The Bourne Counterattack

Chapter 436 The Inertia of History

Christmas is coming soon, Nanjing Road has started to be decorated, and the four major department stores have begun to launch a series of advertisements in order to attract customers during the holiday season.

Although Christmas is an imported holiday, it is no longer unfamiliar in Shanghai. In fact, many Chinese people celebrate Christmas every year.

Japan is more westernized, so their various organizations and institutions in Shanghai will launch a series of activities during Christmas.

Cheng Mo is not interested in Western festivals, but since there is someone in his family who has lived in the Western world, this festival must be celebrated.

But I can’t go out this year. Things like the Red House Restaurant and candlelight dinners can only be arranged at home.

For a pregnant woman like Su Moer, who is three or four months pregnant, this is the most dangerous time, so it is best not to go out and join in the fun.

This first baby must be safe.

There is no French dinner, but there must be Christmas gifts.

This year, Cheng Mo prepared a white jade peace amulet for Su Moer as a Christmas gift. She usually plays with it in her hand. Jade can nourish people and bring good luck.

It is most suitable for Su Moer now. As for gold and silver jewelry, they are not very expensive to Su Moer.

Only this kind of intention is the most real.

The biggest thought in her mind at the moment is that mother and child are safe.

Not knowing whether the inertia of history still exists and whether the Military Control Commission will plan that classic assassination again, Cheng Mo actually still has a glimmer of expectation in his heart.

Room 76 should be quite lively tonight. Cheng Mo received a secret report early in the morning that Wang Miao and other so-called "Five Central Committee Members of Shanghai" had invited the third-ranked figure of the Wang Puppet regime from Guangdong to Shanghai at Room 76.

No one knows what will happen next. Because of Wang Tianmu’s absence, perhaps everything will be fine, or perhaps something will happen.

……

In the early morning of the 25th, Zhaofeng Headquarters.

The largest gambling den in western Shanghai, owned by casino tycoon Pan San. Pan San was a native Shanghainese and a playboy. After the Battle of Shanghai, he hooked up with the Japanese, started out by selling grain, and later ran the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company.

Because of the relationship with the Japanese, his Zhaofeng Club became the official guesthouse for Wang Jingwei's high-ranking officials and No. 76 to eat, drink and have fun.

He also married a wife who was fluent in multiple languages ​​and good at business. She ran the Zhaofeng Club very successfully and made it the leading den of money in western Shanghai.

Compared with entertainment venues such as Paramount and Ciro's in the concession, this place is safer and more private. Even a cautious person like Ding Mo-jun is a frequent visitor.

Therefore, whenever they were entertaining important guests, the traitors of the Wang Puppet regime would definitely bring the guests here.

Naturally, not just anyone can enter a place like this. Only those with a certain level of fame and power can enter.

Therefore, if one wants to carry out an assassination inside the Zhaofeng General Association, it is impossible to do it unless one instigates someone inside to defect.

But opposite the Zhaofeng Club is Zhaofeng Park. As the name suggests, a park is a place with a lot of plants. There must be no people in such a place at night. There are many trees and a lot of space, so it is a very easy place to hide and escape...

After the attack, as long as they rush into a park with lush vegetation, they will have a chance to escape. Moreover, the park is not closed, so they can break up into small pieces when evacuating.

However, when the people from No. 76 go out to play, they must take a car and have many bodyguards, so the success rate of such an assassination is extremely low.

There are also plainclothes agents patrolling at night. If you are found not going home at night, you will probably be arrested directly...

Therefore, if you really want to carry out the assassination, you need accurate intelligence, an ambush in advance, and the number of people involved in the operation cannot be too small. Acting alone is definitely not possible.

In broad daylight, you might be able to snipe from a long distance, but at night, if you can't shoot at close range, then it all depends on luck. Such an assassination will not be effective at all, and may even alert the enemy, making him wary, and it will be difficult to attack again in the future.

Cheng Mo was still analyzing and planning in his mind for the Military Control Commission what to do if they wanted to assassinate these traitors tonight.

The Military Control Commission's Shanghai District 1 actually planned an assassination.

As for where they got the information, this outsider has no idea. There must be an informant from the Military Control Commission in No. 76.

But these people went to Paramount after dinner at No. 76 tonight, played for most of the night, and then went to Mega Club...

Moreover, going to Mega Club was a spur-of-the-moment decision and was not something we had discussed at the beginning.

There were quite a lot of people in this group. Except for Wang Miao who was drunk and unable to go, many other No. 76 traitors and spies were there.

There were Chen Mingchu, He Tianfeng, Feng Guozhen, Huang Guxiang, and Wan Lilang who used a pseudonym. There were about ten people in the group, plus the bodyguards and drivers, at least twenty people in total.

These people played until four or five in the morning. They were a little hungry and prepared to go out to find something to eat and go back to their homes in Huacun to sleep.

As a result, not long after the convoy came out of the Zhaofeng headquarters, it encountered a fierce attack, grenades, Mauser C96 submachine guns...

The scene was in chaos. These people had been having fun all night long, and were caught off guard by the sudden attack. Even the bodyguards who accompanied them were slow to react.

It was this half beat that caused them to suffer heavy casualties. Someone had just taken out a pistol when the bullet shot through the glass and killed him.

Others had just opened the car door and rushed down, ready to fight back, when a grenade rolled to their feet.

He was so scared that he tried to avoid it, but it was too late. He was blown upside down in the air by the blast and was instantly killed.

The attackers chose their timing perfectly.

darkness before dawn.

The loud gunshots and explosions woke the people in the area from their deep sleep. They opened their eyes and looked outside in confusion, not knowing what was happening.

Could it be that there is war again?

Is this a repeat of the tragic experience of two years ago? Many people feel like the sky is falling again.

However, the gunshots and explosions only lasted for a few tens of seconds before stopping. Then there were a few sporadic gunshots, and then silence returned.

Then, after a short while, the sounds of ambulances and fire trucks sirens frantically could be heard, rushing at lightning speed. It was obvious that something big had happened.

It was not until Cheng Mo received a call from Xu Qinghe at the police station in the morning that he learned that something had happened to the people at No. 76 last night.

Five people died, seven or eight were injured, and three cars were damaged, one of which caught fire after the explosion and burned into an iron frame.

This was the biggest loss suffered by No. 76 from an assassination attempt since its establishment, second only to the previous auditorium bombing.

It seems that the Military Control Commission has not given up on this assassination attempt, and has changed from instigating internal rebellion to directly attacking from outsiders.

Chen Gongshu's work is really great.

(End of this chapter)