Spy Wars: Return of the Red Luan

Kazuki Obata personally led the team, prying open the door. The house was in disarray, and they found nothing of value. However, they did find two Chinese versions of Japanese novels! The novels were clean, with no hidden items or concealed text, and despite special treatment, no hidden writing was found.

This is very unusual. Obata Kazuki reported this suspicious point to headquarters via telegram.

"The Sun"? "The Fly"?
The Special Higher Police clerk received a telegram from Shanghai and was completely baffled.

"The sun? A fly?"

"Yes, Obata-kun thinks that Westerner is very likely from the U.S. Navy."

"Go and find the Chinese translations of these two books."

As expected, the Special Higher Police's codebreakers were very clever and quickly found the pattern, deciphering the intercepted first telegram sent from the Senso-ji area to the South Pacific islands on March 12th:
The Japanese Navy is secretly building a battleship with a displacement of over 70,000 tons in Kagoshima, and it is about to be launched. The US Navy Command should be informed as soon as possible.

Deciphering the second telegram, dated 4 PM on April 28th, was straightforward:

Fishing in the East China Sea at 2 AM tomorrow

"Yes, sir! Immediately forward this to the special investigation team!"

Chen Jiehua looked puzzled when he saw the deciphered copies of the two telegrams.

"How was this deciphered?"

"Your Excellency, I do not know. You may inquire with the section chief directly."

"Baka! This is so important, why didn't he deliver it himself?"

Chen Jiehua picked up the phone, "Moshi moshi, connect to the Special Higher Police Telecommunications Section."

"Special Higher Police, Telecommunications Section, where is this?"

"Naval General Staff, Aoki Seigen!"

"Hi! What are your instructions, General Aoki?"

"Let your section chief answer the phone."

"Chief of the Telecommunications Division, Takeda, General Aoki, please give your instructions!"

"Takeda-kun, why is the telegram you deciphered in Chinese?"

"Reporting to General Aoki, after comparison by Special Higher Police experts, it was found that both telegrams were sent to the South Pacific islands using the same radio and the same typing method. We were previously misled and kept trying to decipher them in English."

"go on."

"But today Obata sent a telegram saying that they tracked down a man in Shanghai who appeared to be a member of the U.S. Navy, and found two Chinese translations of books, 'The Sun' and 'The Fly,' in the man's rented room."

"Very well, continue."

"We found two identical books and deciphered the contents of the telegram."

"Yoshi! Excellent! Takeda-kun is truly a pillar of the empire!"

"Hi! Thank you for the compliment, General Aoki!"

"Please have your code-breaking experts bring the books and telegram codes to the Naval General Staff's Special Investigation Team for the Explosion Incident."

"Hi!"
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On April 27, 1933, Hermann Göring, the second-in-command of the Nazi Party, in order to consolidate the Nazi regime, suppress political opponents, and achieve complete control over German society, merged the political police, intelligence police, and special political departments of the criminal police into the "Gestapo," which is translated as "Gestapo."

The two fascist regimes in the East and West advanced almost in tandem, racing ahead at breakneck speed.
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Before the ceremony on the day of Tencho, Otoha Masahiko described how his father told him to stay away from Aoki Seigen, saying that someone in the army wanted to harm Aoki Seigen (Chapter 234).

In Chen Jiehua's mind, it would be a shame not to take advantage of this opportunity. If you don't take advantage of an opportunity that's offered to you, you'll be struck by lightning.

At the time of the explosion, Zhao Yiyue did not retreat with Lao Zhou's fleet. Firstly, to prevent being wiped out in the process, and most importantly, because of the upcoming mission:
They found the leader of the assassin group who intended to harm Aoki Seigen, strangled him, dressed him in a "Sakuragi Taro" hat and decorations, made it look like a suicide, and hanged him from a house near Kobe Port.

Along with the body was a radio, and in the iron basin on the ground were traces of two burnt books, the titles of which were barely discernible.

In the corner of the wall, there was a handwritten telegram from Tianjin: "All will remain silent and await notification."

Zhao Yiyue and Chen Jiehua spent quite some time luring out the other minor assassins one by one to silence them and then destroy the evidence.

On May 3, residents near the house called the police, reporting a foul odor emanating from one of the houses. Police broke down the door and, finding the situation suspicious, immediately reported it to the Special Higher Police.

Shun Ueda, head of the Tokyo Security Division of the Special Higher Police, led a team to the scene.

"Wow! This is huge! We need to report this to the Navy's Kagoshima bombing special investigation team!"

When Aoki Seigen, Maeda Minoru, and the others arrived, a large number of residents and workers had already gathered nearby to watch the spectacle.

"That old Zhao is quite particular!" Chen Jiehua thought to himself.

"Yoshi! Sun! Fly!"

"Don't change the radio frequency! Check which frequency it is!"

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"General Maeda, this radio frequency..." The Special Higher Police technician went out to make a call and came back to report quietly to Maeda.

"What are you doing! Why don't you just speak up when you're reporting! Are you hiding something from me?!"

The junior technician was startled and looked at Qian Tian with a pained expression.

“Speak it out loud. General Aoki has the right to know the truth, and he must know the truth.”

"Hey! An investigation has revealed that this frequency band is a registered channel of the Shenyang intelligence agency!"

"Heh heh heh, how utterly depraved! To strike at me, they didn't hesitate to blow up the Yamato, a naval battleship!"

"The evidence is already quite clear, and the truth has come to light. I think the two telegrams sent to the South Pacific islands were also sent through this radio station."

"Carefully wrap the body, transport it back to the Tokyo Special Higher Police headquarters, and take photos."

The Special Higher Police ordered local police to wrap the "killer's" body in straw mats and carry it outdoors.

"Ah! Sir! Sir! It's Sakuragi Taro! It's Sakuragi Taro!"

Suddenly, someone in the crowd of onlookers shouted loudly.

"stop!"

"What did you say? Explain yourself!"

"Sir, this is the man who knocked me unconscious, locked me in the basement, and was the one who transported the sake from Nara to Kagoshima!"

It turns out it was that unlucky guy.

"Are you sure? You haven't admitted your mistake?"

"There's no way I could be mistaken, sir. His hat, his accessories—it's definitely him!"

"Takeda-kun, write this down."

"After you get back, take clear photos and send them to the Army and various police stations, asking them to identify if anyone recognizes him."

With so much evidence, and with the elites of the Special Higher Police fully engaged, the rest was simple.

First, many people in the army recognized the deceased as Nakamura Heisaburo, a native of Okayama Prefecture, whose military records indicated he was a soldier in the Kwantung Army.

Further investigation revealed that this person was dismissed from the Kwantung Army in July 1932 due to the Shulan arsenal incident, and there are no further records of him afterward.

Chen Jiehua never expected that this person was actually related to him.

Alas, when will this cycle of revenge end? How many have died?

The U.S. Navy's investigation came to nothing due to American arrogance; there was no record of the U.S. Navy going out during the time of the incident.

The two foreign ministries have engaged in countless rounds of verbal sparring. (End of Chapter)