Early the next morning, Li Zhiqun arrived at the upscale residence where Wang Hanmin was recuperating. He first inspected the security arrangements around the area, and Wu Shicai came out to greet him upon hearing the news.
Li Zhiqun asked, "Did nothing go wrong tonight?"
Wu Shicai laughed and said, "Director, this place is right next to the Special Agent Headquarters, and the whole street is full of our people, so there won't be any problems!"
Li Zhiqun nodded and, accompanied by Wu Shicai, entered the residence.
At this moment, the on-duty doctor at number 76 was changing Wang Hanmin's dressing. Wang Hanmin was covered in injuries, but he gritted his teeth and endured the pain without uttering a sound. It took him a long time to change the dressing.
Li Zhiqun stepped forward and asked the doctor on duty, "Dr. Chen, how is the patient's injury?"
Dr. Chen quickly replied, "The patient's external injuries are fine. There are no signs of infection after using sulfonamide. As long as the dressing is changed on time, there will be no problem."
Li Zhiqun nodded and then instructed, "You need to stay here for the next few days to take care of the patient at any time. You can't leave, understand?"
Dr. Chen had been at No. 76 for a long time and was used to these kinds of things. He knew some of the rules of No. 76, nodded in agreement, and left.
Li Zhiqun then waved for him to leave, and the others withdrew. Li Zhiqun then smiled and said to Wang Hanmin, "Brother Hanmin, how did you sleep last night?"
Wang Hanmin looked at the bandages all over his body, gave a bitter smile, and said in a hoarse voice, "My whole body aches, and I can't sleep at all. I had to get a painkiller injection from that Dr. Chen to get some sleep."
Li Zhiqun smiled apologetically, picked up a chair, sat down in front of Wang Hanmin's bed, and continued, "I made arrangements yesterday to have someone rescue your family. If all goes well, I will ask the Japanese to arrange a special plane to send them to Shanghai. You will be able to see them in two days."
Upon hearing this, Wang Hanmin's eyes lit up. He looked at Li Zhiqun and said in a low voice, "Thank you. As long as I see them, I will certainly not let Director Li down."
Li Zhiqun knew that Wang Hanmin must still have secrets he hadn't revealed, and today he wanted to get more information out of him, especially what he had always wanted to know about the Shanghai Intelligence Section.
Li Zhiqun coughed lightly and asked seriously, "Brother Hanmin, I know that the Military Intelligence Bureau is in Shanghai. Besides you, there is another intelligence department called the Shanghai Intelligence Section. How much do you know about this department? Who is their leader? How can we find them?"
Wang Hanmin paused for a moment upon hearing this. He looked up at Li Zhiqun and replied softly, "I'm afraid this will disappoint Director Li. The Shanghai Intelligence Section and the Shanghai Station have absolutely no contact. This is a special requirement of the Military Intelligence Bureau headquarters. We cannot communicate horizontally unless we communicate through headquarters. I still don't know where they are hiding, so how can I find them?"
Li Zhiqun had previously arrested many members of the Shanghai station, but he couldn't get any information about the Shanghai intelligence department from them. Now, after hearing what Wang Hanmin said with his own ears, he finally confirmed his previous suspicions and couldn't help but feel somewhat disappointed.
However, Wang Hanmin continued, "However, the head of the Shanghai Intelligence Section is named Huo Yueze, and we met once before."
Wang Hanmin's words immediately perked Li Zhiqun up, and he quickly followed up by asking, "When and where did you see me?"
"At the end of last year, in the flour mill in Shanghai that you have already cracked down on, our operation to destroy the legal tender failed and suffered heavy losses. We were almost wiped out. It was the intelligence department that took us to the flour mill to hide. In the end, Huo Yueze gave the flour mill to us as a place to stay."
The flour mill that Huo Yueze had previously handed over to the Shanghai station had already been exposed by the Shanghai station agents arrested by Li Zhiqun. Later, Li Zhiqun destroyed it and also arrested several agents, causing considerable losses to the Shanghai station.
By now, it can be said that all of Shanghai Station's safe houses and hideouts in the city have been successively cracked by No. 76, since as long as a person is captured alive, these situations can be quickly obtained.
Li Zhiqun asked, "Is there any contact after that?"
Wang Hanmin shook his head and said, "No, only that one time. The Shanghai Intelligence Section is the most mysterious department of the Military Intelligence Bureau. Its members have been infiltrating Shanghai for a long time. Not only do we not know their specific situation, but even the headquarters doesn't know."
Li Zhiqun asked in surprise, "So mysterious? Even your headquarters doesn't know their background?"
Wang Hanmin said with a wry smile, "Do you know why I was chosen by headquarters to be the stationmaster of the Shanghai station?"
"Why?"
"Because of factions! Our factions are different! The Shanghai Intelligence Section is a force of the Baoding faction in the military. The Director was afraid that they would become too powerful in Shanghai, the largest metropolis in the Far East, so he insisted on assigning me to Shanghai to rebuild the Shanghai Station."
So we had an agreement: our Shanghai station was responsible for armed operations, and the Shanghai Intelligence Section was responsible for intelligence gathering. Most of the important intelligence for our Military Intelligence Bureau was provided by the Intelligence Section. The person in charge of the Shanghai Intelligence Section at that time was Ning Zhiheng, who is now the head of the Second Operations Division of the Military Intelligence Bureau. He was an exceptionally capable and brilliant man, deeply resented by the Director. I was merely a pawn sent to guard against him. But unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, he returned to headquarters, rose rapidly through the ranks, while I was left here to fight to the death, ending up in this state. How pathetic, how lamentable!
Wang Hanmin's life has been filled with bad luck. After years of hard work, his career has been unsuccessful. When he finally got promoted, he was sent to Shanghai, the Japanese stronghold. He lived in constant fear, and even had to sleep with one eye open. Whenever he thought about this, he felt a mix of emotions and unspeakable suffering.
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