At three o'clock in the afternoon of the second day, in the back kitchen of a hotel in Nanjing, Zhang Chi saw Zhou Chengbin: "This contact point is only Qiao Wenrong and you and I know, I have arranged Tian Cheng, Lin Shirong, and Ai Gaowen in the No. 2 contact point in Nanjing, so far, everything is according to your plan in advance, and it is going smoothly......"

After listening to Zhang Chi's report, Zhou Chengbin nodded and said: "If you don't transfer Pan Ganchen away, the head of Su under him will be too difficult anyway, alas, I have been worried about the safety of you and Tian Cheng, in case there is a little mistake, you will be in danger." Zhang Zhan is in the devil's cave, and he has never won the trust of Ni Xin and the Japanese, he is in a more difficult situation than Liu Zezhi, and I don't know if he can complete the plan to cooperate with you and me and get rid of Pan Ganchen with the hands of the Japanese. ”

Zhang Chi is very confident in Zhang Zhan: "The people trained by Mr. Mao, you can rest assured." ”

Zhou Chengbin said again: "Tian Chenghe and Pan Ganchen's friendship is close to each other, I am very worried...... People are not plants. ”

"We just want to stay in Nanjing for Pan Ganchen, and we won't take his life, Tian Cheng used to be in the third war zone, and although he has only joined the military command for more than three years, he is very aware of the righteousness and will not harm the public with his own interests."

"By the way, I haven't had a chance to ask you: how is Zezhi's current situation? All I know is that he stayed with Mr. Mao. When he left Shanghai, he was in a very bad mood and depressed and decadent. ”

Zhang Chi's face darkened, and he sighed: "After he returned to Chongqing, he always wanted to leave his job and go to the UK to continue his studies, and he made a name in the studio that Ye Junyuan was in charge of. Later, Mr. Mao agreed. Let him assist Chen Jinsong in cracking the spy network rebuilt by Heiichiro Ono and leave his job. However, Liu Lin was unfortunately shot in the process and ...... on the spot And it was also to cover Liu Zezhi. Zezhi was hit hard, but he didn't expect it to cheer up. I proposed to Mr. Mao to send him to the Shanghai branch, but it was rejected. ”

Zhou Chengbin couldn't hide his sadness: "Liu Lin, it's a pity, jealousy and hatred, studious and progressive, alas, I hope Zezhi can go away to England, the three brothers of the Liu family...... Forget it, let's not talk about that. How did you plan your next move? ”

"The communication channel with Zhang Zhan has not been smooth, I only know that he will try his best to lure Ni Xin and others to Nanjing today, I have sent Ai Gaowen to the guest house of the Ministry of Defense of the Wang Puppet Group where Pan Ganchen is staying, and he will contact us through the No. 3 contact point when there is news."

In order to carry out the rebellion work, before Zhang Chi returned to Shanghai, Zhou Chengbin ordered Sun Dongsheng, who had infiltrated in advance, to build three new contact points in Nanjing.

At the same time, in the temporary office of the Nanjing Municipal Police Station, Ni Xin asked, "Is everything arranged?" ”

Asano replied with one click: "It's arranged, there are still two days left on the agenda of the military meeting, starting at nine o'clock in the morning and ending at five o'clock in the afternoon, with an hour of meal time in between. The participants and their attachés were accommodated in the Ministry of Defense guest house, where they could meet guests or go out in the evening. On the 30th of last month, when Pan Ganchen checked in, he informed the guest house: check out before 8 o'clock in the morning on the 5th. It's well monitored, and unless there's an emergency, the back door is locked for a long time, and all personnel must enter and exit through the front door. Yu Siwen has already brought someone to disguise himself as a guest house security officer, and has taken over the patrol guard work of the guest house, and has the right to check any visitor. ”

"I suspect that the Military Command Bureau does not have the courage to go to the Ministry of National Defense guest house to meet Pan Ganchen, and the meeting place is likely to be arranged outside."

Asano replied with one click: "That's the best, Director Ni, do you know that the security work of this meeting is very high, and the participants must take the car dispatched by the guard team when they go out, and in addition to their own attaché, the guard team will also send a driver and a guard to accompany them." Through General Ono's mediation, I have sent eight agents to secretly enter the guard. ”

Ni Xin was still not at ease, and ordered: "The meeting will be dismissed in two hours, Asano-kun, you disguise yourself as a security officer, take the two people who followed the telecommunications office to Nanjing, install listening equipment in Pan Ganchen's room, and then ask the guest house to leave us a guest room, and you and Yu Siwen will take turns to be on duty to monitor." ”

"Yes, I'll do it."

"Pan Ganchen is a lieutenant general in the army, and we do not have the right to deal with it, and we must not act without permission after discovering the abnormality, report to me, and only after obtaining permission from the peak can we take action."

"Yes."

At half past six o'clock in the evening, Ai Gaowen, dressed as a guest house clerk and carrying two thermos bottles in his left and right hands, entered the No. 1 small building where Pan Ganchen stayed. I haven't seen you before. ”

"There are so many high-ranking officials, and they can't be busy, so the General Affairs Office transferred a few of us from the canteen to help for a few days."

It was time for dinner, and there were people coming and going at the door, and the guard signaled that he could go in and continued to check other people's passes.

Ai Gawain's body didn't seem to be very strong, and it was a bit of a struggle to carry four thermoses.

On the second floor of Building No. 1, Pan Ganchen, who had just finished dinner, was sitting on the sofa flipping through the newspaper, and Ai Gaowen knocked on the door: "Commander Xu, I will bring you water." ”

The adjutant opened the door and said, "Here lives Commander Pan, and Commander Xu is in the two suites on the left side of the stairs." ”

Ai Gaowen smiled apologetically, took two steps, turned around and said, "I should send water to Commander Xu first, but I'm already here, so I'll give it to you first, and I'll go to the water room to get it." ”

Ai Gaowen's voice was very low, as if he was afraid that Commander Xu's entourage would hear it, and the adjutant couldn't help but take two steps closer to him, and said in his heart: The surname Xu said that he was a military commander, how could he compare with our 28th Division in terms of the combat effectiveness of those wastes under him? He didn't want to do much, so he didn't speak, and motioned for Agaven to bring four bottles of water in.

After delivering the water, Ai Gaowen left the small building with four empty thermos bottles that had been replaced.

At half past seven, Captain Wu, who was in charge of the guard at the guest house during the meeting, came to Asano with a button: "Asano-kun, something very strange happened: a handyman was knocked unconscious and thrown in the utility room behind the boiler room where coal was piled up, and the boiler worker found it when he was fetching coal. Who do you say would do it to a handyman? ”

Asano was also very strange and said, "Take me to see it." ”

There are three separate courtyards in the compound of the Ministry of National Defense of the Wang puppet Nanjing government, but there is only one boiler room, which is located in another courtyard three or four hundred meters away from the guest house, leaning against the fence of the Ministry of National Defense, and is not within the scope of Captain Wu's vigilance. The utility room for putting coal is behind the water room, so no one will easily come.

Asano asked, "What does that handyman do?" What was he doing in the utility room? Is the injury serious? ”

"He is here to deliver water and food to the governors of the guest house, and he is under the management of the General Affairs Office, and he has been here for two or three years. He shouldn't have to go to the utility room, his injuries aren't minor, but they're not fatal, I've sent someone to take him to the infirmary, or should we go and interrogate him?" ”

On the bench outside the infirmary sat a man wearing only a foreign cloth vest with a few coal black stains and gauze wrapped around his head. This is Asano's one-click Taijun, I have something to ask you. ”

Asano asked with a click, "What's your name?" It's November, and you're wearing a vest? ”

The handyman stood up and replied respectfully: "Back to Taijun's words: Xiao surnamed Zhao, I was originally wearing a uniform, but when I was awakened, the uniform was gone." ”

"Who wounded you? Tell me about the story, the more detailed the better. ”

"Yes, I went to fetch water, and a man came up to me from the utility room behind the water room and asked: Is the basket of apples there yours? I went over to look, and as soon as I walked in, I didn't know anything as soon as it was dark, and when I was woken up, I became like this, and the four thermos were gone. ”

"Apple? What apples? Asano frowned and said disdainfully: "Is there a basket of apples in the utility room, you don't know?" Greedy for small profits! Where's your pass? ”

"It's gone."

"Captain Wu, lock him up first!"

Captain Wu ordered a guard who came with him to take down the miscellaneous servant surnamed Zhao, who had been wronged and had begged him to be spared.

Asano asked with a click, "Is there a photo on the pass?" ”

"The passes of the staff arranged in advance are all photographed, the four small buildings of the guest house originally housed eleven chiefs, and this morning five more chiefs and their attachés came to attend the meeting, the general affairs office only received the notice last night, and then there was not enough manpower, and five or six more miscellaneous servants were dispatched, and this morning General Ono ordered you to come to the 76th to participate in the security work, because the time was too tight, it was temporarily decided to let these people use the pass with only steel seals and no photos."

This is also the truth, Asano didn't pursue it anymore with a button, and asked: "What exactly does the miscellaneous servant surnamed Zhao do?" ”

"His job is to bring water to the presiding officer, three times a day."

"Send someone to do the work for him. Let's take a look, starting from Building No. 1, where does Division Commander Pan Ganchen live? ”

Asano knocked on the door of the suite where Pan Ganchen was staying, and the adjutant in the outer room answered the door: "What's the matter?" ”

Asano motioned to Captain Wu to go in and search, and said perfunctorily: "If you find a suspicious situation, for the safety of the chief officer, bring someone over to have a look." ”

Seeing that the person who came was Japanese, he spoke politely, and the adjutant was afraid of making a big fuss, so he didn't dare to stop him.

Captain Wu picked up the four thermos on the side of the couch outside one by one, and the two innermost ones were only half a bottle of boiling water left, and the third bottle was still full, and when he picked up the fourth bottle, he almost missed: the weight of the eight-pound thermos was much heavier than he expected.

He pulled out the cork and looked inside, his face changed drastically, and shouted, "Asano-kun, come and see—" and poured over a tray on the coffee table, and with the sound of thunderbolts, there were ten golden bars in the tray!

The adjutant didn't care about the water on the ground, and walked over a few steps and asked, "What's going on?" Gold bar? In a thermos? ”

Asano sneered, "You're asking me?" It's you who should be explained! ”

The adjutant argued: "You are also from the Guard? Captain Wu, the boiling water was delivered by the staff of the guest house more than an hour ago, and we only used two bottles of it......"

The phone rang, and another attaché of Pan Ganchen, who had been watching, answered the question: "Division Commander Pan just took medicine and is resting, if you have something to say to me, what-"

"I'm delivering water, please look at the thermos? You don't understand? Master Pan, he knows, who am I? Just ask Master Pan......"

Director Mi knew that something was wrong and forcibly hung up.

Asano sneered twice, turned his head and instructed Captain Wu: "Take someone to watch all this, I'll go and report to General Ono." ”

Director Mi walked up to Asano in a few steps and said, "Please stay, what the hell is going on?" I'm all confused. Please, I'll report to Master Pan later. ”

Asano didn't hear it with a button, and walked away with a cold face.

This book was first published in Reading Books