Li Zhiqun led his team back to the Special Operations Department. Today's operation was a complete mess. Not only did they fail to capture the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics (CBIS) agent "Bat," but they also lost more than ten of their men, especially Sun Xiangde, who is now in the hospital for emergency treatment. His fate is still unknown. This was a senior agent of the CBIS in the Shanghai-Suzhou area.
Ding Mo and Li Zhiqun valued Sun Xiangde highly, even treating him as the head of the Second Division, and hoping that he would lead a team back to Suzhou to launch a bloody counterattack against the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics in the Suzhou-Shanghai area.
But now everything has fallen apart, and he has just returned to Special Agent Department No. 76 when Ding Mo summoned him.
"Chief Tsuchihara already knows about today's failed operation. He's very dissatisfied and just called to ask you to report the details to him."
Ding Mo's words startled Li Zhiqun. Just how many spies had the Japanese planted in the Special Operations Department? His every move was impossible to hide.
He plopped down on the sofa in annoyance and said irritably, "Misfortunes never come singly. Today was already unlucky enough, and now I have to go to Chief Tsuchihara's office to get scolded."
"What exactly happened? How did it turn out like this?" Ding Mo was also quite dissatisfied. The arrest operation, which originally gave them the upper hand, ended up like this.
"Someone must have leaked the information and found out about the arrest operation in advance, so they acted ahead of time and sabotaged the operation. It's a pity I didn't catch the murderer. It's a complete failure!" Li Zhiqun slammed his fist on the table and said fiercely.
Ding Mo looked at Li Zhiqun and asked, "Just how many people know about this arrest operation?"
Li Zhiqun said with a wry smile, "There are quite a few people. Mainly Wu Shicai from the guard brigade and his men. These people have been guarding Sun Xiangde for the past few days. Several of them were present when Sun Xiangde was interrogated. You know the character of these people. It's hard to guarantee that they will keep their mouths shut."
Li Zhiqun's words were true. These Green Gang disciples had not received any training and were forced into intelligence work from the start, making them completely unsuitable for intelligence work.
Ding Mo was aware of this situation, but since there was no one else available, he had to make do with these people for now.
"I'm asking who knows the time and location of this operation?" Ding Mo asked in a deep voice.
Li Zhiqun was taken aback, and replied, "Not many people know this. I only announced it right before the operation started. Even if it were leaked, there wouldn't have been time to make arrangements!"
Who are they?
“Wu Shicai, along with a few of his men who went ahead to scout the terrain, and then there’s me,” Li Zhiqun explained.
Ding Mo thought for a moment and said, "When we go to Chief Tsuchihara's office later, we shouldn't talk about these things. Our Special Operations Department has just been established. If Chief Tsuchihara finds out that there are leaks everywhere here, will he still trust us in the future?"
Li Zhiqun was a seasoned veteran and knew this principle. He said with a wry smile, "I will, but we still need to conduct our own investigations. For now, we can only rely on these gang members. These people are opportunistic and unreliable. I think we should find more people from the same industry to help us."
Ding Mo nodded and said, "If we fail this time and Chief Tu Yuan blames us, we'll hand over the two strongholds of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics in Suzhou City that Sun Xiangde entrusted to us. That will be enough to settle things."
"Hand it over!" Li Zhiqun said with some heartache. "Isn't it a pity?"
Ding Mo sighed and said, "We didn't catch Bat today. Bat must know that Sun Xiangde is in trouble. If he has a radio channel to report to the Su-Hu Regional Headquarters, the Su-Hu Regional Headquarters will definitely cut off all contact known to Sun Xiangde. These two strongholds will likely be withdrawn. There is no value in keeping them in our hands anymore. Sigh, I originally planned to keep the credit for myself, but now I might as well hand them over. It can be considered as making amends for my mistakes."
"Yes!" Li Zhiqun nodded in agreement.
Li Zhiqun left the Special Operations Department and went to the Tsuchihara Agency to report to Tsuchihara Keiji in person.
Kitaoka Ryoko brought Li Zhiqun to Tsuchihara Keiji's office. Tsuchihara Keiji was looking down at the documents in his hand and ignored him.
Li Zhiqun was uneasy and waited obediently to the side until Tsuchihara Keiji finished processing the documents. Then he looked up and asked, "Your operation today caused quite a stir, with explosions and street closures. Tell me, what exactly happened?"
Keiji Tsuchihara was once again giving Li Zhiqun a warning. He didn't only have Luo Xingchao as an informant in the Special Operations Department. Luo Xingchao was just his visible informant, specifically for Ding Mo and Li Zhiqun, to make them wary and dare not act recklessly.
In addition, he also planted spies in secret to monitor the various activities of the Special Agent Department. When Li Zhiqun's operation failed this time, Tsuchihara Keiji quickly received the news. However, Tsuchihara Keiji did not know about this entrapment operation beforehand. Obviously, Li Zhiqun had concealed it from him, which made Tsuchihara Keiji quite angry, so he summoned Li Zhiqun.
Li Zhiqun had been prepared on his way here. Upon hearing Tsuchihara Keiji's question, he quickly replied, "Reporting to the chief, Sun Xiangde, whom we arrested last time, did not disclose all the information he knew. We were misled by him and did not ask too many questions. However, he only confessed yesterday that he was to meet with a Kuomintang agent who was lying in wait today. Because of the urgency of the situation, we did not have time to report to you and urgently arranged the trapping operation today. But we never expected that a huge explosion would occur at the meeting point just ten minutes before the meeting. Many of our personnel were killed or injured. Sun Xiangde was seriously injured and is still in critical condition. His fate is unknown."
After the explosion, we immediately cordoned off the area to search for the perpetrator, but the enemy had already laid an ambush and suddenly killed our personnel, allowing the perpetrator to escape. This failure was due to our negligence. We request punishment from the chief of staff.
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