Spy Wars: Return of the Red Luan

Chapter 236 Undercurrents from All Sides

The train continued moving.

"These two issues are actually related."

Chen Jiehua tore off a chicken leg, took a bite, and continued talking.

“I know that person is a member of the Communist Party. I know him and we met once in Shanghai. I deliberately reminded him so that you wouldn’t arrest him.”

"reason."

"I am Chinese, he is Chinese, and you are Chinese, but on the other side of the Great Wall, a group of Japanese are killing Chinese people!"

"Why are Chinese people arresting other Chinese people here? Why are Chinese people fighting a civil war? Wouldn't it be better to go and kill the Japanese together? Team Leader Liu, can you tell me why?"

“In Shanghai, the 19th Route Army was killing Japanese and resisting aggression, so I was willing to help them, even if it meant paying out of my own pocket to buy medicine.”

"But they went to Fujian on your orders, Chairman Chiang, to fight the Red Party. This is fighting among ourselves, it's a civil war!"

"They're ignoring the Japanese on the other side of the Great Wall! They're letting the Japanese enslave the land of Northeast China, yet they want to start a civil war!"

"Tell me, if I help them again, do I still have a conscience?"

……

"Team Leader Liu, can we have roast chicken now?"

“I can understand the feelings of you intellectuals. In China today, there are many people like Dr. Hua.”

"Thank you for your understanding, Team Leader Liu. In reality, even if there were many more people like me, it wouldn't make a difference; resisting Japanese aggression still depends on the army."

"Whether it's the Kuomintang army or the Red Army army, as long as they are anti-Japanese and willing to fight the Japanese, they are the people's army and good army, and I am willing to help them."

"We intellectuals have nothing but passion, and we are all willing to dedicate this passion to the front lines of the War of Resistance against Japan and to our homeland."

"Good! Well said! I, Song Heguang, may be a roughneck, but I respect you!"

"Team leader, how about we just make it to Tianjin safely and not arrest any Red Party members?"

Liu Shibai thought for a moment and nodded.

"Alright, call them all back. Let's not cause any more trouble. The mission is the priority."

"That's great! Hua Feiye thanks Team Leader Liu on behalf of the Red Party members and the people along the way!"

Chen Jiehua hadn't expected that people in this era would be so easily fooled. If he had waited any longer, he himself would have been prepared to tamper with the roast chicken.

Throughout the journey, in Liu Shibai's special agent carriage, Chen Jiehua avoided being questioned multiple times by the train police, and the two chatted for a long time.

Chen Jiehua taught them a lot of basic Western medicine first aid knowledge. In the end, they learned that Liu Shibai had been an apprentice in a pharmacy in Tianjin a long time ago and knew about traditional Chinese medicine and some basic medical knowledge.

If I had removed the bullets and bandaged his men back then, even if my technique had been just a little less skillful, the situation would have been very different.

That night, Chen Jiehua slept soundly and arrived directly at Tianjin Laolongtou Railway Station.

After Liu Shibai and a group of agents got off the car, they said goodbye to Chen Jiehua and exchanged wishes for the future.

Your alias is really bad. Liu Shibai means failure. I wonder if your mission will fail this time.

At least you failed to arrest me, and you also failed to arrest the Red Party members on the train.

Chen Jiehua watched the group of people walk away, his mind racing. At this point in time, the head of the Tianjin station of the Second Division (Special Service Division) of the Military Intelligence Bureau should still be Wang Tianmu, using the alias Zheng Shisong.

With Wang Tianmu at Tianjin Station, and the Special Service's Tianjin Station having clandestine connections with both their own networks, what mission couldn't they handle? Why would they need to send Liu Shibai all the way from Nanjing? A joint operation?
Chen Jiehua quickly found Yang Dengying, and in his private safe house, Yang Dengying prepared to report on some recent developments.

"Don't talk about other minor matters. First, see what Zheng Shisong at the Tianjin station of the Special Service is up to. A person named Liu Shibai has been sent from Nanjing, but I suspect it's an alias. Investigate him first."

“Commander, if you are sure this person is called Liu Shibai, then I know him. His real name is Bai Shiwei, a graduate of the seventh class of the Whampoa Military Academy, and one of the four assassins of Dai Chunfeng in the Special Service Department.”

"So it was him. I traveled with him on the train all the way here and found him to be very intelligent, skilled, and sharp-eyed. Wang Tianmu from Tianjin Station is one of the four great assassins, right? Dai Chunfeng sent Bai Shiwei here again, so it must be a mission that must be accomplished."

"I really don't know, there doesn't seem to be any movement from over there."

"Go back and investigate quietly to see what the mission is, and report back to me promptly."

"receive."

What moves is Tu Feiyuan making in Tianjin?

"After arriving in Tianjin, Doihara made several trips to the Bansai Mansion, but it seems he didn't meet the main person there. He then went to Shanxi, presumably to find Yan Xishan, but he hasn't returned yet."

"This bug really knows how to jump around."

However, Chen Jiehua was only passing through Tianjin this time and did not have time to deal with Tu Feiyuan. After explaining things to Yang Dengying, Chen Jiehua disguised himself again and went out to take a car to Shenyang.

After careful consideration, and taking into account that Shanhaiguan was currently in the hands of the Japanese, Chen Jiehua disguised himself as a Japanese businessman and traveled from Shanghai during the Republic of China era, through Tianjin, to Shenyang, to investigate and research the commercial market environment.

However, Chen Jiehua's "Shulan Project" had to be suspended this time.

On February 24, 1933, the League of Nations General Assembly passed a resolution with 42 votes in favor and 1 vote against, recognizing that the "Manchukuo puppet state" was illegitimate.

Japanese representative Yosuke Matsuoka delivered a tough speech at the League of Nations General Assembly, sophistry claiming that "Japan established the puppet state of Manchukuo to safeguard its own security and interests," and then led the Japanese delegation out of the venue and back to Japan.

On February 25, just as Chen Jiehua arrived at Tianjin Railway Station, Yang Dengying personally chased after him to the station and informed him of an "urgent telegram from Shanghai." Zhao Yiyue from Shanghai had sent a telegram that the Japanese Tokyo Naval Headquarters had sent a telegram to the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai, and the consulate's military attaché had come to his home, urging him to "return immediately."

Chen Jiehua followed Yang Dengying back to the secret base.

"Old Yang, what's going on?"

"Are you asking why the Naval Headquarters is in such a hurry to recall you?"

Chen Jiehua nodded. He'd been thinking the whole way there, wondering what urgent matter could be, but he couldn't figure it out at all.

"If there are no other major events, I think it must be related to the League of Nations' resolution yesterday. The news has already reached the country, and students in Beiping, Shanghai and Nanjing are preparing for anti-Japanese demonstrations."

After listening to Yang Dengying's explanation, Chen Jiehua roughly understood why.

This is trouble he brought upon himself: the Naval Headquarters needs him, the "first brain of the Navy," to go back and discuss the matter, which means the Navy is most likely preparing to tear up the London Naval Treaty.

Man proposes, God disposes. With a long sigh, I'll grant you a few more months to live.

"Ask Tohwen where his fleet is."

“Ji Yin Fengwen’s fleet is still in Shancheng. I have already informed Dezhao (Zhao Yiyue’s courtesy name Dezhao) that your fleet in Shanghai has brought him to Qingdao Port.”

"The car behind is ready, and we'll take you to Qingdao now."

Old Yang is something else! He has the potential to be the head of the general affairs department. Wow, very good.

(End of this chapter)