Just as He Siming left the Special Higher Police station, the radio operator in the Special Higher Police's communications room received an urgent telegram.
The receiver recorded the telegram code and handed it to the telegraph deliveryman. After being translated by the telegraph operator, the telegram was quickly delivered to the chief section chief, Keiji Tsuchihara.
The telegram was very simple, containing only a few words: Evacuate immediately!
This telegram was an urgent message sent from the Chongqing Military Intelligence Bureau headquarters to the Qingdao station. Ding Mingzhen had already given them the radio station's channel, codebook, and communication times. As a result, the Special Higher Police's communications department, which had been receiving information from the Military Intelligence Bureau, received this telegram very quickly.
Tsuchihara Keisuke held the telegram and couldn't help but feel disappointed. The instructions from the Military Intelligence Bureau headquarters to the Qingdao station were too simple, only ordering the Qingdao station to evacuate, without mentioning anything else. Why would the Military Intelligence Bureau headquarters send such a telegram?
The Military Intelligence Bureau ordered the Qingdao Station to withdraw immediately. Such an order was not as simple as a single sentence. The Qingdao Station had been lying in wait for a long time, and each intelligence agent had his own carefully cultivated cover identity. Unless there was a risk of exposure, he would not easily give up.
The entire Qingdao station, with its 65 members abandoning their undercover identities and immediately evacuating, was a huge loss for an intelligence station. Such an order would only be given if the Military Intelligence Bureau headquarters believed that the Qingdao station had been exposed or was in imminent danger of being exposed.
Has the Military Intelligence Bureau already discovered something? Do they already know about Fu Shengyuan's surrender?
Of course not. If they knew Fu Shengyuan had surrendered, why would they send him a telegram to warn him? That would be pointless!
Did they already know that the special operations team had been destroyed and that the operation to disrupt the tripartite meeting had failed, and were afraid that the special operations team would drag Qingdao Station into the mess, so they signaled Qingdao Station to evacuate?
Yes, that should be it. Only this makes sense. In other words, the Military Intelligence Bureau only knew that the Special Operations Team had failed, but could not confirm the situation at Qingdao Station. To prevent the destruction of Qingdao Station, they ordered the entire Qingdao Station to be evacuated immediately.
But where did the Military Intelligence Bureau find out about this? Although the operation to wipe out the Special Operations Team last night was kept secret, by noon today, because the screening operation had been completed and the Special Higher Police began arresting members of the Qingdao Station, the news of the Special Operations Team's annihilation was no longer a secret. At the very least, the agents in the Special Higher Police station who carried out the arrest mission knew quite a bit about the situation.
Could it be that the problem lies with one of his own subordinates? No, if it were a mole within the Special Higher Police, they should know that the Qingdao station had been exposed, and even know that Fu Shengyuan and his wife had been arrested. The Military Intelligence Bureau would not have sent this evacuation telegram to the Qingdao station.
Then there are only two other possibilities. The first possibility is that there is a problem with the Shadow Agency. However, by the same token, the insiders in the Shadow Agency who are qualified to know the secret should also know about Fu Shengyuan's arrest, and this evacuation telegram would not have been sent out. Therefore, there should not be a traitor among them.
That leaves only the second possibility: a problem with the garrison.
Yes, that's the only way it makes sense. In the early morning, he asked the garrison for assistance, only mentioning the situation of the Military Intelligence Bureau's special operations team. Therefore, the garrison did not know the situation at the Qingdao station. As a result, after the operation, the mole among them reported to the Military Intelligence Bureau that the special operations team had been wiped out and the operation had failed. Only then did the Military Intelligence Bureau headquarters urgently order the Qingdao station to evacuate.
Thinking of this, Keiji Tsuchihara immediately picked up the phone, intending to call Major General Kazuhiko Mitani, the commander of the garrison. However, after picking up the phone, he thought for a moment and slowly put it down.
The situation of the North China Area Army was somewhat special because the headquarters of the Special Higher Police was located in North China, which was very powerful. In addition, Keiji Tsuchihara himself was a veteran intelligence agent with considerable influence in the intelligence community. Therefore, he overshadowed the intelligence organization of the North China Area Army itself and became the main intelligence department.
However, the Special Higher Police (THP) was a broad organization with branches in Japan and in various major regions of China. It was not exclusively under the North China Area Army, so its influence over the North China Area Army was also constrained.
Even Keiji Tsuchihara couldn't directly and forcefully command a local garrison commander of Major General rank like Kazuhiko Mitani.
It would be inappropriate to directly question Kazuhiko Mitani or investigate his subordinates now, so Keiji Tsuchihara decided to find an opportunity to raise the issue with Mitani in person, which would also facilitate communication.
Keiji Tsuchihara was indeed a shrewd and experienced man who considered every aspect of his work and never made the slightest mistake!
He Siming rushed back to the Huiying Hotel and immediately went to Ning Zhiheng's room to report the information he had just gathered.
"It's Wang Hanmin again! That bastard!"
After listening to He Siming's report, Ning Zhiheng slammed his hand on the table and couldn't help but curse harshly.
An intelligence station, a special operations team, and hundreds of agents were all destroyed at the hands of this traitor!
Ning Zhiheng couldn't help but feel deep regret. He had far underestimated Wang Hanmin's destructive power. The losses caused by Wang Hanmin from the Shanghai Station to the Nanjing Station, as well as the National Salvation Army, were already enormous.
However, Ning Zhiheng had reservations and was ultimately unwilling to let his operatives risk assassination, and even more reluctant to use the Wooden Fish Team to take the risk. He was always thinking of finding a more appropriate opportunity to eliminate Wang Hanmin at the lowest possible cost.
However, I never expected that the delay would lead to disaster. Despite my repeated reminders, Wang Hanmin still managed to find a loophole during the trip to Qingdao, resulting in such a huge loss. If I had known this would happen, I would have been better off taking the risk in Shanghai. Even if I had suffered some losses, it would have been worth it!
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