Chen Chao is self-aware, and he knows very well that he is not bad at all, no matter whether it is luck or ability.

After leaving the inner city and finding Fang Buwei, Chen Chao took all the troops from the agents headquarters to Dongguo City.

To the west of the inner city, that is, to Xingzhongmen in the north, to the outside of Zhonghuamen in the south, and to the area along the Yangtze River, it is handed over to Fang Buwei.

Fang Buwei, with 80% of his men, was responsible for searching less than 20% of the outer city.

It sounds unreasonable, but it is not surprising at all with the facts.

Most of the Dongguo City, which Chen Chao is responsible for, are farmland villages, and a small part are hilly forest farms. They are sparsely populated and simple in terrain, and are not a good place for Tibetans.

Since the founding of Xiaguan in the Ming Dynasty, it has been the commercial center of Nanjing.

Piers, docks, markets, and warehouses are all concentrated here, and there are shanty towns and slums that account for more than half of Nanjing.

After the two groups of areas were redivided, it was already bright.

Whether it is a spy from various institutions or two regiments of the military police, they often carry out tasks such as siege and search. Once the order was issued, they would go to their place and start to conduct network investigations.

But until noon, the entire Xiguo City was searched and there was no news.

"You said, where did the person hide?" Zhao Shirui asked.

He was talking about the shopkeeper and the friend of the grain shop, the two guardians at the sand factory, and the Masao Konomiya whom the dormitor had met and two other Japanese.

And the ship that Konomima Masao pulled over rice and grain seemed to have suddenly disappeared.

"It's understandable that Konomima Masao and that boat cannot be found, but the people in the grain shop and sand farm cannot disappear for no reason! The search is so strict that it's impossible to hide..." Zhao Shirui said again.

Fang Buwei frowned and said nothing.

He was thinking about this question too.

The Japanese at these two strongholds suddenly escaped after the martial law in Xiaguan last night. Even if they hid, they could only be in Xiaguan and could not escape the encirclement.

After such a strict search, it should have been searched long ago.

In order to make a quick battle, Fang Buwei adopted the method Gu Zhenlong explained: first clear the streets and then recognize each other.

Everyone who has been cleared from a store must be recognized by neighbors in front of the street and back. As long as one neighbor cannot recognize the person or does not attach the information registered during the inspection, the plenary session will be regarded as a suspect to investigate.

Moreover, the shopkeeper of the grain store has left a photo in the police station to file a record. The relevant wanted order has been issued to Xiaguan groups and posted it on the main roads at the intersection of each street. If it is still in Xiaguan, it is impossible to escape.

Unless the search team members were careless, they did not find hidden secret passages or secret rooms.

But they are all old spies, and the focus of this investigation is to search people, so it is impossible to ignore this point.

Where can that person hide?

Fang Buwei stood at the window on the second floor and looked at the sparse ships on the riverside.

When he first brought his men out of the city, Fang Bubu's order to allow the Fifth Regiment to surround the outer city wall, even the riverside of Xiaguan was surrounded, all the upper and lower levels were blocked, and all the ships in the river were docked and inspected.

The previous investigation department has searched it, and Li Dengke from the Third Police Station has led people to search it for the second time.

Not underground, is it hidden in the water?

In this era, there were no oxygen cylinders and underwater respirators. Is there any way to hide for so long?

Reeds, bamboo tubes...

Fang Buwei thought of several ways.

"You go and notify Feng Jiashan, exchange it with Li Dengke, and search the ships by the river again... Tell Feng Jiashan to let him pay attention, there may be people hidden under the ship..." Fang Buwei explained to Ye Xingzhong.

"Hidden people under the water? It's impossible!" Zhao Shirui asked in confusion.

It is indeed impossible for ordinary people, but it is not difficult to hide underwater and not show up for a long time.

No matter how bad it is, if you tie a stone on your body and hang it on the bottom of the boat, even if you drown, you will not float up.

"Look and check it out!" Fang Buwei replied.

Feng Jiashan took the second group of the anti-espionage stocks and changed the defense zone with Li Dengke and started the search again.

He first let all the ships by the river leave the shore, regardless of the wooden ship's steamer, all of them start at the fastest speed, and observe whether there are people hiding under the ship.

After confirming that there was no one under the ship, Feng Jiashan ordered the team members to cast nets without gaps and fish along the coast.

To this extent, someone would have to hide in the water and be caught by the fishing net.

The river bank is short, and Feng Jiashan is moving very quickly. In less than an hour, he has searched the near shore and took people to search the other shore by boat.

"No one is under the water!" Zhao Shirui put down his telescope.

In fact, there is no need to search the other side.

There are always soldiers guarding the riverside, and all ships are prohibited from going down the river, and the people here cannot reach the other side.

The shortest place on both sides of the Yangtze River in Xiaguan is nearly ten miles long. The river water is turbulent. If you can swim across the river by manpower alone, at least you must have the water quality of white strips in the waves.

But Fang Buwei did not stop him.

Feng Jiashan naturally thought of this, and he must have taken his men to the other side for interrogation.

"I'm seeing the ghost!" Fang Buwei muttered.

Where did the Japanese in the grain shop and sand farm go?

"I just ran a few shrimps, what's the big deal?" Zhao Shirui said indifferently, "Even the commander and the director said that if you don't miss the net, the contribution this time is great enough..."

"Barring!" Fang Buwei angrily rebuked, "I took these Japanese people to Xiaguan and ran away after I took them to Xiaguan. Although there was no martial law at that time, the outer city and the riverside had sent troops to blockade him. Where could they run?"

"Where can you run?" Zhao Shirui said with a squinted eye, "If you are not in the outer city, you will naturally follow the merchants in Xiaguan and get into the inner city!"

Fang Buwei was about to curse, but his heart suddenly jumped.

What Zhao Shirui said is not impossible.

At that time, the inner city gates only entered and did not leave, so these people were likely to sneak in.

But in this way, wouldn’t it mean that after deploying martial law, searching twice, leaving the city, and after Ma Chunfeng searching twice, there are still Japanese strongholds in the city?

Otherwise, the curfew was not hidden last night, and these people would not be able to hide it.

What should I do? Should I transfer people into the city and search again?

Seeing Fang Bupu staring at him with his eyes in his eyes, Zhao Shirui also reacted: "Is there really a fish that misses the net?"

"Don't be anxious!" Fang Buwei breathed, "I'll just inform the city gates to check. If you enter the city, you can't escape!"

From 10 o'clock the night before yesterday to now, the inner city has been martial law for nearly forty hours. Although the city gate has not been closed, the inspection has been several times stricter than usual, especially since yesterday morning.

The three city gates in the Xiaguan area are only open to merchants transporting civilian resources, and no idle people can enter the city.
Chapter completed!