Lost and Spy

Chapter 1700 Refusal to Assist
"I'm afraid this is unlikely, right?"

Colonel Iwai Chaoqing was a little hesitant: "Well, Meng Shaoyuan is really in Suzhou?"

"Yes, in Suzhou, I saw him with my own eyes." Habara Koichi said with great certainty: "He was at the celebration banquet! Moreover, he walked past me face to face."

"Wait." The mayor of the village chief of the Japanese spy agency in Suzhou suddenly said, "Your Majesty Habara, what do you mean, you and Meng Shaoyuan passed by face to face?"

"Yes!"

"You walked him face to face without arresting him?"

Hikaru Hahara was stunned for a moment: "Well, I didn't recognize him at the time."

"Then, I don't quite understand." The city and village official immediately said, "You said you know Meng Shaoyuan very well, and you are also an expert on Meng Shaoyuan. When two people walked by each other face to face, you, an expert on Meng Shaoyuan, didn't recognize him. Get out of Meng Shaoyuan!"

This passage is a bit like a tongue twister, Yu Yuanguang thought for a while before saying: "At that time, he was wearing makeup, and I didn't recognize him. It was not until later that I thought this person looked like Meng Shaoyuan."

"You used 'like' just now." The city and village administrator keenly caught this point: "So, you yourself can't be sure that this person is Meng Shaoyuan, right?"

"Yes, it was impossible to be sure at the time."

Habara Koichi is a hardworking person, and his talent in intelligence is higher than that of his colleagues, but he is definitely not a person who is particularly good at words. Faced with doubts, he would rather handle a few more cases than Be willing to defend yourself.

However, even if he doesn't want to explain clearly now:
"It's true that I didn't recognize him at the first time, but then the more I thought about it, the more I felt it was him."

"Habara-kun." Colonel Iwai Chaoqing finally said, "That is to say, you still can't be sure that this person must be Meng Shaoyuan?"

"His appearance has changed a lot from the Meng Shaoyuan I'm familiar with, but that's makeup!" Koichi Habara emphasized the "makeup" again: "However, no matter how clever the makeup is, the body features and eyes cannot be changed. .”

"Barely relying on your physical features and so-called eyes, you demanded that the entire Suzhou be sealed off and a large-scale manhunt be launched in the city?" Iwai Chaoqing said disapprovingly: "Actually, you are still not sure whether that person is Meng Shaoyuan. These It's all just your guess. You want me to blockade the whole of Suzhou just by relying on a guess, only allowed to enter and not allowed to go out? Do you want me to start a search in the whole city?

Habara-kun, do you know the importance of Suzhou?She is located in the core of the Yangtze River Delta, connecting Wuxi and Changzhou, and it is the transfer station of the empire's important granary center!Every day, a large amount of food and supplies come in and out here, which will ensure that the imperial warriors on the front line can continue to win!If you follow what you say, do you know what the consequences will be? "

"But, Your Excellency." Hahara Koichi said hastily: "This person is Meng Shaoyuan. Although I can't be sure that my judgment is correct, as long as there is a slight chance, I must go all out. He alone is worth China Several divisions of people!
Your Excellency, I am not exaggerating. The information provided by Meng Shaoyuan enabled the Chinese to deal with the war more calmly.Some crucial information can even turn the tide of the battle! "

"Hahara-kun, please calm down." Iwai Chaoqing's words sounded more polite: "Now, let's assume that what you saw is correct, this person is Meng Shaoyuan, and Meng Shaoyuan is in Suzhou. But, what does this have to do with me? ?”

what?
Habara Koichi was stunned.

Does this have anything to do with me?

As the highest military officer in Suzhou, how could he say such a thing?

"It has nothing to do with me."

Iwai Chaoqing repeated his own words again: "How to catch Meng Shaoyuan is your business. My responsibility is to ensure the stability of the place, to ensure that the tasks assigned to me by my superiors can be successfully completed, and to ensure that the materials we collected can be delivered smoothly. to the front.

If, as you said, the entire Suzhou is blocked, then our transportation insurance will be cut off by ourselves.If my superiors pursue it, can you help me take this responsibility? "

Can you help me take this responsibility?
Habara Koichi, of course not.

So in this sense, there is nothing wrong with Iwai Chaoqing in both public and private matters.

In the eyes of the Japanese special agencies, Meng Shaoyuan was their biggest enemy.

But for the Japanese military?

They only care about how to win on the battlefield!
As for a spy?
Even if he is a big spy chief, what does it have to do with them?
The failure of the intelligence front naturally has the intelligence front to take the necessary responsibility!
"Habara-kun." Iwai Asaki continued to say calmly, "To deal with Meng Shaoyuan, you are enough to have Ichimura-kun and the detective team to assist you. Suzhou is relatively peaceful under our management."

Habara Koichi still wanted to make a final struggle: "Your Excellency, then, please assign me another squadron!"

"A squadron?" The sarcasm flashed from the corner of Iwai Chaoqing's mouth: "Do you know how many tasks our army has to undertake? Do you know how many enemies we have to deal with? The Loyalty and National Salvation Army commanded by the military, and the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army under the command of the Fourth Route Army. The Route Army, the Fourth Route Army Taihu Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army, and the Taihu Guerrilla under the command of the military general Wang Jingzhong marched forward! There are also military resistance and civil resistance! There are too many, I can't count them all.

My manpower is not enough at all, my soldiers must closely monitor everywhere to ensure that there will be no riots and ensure the safety of transportation insurance!I have asked my superiors for more troops, but I have not received an answer, because the empire also has a shortage of troops on the front line.a squadron?I can't even assign a small team to you! "

"Hahara-kun, your Excellency's words are all objective facts." The city and village administrator also said: "In order to cooperate with the Nanjing government's clean-up of the countryside, we have invested a lot of manpower, and even the detective team is almost empty now. There are seven or eight staff members left in my office, and the rest have all been dispatched. No one, really no one."

Hikaru Habara was disappointed.

But he knew that Meng Shaoyuan must be in Suzhou, for sure!

However, the Suzhou side's serious suspicion and serious lack of cooperation seriously affected the arrest of Meng Shaoyuan.

How to do?
This opportunity must not be passed up.

"Then, Your Excellency." Habara Koichi seemed to have no better solution: "I sent a group of people from Shanghai, you will not object, will you?"

"That's your business, Habara-kun." Iwai Chaoqing closed his eyes: "I also hope that you can successfully capture Meng Shaoyuan, and write a very important contribution for your illustrious martial arts!"

(End of this chapter)