Since Zhou Lin returned to Yangon at night, and the people who saw him were all entrusted with secrecy, no one knew that Zhou Lin had returned.

It wasn't until the next morning, three hours after Yamada sent Zhou Lin on the plane, that news came out that Zhou Lin and his entourage had come back and took a special plane to Guangzhou.

When these well-intentioned people telegraphed to Guangzhou again to inquire, they were disappointed.

Guangzhou Airport replied that the airport did not find Zhou Lin, and he may have left the airport and entered the urban area of Guangzhou.

Just as these people were looking for Zhou Lin, Zhou Lin and his group of five people disguised themselves in a forest outside the airport, and then the five entered the airport in three batches.

Yulan and Xiangjun are in a group, Zhou Lin and Li Shibai are in a group, and Wu Yonglin is in a group.

They pretended not to know each other, and each group bought air tickets, and they all flew to Tianjin.

The road has been uneventful, and by the time they got off the plane and lived in a small building in Shen Xiping, the outside world had lost their trace.

After Zhou Lin moved in, except for Li Xiang, he had no contact with the outside world.

Li Xiang sent a small cart of daily necessities, enough for Zhou Lin to live for a month.

In the middle, Zhou Lin received a telegram from Yamada, telling him to rest in Tianjin for five days, and then go to Baoding to find out the bottom of Pang Bingxun, member of the Central Supervisory Committee of the Kuomintang, chairman of the Hebei Provincial Government, deputy commander of the Jicha Theater, and commander-in-chief of the 24th Group Army, and Sun Dianying, commander of the newly formed Fifth Army. See if they are sincere in joining the Imperial Army.

Zhou Lin was taken aback when he received this telegram.

If Pang Bingxun and Sun Dianying surrendered to the Japanese army, then the situation in North China deteriorated again.

Therefore, Zhou Lin ordered Li Xiang to immediately send the Eye of the Night to Linxian County, Hebei Province to find out the situation of these two people and whether they had the heart of betrayal against the enemy.

Five days later, Li Xiang brought back the news: Sun Dianying, commander of the newly formed Fifth Army, had already negotiated with the Japanese about surrender, while Pang Bingxun, deputy commander of the Jicha Theater and commander-in-chief of the 24th Group Army, had an unclear attitude and had no intention of surrendering for the time being.

Zhou Lin immediately sent a report to Dai Li and told him about the incident.

And Dai Li, who was in Chongqing, was very strange after receiving the telegram, Zhou Lin was now a mud bodhisattva crossing the river - it was difficult to protect himself, how could he take the initiative to send a telegram to Dai Li?

After translating the telegram, Dai Li was very moved, and Zhou Lin still thought about the interests and safety of the country in this situation, which made him admire him very much.

When this telegram was sent to the old man, the old man did not believe it: "Sun Dianying will not surrender to the enemy, and Pang Bingxun will not surrender to the enemy." This is a conspiracy of the Japanese to make us civil strife first and break ourselves. ”

As a result, Zhou Lin's telegram was ignored.

When Dai Li saw the old man's affirmation, he didn't dare to say anything.

Back in the office, Dai Li gave Zhou Lin a call back, explaining that the old man did not believe that the two of them could defect to the enemy and treason, and asked Zhou Lin to be careful about his safety.

Seeing this, Zhou Lin sighed: "I have done my best." ”

Subsequently, Zhou Lin sent a telegram to Yamada: "Sun Dianying, commander of the newly formed Fifth Army, is resolute in his sincerity, and it is difficult for Pang Bingxun, chairman of the Hebei Provincial Government, deputy commander of the Jicha Theater, and commander-in-chief of the 24th Group Army, to surrender. ”

Zhou Lin meant to tell Yamada and the Japanese not to come into contact with Pang Bingxun.

In response to Zhou Lin's telegram and five sets of hidden line intelligence, Yamada sorted it out and reported the situation to the headquarters of the army stationed in China.

The Japanese army developed a plan for this situation.

At the beginning of April 1943, the Japanese army dispatched 50,000 men to attack the Taihang Mountains.

The Japanese army approached Sun Dianying's defense, and Sun Dianying took the opportunity to lead his troops to surrender to the Japanese army and became a traitor "Peace Salvation Army".

The Japanese army sent him to Xinxiang, where a puppet New Fifth Army Headquarters was set up.

After Sun Dianying defected to the enemy, the Japanese army transferred more than 50,000 people, and the Japanese army was divided into more than a dozen roads from the east, west and south directions, and rushed to Pang Bingxun's defensive ground. The defensive areas of various armies were broken through one after another, and Pang Bingxun did not organize an attack, but led the headquarters of the group army and the military headquarters of the 40th Army to move to the deep mountainous areas to avoid the battle.

Pang Bu had an encounter with the Japanese army near Jiulian Yao, 24 kilometers from Lingchuan, and the headquarters personnel were in chaos. Pang Bingxun was originally sitting on a chair during the transfer, but after the battle began, the people who carried him disappeared, only he, his son Pang Qingzhen (then a staff officer of the headquarters) and two guards hid in a ravine and lost contact with the military headquarters.

That night, Ma Fawu, commander of the 40th Army, gathered the personnel of the headquarters and military headquarters that had been scattered to break through and march south.

After dawn the next day, Pang Bingxun found that the enemy had retreated, the troops had been transferred, and he became the commander of the light pole, so he went east, trying to return to Linxian to look for troops, and when he reached the vicinity of the three suburbs of Huixian, he encountered the Japanese army again, and hid in a cave (Batu Cave) halfway up the Phoenix Mountain under the guidance of the masses. While hiding in the cave, a farmer surnamed Yang secretly brought water and food to Pang Bingxun every day under the pretext of herding sheep.

A few days later, Sun Dianying, the commander of the New Fifth Army, who had surrendered to the Japanese army, immediately reported the Japanese when he learned of Pang Bingxun's hidden cave.

The Japanese army sent a second lieutenant named Tetsuo Tanaka to lead more than ten people, led by Sun Dianying's secretary Li Guoan, and found Pang Bingxun.

After some bargaining and negotiation, Pang Bingxun followed the Japanese second lieutenant to Xinxiang, the location of the Japanese army, and officially surrendered to the Japanese army.

Wang Jingwei appointed Pang Bingxun as commander-in-chief of the puppet provisional 24th Group Army.

And the old man in Chongqing was alone looking at the leaves outside in a daze.

"Darling, what are you thinking?" Madame entered the office.

The old man said: "Ten days ago, Zhou Lin sent a telegram, reminding Pang Bingxun and Sun Dianying that they would defect to the enemy, I don't believe it, the result is ......"

Fujin comforted: "You have not done anything wrong, if you suspect your subordinates every day, then how can your subordinates dare to use them, not all people are the same as them." ”

After listening to Madame's words, the old man's heart was much better.

In Yangon, Yamada deliberately released the news: Zhou Lin led his people to go deep behind enemy lines to carry out the work of persuading surrender, and the results were achieved, and two Kuomintang generals had already surrendered to the imperial army.

Yamada's intention in spreading this news was twofold: first, to let those people know that Zhou Lin was sent to carry out the mission of the imperial army, not to escape. Second, Zhou Lin has made meritorious contributions to the imperial army, and if you want to deal with Zhou Lin's accomplices, think more about the consequences.

And Zhou Lin, who was in Tianjin, knew neither Chongqing nor Yangon, he lived in Shen Xiping's house and did not come out at all.

Even Yamada didn't know where Zhou Lin lived, and the others didn't know.

Time flickered, and more than a month passed.

On May 21, 1943, the Japanese government officially announced the death of Isoroku Yamamoto.

The news spread all over the world, and for a while, the Japanese government and public were shocked.

For the Japanese people, who had been deceived by the propaganda apparatus into believing that the Japanese army had been advancing vigorously since the beginning of the war, the mental blow caused by Yamamoto's death was incalculable.

As a result, the Japanese government was forced to admit that the U.S. military's war capability was rapidly recovering, and even began to fight back.

The Japanese authorities posthumously awarded Yamamoto the title of Daisho, the first rank of meritorious service, the third rank of the main three, and the title of marshal.

On June 5, a state funeral attended by one million people was held in Hibiya Park in Tokyo.