Zhang Zhengkui looked at Ning Zhiheng, nodded and said slowly: "Zhiheng, this morning our original artillery position was heavily bombarded, and the entire forest was razed to the ground, thanks to your intelligence last night, otherwise we would have done everything we could to buy this heavy artillery brigade, and it would be all over!" ”

Ning Zhiheng hurriedly replied: "It's all the responsibility of students, and I don't dare to praise him as a commander!" ”

Zhang Zhengkui waved his hand, stopped Ning Zhiheng's words, and said in a deep voice: "You are your own son, you don't need to be so polite, to tell the truth, this time your credit can not be erased by anyone, this heavy artillery brigade is the only heavy firepower unit in our country, it can be retained at a critical moment, this is a real achievement, I will personally ask for credit from the United Front Work Department for you, it is enough to promote your military rank to another level, work hard in the future, and the future will be immeasurable!" ”

Zhang Zhengkui originally admired Ning Zhiheng very much, and this time Ning Zhiheng made such a great contribution to the right-wing battlefield, so he naturally spared no effort to invite credit for his disciples.

Ning Zhiheng couldn't help but say with some embarrassment: "The student has just graduated for a year, and he has been promoted to a colonel, but I'm afraid that the military department is there~"

Zhang Zhengkui said categorically: "There is a reward for meritorious service, I will speak for you, not to mention your previous performance in Hangzhou, only this time your performance on the battlefield in Pudong is worthy of my speaking for you!" ”

Ning Zhiheng's heart warmed when he heard this, Zhang Zhengkui can be said to care about himself, even if he belongs to the intelligence department, he will speak for himself as Zhang Zhengkui, and there will be no problem in being promoted again.

At that moment, he hurriedly stood upright, respectfully saluted a military salute, and said loudly: "Thank you Commander for cultivating!" ”

Zhang Zhengkui nodded, and then asked, "I'm afraid that you have something to find me!" ”

Ning Zhiheng replied suddenly: "The student does have something important to report to you, at two o'clock this afternoon, I found the hiding place of the Tanigawa brigade, and carried out an encirclement and suppression, except for a few people who escaped, all their troops were annihilated. ”

Zhang Zhengkui was stunned and said: "Your actions are fast, yesterday you just said that you wanted to find out where they are hiding, and today you will start to encircle and suppress, these Japanese plainclothes are no less harmful than the frontal enemy, you did a good job this time!" ”

Ning Zhiheng then reported: "In this operation, we captured a very important prisoner, who was the translator of this plainclothes team. ”

Speaking of this, Ning Zhiheng stepped forward and handed over the telegram he had already translated to Zhang Zhengkui: "This is the content of the telegram received and sent by the radio station since the Tanigawa Brigade infiltrated Pudong. ”

Zhang Zhengkui took the telegram, but he didn't look at it, but put it on the table, and said with a smile: "You guys are engaged in intelligence, and you are thoughtful, so I won't bother thinking about it, just talk about the situation." ”

Ning Zhiheng didn't dare to slack off, and immediately made a detailed report to Zhang Zhengkui about some of the abnormalities in the previous message.

When Zhang Zhengkui heard what Ning Zhiheng said that the three large-scale encirclement and suppression orders he had ordered, and the Japanese had already received the news before, causing the laborers to mobilize the crowd in vain, he couldn't help but slap the table and be furious!

"Bastard!" Zhang Zhengkui burst into a loud shout, he was no longer half reserved and calm, he immediately picked up the telegram on the table, according to Ning Zhiheng's date, and quickly found the three telegrams, the content of which accurately announced the time and scope of the upcoming encirclement and suppression, which was exactly the same as the order he had arranged at that time.

"There are moles, there are Japanese spies! This man has to be found, it's our heart's content! ”

Zhang Zhengkui's eyes were cold, it turned out that the previous three encirclement and suppression failures were not his own judgment mistakes, nor was it that the plainclothes team was too cunning and flexible, but it was actually his own military spies lurking.

"That's true! We also found that on 14 September and 1 October respectively, he pointed out to the Japanese spy headquarters the approximate range of the positions of our heavy artillery brigade, and the plainclothes team found the specific location of the heavy artillery brigade according to this range. Ning Zhiheng confirmed again.

With Zhang Zhengkui's decades of military career and his kung fu to calm down and nourish his qi, when he heard Ning Zhiheng's narration, he still couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, and when he found the two telegrams according to the date Ning Zhiheng said, he only felt his heart pounding and his brain bulging.

It took a long time for Zhang Zhengkui to reluctantly calm down and asked, "So, do you suspect that there are Japanese spies lurking around me?" ”

Zhang Zhengkui already understood the purpose of Ning Zhiheng's report this time, which was to point the finger at the interior of the theater command, and all the clues were pointed out, and the problem was by his side.

Ning Zhiheng nodded and said in a deep voice: "If it is said that in the previous three large-scale encirclement and suppression, there were many people who knew the leakage, and we had no way to determine the target, but the leakage of the approximate location of the artillery positions in the next two times shows that the problem must lie in the core of our military region headquarters." ”

Zhang Zhengkui's eyes were fierce and murderous, and he said sharply: "This person must be found and investigated to the end, otherwise I will not be able to sleep and eat, and it will inevitably cause a big disaster." ”

At this time, he stared at Ning Zhiheng and said solemnly: "Zhiheng, this intelligence and spy capture is your specialty, you can tell me how to find out this person." ”

Ning Zhiheng came to report this time naturally had this intention, he had already calculated in his heart, his chest straightened, and he said loudly: "I am willing to share the worries of the commander, and the students are duty-bound." ”

He pointed to the telegram record and said, "Actually, this matter looks difficult, but as long as we can investigate according to the above time, I think we will soon be able to find this mole." ”

"Mole?"

"Oh, this is a code name for our intelligence, which means internal spies, and now I want to ask, on the 14th of September and the 1st of August, did you come into contact with the artillery positions, or when you talked to someone, you mentioned the approximate location of the artillery positions?"

Zhang Zhengkui's face was serious, and he immediately replied: "Except for the military commander of the heavy artillery brigade, I will never disclose such an important matter to anyone, let alone mention this matter at a military meeting. ”

But soon he frowned, and then said: "It's just that on the 14th of September, I did go to the artillery position to inspect it, and I also went there once on the 1st of October. ”

Ning Zhiheng's spirit perked up, which matched the content of the telegram record, and he hurriedly said: "It must be so, this mole knows your itinerary and knows that you are going to patrol the position of the heavy artillery brigade, so he knows the general area." Who are the people at the command who can know your itinerary? ”

Zhang Zhengkui was silent for a while, the room was quiet for a while, and he said hesitantly: "At least several people know about the itinerary, including my adjutant Li Lixin, Luo Yingzhe, chief of staff of the General Staff, Lu Weicai, confidential secretary, and several other combat staff officers, as for whether they have revealed it to others, I don't know!" ”

So many people are informed? Ning Zhiheng couldn't help but be stunned, he didn't know a lot about things in the army, the army was no better than the military intelligence department, its sense of secrecy was not strong, and he didn't deliberately hide the commander's itinerary, it seems that he still has to check it carefully.

"Can you tell me if anyone followed you when you inspected the artillery positions on the 14th of September, and who were they?" Ning Zhiheng then asked.

Zhang Zhengkui thought hard for a while and said: "At that time, my headquarters was temporarily set up at Wanyuan Wharf, and the artillery position was nearby, so I decided to go to inspect it, but I didn't realize that the Japanese had put the main target on the heavy artillery position, so they brought a lot of people, including my adjutant Li Lixin, chief of staff Luo Yingzhe, combat staff officer Cheng Ting, and my guard company, there were a lot of people. ”

Ning Zhiheng struck with both palms, and said in a soothing tone: "That is to say, these people have no problem, because they have all been to the artillery position with you, and they clearly know the specific location of the artillery position, and they can directly send the location coordinates to the Japanese military headquarters to bomb as soon as possible, and there is no need to let the plainclothes team reconnoiter the specific location." ”

Zhang Zhengkui's eyes lit up, he really cared about it, this is a very simple truth, but Zhang Zhengkui has always been worried that the person around him who believes the most and is closest to him will be a Japanese spy, after all, these are his henchmen and comrades-in-arms for many years, if he really finds out that it is a Japanese spy, it will be difficult for him to accept.

"Yes, these people can be eliminated, they can be trusted, but on October 1st, my command has moved to the pidgin area, which is the current position, I learned the lesson of the last time, and when I went to the artillery position to inspect again, I only took my guard company to go, and no other agency personnel followed."

After speaking, he looked at Ning Zhiheng and wanted to hear what Ning Zhiheng had to say, but Ning Zhiheng didn't know the essentials, so he had to speak: "There is no object to compare, it's better to do this, can you invite Adjutant Li in, since he has no problem, he was on duty at the headquarters on October 1, let him recall, who knows the specific situation at that time, you went to the heavy artillery brigade to inspect the itinerary, first determine the scope, and then we will check according to the situation." ”

Zhang Zhengkui had no choice but to nod in agreement, Ning Zhiheng immediately turned around and walked out of the office, and saw that the hall of the war room was still in chaos, full of officers above the rank of lieutenant colonel, and even a major general officer, they were all busy with their own affairs, and no one glanced at him, a major officer.

Ning Zhiheng walked out of the war room, came to the duty room and found Li Lixin, and when he heard the commander summoning him, Li Lixin hurriedly followed Ning Zhiheng into the commander's office.