On the third day of the Helangyabo incident, a report was delivered to Lin Youde's desk.
The report described in detail the results of the survey of the torpedo warehouse site, but Lin Youde was not interested in how many explosives the attackers might have used. His attention was entirely attracted by the last part of the report.
This part records some unsupported conjectures or intuitions of those who participated in the survey. One of them reads: In order to facilitate the transportation of torpedoes, there is a small harbor in the warehouse area. The harbor was severely damaged, but the harbor and the warehouse itself are not.
At a certain distance, among the many facilities at the same distance from the warehouse, why was only this harbor burned down? I thought this was the attacker's attempt to conceal it, and something must have happened in this harbor that night.
Lin Youde's eyes stayed on the name of the person who proposed the guess "Qiu Jingxiong" for two seconds, then he raised his head and asked Du Qifeng: "How many foreign warships are there in the harbor?"
"Since the port was closed the day before yesterday, a total of five foreign warships have been forced to stay in the port. So far, no one has asked us to leave the port."
"Notify them that we are going to board the ship for inspection... No, don't notify them directly. On the French side, Josephine will come forward, and on the American side, I will tell them personally. All these actions are kept secret from the British."
**
As soon as Sheffield boarded the liaison ship where Lin Youde was, he immediately put on his best air, held his chin high and refused to be polite to Lin Youde, and asked: "Mr. Lin, what's going on?"
Lin Youde looked around, grinned at Sheffield, and replied: "In order to prevent people with ulterior motives from framing Lin Ji's foreign friends, and to avoid being diverted by the pro-Japanese faction within Lin Ji, we have decided to conduct temporary inspections of foreign warships in the harbor.
Check. Mr. Sheffield, I am forced to have no choice. In the past two days, the small circle within Linji who is dissatisfied with my actions has raised its head."
Half of Lin Youde's words are true. Lin's store is big, and there are all kinds of elements inside. Although the majority of people worship Lin Youde and are ready to follow Lin Youde to save China, there are also a lot of opportunists and neutrals. This incident
As soon as it came out, those guys became restless. Yesterday, some students were encouraged to attack the Japanese community, which made Lin Youde quite passive.
After hearing what Lin Youde said, Sheffield was about to speak, but was overtaken by Lin Youde: "The United States and France have expressed their willingness to cooperate. Our people have boarded three armored cruisers belonging to the United States and France in the harbor. The visiting Germany
The naval cruiser expressed that it wanted to see Britain's attitude. Look at this... As an ally, can the British Empire cooperate? We suspect that the torpedo bank exploded last night was caused by German spies, so please be noble..."
Sheffield was at a loss for words. Originally, the old John Bull was going to come up and confront Lin Youde, and deliberately put on a high profile, but Lin Youde did it as soon as he came up. After struggling for a long time, the commander of the British Pacific Fleet finally reluctantly said
: "Then...then let you act like it."
"Thank you very much for your understanding and support, and pay tribute to Her Majesty the Queen."
After speaking, Lin Youde made a gesture to the major in black who was standing by.
The major seemed a little hesitant and whispered to Lin Youde in Chinese: "Principal, do you really want to do this?"
"Go ahead and pretend to be stupid if you can't find it. There aren't many places to hide torpedoes on this ship anyway. It won't take long to search them all."
The major nodded, waved his hand and shouted to his subordinates: "Brothers, let's go!"
So a group of heavily armed soldiers in black rushed onto the deck of the British armored cruiser along the gangplank.
"Mr. Lin, I'm not ready to receive your inspection personnel yet..." Sheffield wanted to stop but was a step too late...
Lin Youde was still pretending to be stupid: "Anyway, it's just a show for the Germans, so there's no need to go to so much trouble."
"But this number of people..."
"Since you're doing it, you have to look more like it, right? The German cruiser is anchored at the other end of the inland sea anchorage. We don't have many people on board. They can't see it clearly through the telescope."
As he spoke, Lin Youde took out a fine Havana thick cigar from his arms and handed it to Sheffield: "Come on, Mr. Sheffield, a small gift would be disrespectful."
Lin Youde had already figured out the preferences of this Sheffielder - after all, he had been visiting for more than a week. It would be unreasonable for Lin Ji's public relations department not to understand the preferences of this Welshman with a high nose.
Sure enough, the expression on Cigar Sheffield's face became obviously relaxed, but at this moment, two gunshots were heard from the cabin of the Arrogance next to the liaison ship.
Sheffield's expression changed greatly, but before he could react, Lin Youde shouted: "What's going on? The saboteurs sabotaged a friendly warship? Go up and criticize it and see what's going on!"
After saying that, Lin Youde turned around and said to Sheffield: "Sorry, maybe some of our people have been mixed in. We will solve the matter. You don't have to worry."
If Sheffield couldn't tell that something was wrong at this point, then he really should secede himself from the British people, but just as he was about to turn around and leave, he was flanked by Josephine from behind.
"Lord Sheffield, I really liked the incense you gave me last time. I didn't know you..."
Before Josephine could finish her words, several soldiers in black over there came out of the hatch in the middle of the armored building of the Arrogance carrying two foreigners with embroidery on their bodies. Before Lin Youde could ask what was going on,
Suddenly, a group of black-clad soldiers shouted slogans and emerged from the same door carrying a torpedo with Lin Ji's logo on it.
"Mr. Sheffield," Lin Youde's expression changed with a swipe, and he said to the British in a triumphant tone, "Please tell Her Majesty the Queen that all of our Linji products are equipped with electronic transmitters.
It’s not that easy to steal.”
In fact, that's not the case at all. This operation is another adventure of Lin Youde. Once there is nothing on the ship, it will be a big loss internationally. However, the attack the day before yesterday has already made Lin Ji lose so much face. Lin Youde also
Just risk it all. If you lose the bet, the situation will not be worse. If you win the bet, you still have a chance to get your money back.
Now this opportunity is in Lin Youde's hands.
"Mr. Sheffield, now you have two choices. One is to voluntarily hand over the criminals you are harboring, or the other is to let us board the ship and arrest them according to the roster."
"I want to see the Minister." Sheffield said with suppressed anger.
When Lin Youde heard this, he nodded and turned around to give the order to the major: "Occupy the entire ship and start searching people according to the roster."
"No need to search." On the other side of the gangplank, on the deck of the Barbarian, someone said loudly in pure Chinese, "I came out on my own, and I am responsible for everyone's work. All gentlemen in the British Empire are good men."
Lin Youde thought to himself, when I go, the proverbs will come out, this is a China expert.
Then he raised his head and laughed: "Sir James? Hahahaha, I said this Japanese attack seems to have completely penetrated the inside of my base camp. It turns out that you are behind it."
After saying this, Lin Youde glanced at Josephine nonchalantly. His wife shook her head and sighed.
"Sir, I give you 100% trust and even invited you to attend a private tea party with my husband." Josephine looked at James, her tone full of regret, "But you responded in this way
We, this disappoints me so much.”
In order to strengthen ties with Britain, France and the United States, Lin Youde deliberately asked Josephine to find some trustworthy foreigners to attend his private tea parties and small salons inside the base camp. James was also one of them. He was a foreigner attending the meeting.
The only one among them who can discuss ancient Chinese poetry with Lin Youde. To be honest, Lin Youde really likes this British guy's British sense of humor...
Lin Youde stared at James for a few seconds, then shook his head and said, "Here comes someone."
"grown ups."
"Sir James's wife and sister should also be in Helang Yabo. Send people to arrest them immediately. Inform all the halls and post a notice. This evening, we will go to the new battle field at the south gate to ask for the culprit of this incident."
As soon as Lin Youde finished speaking, the faces of the staff around him changed, and James's face even turned deathly gray. The staff looked at each other, and no one wanted to come up with this idea to dissuade Lin Youde. In the end, all their eyes fell on Lin Youde, who was wearing a military uniform.
On Ba's body.
"Youde..." Ba came up and was about to say something, but Lin Youde waved his hand to stop her from talking.
"Sir James," Lin Youde looked at the British man, "since you took the initiative to stand up, I admire you for doing your own thing and taking responsibility for yourself. I won't hold your subordinates accountable, but you, the bandit leader, will definitely die today."
At this time, Sheffield finally figured out what was going on from the interpreter. The fleet commander took the first step and said to Lin Youde in a tough tone: "You cannot execute citizens of the British Empire! If you do this, I will bombard the Netherlands."
Langyabo!”
"It looks like I have to seize your Barbarian account."
"You! The British Empire will never give up!"
"Then we will fall over to Germany. What do you think the United States and France will think after we fall over? Who knows if Great Britain will use the same despicable tactics you used against us today on the United States and France?
?”
Sheffield's face was ashen, and his beautifully trimmed mustache was trembling constantly, complementing the beating veins on his forehead.
Lin Youde waited calmly for a while. Seeing that the fleet commander could no longer speak, he waved his hand and said, "Come here, take the fleet commander back to the ship to rest."
…
After seeing Sheffield off and watching the soldiers lock James into the storage compartment of the liaison ship, he pulled Lin Youde's sleeve.
"It's too messy. If I just kill him like this..."
"I just want to kill him," Lin Youde interrupted Ba. "When the queen reacts and gets a telegram asking me to release him, what should I do? A good chance to clear my reputation as a traitor is gone, and I still have to wait for it.
The crime is aggravated."
Ba was stunned for a while and then asked: "What are the two devils?"
Only then did Lin Youde realize that he had made a mistake and came up with words from another time and space.
He shook his head and passed away in silence.
**
On the evening of October 6, Lin Youde personally supervised the execution of the British spy James at the new battlefield outside the city of Heranggabo.
James' wife and sister were also arrested on the same day. Unlike the steadfast British gentlemen, the two women only experienced one electrocution before confessing the details of helping James conduct espionage activities. So that night, Lin Ji's armed forces
They all went out to search for those who had contact with James throughout the city. If Hua Yang was caught, he would be executed, and after he had confessed, he would be beheaded, and then continue to arrest according to the map.
In just one night, the new battleground turned into a gloomy and terrifying place, with corpses that had no time to deal with piled up next to the battleground. Because Lin Youde did not resort to shooting, but continued to behead people according to the traditional method, the ground in the battleground was covered with blood.
It flowed into a river, and the executioners had to wrap their feet with cloth to prevent slipping.
By the next day, most people could see that Mr. Lin was not here to catch collaborators. He was simply taking this opportunity to clean up the family. For a time, everyone outside the city of Helangyabo was in danger, as long as he said something bad about Lin Youde.
, everyone is in panic all day long.
Fortunately, Lin Youde soon felt that it was almost done and ordered the troops to withdraw their troops.