Chapter 293: Failure and Failure
"If that's the case, why did you let this person escape? Why not catch him right away? Xiaobao asked puzzled.
"I don't know. Maybe it's not entirely sure that you don't want to startle the snake. It is possible that he wanted to lure out the Japanese spy agents lurking in the Soviet Union through him. Zhang Fengguang analyzed it very sophisticatedly.
"Your people should be keeping an eye on him all the time now, if this makes him run away, isn't it a rice bucket?" Xiaobao asked dissatisfiedly.
"There are surprises in everything. The people on the Japanese side are not fools either. For example, you're quite capable. Zhang Fengguang said teasingly.
"If we really need the two of us to make a move in the end, we will be more than lucky." Xiaobao was unmoved by Zhang Fengguang's compliments and said dejectedly.
"When that time comes, I'll rush forward if you provide information. You are more important than me. Zhang Fengguang said.
"You were already a decoy at the entrance of the movie theater just now, but fortunately there is no situation." Xiaobao said to Zhang Fengguang.
"If there is a situation, remember! Leave me alone, evacuate now! Zhang Fengguang said in a low and firm voice.
"It's time for me to tell me what I know." Xiaobao did not respond to Zhang Fengguang's words, changed the topic and said.
"I found out today that there are more than twenty people in the Intelligence Department on an important mission. Among them, there are four medical staff alone. But I don't know exactly what the task is. It is only known that these people are to be concentrated at the headquarters of the Maritime Army in Harbin. Xiaobao said.
The Manchukuo Naval Army in Harbin was developed on the basis of a few broken patrol boats left behind by the Feng army in those years. In recent years, several new ships of two or three hundred tons have been added, and many Japanese soldiers have been inserted in the Kwantung Army. But so far there are only a dozen boats.
"None?" Zhang Fengguang asked and thought.
"Nope." Xiaobao replied.
The concentration of personnel on duty at the command of the Marine Army is most likely to be carried out by boat. But it's already early November, and the Songhua River is starting to freeze. If the patrol boat can't come back within half a month, it won't be able to come back until next year's spring blossoms.
It seems that the time to carry out the mission should be very short, only a few days. There is only one direction for ships to be dispatched from Harbin, and that is to the lower reaches of the Songhua River and the Heilongjiang River. That is, out of the Songhua River to the same river, Jiamusi to Fuyuan.
As soon as the thought in Zhang Fengguang's head jumped, he thought about whether this operation of the Intelligence Department of the Kwantung Army would be related to that person's escape. Perhaps they planned to cross the border from the Heilongjiang River, so the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army sent ships of the naval army to meet them.
The presence of health care workers on board is a better explanation. If the person is injured during the operation, they can immediately go on and administer first aid.
The more Zhang Fengguang thought about it, the more he felt that there was no other reason. But he didn't tell Xiaobao about it.
"Think about what you're missing." Zhang Fengguang said.
Xiaobao sat there and tried to remember, "I saw a map on the table of Oki Enyi. But I don't know the words, I don't know where. But it looks like a river. ”
And so it was. A smile crept up Zhang Bongguang's face.
"Leave this matter to me, and I'll look into it." Zhang Fengguang said.
The next morning, after a day of preparation, the two speedboats of the Manchukuo Naval Army, Chenming and Weiming, quietly went down the Songhua River at the riverside wharf of Qidao Street in Daowai District.
No one noticed that a pair of eyes were glued to the two boats leaving.
Zhang Fengguang returned home from the Songhua River. He climbed up to the attic and pulled out the suitcase containing the transmitter from the corner. Then open the suitcase and lay out the antenna.
After thinking about the content to be sent, Zhang Fengguang took out the code book and translated the content into a message. Then put the finger on the button and sent it out in one go.
Half a day later, when the two speedboats, the Chenming and the Weiming, sailed into the Heilongjiang River from the Songhua River in the same river, none of the more than 20 operatives of the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army on the two ships noticed that the Soviet coastal defense troops on the other side of the Heilongjiang River were already keeping a close eye on them.
Udrenko's arrival in Khabarovsk by train was four days later. It was planned that he would stay here for three days and then take a train to Ussuriysk, where his final destination would be Vladivostok.
Udelenko this time took only the secretary and two guards. When the train arrived at the Khabarovsk railway station, several GRU leaders in the Far East secretly took Udrenko by car to the Far Eastern Intelligence Bureau of the Comintern in the Kirov district of Khabarovsk.
After dinner, Comrade Udrenko got drunk. He was helped into his bedroom by several members of the Intelligence Bureau. Soon, Udlenko's thunderous snoring could be heard from inside the bedroom.
In the wee hours of the morning, the beam of light from a flashlight flashed several times on the banks of the Heilongjiang River in Khabarovsk.
On the other side of the center line of the Heilongjiang River, the lights were completely extinguished, and the Chenming and Weiming, who were waiting quietly, immediately started and rushed towards the opposite bank quickly.
On the Khabarovsk side of the Heilongjiang River, a small wooden boat rowed desperately towards the opposite bank in the icy Heilongjiang River.
Just when the Chenming and Weiming were only two or three hundred meters away from the river, and fifty or sixty meters away from the small wooden boat, several snowy searchlight pillars instantly lit up and hit the two training boats and the small wooden boat.
In the darkness, the machine guns on several speedboats of the Soviet River Defense Army spewed tongues of fire, and the armor-piercing shells were blown away like a storm towards the Chenming and Weiming, as well as the small wooden boat.
Sawdust flew in an instant, and the three people on board, including Udrenko, sank into the icy water. Their figures quickly disappeared without a trace in the turbulent Heilongjiang. No one could survive ten minutes in such cold water.
Under the illumination of the searchlight, all this was clearly seen by people on both sides.
"Reverse! Reversing! Someone on the Wimmin shouted. But his voice was quickly drowned out by the whistling of armor-piercing bullets.
The two speedboats were thumping like live targets with armor-piercing shells.
Two non-combatants, Kobayashi and Ulyanova, lay on the bottom of the cabin, shivering. Both of them invariably thought of Xiaobao, a person who had escaped death many times in these missions many times.
The two ships quickly reversed and retreated in the direction of Manchukuo. At the same time, it floated downstream under the impetus of the river. On deck, the wheelhouse was littered with blood and dead bodies.
At the insistence of several speedboat officers, the two speedboats, which were riddled with holes, were finally pushed into Manchukuo and stranded on the riverside of Fuyuan County.
Two hours later, the head of the Kwantung Army Intelligence Department, Yanagida Motozo, learned of the failure of the operation. His face was gloomy. This not only meant the complete loss of Udlenko, a living dictionary of Soviet intelligence work against Japan, but also the exposure of more than a dozen intelligence agents who had been lurking in the Soviet Union and had only surfaced this time to assist Udlenko in his defection.