These men were ten members of the Shanghai intelligence station's action team, who had just completed the assassination of Nishimura Hiroshi, the counselor at the Japanese consulate in China.
Their operation went very smoothly, killing all seven members of Nishimura Hiroshi's group. They then quickly arrived at the designated crossing point to cross the Suzhou Creek and return to the International Settlement.
"Old Cao, is this the place?"
"This is it. There's a boat hidden ahead. Let's cross the river right away."
"Are we still waiting for the captain and the others?"
"No need, their crossing point isn't here. Hurry, don't delay, we need to act quickly. Once the special operations team starts fighting, the commotion will be huge, and the Japanese patrol will soon block the river. It won't be so easy for us to cross the river again!"
The team members quickly located the hidden boat, boarded it nimbly, and rowed swiftly towards the opposite bank.
The Suzhou Creek is about 70 meters wide, and it only takes a few minutes to cross by boat. Even people who are good swimmers can swim across. It is precisely for this reason that the Japanese have a lot of trouble with the defense of the Suzhou Creek. They cannot monitor such a long riverbank 24 hours a day, nor do they have enough manpower to completely block it off. Therefore, the team members did not find it difficult to cross the Suzhou Creek.
The boat sailed through the darkness and soon reached the center of the river. Suddenly, two searchlights shone from a distance, the engine roared, and sirens blared. Two Japanese patrol boats sped towards them from afar.
"Oh no, it's a Japanese patrol. Why would there be a patrol so late?"
The team members were all taken aback. They had investigated the Japanese river patrol team before the operation. Although the Japanese river patrol team did patrol at night, it was just a symbolic formality. After all, Shanghai had been under Japanese control for two years. Now it was peacetime, and the security was not as strict as it had been during the war.
According to past practice, it would be absolutely impossible for patrol boats to appear at this location at this time.
"Hurry, hurry, speed up! If we get to the other side, we'll have a chance!" Old Cao, who was leading the team, urged urgently.
However, the wooden boat was still too slow. The patrol boat had obviously spotted the small boat, and the two were within range of the machine gun. The Japanese soldiers on the patrol boat launched the first attack.
Their machine guns had a long range and great power, posing a great threat to the small wooden boat. After a burst of bullets, two crew members were hit and fell into the water, and the boat was also riddled with wood chips from the bullets.
The team members rowed frantically while firing back, but unfortunately, the light machine guns that the intelligence station had purchased this time were all handed over to the special operations team so that they could use them to attack the library building.
The intelligence station's operatives were all carrying rifles and pistols. Although they had prepared rifles this time, unfortunately, the few rifles around them posed almost no threat to the Japanese patrol boats.
The vast difference in weapon power left them almost powerless to fight back. The two patrol boats drew closer and closer, and the bullets became increasingly dense. Soon, several of the rowers were also hit by bullets, and the small boat spun around in the middle of the river, unable to move forward.
The four remaining team members exchanged glances, knowing that there was no other way but to jump into the river and escape as many as possible.
The four team members jumped into the water and swam desperately towards the opposite bank, but how could a person in the water possibly outpace a patrol boat?
When the Japanese patrol boat arrived, it rammed the wooden boat and, under the illumination of searchlights, bullets were fired incessantly. The four team members who fell into the water were all shot before they could swim ashore. Their bodies floated up, gushing blood. In just a moment, all ten team members were killed on the river.
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