Chapter 52 Section five

When Xiong Kuohai was completely unprepared, he and Ms. Pei each confessed their true identities.Although he is a semi-public communist in the intelligence club, the organization will never allow him to reveal his identity to ordinary people like Miss Pei.He knew that he violated the organizational discipline again, and at the same time, he also realized that his relationship with Miss Pei had been drawn very close because of this matter, and the sudden intimacy on Miss Pei at this moment made him feel strange again. Overwhelmed. Just when Miss Pei, with astonishing enthusiasm flying all over her body, was looking around to boil hot water and was about to wash his hair and shave himself, he hurriedly changed into an old cotton robe, and grabbed the clothes that Old Yu had left here in the morning. The barber's bag and "Huantou" went out.

Miss Pei did not stop him, but sent him to the gate as docilely as a bird, waved goodbye to him under the surprised eyes of the old Russian lady, and asked loudly: What time will you go home tonight? Hearing the gentle words of a virtuous wife sending her husband out, Xiong Kuohai felt like an irresponsible prodigal son.How did things become like this?He was very angry with himself, and even more angry with Yang Xiaoju, a senior Kuomintang agent who always used unscrupulous means to achieve his goals. Seeing that he refused to cooperate, he forcefully dragged Miss Pei into this troublesome matter.In this way, Yang Xiaoju can not only achieve the goal of getting Xiong Kuohai to assassinate Koizumi Keiji for him, but also take this opportunity to get acquainted with Miss Pei, paving the way for her to work for him in the future.

However, Xiong Kuohai still fairly admitted that the information provided to him by Yang Xiaoju and the clues found by Ms. Pei in the "Zhiyan Price Weekly" corroborate each other, which should confirm that the exact location of Keiji Koizumi's farewell party is the Japanese Overseas Chinese Club.He didn't take a car, nor was he bold enough to use "Huotou" to solicit hair shaving business, because he didn't know how to shave his head at all. Instead, he quietly walked out of the British Concession, crossed the French Concession, and entered the Japanese Concession.

He gained a lot from his afternoon running. Among the six maps that he had to tear up when passing through the Japanese army inspection post, some were the layout and location of the Japanese Overseas Chinese Club, and the other were the shooting spots he had just selected. location map and evacuation route map. Tianjin is a city built on rivers. The Haihe River runs through the urban area from northwest to southeast, but this river does not go straight, but bends a fat "belly" in the urban area.This "belly" goes down from the upper reaches, and soon after passing the Jintang Bridge, it begins to bulge southwestward. When it flows through the Japanese Concession, it reaches the top of the "belly", and then draws an arc and shrinks to the lower abdomen, just flowing to the French Concession. Concession.On the opposite side of the river bank in this area is the Italian Concession.

The Japanese Overseas Chinese Club was built at the top of this "belly". On the corner of Yamaguchi Street on the bank of the Japanese Concession and Miyajima Street, where there are many Japanese agencies and foreign firms, it is a small two-story building with a large courtyard occupying four or five acres of land. .Fortunately for Xiong Kuohai, the club has not been built for a long time, the plants in the yard are very small, and there is only a fence less than two meters high around it. many obstacles. The effective range of the VZ26 light machine gun produced in the Czech Republic is 1,000 meters. In order to improve the accuracy of shooting, it is also necessary to let the bullets pass over the wall of the Japanese Overseas Chinese Club. More importantly, it is necessary to ensure that the shooter can safely evacuate after the action. Therefore, He had to choose a condescending shooting point with a distance between 200 meters and 400 meters.

However, few places meet these conditions.The most favorable shooting point should be on the other side of the river, preferably on the top floor of the pelota court.Standing on the fourth floor of the jai jai court and looking west, Xiong Kuohai can have a panoramic view of the situation on the river bank of the Japanese Concession, and the visual distance should be a little more than 400 meters.Within this distance, if a 5x sniper scope is temporarily added to the Czech light machine gun, he can aim clearly. However, he ultimately rejected this choice. The first reason is that the Jalan Airo Stadium itself is a big casino, and the gamblers who come and go every day are mixed, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be discovered; the second reason is that the Italian The people have a close relationship with the Japanese. Once they carry out an assassination operation, no matter whether they are successful or not, the Italians will cooperate with the Japanese to seal off the entire Italian Concession. At that time, even if he has arranged a hiding place here in advance, it will be difficult for him to escape the enemy's door-to-door raid.

Since it is not safe to care about the concession, there is naturally no need to consider the Japanese concession.When Xiong Kuohai almost walked the old British leather shoes to the opening line, he finally found a shooting point in the French Concession.This location was much worse than the pelota field in the Italian Concession, but he believed that this was the only location in this operation where the comrades might escape unscathed.He detests "whatever it takes." Although he found the shooting point, he didn't know if Lao Shi could really get him a light machine gun.The outside of the Anglo-French Concession and even the entire North China area was occupied by the Japanese army. The Japanese army sent heavy troops to guard every passage entering the concession, and carefully searched the passing pedestrians and goods. A VZ26 light machine gun shot a Mi Er, plus ammunition, weighs more than 20 kilograms. It is almost impossible to sneak into the concession with such a bulky guy.

So, he began to wonder if he was deliberately embarrassing his superiors by making such a request to Lao Yu?Is it because I am still afraid and timid after all, and want to use this excuse to shrink back and create difficulties to avoid responsibility?However, so far, he, his superiors, and many revolutionary comrades have not yet come up with a better way than using a light machine gun to shoot at a long distance. From this point of view, he is not timid. , but should be thought of as an active exercise of the creative imagination. damn it.He couldn't figure out his real thoughts for a while, so he decided to put aside his work and go for a walk.He hoped that he could have a really good mood when he came back and find a better solution to the problems he was facing, because, besides choosing the method of assassination, he still had a more important and difficult problem that he could not solve— —How can I know the exact time when Keiji Koizumi appeared in the Overseas Chinese Club?

Xiong Kuohai rents an attic on the roof of the apartment building. Although the tiled roof outside the tiger window is not too steep, it is also dangerous.Climbing out of the dormer window, he walked along the tiled roof to the corner of the house. On the brick chimney, there was a thick hemp rope that he had tied there beforehand. It was more than three meters long, and a fist-sized rope was knotted every half meter. Knot.Arranging such a safety measure early will bring him a chance of survival in case of danger. He leaned on the eaves and looked down, and found that all the windows in the apartment had no lights, so he pulled the rope and slid down the corner of the eaves, then stretched out his feet to hook the drain pipe, and then carefully descended to the ground along the drain pipe.He chose such a way to go out in the middle of the night, not because he was afraid of the vicious words of the old Russian lady, nor to avoid his opponents, but because he was worried that his superiors had arranged anonymous revolutionary comrades in the apartment, so that Protect his life nearby.As a revolutionary, although he should talk about everything to the party, Xiong Kuohai found that there were too many flaws and secrets in himself, which made him unable to do this for a while.

In the basement of No. 25 Edinburgh Road, there are two small narrow windows, about a foot above the ground.Xiong Kuohai saw that the lights upstairs and downstairs had been turned off, so he pushed the trash can on the street to the window, then he lay down between the trash can and the small window in the basement, stretched out his fingers and tapped the glass on the window lightly. The window opened, revealing a pointed little face inside, it was his daughter.The daughter said: Dad, I'm afraid, and Mom is not feeling well today.He hurriedly asked: How is it now?The daughter said: "I've been suffering for two days. I fell asleep just now. Can you let her continue to sleep?"

Xiong Kuohai sent him the beautiful pomegranate that Miss Pei gave him and the cake that Yang Xiaoju had paid for, and his daughter immediately burst into an angelic and beautiful smile, so that the dry skin was covered with wrinkles caused by malnutrition.She opened the carton, stretched out her index finger to dig a finger of cream and put it in her mouth, then put the carton and pomegranate on the window sill, carefully protected it with one hand, and said in her mouth: Mom's medicine is used up. Xiong Kuohai hurriedly asked, mother still often gets sick?My daughter said, I post it every day, and I am terrified. Do you think my mother will die?He had to say, mother will not die, no.The daughter said, you always say that mother will not die, but mother doesn't believe it, she asked me to ask you, if she dies, where can I find you? Xiong Kuohai had long been worried that his wife would die of a heart attack, but he had no choice. The only thing he could do was to hide their mother and daughter in the big city, because only here could he buy the "III nitroglycerin" to save his wife. ".He took out 3 yuan from his pocket and handed it to his daughter, which was half a month's living expenses for their mother and daughter. After giving them this money, there were only a few tinkling copper coins left in his pocket. Are you coming tomorrow?The daughter asked very tactfully, because he didn't give her money to buy medicine.That's all, that's all!Xiong Kuohai took out the activity funds that Lao Yu had given him from his close-fitting pocket, gave his daughter 20 yuan, and said at the same time: "Go to the Chinese and Western Pharmacy to find the pharmacist last time. He is a good man and will definitely give you the real medicine."After a pause, he said again, the road is a bit far away, so you must be careful of trams and cars when you go.While carefully tucking the money in her bosom, the daughter said, I will walk on the sidewalk. Xiong Kuohai was very sad that his daughter, who was just twelve years old, had to take care of her seriously ill mother and manage the housework.Watching his daughter close the window, he pushed the trash can back to its original place before walking back.But he didn't go far before he noticed that there were two groups of people following him from afar on both sides of the street.He believed that this must be Anderson and Yang Xiaoju's subordinates. They were monitoring his wife and daughter, fearing that he would secretly transfer them and make them lose their leverage to blackmail him.Judging from the current situation, it should be a matter of time before the Japanese find their mother and daughter. In order to delay the emergence of this dangerous situation, he should not come here again before completing the task.