There are too many people in these photos, and many of them don't just have one person in them. There are several people in one photo. Due to the angle and distance when they were taken, there are bound to be some unclear parts. So, it would be a lot of work to compare them according to Ning Zhiheng's requirements.
After several hours of work, the group finally identified 38 individuals from the photos. These individuals had appeared at Dongyuan more than 15 times in the past two weeks. So, after removing the random people who happened to appear there, these individuals should be the trained members of the Japanese spy team.
After pasting the photos of the thirty-eight people on the wall and clearing the photos from the large table, Ning Zhiheng took another bag to the table and said again, "Here's another bag. Same as before, find the people who appear more than fifteen times and put them together separately."
After saying that, he turned the bag upside down, and another large pile of photos spilled out. Everyone secretly groaned, realizing that they wouldn't be able to rest tonight.
Then came several more hours of intense work, continuing until 3 a.m., before they selected 42 people from nearly a thousand photos. Ning Zhiheng then pasted these people's photos on the wall.
Ning Zhiheng then addressed the ten intelligence officers, saying, "Today's work is top secret. No one is allowed to leak a word about it. Moreover, this kind of work will be carried out every two weeks, and you will still be responsible for it. In short, remember the secrecy regulations, or you will be subject to military law. Do you all understand?"
"clear!"
"clear!"
Everyone agreed in unison, and Ning Zhiheng then let them leave.
Ning Zhiheng then turned to Wei Liangbi and Shao Wenguang and said, "Let's take a look."
The three of them arrived in front of the wall covered with photos, and Ning Zhiheng began to explain: "The thirty-eight photos selected from the first batch should be of the Japanese spies who appeared in Dongyuan for training before the photos were taken."
Comparing the 42 spies selected from the second batch of photos, and excluding those with overlapping identities, the extra people in the second batch compared to the first batch are the spies who recently joined the training program during this period.
The missing personnel were likely sent to Chongqing or other regions by the Japanese during this period, which is why our people didn't take any more photos of them afterwards. Our task today is to locate these missing personnel.
Wei Liangbi and Shao Wenguang were both shrewd and had already guessed the reason. After Ning Zhiheng explained it briefly, they both nodded in agreement.
So the three of them sorted the photos together and quickly checked the photos of the two groups of people. They found that there were 34 people with the same identity in the two groups.
Looking at the photos in front of him, Wei Liangbi said, "The second batch of personnel has eight more unfamiliar faces and four fewer familiar faces than the first batch. This means that during this period, eight new spies were trained, and the four missing people have probably completed their training and left the training base. So these four people may have been sent to Chongqing."
Ning Zhiheng nodded and smiled, "That's right. This training base is specifically for training special agents to infiltrate our occupied territories. They are very likely to infiltrate Chongqing or other regions to carry out intelligence activities. However, we can't control other regions; we can only search within the Chongqing area."
At this point, he took down the photos of the four men and said, "Develop more of these photos and distribute them to your intelligence personnel to investigate in the Chongqing area. At the same time, I will also have Liu Datong's men investigate. He has connections and a team of people who specialize in this kind of work, making him the most suitable for this task."
Upon hearing Ning Zhiheng's words, Wei Liangbi and Shao Wenguang exchanged glances. They quickly recalled the previous leak case. Just when everyone was at a loss, Ning Zhiheng somehow found photos of Xia Bin's wife contacting Japanese spies. In just two days, he cracked the perplexing leak case. Now it seems that these photos were taken by Liu Datong's men.
Both men were full of admiration for Ning Zhiheng's pre-planned methods. Ning Zhiheng's current fame was certainly not due to luck, and this was only what they knew. As for how many other trump cards Ning Zhiheng had up his sleeve, they didn't know!
Regarding Liu Datong's situation, Ning Zhiheng no longer intends to hide it from Wei Liangbi and Shao Wenguang. Some follow-up work must be taken over by them, otherwise many tasks will be impossible to continue after he leaves.
Ning Zhiheng then pointed to the note pasted on the film roll and said, "Qiu Zishi and his team did a very meticulous job. Every photo here is marked with the time it was taken. Judging from the time, these four spies have been away from Wuhan for some time now. If they entered Chongqing, then it has been several days already."
Shao Wenguang asked, "Are you saying that these four people have likely already entered Chongqing? Now that our intelligence network in Chongqing has been wiped out, what could they possibly be doing here?"
“They must be conducting reconnaissance to find out the latest situation in Chongqing,” Wei Liangbi analyzed from the side. “Imagine that the intelligence network in the Chongqing area has been wiped out, and the only few surviving intelligence teams have gone into hiding. The Japanese headquarters in Wuhan must be eager to know the current status of the intelligence network, but now they have lost the ability to collect intelligence, and they can’t even determine the reliability of the intelligence sources. These new infiltrators are very likely here to investigate the situation.”
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