Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 285 Investigation Restart Part One
Shimura Matazo, Chief Police Officer of the Tokyo Prefecture, stood on the slope of Erlong Mountain and looked down.

It has been more than 20 days since the gold robbery happened, and there have been two heavy snowfalls here, all traces have been covered up.

However, Shimura Matazo, who had just arrived from Tokyo Prefecture, still wanted to take a look at the scene of the incident.

"It seems that only a few people can do it." Shimura Matazo muttered when he was young.

"There are indeed not many traces found at the scene, and it is not a large-scale anti-bandit crime." Counselor Okazuo Yoji of the Harbin Police Department said on the sidelines.

"The explosion caused the train to overturn and roll down the hillside. Dozens of people escorting the gold died in the process. Then the rebels smashed the windows of the train and entered the compartment, killed everyone else, and then carried the gold out. Then smashed open the truck compartment to forge mail, and the forged mail was from the Kwantung Army’s Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department! During the subsequent handling process, the people on the railway were very careful, and no one dared to check.” Okazuo Yoji continued.

"It should have been carefully prepared for a long time." Shimura nodded again and said.

"But at the beginning, people from the Gendarmerie Command and the Security Bureau suspected that the gold was transported from the river with sledges, because traces of sledges were found on the ice of the river." Yoji Okaza explained.

"It has been more than 20 days, and the gold should have been hidden somewhere for a long time. We have secretly monitored banks and the black market for a long time, and there has been no large-scale gold transaction." Yoji Okaza said.

"Get a pair of sledges, I'm going to walk the river again on the sledge!" Shimura Matazo said.

Then he walked down the hill.A large group of men in black police uniforms from Manchukuo followed.

After the explosion of the Xiaoyang Building, the investigation by the Gendarmerie Command and the Security Bureau was forced to terminate.

Now the investigative task of the gold robbery has been transferred to the Harbin Police Department.The person in charge of the investigation is Matazo Shimura, the police chief who came here from Tokyo.

"It's already ready!"

After walking down the hillside, Okazu Yoji pointed to a pair of sledges pulled by mules and said.

"Didn't it mean that the people who rob gold use people to pull the sledge? Unload the mule and replace it with a human!" Shimura said sharply again.

The people present hurriedly untied the mule, removed the rope, and two policemen stepped forward to pull up the sledge.

"One person is enough!" Shimura said again while sitting on the sledge.

There was no other way, and Yoji Okaza ordered only one policeman to move forward pulling the sledge.

After the sledge had traveled two or three miles on the ice, Sayoji Oka ordered it to stop.

"It was here that the anti-bandits ambushed a unit of military police with a [-]-type machine gun." Okaza Yoji said.

"Have all the people been killed by machine guns?" Shimura asked as he got off the sledge again.

"The machine gun is right here!" Yoji Okazuo said, pointing to the weeds by the river.

"Two or three people should not have been killed by machine guns. They all had fatal wounds on their heads, and they should have been crushed to death by hard objects." Yoji Okaza said regretfully.

Those gendarmes have been burned to ashes, and it is impossible to do another injury examination now.

A policeman who came from Longzhen to participate in the first-time on-site investigation and evidence collection suddenly pointed to the side of the river and said, "It's right here! There is a military policeman with two gunshot wounds, but his fatal wound was on the head— —He was crushed to death. We checked his rifle and cartridge belt, and found that he had fired a total of ten rounds in the opposite direction!"

Then he pointed to the opposite side of the river and said: "At that time, a body was found in the grass. He was not killed by a machine gun bullet, but by a Browning large-caliber pistol!"

Most of the Japanese policemen present had participated in the military and received strict training.

Many people have this picture in their minds: two gendarmes are hiding in the weeds on both sides of the river, and other gendarmes walk in the river, keeping a distance from each other and pulling out a skirmish line.

But all of this was useless. Thirteen gendarmes from a detachment were killed here.

Shimura Matazo squinted at the machine gun ambush point pointed out by Yoji Okazawa and murmured, "A Japanese military police who has undergone strict training fired ten rounds. Didn't he even hit a single shot?"

Then the group walked along the river for more than 300 meters to the weeds where Xiao Linxun pulled the sledge and hid.

"It's right here! We found dozens of small footprints, which should be left by women!" said a policeman who came from Longzhen.

"Interesting, there are women among these people!" Shimura Matazo said.

"Director Shimura just came from Japan and didn't understand the situation. There are many women in the anti-bandits." Yoji Okazawa explained.

"The question is why did she hide in the weeds? There don't need to be too many people, as long as there are four or five, it's not too difficult to ambush a detachment of military police on both sides of the river." Shimura Matazo asked.

Obviously, Shimura Matazo meant that the number of people who robbed gold should be less than four or five people.

Shimura sat on the sledge again and said to the others: "I'm too sorry to be sitting on it alone. A few more people."

Everyone could hear that Matazo Shimura had a deep meaning in what he said.One after another, four or five people sat on the sledge.

"You, it's still you, you can pull it alone." Shimura Matazo said, pointing to the original policeman pulling the sledge.

The policeman pulled the sledge with six people on it and slid hard on the ice.

But when the sledge slowly moved on the ice, he immediately felt much more relaxed.

"It seems that a sledge can pull three or four hundred kilograms." Shimura Matazo said.

"If there are three or four people, it will be easier to pull two sets of sledges to load the gold." Shimura Matazo continued.

Everyone heard that Shimura Matazo once again narrowed down the number of people involved in the gold robbery.

Putting gold in a wooden box and disguising it as mail is clever, but it is definitely not as safe and reliable as pulling it away directly.

If there are many people involved in the robbery of gold, they will definitely choose to take the gold away directly.

"Your Excellency, do you mean that there are probably only one or two people who rob gold?" Okaza Yoji asked.

"Didn't you just say that there is a woman? Just one woman can't do so many things. I think the biggest possibility is that there are two people, a man and a woman." Shimura Matazo said.

All the people listened silently, unexpectedly, a man and a woman lost [-] kilograms without a trace in just one hour.

In this incident, including the armed personnel who escorted the gold, as well as those who were killed by the military police and the Manchukuo Army, more than a hundred people were killed.

"Didn't it mean that there is an explosion point hidden in gold ahead? Let's go forward." Shimura Matazo said.

(End of this chapter)