funbook-pk Chapter 693 The person was found!
Chapter 693 The person was found!
What's more, the Japanese army is about to arrive.
Shanghai is about to slide into the abyss! Dai Li dare not imagine how the war situation will develop next!
Three elite Central Divisions, after so many days, couldn't even capture Hongkou! They were pinned to the ground by enemy planes and naval guns...
Then faced with the Japanese reinforcements of the Type A Division! That situation...
But now, all the pressure was on himself, and the failure to annihilate the Yangtze River Fleet was used as an outlet for the government's feelings of failure.
I won’t be able to sleep well until I find the place where the information was leaked!
No one else would let him sleep peacefully either. . . . He didn't care at all that the annihilation of the Japanese Yangtze River Fleet was just an additional task; the main purpose of blocking the Yangtze River was to worry about the Japanese Third Fleet advancing inland along the Yangtze River. . . .
A carefully lit Cuban cigar rested on the edge of a heavy copper ashtray. The slender, grayish-white ash silently accumulated, broke, and finally fell into the ashtray like the crushed ashes of a soldier who had died in battle.
He slowly leaned back against the hard oak chair and closed his eyes.
The image of the Yangtze River navigation map clearly emerged in his mind, with the blockade lines, sunken ships, and even the secretly laid minefields that were carefully calculated in advance and quietly arranged in Jiangyin, Madang, Tianjia Town and other key places under extreme confidentiality.
They should have been invisible nooses strangling the Japanese Yangtze River Fleet! However...
"boom!"
An extremely rough and rude sound of knocking on the door without any regard for etiquette instantly tore apart the almost stagnant air in the office!
The heavy wooden door that was half-closed was suddenly pushed open, and the door hinge made a sharp, protesting "creaking" sound.
Immediately afterwards, a tall and muscular figure swept in like a whirlwind, carrying with him a scorching and restless outdoor heat wave mixed with the smell of sweat and dust!
It’s Xu Baichuan, the head of the Operations Department.
The fourth brother, who was usually known for his calmness and composure, was like an enraged bull at this moment.
The upper back of his Military Control Commission summer uniform was soaked with sweat, leaving a large dark patch that stuck to his back, which was suddenly and rapidly rising and falling.
Two buttons on the collar were hastily torn open, revealing a red neck.
His face was covered with gray streaks of sweat, his military cap was tilted to one side, and a few strands of hair were wet with sweat, sticking messily to his sweaty forehead. There was no trace of his former composure at all.
What is even more shocking is Xu Baichuan's expression.
His eyes, which were usually as calm as a lake, were now covered with fine bloodshot, almost bursting out.
His thick eyebrows were tightly twisted together, forming a ferocious "Chuan" character. The deep lines under his brows were like those carved by a knife or an axe, conveying a sense of shock, anger and horror that was about to explode.
His breathing was rapid and heavy, his chest heaving violently. Every breath he took seemed to use up all his strength, and it was as if he was trying his best to suppress the roar that was about to burst out from the depths of his throat.
Dai Li's eyes suddenly opened! Two cold gazes instantly burst out from his eyes.
The fatigue and depression evaporated from his face in an instant, leaving only the alertness and the brilliance of control over everything that was enough to freeze the air.
He didn't even ask a single question.
Without any pause, Xu Baichuan rushed to Dai Li's huge desk piled with documents like a cannonball.
He forgot to raise his hand to salute, a phenomenon that had never happened before in the Lixingshe Secret Service, which was extremely strict on discipline and procedures.
With a "crash", a pile of files piled up like a mountain on the corner of the table was knocked down by the wind caused by his rush, and the papers were scattered all over the ground like flowers from the sky.
Xu Baichuan didn't even blink.
"Director!" Xu Baichuan's voice was hoarse, with obvious cracks and uncontrollable trembling.
He had been tightly gripping a telegram in his right hand, as if it contained something absolutely fatal. The veins on the back of his hand were bulging, and his knuckles were slightly white and trembling from excessive force.
At his sweat-soaked temples, a blue vein throbbed beneath his skin.
"The person has been found!" These three words were almost forced out from his constantly opening and closing, dry lips, and each syllable was wrapped in a heavy smell of blood.
"Chen Ming from Tianjin Station sent this message using the highest level code book!
Just received it no more than a quarter of an hour ago!" Xu Baichuan spoke as fast as popcorn, but his words fell like boulders, each word stirring a deeper chill in the dead and suffocating air.
"Top secret! Absolutely accurate! Target... the leaker!"
When he said the word "leaker", his eyes widened like copper bells, and the bloodshot in his eyes seemed to be about to bleed in the next second.
"The plan to blockade the Yangtze River and annihilate the enemy ships was truly a leak!
It was leaked to the Japanese by a traitor! ! Virgo! "
In the office, only the old brass ceiling fan was still making a futile "buzzing" sound, stirring the solidified, suffocating air and fear.
Xu Baichuan's rapid and heavy breathing became the only background sound in the dead silence that proved that time was still passing.
He stared intently at Dai Li's expressionless face, as if trying to squeeze a reaction out of that iron-like hardness.
Dai Li's eyes, sunken in his eye sockets, shrank like needle tips in an instant, cold and silent, like two instantly frozen craters, but forcibly locked deep in his pupils by an inhuman force.
Dai Li carefully took the telegram from Xu Baichuan's hand, his movements as gentle as if he was dismantling a bomb with a fuse.
The room was dead silent, with only the piercing rustling of papers unfolding.
The content was as clear as a knife, every word a dagger stained with poison and blood:
Urgent and confidential. To Chen Mingfa, Nanjing Section Chief, Tianjin Station:
According to an urgent telegram from the insider "Qingyu" of the Japanese Military Police Headquarters in Tianjin, it was learned that the Japanese Third Fleet had indeed mastered the secrets of the entire deployment of our "Operation Natural Cut", including the three main river closure points of Jiangyin, Madang and Tianjia Town, as well as the coordinates of the laying of shipwreck mines and the precise time information.
"Qingyu" testified that the source of the leak was in the core of the Nationalist government, not the military, but actually the Executive Yuan confidential secretary Huang Jun and his son Huang Sheng.
The Japanese Consul General in Nanjing, Suma Yakichiro, used his diplomatic identity to cover up his espionage activities. He took advantage of Huang Jun's extravagant lifestyle and greed for money and bribed him with a large sum of money to provide him with core secrets of the National Government.
The specific method included contacting Huang Jun under the pretext of "asking for advice on Chinese poetry" and gradually establishing an intelligence relationship.
The father and son maintained close contact with the military attaché of the Japanese Consulate General in Nanjing, Takayoshi Tanaka, and passed on the suspected information through a teahouse in Xuanwu Lake and the residence of a foreign ambassador.
The information is 99% accurate. I implore you to conduct a thorough investigation immediately and take swift and drastic measures without any delay!
August 27, 1937, 4:10 p.m.
Each lead-printed black word turned into a cold and hard anvil, hammering down heavily on the depths of Dai Li's brain, one hammer after another!
The Qingyu here refers to Itai Yudai, which is a code name given by Dai Li himself, but Itai Yudai himself does not know it.