Chapter Eighty-Eight: Precursors of Crisis

"Nothing is impossible in this world! We have caught a lot of Japanese puppet spies in the city, and the remaining Japanese puppet spies will definitely be more and more careful, and they will be alert at the slightest disturbance! Tang Cheng put down the binoculars in his hand and turned to look at Zhao Dashan and them, his expression did not show reproach. The investigation team has been going well, and there is a sense of arrogance in everyone's hearts, including me. A defeat doesn't mean anything, it's a good thing for you, at least it shows you that the enemy is not useless! ”

The opponent who had been monitoring for many days actually slipped away in advance, which was something that Zhao Dashan and they absolutely could not accept. Although Tang Cheng did not blame them, these veteran policemen in the investigation team seemed to be crazy, using various channels to search for clues and whereabouts of their opponents. Two days passed quickly, and just when Tang Cheng was determining the next target, there was good news on Zhao Dashan's side.

"Captain, I've found it!" Zhao Dashan, who had a happy face, pushed the door and entered Tang Cheng's office, "Those guys who slipped away two days ago, we have found their whereabouts!" After listening to Zhao Dashan's report, Tang Cheng was speechless, and he didn't know whether these Japanese puppet spies who had fled were bold or not sober-minded. Two days passed, and these guys actually returned to the city, and deliberately stayed not far from the original courtyard.

Tang Cheng, who was speechless in his heart, stretched out his hand and groped his chin, and said in his heart, these damn guys, this is playing a trick with himself to be black! "No need to monitor anymore, just arrest people!" Since the fish that had escaped the hook could still come back, Tang Cheng must not miss this opportunity, and after only thinking about it a little in his heart, Tang Cheng immediately made a decision. When Zhao Dashan heard this, he was only slightly stunned, and he did not say anything against Tang Cheng's decision to arrest people immediately.

An hour later, outside the courtyard rented by the gang, the members of the capture team were ready to attack. Tang Cheng originally thought that these guys who had already escaped must have their own support when they came back here. However, the unusually smooth arrest proved that his previous worries were superfluous, and these Japanese pseudo-spies who were successfully arrested may have enough brains, but their coping ability and skills are extremely poor.

"Captain, you see, these guys don't seem to be quite different from the spies we've caught in the past." Tang Cheng first arranged manpower to escort the prisoners back to the barracks, while he stayed behind with a part of his team to search the entire courtyard. The team members rummaging through the main house soon find two hidden compartments and find something from them. Tang Cheng, who was sitting in the courtyard smoking a cigarette, heard the shouts of the team members in the main house, so he immediately got up and went to the main house.

On the table in the main house, there were two wooden boxes, one of which had been opened by the members of the search team. "Captain, this is what we found in the dark grid, two wooden boxes, we only opened one, it's just the contents of the box, we don't understand it very well!" When Tang Cheng heard this, he leaned over and looked into the wooden box that had been opened, only to see that the box contained not any confidential things, some were just a stack of paper full of words, and the words on the paper were neither in Chinese nor Japanese, Tang Cheng looked like some kind of shorthand code.

After flipping through the dozen or so pieces of paper in the box, Tang Cheng immediately opened the other wooden box, only to find that the box contained two pistols and some ocean bills. Tang Cheng took out the ocean and banknotes in the box, and threw them on the table without counting, "Let's divide this money!" Tell everyone, look carefully, there are so many of them hiding here, just such a thing, it can't be said! ”

The team members, who had won the money for nothing, immediately became emotional, and after several people divided the ocean and banknotes on the table, they carried out a second round of searches of this courtyard according to Tang Cheng's orders. After about half an hour, there was finally good news, and after searching the house to no avail, the team turned their attention to the courtyard. Under the water tank in the corner of the courtyard, the team found a box buried in the ground, which contained a radio station and a dozen gold bars.

The team members who had already divided the money once, this time they were very conscious, and no one had the idea of hitting those gold bars. However, the discovery of the radio station is undoubtedly exciting, and according to the rules of the military command, if the radio station and code book are found during the operation, there is no problem in promoting the officer to a higher rank. Although most of the members of the special investigation team are only police officers, strictly speaking, this internal rule of the barracks does not apply, but since the radio station has been found, a bonus will definitely not be less.

Tang Cheng, who thought that there would be no big gains, was naturally happy in his heart, and when he returned to the barracks with the radio station and the two wooden boxes, Zhang Jianghe, who had already received the news, was also happy. "Uncle, don't be happy too early, I'm afraid there are still things here that make you happy!" Tang Cheng, who returned to the barracks, immediately took the radio and two wooden boxes to Zhang Jianghe's office.

"These two wooden boxes, which my men found in the dark compartment of the main house of the courtyard, contained two pistols and some bullets. There are only a dozen pieces of paper full of words in this box, but I don't recognize what is written on them, do you want to look at the people at the headquarters, I think this is a kind of shorthand codeword! Tang Cheng opened the box, took out the dozen or so pieces of paper from it and handed them to Zhang Jianghe, who was also confused after reading it.

"I figured about the important stuff like the radio, those guys just dig a hole in the yard and hide it. These dozen pieces of paper were put into wooden boxes by them and deliberately hidden in the secret compartment of the main house, does this indicate that these papers are more important than the radio station? Tang Cheng's last sentence woke up Zhang Jianghe in an instant, if it wasn't something very important, there was no need for the other party to hide it more secretive than the radio station.

Zhang Jianghe, who had an epiphany in his heart but could never grasp the thread, immediately took the dozen pieces of paper and went to the military command headquarters, and it was not until after dinner that Zhang Jianghe, who looked tired, returned to the barracks from the military command headquarters. "You kid guessed right, the contents on the paper you found were indeed a shorthand technique. I looked at it with my acquaintances in the Intelligence Section at Headquarters and they said they were just weather records and not important. ”

Weather records? Tang Cheng, who heard this word, chuckled in his heart. Strictly speaking, Tang Cheng, which still retains the memories of later generations, is not an indigenous person of this era like Zhang Jianghe. Tang Cheng, who has the memory of later generations, how could he forget the bombing of Chongqing that was recorded by history, so as soon as he heard the words weather record, Tang Cheng immediately thought of the old historical photos he saw on the Internet in later generations, including the part about the bombing of Chongqing.

Tang Chenggan opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say, because the long-term bombardment of Chongqing by the Japanese army had not yet begun. And even if he said it to Zhang Jianghe now, maybe Zhang Jianghe wouldn't believe himself, because Tang Cheng had no way to prove that what he said was right. Thinking about it secretly, Tang Cheng's eyes rolled, and then he had an idea. "Uncle, since these contents are just weather conditions, why are they protecting them more secretively than the radio? You say, is there something we don't know about? ”

Tang Cheng didn't tell Zhang Jianghe the truth directly, but planned to knock on the side to get Zhang Jianghe's attention first, anyway, those guys were all locked up in the basement, as long as they were willing to work hard, they were not afraid that they would not confess. Sure enough, Tang Cheng's words attracted Zhang Jianghe's attention, because Tang Cheng's suspicion just now was not wrong, as a veteran military commander who had been dealing with Japanese puppet spies for a long time, Zhang Jianghe was also faintly vigilant in his heart.

"Don't tell anyone what you just said, wait until we carefully review the targets you caught!" Zhang Jianghe's answer made Tang Cheng secretly relieved, since Zhang Jianghe had already said so, it showed that Zhang Jianghe really took this matter to heart. In the following time, Zhang Jianghe stayed in the barracks almost all of them, urging the torturers he seconded from the Military Command Headquarters to carry out the most severe torture methods against the Japanese puppet spies arrested by Tang Cheng.

"Look at it! What they explain is obviously not quite the same as what you and I pondered! As soon as he got the specific confession, Zhang Jianghe called Tang Cheng to his office. Tang Cheng took the confession handed by Zhang Jianghe, just read it roughly, and already understood in his heart what Zhang Jianghe meant by his previous sentence. According to the contents of the confession, these Japanese puppet spies who were arrested by Tang Cheng actually did not know what the purpose of the superiors asked them to collect the weather conditions in Chongqing.

"Uncle, the more this is the case, the more I have a hunch in my heart that this thing is wrong!" After reading the confession, Tang Cheng sat down opposite Zhangjiang and the opposite. "You think! The Japanese will definitely not be idle and have nothing to do, and specially arrange their manpower lurking in Chongqing to do such things that seem useless. On my second trip to Shanghai, I happened to meet an American who had been a pilot, and during one of our casual conversations, I heard him say that no matter what kind of plane it is, the weather must be right when it takes off and lands, otherwise there is a chance that people will die. ”

After Zhang Jianghe confirmed those records, it was only the weather conditions in Chongqing, and Tang Cheng was thinking about countermeasures. He was clever and did not directly say that the weather records were related to the bombing of planes, but used the excuse of knowing a retired foreign pilot to prove that the weather was related to the take-off and landing of planes. As long as those weather records are linked to the plane, I believe that Zhang Jianghe will definitely think of something, and it depends on whether Zhang Jianghe understands his reminder, and there should be no shortage of so-called smart people at the military command headquarters.