It turns out that after Iwai Nosuke proposed and formulated the entrapment plan, the Fukuoka warehouse explosion occurred, which led to a thorough search of the city by the Japanese. This forced the intelligence station agents to evacuate the city, causing the plan to come to an abrupt end.
However, Iwai nosuke refused to give up and insisted on carrying out the plan for the past two months. Akita Akihito saw that he was eager to make a contribution and naturally wanted to gain something from it as well, so he agreed to his actions.
So during this time, Iwai Nosuke led his agents to set up ambushes in the city, waiting for the Chinese agents to come to them.
Of course, Iwai nosuke wouldn't bother Takeshita Shinya with this kind of work. After all, whenever the two of them argued, Akita Akihito would be very unhappy, thinking that Iwai nosuke was deliberately targeting his student, and would eventually reprimand Iwai nosuke. So every time, Iwai nosuke would not get the better of him, so he simply stopped bothering Takeshita Shinya from then on.
Seeing that he had no dinner plans for the night, Takeshita Shinya decided not to linger any longer, said goodbye, and turned to leave.
When he was leaving get off work, Takeshita Shinya quickly left the government building and walked along the main road toward his residence. As he passed an intersection, his eyes inadvertently swept over a street corner, and his gaze immediately sharpened. He then turned and walked toward another street.
Half an hour later, in a private room of a small tavern, Takeshita Shinya, also known as He Siming, the intelligence agent codenamed Lone Peak, met with his superior, Ning Zhiheng.
"Why have you been gone for so long? I've been waiting for your call all this time. I only came here after I saw the signal you left just now." He Siming couldn't help but complain. He had lost contact with Ning Zhiheng for two months, which had made him very nervous. He had been extremely cautious for so long, not daring to reveal the slightest flaw. Only after seeing Ning Zhiheng today did he feel relieved.
Ning Zhiheng chuckled and said, "After you left Shanghai, my men blew up the warehouse in Fukuoka. As a result, the Japanese conducted a large-scale search in the city, and even my assistant was almost arrested. I had to go back to lay low for a while. You weren't in Shanghai at the time, so I couldn't notify you. I'm only back now!"
He Siming was well aware of the significant impact of the Fukuoka warehouse incident. The aftermath directly led to the deaths of three Japanese officers, and many others were implicated and punished. Ning Zhiheng's retreat back to the concession was a last resort.
"Make it quick, tell me in detail about the mission you carried out last time you left Shanghai!" Ning Zhiheng said.
He Siming nodded. This was the most important thing about this meeting. He thought about it carefully for a moment and said in a low voice, "Our mission was to go to Nanjing to receive six Chinese prisoners of war. These six people have surrendered and revealed their identities. They are all personnel from important departments within the Chinese government. My teacher, Akita Akihito, was responsible for sending these six people to Wuhan, planting spies, and setting up separate intelligence channels for them."
These words gave Ning Zhiheng a jolt. The Japanese had actually planted spies within the Chinese government again. This intelligence was extremely important.
Since his last purge of Japanese spies in Nanjing, the remaining forces of the Japanese Special Higher Police in Nanjing have been almost entirely wiped out and are now in hiding. Unexpectedly, the Japanese have launched another major operation, deploying six spies at once.
"Who are these six people?" Ning Zhiheng pressed.
“I don’t know. My teacher is very careful. Only their superiors can contact them. These six people are imprisoned separately, and they don’t know who the others are.” He Siming shook his head and said helplessly.
Akita Akihito is a seasoned veteran agent who is meticulous in his work and leaves no room for error in the details.
"Upline? They each have their own uplines?"
"Yes, those were the Japanese agents who went with us and were fluent in Chinese. They didn't come back with us. They were all placed in Wuhan as liaisons for our inside contacts. Their intelligence channels were independent and they didn't contact each other! In the end, we only planted five liaisons. The last one was arrested and leaked information, so we had to bring him back!"
Who is this person?
"Wen Hao, 42 years old, was the head of the intelligence group of the Nanjing Investigation Office of the Central Party Affairs Investigation Department. He was a high-ranking person. As soon as he arrived in Shanghai, he betrayed a group of his undercover agents. All eleven members were arrested. In the end, five members died for their country, and the other six defected to the enemy. Now he and Wen Hao are both working in the Special Higher Police."
Wen Hao? The Central Party Affairs Investigation Department? Ning Zhiheng felt like he had heard this name somewhere before. He thought hard and remembered that he must have a memory of this person. He had only dealt with the Central Party Affairs Investigation Department a few times.
Suddenly, Ning Zhiheng remembered that he had eliminated Zhang Pei, a traitor to the underground party, and single-handedly rescued Wu Quanjiang, an important figure in the underground party. As a result, he had implicated Du Qian, the director of the Xicheng Police Station. Later, Du Qian came to him for help, and he stood up for him, detaining the party affairs investigation personnel who were monitoring Du Qian, forcing the party affairs investigation department to withdraw from the investigation.
The person he was talking to on the phone was Wen Hao, the head of the intelligence group of the Nanjing Investigation Office of the Central Party Affairs Investigation Department. The brief conversation left him with the impression that the other person was a very shrewd and worldly-wise veteran of the officialdom. However, he did not expect that this person would be arrested in Nanjing and become a traitor.
Ning Zhiheng was secretly shocked. Wen Hao was a high-ranking official working in the Nanjing Investigation Office. His defection would cause great losses to the Central Party Affairs Investigation Department, and all the confidential information and personnel related to him would be in the hands of the Japanese.
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