The Spy

Chapter 218 Important Military Information
"Just wander around."

Xu Qingyun replied that there were three places he wanted to go, one of which was Lao Liang's residence, to see if Lao Liang was still there.

The second place to go is Niu Yuanxiang’s residence and shop. I’ll go there first to see what’s going on and identify any footprints, or see if there are any familiar footprints there.

For example, Lao Liang and the young people who are with Lao Liang.

And there is Dr. Huang.

If their footprints appear over there, Niu Yuanxiang is likely to be one of their own. Xu Qingyun has to find a way to make Yan Ming give up this clue.

Yan Ming is very smart. If we let him check, he might really find something.

"Chief, your message."

Liao Gongping, the office director of the Military Intelligence Department, sent a sealed telegram. The telegram was sent by the Telecommunications Department and was forwarded by him.

"Leave it here."

After seeing that they were all codes, Xu Zhanjie knew who sent it. There were very few telegrams that the Telecommunications Department had not translated, so it was most likely sent by William.

This kid is really good. He has new information so soon?

After giving him the money last time and telling him what information he wanted, how come they got the information they needed so quickly?

I picked it up and took a look, and it was indeed a secret message from William.

The Telecommunications Department does not have a code book. William is a highly confidential spy. He does not belong to the Military Intelligence Department, has no establishment, and is a foreigner, but he does work for the Military Intelligence Department.

Absorbing a foreign outside player is Xu Zhanjie's pride.

"Does the Army Department's Intelligence Department have someone in Nanjing?"

Xu Zhanjie sat up straight immediately. The intelligence was very important. The Japanese Army Intelligence Department obtained important military intelligence in Nanjing, which was related to some military deployments of the Guo army.

It is not comprehensive, but it contains general information, which needs to be verified by them.

William didn't know how to verify it himself. After getting the information, he happened to go out for something. When he came back, he sent the information to the Military Intelligence Department.

He could only send the telegrams himself and could not give them to anyone else.

Fortunately, he had the identity of an intelligence dealer as a cover, so it didn't matter even if someone found out that he was sending messages to the Military Intelligence Department. The Military Intelligence Department was his client, and it was normal for them to buy intelligence from him.

But MI6 must not know that he now only serves the Military Intelligence Service.

Although there is not much difference between them, one is business and the other is an insider, and they have different meanings.

"Director, I suggest that you verify the authenticity of this intelligence immediately. If it is true, the Japanese Army Department must have someone in Nanjing, and they have instigated a high-level mole to defect."

Xu Zhanjie came to the director's office to report. The director nodded slightly. William showed his value. This information seemed to belong to Japan, but in fact it pointed out that there was an eye in Nanjing, and the level was not low.

Japan's intelligence departments are multi-faceted, including the Special High Police, the Army, and the Navy.

Even their Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cabinet have their own intelligence departments.

Unlike in China, apart from them and the Party Affairs Investigation Office, there are not many professional intelligence departments.

The warlords actually also attach importance to intelligence, but their intelligence personnel are not yet visible.

The other is the Red Party.

The Red Party has made rapid progress in recent years, and their intelligence personnel have grown rapidly. The Party Affairs Investigation Office has gradually become unable to cope with them.

Virgo has a premonition that the Red Party will become his opponent in the future.

He had taken precautions and preparations in advance.

"Okay, verify it carefully. If it is true, let Xu Qingyun find out the intelligence personnel of the Ministry of the Army."

The director agreed and directly assigned Xu Qingyun to handle the case.

"Yes, I will verify it immediately. If it is true, I will buy this complete information immediately."

William's offer was not low. The last time he offered was too high. Xu Qingyun secretly warned him not to ask for too much, as he would not be short of benefits.

This time he only asked for twenty gold bars, which was the lowest price.

Osaka has ten and he has ten.

As a middleman, he only took half, which was considered low. Before, he used to take 70% or even 80% of the middle price.

Intelligence dealers are rich, and this is how they make most of their money.

"No problem, go ahead and do it."

Virgo agreed again that these were trivial matters and what mattered to him was the meaning behind the intelligence.

The Japanese were able to obtain such detailed intelligence, and the person who provided them with the intelligence must be of a high rank. Finding this person would be a great achievement for the Military Intelligence Department.

It might even be the highest-ranking person they have ever captured since their establishment.

The director attached great importance to this matter, so he specifically asked Xu Qingyun to handle the case. He was most confident that Xu Qingyun would be able to handle the case in the entire Military Intelligence Department.

He has this confidence in Xu Qingyun.

"Yes, Virgo."

Xu Zhanjie left quickly. It was not difficult to verify this intelligence. He could just ask the General Staff.

The results were real, the Japanese really got their troop deployment right.

Xu Qingyun was still outside at this time, and didn't know that William had given them new information. He secretly guided them and took a walk around the city, and noticed Niu Yuanxiang's newly opened shop.

The inside was being cleaned up, and there were messy footprints at the door.

Xu Qingyun was unable to take a photo, so he just took a quick look and did not find any familiar footprints, proving that the several Red Party members he knew did not appear here at least today.

Or maybe this moment has never come.

He was also passing by Lao Liang without getting off the car. He had gotten off the car when Zheng Jiming was there before, more than once. Now he was getting off the car again. Once people knew about it, it would be easy to associate it with something.

Xu Qingyun was not in a hurry and just glanced at the entrance of the alley.

There were also no traces of Lao Liang.

"Teacher, are you looking for me?"

After returning, he immediately received a notice that Xu Zhanjie was looking for him and asked him to visit his home after returning.

It's time to get off work.

"Take a look at the intelligence William sent today."

Xu Zhanjie handed the translated message to Xu Qingyun, who immediately looked up after reading it and said, "Our General Staff has been infiltrated by them."

"That's right. The Director wants to find out who betrayed the information and put you in charge of this case."

Xu Zhanjie nodded. The intelligence was very clear. It was referring to their general staff, and a person of a high rank.

"Don't worry, I will prepare immediately and investigate this case with all my strength."

Xu Qingyun replied that this case came at a timely moment because Yan Ming had just arrested someone and asked them to handle the case. Yan Ming had no time to pay attention to Niu Yuanxiang's situation, so he had time to slowly verify Niu Yuanxiang's identity.

"Okay, there are four groups in the Intelligence Department. You can use as many people as you want."

"It won't take that many. Let Team 4 and Team 2 come first. This case is important, and they are more suitable."

Xu Qingyun said with a smile that two groups were enough, and if the case was not important, four groups would be enough.

He is now a deputy section chief and cannot hand over every case to Group 4. Everyone knows that Group 4 is his direct line and he will be considered biased.

"Okay, you decide."

Xu Zhanjie responded casually. Even if Xu Qingyun didn't use Group 4 this time, he would not agree.

The cases assigned by the director must be handled by the best and most capable personnel.

Although it was only recently established, Intelligence Group 4 is already the most powerful group in their intelligence department.

After returning home, Xu Qingyun took out the telegram again.

It’s too late today. I’ll arrange the tasks and start the investigation tomorrow.

What he is doing now is preliminary analysis, first clarifying the direction of investigation. The direction is the most critical. Whether the case can be solved depends on the direction of investigation.

The scope of intelligence the Japanese obtained this time was very wide.

From Tianjin and Beijing in the north to Nanjing in the south, it mainly covers the deployment of the Guo army along the north-south route.

This shows the Japanese's evil ambitions.

What do they want with this information?
Xu Qingyun was a person of later generations. He read many articles in his later generations, some of which said that the Japanese's original idea was to do the same as the Qing Dynasty, to gradually erode China from north to south.

July 7th was not the original intention of the Japanese military, they were not yet fully prepared.

However, after being provoked, he was forced to launch a full-scale war of aggression.

The Guo Party took the initiative to open up a battlefield in Shanghai. Although the battle was not fought as expected, at least it prevented the Japanese from moving south from the north. It used Nanjing to attract the Japanese attention and dragged the war into a stalemate.

Although the performance of the Guo Party was disappointing, at least they retained some territory and slowed down the Japanese.

Throughout the war period, China made tremendous sacrifices and contributions.

Now they began to focus on collecting this information, which showed that they had the idea of ​​gradually encroaching from north to south.

This area is very large and includes many strategic locations.

The deployment of garrisons in those places is key.

There are not many people who can get so much information, and their level cannot be too low.

First start with the insiders. This is also the most common method of investigating traitors. However, this case is important, and the insiders cannot be limited to all insiders. Some insiders must also be included in suspicion and investigated.

The so-called partial insiders only knew the situation of part of the garrison. It is possible that the Japanese spies bribed multiple people, and then collected intelligence through them to learn about the garrison situation of all troops.

Anyone who is suspicious must come into their sight.

This will increase the number of people conducting the survey.

Not afraid of increasing the number of people, Xu Qingyun first mobilized two groups, nearly a hundred people. With so many elite soldiers going out to investigate together, they could quickly eliminate some people or find the real suspects.

The next morning, Xu Qingyun came to the office.

As soon as the working hours arrived, he immediately went to the conference room, and the office notified Group 2, Group 4, and all team leaders and above to go to the conference room for a meeting.

Speaking of which, this was the first meeting Xu Qingyun presided over after being promoted to deputy section chief.

Although limited to two groups, the scale is not small.

Three team leaders, two team leaders and two deputy team leaders, a total of ten people from two groups, came to the conference room together.

Xu Qingyun sat in the main seat, with two team leaders on both sides of him, the deputy team leader behind him, and the three team leaders sitting in the back in order.

He Rongtang was smart and gave the position on the left to Group 4. He knew the relationship between Xu Qingyun and Group 4, so there was no need to snatch such a small thing.

Besides, what good would it do even if you managed to grab a seat?
It has no practical significance at all, and it is likely to leave a bad impression on Deputy Section Chief Xu.

"I asked you to come here today because there is a case to investigate." Xu Qingyun went straight to the point and said directly. When they heard that there was a case, everyone was stunned. Xu Qingyun had not told them about the case before.

Especially Yan Ming. They had just arrested someone and Yan Ming was planning to continue investigating the remaining people when the section chief suddenly said there was a case. Was it this case?

It shouldn't be. If it is, there is no need to be so grand. If we really want to ask Group 2 for help, the section chief can just arrange it at will.

It seems that there are other cases to handle.

"According to the intelligence we received, it was confirmed that there was a high-level insider in the General Staff who was instigated by the enemy to defect. They obtained information about some of our garrisons, and the scope was very wide..."

Xu Qingyun said slowly, Yan Ming had an expression as if to say, "As expected, there really are other cases."

And it’s a very important case.

He Rongtang was even more excited. His advance goodwill was rewarded. This time, Deputy Section Chief Xu called them to investigate the case together, which meant that he was one step ahead of Group 1 and Group 3.

As for Group 4, it is normal for them to be involved, and it is impossible for Deputy Section Chief Xu to exclude them from such a case.

Xu Zhanjie has verified that the information is true.

The specific information can only be obtained after William gives the money to Osaka. Xu Zhanjie has sent someone to give the money to William. The Intelligence Department has deployed a person in Shanghai, but he does not have that much money, so he needs the money to be sent to him.

Bank transfers aren’t that fast these days, so it’s better to send someone directly.

In other words, detailed information can only be obtained in the afternoon or evening at the earliest.

Xu Qingyun will not wait for this information. The information is of reference value to them. Through the detailed information, they will screen and find out whoever knows this information will be suspected.

Before that, they first investigated all the information they could get access to.

The staff department has a lot of people and their ranks are very high.

Xu Qingyun, whose rank is too high, cannot be investigated now, and the director needs to apply to higher authorities. For the time being, the investigation will start with ordinary staff and employees.

The first is their personal and family situation.

Especially property.

Anyone who has money that cannot be explained will be the focus of investigation, followed by their whereabouts and relationships.

Matters related to the Japanese should also be investigated in detail.

This intelligence was obtained by the Japanese Army Department. No matter who the traitor was, he must have had contact with people in the Army Intelligence Department in order to give them this intelligence.

Information like this is extremely valuable, and the Japanese will give him a lot of money.

"From now on, you will be in groups of two. No one is allowed to leave alone. Even to go to the bathroom, you have to go together. If anyone dares to contact others alone, Lu Dawang's fate will be his lesson."

Xu Qingyun said coldly that Lu Dawang was the first living person Xu Qingyun found when he first came to Nanjing.

He was executed, and his end was tragic.

Everyone was startled and understood the importance of this case. If they did it well, they would be rewarded with great achievements, but if they did it poorly or made mistakes, the punishment would not be light.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Qingyun stood up hurriedly.

The director took Xu Zhanjie into the meeting room.

Xu Qingyun was not surprised that Xu Zhanjie would come. He did not expect that the director would come in person.

"Director, please."

Xu Qingyun immediately gave up his seat, and everyone moved back, leaving the front seats to Xu Zhanjie and Xu Qingyun.

"I heard what Deputy Section Chief Xu said just now. He is right. We are an intelligence department, and confidentiality is of utmost importance. Let me be frank with you. Whoever messes up this case will not leave alive."

The director said softly that he went to see the old man early this morning.

When the old man heard that there was an enemy conspiracy in the General Staff, he was furious. He had not yet completed the adjustment of troop deployment from south to north, but the Japanese already knew about it?
What secrets do they have?

We must investigate, we must investigate thoroughly, and make sure this traitor is found.

This is an order issued by the old man himself, which is equivalent to a death order and the Military Intelligence Department must complete it.

After returning, the director learned that Xu Qingyun was in a meeting to assign tasks, so he came over immediately to cheer them up in person. This time he wanted to be the supervisor and make these people understand the importance of the case.

"Don't worry, Virgo, we won't do anything bad."

Xu Qingyun immediately expressed his opinion, and the director nodded with satisfaction. He recognized Xu Qingyun's ability. This case seemed difficult, but he felt most at ease leaving it to Xu Qingyun.

"Very good, as long as you have this enthusiasm, the chairman said that except for the top few people, everyone else can be investigated. As long as you can handle this case, I will help you get credit in front of the chairman."

It was a threat before, but now it is encouragement, a big stick in one hand and a sweet treat in the other, Virgo plays this hand very well.

He didn't stay in the meeting room for long and left quickly.

But his arrival is a kind of attitude, and no one dares to be careless in this case.

Yan Ming originally wanted to ask whether the previous case should still be investigated, but when he saw the director coming over, he did not ask anymore. It was okay to put that case aside for the time being, not to mention that the Japanese spy had already been caught by them, and the rest just had not been investigated thoroughly.

The case is the most important thing right now.

"You all heard what the Director said. This time, the Director is watching. Whoever tries to cause trouble for me will be dealt with first."

Xu Qingyun spoke softly, and soon announced the adjournment of the meeting. The two team leaders were called into his office.

"You two should divide the work. Investigate first. Once you get accurate intelligence, use the intelligence to check all the insiders. Not only those who know all the information, but also those who only know part of it."

Fang Laibao and He Rongtang stood straight and received the order together.

After they returned, they immediately discussed with the deputy team leader and their captains. With so many people in the staff department, it was impossible to check them all.

There is no need to check the top layer, and there is no need to check the bottom layer in detail.

This is important military intelligence, and it is impossible for people at the lower levels to know it, such as sentries, people who have nothing to do with military deployment, etc.

The traitors are most likely from the Operations Department and the Planning Department.

The General Staff is not the National Defense Department, its level is higher than that of the National Defense Department.

To put it bluntly, the Ministry of National Defense is mainly responsible for logistics and serves the General Staff. It is the one that actually commands operations and has military power.

Their investigation must be careful and must not be discovered.

Once the traitors know that they are being investigated, they will probably become desperate and killing them would be the least of their worries.

These people have soldiers and guns, what can't they do as trapped beasts?

It can also be said that this is the most dangerous case handled by Intelligence Group 4 since its establishment.

Fang Laibao is not afraid of danger. This is a challenge, and if done well it will definitely be a great achievement.

He has already tasted the sweetness of following the right person. If he can make great achievements this time, it will lay the best foundation for his future career.

With such a great contribution, if he is willing to leave, he can at least be the deputy station chief or the deputy section chief of the headquarters.

He couldn't leave. Fang Laibao didn't want to be on his own. He felt most comfortable following Xu Qingyun. Xu Qingyun had ways to deal with many things. He just had to obey orders and do his work seriously.

All members of the two teams were dispatched. As for the things Yan Ming had found before, they had been sealed and archived and would not be asked about for the time being.

In the evening, Xu Zhanjie received a telegram from Shanghai.

They have obtained detailed intelligence, not only text but also photos.

They would drive these things back overnight.

In order to ensure the security of intelligence, they applied for protection.

Although the distance between Nanjing and Shanghai is not far, the road is not so peaceful. If you travel at night, firstly, there will be a lot of cars, and secondly, the security must be strict.

Xu Zhanjie reported to the chief and specially applied for a company of soldiers for them.

This information is extremely important and must not fall into the hands of others.

Although the Guo military's deployment had been leaked, adjustments would certainly have to be made, but before that, no one could be allowed to know that they had obtained this intelligence.

Otherwise the Japanese would know that their traitor might be exposed.

Xu Zhanjie was very curious about Osaka. Forget about the intelligence about the Kwantung Army, this was obviously a top-level secret of the Army's Intelligence Department. How did he know about it and get such detailed intelligence?

Two hundred taels of gold, the price is really not expensive, it’s great value.

I guess Osaka understands that the real significance of this intelligence lies in their internal hidden dangers. As for the content of the intelligence itself, it is purely useful when investigating traitors.

That's why he didn't offer a high price.

If it were the Japanese troop deployment, they would demand not only two hundred taels, but also two thousand taels of gold.

That is the truly important confidential information.

Xu Zhanjie didn't know yet that Osaka only asked for 100 taels of gold, and the remaining 100 taels was William's kickback.

The next morning, they brought the information to the department.

The journey was relatively safe, mainly because there were so many cars.

Don’t think that you’ll be fine if you don’t encounter bandits. Nowadays, many poor villagers sometimes play the role of bandits.

Especially those who live not far from the road.

They just grabbed a handful of stuff and ran away, and it was night time, so you couldn't find anyone at all.

Real bandits at least have a lair. They are just ordinary people and they can’t kill all the people nearby.

"Qingyun, don't let everyone see this information. It's limited to the team leader level."

When Xu Zhanjie gave the intelligence to Xu Qingyun, he specifically reminded him that although the military deployment had to be changed, not all of them could be changed drastically, and some things still had to be done according to the original plan.

For example, in some important places, at most we can send more staff.

Therefore, this information cannot be leaked and is limited to the team leader, which means that only Fang Laibao and He Rongtang can see this information.

"I understand, don't worry."

Xu Qingyun took the information and nodded seriously. This information was indeed important. Even if it was not used now, it would be useful to the organization in the future.

Especially for the guerrillas, their lives were even harder as they needed to avoid the main force of the Guo army.

I will find an opportunity later to make some changes to this information and then hand it over to the organization.

Making changes is not to cover up the source of intelligence. The Japanese all know about it, so it doesn't seem surprising that the Red Party can get it.

Xu Qingyun wanted to see if he could guess their new deployment through case investigation and subsequent speculation, and then add the new deployment to make the authenticity of this intelligence higher.

This is his real purpose.

"Go."

The case is being handled by Xu Qingyun, and Xu Zhanjie will support him behind the scenes without asking too many questions.

He knew his own limitations and was sure that when it came to handling cases, he could not compare to his own student. However, he was Xu Qingyun's teacher and also the section chief, so he would have a share of any credit Xu Qingyun had made.

Six thousand words, and there will be more updates. It will be a little late, so please forgive me, friends.

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(End of this chapter)