Film and Television Beacon Fire: I Have an Equipment Column

Chapter 270 Cloud Movement

Sichuan North Road.

The chaos at Yongfeng Building lasted until the early hours of the morning.

Because the incident occurred in a relatively lively area at Hongqiaokou, a large number of onlookers had appeared around the Yongfeng Building since the fire broke out last night.

These people greatly hindered the Japanese army's search and arrest, so that they could not even touch the tail of the arsonist. They could only try their best to put out the fire in the Yongfeng Building first.

It was not until dawn that the fire in the Yongfeng Building was completely extinguished, leaving only a few smoldering embers.

If you look at it from the appearance alone, the whole building only has some traces of smoke and fire, and there is almost no damage to the entire building.

After all, this is a paramilitary fortress that has been carefully designed and reinforced by the Japanese to protect it from artillery and aerial bombing.

A mere small fire is nothing to it.

However, those people in Yongfeng Building do not have such tough bodies.

I saw countless soldiers and policemen coming in and out of the gate, carrying out bodies one after another.

Except for the charred corpses in the hall on the first floor, most of the corpses found upstairs, such as Shimohara Qi and Shimohara Qi, were very complete and showed no signs of excessive fire.

They were all choked by thick smoke and suffocated to death.

In the center of the warning circle set up by the Japanese army, the Japanese officers, headed by Commander Yantian and another general, looked at the corpses in front of them, their faces turning blue.

"Your Excellency, Commander, the statistics have been calculated, and the total number of dead has been reduced to 147, including Captain Shimohara Shichi, Second Lieutenant Taro Maeda and other six officers, and thirteen soldiers. The rest are nothing. The specific identity of the ronin needs to be further confirmed.

As for the group of thugs who set the fire, we have not found any specific clues yet, so we need..."

Before the officer could finish his report, the general next to Commander Yantian slapped him hard, and he was still reprimanding harshly:

"What a bunch of trash! I don't even know who did it until now. Did you guys from the intelligence agency all grow up eating shit?"

Facing the general's roar, no one among the surrounding officers dared to speak, not even the commander of Yantian.

Because this general is called Hase Qingchuan, and he is the new commander of the Third Fleet who succeeded Commander Yantian.

The new officer Hase Aokawa had only been on the job for two days. Even his predecessor, Commander of the Yantian, had not even seen him off when an attack of such a heinous nature occurred under the nose of the Navy Command.

This is simply a slap in the face of Hase Aokawa.

The officers present knew this very well, so they all stood bowed and waited quietly, for fear that the anger of the new fleet commander would be poured out on them.

"Where is the person in charge of the Shanghai agency? Why hasn't he arrived yet?"

Faced with Hase Aokawa's questioning, the officer from the intelligence agency was trembling with fear and did not dare to say a word.

Just when Hase Aokawa was about to slap him again, a car crossed the blockade and stopped in front of Hase Aokawa and others.

The car door opened and Fujita Yoshimasa got out.

"Your Excellency General."

Fujita Yoshimasa saluted Hase Aokawa.

Different from his equal attitude towards Commander Yantian, Fujita Yoshimasa placed his position very low when facing Hase Aokawa.

On the one hand, Hase Aokawa has the rank of lieutenant general, one level higher than the commander of Yantian.

On the other hand, as one of the leaders of the Navy, Hase Aokawa has always had an extremely bad attitude towards the Army. It would not be good if the other party caught him making excuses.

It's just that Fujita Yoshimasa's initiative to lower his profile failed to achieve any results.

Hase Qingchuan pointed at the pile of corpses on the ground and asked through gritted teeth:

"So many warriors of the empire were burned alive in front of us. Director Fujita, have you found out who did it?"

"Your Excellency, General, we are actively conducting investigations, and currently we have identified relevant suspects. Please give me a little more time, and I will definitely capture these saboteurs."

"Saboteur? Give you a little more time?"

Hase Aokawa looked at Fujita Yoshimasa coldly, and his sharp and fierce eyes made Fujita Yoshimasa feel a little uneasy.

“These are not saboteurs at all, this is clearly a military operation and a declaration of war against us.

And you, as the head of the Shanghai intelligence agency, still treat them as a group of saboteurs?

It’s no wonder that Shanghai’s intelligence agencies have made so many major mistakes recently. I don't care about the past things, but this time the incident happened in front of me, and I will investigate it personally.

As for your performance, I will report it to the military headquarters truthfully, and the subsequent punishment will depend on your luck. "

Hase Aokawa's words made Fujita Yoshimasa and Commander Shiota look ugly. It was obvious that Hase Aokawa wanted to settle old scores and use them to establish his authority.

However, compared to Hase Aokawa's actions to establish his authority, Fujita Yoshimasa was more concerned about another thing the other party said.

"Your Excellency General, I need to remind you that we are not yet ready for a full-scale war, especially for a war with the government in Shanghai. I hope you will not take the situation too far."

"Baga, you don't need to remind me about this kind of thing, I have my own arrangements."

Hearing Hase Aokawa's words, Fujita Yoshimasa shut up. He also knew that the Navy also had its own intelligence agency in Shanghai. Because the intelligence of the two sides was independent, Fujita Yoshimasa did not know the Navy's intelligence agency. What stage has it developed to. But thinking about it, it shouldn't be too bad. Let them investigate on their own. If both parties work together, they may be able to figure things out faster.

However, Fujita Yoshimasa was still a little uneasy about Hase Aokawa's words.

After all, Hase Aokawa is a guy who has always advocated all-out war. There is no guarantee that this time he will not take advantage of the situation and make things get out of hand.

It's just that this kind of thing is beyond Fujita Yoshimasa's control. All he can do is report the matter to his superior, Director Doihara.

The fire in Yongfeng Building was like a big stone thrown into a pond, causing ripples and stirring up the sand at the bottom of the pond.

In the Du Mansion in the French Concession, the three leaders of the Qing Gang and several "tong" generation bosses gathered together to discuss the fire on Sichuan North Road.

"This time, someone has thrown a big pot on us, and we can't get rid of it."

President Zhang leaned back on his chair and looked at Gu Xuan beside him with squinted eyes.

Gu Xuan's face didn't look very good either.

At first, Gu Xuan admired Lu Feng for daring to lead a group of people to raid the Yanzi Cave in Zhabei and burn them to death.

So the fire Lu Feng set now really shocked Gu Xuan.

They had already gotten wind that the number of Japanese burned to death in the Yongfeng Building exceeded three figures. For such a blood debt, the Japanese would definitely take revenge.

It happened that during the day yesterday, they had informed the Japanese of the peace talks in the name of the Green Gang, and in disguise they recognized that these people were members of their Green Gang.

It is foreseeable that the Japanese will come to your door soon.

How should everyone respond then?

Several senior officials of the Qing Gang looked at each other, and most of them had answers in their eyes.

"It was their special agent brigade that did this. We cannot bear the blame. We must make it clear to the Japanese."

Boss Du said slowly.

Everyone nodded.

"Then, the vacated territory?"

"First come, first served."

"can."

In addition to the Japanese and the Youth Gang, other forces in Shanghai also paid great attention to the fire in the Yongfeng Building.

The same is true outside of Shanghai.

At a liaison office of the Shanghai District Secret Service Brigade, Zheng Yaoxian was reporting on this operation to Dai Chunfeng on a long-distance phone call.

"What did you do? How could you let him do this? Do you know that he is deliberately provoking a fight? If something goes wrong, we will all lose our heads!"

"Virgo, I didn't know he was going to be so big in the beginning. Once he got started, things were completely out of my control."

"Trash, are you the captain or is he the captain? Wouldn't you cancel the operation?"

"He gave each team member two thousand dollars."

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There was silence on the other end of the phone.

"Then he gave me one hundred thousand dollars and asked me to hand it over to you, Virgo."

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"Where are they now?"

"He was called to Suzhou by General Zhang."

"General Zhang? Which General Zhang?"

"General Zhang Wenbai."

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