmaster’.
Cheng Xuyuan checked the time on his watch again. It was almost time, so he decided to push the door open and go in to 'break up the fight'.
At this moment, he saw A Yuan enter the door, took two steps towards this side, and suddenly started to run away after he was far away from the door.
"What are you doing? You're in a hurry!" Cheng Xuyuan scolded, "What a shame!"
"Secretary Cheng!" A Yuan stopped, quickly saluted, and then looked around, "Secretary Cheng, have you seen my team leader?"
At this time, I heard the sound of banging on the table coming from the house inside.
…
There was a crash.
The door opened.
Zheng Lijun walked out angrily.
"Webmaster!" A Yuan quickly saluted.
"Hmph!" Zheng Lijun glanced at A Yuan and knew that this was Lu Xingge's subordinate. He snorted, but did not leave directly. Instead, he went straight to his lounge. On this hot day, scolding and swearing were out of the question.
Sweating all over, he wanted to wash his face and comb his hair again.
A Yuan scratched his head and looked at the stationmaster who left angrily. Then he saw Lu Xingge, who came out of the room with a sullen face and said nothing.
"Team leader." A Yuan hurried over.
"Have you eaten yet?" Lu Xinge asked, "Not enough money?"
As he said that, he took it out of his pocket.
Lu Xingge has always been considerate of his subordinates. "Little minions" like A Yuan were not qualified to attend the celebration banquet at Hongyun Tower, so Lu Xingge paid for his subordinates to eat and drink.
"Team leader." A Yuan covered his hands and whispered in Lu Xingo's ear.
"Seriously?" Lu Xingge's face changed drastically and he asked.
"What Boss Yang said is correct," A Yuan said.
Boss Yang is the owner of the grocery store. Because he likes to brag about the mutton soup in his hometown, the neighbors call him Boss Yang. Naturally, the staff at the Shanghai Station follow the local customs.
"Team Leader Lu, what happened?" Cheng Xuyuan came over and asked.
"Secretary Cheng, A Yuan reported that there are Japanese nearby." Lu Xingge said.
"What?" Cheng Xuyuan's expression also changed, but he quickly calmed down, "Are they Japanese citizens passing by here or Japanese ronin?"
"This man went to Boss Yang to buy cigarettes. Boss Yang noticed that this man was using Japanese army matches." Lu Xingge said with a serious and eager expression.
Cheng Xuyuan's expression was solemn, and he understood why Lu Xingge's expression was so serious and urgent.
"Civil clothes?" he asked immediately.
"In casual clothes, with a camera hanging around my neck, I pretended to be a photographer or a tourist," Lu Xinge said.
"Not good." Cheng Xuyuan gritted his teeth.
There are generally two types of people who use Japanese Army military matches: Japanese soldiers or Japanese agents.
Japanese soldiers rarely came to the French Concession in plain clothes, because once the French Concession authorities discovered that active Japanese soldiers were coming to the Concession, it would cause quite a diplomatic dispute.
So, initially it is ruled out that he is a Japanese soldier, and the most likely possibility is that this person is a Japanese agent.
Of course, it is also possible that this person does not have a special identity, but is just a member of the Japanese military, or even an ordinary Japanese who obtained such military matches through some channels.
However, a person suspected of being a Japanese agent suddenly came near the secret stronghold, and this person also went to Boss Yang's grocery store to buy cigarettes. It was more like going for reconnaissance. This in itself was a dangerous signal.
"I'm going to see the stationmaster." Cheng Xuyuan said decisively, "Team Leader Lu, lead your subordinates to secretly monitor and see if there are any suspicious people around."
"Understood." Lu Xinge nodded.
"Be careful and don't alert the enemy." Cheng Xuyuan warned again and again.
If they are really targeted by the Japanese, it will be a big trouble. Among other things, the Hongyun Building next door contains the entire middle and high-level backbone of Shanghai Station!
"Don't worry." Lu Xingge showed a confident look, "The Japanese are so capable, huh!!"
Lu Xinge returned to his room first, took out his Mauser pistol, checked the gun and ammunition, then took a briefcase, put the Mauser pistol into the briefcase, and stuffed a German imitation of the National Army into it. grenade, then picked up the briefcase and walked out leisurely.
Although Cheng Xuyuan only asked him to come out to check, Lu Xingge had an intuition that they had been targeted by the Japanese!
He even highly suspected that the Japanese had deployed heavy troops nearby, preparing to encircle and suppress them.
"Lu Fei, you bastard!" Lu Xingge cursed in his heart through gritted teeth. Although there was no evidence, Lu Xingge was 70% sure that this matter had something to do with Lu Fei. Maybe this bastard had already defected to the Japanese. .
"Team leader." A Yuan said.
"Inform the brothers and prepare for battle." Lu Xinge said coldly.
…
"Send a signal to notify the brothers and be ready for battle at any time!" Cheng Qianfan put down the telescope and said with an extremely serious expression.
"Yes!" Hao Zai nodded. He turned and walked into the bedroom, picked up the phone on the bedside table, drew a number, and asked for a number.
After the phone rang three times, someone answered.
"It's going to rain, get ready to collect your clothes," Hao Zai said.
"I know."
After hanging up the phone, Hao Zai returned to the window, "Team leader, do you think Shanghai Station is going to take action?"
"To be precise, it's a breakout!" Cheng Qianfan said in a deep voice. He handed the binoculars to Hao Zai, "at six o'clock, near the locust tree."
Hao Zai took the telescope, set it up with both hands, and looked in the direction indicated by the team leader.
"These—" Hao Zai looked carefully, and suddenly his expression changed.
"See clearly?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"This is a team of Japanese soldiers!" Hao Zai exclaimed, turning to look at the team leader.
There is a small flower bed under the locust tree that is not easily visible to the outside world. There are more than a dozen people hiding in the flower bed. At this moment, these more than a dozen people are eating. You can see through the telescope that what they are eating is:
Rice balls and canned food!
This is the French Concession. Even if the agents of the Extraordinary High School came to the French Concession to conduct secret activities, they would either eat in restaurants or bring dry food to eat. The dry food was mostly Chinese food such as meat buns, sesame cakes, and fried cakes.
Only regular combat troops of the Japanese army would carry it with them and use rice balls and canned food as food!
"This is the military police class of the United Special High School." Cheng Qianfan said.
Last year, the secret service's internal development within the Japanese was exposed. This incident aroused the alarm of the Japanese Army Military Police, which made a special application to the Ministry of Internal Affairs:
In view of the fact that the military police are not familiar with tracking, investigation and other tasks, it is required to dispatch professional police from the special high school to serve as consultants and form a "joint special high school" with the military police.
This so-called "Joint Special High School Course" is a joint organization that not only has the original functions of the Special High School Course, but also cooperates with the Japanese military police agencies to monitor the Japanese internally and examine "treasonous" elements.
Obviously, the Shanghai Special High School attaches great importance to this opportunity to wipe out all Shanghai stations of the General Bureau. Not only did they send out a large number of Special High School agents, they even sent out the gendarmerie squad of the 'Joint Special High School' that was not easily used.
.
These people in plain clothes, eating rice balls and canned food, were elite Japanese military police soldiers disguised as civilians.
"This is the French Concession, how dare the Japanese?" Hao Zai said angrily.
"Both the French and the British are just holding on to the current Greater Shanghai." Cheng Qianfan shook his head, "Whatever happens, it will be the French instead. The British are afraid that the Japanese will tear them apart."
These Japanese military policemen sneaked into the French Concession wearing civilian clothes. This was the face the Japanese side gave to the French Concession authorities, and that was all the face the French had.
…
"Where's Manager Han?" Qiao Chuntao put down the phone and turned around to ask.
‘Manager Han’ is Wu Shunjia’s pseudonym within the Shanghai special situation team.
"That." A subordinate pointed to the distance.
Qiao Chuntao looked in the direction pointed by her men and saw several people fishing under a small bridge in the distance.
He didn't see Wu Shunjia, so he just stared.
After about two minutes, I saw a fisherman taking off the straw hat from his head, fanning it three times, then placing the straw hat on the ground, then fanning it again, putting it on the ground again, and then put the straw hat on the ground.
He put it on his head and scratched his neck.
This is the signal that everything is ready.
"Great!" Qiao Chuntao shouted in her heart.
…
"Notify everyone immediately and evacuate immediately!" After hearing Cheng Xuyuan's report, Zheng Lijun's face changed drastically, his teeth gritted and he said suddenly.
"No more investigation?" Cheng Xuyuan asked, "I just ordered Lu Xingge to investigate..."
"Evacuate immediately!" Zheng Lijun waved his hand.
At this moment, without any personal emotional tendencies, his mind was extremely clear and he acted very decisively:
No matter what the reason is, the appearance of suspected Japanese special forces in the surrounding area is an extremely dangerous sign and you cannot stay here.
"What I'm worried about now is that we have been secretly surrounded by the Japanese." Zheng Lijun said again with an extremely serious expression.
"Is the situation so bad?" Cheng Xuyuan took a deep breath and asked.
"It's useless to talk anymore, evacuate immediately!" Zheng Lijun said.
"Okay, I'll give the order right now," Cheng Xuyuan said.
"Secretary Cheng, there is something you need to do immediately." Zheng Lijun said.
"Stationmaster, please give me your instructions."
"Go to Hongyun Building now and notify everyone to evacuate." Zheng Lijun said.
Cheng Xuyuan's heart skipped a beat, and his face didn't look too good. "Webmaster, there is a phone number in Hongyun Building. We can just call him."
He highly suspected that Zheng Lijun took the opportunity to kill him.
"You can't make a phone call." Zheng Lijun shook his head, "There is no leader over there, and if we suddenly learn that we may be surrounded by the Japanese, there will be chaos."
He knew his subordinates very well. If he led them to carry out sneak attacks, assassinations, or even directly attack Japanese positions, most of these subordinates would be good and would follow him.
However, without him present, if these men suddenly learned that they might be surrounded by the Japanese, they would definitely fall into chaos.
Cheng Xuyuan didn't speak. Although what Zheng Lijun said seemed to make sense, he felt uneasy:
It makes sense, and even this kind of "reason" deserves more vigilance, because Zheng Lijun can get rid of him with the hands of the Japanese in an aboveboard way!
"I was supposed to go, but I couldn't go in person. If there were really Japanese surveillance and ambush, it is conceivable that the Japanese's main target is me. If I go, the Japanese will most likely start an arrest operation immediately."
Zheng Lijun looked at Cheng Xuyuan's face as he spoke. He naturally guessed what the other party was thinking. He sneered in his heart. He had indeed wanted to get rid of Cheng Xuyuan for a long time, but not now.
If the middle and high-level backbone of Shanghai Station were taken over by the Japanese, Boss Dai Chunfeng and Zheng Lijun would be the first to let him go. Therefore, he sincerely did not want anything to happen to Cheng Xuyuan this time.
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