novelAbuy Chapter 1524 The Source of Intelligence Leak
Chapter 1524 The Source of Intelligence Leak
Chapter 1524 The Source of Intelligence Leak
Guan Qide smelled a hint of blood.
He has a very sensitive nose.
They are especially sensitive to the smell of blood.
Not right.
Something must have happened.
Without any hesitation, Guan Qide did not even think about going in to check on his courier. He immediately turned around and left.
It was at this time——
Snapped.
Gunfire rang out.
The enemy hiding in the dark outside opened fire. Guan Qide was shot in the leg and fell forward to the ground.
The attacker rushed towards Guan Qide carrying a Type 38 rifle.
The door opened at this time.
A group of Japanese soldiers rushed out holding Type 38 rifles. The leading Japanese sergeant leaned on his command knife with both hands and watched with interest as Guan Qide, who was shot in the calf, struggled to get up and continue running.
The Japanese sergeant waved his hand, and a Japanese wolfhound rushed out. It got ahead of the Japanese soldiers who rushed over, knocked Guan Qide to the ground, and bit his calf which was shot.
Guan Qide let out a miserable cry.
Two Japanese soldiers dragged a man out of the yard. It was Tieqiao. He was dragged out and thrown on the ground.
Tieqiao struggled to raise his head and saw Guan Qide being bitten by a wolfhound. He opened his mouth.
The bayonet pierced into Tieqiao's neck fiercely, his head drooped down, and the bright red blood dyed the snow on the ground red.
……
A young man was brought before a sergeant by Japanese soldiers.
"This is the man. He often comes to Tieqiao." The young man said to the Japanese sergeant with a flattering smile.
Guan Qide had been bitten by the Oriental wolfhound until he was unable to breathe. The dog then loosened its mouth, but its bloody mouth was still wide open, ready to bite again at any time.
He lay on the snow, staring at the young man with hatred. He recognized this man. He was the son of the chairman of the maintenance association, a villain who indulged in drinking, gambling, and whoring, and did all kinds of evil.
Guan Qide knew he couldn't escape, so he quietly reached into his right pocket, found the note, and stuffed it directly into his mouth.
His action attracted the attention of the Japanese sergeant, who waved his hand.
Two Japanese soldiers immediately rushed towards Guan Qide.
Guan Qide did not stop. He took out another dumpling from his left pocket, stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it directly into his stomach without chewing.
The Japanese soldiers roughly lifted him up and immediately began to search him.
He took out a torn newspaper from his pocket, with cold dumplings wrapped in it.
"Are the dumplings poisonous?" the Japanese sergeant frowned.
He first suspected that the dumplings were poisonous and that the Red Party member wanted to commit suicide by taking poison.
This made the sergeant very upset, and he regretted not having ordered a search of the man's body immediately.
"Prepare to send him to the hospital for emergency treatment." said the Japanese sergeant. A living Red Party member is more valuable than a dead one. At least he cannot die before his mouth is pried open.
……
At this moment, the Japanese sergeant had an idea and he stepped forward and touched Guan Qide's right pocket.
The pockets were clean and tidy, with no signs of food like dumplings being placed in them.
"Bag duck drop!" The Japanese sergeant's face changed drastically. There was some hesitation in his eyes, but he finally made up his mind. He pulled out his Nambu pistol and shot Guan Qide to death with one shot.
Then, without any hesitation, he ordered the soldiers to lay the body flat.
The Japanese sergeant drew his command knife and cut open Guan Qide's belly with a grim smile. Then he squatted down and fumbled inside Guan Qide's chest. Soon, he took out the poor food that had not yet been digested in his stomach and searched carefully.
A piece of paper mixed with food mucus appeared in the hands of the Japanese sergeant.
……
Dai Ji had been waiting in a corner outside Longhua Temple, but he did not see Song Fuguo come out.
This made Dai Ji a little impatient.
He grabbed a citizen and asked, "Excuse me, how many gates are there in Longhua Temple?"
The citizen was startled, but answered the question, "Three doors are open now."
"Thank you." Dai Ji let go of his hand and breathed a sigh of relief.
There were no gunshots and no chaos in the temple, which means that Commander Song should have evacuated safely through another exit.
Dai Ji knew he couldn't stay any longer, so he pressed down the brim of his felt hat and quickly disappeared into the crowd.
"What's wrong with your brain?" The citizen being questioned dared to curse in a low voice.
Then, the citizen was grabbed by someone.
"What did he ask you?"
"What's it to you?" the citizen said unhappily.
The man who was asking the question lifted up his windbreaker, revealing the pistol on his waist. "Answer the question."
"Ask, that person asked me how many gates there are in Longhua Temple." The citizen was frightened and stammered.
"Nothing else?"
"No, just asking this."
"Fuck off!"
Feng Xiaosheng immediately made a hand signal, and two of his men rushed into the crowd and followed Dai Ji who had just walked away.
……
"Team Leader Feng, is there a problem?" one of his men asked the man.
"It's hard to say." Feng Xiaosheng shook his head. "It could be that they are the bandits who are planning to attack Longhua Temple and are here to scout the area."
He had already noticed the man hiding in the dark and staring at the gate of Longhua Temple.
This person does look a bit like a thief who is scouting the area before committing a crime.
However, he had a hint of doubt in his mind. If it was a bandit, now that he had confirmed how many gates there were in Longhua Temple, the next thing he should do was to enter from each gate and scout the area.
However, this person did not do that. Instead, he turned around and left. This was a bit strange.
It was at this time that he saw Cheng Qianfan and his family, escorted by many bodyguards, coming out of the gate of Longhua Temple, getting into a car, and leaving under the protection of bodyguards in front and behind.
Feng Xiaosheng frowned.
He naturally knew that 'Mr. Cheng' had survived the disaster and his whole family had come to Longhua Temple to fulfill their vows.
The news that Zhang Xiaolin sent someone to assassinate Cheng Qianfan with a bomb had already been widely circulated.
Moreover, they also heard that Cheng Qianfan had launched revenge and closed down several salt houses and gambling dens owned by Boss Zhang.
Is this Boss Zhang's counter-retaliation?
This villain is eyeing Longhua Temple. Is he coming for Cheng Qianfan?
He remembered that the suspicious guy just now was the one who hurried out of the temple after Cheng Qianfan arrived at Longhua Temple. However, he did not leave, but hid outside and stared furtively in the direction of the temple gate.
This is indeed somewhat consistent with his previous guess.
……
Japanese Army Hospital in Qingdao.
Kozaburo Furutani, chief of the intelligence room of the Qingdao Military Police Headquarters, brought his men to the morgue.
He bent down and stared at the body on the bed.
The disemboweled corpse lay there quietly, its eyes wide open, as if it had died with its eyes open.
"Director." Japanese Sergeant Shibasaki Kan'ao handed the note to Furuya Yukisaburo with both hands.
"Fortunately, Shibasaki acted quickly, and the note had not yet been corroded by gastric juice." A Japanese military doctor in a white coat said, "It has been treated with medicine, and the handwriting on it can basically be recognized."
Kozaburo Furuya nodded. He looked at the contents of the note with a strange expression, and then his expression became serious.
"Have you found out the identity of this person?" asked Yukisaburo Furutani.
"We have already found out." Shibasaki Mikio said, "This man is a worker at the Yizhong Cigarette Factory. His name is Guan Qide. We have already sent people to the Yizhong Cigarette Factory to search and investigate."
"Last year, there was a workers' strike at Yizhong Cigarette Factory. It is obvious that the Red Party has infiltrated the factory very seriously." Furuya Yukisaburo said, "Use this incident as an opportunity to dig deeper and catch all the Red Party members hiding in Yizhong Cigarette Factory."
"Hay."
Kozaburo Furuya asked a few more questions and then left in a hurry.
……
Qingdao Military Police Headquarters, Commander's Office.
"Tell me what you think." Koichirō Yoneyama looked at Kozaburo Furutani who hurried over to request a report and said.
"This information should have been passed to Guan Qide by his superior. He just met with his superior and got the information from this person." said Furutani Yukisaburo.
"Do you have any clues about Guan Qide's superior?" asked Koichirō Yoneyama.
At his level, he no longer needed to personally take charge of the arrest of the Red Party’s underground members. However, the situation reported by Furutani Yukisaburo attracted his special attention.
Red Party member Liao Hua was suspected of having connections with the Red Party's Manchuria Special Operations Group and was involved in a serious leak of secrets in Kwantung State several years ago. This person had been secretly taken to Shanghai, but now intelligence about Liao Hua was discovered in Qingdao. To be precise, the leak was from Shanghai.
This could not help but attract the attention of Koichirō Yoneyama.
"Nothing has been found yet." Furuya Kozaburo said, "Commander, in fact, we have not found anything about Guan Qide's identity and status in the Red Party. This arrest was originally triggered by a good citizen who was close to the empire and reported to the empire that his neighbor was suspicious."
Koichiro Yoneda nodded and asked, "Liao Hua was taken to Shanghai in secret, but now the Red Party knows about it. What do you think about this?"
……
"When it comes to intelligence leaks, we must first investigate the source of the leak." Furuya Kozaburo pondered, "Specifically in this case, it was either leaked in Qingdao or in Shanghai."
"But..." He paused, then continued, "Guan Qide's note was obviously obtained from his superior, which means that the most likely source of the information leak should be Qingdao."
Koichiro Yoneda did not speak. He looked at the head of the security room, Shibayama Yoshidera, and said, "Shibayama, tell me what you think."
"Red Party member Liao Hua was secretly taken away by the Shanghai authorities," said Shibayang Temple. "In fact, when the Shanghai authorities came, Liao Hua was handed over to them. The interrogation was also handled by Chikithara Tsukasa and Sakami Umezumi from Shanghai."
He said to Koichirō Yoneda, "That is to say, before Liao Hua was taken to Shanghai, his situation had already been kept absolutely confidential."
"Not to mention that someone wanted to get information from the gendarmerie, even our interrogation room staff couldn't get any information about Liao Hua at that time." Shibayama Yoshidera said, "At that time, apart from me and Onodera-kun, many people in the gendarmerie couldn't get in touch with Liao Hua."
"As for Liao Hua being taken to Shanghai, it was highly secretive," he said to Koichirō Yoneyama.
"So, you think that Liao Hua's information in Shanghai couldn't have been leaked by us?" asked Koichirō Yoneyama.
"Yes, Commander." Shibayang Temple said, "If you ask me for my personal opinion, I tend to think that the source of the intelligence leak is most likely in Shanghai."
"If it is true as Shibayama-kun analyzed," Furuya Kozaburo pondered, "the current situation is that Guan Qide obtained this information from his superior, which means--"
He pondered and continued, "The information was fed back to Qingdao from Shanghai, and then passed on by the higher-level Red Party organizations in Qingdao?"
"If the intelligence was leaked from Shanghai, then this reasoning is reasonable," said Chai Yangsi.
……
"I still don't quite agree with Shibayama-kun's reasoning." Furuya Kozaburo shook his head and said, "If intelligence from Shanghai is to be transmitted to Qingdao, the most likely way is through radio. According to the information we have, the Red Party is extremely short of radio stations. Whether the Red Party Qingdao Underground Party has a radio station has not been confirmed. Even if Qingdao has a radio station, it is most likely a low-power radio station."
Furuya Kozaburo paused and continued, "Furthermore, even if their radio station is powerful and can contact Shanghai thousands of miles away, according to our understanding of the Red Party's organizational structure, Qingdao and Shanghai cannot communicate directly."
"Why can't this be the case?" Chai Yang Si said, "The Red Party in Shanghai discovered that Liao Hua was secretly escorted to Shanghai, and then the Red Party in Shanghai reported the matter to their superiors. Then, the Red Party's superior organization in the south passed the information to the Red Party's superior organization in the north, and then the Red Party in the north sent the information down step by step."
As he pondered, his eyes became brighter. "In the end, Shanghai reported from the bottom up, and this side passed it down from the top down. In the end, this intelligence became the note we seized?"
As Koichirō Yoneyama listened to Shiba Yoshidera's analysis, he fell into deep thought.
Furuya Yukisaburo also frowned in thought. He shook his head and said, "We went through so much trouble just for Liao Hua who we have arrested for a long time?"
Suddenly, he fell silent and his expression became more serious.
"It seems that Furuya-kun has also thought of it." Shibayama Yoshida said with a faint smile.
He showed a certain contempt for the new chief of the Intelligence Room, Yukisaburo Furutani. Compared with his predecessor, Masago Onodera, Yukisaburo Furutani was less capable.
Shibayama Yoshidera looked at Yoneda Koichirō and said in a deep voice, "Commander, if our analysis is correct, then the fact that the Red Party went to such great lengths to send out this intelligence can only mean one thing—"
He looked excited. "The Red Party attaches great importance to Liao Hua, which shows that he must be someone of great importance."
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