Chapter 61 4. Thwarting the plot to rescue war criminals

After Hisao Tani was imprisoned in Sugamo Detention Center as a Class B war criminal, the Chinese government formally requested his extradition, which was approved by the Allied Forces Headquarters. On August 1, the US destroyer "Uranus" carrying Hisao Tani arrived in Shanghai.At 8:00 p.m., a transportation boat from the Uranus docked at Hongkou Huishan Wharf. Three U.S. military officers and four U.S. military police escorted Hisao Tani and boarded the Huishan Wharf. Hisao Tani was filled with emotions when he set foot on the land of China. He couldn't help recalling the unforgettable scene nine years ago.At that time, he led the Sixth Division to land at the junction of Shanghai and Zhejiang, burning, killing, robbing, and prostitution all the way, bloodbathed Jinshanwei, so pleasant, so majestic!Unexpectedly, nine years later, the world turned upside down, and he became the prisoner of the Chinese people he despised the most.Thinking back on what I had done in China, I thought to myself that this time I was escorted to China, there would be many bad luck, and it would be difficult to return. I couldn't help but look depressed, and my wrinkled face was covered with thick clouds.

The members of the special service team escorted by the Military Law Department of the Ministry of National Defense of the Chinese Nationalist Government, who had been waiting on the pier for a long time, walked forward with neat steps when they saw the prisoner was escorted.After the simple handover ceremony, the U.S. troops stepped aside, Hisao Tani was escorted into the car by the Chinese military police, and drove straight to the Xiaonanmen Detention Center of the Shanghai Police Station. After Gu Hisao was imprisoned in the Xiaonanmen Detention Center, a rescue and anti-rescue struggle around this butcher whose hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese people began nervously again.

It turned out that after the news that Hisao Tani was about to be extradited to China for trial in the Sugamo Detention Center, the remnants of Japanese militarism, the old subordinates of Hisao Tani, the former commander of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Invading Army, Kono Mitsuru and Captain Okada Jiro learned the news. Knowing that Tani Hisao is going to be a disaster, he secretly plans to rescue him.They colluded with Korean female spy Li Changmei, disguised as businessmen, rushed to Shanghai in advance, carefully planned a rescue plan, and bought the deputy director of Xiaonanmen Detention Center with a lot of money, and Bi Shangqing, the small leader of the Youth Gang, cooperated in the prison.

The day after Gu Hisao was imprisoned in the Xiaonanmen Detention Center, Bi Shangqing, a scum who betrayed the interests of the nation, really actively "cooperated".He used his authority to get in touch with Gu Hisao first, and then in a clever way, he passed a special pill that Kono Mitsu gave him to Gu Hisao.Gu Hisao was overjoyed when he learned the news that his old subordinate had rescued him, and the flame of hope was immediately ignited in his desperate heart.Soon, when the secret service team was about to escort him to Nanjing, he took advantage of the unsuspecting and secretly swallowed the pill.Afterwards, Hisao Gu's face suddenly turned blue, he covered his heart tightly with his hands, frowned, and kept crying out for pain, then fell to the ground with his eyes closed tightly, unconscious.The special service team rushed him to the hospital, and the hospital tried their best to rescue him, but the result was that the rescue failed and he died!

The special service team did not dare to neglect, and immediately reported the matter to the Military Law Office of the Ministry of National Defense. The Military Law Office instructed an autopsy on the spot to find out the cause of death and keep the body for future review.After contact, the Shanghai Police Station sent two forensic doctors to conduct an autopsy. The forensic conclusion was that Hisao Tani died of acute myocardial infarction due to arteriosclerosis. Gu Hisao, as a repeat offender of the "Nanjing Massacre", suddenly died of a sudden illness.They always felt that this was a bit strange, so before the autopsy was completed and ready to be sent to the refrigerated freezer, they rushed to the morgue to conduct a detailed verification and inspection of the corpse again.During this inspection, a problem was discovered.

The members of the secret service team first studied the body's appearance, figure, and age, and felt that it generally looked like Tani Hisao.Then he carefully inspected the whole body of the corpse. When a member of the team was inspecting the feet, he suddenly found a flaw. He pointed to the dead body and exclaimed, "This is not the body of Hisao Tani!" Pointing to the feet of the deceased, the officer said: "The Japanese wear clogs all their lives, and their feet are flat. Look at this corpse, the feet are concave, which is a typical 'arched sole'. Of course, this is not Tani Hisao. Corpse, someone played a conspiracy!"

The autopsy was tricked, so where is the real Hisao Tani?The secret service team immediately searched in the morgue, and finally found the real "body" of Hisao Tani on the No. 19 mortuary bed.His face was turning from the original dead gray to red and white. When he touched his chest, his heart was already beating gently, and he could clearly feel the subtle breathing under his nostrils. It turned out that Kono Man and others bought a recently deceased Chinese body that looked like Gu Hisao with a lot of money when Gu Hisao was escorted to Shanghai, and then passed Bi Shangqing a special fake death pill to Gu Hisao.After Gushou's fake death, they bribed the mortuary staff to switch the package, handed over the fake Gushou's body to the forensic doctor, and then planned to rescue Gushou that night.I thought it was well planned and foolproof, but I didn't expect that the highly vigilant members of the Chinese secret service still found a loophole and thwarted the evil plot of the Japanese fascist militarists to rescue the repeat criminals of the "Nanjing Massacre".

On October 16, 1946, Hisao Tani was escorted to Nanjing and detained in the War Criminal Detention Center of the Ministry of National Defense.Konoman and three people followed and chased to Nanjing. The Xiaoying Detention Center for War Criminals was built in the 1930s. It was originally a special army prison. It consists of three four-story buildings, five courtyards, a five-meter-high thick wall with power grids, and two electrically controlled gates.The security here is heavily guarded, and every iron gate is guarded by double posts.There are tall sentry boxes at the four corners of the wall, and sentries stand guard day and night.To enter and exit here, one does not recognize the face or the person, only a copper badge the size of a silver dollar is required. Without a badge, even wearing a high-grade military uniform and a high-end badge, it is impossible to pass.The front of this special badge is engraved with an exquisite image of the appearance of an army prison. On the upper part, there are the words "Army Special Prison of the Republic of China" written by Yu Youren, a veteran of the Kuomintang. decipher and imitate.

After Gu Hisao was imprisoned in the Xiaoying War Criminals Detention Center, the special service team continued to take care of him and went in and out of the prison every day, so each of them was issued a badge like this.After Konoman and three people learned about the heavily guarded situation of the prison through various channels, they considered again and again, and finally put the idea of ​​rescuing Hisao Tani on this special badge. One evening, Konoman and his three kidnapped Xing, a member of the secret service team, on the road when he was returning home from get off work.They unloaded his pistol, stuffed him into the car, and drove straight to the countryside, to a remote pine forest under the Zijin Mountain.Seeing the momentum, Xing thought of the accident in Shanghai, guessed that this was the work of Japanese militarists, and the purpose might be to snatch his badge, so he hurriedly stuffed the badge into the car seat when he was dragged out of the car In the gap between the backrest and seat cushion.

After Konoman and the others dragged Xing to the pine forest, they roared ferociously, forcing him to hand over his badge.Xing knew that the badge was of great importance, so he kept silent.Kono was very annoyed and searched him all over.Then he was tied up again and beaten severely. Xing was beaten until he passed out, but he never spoke the truth. Kono Man was exhausted, and took a breather to find some water to drink.When he went to the cab to get a teacup, he suddenly found something shiny in the gap between the seats. He took it out and saw that it was indeed the badge.Kono Mitsuru was overjoyed as if he had found a treasure, and immediately took his badge and changed into the uniform of a Chinese officer prepared in advance, and together with Okada Jiro, drove straight to the Xiaoying War Criminals Detention Center, leaving Li Changmei to bury Xing alive on the spot.

The cold wind was howling in the pine forest, and the air-conditioning was overwhelming. Xing was gradually woken up by the cold wind.He saw that Li Changmei was digging a hole, knew the situation was serious, and immediately untied the tied rope wittily.When Li Changmei dug the pit and came forward to drag Xing into the pit, Xing immediately broke free from the rope, jumped up, and fought fiercely with Li Changmei.Although Xing was wounded, he had received special training after all, and quickly gained the advantage in the fight, and beat Li Changmei to death on the spot. After Xing beat Li Changmei to death, he didn't see Mitsuru Kono and Jiro Okada. They probably found out and got their badges and went to the prison to rescue Hisao Tani. Enduring the pain all over his body, he ran out of the pine forest and came to the highway On the way, he hurriedly stopped a passing car and hurried to Nanjing city.Seeing that it was too late to arrive at the army prison, he quickly found a phone number and called the prison to call the police.After the warden received the call, he immediately made emergency deployments and made full precautionary preparations. However, when Mitsuru Kono and Jiro Okada drove into the city, it was God's will to kill them. Their car engine broke down on the way and they had to stop for repairs, so it was delayed for a while.Of course Kono Man didn't know that his accomplice had been killed, and the Army Prison had received a call to the police.After he drove the car to the empty field outside the Army Prison, he left Okada Jiro driving outside the door to meet him. He was wearing the uniform of a Chinese military officer, wearing the entry and exit badge, and walked towards the prison gate in a grand manner. Konoman passed the first gate smoothly, and he couldn't help but feel secretly happy.It was around ten o'clock at night, the weather was chilly in late autumn, and there were few pedestrians outside. It was a good time to rescue Hisao Tani, so he quickly walked towards the second gate.Just as he was about to pass through the second gate, a few figures flashed from the sentry boxes on both sides, and they knocked Kono Mitsuru to the ground and handcuffed him. When Konoman was knocked down, he knew something was wrong, so he roared in defiance while struggling.Okada Jiro heard from outside and knew that something had happened, so he immediately started the motor and hurriedly drove away.The two police cars and four motorcycles that had been prepared in the prison all went out in pursuit.In the shooting, Okada Jiro was seriously injured by bullets and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, where he died. After being arrested, Mitsuru Kono confessed that they planned to rescue the war criminal Hisao Tani twice from Shanghai to Nanjing.It was later found that he was also guilty of massacring 14 Chinese civilians and raping 7 Chinese women during the "Nanjing Massacre".He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Nanjing Military Court.At that time, public opinion believed that the sentence was too light, but Mitsuru Kono complained that the sentence was too heavy, and appealed.Unexpectedly, during the appeal period, one night after he fell asleep, he never got up again. An autopsy concluded that he died of poisoning.It is said that a patriotic jailer put poison in his supper, the prison authorities checked it out, and then nothing happened. With their loyalty, tact and bravery, the members of the Chinese special service team and the prison police once again defeated the plot of the Japanese fascist militarists to rescue the "Nanjing Massacre" re-offender Tani Hisao.