Black Flag Army

It was already late, and Di Xiong was still sitting in his office looking at the report sent by the Supervisory Office. He saw "Lecturer at Peking University! A middle-aged man with a mustache from Shaoxing, Zhejiang." He immediately thought of the literary giant in the history of the Republic of China. When he was in school, he was forced to memorize many of his articles. But when he saw his name again, Di Xiong shook his head and said to himself, "Zhou Shaoxing! That's not the right name!"

Gu Xingzhi, the head of the counterintelligence supervision department standing opposite him, said, "He may be using a fake name. Xian Yuji can use the alias Bian Caiyun, and Bian Zhimei can use the alias Qiqige. Why can't Zhou use a fake name? If Juzi thinks he is suspicious, I will take people to arrest him now. As long as we enter the interrogation room, I will make him confess honestly."

After the former Supervision Section was upgraded to the Supervision Department, it was divided into six sections, among which the Counter-espionage Supervision Section and the Military Supervision Section were the most important. Since Gu Xingzhi interrogated Yuka Miyano, she became more and more like a cruel official. After Yuka Miyano confessed all the problems, Gu Xingzhi still did not let her go. In the name of testing the function of torture instruments, he used Yuka Miyano as a test subject and tried more than a dozen torture instruments. Yuka Miyano was tortured to death by her and was dying. Everyone else knew that Yuka Miyano was going to be executed anyway, so they did not stop her.

Di Xiong said sternly, "He can't be a Beiyang agent. You are not allowed to arrest him, and you can't even be rude to him. One of his articles is worth a hundred thousand troops! What you have to do is to protect him and not let him get into any accidents in Beitang City."

After Gu Xingzhi said goodbye in disappointment, Di Xiong asked Liu Zhennan to call Liu Zhendong. Half an hour later, Liu Zhendong arrived. After returning from Sakhalin Island, Liu Zhendong had become much darker and thinner, but he was in good spirits.

Di Xiong handed a copy of the Justice Daily to Liu Zhendong and said, "Have you read today's newspaper? The Japanese Minister Hioki Yoshi forced the Beiyang government to sign the 'Twenty-One Demands', which seriously damaged China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and aroused the anger of the people across the country. There have been demonstrations in major cities such as Beijing and Tianjin for several days. As members of the Chinese Justice Party, we should do something. I want to send an action team to assassinate Hioki Yoshi. Although it cannot change the signing of the treaty, it can give the Japanese a warning. The important task of leading this team belongs to you!"

Liu Zhendong said: "Assassinating the Japanese envoy can indeed make the Chinese people happy and strike a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese. Of course, there is no problem for me to go, but I need the cooperation of the intelligence department to kill him at the right time and place. Beijing currently has only one intelligence group, which is probably too weak, right?"

Di Xiong said: "The treaty has not been signed yet. The two sides are still in the process of negotiation. Most of the time, the talks are being held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The location of the ambush will be the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building. I will have the Tianjin Intelligence Station and the Beijing Intelligence Group fully cooperate with your action team."

Liu Zhendong asked: "Can I select the members of the action team?"

Di Xiong said: "Of course! In order to increase the success rate, you can choose anyone from the various departments of the Justice Party and the various units of the Justice Army. If you need me to participate, I will also be obliged to do so."

Liu Zhendong said, "You are the leader of the Justice Party and the commander of the Justice Army. Your position is too important. You'd better not go. But last time on Sakhalin Island, I found that Director Leng was a very capable assistant. I hope to get his help this time. And Nankou Town Killer Li Fei is also an action master. He has always hated the Japanese. It's just right to take him with us this time. After all, there are many Japanese garrisons and members of the Black Dragon Society in Beijing, as well as many Japanese agents and guards. The difficulty is even greater than last time on Sakhalin Island."

The two talked for a long time before they finished. After Liu Zhendong left, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. Secretary Ai Yun had already left work. Di Xiong remembered that he had not eaten dinner yet. Secretary Ai Yun went to the cafeteria for dinner and helped him get a meal, but now the lunch box was cold. Di Xiong picked up the lunch box and went home, ready to heat it up on the stove at home before eating.

After returning home, Di Xiong turned on the light and saw a layer of ash on the stove. He realized that Bai Xiuling had not come to his house for a long time. When Bai Xiuling lived with him, she always cleaned the living room and the room very diligently. There would be no ash on the stove. Di Xiong thought: Why didn't Bai Xiuling come? Will she never come again in the future?

After dinner, Di Xiong found that he couldn't read anymore. Bai Xiuling's voice and smile filled his mind. He finally couldn't help it and pushed the door open and walked out. Lan Jinchun's dormitory was next to him, but he didn't stop when he passed her door. He continued to walk forward. The guard who lived opposite him heard the noise and wanted to follow him out, but he stopped him with a gesture. He lived on the second floor and Bai Xiuling lived on the third floor. When he walked to the door of Bai Xiuling's dormitory on the third floor, he saw lights on the window of Bai Xiuling's dormitory, but the door was closed. He knocked more than ten times, but no one opened the door, so he took out the key and opened the door. Bai Xiuling had his door key, and he also had Bai Xiuling's door key.

Di Xiong entered the room and saw Bai Xiuling sleeping on the desk. The desk was filled with many educational books and materials, including those in English and German. Some of the books were half-opened and there were also several notebooks. Di Xiong opened a notebook, which contained his familiar beautiful handwriting, all of which were about how to run and manage a school. Di Xiong sighed and said, "I didn't expect you to work so hard as the principal. Was it a mistake for me to let you be the principal? Not only did it hurt you, but it also hurt myself. But Zhengqing School is too important. The next generation of senior officials of the Justice Party will be born there. Who else can I hand it over to except you, who is the most trustworthy?"

He held Bai Xiuling in his arms and found that her pale face had become much thinner. He gently stroked the small scar on her chin. Bai Xiuling's body was as white as jade, with only two scars, one on her chin, burned by the beast Fei Bao with a cigarette butt, and the other on her leg, shot by Di Xiong. Every time Di Xiong stroked her leg scar, he felt very regretful. Bai Xiuling always smiled and said, it doesn't matter. Di Xiong walked to the bed, put her on the bed, took off her coat, and covered her with a quilt. Bai Xiuling still didn't wake up. Di Xiong turned off the lights and walked out of Bai Xiuling's dormitory, quietly closing the door. He suddenly stopped outside the door again, hesitated for a while, turned around and went back into Bai Xiuling's dormitory.

Bai Xiuling woke up from her sleep and was surprised to find someone pressing on her. She took a closer look under the light and saw that it was Di Xiong. She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I was so scared. I thought I was violated by a bad guy."

Di Xiong said, "I'm sorry! I couldn't help myself and did this without your consent."

Bai Xiuling smiled and said, "I should be the one to say sorry. I've been busy with school recently and haven't been to your house for a long time. I've neglected your physical needs. Don't be too hard on yourself. Just like Zhang Zhenyang said, all the warlords have dozens of women. You are now a warlord in charge of a region. With your identity and status, what kind of woman do you want? I bet that as long as you spread the word about taking a concubine, a large number of girls will rush to you. But in fact, you only have a woman like me who is a broken flower and willow. It's really pitiful."

Di Xiong said: "I don't want just any woman. Once you have seen the sea, all other waters are just puddles. Once you have seen Mount Wushan, all other clouds are just as beautiful as you. Compared to you, other women are far inferior."

Bai Xiuling's eyes turned red after hearing this. She stretched out her hands and hugged his neck and said, "I am very touched by your words, but I can't be your mistress for the rest of my life. We have to break up eventually. I thought you were like those men who get bored with the old and love the new. You would dump me after a few months at most. I didn't expect that after three years, you are still obsessed with me, and only me. You are wrong to say that other women are not as good as me. There are many women who are better than me, such as Tian Mengxue and Lan Jinchun, and they are all very infatuated with you. You have already missed Tian Mengxue, and you can't miss Lan Jinchun again. If you go to Lan Jinchun tonight, she will definitely not refuse you."

Di Xiong said, "Don't overwork yourself. As the school principal, you shouldn't do everything yourself. You'll tire yourself out. Many things can be handed over to other people. It will be much easier if you have the dean and deputy director to share the work. I'll ask Lan Jinping to find a vice-principal for you."

Bai Xiuling said: "Everyone thinks that I became the principal because I am your woman. If I don't study hard and improve my knowledge, how can I live up to your trust?"

Early in the morning, at the Japanese Legation in Dongjiaomin Lane, Beijing, Hioki Yoshiyuki, surrounded by a dozen attendants and guards, walked out of the embassy and got into a car. There were three cars in total, and the front and back cars were filled with guards. Hioki Yoshiyuki and his attendants sat in the middle car. Hioki Yoshiyuki is 54 years old this year. He is a short and fat man. He participated in the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China in 1900. He made a fortune through robbery during the war. Unlike other soldiers, while others enjoyed themselves by eating, drinking, gambling, and whoring after getting rich, he used the money he robbed to bribe the Japanese government. He soon became a diplomat from a second lieutenant, and now he is the ambassador to China, which many people envy.

Yuan Shikai was unwilling to sign the Twenty-One Demands, so he instructed his Minister of Foreign Affairs Lu Zhengxiang to delay the negotiations as much as possible. However, a weak country has no diplomacy, and when the Japanese threatened to use force, Yuan Shikai backed down.

"Your Excellency! That guy named Lu is always stalling for time. Should we teach him a lesson or ask their president to change a negotiating representative?"

Masao Fukuoka, the chief of the secret service who was in charge of security, said.

Hioki Masu said, "No! The man named Lu is the Minister of Foreign Affairs. If something happens to him, the Beiyang government will have more reason to drag it out. Besides, a different negotiator may not be more obedient than Lu Zhengxiang. As long as the Great Japanese Empire shows its military strength, the Beiyang government will make concessions."

When the car entered a bluestone street, a window on the second floor of a red hotel on the left side of the street opened. A man and a woman were looking at the car through binoculars. The woman had fair skin and seductive eyes. She was Cha Jingfeng, and the man was her right-hand man Dongfang Xu, also her classmate at the Intelligence School.

Dongfang Xu looked at his watch and said, "Seven fifteen! This guy is leaving for the negotiations really early!"

Cha Jingfeng said: "This means that the action team must be ahead of them. Notify Liu Zhendong and others immediately."

One of the two men and one woman behind her disappeared immediately, and the remaining two people were Dong Xuechun, also known as Dong Yue Junzi, and Yin Quan, the new head of the Beijing Intelligence Group.

Yin Quan said: "I just got here, so there are some things I don't understand. Is the goal to pass by here at 7:15 every day?"

Dongfang Xu said: "I have been observing in this hotel for a few days. It is basically at this time, with an error of no more than three minutes."

In a restaurant not far away, Liu Zhendong, Leng Hanbing, Li Fei and more than a dozen others dressed in disguise went up to the private room on the second floor. When the waiter brought steaming buns and soy milk, no one spoke. Only when the waiter left did Liu Zhendong say, "Just now, the tea stationmaster's people said that the target passes through Qingshi Street and enters the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building at 7:15 every morning. This means that if we take action tomorrow morning, we must reach each sniper position before 7:10. Do you have any questions?"

Leng Hanbing said, "I think we should start tomorrow morning, the sooner the better, to avoid any more trouble. After all, the three of us are old rivals of the Beijing police and the Black Dragon Society. The wanted order for Li Fei has not been cancelled. Although the former Minister of the Interior and the Chief of Police have been replaced by new people, no one knows whether the original people in the two departments will still remember what happened back then. It will be troublesome if they are recognized by acquaintances."

Li Fei said: "I agree to start tomorrow. In addition, we need to prepare more explosives and gasoline. In case the sniper rifle cannot penetrate the car, we can use explosives to blow it up. If that doesn't work, we can use gasoline to burn it."

Liu Zhendong said, "That's settled. We'll start tomorrow morning. Director Leng and I will sniper from two different positions at the same time, and President Li will be in charge of providing follow-up shots at close range."

The next morning at seven o'clock, the weather was clear and cloudless, a good day for action. Liu Zhendong set up a shooting position at the second-floor window of the Red Hotel, and Leng Hanbing's shooting position was on the second floor of the teahouse not far away. Li Fei pretended to be a peddler and set up a fruit stand on the street. Li Fei's heart suddenly sank. He saw the patrol captain Wang Hanchao and several policemen patrolling the street and walking towards the fruit stand.

A policeman walked up to Li Fei and shouted, "Don't you know that you are not allowed to set up stalls here?"

Li Fei quickly apologized with a smile: "I'm sorry, Boss! I'm from another place and I don't know the rules here. I'm leaving now."

Li Fei's fruit stall is placed on a cart.

Another fat policeman said fiercely: "Want to leave? It's not that easy! Overturn his stall and confiscate all the fruits."

Li Fei's face darkened and he said, "This boss is going too far! This is my hard-earned money!" Li Fei is the president of the Sharp Knife Society and the police chief in Bei Tang City. How could he tolerate such evil?

The fat policeman opened his eyes wide and shouted angrily, "How dare you talk back!" He raised his baton and hit him.

Wang Hanchao shouted, “Stop!”

The fat policeman immediately stopped the baton in his hand and said to Wang Hanchao with a smile: "Captain! Don't be too lenient with these outsiders!"

Wang Hanchao looked at Li Fei and said, "Why do I feel like your voice is very familiar? Have we known each other before?"

Li Fei put on makeup and changed his appearance, but he couldn't change his voice. Li Fei said: "We don't know him. The officer has recognized the wrong person."

Wang Hanchao looked at him and was about to speak when he suddenly heard a car horn. Three black cars drove over, followed by two crisp gunshots and the car windows were pierced.