spy ace

Chapter 3873 Waterside Survey

Hua Zhang continued, "They are all tools. When you need them, just tell me. I will always carry them with me."

"Yeah." Fan Keqin said, "Okay." He raised his chin, Hua Zhang turned his head and saw Zhen Bao coming over with a small bowl of noodles. He said, "I'm sorry, Director Fan, we don't have enough. Let's have noodles for now. I've asked them to send people to patrol the village over there and bring back more chickens, ducks and geese. I also brought a few cans of food, so you two can make do with them for now."

"It's not that important. Noodles are good." Fan Keqin reached out to help him take it. Zhen Bao went back to get chopsticks and a bowl. Then the three of them ate noodles at Fan Keqin and Hua Zhang's residence while talking about the situations that needed to be investigated later.

Zhen Bao slurped a mouthful of noodles and said, "Director Fan, Chief Hua, how are you going to investigate first? Our side is definitely the spouse of power. Do you want to go to the place where the shell was found and take a look?"

Fan Keqin said, "Well, that's good. Seeing it in person can help people sort out their thoughts." Hua Zhang also expressed his approval. Zhen Bao heard it and said, "No problem, I'll go over after dinner."

Noodles are something that eat very quickly, and they go down in a slurp. After finishing, Zhen Bao took away the bowls, chopsticks, and other things, and returned a few minutes later, and gave a few instructions to the guard division's men, saying: "Hurry up and connect the telephone line. This is the top priority. In addition, two people from the communication team will come with us, bringing a radio. Others will also help connect the lines."

"Okay." After Zhen Bao turned around, he said, "Director Fan, let's go." As he spoke, he took Fan Keqin and the others into the car again. There were two cars, Fan Keqin, Hua Zhang, Zhen Bao, Liu Xiaoliang, a communications team, and two members of the security division's action team.

It was slow when we came, and it was still slow when we left, but it was always faster than walking. Soon we arrived at the edge of the small forest. A member of the security division action team was left to watch the car, and the rest of us, led by Zhen Bao, walked along the dirt road, through the small forest, and came to the water.

Zhen Bao bent down in the bushes and seemed to be looking for something. After a while, he squatted down, picked up a bullet shell from the ground, handed it to Fan Keqin, and said, "Director Fan, look, this is the place. One of our brothers was investigating along the water's edge and felt something under his feet. It turned out to be a bullet shell. Then he immediately contacted several investigation teams and began to investigate around. As a result, he found this place and the two sides. There are three such places with bullet shells along this side of the coast.

Then the scouts saw this terrain and found that the small island opposite might have been set up as an ambush circle, so they could surround the ships coming from all sides. So we also took a boat to the small island to investigate, and found shells in some bushes on the island. So we can basically determine that this is likely related to the disappearance of the golden ship. "

Fan Keqin took the shell and looked at it, then said, "This is the bullet from the Japanese Type 38 rifle. Our army has some that use this type of rifle, but it's not realistic to use it on such a large scale. It's better to use the Chinese Type 38 rifle or the weapons and ammunition that the Americans support. But I know it's more difficult for the Reds, but when we were fighting the Japanese, we captured a lot of Type 38 rifles, which are considered very good rifles on the Reds. And if we're targeting the Golden Ship, it's possible to hit some of their good rifles and use them together."

"Yeah." Zhen Bao said, "What Director Fan said makes sense."

"Let's take a look." Fan Keqin said, and continued to walk along the water's edge, picking up some shells from the ground from time to time. When he stopped, he fiddled with some shells with his hands and said, "There are shells from heavy machine guns and light machine guns. Heavy machine guns, Type 92, light machine guns, crooked handles. These all fit what I just said. It seems that the ambush against the Golden Ship may really be the Red Man's side. And you should also know the situation on their side, whether it is military or civilian, it is more difficult. Concentrating so many guns at once means that they are determined to win."

Speaking of this, Fan Keqin paused, looked at Zhen Bao, and said: What does this mean? They are determined to get it, and they are sure that the gold ship will come. In other words, they know this waterway for transporting gold, so they are so sure. So how do they know it? It remains to be verified. "

Zhen Bao listened to Fan Keqin's words and felt that they made sense, so he thought about it and said, "This... There are many ways. They may have undercover agents in Nanjing, or they may have guerrillas or armed work teams in this area, which are higher than reconnaissance. Or they may have intercepted and deciphered our telegrams? These are all possible."

Fan Keqin said, "Yes, and let's break it down further. First, there is an undercover agent, but where is the undercover agent? The security division? The Ministry of Finance, or at the dock? In the gold warehouse? Or other places. There are many possibilities. We can't confirm it at all. What's more, there are other possibilities. If we want to figure it out, it may take a very long time, and the result may not be very good. So we can only ignore this aspect for the time being. Focus our main energy on tracking down Huangjinshan and hope for a good result."

"Yes, yes." Zhen Bao said, "Tracing the gold is the most important thing. As for the other things... I am really not capable of it." Then he paused, looked at Fan Keqin and asked, "What do you think, Director Fan?"

Fan Keqin said, "I don't take credit for your brilliant idea. You see, you also said that the gold ship travels by water. When they ambush, even if they kill the escort guards on the ship in the first place, the ship is still in the water and is unpredictable. And they need time to transport the gold. How can they guarantee that they can get the gold in the first place? They can't swim, so they must have a boat. Maybe they trained the nearby fishermen? Or maybe some ship bosses got the boat. So if we check in this direction, we may get something."

  "Great idea." Zhen Bao slapped his head and said, "Director Fan is right. The golden ship is in the water. Even if they are confident that they can kill the boat driver, the ship is out of control in the water. It may hit the shore on both sides, but it may also continue to float downstream. So they must have a boat. And how did they get to that isolated island? It must have been transported there by ship. That's for sure."