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Chapter 1282 You don’t want to either

"Co-pilot!"

When Zuo Zhong was thinking about how to get rid of Iguchi Saburo without disrupting the next plan, Gui Youguang hurried over and reported something to him.

"According to your instructions, I followed the German agent who was meeting with Daxiong. After the meeting, the other party went to the Cramton area, which is a German-populated area in Melbourne. There are very few Asian faces there. I was afraid of alerting the enemy, so I came back first."

German immigrants first came to Melbourne in the 19th century. These Germans not only worked as miners, but also opened shops, hotels and farms near the mining areas, gradually forming several German settlements, Cramton being one of them. Asians were indeed a bit conspicuous there.

Zuo Zhong recalled the information and replied casually, "Well done. If it doesn't work this time, we can find another opportunity. The Germans can't hide in the gathering area forever."

Gui Youguang felt relieved, and suddenly he seemed to have thought of something, so he kept it a secret with Zuo Zhong: "Vice-chairman, the German agent who contacted Daxiong is an old friend of ours. Guess who he is."

  German agent, old friend.

Zuo Chong didn't look at the bald man who was making faces. Faces flashed quickly through his mind, including enemies, friends, and strangers. After a while, a stern image of a white man emerged from the depths of his memory.

Much, a German Abwehr colonel intelligence officer, was the opponent encountered by the Military Intelligence Bureau when it went to Europe to receive weapons blueprints (Section 606).

"Is it Mu He?" Zuo Zhong expressed his guess.

Gui Youguang didn't expect Zuo Zhong to guess so accurately, and nodded quickly: "It was Mu He. This guy's anti-tracking technology is very sophisticated. I almost lost him on the way."

Zuo Chong understood clearly that the German intelligence system was very extreme. Although its personnel were well-educated and its equipment was advanced, it always made some low-level mistakes.

Mu He is like this. His intelligence skills are impeccable, but his thinking is rigid. The reason is probably because he came from the military and later entered the intelligence system, which has formed a certain mindset.

If he were Mu Hyul, what would he do this time? Zuo Zhong closed his eyes and put himself in Mu Hyul's shoes, trying to guess what the other party would do next.

When old-school officers carry out combat missions, such as attacking a position, the first thing they will do is reconnaissance, collect intelligence on the enemy, understand the terrain and topography of the attack area, and identify natural obstacles, roads, and bunkers.

After intelligence gathering is completed, the next step is to formulate a combat plan, which involves the main attack direction, auxiliary attack routes, retreat channels and troop deployment.

Once these are prepared, simulation drills will be conducted to familiarize the operators with the offensive procedures, tactics and command structure.

Finally, according to the intelligence sent back by the European intelligence station, the German army would establish assembly and departure positions in advance for small-scale operations, which would make things easy.

Thinking of this, Zuo Zhong slowly opened his eyes and gave orders to Wu Chunyang and Gui Youguang respectively.

"Chun Yang, spread your men around the factory. If I'm not mistaken, the Germans will send people to investigate as early as today or as late as tomorrow.

You must pay special attention to intersections, bridges, high ground and other key locations. Once you find someone, don't move. I need to know the enemy's surveillance points and assembly locations."

After that, he called Gui Youguang again: "As for you, closely monitor the Japanese's every move, and be secretive so as not to be discovered."

"Yes."

Wu Chunyang and Gui Youguang replied, and then the former raised a question. This question has troubled him for a long time, and he has wanted to ask it for a long time, and today he finally found the opportunity.

"Vice President, it's meaningless to just sanction Japanese and German intelligence personnel. After eliminating one batch, the other side can send out the second and third batches." Wu Chunyang asked with a frown.

The intelligence war between countries is not a fight between rivers and lakes. Human life is the least valuable consumable. With a high-value target like penicillin, even if they fail this time, the Germans and Japanese will find another opportunity.

Zuo Zhong touched the wombat in the fence, straightened up and chuckled: "Who said we should punish them now?"

  kindness?

Wu Chunyang and Gui Youguang were full of questions. What did the deputy commander mean by this? If they didn't sanction the other party now, when would they do so?

"Okay, go and follow the orders." Zuo Zhong picked up the broom and piled the wombat's feces together (a foreshadowing), with no intention of explaining.

From the very beginning, Zuo Zhong had no intention of solving the problem by killing people alone. Just as Wu Chunyang said, if one batch was killed there would be a second batch, and the Military Control Commission could not spend all its energy in Australia.

So is there a way to solve the problem once and for all or to make the Germans and Japanese give up targeting the Zuojia Penicillin Factory for a longer period of time?

The answer is yes.

  But this not only requires careful planning, but also technical support. After Wu Chunyang and Gui Youguang set off, Zuo Chong also quietly left the zoo.
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Pharmaceutical factory, western suburbs of Melbourne.

A column of white smoke floated out of the chimney in the corner of the factory, and a faint smell of medicine floated over the pharmaceutical factory. Gu Qi lagged behind Zuo Zhong half a body length, and the two chatted as they walked.

"Lao Gu, how is the personnel screening going?"

"It's still ongoing. No suspicious persons have been found so far. The workers and researchers have clean records and their whereabouts are clear."

"Well, this is the advantage of closed management." Zuo Zhong said and pointed to a corner of the factory where there were several four-story buildings, which were the factory dormitory area.

The building is made of red bricks, and each floor has multiple rooms connected by a long corridor, so the space for toilets and kitchens is infinitely compressed.

In later generations, this type of building has a resounding name, which originated from a certain big shot in Red Russia, but in fact, similar buildings appeared in Germany as early as the 1920s.

The Zuo family adopted the principle of "taking what is available" and built several buildings, which they used as dormitories for workers and researchers in order to control the flow of personnel.

Gu Qi smiled and said yes, and suggested that the new dormitory area of ​​the Military Control Commission could be built in the same way. Zuo Chong was stunned, thinking that this tube-shaped building would not be called the "Military Control Commission Building" in the future.

After making a few jokes, Zuo Chong, led by Gucci, walked into the research center - a Bauhaus-style factory that looked very ordinary from the outside.

After going through several inspections, the two men stepped into an empty factory building, which contained only a few old chemical laboratory instruments. With these instruments, it was impossible to develop penicillin, and even routine experiments could not be completed.

Gu Qi led Zuo Zhong to a fenced iron plate. As the sound of machinery started, the iron plate slowly sank, carrying the two of them to a secret laboratory more than ten meters underground.

In the dim explosion-proof light, the simple elevator stopped descending, and a semicircular corridor connected several corridors leading to different directions.

Gucci, who had been here once, introduced the layout and function of each corridor to Zuo Zhong one by one. When he mentioned that Fleming, who was in charge of the research and development of penicillin, was in a laboratory, Zuo Zhong interrupted him and went to meet him alone.

Gucci stood outside the door and vaguely heard a quarrel through the sturdy iron gate. Someone was shouting in English that this was impossible, but the quarrel ended quickly.

"crunch~"

The iron door opened again and Zuo Zhong walked out of the laboratory. Before leaving, he turned around and said to a white man with an angry face.

"Alexander, science does have no borders, but scientists do. You don't want to see your hometown occupied by the Germans, right? Please complete my task as soon as possible."

"But this takes time!"

"I can buy you some time. Any other questions?"

The white man was silent. Zuo Zhong closed the iron door and said to Gucci, "Let's go." The two of them strode towards the elevator and returned to the ground. What they were good at was killing people, so professional matters should naturally be left to professionals.

"Vice-chairman."

In the elevator, Gu Qi opened his mouth to say something, but Zuo Zhong raised his hand to stop him: "Old Gu, I know you have a lot of questions, but not now."

Nothing has been confirmed yet, and Zuo Chong doesn't want to say more. Now he can only hope that the researchers in the laboratory have real talent, otherwise the Military Control Commission will have to go on a killing spree.

On the other side, in a German-style building in the Cramton district, Mu He gathered his men and began to arrange tasks, the content of which was exactly the same as Zuo Zhong's speculation.

Reconnaissance, troop deployment, and drills, all the steps are as rigorous and standard as a graduation thesis from the Berlin Military Academy. You can't find any shortcomings, nor can you find any highlights.

This method of building a strong fortress and fighting a stupid battle is fine in conventional operations, but it is a big problem in intelligence operations.

There are essential differences between conventional operations and intelligence operations. The goals and nature, confrontation methods, and complexity of information processing are very different. The biggest difference is time.

In conventional warfare, time is usually related to the tempo of battle, advance, and speed of decision-making, with the emphasis on how to defeat the enemy quickly and effectively.

Time is dynamic in intelligence operations. Some intelligence may require a long period of accumulation and analysis before its value can be revealed. Conventional combat thinking that is eager for quick results may lead to exposure or wrong decisions.

So, after Wu Chunyang set up a tight net near the Penicillin factory, he discovered a group of sneaky white people that night, and followed the clues to find their temporary base and figured out their activity patterns.

After a day of observation, Wu Chunyang found Zuo Zhong and reported the results of the surveillance: "Deputy Commander, the Germans have three surveillance points and one assembly point. The surveillance points have a six-hour shift, with three people on each shift, and the assembly points have a twelve-hour shift, with six people on each shift."

Perhaps the Germans had other arrangements in other places, but all the people around the factory had already come into the sight of the Military Control Commission.

While Zuo Zhong expressed satisfaction with Wu Chunyang's work, he also put forward more detailed requirements, such as finding out the Germans' weapons configuration and preparing to cut off the communication between the surveillance points and assembly points and the outside world when necessary.

Carrying out intelligence operations is like operating a precision machine. The details are like the meshing gears. If something goes wrong in one place, the machine will malfunction, and that could result in death.

Wu Chunyang knew the deputy director's style and had anticipated these problems. He immediately explained them in detail, and Zuo Chong nodded repeatedly.

Several days passed in a flash, and that morning, the German agents who had been dormant for several days suddenly took action, targeting a small factory in Melbourne.