Ning Zhiheng breathed a sigh of relief when the first action team successfully captured the target and rushed back to the Second Division.
He immediately ordered the officers to interrogate their respective targets, and the interrogation team began their intense work again. The three interrogation rooms were filled to capacity, and the entire Second Operations Division mobilized.
By 1 a.m., all the arrests had been completed, and all 27 spies had been apprehended. Even the three Kuomintang agents had been brought over by headquarters personnel.
Also coming with them were two intelligence chiefs, Bian Ze and Gu Zhengqi. Each of their intelligence departments had an inside agent. The director assigned them the task of arresting the mole, and they immediately took action. After successfully arresting the mole, they personally delivered the mole to the police station.
Looking at the brightly lit Second Operations Division, with people bustling about in the courtyard and everyone constantly busy, Bian Ze and Gu Zhengqi exchanged a wry smile. This time, the Second Operations Division had once again won first place!
Upon arriving at the Second Interrogation Section to hand over the prisoners, Gu Zhengqi looked at Ning Zhiheng, who was supervising the interrogation, and couldn't help but ask, "Zhiheng, what big operation is this? Why all this fuss?"
Gu Zhengqi looked on with envy. He had pushed the cleanup operation to the Second Operations Division. He may have originally intended to shift the blame to the Second Operations Division, but now Ning Zhiheng was making a fortune, shining brightly time and time again, and reaping countless credits. He was the envy of everyone.
During this period, people in the Military Intelligence Bureau would occasionally make strange remarks, laughing at the Second Intelligence Division for being too sloppy and giving away all the credit. This left Gu Zhengqi with a bitter taste in his mouth and a sour feeling in his heart.
Ning Zhiheng laughed heartily: "Director Gu, we were lucky this time. We cracked several intelligence groups. That's why the two bureau chiefs personally oversaw this large-scale arrest operation. Fortunately, the operation went relatively smoothly."
"A few more?" Gu Zhengqi exclaimed in surprise, his expression quite interesting. After a long while, he shook his head helplessly. "Zhiheng, sometimes we can work together. We're all family!"
Bian Ze was speechless at his shamelessness, but he was still a little curious and asked, "Zhiheng, with such a big operation, there must be quite a few targets to capture, right?"
Ning Zhiheng nodded and said, "That's quite a lot. Just tonight's two operations alone resulted in the arrest of forty people."
"So many?" Even Bian Ze was startled this time.
Just then, Wei Jiamu, the head of the interrogation department, rushed downstairs. He was about to report to Ning Zhiheng when he saw Bian Ze and Gu Zhengqi beside Ning Zhiheng. He quickly shut his mouth and stood aside, not daring to say a word.
Ning Zhiheng frowned and asked in a deep voice, "What is it?"
Upon hearing this, Wei Jiamu could only report with a bitter face: "Chief, the Director wants you to go up and report on your work."
At this moment, Director Zhang and Huang Xian were inspecting the Japanese spies who had just been captured in the cells upstairs, but an old problem arose again: the interrogation cells were not enough.
The entire interrogation building, excluding the interrogation rooms on the first floor, has only about a hundred converted cells. There were already some prisoners, and then nearly eighty spies were arrested. Tonight, another forty were brought back, which immediately exceeded the capacity of the interrogation department.
Seeing this situation, Huang Xianzheng was also very troubled, so he asked Ning Zhiheng to go upstairs to solve the problem.
Upon hearing Wei Jiamu's account, Ning Zhiheng felt both angry and amused. He quickly turned and headed upstairs, with Bian Ze and Gu Zhengqi following closely behind.
Upon meeting, the bureau chief immediately said, "Zhiheng, your Second Division's interrogation department always has problems. Look, now there's a shortage of cells again. What do you plan to do about it?"
Before Ning Zhiheng could answer, Gu Zhengqi, standing behind him, brightened up and spoke up first: "Chief, we are willing to provide some cells to lock him up with me. I guarantee there won't be any problems!"
As soon as he said this, everyone present glared at him and then ignored his presence. Even the bureau chief didn't intend to actually take the prisoner away; he just asked Ning Zhiheng about the appropriate course of action.
Ning Zhiheng was meticulous and had already considered this matter. He quickly explained, "Please rest assured, Director. The criminals we arrested in the Second Division before, such as the members of the Wind and Hump groups, have been thoroughly interrogated and have no intelligence value. I can detain them together, and we can just put several in one cell. We can free up some space to detain these new criminals separately. It will definitely not affect the interrogation work."
The bureau chief thought it made sense and after a moment's thought, he nodded and agreed with his approach: "Then you must choose your people carefully. Those who are not important and have no intelligence value can be locked up together, but the others must be locked up alone, especially prisoners like Moriki Keio."
"Yes, I'll arrange it right away!" Ning Zhiheng quickly agreed.
At this moment, the director lowered his head and thought for a moment, then suddenly spoke up again: "If you really can't settle them, you can dispose of a batch yourself. Anyway, they have no value left, and they can also serve as a deterrent to those Japanese."
Huang Xianzheng nodded and said, "The Director is right. Locking them up is a waste of food. Let's select a batch and get rid of them as soon as possible!"
Upon hearing this, Ning Zhiheng quickly nodded in agreement: "Yes, I will immediately draft a list and deal with a batch of people tomorrow. Otherwise, with too many people detained here, it's easy for something to go wrong."
In fact, Ning Zhiheng had long intended to deal with a group of Japanese spies. These people were extremely guilty and there was no need to keep them alive. However, since they were all criminals in a major espionage case and had only been arrested recently, the situation was special. Without the approval of the two bureau chiefs, he really did not have the authority to deal with them on his own. Now that the two bureau chiefs had spoken, he quickly agreed.
The bureau chief instructed again: "Since it's a deterrent, don't carry out the execution in secret. I think the execution site should be Tongyuan Gate in Yuzhong District, to clearly warn people. I want the Japanese to know that Chongqing is not a place they can come and go as they please."
"Yes, we will certainly punish him severely to serve as a warning to others!" Ning Zhiheng nodded and accepted the order.
The director continued, "Zhiheng, you arrested these Japanese spies, so you should be the one to deal with them. You have a reputation as the King of Hell, so you should also be the one to carry out the subsequent internal purges. This time, the action to deter the villains should also be carried out by you personally."
The Director's intention was clear: to use Ning Zhiheng's infamous reputation to intimidate others and lay the groundwork for the subsequent internal purge within the Military Intelligence Bureau.
"Yes, I will carry it out myself!"
Ning Zhiheng was ruthless and had no problem killing a few more people, especially since the victims were Japanese spies. He immediately nodded and accepted the order.
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