Chapter 995 Because there is a traitor among us
Chapter 995 Because there is a traitor among us
Du Xiufeng suddenly said: "Teacher, I understand, you contacted Dingcun before coming to Shanghai."
"You promised him benefits in the name of the Central Bureau of Investigation and asked him to be our insider. He first found out that the City Hall would send more than ten tons of explosives to North China."
"You want to use this batch of explosives to blow up the fuel depot of the Far East Oil Industry."
"So, you asked him to bribe Colonel Nitta of the Joint Transportation Department's material warehouse with various excuses, asking him to delay issuing the warehouse order in the name of dangerous goods, and it was delayed until the New Year. Minister Wu and his men had no way to store the goods, so they could only ask the Peaceful National Construction Army to find a way to take a look first, and then talk about it after the New Year."
"You took this opportunity to ask us to grab these goods, and then you arranged for someone to kill the director of the Fisheries and Agriculture Department under the Ministry of Industry..."
"You know that once this happened, Director Ding must be in charge of the investigation. As long as he takes over, he will have ample opportunities to destroy all evidence related to him."
"In fact, it's not important evidence, just some signatures on application forms." Gu Linhuai took over the conversation and continued, "These application forms were submitted to Ding Cun by the Ministry of Industry several times, and he rejected them all for various reasons. Fortunately, we acted quickly. If Minister Chen saw this, Ding Cun would be exposed immediately."
"Alas, according to my original plan, after we robbed this batch of goods, we would definitely cause chaos in the Shanghai market. Various intelligence agencies and the military police headquarters would think that we robbed these goods in order to target the Nanjing government's recovery of the concession."
"With Director Ding as their accomplice, we will know clearly what actions they are going to take. All changes are under my control."
"After all the calculations, I still missed two things."
"First, this Minister Chen is not the businessman who only knows how to make money and buy people's hearts as Ding Cun said."
"Second, I overestimated Shancheng's ability to keep secrets."
"Chen Cixiu sent me a telegram saying that a traitor had appeared in Shancheng and passed on the information we had learned about the Secret Order No. 5 to the Shanghai Special High Section."
"I felt a little lucky when I received this secret message."
"If Minister Chen is only good at being an official but not doing the work, we still have a chance."
Du Xiufeng frowned: "So, you arranged for the cook and the doctor to kill Sun Shaoqian together, and then deliberately called him to test his reaction?"
"That's right." Gu Linhuai nodded. "I asked the doctor to prepare the spray, and then asked the cook to replace the asthma medicine in Sun Shaoqian's pocket with penicillin when the two passed by each other."
"Sun Shaoqian has asthma, and he is severely allergic to penicillin. When his asthma attacks, he will instinctively swallow the capsules containing penicillin."
"I thought it would take Minister Chen at least three or four days to figure these things out."
"I didn't expect him to know what was going on just by taking a look at the scene, and he even mocked me for complicating a simple matter."
"Why do you have to resort to so many tricks to solve a problem that can be solved with just one bullet?"
"Heh, with his analytical ability, he can quickly figure out that the purpose of my doing this is to scare Dean Chen back."
Du Xiufeng was puzzled and said, "Teacher, I don't understand. You wanted Dean Chen to come to Shanghai before, but now you want to scare him back."
"Isn't it too contradictory for you to do this?"
Gu Linhuai said helplessly: "Because, with our current manpower, we no longer have the strength to fight on two fronts. We can only try our best to destroy the Far East Refinery and destroy the fuel."
"If there had been no intelligence leak, I would have used Mr. A's intelligence to create chaos under the guise of Dean Chen."
"Then they led everything to Mr. A, causing the intelligence agencies in Shanghai to target this super intelligence organization hidden in the intelligence agencies in Shanghai by the Military Control Commission."
"We can take advantage of the situation and blow up the fuel storage at the Huadong Refinery."
"But it's different now. The Special High Section has received news that Order No. 5 has been leaked, although Qingdeng reported that there haven't been many changes around the Far East Refinery."
"But I believe that Minister Chen must have played some role in this."
"He is being relaxed on the outside but tense on the inside, trying to lure us into action."
Du Xiufeng seemed to understand something, but soon frowned again.
"Teacher, I still can't figure out one thing. What does your plan have to do with forcing Mayor Zhou to take sides?"
"I think his role is just that. Is it really like you said, that you want to use him to organize an intelligence network that is no weaker than Mr. A's?"
"Of course not. Mayor Zhou is very important in this plan." Gu Linhuai glanced at Du Xiufeng and said, "If he turned against us, our plan would have failed long ago."
Du Xiufeng was a little confused. Mayor Zhou seemed to have done nothing. What was so important about him?
Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he looked at Gu Linhuai and said, "Teacher, you are talking about those explosives."
"Smart," Gu Linhuai exclaimed.
"I asked Mayor Zhou to crack down on smuggling warehouses and pursue smuggling ships in order to conceal the whereabouts of explosives."
"Several major intelligence agencies in Shanghai spent half a month searching all warehouses in Shanghai but still couldn't find the explosives. That's because the explosives were on the ship, not in any warehouse."
"Mayor Zhou just ordered a massive inspection of the smuggling ships at the Shanghai docks, and I ordered people to blow up twelve smuggling ships of the Military Control Commission."
"Everyone thinks that all boats on the river are clean now, and even if they are inspected, they will not check them one by one in detail."
"Plus, the people who patrol the ships in the French Concession are from the Peaceful National Construction Army. As long as you give them a little money, they will just do a casual and perfunctory inspection. Some of them may not even board the ship and just drink at the dock."
As expected, the older you get, the wiser you are. Du Xiufeng was immediately impressed. No wonder the Japanese were looking for them so eagerly, but the teacher did not move at all. He was not afraid at all that the Japanese would find the explosives. It turned out that he had hidden them on a cargo ship docked in the French Concession.
After a long silence, Du Xiufeng said, "Teacher, do you think we can still use Mr. A to set up a trap and carry out our plan?"
"I don't want dozens of brothers to die in vain."
Gu Linhuai shook his head: "Xiufeng, this Mr. A is definitely a smart man. He is very wary of us. He won't meet us, contact us, or discuss anything with us."
"He did this to avoid contact with us as much as possible."
"If it was before, I thought I could use his information to set up a trap, but now the situation is different."
"We have to abandon our previous methods if we want to complete our mission."
"Don't say anything more. At this point, it is our honor as a soldier to be loyal to our country."
"Let's arrange the action as soon as possible. The Concession Reclaiming Act will be signed at 10 a.m. the day after tomorrow. This is our last chance to act."
Gu Linhuai stood up and said, "It's not safe here anymore. We need to move to the next secret base."
Du Xiufeng nodded quickly and said, "Teacher, I will help you clean up the chessboard."
"No, you don't need to take this thing away." Gu Linhuai walked to the chessboard and looked at the half-played chess game. Suddenly, as if he had made a decision, he picked up a black chess piece and placed it in the middle.
Looking at the changes in the chess game, Gu Linhuai sighed and said, "Let's leave this game to Minister Chen."
"It's impossible for me to meet him, but if he sees this game of chess, he should understand what I want to say to him..."
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