After a moment of silence, Li Zhiqun said, "Forget it, let's not think about that too much for now. Let's solve the Qingdao problem first. Tomorrow I'll ask Major Yokota to contact and investigate the Ding family in the Qingdao area and find Ding Mingzhen. I don't believe she can just disappear without a trace with her whole family!"
Just as they were discussing their next steps, in a detached house in the northern suburbs, where the Qingdao Railway Station was located, Luo Yuze and Fu Shengyuan were also at a table, pointing to several blueprints on the table and carefully considering some details of the demolition plan.
Fu Shengyuan spoke first, saying, "The villa we selected is 20 meters east of Xingtai Hotel. The explosives are ready. We're just waiting for the tunnel to be dug through and the drainage system to be connected. According to the blueprints, we can get close to Huiying Hotel and place the explosives at this bend. If we can get some more explosives, we can also set up a blasting point here. If we detonate these two blasting points together, the force will be enough to overturn the west side of Huiying Hotel."
Luo Yuze scanned the blueprints with hopeful eyes, nodded, and said, "The west side of the first floor of the Huiying Hotel is a large hall, the only place in the hotel that can be used as a meeting venue. All the dignitaries from the three parties will gather here, along with representatives from the Japanese in Central and Northern China. Just imagine, as soon as the explosion sounds, all these people will be sent to their deaths, and the entire situation of the War of Resistance will change. Old Fu, we're going to be big figures who change history, hahaha..."
Upon hearing this, Fu Shengyuan was also greatly encouraged and excitedly said, "Yes, this is a great achievement. It is thanks to your ingenuity, Section Chief, that you came up with such a meticulous plan. No matter how cunning the Japanese are, they would never have imagined that we would bypass the estuary and dig a tunnel halfway to directly intrude into the drainage system and approach the Huiying Hotel."
At this point, he shook his head with some regret and continued, "Unfortunately, we only have so much TNT. If we had more, we would be much more confident. The Guest House is a castle-like building built by the Germans. Its foundation is solid, and the walls are made of a lot of granite, making it very sturdy. We may not have enough explosives."
Luo Yuze waved his hand dismissively and said confidently, "It doesn't matter. The current explosive yield isn't enough to overturn it, but it's enough to collapse it. The difference won't be too significant!"
Luo Yuze is also a skilled operator, especially adept at demolitions. He designed the entire operation plan and is very confident in it.
As soon as the special operations team arrived in Qingdao, Luo Yuze instructed Fu Shengyuan to collect all available information about the Huiying Hotel. They not only learned about the hotel's internal structure, but more importantly, they obtained a diagram of the hotel's drainage system, finally finding a starting point for their operation.
It turns out that Qingdao was ruled by the Germans for a long period of time, nearly thirty years. The Germans at that time wanted to make Qingdao a colony for a long time, so they invested a lot of money.
Over such a long period of time, the Germans built a large number of villas and high-rise buildings along the most scenic Qingdao Bay, which also became the main area where German expatriates lived.
The Huiying Hotel is one of them, and it was converted from the largest and most upscale castle-style building among them.
The Germans attached great importance to the infrastructure work in this area inhabited by German expatriates, especially the construction of drainage pipes. They built the system to the most advanced level in Asia at the time, so the entire drainage system was very orderly, connecting all the buildings and leading directly to the inland sea. Moreover, the pipes were large in diameter, large enough for personnel to pass through.
Fu Shengyuan went to great lengths to obtain the blueprints for this drainage system. Luo Yuze used these blueprints to formulate the entire action plan, devising a plan to approach the Huiying Hotel via the drainage pipes and carry out the demolition.
This plan is quite similar to Ning Zhiheng's demolition of the Fukuoka warehouse, except that Ning Zhiheng went further, directly entering the warehouse to plant explosives, while Luo Yuze's target was people, and he only needed to destroy the building.
Considering that the hotel only had a lobby on the west side, which could be used to set up a meeting place, he decided to place a large amount of TNT explosives on the lower west side of the hotel.
However, the Japanese are not fools. Their security measures are very strict, and they knew beforehand that the drainage system in this area was special, so they had already sent people to guard all the drainage outlets into the sea.
After discovering that the drainage outlet to the sea was guarded by the Japanese, Luo Yuze devised an alternative plan. Using his identity as a staff member at Qingdao Station, he rented an inconspicuous villa at the northernmost end of the villa complex at a high price. More than ten days ago, he began digging a tunnel to break into the drainage system from the middle of the road, avoiding the pipe outlet to the sea. Then, following the drainage system blueprints, he approached the Huiying Hotel to carry out the demolition. The entire operation was ingeniously designed and carried out covertly, giving him a high chance of success.
However, the amount of preparation work required was enormous, and they also had to guard against the Japanese noticing, so progress was very slow. Fortunately, they knew about the target almost a month in advance, giving them enough time to prepare, and so far everything is going smoothly.
Everything is ready now. We are just waiting for the arrival of personnel from the puppet government and other parties. When that happens, we will set up a timed explosion and all the problems will be solved!
The two men were full of confidence and high spirits, and they talked happily for a while!
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