"It's Kitaoka Ryoko!" Zuo Rou threw the photo on the table and said fiercely. She looked up at Huo Yueze, "How did this Japanese spy manage to find me? What went wrong?"
Huo Yueze was also quite shocked. Kitaoka Ryoko had directly contacted Zuo Rou. This matter was extremely serious. There was no room for luck or coincidence in espionage work. Every effect had a cause. Otherwise, how could a Japanese spy have chosen you so coincidentally out of the vast sea of people?
"Did you send someone to follow them?" Huo Yueze asked.
"Sent! Still no reply."
Huo Yueze rubbed his hands together, paced around the room a few times, and said, "This is an opportunity. If we can kill this Kitaoka Ryoko in the concession, it will save us a lot of trouble. And the fact that she was able to find you means that something is wrong here. We must find out the reason as soon as possible."
Zuo Rou thought for a moment and said with doubt, "I rarely show my face outside. When I do go out, it's only to handle the transportation of supplies and the transfer of work between several companies. Could it be that there is a problem with our supply transportation channels? Otherwise, she wouldn't have come after me."
Huo Yueze said decisively, "Then it would be even more dangerous. Our intelligence department's most important task is to protect this smuggling route, and we absolutely cannot allow any problems to occur."
The Shanghai Intelligence Section held a very special position within the Military Intelligence Bureau, partly because it was able to obtain a large amount of military and political intelligence.
More importantly, the intelligence section was able to establish a major transportation artery for supplying military strategic materials to the Kuomintang-controlled areas, continuously providing fresh blood to the front lines of the War of Resistance against Japan. This was of great significance to the overall situation of the War of Resistance.
Currently, all of China's transportation lines to the outside world and to receive international aid have been cut off. Only the Burma Road is barely maintaining the transportation of supplies, but due to the constant harassment and bombing by Japanese aircraft, the transportation of supplies has encountered great difficulties.
While smugglers in North China also smuggled a large amount of goods, most of them were privately owned and their goods were mostly consumed by private enterprises and people's livelihoods in the Kuomintang-controlled areas. In addition, the local governments and officials in the Kuomintang-controlled areas were extremely corrupt, so how could they resist the temptation of these scarce goods? After layers of exploitation, very few of the goods were actually delivered to Chongqing or the front lines.
The Japanese North China Area Army was well aware of this situation, so it did not pay much attention to the management of smuggling of goods in North China, and even intervened to seek profits. This gave rise to a huge smuggling force in the Tianjin port area, which was the largest smuggling base for goods in China.
Against this backdrop, the Central China supply transport channel maintained by the Shanghai Intelligence Section became particularly important. All military strategic materials were delivered directly to the front lines or Chongqing without any waste along the way, providing real support to the anti-Japanese resistance forces. Therefore, it was highly valued by the higher authorities.
Especially with the major battle imminent on the front lines in Changsha, many military supplies require the supply of this transportation channel. Therefore, Huang Xianzheng ordered priority to be given to replenishing supplies to Changsha, even at the cost of sacrificing a large amount of profit. Of course, this also brought Huang Xianzheng great political benefits. Now, Huang, the deputy director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, is becoming increasingly important in the Baoding clique, and several bigwigs are very satisfied with him.
Therefore, everyone in the intelligence department prioritized the importance of smuggling channels. Director Ning Zhiheng even left headquarters to personally oversee the work in Shanghai, which speaks volumes.
Upon hearing Huo Yueze's words, Zuo Rou became even more worried that her mistake had led to the leak of the transportation channels, and she became extremely anxious.
Seeing this, Huo Yueze quickly waved his hand and said, "Team Leader Zuo, don't worry. Wait for the tracking personnel to report the situation. If there is a location, we will take action immediately. After catching the person, we will interrogate them and find out."
Zuo Rou's special status meant that her position in the intelligence department was no less than Huo Yueze's. In fact, Huo Yueze treated Zuo Rou with great respect and dared not utter a single word of blame.
After considering it for a moment, Huo Yueze immediately mobilized his two action teams, with all personnel in place and ready to be deployed at any time.
Two hours later, one of the team members responsible for the tracking finally returned and immediately reported to Zuo Rou and Huo Yueze.
"Section Chief, Team Leader, we followed their vehicle all the way to the Suzhou Bridge. The woman got out of the car alone, crossed the bridge, and entered the city. Neither of us had a good citizen certificate for the city, and we were afraid of alerting her by revealing our whereabouts, so we had to give up tracking her and focus on tracking the car. Later, they went all the way to Fengnan Road in the eastern district of the French Concession and entered a villa. They are still inside. We left one person to continue monitoring them and came back to report to you as soon as possible."
"Great!" Huo Yueze slammed his fist on the table. Things had finally come to a good end. As long as they could find a foothold, that was good. "This must be a member of that last undercover team. We've been searching in the concession for so long and haven't found them. I never expected this!"
Huo Yueze was overjoyed. He had spent a lot of effort to find this undercover team, but he never expected them to show up today. It was truly a case of "searching high and low without finding it, only to have it come to him effortlessly!"
Now we finally have a lead. Based on previous experience, as long as we seize a point and quickly capture someone alive, someone will always succumb to torture. From there, we can find other members of the infiltrated team and use that as a starting point to uncover the entire Japanese spy network.
"Tonight, we'll take action. First, we'll eliminate Kitaoka Ryoko's henchmen in the concession, see what they've found out, and then we'll act accordingly!"
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