Within a few days, several explosions occurred in Shanghai, all targeting officials of the puppet government.
Given the excessive casualties from direct conflict with No. 76, Shanghai Station Chiefs Wang Hanmin and Wu Huarong have switched to using time bombs for assassinations. The disadvantage of this method is that it is prone to unpredictable changes during the operation. Whether due to technical reasons or the uncertainty of the target's journey, the success rate of the assassination is not high. However, it has a very significant advantage: as long as the design is precise and the prior preparations are thorough, the team members carrying out the bombing mission can easily evacuate, making the safety relatively high.
This method of assassination is well-suited to the current situation where the balance of power between the enemy and ourselves is vastly different. The number of agents in the Shanghai station and the assassination team is limited, and the loss of one means one less agent. However, the agents of No. 76 have a sufficient number of personnel and can be replenished at any time.
Using this method, the Shanghai station and the assassination team quickly and successfully completed several assassination missions, eliminating several high-profile traitors. For a time, the officials of the entire puppet government were terrified.
The Military Intelligence Bureau headquarters also provided strong support, not only allocating a large amount of funds for the operation, but also ordering the Loyal and Patriotic Army operating in southern Jiangsu to replenish the Shanghai Station agents who had been lost in battle.
Using ample financial and material resources, Wang Hanmin began to set up numerous hidden locations in downtown Shanghai and continuously dispatched personnel into the city to carry out assassinations. Their aim was to prevent the convening of the Sixth National Congress of the puppet government.
In fact, this approach was very effective, because their assassination activities, regardless of the cost, truly terrified those traitors who had joined the puppet government. Many so-called representatives stopped and watched, not daring to show their faces and attract the attention of Chinese agents.
The sixth National Congress of the Kuomintang (KMT), which was almost ready, was temporarily postponed because it was impossible to gather two hundred delegates.
Even Ning Zhiheng became more cautious and low-key for this reason, rarely going out, so as not to be approached by the Shanghai station again.
On that very day, he received an urgent telegram from Huo Yueze, saying that there was important intelligence that required his personal decision and asking him to return to the Tan Mansion as soon as possible to handle it.
Ning Zhiheng dared not delay. He immediately arranged his affairs and quietly entered the French Concession, returning to his old lair, the Tan Mansion.
It has been several months since he last returned. Due to Ning Zhiheng's current status, his movements are becoming increasingly inconvenient, and he tries to avoid returning to the French Concession unless absolutely necessary.
Seeing Ning Zhiheng suddenly return, Zuo Rou was overjoyed. After not seeing each other for several months, the two naturally missed each other terribly. They chatted sweetly for a while before Huo Yueze urgently came looking for them.
Ning Zhiheng shook his head to signal Zuo Rou, who then turned and left to prepare a lavish dinner for Ning Zhiheng.
"Chief, yesterday at a gathering, that Englishman Anderson approached me privately and tried to sell me a top-secret military intelligence document about our army's specific military deployments and defense plans in northern Jiangxi."
"What! How could it be our military intelligence?" Upon hearing this, Ning Zhiheng immediately straightened up, his eyes sharply fixed on Huo Yueze. "He's breaking the agreement. What is this guy trying to do?"
Since Ning Zhiheng got involved in the Shanghai intelligence market, the Shanghai Intelligence Section, with its abundant funds, quickly became the largest buyer in the intelligence market and the biggest financial backer in the eyes of all intelligence dealers.
Because of the mutual aversion to Japan, and due to Ning Zhiheng's deliberate demands, the intelligence brokers eventually agreed to stop taking on military intelligence about the Chinese military.
The advantage of this is that there is no market for military intelligence about China, and intelligence brokers will not deliberately cultivate moles within the Chinese military.
It should be understood that given the current quality of personnel and their meager pay in the Kuomintang army, it would be easy to develop a few valuable moles if they were willing to spend a lot of money.
That's what Japan's intelligence agencies do, but their power is limited. Although they've poached a lot of people from the Chinese military, the situation isn't too serious yet.
However, this time the intelligence broker Anderson directly sold Chinese military intelligence to Huo Yueze, which was obviously abnormal. Even if he broke the agreement and secretly went to the Japanese to make the deal, he would not have come to Huo Yueze. There must be a reason for this!
Huo Yueze then reported: "It is confirmed that they have violated our agreement. They should not have taken over our military intelligence. However, he said that he obtained this intelligence through a mole planted by the Japanese military. He did not deliberately try to find out our military intelligence. At the same time, he said that he wanted to see you and had important business to discuss with you. So I had no choice but to send a telegram to inform you to come back and take a look."
"He wants to see me?" Ning Zhiheng couldn't help but be a little surprised.
He almost never showed his face in the intelligence market. Only when he first entered the field, before Huo Yueze and Ji Hongyi were familiar with the work, did Ning Zhiheng appear a few times. This was only when he encountered very important intelligence; of course, each time he did so with Zuo Rou's disguise. No one has ever seen Ning Zhiheng's true face.
Therefore, not many people in the intelligence network knew him. However, this Anderson had been in contact with Ning Zhiheng. He provided the important military intelligence that the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Army had changed its offensive direction and intended to attack Xuzhou to the north. For this reason, Ning Zhiheng personally came forward to negotiate with Anderson. So this time, Anderson's condition for the deal was that Ning Zhiheng had to come forward in person to discuss it.
"Could there be some kind of conspiracy involved?" Huo Yueze was also unsure and looked at Ning Zhiheng, saying, "Could they be planning to use this information to scheme against you?"
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