My years of espionage

Chapter 724 arrogant to extremely small Mr. Cheng

Office of the Deputy Counselor and Special Assistant to the Consulate General of the Consulate General of Japan in Shanghai.

"Professor Taniguchi is from Kobe, so I added two more Kobe dishes to let the professor feel the taste of his hometown." Heitaro Imamura said with a smile while holding the microphone in his hand.

"It's already been arranged, Dazuo Guisaburo will cook in person." Kogoro Imamura said.

"Very good." Heutaro Imamura nodded in satisfaction. Saburo Osaku is the head chef of a high-end Japanese restaurant on Deswell Road. He is from Kobe and he is good at Kobe cuisine.

Bang Bang.

There was a knock on the door.

"That's it." Imamura Heutaro hung up the phone, looked in the direction of the office door, "Come in."

Naito Kotsuba pushed the door open and came in with a panicked expression.

"Mr. Counselor, something happened."

"Hurried, what's the matter?" Imamura Heutaro glared at Naito Kotsuba with a sullen face, "What's going on?"

"Sakamoto-kun called, and Professor Taniguchi was assassinated." Naito Kotsuba said hastily.

"What?" Imamura Heutaro was shocked.

"Sakamoto-kun's phone line to your office has been busy, and then he called me." Naito Xiaoyi helped Imamura Heutaro put on his windbreaker coat, handed him the top hat, and followed Imamura Heutaro's footsteps while walking Say.

"What's the specific situation?" Imamura Heutaro looked gloomy, "How is Professor Taniguchi now?"

"I was attacked at the entrance of the Sakura Guest House. A gunman shot directly at close range. Professor Taniguchi was shot twice." After a pause, Tsubasa Naito looked embarrassed and said, "The professor was shot in the neck and abdomen. Very pessimistic, I'm afraid..."

"Bag duck!" Heitaro Imamura, who is always polite and elegant, cursed restlessly, "Get the car."

"Yes!"

……

At this moment, the phone on the desk rang, and Kotsu Naito rushed directly to pick up the receiver.

"I'm Tsubasa Naito, Mr. Counselor is by my side."

"I see." Tsubasa Naito hung up the phone and looked at Heutaro Imamura, "The call from Sakamoto-kun has sent Professor Taniguchi to the Imperial Army Hospital for emergency treatment."

"Where's the shooter?" Imamura Heutaro asked.

"Sakamoto-kun didn't say, it's a mess over there." Naito Kotsuba said.

"Go to the Army Hospital."

"Hay."

The two left the office in a hurry, and just as they left, the phone rang faintly behind them, but the two of them couldn't care less about going back to answer the phone.

……

The Japanese Army Hospital in Shanghai.

Seeing a car flying the imperial flag galloping, the Japanese soldiers at the checkpoint were about to intercept it.

A Japanese army sergeant ran over quickly and gestured for the sentinel to let him go.

"Is this Counselor Imamura?" Sergeant Cao saluted, "Please follow me."

Accompanied by the Japanese Army Sergeant Cao and his assistant Naito Kotsuba, Imamura Heitaro came to the operating room, and saw the distraught Sakamoto Yoshino.

"Bastard!" Heutaro Imamura grabbed Sakamoto Ryono's collar as soon as he came up, and directly scratched his ears.

"Are you awake now?" He looked at Sakamoto Ryono angrily.

"Hay."

"I hit you not only because Professor Taniguchi was assassinated, but also because your state just now made me angry." Heitaro Imamura said coldly, "Do you understand?"

"Hay."

"How is the situation of Professor Taniguchi?" Heitaro Imamura asked directly.

At this moment, the lights in the operating room went out, and several doctors came out. Behind them was the rolled out operating bed. There was a person lying on the bed, covered with a white cloth.

"I am Heitaro Imamura, Deputy Counselor of the Consulate General of the Empire in Shanghai. The injured person is a famous scholar of the Empire..."

"Counselor Imamura." A middle-aged military doctor interrupted Imamura Heutaro, "This gentleman was already dead when he was sent to the hospital. It was this gentleman who could not accept the result and begged us to continue the rescue."

As he spoke, he pointed to Sakamoto Yoshino, showing a helpless expression.

"Thanks for your hard work." Imamura Heutaro was extremely angry, but he did not get angry at the doctors, and said with a slight bow.

……

Heutaro Imamura walked to the bed, lifted the white cloth, and saw the face of the corpse.

Hiroyuki Taniguchi suffered an apparent gunshot wound to the neck.

Heutaro Imamura continued to pull the white cloth away, and he saw the wound on his abdomen.

Both gunshot wounds were fatal.

This is the first time he has met the famous scholar of the empire, Professor Hiroyuki Taniguchi, an advisor to the military department. He planned to hold a banquet tonight to clean up the dust for Hiroyuki Taniguchi. He even called Kentaro Miyazaki to attend the dinner. , intending to create a surprise for the pair of teachers and students, but did not expect such a bleak scene.

"Tell me, what happened?" Imamura Heutaro asked in a deep voice.

Hiroyuki Taniguchi is a well-known scholar who is famous in the cabinet. He had an accident just after he arrived in Shanghai, and he was assassinated at the entrance of the guest house of the Consulate General. As such, he bears some responsibility.

At this time, Sakamoto Yoshino, who had received two big scratches on the ears, became more clear-headed. He recounted the incident while thinking about memories.

Meanwhile, Imamura Heutaro would chime in with questions.

"You mean, the assassin was a Westerner?" Imamura Heutaro was surprised.

"It's a young man with a European face," said Yoshino Sakamoto. "This person pretended to be selling cameras, attracted the attention of Professor Taniguchi, and then suddenly pulled out a gun and shot."

There was a painful expression on his face, "The incident happened so suddenly that we had no time to react."

……

Heitaro Imamura had a sullen face. He wanted to reprimand, and even had the urge to slap Ryono Sakamoto twice, but considering Sakamoto Nagayuki's face, he forcibly held back.

Imamura Hyoutaro forced himself to control his anger and calm down.

"The shooter didn't shout slogans, didn't do anything else, just shoot?" Heitaro Imamura stared at Ryono Sakamoto and asked.

"No, just shoot." Sakamoto Yoshino shook his head.

Imamura Hyoutaro fell into deep thought.

There was no shouting of slogans, and no other superfluous actions. This does not seem to be an assassination for political purposes.

More like it was directed at Professor Hiroyuki Taniguchi?

However, Hiroyuki Taniguchi's superficial identity is only a famous scholar, and he did not directly participate in the war. Such an influential public figure, why did the other party want to attack Hiroshi Taniguchi?

In addition, there is an extremely important point, that is:
Hiroyuki Taniguchi and his group have just arrived in Shanghai. Even if the other party wants to attack Hiroyuki Taniguchi for some purpose, how does he know where Hiroyuki Taniguchi is staying?

Imamura Heutaro frowned.

……

"Where are Taniguchi-kun's students?" Imamura Heutaro asked.

"Miss Haruko fainted from fright, and several other people were also frightened. I arranged for them to wait in the guest house temporarily." Sakamoto Ryono said.

"Didn't you ask to come to the hospital with the car?" Imamura Heutaro immediately caught a key question.

Sakamoto Ryono thought for a while, "Maybe they were frightened, I let them stay in the guest house, and they didn't make any other suggestions."

Imamura Heutaro shook his head lightly, this is not normal.

"Where's the shooter?" he asked.

"This person shot and assassinated Professor Taniguchi, which attracted the attention of the soldiers in the guest house. A gun battle broke out between the two sides. The gunman was shot multiple times. He was taken away by Captain Morimoto of the guest house for interrogation."

After a pause, Ryono Sakamoto continued, "Captain Morimoto said that the gunman is dead."

"Why wasn't it sent to the hospital for emergency treatment?" Naito Kotsuba interjected and asked.

"Captain Morimoto judged that this person would die soon and could not be saved. He said that the interrogation should be done as soon as possible." Sakamoto Ryono said.

Heutaro Imamura sighed deeply, paced around for a while, and said, "Naito, you call the consulate general and ask Hojo to go to the guest house to participate in the interrogation and get a first-hand interrogation statement."

Hidetoshi Hojo is a second-class military attache in the military attache of the Imperial Consulate General in Shanghai. Most importantly, Hojo has another identity. He is a close friend of Heutaro Imamura and a secret member of the Iwai Mansion.

"Hay!"

……

"Uncle Imamura, it was my ineffective protection that led to the assassination of Professor Taniguchi."

After Naito Tsubasa left, Sakamoto Yoshino said guiltily and regretfully.

"Although I'm really angry." Heitaro Imamura glanced at Ryono Sakamoto, shook his head and said, "But, strictly speaking, Taniguchi-kun's assassination has little to do with you."

As he spoke, he sighed, "Who would have thought that someone would be so cruel to the unarmed Taniguchi-san."

At this moment, Imamura Heutaro had calmed down, and he was able to analyze the matter more rationally. He admitted that Hiroyuki Taniguchi's security work was not done properly, but this did not seem to be the security's fault.

Probably because, as he said just now, he never expected that someone would attack such an unarmed and famous scholar as Hiroyuki Taniguchi.

"Uncle Imamura." Yoshino Sakamoto glanced at Hiroyuki Taniguchi, who had become a corpse, and said with a sigh, "Professor Taniguchi died, Miyazaki-kun..."

Heitaro Imamura also sighed, yes, Hiroyuki Taniguchi was killed, and he needs to tell Kentaro Miyazaki the bad news.

It's a pity, he originally planned to create a surprise for the teacher and the student to meet tonight.

Kentaro is a person who respects his teacher very much, so he must be very sad to hear this sad news suddenly.

"Kintaro, I will call to inform you." Imamura Heutaro said in a deep voice.

At this moment, Kotsu Naito, who was on the phone just now, came back.

"Report Counselor, Hojo-kun has been notified to go to the Sakura Guest House." Naito Kotsuba said.

Then, with a strange expression on his face, he said, "One more thing."

"What's wrong?" Imamura Heutaro asked.

……

"Report to Counselor." Kotsuba Naito said, "When we were leaving the Consulate General, the phone in your office rang, and it was Miyazaki-kun."

"Kintaro?" Imamura Heitaro shook his head slightly. He guessed that Miyazaki Kentaro called to inquire about the dinner party. He was a careful guy, most likely because he was unsure of what gift to bring, so he wanted to inquire about the news.

"Miyazaki-kun went to Xianshi Department Store to pick out gifts, and was assassinated when he left the department store." Naito Kotsuba said.

"What?" Imamura Hyoutaro almost suspected that there was something wrong with his ears, "You said Kentaro was assassinated?"

"Yes." Naito Kotsuba said, "Miyazaki-kun was assassinated at the entrance of the department store. Fortunately, his subordinates responded in time and shot and killed the shooter."

Imamura Heutaro was silent, his expression changed again and again.

"Who did it?" he asked.

"Miyazaki-kun said that the assassin was one of Xia Wenqiao's subordinates." Naito Xiaoyi said.

"Xia Wenqiao's person?" Imamura Heutaro was puzzled, "Isn't this person cooperating with him?"

"The specific situation is unknown at the moment." Naito Kotsuba said, "Miyazaki-kun's call was answered by Saito-kun. He called to inform you, Mr. Counselor, that the incident happened suddenly and he wanted to investigate it. I'm afraid he can't Come to dinner tonight."

Imamura Heutaro's face was gloomy and uncertain. After thinking for a while, he said to Naito Kotsuba, "Naito, go secretly to see Miyazaki and ask about the situation carefully."

"Hay."

……

The deputy chief inspector of the police station in the Central District of the French Concession and the well-known Mr. Cheng was assassinated at the entrance of Xianshi Department Store, which immediately alarmed the police station in the public concession.

"Deputy Chief Inspector Cheng, this gunman..." Anthony, the British inspector of the Laozha arrest house, pointed to the dead body of the gunman being transported away by the car, with an unhappy expression on his face.

The corpse was shot more than a dozen times, especially in the abdomen, as if it had been beaten into a hornet's nest.

He had already inquired about the situation from some of the surrounding Sanguangmazi just now, and after Xiao Cheng survived a catastrophe, he fired a lot of shots at the corpse as if venting.

"I'm worried that he's not dead." President Xiao Cheng said calmly with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, with a cold expression, "A few more shots."

After finishing speaking, he glanced at Anthony provocatively, "What? Is there a problem?"

"Deputy Chief Inspector Cheng, this is the public concession, not the central area of ​​your French Concession." Anthony lowered his voice, "You have no right to shoot and kill people here, let alone abuse test questions (not typos)!"

Cheng Qianfan flicked the cigarette ash and grinned.

He just stared at Anthony, smiling at the same time.

Anthony frowned, he hated the smile, he felt disrespected.

Suddenly, the smile on Cheng Qianfan's face disappeared instantly.

Xiao Cheng looked at Anthony coldly, with a cold arc on his mouth, "Mr. Anthony, you should be glad that I am not injured."

As he spoke, he threw the cigarette butt on Anthony's riding boots, shook his head, and snorted, "I was injured on your site, and I will demolish your old gate patrol house!"

Anthony was angry. He jumped up and kicked the cigarette butt off his riding boots, pointed at Cheng Qianfan's nose and cursed, "Cheng Qianfan, you are crazy, do you know what you are talking about? You are provoking the British Empire."

……

"I'm crazy." President Xiao Cheng gritted his teeth, grabbed Anthony by the collar, and exhaled smoke from his nostrils.

Anthony immediately felt a gust of heat rushing towards his face.

"Someone is going to kill me!" Mr. Cheng said word by word, "Someone is going to kill me! Did you hear that!"

The patrols in the Laozha patrol room, including several Chinese arresters, and a dozen red-headed assams, saw their boss Anthony being grabbed by Mr. Cheng's collar, and they all looked at each other in blank dismay. Guns, some looked left and right before raising their guns. After a few Hua arresters hesitated, they looked at each other a few times, and finally raised their guns slowly.

Hou Pingliang, Li Hao, Lu Jiufan and others also immediately pointed their guns at each other.

"Cheng Qianfan, you lunatic, I want to arrest you." Anthony was extremely angry.

"Tell your people to put down their guns." Cheng Qianfan let go, patted Anthony on the cheek, and said coldly, "You should be very clear about the consequences of provoking me."

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