Chapter 947 One Incident After Another
Chapter 947 One Incident After Another
Ai Cao hurriedly asked, "Unless what?"
Zhang Yunhe took a puff of his cigarette and said, "Unless the Japanese get through the higher-ups in the police department and send a large number of police officers to arrest us, or the Japanese send troops to occupy the French Concession and take over the defense, the French will have to leave here!"
Ai Cao said, "It's quite possible that the police could negotiate with higher-ups and then have the police send officers to make the arrest, but the French certainly won't allow the Japanese to send troops to take over the French Concession, right? Are they willing to hand over the French Concession to the Japanese? Besides, aren't they allies now?"
Zhang Yunhe was surprised: "You even know they're allies now?"
"Of course! Although I haven't been to school, I'm not completely ignorant!"
Zhang Yunhe stroked Ai Cao's beautiful hair and suddenly asked, "If I never come back, what will you do then?"
"No, if you don't come back, I'll wait for you; if you never come back, I'll give birth to the baby in my belly and wait for you forever!" Ai Cao said, touching her lower abdomen.
“What if I die out there one day and you don’t know? Silly girl, if I never come back, it means something bad has happened to me. Don’t wait for me anymore. Find an honest man to settle down with. Don’t look for those good-looking ones, don’t look for those who are good at talking, and definitely don’t look for those controlling and domineering men. You can’t control them and you’ll just be bullied all the time. He’ll squander all the money you have sooner or later!” Zhang Yunhe said with deep feeling.
Ai Cao shook her head, tears streaming down her face: "No, I won't look for anyone else. You are my only man. Even if you don't come back, I will give birth to the child and spend my whole life with him. When he grows up and gets married, I will come to find you!"
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Gendarmerie Headquarters.
Matsui and his colleagues had just come out of the office building and were preparing to take a car back to the garrison headquarters.
A Japanese lieutenant rushed over in a panic and reported to Lieutenant Colonel Inukai: "Lieutenant Colonel, something terrible has happened! There's been an incident at the headquarters warehouse!"
"Something happened in the warehouse? What happened?" Lieutenant Colonel Inukai asked suspiciously. He had a bad feeling. After all, Commander Sato had hanged himself, and now something had happened in the warehouse. What could be going on?
The Japanese lieutenant stammered, "Y-yes, the guns, ammunition, and supplies in the warehouse are missing. The four soldiers on duty tonight were also killed in the warehouse!"
"What?! Baka! How could this be?" Lieutenant Colonel Inukai was furious, and immediately said to Matsui, "Commander Matsui, I have to take my men to the warehouse immediately, so I can't see you off!"
Matsui immediately said, "I'll go take a look too, let's go!"
"Hayi!"
A group of Japanese officers led a large number of soldiers to the warehouse.
The warehouse door was open, and the inside was illuminated as if it were daytime.
When the Japanese soldiers entered the warehouse, they found it to be completely empty, with only an office desk and a chair by the door, and no other supplies.
Lieutenant Colonel Inukai's expression changed drastically. He immediately ran towards the entrance of the underground warehouse, and the others followed suit.
The group entered the underground warehouse one by one, but found nothing inside. Like the surface warehouse, the underground warehouse was empty.
Lieutenant Colonel Inukai, his eyes red, turned around and grabbed the lieutenant who had reported to him, shouting angrily, "Where are the weapons and supplies in the warehouse? Where did they go?"
The second lieutenant stammered, "Lieutenant Colonel, I... I really didn't know. I only found out about the incident at the warehouse from the report from the soldiers on duty just now. I rushed over to check the situation and immediately reported to you."
Matsui then asked, "Where are the bodies of the four guards who were killed?"
"In the northwest corner of the warehouse above, their bodies were initially covered by a pile of old sacks. The soldiers on duty found them during their search!" the lieutenant said hastily.
"Let's go see the bodies of the slain soldiers!" Matsui said, turning and walking away. The other Japanese officers and soldiers immediately followed.
Upon arriving at the ground warehouse, the group headed straight for the northwest corner.
At this time, a cordon had been set up at the northwest corner of the warehouse, and several soldiers were standing guard around it.
"Sir, they were all killed by the enemy from behind with cold weapons. This can be seen from the location, shape, and size of their wounds!" A Japanese lieutenant who was examining the bodies of soldiers on duty stood up and said to Matsui and other high-ranking officers.
Matsui glanced at the four corpses and asked, "How often do the warehouse guards change shifts?"
"Eight hours, four men per shift," the Japanese lieutenant who delivered the message replied.
Matsui added, "I need to see the inventory and inbound/outbound records. Go find them and show them to me right now!"
"Hai!" The second lieutenant immediately ran towards the main gate, where the account books were in the desk drawer by the gate.
The ledger was quickly found and delivered to Matsui.
Matsui flipped through the ledger to the last page with records and found that there were still many weapons, ammunition, and military supplies on the books, but they were all gone now.
He glanced at his watch; it was 4:05 a.m. He looked up at the second lieutenant, then shifted his gaze to Lieutenant Colonel Inukai's face and said, "The inventory records show that the warehouse should still have 3000 rifles, 300,000 rounds of ammunition, 200 pistols, 20,000 rounds of ammunition, 1000 hand grenades, and various other military supplies..."
"The warehouse entry and exit records show that the last exit was two hours ago, and the supplies taken out were 50 rifles and 5000 rounds of ammunition... This batch of weapons, ammunition and military supplies only accounts for 5% of the total inventory. I want to know, if someone took advantage of this exit to move all the inventory away, how did they manage to move such a large amount of supplies out of the Military Police Headquarters? The guards at the gate should have checked and verified the records, right?"
Lieutenant Colonel Inukai immediately said to an officer beside him, "Quickly go to the gatehouse and get the cargo verification record!"
"Ha Yi"
The goods verification record was quickly obtained, and the record showed that there were no problems with the verification; the actual shipment quantity was completely consistent with the quantity on the delivery note.
Matsui, with an extremely serious expression, said to Lieutenant Colonel Inukai, "The warehouse theft case needs to be investigated. This could only have been done by one of your own people. Therefore, I will have personnel drawn from various departments of the garrison command to form an investigation team to specifically investigate this case. Lieutenant Colonel Inukai, do you have anything to say?"
Lieutenant Colonel Inukai knew that the initiative in this matter was no longer in his hands, nor in the hands of the military police headquarters. After all, the higher-ups would not allow them to investigate themselves. All he could do was cooperate unconditionally!
"Hai, Commander, I have no objections. Our entire Military Police Command will cooperate fully!"
Just then, Matsui's adjutant strode over and whispered in his ear, "Sir, a large number of Imperial Army corpses have been discovered five kilometers northwest of the Yangjiaxing Military Police Headquarters. Police officers have already gone there to verify the identities of the dead; they are from the 27th Independent Brigade Artillery Battalion!"
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