The sandbags and barbed wire piled up at the entrance of Ping'an Lane are in a mess, and bullet holes and traces of explosions can be seen everywhere on the parapets of the wall. It is obvious that the parapets of the wall were once shooting holes for the defenders.
The Japanese military police have three posts and one sentry every five steps.
Early this morning, Japanese military police broke into Ping'an Lane and began a large-scale manhunt, determined to capture all the rioters.
Lu Ming was stopped by Japanese military police at the entrance of the alley.
They were mumbling in Japanese and pointing their bayonets at Lu Ming and his group.
Lu Ming was accompanied by seven or eight people, including Gao Mote, deputy president of Heishan Daily, Zhou Xiaoguo, a lawyer from Heishan Guangming Law Firm, Cheng Wanjun, deputy chairman of Wanzhou New Life Movement Committee, Zhang Daniu, a mining worker from Heishan, Wang Ming, director of the Board of Directors of Heishan Special Zone Red Cross Society, Tiesuo, a freelance writer, Gao Jiansheng, a doctor and member of the Renxin Alliance, and many others.
Of course, standing in the front row to block the black muzzles of the Japanese guns were a row of young men in baseball caps.
At the same time, several combat teams from the Air Service Regiment nearby quickly occupied advantageous terrain.
Gao Mote took a few steps forward. He knew more than a dozen languages of various ethnic groups, and he started talking in a jumbled manner.
The general meaning is that we are the human rights observation group established by the Montenegro Special Administrative Region in response to the May 25 incident, to investigate the recent war in Shengjing and possible human rights violations.
The chief observer of the observation group is Mr. Zhang, the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Montenegro Special Region in Shengjing. Why don’t you go and report to your commander
Looking at the huge monster gradually approaching with huge noise in the air, and the black hole of the machine gun muzzle on the heavy helicopter.
A Japanese military policeman who looked like a squad leader quickly ran into the alley.
"Huh? Ichiro?" Lu Ming felt that a person in the row of Japanese military police in front of him looked very familiar. After thinking about it, he remembered that it was Ichiro Okagawa.
He was once the captain of the Nanping gendarmerie, but a member of a large family whom he protected was killed by Qing'e, and he subsequently expelled the gendarmerie.
Ichiro Okagawa's eyelids twitched, as if he didn't see Lu Ming who was smiling and greeting him.
Looking at his rank of private, Lu Ming coughed and was demoted to a private. However, it was remarkable that this guy was able to save his life.
Soon, a major Japanese military officer came into the alley. He had a scar on his face and looked very ferocious. He kept glancing at Lu Ming.
Lu Ming would ignore him, so Gao Mote went to communicate with him.
The wooden boards of the gatehouse next to it were all riddled with bullet holes and were broken into pieces, but it was obvious that the telephone inside was new and the telephone line had been connected.
The Japanese officer entered the gatehouse and hung up the phone.
After a while, he came out holding the phone, "Minister Zhang, Minister Kawamoto wants to speak to you." There was a very unconvinced look on his face.
Lu Ming nodded, and a guy in a baseball cap took the microphone and handed it to Lu Ming.
"Zhang-san, what happened?" Kawamoto Masayoshi asked anxiously, "Why didn't you communicate with me at all beforehand?"
Lu Ming sighed, "I can't do anything about it. General Lu is fulfilling the obligations of a member of the alliance according to the agreement signed when joining the Eastern Economic Union. We must investigate any human rights violations that may involve the Special Administrative Region, and we should randomly recruit independent observers. I am now the chief representative of the observation group, and the observers have also been specially screened. This is the best result we can strive for."
"Yesterday, the East China Sea Council sent a formal letter to inquire about the truth of the May 25 incident. Because Shengjing and the Black Mountain Special Zone are closely related, the Alliance Committee also asked our Black Mountain to form an investigation team to conduct a detailed investigation and submit an investigation report."
"What should we do then?" Kawamoto Masayoshi asked tentatively. He probably couldn't trust what Lu Ming said, but was trying to figure out what the Montenegrin people wanted to do.
Lu Ming said: "Several observers are going to enter Ping'an Lane because they heard that your military personnel are committing violence here."
Kawamoto Masayoshi was silent for a while, then resolutely said, "Okay, wait for me! I will accompany your observation group into Ping An Lane."
"That won't work. Kawamoto, you give the order. The observers must enter in five minutes at most. Otherwise, they will think that they are erasing traces of war crimes." Lu Ming looked at his watch. "Four minutes and fifty-five seconds left."
Kawamoto was obviously gritting his teeth, but he said in a muffled voice: "Please, Mr. Zhang, return the phone to Major Suzuki."
Soon the phone came back to the hands of the scarred-faced gendarmerie captain Suzuki. Suzuki said "hi" a few times and answered with a similar tone.
"Minister Zhang, please wait a moment with the other observers!" Suzuki bowed and quickly walked into the alley.
A few minutes later, the phone at the gate post rang. The team leader answered it and made a gesture. The wire and wooden fence were moved away and the Japanese military police also moved to the sides.
Ping'an Lane was originally the largest gathering place for Western middle-class people in Shengjing. It had rows of two-story buildings, thousands of courtyards, and excellent greenery, with flower beds, fountains, and small squares everywhere.
But now when I walk in it, I can smell a faint smell of blood.
Thick black smoke was still rising from some small buildings.
In the fountain flowerbed square that suddenly opens up shortly after entering the community, there were hundreds of Westerners, men, women, young and old, sitting dejectedly, some with blood all over their bodies.
There were more than a dozen Western men tied to trees. In addition, there were some trees that had no one tied to them, but there were bloodstains on and under the trees.
Looking at the trees without people tied to them, Lu Ming glanced at Major Suzuki who was walking beside him and said in a deep voice, "An informant gave us information that you just stabbed the captives to death here with bayonets, right?"
Major Suzuki was startled, his expression became strange, he looked around, obviously didn't know how the news leaked, because they had just broken through here at dawn, the large-scale search had just begun, there was still sporadic resistance, and several leaders here were stabbed to death with bayonets in front of the lambs to be slaughtered to intimidate those lambs, which happened just now.
"Minister Zhang, many houses here have not been searched yet, and there must be many thugs hiding inside. So, for the safety of the observers, you and the observers should wait here for a while."
He was an expert at changing the subject. He waved his hand again and muttered a few words. Soon, a military policeman came over, bringing a Western man with a forced smile on his face but deep fear in his eyes.
"Minister Zhang, his name is Alfonso, and he is the municipal councilor of this community. You and the observers can ask him what happened here."
Lu Ming looked at the Western man with a flattering smile on his face. Obviously, he was an actor arranged temporarily.
However, Gomert and others, as well as the accompanying affairs officer, had already picked up their notebooks to take notes, and they all asked Alfonso about the situation here.
According to Alfonso, the riots started here on May 25. Most of the residents here supported the rioters, who used this place as their base and went out to loot. The riots were not suppressed by the Japanese military police until early this morning.
Lu Ming listened and shook his head, but in fact, it has been like this in all past and present lives, especially for wars or riots. How true is the information that the outside world finally gets