Chapter 69 Kill the "dog beaters"

Of course, Shanghai Railway Station also has its moments of success.One of the most famous of these victories was against the Communist Party's self-proclaimed "Dog Beating Squad", which was dedicated to murdering "traitors" as a means of punishing others. In 1935, the second group captured an underground communist, and they persuaded him to become a special agent to uncover the senior leaders of the communist organization in Shanghai.But this person was quickly suspected in the Communist Party, and finally fell in an open field near Xujiahui after being shot by a dark gun.When police found the man, he was seriously injured but not dead.Dai Li was in Shanghai at the time, so he decided to use this double agent to set a trap.They made up a story in a Shanghai tabloid that secret agents had imprisoned a Communist who was recovering from a critical illness in a hospital in the French Concession.Dai Li's plan was for the Communist assassination team to actually kill the wounded man, and then his own agents could track the killers to their secret stronghold.

The plan almost fell through.A team of spies from the second group pretended to be rickshaw pullers or peddlers in an ambush at the entrance of the hospital.On the fifth day, two people came to "visit" the injured man with fruit.Shortly after they entered, gunshots were heard.Two agents rushed in immediately and found the patient lying in a pool of blood, dead.As they searched the hospital floors for the two assassins, one of them escaped through the hospital doors.The rest of the agents in the second group followed behind, some riding bicycles, some running.Although the cyclist was faster than the others, he lost track of the target: he disappeared into a crowded alley.After scouring the vicinity in vain for half a day, the frustrated agents returned to the facility, shuddering at the thought of Dai Li's wrath.But just as they told Dai Li to fight, two agents on foot called.They decided to take the tram back to the office because they were too slow to keep up with others.But while passing Foch Road, one of the agents accidentally glanced out the window and saw one of the assassins walking down the road very calmly.So they hop off at the next stop, go back there, and find the assassin in a silver house, where they're spying on him now.

Dai Li immediately ordered a full search of the shop.Reconnaissance brigade leader Yang Fengqi, team leaders Xu Pengfei and Shen Zui brought almost the entire brigade of agents to join the Chinese detectives in the French Concession.Then, they surrounded the Yinlou and rushed in.The people inside were all caught suddenly: three men and a woman, and six guns and ammunition.One of them was the guy who went to the hospital to kill.Dai Li wanted to interrogate the communists himself, but the bailiffs insisted that they must be interrogated first, since they were arrested on the territory of the French Concession.After Dai Li agreed, the judicial interrogators learned that these men were the main members of the "Dog Fighting Group", which punished the traitors of the Communist Party throughout the Shanghai area.Since the targets of their punishment were agents working for the Kuomintang, the prisoners were handed over to Dai Li at the Garrison Command.Later they were escorted to Nanjing to be sentenced to death and executed.