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Chapter 1303 Confession
After the arrest scene was under control, Kiyohsu Okamoto walked into the house. He slowly came in front of Sorge and announced the arrest decision in the other's calm eyes.

"Mr. Sorge, you have been arrested on suspicion of providing intelligence to the Red Russia. We will inform the German Embassy of this matter, but we will not hand you over to the German side."

As Okamoto announced the arrest decision, several Japanese agents pinned Sorge down and handcuffed his hands behind his back, while checking his collar and teeth to see if there were any suicide drugs hidden there.

"Ahem, Mr. Okamoto." Sorge, who felt difficulty breathing, coughed twice and pretended to be helpless: "I think this must be a misunderstanding."

"No, this is not a misunderstanding." Okamoto Kiyohuke squatted down and said in a cold tone: "Now please tell me, who sent you the warning letter, and who are your subordinates?"

Sorge panted and laughed as he replied, "There was no warning letter. It was sent to me by my friends. I..."

Before he could finish his sentence, blood oozed from the corner of Sorge's mouth and his eyes gradually became unfocused. The spies immediately panicked.

Kiyofuko Okamoto was the first to react. He glanced around the scene and his eyes stopped on the half-smoked cigarette butt.

He picked up the cigarette butt and put it in front of his nose, fanning it gently with his other hand, and immediately smelled a faint scent of almonds.

"Damn it! It's galangal! Give it first aid." Kiyohuke Okamoto roared, but his expression remained calm.

Most poisons have a lethal time and lethal dose. As long as the poison is not ingested in large amounts or the treatment is appropriate, there will be no danger to life.

The intelligence personnel of the General Staff had received relevant training and carried antidotes for common poisons. Upon hearing Okamoto Kiyohsu's order, they immediately gave Sorge first aid.

All the windows of the small building were opened, fresh air instantly rushed into the room, and a tube of amyl nitrite inhaler was pressed against Sorge's mouth and nose.

Sorge struggled desperately and refused medical treatment, but the agents held his body and head firmly, and someone even punched him hard in the abdomen, which made him subconsciously inhale the antidote.

The methemoglobin produced by isopentyl nitrite can delay the onset of kaempferia galanga in the body's circulatory system, creating conditions for further detoxification.

Kiyohsu Okamoto sneered. He would not allow the other party to die so comfortably before he confessed. The interrogation room of the Intelligence Department was ready, waiting for the protagonist to appear.

After first aid, Sorge's vital signs returned to normal. The agents tied him to a stretcher, carried him out, and returned to the General Staff Headquarters by car.

In order to prevent Red Russian agents from kidnapping prisoners, Kiyohiro Okamoto specially arranged for tanks of the Imperial Guards Division to escort along the way. Any suspicious persons and vehicles approaching the convoy were arrested first and then interrogated, causing chaos in the urban area of ​​Tokyo.

When Sugiyama Gen received the news and arrived at the General Staff Building, the convoy happened to stop in the courtyard. Okamoto Kiyohsu jumped out of the car and asked the guards to close the gate and strengthen vigilance.

The rest of the agents escorted the stretcher into the detention center. Sorge's mouth was blocked and he lay on the stretcher, twisting his body constantly.

Sugiyama frowned and took two steps forward down the stairs: "Okamoto-kun, why arrest suspect number one? The intelligence network behind him is our real target."

Okamoto Kiyohuke looked ashamed, stood at attention and bowed, saying, "I'm sorry, Mr. Director, our actions have been discovered by the Red Russians. Someone sent a warning letter to suspect number one, so I had no choice but to arrest him."

"What? Warning letter?" Sugiyama Gen exclaimed, his head a little confused.

Surveillance of Sorge and related suspects was a top-secret operation for which he was personally responsible. Who on earth dared to tip off the General Staff?

Okamoto Kiyohuke bent his waist a few degrees again and said respectfully: "Hai, the postman delivered two letters and three postcards to the target. One of the letters was not sent by the post office. It might have been secretly put into the mail bag by a Red Russian spy.

We only found one letter at the scene. After preliminary investigation, the missing letter had been destroyed. The evidence was the burn marks in the ashtray and the toilet had been flushed. This was my mistake, please forgive me. "

Sugiyama waved his hand and didn't care. Sorge was a professional agent and had plenty of time to react before being caught. It was impossible for him to leave the evidence to them. He was curious about something else.

"Every letter from the Empire will have a postmark from the post office. As a professional who delivers letters every day, the postman should be able to tell whether the postmark is real or fake. Is there really no problem on the other side?"

"Director, this is exactly what I'm going to say next." Kiyohsu Okamoto had thought of this before and had made corresponding understandings. When he heard Sugiyama Moto's question, he responded.

"According to the postman's recollection, both letters were stamped with postmarks, and there was almost no difference between the two. This shows that the Red Russians have a professional support agency in Tokyo that can forge various documents and seals."

Sugiyama Moto agreed deeply and kept saying something. He asked Okamoto Kiyofuko to pry open Sorge's mouth as soon as possible and dig out more Red Russian spies.

"Hai, please rest assured, Mr. Minister." Kiyohsu Okamoto puffed out his chest, assured Sugiyama Gen, and turned to go to the detention center.

While the two were talking, Miyagi and Clausen were also brought to the General Staff Headquarters. Clausen was fine, but his clothes were torn and he looked a little embarrassed. Miyagi's condition was much worse. Not only was he shot in the shoulder, his face was covered with scars, and he had to be dragged by the secret agents to move.

The spies responsible for escorting him were also in a state of disgrace. It seemed that the arrest operation was not going smoothly, but the result did not change. Except for Ozaki, all the senior members of Sorge's group were wiped out.

Watching the suspects being taken into custody one by one, Sugiyama Gen thought of his deal with Suzuki Kantaro, and hurried back to his office to answer the other party's call and report the situation.

Since the plan to use Shelikov as bait to capture Sorge failed, their previous agreement would be invalid.

The Army is not a charity and it is impossible for it to support Hayashi Fuichiro to become the Minister of the Ministry of Finance for nothing unless the Suzuki family and the Hayashi Fu family can provide other benefits.

After listening to Sugiyama Gen's explanation, Suzuki Kantaro sneered, thinking that the other party was going back on his word, and there was a lot of sarcasm in his words.

Sugiyama Gen did not want to offend this imperial elder, so he had to ask him and Hayashi Fuichiro to attend the trial at an appropriate time to prove that Sorge's arrest had nothing to do with Hayashi Fuichiro's suggestion.

Not to mention how Sugiyama Gen and Suzuki Kantaro struggled, Miyagi in the interrogation room was hung half a meter above the ground by the secret agents with a steel rope passed through his hand bones.

Under the influence of gravity, the sharp edge of the steel rope cut his flesh bit by bit, breaking his bones and tendons. Blood gushed out from the wound like water, quickly staining the ground red.

The screams echoed in the gloomy corridor, but the interrogators at the General Staff Headquarters were already accustomed to it. They even took time out to have a meal.

The stove used to heat the soldering iron burned red hot, drying the blood around it, and a sickening stench filled the air.

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The spies, shirtless, sat beside the bloody Miyagi and feasted on the food, laughing wildly from time to time. The scene was like hell on earth.

Clausen in another interrogation room received a more "civilized" interrogation. After all, he was a Canadian citizen. Japan had no intention of turning against Europe and the United States now, so they still had to put on a show.

As usual, the agent asked Clausen about his true identity, code name, position and mission content, and told him that he could leave as long as he confessed.

But Clausen's reaction shocked everyone. When the agent threatened him with red-hot charcoal, he suddenly leaned forward and bit and swallowed the charcoal that was thousands of degrees hot.

Burn treatment has always been a difficult problem in the medical field, and Clausen suffered severe burns in his mouth, throat and esophagus, leaving him with almost no chance of survival.

A few days later, Clausen, who was tortured beyond recognition, died of his injuries. From the time he entered the interrogation room of the General Staff to the time he swallowed the charcoal, he never revealed a single word to the Japanese.

But Clausen's wife was a White Russian noblewoman. When she married Clausen, she was investigated by the Red Russian intelligence department. Therefore, she knew that her husband worked for the Red Russia. So the first confession evidence appeared.

This was very unfavorable to Sorge and others. The General Staff was like a wild dog that smelled meat, and could not wait to put the confession in front of Sorge and Miyagi.

However, even with the confession, Sorge still insisted that he worked for the newspaper and was not a Red Russian spy, and repeatedly requested to meet with his good friend, the German ambassador.

At this time, the German ambassador was also working on Sorge's case. He did not believe that Sorge was a member of the underground party at all. In order to rescue Sorge, he even found Tojo to plead for mercy, but unfortunately it did not work.

After much negotiation, and perhaps also for the sake of the Japan-Germany alliance, Tojo allowed the German ambassador to visit, on the condition that Sorge acknowledged his identity as a spy.

The situation had fallen into a vicious circle. If Sorge admitted it, he would be killed. If he did not, he would be detained for a long time. The German ambassador angrily raised a diplomatic inquiry, strongly demanding that Japan release its citizens.

Of course, there was a reason why the Germans worked so hard. In order to gain the trust of German officials, Sorge provided certain intelligence to the German ambassador.

When Miyagi learned the news of Clausen's sacrifice, he burst into tears. Perhaps it was because the safe time had passed, or perhaps it was because he was stimulated by the death of his companion, but Miyagi spoke.

Miyagi revealed all the information he knew about the origins of the Sorge Group and the missions they had carried out, except for the list of their offline members. This was the part that Kiyofuku Okamoto was most interested in.

Okamoto was convinced that the Sorge group must have a high-level insider in the Japanese upper echelons, otherwise the leaked top-secret information could not be explained.

After organizing Miyagi's confession, Kiyofuku Okamoto decided to meet Sorge in person. As long as the other party confessed, the Red Russian spy network in Japan would collapse.

Faced with the torture like a storm, Sorge endured for a whole week, but human patience is limited. When it came to the afternoon of the eighth day, he slowly raised his head and said a few names.

"My subordinates include Ozaki..."

(End of this chapter)