Chapter 72 Chapter 12 Execution

Kidnapping is the specialty of secret agents, and it is directly under Dai Li's control.The scope of kidnapping is very wide, especially for the military command Shanghai station.Zhao Lijun is the leader of the East China Action Team. When he was in charge of secret arrests in Shanghai, he ordered the kidnapping and killing of countless people.Naturally, the important kidnapping incident still left a memory in the minds of the agents, and it became a typical example and was used in the training project of the military training ground.The trainees also learned driving skills, which are indispensable in modern kidnapping techniques, and the core members of secret agents also received seven or eight hours of additional special training to learn the experience accumulated in actual kidnapping in the early 1930s.

By then, Secret Service agents boasted that they could kidnap anyone, anywhere, anytime.But that's not always the case, especially in a big city like Shanghai, where no one can hide from others' eyes, and before Shanghai station funding increased enough for them to afford cars, kidnappings were often done on foot.This further shows that the hijacking will be carried out in a crowd of pedestrians, so deception becomes absolutely necessary.Often, an agent wearing a homemade black coat and carrying a rubber tube filled with iron sand and the like would knock the victim unconscious by posing as a robber.Then another agent, who was nearby, would rush through the crowd, pretend to be his relative, drag the downed victim away from the robbers, and then pull over a rickshaw and yell to the hospital.Once out of the crowd, the agent told the motorist to take the victim home first, so he was taken to another location, and the unconscious victim was taken away by other agents for questioning.

Once they had enough cars, Dai Li's men resorted to typical underworld tactics.With a gun in the back, they would grab the victim into a waiting car.This method is not foolproof and sometimes the victim will get away before they can throw him in the car.Dai Li was very angry at several such failed hijackings, so he emphasized that the agents at the Shanghai station must practice hijacking each other among themselves to perfect field operations.Gradually, the agents at Shanghai Station developed a four-step kidnapping method.They always follow the target first until they have a grasp of their daily movements.Then they park a car nearby.When their "meat ticket" was walking on the road, an agent came up from behind, while another agent walked towards the unlucky man from the front.When the two agents came together, a car came from one side at the same time; the driver stopped the car, let the engine idle, and the agent in the back seat opened the side door; meanwhile, the following agent drew his gun against the victim On the back, the front agent rushed up and punched him in the lower abdomen.The agent behind took advantage of the fact that "Rou Piao" was lying down and out of breath, and pressed his back with one hand to prevent him from standing up straight.The agents in the car then reached out and dragged their prey into the back seat of the car.In just a moment, the car passed peacefully through the traffic flow again, and the agents on both sides of the car immediately merged into the flow of people, as if nothing happened.

They also invented some "soft" methods, which were to satisfy Dai Li.Because Dai Li wanted his agents to arrest people on the crowded roads in broad daylight without attracting too much attention.In order to avoid showing their weapons, the field agents at the Shanghai station learned how to temporarily paralyze the victim by pressing on the acupuncture points.Two secret policemen on one side of the pavement would pretend to play a friend-to-friend joke on the victim, as if they were acquaintances: an agent from behind covered the victim's eyes with both hands, and pinched the " Mingmen" acupoint made him unable to cry out.Another agent stepped up and grabbed the "meat ticket" and said, "You won't be able to guess who it is!" So the two agents dragged and pushed the dizzy victim into the car, letting others I thought I saw an old friend reunited.

There is another method that is especially effective for rich and ostentatious people: use beauty tricks to make others think it is a romantic case.A female agent, coquettishly dressed as a mistress, walks up to the target from the crowd and yells that he dumped her for another woman.When the victim invariably insisted that she had seen the wrong person, another female agent got out of the side car, pretended to be the friend of the dumped woman, and persuaded him to go back and talk with them .The victim couldn't argue, and the other two agents—this time they were men, came out of the crowd on one side and said, "What? You're arguing again! It's too unsightly for you to quarrel in the street. Let's go back and discuss it." Go!" Obviously, the victim will think the easiest thing to do is get in the car and explain the misunderstanding.Once in the car, this unfortunate "meat ticket" disappeared forever.

Sometimes it takes a quick decision.For example, Chen Liu'an, who is in charge of the Gui faction in the Shanghai area, was listed on the kidnapping list of the Shanghai station.When Shen Zui was monitoring Chen's residence, he saw him coming out of the front door with a suitcase, obviously looking for a taxi to go to the train station.Shen Zui immediately ran out of the alley, pretending to be a servant of the Chen family and calling for a car.When the car stopped in front of Chen's house, he quickly jumped down again, pretending to be the driver's assistant, helping to open the car door and asking Chen to get in and sit in the back seat.As soon as the car left Chen's house and drove to the waiting point of the other two agents, Shen Zui asked the driver to stop.These secret agents got into the car, took out their pistols, and threatened the driver to drive the car to the security headquarters.Chen's terrified resistance was useless, and the driver did not dare to resist the armed detectives, so he had to obey them and drive the car to their designated location.

These elaborate kidnappings were not carried out in the Chinese quarter of Shanghai, where arrests were made through the usual methods of arrests by the secret police, often at night.But it was usually the case in the French and British Concessions.Although agents with regular detective status in the Public Security Bureau or the Garrison Command could request and receive the assistance of police in the concessions or in China to make arrests, Dai Li was reluctant to operate through them.