My spy diary

Chapter 340 Intelligence (please vote)

After dealing with the house and car issues, Zhang Yi came to the second floor of a Sichuan restaurant where he had agreed to meet with Monkey and Qian Xiaosan.

There was an orange light on in the box, and six bowls of noodles on the table were steaming under the light.

The white and smooth noodles are sprinkled with green onions, bright red chili oil, and chopped peanuts and peas. This ordinary bowl of noodles is the most heartwarming meal I have had in the past few days.

What is happiness? Happiness is a hot pot and stove, and a bowl of delicious rice.

"It's better to come back!" Qian Xiaosan wolfed down the noodles, his eyes narrowed into slits, and said:
"District Chief, does this mean we don't have to go to Shanghai?"

The monkey deliberately provoked him: "What? Are you scared?"

"Am I a person who is afraid of death? Can't I contribute to the anti-Japanese war in the rear? There is a saying - planning and winning a battle from a thousand miles away."

"Planning strategies from within the tent and winning battles thousands of miles away? Forget it, that's the district chief's job."

"You are capable, but I can't offer some advice?"

"Okay, eat quickly, we have something else to do later."

Zhang Yi interrupted their quarrel, picked up the chopsticks, picked up the noodles and put them into his mouth. As expected, they were chewy and smooth, with a fragrant aroma.

After eating the noodles, several people came to the morgue of the medical department. Gao Chunqiu, the head of the forensic section, had been waiting for a long time.

Zhang Yi put on a mask, looked at the dead woman's body in front of him, and asked, "What are the results of the autopsy?"

"There were no obvious injuries on his body. He simply drowned."

"sure?"

Gao Chunqiu nodded and said, "I understand what District Chief Zhang means. I suspect the murderer was on the same boat with her, but I checked carefully."

As he spoke, he pointed out the external details of the body: the silk scarf tied around the neck, the tightly tied shoelaces, the leather shoes with mud and sand on the soles, the cheongsam soaked in river water, the bloodshot eyeballs, the ear canals oozing blood, the scrapes all over the arms and legs.
"There are no obvious external injuries, nor signs of poisoning. The scratches on the arms and legs should be caused by the ship sinking directly after the accident. Judging from the size and depth of the wounds, they should be caused by struggling for help or being dragged during salvage."

Zhang Yi nodded slightly: "How many people were there on the boat? How many bodies were salvaged?"

Gao Chunqiu frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "There were six people on the boat, but we only found the bodies of the boatman and Miss Xu. We are still searching for the bodies of the others."

"The boatman is dead too?"

"Yes, he was an old man in his sixties. He had drunk alcohol before he died. Even if he could swim, he would be helpless if he encountered the Nu River."

Zhang Yi raised his eyebrows: "Have you found the cause of the accident?"

"The ship has not been found. Even if it is found, it is the responsibility of the technical department."

"Thank you." Zhang Yi sighed, and when he saw that he couldn't get any useful clues, he prepared to say goodbye and leave.

At this time, a plainclothes officer from the Operations Department hurried in, forgetting even to knock on the door.

Seeing Zhang Yi, he immediately stepped forward and said:

"District Chief Zhang, I just received a call from the Shancheng Police Department. Something happened at the home of the boatman, Old Meng. They knew we were following this case, so they transferred the call directly to us."

Zhang Yi was startled: "What happened?"

"The whole Meng family was killed."

Murder to silence? Or?

Zhang Yi immediately said: "Let's go to the scene right away."

After a pause, he looked at Qian Xiaosan and said, "There are still four bodies that have not been found. We cannot rule out the possibility that the murderer is hiding among them. Immediately mobilize people to find the home addresses or whereabouts of these four people and investigate their social relationships one by one."

"Yes."

The night sky is dark, with no moon or stars.

At Liujiabao, a wharf in the western suburbs of the mountain city, the gate of the boatman Lao Meng's house was wide open, and several patrolmen and plainclothes officers were guarding the gate.

Zhang Yi walked in with the monkey, and just as he reached the door of the main house, he stopped -
Next to the door frame, there was a dead body, a girl of about seventeen or eighteen years old.

Her two hands were tightly grasping the door sill, her wide-open eyes still showed the fear before death, and a long bloodstain on her neck was horrifying.

Looking further inside, most of Meng's wife's body remained on the bed, but her upper body hung limply from the bed, and there was a bloodstain on the ground.

There was a boy of four or five years old in her arms, who also did not escape the fate.

"He was killed with one blow. His technique was clean and neat. He didn't even spare a child. He was so cruel and vicious." Zhang Yi looked at the corpse coldly and asked:
"Who found the body first and called the police?"

The patrolman dragged in a trembling old watchman from outside:
"it's him."

"I passed by the old Meng's yard and smelled blood. I felt something was wrong, so I leaned over the door and looked inside. I saw Cui'er lying on the threshold. I notified the head of the village."

The village chief was an ugly old man with a sharp face and small eyes. He bared his yellow teeth and said:
"That's it. I don't know which bastard attacked the Meng family...

This is too vicious. Old Meng's son just died, and now Old Meng is dead too. His family has also been killed. Now he has no descendants. This is so heartless, so heartless!"

"Old Meng's son is dead too?"

"Yes, he died during the Battle of Shanghai. His wife ran away, leaving their son behind."

Zhang Yi and Monkey were all stunned for a moment, but it was only a short moment.

"Carry out on-site analysis immediately." Zhang Yi instructed Monkey and turned to leave the yard.

Outside the yard, Zhang Yi looked up, the dark night obscured his gloomy face.

Regardless of whether the murderer wanted to silence the witnesses or to divert their attention from the investigation, the enemy's brutality is chilling.

The desk lights in the office were dim. It was late at night and Zhang Yi was working at his desk, reading today's investigation report.

Suddenly, there was a dull knock on the door.

Zhang Yi had a bad feeling about coming at this hour.

The person who came was Qian Xiaosan.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Yi noticed that he looked different.

"District Chief."

"Why, have you found the homes of those four people?"

Qian Xiaosan nodded and shook his head, his face grim:

"Through clues provided by the police and informants, I found the homes of Zhang Tieniu, Li Gensheng, Zhao Hengwei, and Wang Zhuhua, but all four of them were silenced."

"Were they all silenced?" Zhang Yi stood up in shock.

Qian Xiaosan lowered his head with a gloomy look: "They were all silenced. Now all clues are gone."

Zhang Yi nodded regretfully: "Yes, all the clues are gone."

"If the purpose of killing Lao Meng's family was to silence them or frame them, then why did they kill the families of the other people?

Deliberately muddying the waters? If the murderer is one of these people, isn't that too heartless?" Qian Xiaosan looked annoyed:
"What a pity, we can't follow this clue any further."

Zhang Yi rubbed his brows tiredly:

"You go back and rest first, I'll sort out my thoughts." "Yes."

After Qian Xiaosan left, Zhang Yi took a deep breath and closed his eyes to rest.

[Today’s information has been refreshed]

[1. You met Dai Chunfeng today and obtained relevant information - Dai Chunfeng will take a special plane to Shangrao, Jiangxi tonight to meet with Gu Moutong, commander of the Third War Zone Headquarters, to discuss the issue of organizing the Loyal and Patriotic Army.]

Zhang Yi's heart sank. Didn't he say he would return to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to visit his relatives and arrange household affairs after his wife's death?

Why did we change our destination to Jiangxi? We also have to meet with the commander of the Third War Zone.

In 38, Mr. Dai’s wife, Ms. Mao, was diagnosed with cervical cancer and was secretly arranged to be treated in Shanghai.

In August 39, he died in Shanghai due to ineffective medical treatment.

However, Dai Chunfeng never showed up. He just asked his son to go to Shanghai secretly to attend the funeral, and finally buried Mao in his hometown Jiangshan.

Boss Dai had been wandering away for a long time, and taking care of his mother, raising his children, and managing the housework were all done by Mao alone. It is impossible to say that he felt any guilt at all.

It is natural to go home to visit relatives. It is both the truth and a cover. He uses the visit as a cover to go to the Third War Zone.

So what exactly is he trying to hide?

Zhang Yi thought that from the end of 39 to the beginning of 40, the Guo Party once again launched an anti-Red climax.

First, they took advantage of the "Chengdu Rice Robbery Case" to launch a frenzied attack on the Red Party's underground organization, and then there was friction with the New Fourth Army.

At the beginning of the year, an incident of starving people snatching rice occurred in Chengdu. The head of the Sichuan-Kang District of the Military Control Commission immediately planned together with the director of the West Sichuan Investigation Office of the Central Control Commission (an undercover agent of the Military Control Commission) and the police chief Tang Yi to turn the rice-snatching incident into a "riot" led by the Red Party. After Dai Chunfeng reported to Chang for approval, they secretly arrested more than 20 underground Red Party leaders who had been under surveillance by the Military Control Commission and the Central Control Commission in Chengdu.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yi immediately took a map and focused his attention on the southern Anhui area.

Up to now, the Loyal and Patriotic Army distributed in southern Jiangsu, southern Anhui, Pudong, and eastern Zhejiang has expanded to 16 detachments with more than people, becoming a special force with considerable combat effectiveness directly controlled by the Military Control Commission.

But the problem was that most of the triangular area formed by southern Jiangsu, southern Anhui, Pudong and eastern Zhejiang was occupied by the New Fourth Army, and the Loyal and Patriotic Army was only able to survive in a corner.

How can one allow others to sleep on one's bed? Therefore, Chang and Gu from the Third War Zone both attempted to drive the New Fourth Army out of the area by creating friction between the Loyal and Patriotic Army and the New Fourth Army.

As a result, the Loyal and Patriotic Army continued to provoke the "Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army" led by the New Fourth Army, while the Kuomintang took the opportunity to exert political pressure on the New Fourth Army headquarters and forced them to withdraw.

In order to unite and resist Japan and avoid greater conflicts, the New Fourth Army had to retreat, but the Loyal and Patriotic Army continued to pursue them.

Dai Chunfeng's meeting with the commander of the Third War Zone was obviously not to ease friction, so his purpose was obvious.

[2. You have met Qian Xiaosan today and obtained relevant information - Zhang Tieniu, codenamed Yinzhen, real name Yamamoto Kenta, a senior spy of the Japanese Special High Section, was ordered to sneak into the mountain city in 37 and is now hiding in the City God Temple outside the city.]

Zhang Yi sneered. Zhang Tieniu, this name is full of simplicity, which makes people think of an honest, hardworking person, but his body is replaced by a cold-blooded and vicious Japanese spy.

Regardless of whether this Yamamoto Kenta is a "substitute" or a fake, since he has been using Zhang Tieniu's identity and living in the Zhang family for three or four years, he should be familiar with raising a dog. How could he be so cruel!

But some dogs just can't be tamed.

On a dark night, Zhang Tieniu, wearing a black cotton jacket, quietly walked into a city god temple.

There was a bonfire burning in the dilapidated temple. Above the flames was a piece of dry branch with a greasy dog ​​skewered on it.

Three men dressed as beggars gathered around the campfire, picking at the meat with knives.

"Are you here?" Seeing Zhang Tieniu, a man cut a piece of meat and handed it to him.

Zhang Tieniu sat down and ate with gusto.

Seeing that there was no trace of guilt on his face, the man hesitated for a while and asked:

"Mr. Yamamoto, you are Japanese, but the Zhang family treated you well and even lent you money to marry a wife. How could you really have the heart to do this?"

Yamamoto Kenta chewed the dog meat and laughed with a strange look on his face:

"They are just a few Chinese people. Do you want me to provide for their retirement?"

The man who asked the question took a deep breath:

"But they raised you for four years."

"You can't tame a dog, you can't feed a wolf? Haha."

Yamamoto Kenta smiled smugly, "So what? No matter who it is, as long as they threaten my safety, I will make them disappear without hesitation."

As he said this, he swallowed the meat in his mouth and grinned:
"In the long run, I'm doing this for their own good, better than being killed by a bomb that might drop at any time.

And in order to let them go peacefully, I used the quickest way, hehe."

When the people nearby heard his naked words, they all shifted their bodies uneasily.

"Don't worry, I'm not a devil. I won't attack those who are loyal to the Empire of Japan."

"It's you, not us." Someone interrupted him and said, "We are just following Chairman Wang's orders."

"It's the same thing, isn't it? Your Chairman Wang must also be loyal to our Great Japanese Empire."

Yamamoto Kenta smiled disapprovingly, then his face turned serious and he said:

"Okay, we have solved all the problems that need to be solved. Even if the Military Control Commission wants to investigate, they will definitely not be able to figure it out for a while. We can use this time to do something big."

"Big deal? What big deal?"

Yamamoto Kenta didn't answer directly: "I want to know too."

The person asking the question immediately understood and said:

"I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself. I understand the discipline."

Yamamoto Kenta waved his hand and said, "It's a good habit to like asking why.

The mountain city is so big, if we want to avoid the pursuit of the Military Control Commission, we need our eyes and ears in every corner. It is a good thing to ask more why, but I really don’t know. When the special envoy comes tomorrow, everything will be clear. "

"special envoy?"

"Yes, Special Envoy." Yamamoto Kenta looked at the others and said:
"Okay, go to bed early. We still have things to do tomorrow."

As he said this, he pulled out his pistol, loaded it, wrapped himself in clothes, and found a corner to lie down.

Although the other people were full of doubts, since Yamamoto Kenta was unwilling to say anything, they had no choice but to extinguish the campfire and go to sleep wrapped in their clothes.

None of them noticed that several pairs of eyes in the woods outside the City God Temple were staring at them intently.

"District Chief, are you going to move?"

Monkey asked thoughtfully. He didn't know how the district chief got the information about these people, but he didn't have time to think about it now. Who doesn't have some secrets?

Zhang Yi thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "No, now is not the time to arrest people, we just need to monitor them.

Although I couldn't hear what they were saying, they must be planning something when they got together. Remember: never alert the enemy."

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(End of this chapter)