The turmoil was finally quelled, and Li Zhiqun nearly fainted when he tallied up the losses.
This time the losses far exceeded those of the previous one, with five action teams suffering as many as a thousand casualties, among whom the core personnel suffered particularly severe losses.
The Second Action Team, in particular, was almost completely wiped out because it clashed with the police in western Shanghai from the very beginning, its forces were scattered, and its response was slow. In addition, with the death of Wu Zhenming, this team was practically defunct.
Moreover, the initial battleground was the major casinos, so these casinos were almost completely destroyed, not to mention the lost gambling funds and cash.
It can be said that this time, the Special Agent Headquarters suffered unprecedented huge losses in terms of both personnel and economy, which made Li Zhiqun heartbroken and want to cry but had no tears.
The Shanghai police force was almost completely wiped out. Zhou Fushan had to send an urgent telegram to Wang Tianhai because the matter was too serious. As the Minister of Police, he was already in danger himself and had to ask Wang Tianhai to come back and save his life.
Because the matter involved the garrison and the military police, Lieutenant General Tada Naoya, in particular, expressed great dissatisfaction with the Kagesa Agency. As the garrison commander, he was fully responsible for the defense of the Shanghai area. However, he was responsible for the large-scale unrest that had occurred in Shanghai. Therefore, he put pressure on Haruki Masayoshi to restrain the puppet government and prevent such incidents from happening again.
Haruki Masayoshi's status was insufficient, and he could not withstand the pressure from Lieutenant General Tada. So he immediately sent a telegram to the head of the agency, Kagesa Hiroki, who was in Japan reporting on his work, asking him to return to Shanghai as soon as possible to take charge of the work.
This massive upheaval severely impacted Shanghai's public security, forcing many citizens to once again flock to the foreign concessions for refuge.
Ning Zhiheng immediately ordered his informants in the Shanghai West Police Station and the Zuo Qiang action team members involved in the operation to blend into the refugees and retreat to the foreign concessions for safety.
In this operation, Ning Zhiheng also had to use the intelligence agents who were lurking in the city. Since starting intelligence work in the city, Yi Huaan had prepared extremely reliable identities for his intelligence agents and placed them in various levels and departments. One of them was assigned to the Shanghai West Police Station.
This intelligence agent used various resources to quickly gain the trust of Director Xie Zi'an and gradually became a police chief in the Huxi Police Bureau. It was this identity that led Ning Zhiheng to choose Huxi as the breakthrough point for this operation.
As planned, the intelligence agent planted a time bomb in Xie Zi'an's office, calculated the time when the other two police chiefs would go to Xie Zi'an for their routine report, and eliminated the three leaders in the Huxi Police Bureau who could hinder his actions in one fell swoop.
Next, they rallied and incited their officers to launch a retaliatory attack against the intelligence headquarters. Finally, during the standoff, a group of police officers disguised as officers from Zuo Qiang's action team launched the first attack, provoking the incident.
They then took advantage of the chaos to withdraw, and how things will ultimately turn out is up to fate!
In fact, things took an unexpected turn; the sparks that were sown quickly spread like wildfire throughout the city.
The final result far exceeded their expectations, as well as Ning Zhiheng's. His original three assassination attempts, designed to provoke Li Zhiqun, had all failed. Instead, the setup at the Shanghai West Police Station had such a stunning effect, which was an unexpected surprise for him.
At this time, the bridges leading to the concession were also packed with refugees, and among these refugees were Chen Hongchi and his group.
Their hiding place was in western Shanghai. Originally, it was because of the special circumstances in western Shanghai that the management system was relatively loose, which made it easier for them to hide their whereabouts. However, they did not expect that the place where the first unrest would occur was western Shanghai.
Chen Hongchi had originally planned to stay in downtown Shanghai to observe the changing situation and get a clearer picture of what was going on, but this major upheaval forced him to change his mind.
Because a large-scale citywide search was inevitable, with western Shanghai being the top priority, they had no choice but to temporarily avoid the brunt of the attack by entering the concession area.
Squeezed onto the Baidu Bridge, swept along by the hurried and crowded masses, the group of people clutched their luggage tightly, looking utterly disheveled.
After they rushed through the checkpoint with the flow of people, they met up on a street, leaned against the wall for a moment to rest and catch their breath.
Looking back at the citizens still jostling and crowding onto the bridge to rush into the concession, Yang Wenbo said with lingering fear, "What's going on? How did it suddenly become so chaotic? If we had left a moment later, we would have been stuck in the city."
Lu Jian chuckled and said, "The police station and No. 76 are having a big fight, like dogs biting each other. Neither of them are good people."
Chen Hongchi was also baffled by this sudden situation. He had just reported the general situation to headquarters last night, and now such a big thing had happened. He couldn't help but shake his head and say, "Something major must have happened, otherwise they wouldn't have made such a commotion. It's a pity we don't have any intelligence channels. But it's certain that No. 76 has suffered a major blow this time. Things will be easier for us in the future. We'll come back after this storm passes."
That evening, the Chongqing Military Intelligence Bureau headquarters received a telegram from Chen Hongchi. Bian Ze, who was in charge of the intelligence station, did not dare to delay and rushed to report to the bureau chief immediately.
When the magistrate received the telegram, he could hardly believe his eyes. He had just received a telegram from Chen Hongchi the day before, describing a large-scale firefight that had occurred in downtown Shanghai the night before last, and he was secretly pleased.
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