After the award ceremony, Ling Yunpeng drove Zhao Jinwen back to his residence on Fukaisen Road.

In the car, Zhao Jinwen sighed with emotion: "Yun Peng, this time your special team is in the commission, the scenery in front of the bureau is infinite, and the commission has mentioned you many times at the military meeting, so I awarded you medals and awards and promoted your rank, but the Shanghai station action team that participated in Operation Mole is lackluster!" There is not even a single commendation order, and the limelight has been stolen by your special forces. “

"Teacher, how can this be, if there is no action team, Qi Heng, Dong Wenhao and the assistance of those team members, what can the four of us do?" This was by no means modest, Ling Yunpeng really thought that this Mole Operation could be a great success, and Qi Heng and their action team contributed a lot.

"But the bureau doesn't think so, I think the main problem is that Wen Hao lost four boxes of arms on the way to Chongqing, which is a lot different from the bureau's expectations, so we are not very satisfied with our Shanghai station action team."

"Lost four crates of munitions?" Ling Yunpeng pretended not to know and asked in surprise.

"yes, you don't know that, do you? Wen Hao also went to Chongqing to dock at the wharf, the sealed box was unloaded from the bottom of the ship, stacked on the wharf, Wen Hao said that he was blinded at that time. Zhao Jinwen told Ling Yunpeng about the disappearance of the four sealed boxes.

"How so? Did they check the bottom of the boat? Could it be that the iron ring at the bottom of the ship is not well welded, and the sealed box is too heavy, so that the iron ring falls off? Ling Yunpeng thought of a reason for Zhao Jinwen to disappear in a sealed box.

Zhao Jinwen shook his head: "Dong Wenhao told me that he also had such suspicions at that time, so Qu Zhiyong of the Chongqing Station Action Team sent someone to go into the water to check, and it turned out that the iron ring was intact, but the cable tied to the sealed box was cut. ”

"The cable is cut?" Ling Yunpeng asked in surprise.

"Yes, I can't think of it, and it is the two sealed boxes on the left and right in the middle of the bottom of the boat that are cut, so that the hull will not tilt and still maintain balance, no wonder Wen Hao said that he didn't find any unusual feeling on the boat." Zhao Jinwen sighed helplessly.

"In this way, we have met a master who can intercept our goods unknowingly."

"Yun Peng, can you deduce who intercepted these boxes of munitions?"

Ling Yunpeng was not sure whether Zhao Jinwen was talking about it as a general inquiry or if he was suspicious of him, he shook his head with a smile: "Teacher, I really can't guess at this time." ”

"Hey, Yun Peng, it doesn't matter if you and I talk casually between teachers and students, in my opinion, the bureau doesn't seem to want to investigate thoroughly, these arms are not visible in the first place, if they are lost, they will be lost, what else can they do, if they really want to investigate thoroughly with great fanfare, I am afraid that it will attract the attention of the Japanese." I'm just curious about who is digging into our corners. ”

The theft of the sealed box made Zhao Jinwen sleepless all night, in his opinion, this plan is so seamless, how could it happen in the end, and what makes him even more depressed is that the bureau has changed its attitude towards Shanghai Station because of this matter, the original Shanghai station is a shining pearl in the eyes of the bureau, and now because of this matter, this pearl is covered with dust, and it seems to have become a glass bead.

No matter how you look at this incident, the Shanghai station suffered a dumb loss, took such a big risk, spent so much effort, got such difficult materials, came up with such a wonderful method, and worked hard to transport it to the headquarters, but in the end, part of the arms were stolen.

But in Zhao Jinwen's opinion, the merit is still greater than the fault, if there is no Ling Yunpeng's special team and Qi Heng's action team to jointly implement this mole operation, how can it be possible to get so many scarce materials and military supplies, the bureau only spent 10,000 US dollars to get hundreds of times, thousands of times the return, this is really an empty glove white wolf, even if there is a little mistake in the transportation process, it will not be completely denied, the flaws are not hidden, but when this matter comes to the bureau, how can it become a dereliction of duty, although the bureau seat is clearly scolding Dong Wenhao, But isn't it secretly referring to him Zhao Jinwen, when he encounters such an unexpected thing, he is also very shocked and blames himself, but as the peak, instead of saying good words to comfort them, he also blames them for dereliction of duty and incompetence, this breath is really hard to swallow.

Zhao Jinwen wanted to prove his innocence, but he couldn't find out, and he felt very aggrieved, so he told his beloved disciple about it, on the one hand, he wanted to find someone to talk to, and on the other hand, he wanted to hear Ling Yunpeng's opinion.

Of course, Ling Yunpeng couldn't tell Zhao Jinwen the truth, although the other party was a teacher he respected, but since Zhao Jinwen had made such a statement, although it was still difficult to judge whether Zhao Jinwen's statement was his own attitude or the attitude of the bureau, he had to respond carefully and cautiously to this matter.

"Teacher, if you analyze it from the perspective of leakage, I think the scope of this matter is quite wide, this time to transport arms by water, although the only people who know the core secrets are me, you, Hu Lao and Tong Lao, but there are really a lot of people in contact with in the specific implementation process, such as the workers who produce sealed boxes in Tong Lao's factory, the workers who install the bottom iron ring on the dock, the personnel of the shipping company, especially the captain and crew of the Xingning and Youning, as well as Qi Heng's action team and my special team, Everyone involved in the plan knows about it, or is part of it. Is it possible that they leaked the secret, intentionally or unintentionally, and were found out by some people who wanted a piece of the pie, and then found some frogmen with good water skills, laid an ambush in advance, and acted when our freighter passed by. ”

After hearing this, Zhao Jinwen nodded: "Yes, there are really a lot of people who have come into contact with this plan, and I really don't know what went wrong." ”

"But there is another situation, it may have nothing to do with all the people who know about this plan, no one leaked secrets, it's just that we are not lucky enough, there are more than 1,800 kilometers of waterway from Shanghai to Chongqing, how many ocean thieves along the way, they are living by robbing merchant ships and freighters along the way, maybe our two freighters have already become their target of robbery, ready to start, they sent frogmen to dive, found the cargo at the bottom of our ship, and cut the cable quietly, Take these goods for yourself. ”

Ling Yunpeng also led the target of suspicion to those Jiang bandits who made a living by robbery in the Yangtze River valley, which made this mysterious arms theft case even more confusing.

"Teacher, the original intention of my plan was to prevent the Japanese, for fear that they would find out about the arms on board, but the weakness of this plan is that it is easy to intercept, as long as you send a few frogmen with good water skills and daggers, you can cut the cable and easily intercept the cargo. That's what I didn't think about at the time. At this time, Ling Yunpeng instead reviewed the weaknesses in his plan, which Zhao Jinwen considered to be seamless.

"Yun Peng, it's not your fault, just like you said, our original intention was to prevent the Japanese from discovering these arms, so we hung the goods on the bottom of the ship, who knew that they would be robbed by those frogmen, alas, but everything must be done at the right time, in the right place, it seems that we are still lacking a little fire." Zhao Jinwen sighed helplessly.

Zhao Jinwen saw that Ling Yunpeng blamed himself for his lack of thought, and immediately comforted him, in his opinion, Ling Yunpeng did not care about personal gains and losses in order to resist the war, and he was a rare loyal person in the party-state.