Ning Zhiheng handed over the materials and the original film to Huo Yueze, and asked him to immediately arrange Deng Yuanhong and the guards to quickly escort him back to Chongqing.

Then he personally drafted the telegram, handed it over to Zuo Rou for translation, and prepared to send it to the Chongqing headquarters at the specified time in the evening.

At this time, thousands of miles away, Chongqing was undergoing an extremely tragic bombardment.

The sound of air raid sirens echoed over the entire city, all offices, residential houses, and streets were empty, and all the personnel squeezed into the nearest bomb shelter with their families as soon as possible.

It didn't take long for the Japanese bomber group to fly over Chongqing, and a dense number of bombs fell in the air, exploding in the urban area of Chongqing, the sound of violent explosions was deafening, the black soil was blown up, and shrapnel flew wantonly, destroying the surrounding objects to a mess.

The bombardment-intensive areas of the city burst into flames after a burst of bombardment, and for a moment the smoke filled the sky and drifted high into the air.

Many citizens who had not had time to enter the bomb shelter were drowned in the artillery fire, and terrible screams rang out everywhere, and the frightened crowd ran in all directions, crying and moaning for a while.

The buildings in the bombed area were not spared, high-rise buildings, residences, shops, cinemas, department stores, etc., were all under the ravages of artillery fire, crumbling, as if in the next second, they would collapse with a bang, and the scene was terrible.

This kind of scene has happened many times in Chongqing in the past six months or so.

Since the Japanese army occupied Wuhan, it immediately used Wuhan Airport as a base and sent a large number of planes to Chongqing to bomb it, almost every once in a while, depending on the situation.

The largest bombing lasted for three days, and the entire Chongqing area not only suffered heavy casualties, but also a large number of civilian buildings were also blown up, causing major trauma to this fledgling metropolis.

The bombing lasted for a full hour, and the Japanese bombers dropped all the bombs they were carrying, and then they began to return home.

When the sound of the explosions stopped, citizens came out of the bomb shelters and bunkers one after another, and began to rescue the injured and deal with the dilapidated scene.

Two hours later, in the office of the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau, the bureau seat was pale and anxiously walked around the room.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

"Come on in!"

The door was pushed open, and Bian Ze, director of the first intelligence department, and Gu Zhengqi, director of the second intelligence department, walked in quickly.

When the bureau saw the two of them coming in, he immediately asked urgently, "What's the situation?" ”

Bian Ze hurriedly replied: "Bureau, we found Yi Dong's body in the ruins and confirmed that he is dead!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the face of the bureau seat suddenly became even more ugly, which is really bad news.

During the bombing, many buildings were destroyed, and a residential compound in the east of the city was almost flattened.

However, this compound is different from ordinary residents, and it is inhabited by three cryptographic experts and their families from the Telecommunications Department of the Military Command Bureau, the code-breaking team.

Among them, Yi Dong, as the leader of the decipherment team, is the most important person in the entire decipherment team, he is the earliest expert in China to contact the deciphering of codes, and he is also the leader of the deciphering expert team of the Military Control Bureau.

Not only does he have a keen eye for numbers and passwords that ordinary people can't match, but what is even more rare is that he once studied in Japan and is proficient in Japanese, so he has a great advantage in deciphering Japanese messages.

Over the past year or so, the work of the decipherment team has made great progress under his leadership, and through the seizure of a number of Japanese codebooks, the decipherment team has carried out countless comparisons and analyses, and has slowly figured out some rules of the Japanese spy code, and has successfully deciphered the content of several telegrams sent by Japanese spies in Chongqing Municipality recently, and has also captured three Japanese spies.

A few years ago, during the period of the Military Intelligence Investigation Department, the bureau did not hesitate to invest huge manpower and funds to update telecommunications equipment and set up a decipherment team.

But he never imagined that this time the Japanese bombing would kill Yi Dong, the technical leader, which brought irreparable losses to the entire decipherment work.

The bureau couldn't help but wave his hand angrily and said, "What the hell is going on?" Why didn't Yidong enter the bomb shelter in time? Wasn't it near their residence that a bomb shelter was deliberately arranged? ”

The Military Command Bureau is still very good at protecting these experts, and the Chongqing area is now overcrowded, and refugees from all over the country have poured into this mountain city in a short time.

Chongqing's urban area has expanded several times in a short period of time, and all kinds of buildings and facilities are being built incessantly, but the housing conditions are still difficult to improve, and many people even have no tiles to cover themselves, so they have to build a grass hut to shelter in the open space, forming one slum after another.

However, even under such extremely difficult conditions, the Military Command Bureau did its best to equip these telecommunications experts with independent residences so that they and their families could be accommodated, and specially arranged air-raid shelters near their residences to ensure their safety in the event of an attack.

Hearing the bureau's question, Gu Zhengqi replied in a low voice: "We just asked his family, Yi Dong is reluctant to enter the air-raid shelter every time he conducts an air raid, and his family has no choice, so in the end he had to let him, the previous air raids were very lucky, and they didn't hit this house, but this time..."

Hearing Gu Zhengqi's report, even the deepest seat of the city government couldn't help but scold: "Is he crazy?" Don't be afraid of death! Don't be afraid to die and go to the front! How come these people's brains are different from others? ”

Bian Ze on the side explained: "We asked his family, and his wife said that Yi Dong had a wealthy family since he was a child, and he was once kidnapped and locked up in a small dark room for three days and three nights. ”

It turned out that there was still this reason, and the bureau said angrily: "Why didn't you report this situation earlier, Yi Dong is the leader of the entire decipherment team, and I don't need to say how important it is, but now that everyone is dead, how big the loss is, you also know that the entire decipherment work will stop, and the Battle of Changsha is about to begin, I just handed over the task of deciphering the Japanese military code to them, but now... Alas! ”

The ciphers of Japanese radio stations are generally divided into two kinds, one is the military cipher, which is only suitable for combat use, and the frequency of replacement is very high, and the security and confidentiality level of this military cipher is very high, and it has its own unique encryption formula, which is extremely difficult to decipher.

Another kind of telegraph cipher is the cipher used by the diplomatic department or the spy department, which is used in the largest range and most frequently, and the level of security and secrecy is one level lower than that of the military cipher.

The success of the previous few times to decipher the code made the bureau full of confidence, and he couldn't wait to ask the deciphering team to start deciphering the Japanese military code, but as soon as he handed over the task to Yi Dong, before he could put it into action, Yi Dong died.

But this task belongs to Yi Dong, only his genius brain, it is possible to complete this extremely difficult task, and the other experts are to assist Yi Dong's work, there is no ability to take charge alone, it can be said that as soon as Yi Dong dies, the entire decipherment team will have no backbone, and it will be difficult to work as efficiently as before.

Bian Ze took a step forward and said again: "Bureau, we have found some abnormal circumstances, and we feel that Yi Dong's death is not so simple?" ”

When the bureau seat heard this, his eyes opened, and he stared at Bian Ze tightly and asked, "What, do you mean that Yi Dong's death has another hidden secret?" ”

Bian Ze turned his head to look at Gu Zhengqi, and Gu Zhengqi hurriedly said: "Yu Cheng found something at the scene, and it feels a little wrong. ”

"Yu Cheng? Where is he now? ”

"It's right outside."

"Let him in!"

Soon, Yu Cheng, the head of the intelligence section of the second intelligence department, walked in quickly, holding a red cloth in his hand.

"Bureau!" Yu Cheng stood up and said loudly.

The bureau pointed to the red cloth in his hand and asked in a deep voice, "What is it in your hand?" ”

Yu Cheng handed the red cloth in his hand to the front of the bureau, and after the bureau unfolded, he found that it was a bright red and bright, long strip of cloth.

The bureau seat is an extremely experienced veteran spy, his eyes are keen, just glanced twice, and then quickly reacted, and asked urgently: "This is used to mark specific targets during bombing?" ”

Yu Cheng nodded and said: "Bureau Mingjian, we also think so, like this broken red cloth, we collected a total of six near the ruins of this compound, we judged that someone should have taken advantage of the fact that when the air defense siren sounded, everyone hid in the bomb shelter, and arranged a red marking belt in the compound, or nearby, to guide the target for the Japanese bomber group, in fact, this residence was indeed bombed by Japanese bombers, and the compound and several buildings next to it were all razed to the ground. The bombing density is much higher than in other bombing zones, which is very abnormal. ”

"It's really not a coincidence!" The bureau threw aside the red cloth in his hand and slapped it on the table.

"This is someone pointing the Japanese to the target, intent on blowing up Yi Dong, this is a targeted sniping!"