Luo Xingchao couldn't help but curse fiercely: "Damn it, those six big ones have been causing trouble for so long, so many people have died, and they've made a complete mess of things. I don't know when it will end!"
Seeing that Luo Xingchao was in a bad mood, Cui Yuanfeng knew the reason. Everyone was feeling depressed. Hearing Luo Xingchao's words, he replied, "There are still three days until the conference starts, but I heard that we haven't gathered three hundred delegates yet. I wonder if it will be postponed again?"
Luo Xingchao snorted coldly. He looked out the window and continued, "Let's not talk about these troublesome things. Today wasn't a complete loss. Qing Qingzhengliang revealed that Li Zhiqun is going to take over. Ding Mo probably won't be here for much longer."
Upon hearing this, Cui Yuanfeng asked in surprise, "Li Zhiqun wants to take over? That's impossible, Zhou Fushan is behind him!"
“What’s so surprising about that! Even Zhou Fushan has to listen to the Japanese. The 76th Division is not what it used to be. Li Zhiqun holds real power. How could he let someone else be above him? It’s only a matter of time. We need to be more careful during this period. Go and tell the brothers not to get too close to Ding Mo’s people, or they will end up pleasing neither side.”
"Yes!" Cui Yuanfeng nodded in agreement.
In the Chongqing Military Intelligence Bureau's conference room, the bureau chief was staring at the several officers in front of him with a livid face. Everyone could feel the murderous intent hidden in his eyes. Even Huang Xianzheng, who was sitting upright to the side, was uneasy and sat upright, unwilling to say a word.
The Military Intelligence Bureau has been having an extremely difficult time lately, with one piece of bad news after another.
First, a leak of the defense plan for northern Jiangxi was discovered. The Director reported it to the General Headquarters, which immediately adjusted the defense deployment. However, they encountered difficulties in the investigation.
The Military Commission was very resistant to the investigation, proposing that they conduct an internal investigation first and refusing the involvement of the Military Intelligence Bureau.
The reason is simple: the leak of the defense plan in northern Jiangxi this time may not necessarily be due to a problem with the Military Commission, but it is very likely that there was a problem within the defense forces in northern Jiangxi. If the Military Intelligence Bureau were to intervene, given its ruthless style and harsh methods, it would likely create problems even if there were none, and it would be easy for things like forced confessions or killing innocent people to claim credit to others to happen.
Frankly speaking, the Military Intelligence Bureau had a very bad reputation in this regard, and no one dared to trust them.
Moreover, several high-ranking officials in the Military Commission's Operations Room were senior members of the Kuomintang, having followed the Chairman for many years. Even the Director-General couldn't do anything about it and ultimately had to agree to let them conduct their own investigation.
However, after an investigation, the conclusion was that no suspicious persons could be found. This made the Director completely furious, and he repeatedly approached the Chairman to request that the investigation be intervened.
Finally, the Chairman gave his approval, and the Military Intelligence Bureau took over the case. Bian Ze, the head of the First Intelligence Division, presided over the investigation, but there was no progress for a while.
News then came from Shanghai that the entire Shanghai station and assassination team had suffered heavy losses, almost being wiped out. The opponent turned out to be the intelligence department of the so-called puppet government, the headquarters of Agent 76.
This made the Director furious. If they had been defeated by the Japanese, it would have been one thing, but for a group of well-trained, regular agents to be beaten so badly by a bunch of thugs and ruffians and a bunch of defectors was an utter disgrace to the Director. He could not accept that his Military Intelligence Bureau, which he had painstakingly built up over many years, had been humiliated by a bunch of ragtag troops.
Therefore, he ordered the reinforcement of the Loyal and Patriotic Army from southern Jiangsu to Shanghai, along with additional weapons and funds, to continue assassinating members of the Shanghai puppet government. This battle without gunfire had only just begun.
But just when things were at their worst, something unexpected happened.
At 10:00 AM this morning, a squadron of Japanese bombers bombed Chiang Kai-shek's official residence in Huangshan. At the time, Chiang Kai-shek and his senior generals were holding an important military meeting at the residence. Fortunately, they reacted quickly and took shelter in an air-raid shelter in the mountain. Although the residence was damaged, no one was injured.
However, this incident greatly angered the Chairman, because the Huangshan official residence was the most secluded of his several official residences, located deep in the Nanshan Mountains of Chongqing.
This official residence was a secret residence known only to the top leaders of the Kuomintang. It was originally intended as a place for Chiang Kai-shek to escape the summer heat. However, after the Japanese launched massive bombing raids on Chongqing, the city was no longer safe. As a result, the Huangshan official residence gradually transformed into an important gathering place for the top leaders of the Kuomintang. Some military meetings were held here, and many decisions and measures were made here.
Because the Huangshan official residence was not only hidden in a secluded location, but also in an excellent geographical position, surrounded by towering peaks and concealed in dense forests, Japanese planes could not find its exact location from mid-air, so it had always been very safe. However, this time, Japanese bombers directly attacked the Nanshan area and accurately located the Huangshan official residence in the secluded valleys of the mountains. It can be said with certainty that the Japanese must have obtained relevant intelligence, knew the exact location of the Huangshan official residence, and may even have known the time of the military conference that was being held.
As a result, the two bureau chiefs were summoned to the Chairman's residence in Huangshan, where they were severely reprimanded and given a stern order to thoroughly eliminate the Japanese spies lurking in Chongqing in the short term and to prevent such incidents from happening again.
So the two bureau chiefs, who had just been reprimanded, rushed back to the Military Intelligence Bureau headquarters and immediately convened this emergency meeting to report on the whole incident.
"The bombing of the Huangshan official residence by Japanese planes has had a very bad impact. Now the Chairman is furious and extremely dissatisfied with our work. He has reprimanded us for being incompetent and holding our positions without doing our jobs. Therefore, he has strictly ordered us to completely wipe out the Japanese spies lurking in the Chongqing area in the short term, or else we will be severely punished. Gentlemen, this is the most critical moment for our Military Intelligence Bureau. If we cannot make some achievements in the short term and show the Chairman some results, we, the entire Military Intelligence Bureau, will have no face to show our faces!"
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