Ning Zhiheng and the two bureau chiefs returned to the Second Operations Division. As soon as they entered the gate, they went straight to the interrogation section.
At this moment, Wei Liangbi was in the interrogation room severely torturing the twelve captured prisoners. In order to obtain confessions as soon as possible, intelligence personnel such as Shao Wenguang also participated in the interrogation work. Three interrogation rooms were used at the same time, and the shrill screams kept coming out through the interrogation room doors.
Fortunately, not all of the people captured alive were ruthless; there were always those with weak wills. Wei Liangbi quickly managed to pry open the mouth of one of the survivors and obtain preliminary information.
Everyone was startled to see the two bureau chiefs personally come to inspect the interrogation department. Wei Liangbi was organizing the interrogation records when he saw his two superiors come in, so he quickly went to greet them.
The bureau chief spoke first, asking, "Have the interrogations yielded any results?"
"Someone has already spoken out; they are hiding in the Yubei district."
According to the confessions, this Japanese armed group, codenamed the Sword Blade Group, disguised itself as a local bandit group last October. After some effort, they joined a local army unit in Yubei District and became a member of the National Revolutionary Army.
The local Sichuan armed forces were poorly trained and often couldn't even pay their soldiers. Their management was riddled with problems; they only cared about money and not people. Matsui Kensuke and his men were reorganized into a platoon and stationed in a small town in Yubei after spending some money, without showing any signs of anything amiss.
Takasaki Shigeo had always regarded the Sword Blade Group as a secret weapon, rarely using this piece, so they had not revealed any flaws in normal times. However, this time, their intelligence network suffered a major blow, and they had no choice but to finally decide to activate it.
But the result was predictable. From the very beginning, every step they took fell into the enemy's trap. In the end, except for the remaining personnel who were still guarding the base, everyone else was wiped out. Even Matsui Kensuke himself was shot dead in the early stages of the battle. Such a high-ranking agent lost his life in such a muddle.
Upon hearing Wei Liangbi's report, the bureau chief angrily cursed, "It's like the eye is blind! These fools only care about money and opium pipes, they don't care about anything else. It's like the soldiers don't know the generals, and the generals don't know the soldiers. They can't even recognize all the soldiers under their own command. They're really muddleheaded!"
In fact, this situation was not uncommon among the miscellaneous troops of the National Revolutionary Army. Many of these miscellaneous troops, after suffering heavy losses in battles on the front lines, simply resorted to looting and capturing able-bodied men to replenish their ranks. Some of these confused soldiers did not even know their own unit numbers. As for the generals, the same was true. After several major battles, the soldiers under their command changed again and again. Before they could even remember them, another batch of soldiers would be replaced. How could they possibly keep track of them all?
Wei Liangbi replied, "Besides these people, there are nine others who have escaped. They also have a large amount of weapons, radios, and codebooks hidden in their base. I will personally lead the team to arrest them."
The bureau chief shook his head and said, "It's too late for us to take action ourselves. They must have had investigators beforehand. If even one of them escapes, they might have a way to notify their accomplices. We need to act quickly."
At this time, Yubei District and Chongqing were separated by the river, and travel between them was inconvenient. However, as long as the escaped personnel could find a communication channel, they could quickly notify the personnel guarding the station to escape. Only by using the local Central Army to arrest them on the spot could the capture be successful.
At this point, he turned to Huang Xianzheng and said, "This matter should be handled by the military, and since it involves local troops, the action must be swift."
Huang Xianzheng nodded and said, "There is one of our divisions there. I will contact them immediately and have the military law department send people to arrest them!"
After saying that, he turned around and quickly went to his office to make a phone call. A short while later, he turned back and nodded to the bureau chief: "They should act immediately. There should still be time."
The Baoding faction wields immense power within the military, making it the undisputed number one force. When it comes to matters concerning the military, Huang Xianzheng's words carry more weight than those of the Director.
The bureau chief then asked, "Where is that high-ranking spy we captured, named Moriki Keio, now?"
Ning Zhiheng quickly said, "He's been kept in a separate cell. Should we bring him over?"
After Ning Zhiheng finished interrogating Senmu Huisheng, he put him in solitary confinement and assigned special personnel to guard him. No one was allowed to contact him without Ning Zhiheng's consent, in order to prevent any information from being leaked.
The director nodded. He was eager to meet this Japanese spy, after all, he was the highest-ranking agent in the Chongqing intelligence network, capable of commanding five intelligence teams, and was definitely one of the best Japanese spies.
To his disappointment, the person dragged in by the interrogators was a dying, living dead man.
Seeing Moriki Keisei covered in blood, bruised and battered, his face as pale as a sheet of paper, barely clinging to life, both bureau chiefs frowned deeply. One of them turned to Ning Zhiheng and asked, "Was it you who did this again?"
Ning Zhiheng hadn't expected Moriki Kei to be in such a bad state. In fact, Moriki Kei's physical condition wasn't particularly outstanding to begin with; he was the type who used his brain. However, after being tortured by Ning Zhiheng for six hours straight, his body was on the verge of collapse.
Thrown into a cell and without proper care, his body was deteriorating rapidly, and he could die at any moment.
Hearing the director's question, Ning Zhiheng knew he was about to be caught red-handed again, so he could only nod reluctantly and then quickly explained, "I just wanted to get him to talk as soon as possible, so I was a little too rough with him."
Upon hearing this, Huang Xianzheng was quite helpless and said, "Zhiheng, I told you before that you are the highest-ranking officer in the Second Division. You don't need to do everything yourself. For example, you can have someone else do the interrogation of criminals for you!"
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