Zhuang Jihua's assassination shook the entire Fifth War Zone, Song Yunfei and Zhao Hanjie led special forces to the theater headquarters, Lu Ruishan almost staged a full martial arts exercise against Shi Shaoxian, Song Yunfei proposed to Zhuang Jihua to replace the captain of the guard, Zhuang Jihua refused without hesitation. Xu Zuyi proposed martial law near the headquarters, but was also vetoed by Zhuang Jihua.

"There is no point, martial law has no meaning, the devil only sent an assassination team." Zhuang Jihua shook his head and said: "However, we can take the opportunity to carry out a large-scale investigation, openly and in the entire war zone, register every household, and establish grassroots organizations. ”

With Zhuang Jihua's order, the entire Fifth War Zone began a large-scale investigation, established detailed household registration files, set up sentry posts on all traffic arteries, and there were local people's armed forces at the entrances of each village, and the backbone of the reserve stood guard to check their identity.

But Zhuang Jihua's next actions surprised officials at all levels in the Fifth War Zone, the director of the Shangqiu Police Department was removed, the director of the Party Department was removed, Zhuang Jihua directly appointed Huang Runde, the former head of the Mobilization Department of the War Zone (a student enlisted in the army, graduated from the Yucheng Cadre School) as the director of the Party Department, and Liu Zhongrong, the former commander of the People's Volunteer Army in Eastern Henan, was the director of the police department.

These two appointments made everyone feel strange, the police chief and the party director had nothing to do with the assassination at all, but Zhuang Jihua pushed them to the end, and the local bureaucrats at all levels were all frightened, and they were all afraid of the coming of the thunderous rage, and hurried to carry out the orders of the war zone.

The press was very excited, and reporters flocked to the headquarters to ask for an interview with Zhuang Jihua, but they did not expect to encounter strict censorship. The Propaganda Department of the War Zone has re-examined the identities of journalists, and the inspection of entering Wulidian Town has been tightened, and those who do not have a pass will be arrested immediately.

Zhuang Jihua's assassination shocked Li Jiayu even more, the assassination site was his defense area, although it had been found out that he was a spy, but the crime of negligence could not escape. Not only Li Jiayu, but even Yang Sen couldn't run away, not to mention that the generals of the Sichuan Army had just publicly discussed to promote Zhuang Jihua as the chairman of Sichuan Province, and the assassination made the generals of the Sichuan Army break out in a cold sweat.

"Damn, what are these little devils doing to eat," Che Jun scolded in Su Chenling's office, "You can't kill him like this." ”

When Su Chenling heard this, his face turned white, and he hurriedly closed the door: "You be quiet, you want to be heard by them, it's strange not to pick your skin." ”

"He doesn't pick it up, and I don't want to wear it." Che Jun said disdainfully: "Why did he remove Lao Xu and Lao Wang, and Chairman Liu didn't care." ”

"Why, just because someone is the commander of the theater of operations, a member of the Central Committee, it's not a sentence to remove you as a little director, Chairman Liu, what is the relationship between Chairman Liu and him, people are teachers and students, and they have changed their lives on the battlefield, what is the relationship between you and him, why should people care, use your brain to think about it, don't just see that little money." Su Chenling sneered and said, don't look at this Che Jun screaming fiercely, if you really want to remove his director, I'm afraid you will jump even more fiercely.

"What, what's the inside story here?" Che Jun leaned over with some gossip and approached Su Chenling.

"What's the inside story, why was Lao Wang and Lao Xu withdrawn, isn't it secretly supporting those landlords to fight against rent reduction and interest reduction? Zhuang Jihua used their official authority to tell us that whoever wants to disobey him and does not follow his methods, he will remove whomever he is. Su Chenling shook his head and looked at Che Jun with a sigh, it was an open secret of Yucheng that his wife was lending usury outside, he was focused on money, and he refused to think about anything seriously.

Che Jun was stupid, he was full of big words just now, who knew that people didn't take him seriously at all, and the two of them were talking, and the secretary general of the county government axe knocked on the door and came in.

"Someone from the theater command has arrived." As soon as the Secretary-General finished speaking, several soldiers in military uniforms entered behind him, as well as two young men in tunics.

"Are you Che Jun, director of the county party department?" The soldiers led by him didn't pay attention to Su Chenling's greetings at all, and asked Che Jun directly.

"It's me." Che Jun felt a little bad and hurriedly stood up.

"You're arrested." The officer casually showed an arrest warrant, and the two soldiers behind him immediately came up and handcuffed the car soldiers.

Che Jun struggled and shouted, "Why catch me!" I'm going to sue! Zhuang Wenge counts.... ”

"Smack! Syllable! The soldier raised his hand and slapped him twice, scolding and shouting: "Commander Zhuang, why are you screaming, damn, be honest." ”

"County Magistrate Su, according to Commander Zhuang's order, I will take over the post of director of the county party department." The leader of the Zhongshan suit stepped forward and handed Su Chenling a letter of appointment.

Su Chenling was completely frightened, and said in a loud voice: "Understand, understand, welcome, welcome." ”

He knew completely in his heart that the arrest of Che Jun was a signal, Zhuang Jihua began to forcefully purge the officialdom in eastern Henan, and whoever wanted to blow up the stab again at this time, Zhuang Jihua's blade would be cut down mercilessly.

"Of course we will take revenge, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, this will not work with me, and the little devil will soon see our revenge."

At the press conference, in the face of reporters' questions, Zhuang Jihua spoke eloquently and spoke in a very tough tone.

"Excuse me, General Zhuang, do you have a target for revenge?" A reporter asked.

"Yes, but this is a military secret, and when the time comes, you will naturally know who it is." Zhuang Jihua smiled faintly: "However, I guarantee that our people are by no means as stupid as them, and they will be killed with one blow." ”

"General Zhuang, General Zhuang"

"General Zhuang...."

Rulin's arm was raised again, but Zhuang Jihua had already stood up and waved goodbye to the reporters, and Hua Chun hurriedly announced that the press conference was over.

"The assassination in Henan completely angered the Chinese, and General Zhuang Jihua claimed that he would definitely retaliate, and he and his self-confidence, we have reason to suspect that retaliatory measures have already begun." ———— Shanghai "Zilin West News"

"I must be called a warrior in my words, but what happened to General Zhuang Jihua proves that the generals of the Yue Army have no gentlemanly demeanor, and General Zhuang Jihua has continuously defeated the Yue Army, which has made them feel terrified of Zhuang, and they have not dared to face it head-on, so they can only attack behind their backs." ———— Washington Herald, contrary to the noise of foreign correspondents, there seems to be little domestic reaction to such assassinations, which may also be the difference between the East and the West about the means of war; Orientals believe that as long as they can win the war, they can do anything. The West, on the other hand, believes that the law of response in war should be observed, and that assassinating the opposing general is a sign of cowardice.

Wang Xiaoshan moved faster, and in two days he visited more than 200 households along the highway and the garrison supporting farmers in the vicinity.

"Judging from the current situation, this group of people is not in the local area," Wang Xiaoshan said to Han Feng and Du Jianshi at the joint meeting of the Central Military Command and Central Command, "They came from other places the night before, so they were not hidden in a nearby village, that is, they received information that the commander was going to the military headquarters of the 47th Army the day before, and according to the overnight time, they had to rush from the hidden place to the ambush site," he said, drawing a large circle on the map: "Considering the night, the distance of action will not exceed 30 miles at most." ”

"Secondly, the space in which they hide must be a large house, such as a manor, inn, inn, etc.; I will divide this piece into two parts, Han Feng and Du Jianshi, you each bring a team of people, in addition to your people, Brigade Commander Lu of the Guard Brigade will prepare a company for you, go check it out, and see if there is anything abnormal. ”

"Yes." Du stood up and was about to leave when he saw it, but Han Feng sat still and didn't move, Wang Xiaoshan waved his hand at him and motioned for him to sit down, the matter was not over yet.

Han Feng and Du Jianshi received telegrams from Dai Li and Xu Enzeng respectively, and both of them were severely reprimanded in the telegrams, demanding that they solve the case as soon as possible and dig out the hidden spy, otherwise they will be punished for several crimes and will not be tolerated. Both of them knew that the reason why they were so harsh was that Dai Li and Xu Enzeng were both severely reprimanded by Chiang Kai-shek, and the dignified commander of the theater was assassinated, and the next target of assassination would be Chiang Kai-shek.

"In addition, according to the joint investigation of the 47th Army and us, at noon, there was a woman, wearing a suit and a peaked cap, riding a bicycle, passing by this road, and this woman was the biggest suspect. Among the people who knew that Commander Zhuang was in the No. 2 car, in addition to the personnel of the military headquarters of the 47th Army, there were also members of Commander Zhuang's guards, in addition," Wang Xiaoshan looked up at them: "In addition, there are more than a dozen news reporters, five of whom are women, and none of them are wearing suits; But we investigated their activities at noon, and only one person did not have a companion certificate, Ye Sufei, a reporter from the Zilinxi Daily. ”

Wang Xiaoshan's face was very calm: "According to her reaction, at noon, she had lunch with Weber, and after the meal, she went back to the hostel to write the manuscript, and then took a nap, and came out to talk to Webb at about two o'clock, but after we talked to Weber, Weber was very sure that she appeared at two forty o'clock." ”

"There is only one hostel in that town that is easy to check, the waiter responded, Ye Sufei's room has been closed, no one enters or leaves, but I personally checked that room, behind the room is an alley, usually few people pass by, I found two points on the outer wall of the hostel, new traces, indicating that someone has gone up and down from here, if Ye Sufei is a trained spy, then she is easy to get up and down from there."

"I have decided to investigate Ye Sufei as the first suspect, Stationmaster Han and Stationmaster Du, I ask you to each send a team of absolutely reliable people, hand them over to me, and accept my direct command, you must not interfere or take action against Ye Sufei without authorization."

Han Feng smiled bitterly and said: "Director Wang, it's not that I don't agree, it's that I don't have so many people, I don't have so many people, I don't have so many people, and when I evacuated from Xuzhou, I have already lost some of my manpower, and I haven't had time to replenish it." ”

"Me too." Du Jianshi said: "Xuzhou's retreat arrangement is lurking, and it is rearranged here, manpower is really tight, and I have to monitor GCD, and I don't have extra manpower." ”

"I don't care." Wang Xiaoshan said lightly: "This is a highly trained and experienced spy, and in order to monitor her, there must be specially trained people." ”

"Director Wang," Han Feng thought for a moment and made a gesture, "Since she is a professionally trained agent, the sudden appearance of a large number of strangers around her will definitely cause her to be alert?" I think it's better to let the people in the headquarters keep an eye on her. ”

Wang Xiaoshan frowned slightly, Han Feng's judgment was not unreasonable, but his suggestion made him a little uncomfortable, Han Feng meant to let the military commanders and central commanders who had already been found in the headquarters to monitor Ye Xufei. Originally, this was a handle for him to pinch them, but if these people were turned into a positive one, this handle would be gone.

Han Feng got up slightly and probed in front of Wang Xiaoshan: "Director Wang, it's really not that I don't cooperate, Director Dai has instructions to fully cooperate with you, but I really don't have so many manpower, Brother Xiaoshan, I still think that if too many strangers appear around her, it will alarm her." ”

Wang Xiaoshan knew that he had to make concessions, otherwise even if he forced them to send people, the search over there would be a loss, he nodded lightly: "Okay, that's it, you take people to investigate immediately, don't let go of every clue, you are all veterans, you should know how to search." ”

"Understood." Han Feng and Du stood up when they saw it and took two steps out, Han Feng suddenly turned to Wang Xiaoshan and said, "I want to check those corpses." ”

Wang Xiaoshan nodded in agreement: "They should be in the military headquarters of the 47th Army now, they should not be buried yet, I will open a letter of introduction to you, you can take someone there." ”

Du didn't say anything when he saw it, glanced at Han Feng lightly, turned around and left. Wang Xiaoshan shook his head lightly, this central system is getting worse and worse, and even these basic judgments are gone.

After they left, Wang Xiaoshan tapped lightly on the table, and after a while, he said: "Go and call Director Hua and Lin Yueying, and call Qiao Zhuocheng, the equipment of the logistics department, don't say that I called them, I will wait for them in my office." ”

Not long after, the three of them arrived at his office one after another, Wang Xiaoshan talked about Ye Sufei's suspicions, and then said: "The only doubt now is that Ye Sufei didn't know in advance that Commander Zhuang would go to the military headquarters of the 47th Army, Hua Chun, the reporter is under the control of your press department, can you ensure this?" ”

"Yes, the day before, only the people in our news department knew that the news had not been leaked," Hua Chun was secretly surprised in his heart, and Ye Sufei's swaying figure sounded, and he couldn't help but secretly regret: "The next morning, we notified the reporter that the reporter was leaving with me." ”

Zhuang Jihua went to the 47th Army and notified the Information Department, the Operations Department, and the Mobilization Committee in advance, and Wang Xiaoshan said after thinking about it for a while: "Since this is the case, this shows that the spy within us has not been found, and he must have some kind of connection with Ye Sufei, and Ye Sufei got this information from him." ”

"Do you want to arrest her and ask?" Hua Chun asked.

"It's useless, it's hard to get something out of the mouth of such a spy," Wang Xiaoshan shook his head and said, "As long as she doesn't run, don't move her." Hua Chun, you and Lin Yueying are responsible for monitoring her, Qiao Zhuocheng, you are responsible for investigating her relationship with those people inside us. ”

Lin Yueying opened her mouth and stopped talking, Wang Xiaoshan asked a little strangely, "What's wrong?" Do you have any suggestions? ”

"Director Wang, I'm in the secretarial department now, and it's a little inconvenient to move." Lin Yueying said hesitantly.

This is a new situation, Wang Xiaoshan didn't expect that in a few days, Lin Yueying actually arrived at the secretary department, Hua Chun added: "It was directly transferred by the palace secretary." ”

Wang Xiaoshan understood, this must be Zhuang Jihua's arrangement, otherwise she would not need to transfer a few secretaries to come forward in person, she just needed to check it.

"Hua Chun, you arrange it for the time being, I will transfer another person to you, Qiao Zhuocheng, you are still responsible for investigating the people she contacted in the headquarters, and you don't have to worry about those outside the headquarters." Wang Xiaoshan simply gave up Lin Yueying.

After the arrangement was completed, Lin Yueying walked slowly, and after the two of them went out, Lin Yueying turned around and sat in front of Wang Xiaoshan.

"Director Wang, there is something I don't know whether to talk about or not, but the palace secretary asked me to do it." Lin Yueying said hesitantly.

Wang Xiaoshan sighed slightly in his heart, this Lin Yueying is still inexperienced, and the palace embroidery painting must have been instructed by Zhuang Jihua, he thought about it and asked, "Did she say that she could let me know?" ”

Lin Yueying looked at Wang Xiaoshan in surprise, and suddenly, she understood the reason for Gong Xiuhua's transcendent status in the headquarters, no wonder even the chief of staff Xu Zuyi was polite to her, and Han Feng had to take it into account.

"She said that if you ask, you can say it." Lin Yueying replied: "The palace secretary asked me to monitor a person, that is, Ji Feixiang, who was newly transferred to the secretarial department with me. ”

Wang Xiaoshan pondered for a moment, knowing that Zhuang Jihua must have discovered something, and said in his heart, you people, if you want to hide in a corner of the headquarters, you have to go to the commander's side, who is the commander, even I was trained by him, and sighed slightly: "Did she have any abnormalities that day?" ”

"On that day, I kept pressing her and asked the commander to make a speech at Liu Xiang's memorial meeting, and I remember delaying it until the evening." Lin Yueying said categorically after carefully recalling.

"Well, understood, then you just keep an eye on her, and don't worry about anything else." Wang Xiaoshan nodded.

Lin Yueying didn't say anything more, get up and go, not long after she left, Qiao Zhuocheng knocked on the door again and came in, Wang Xiaoshan said in his heart It seems that there are really a lot of situations in this headquarters.

"Director Wang, there is a situation, I didn't say it just now." Qiao Zhuocheng said: "Deputy Director Xu of the Logistics Department has a close relationship with Ye Sufei, and I met several times when I was in Xuzhou. ”

Wang Xiaoshan was shocked and hurriedly asked, "When did it happen?" Are you sure? ”

"I don't know." Qiao Zhuocheng said: "Every time I avoid it, I inquired in private, and my name is Ye Sufei, and the two seem to be lovers now." ”

Xu Changming is an important assistant to Wang Geng, deputy chief of staff and director of the logistics department, although Wang Geng is the deputy chief of staff and is only responsible for logistics, he can still have access to a large number of operational plans, and by the way, Xu Changming may also know these operational plans, and even if he can't, he can completely infer our army's operational plans through the material build-up.

Wang Xiaoshan felt beads of sweat gushing out of his vest, this situation was terrible, if Xu Changming was dragged into the water, the consequences would be very serious. After stabilizing his emotions, he said to Qiao Zhuocheng: "When you go back, just act as if nothing happened, and I'll report to Commander Zhuang." ”

Wang Xiaoshan hurriedly ran to Zhuang Jihua to ask for a meeting, Zhuang Jihua was holding a meeting, and he waited for an hour before the meeting ended. Zhuang Jihua saw Wang Xiaoshan when he went out and knew that he must have something important. Immediately take him to his office, and then order Wu Ziniu to guard the door and not let anyone come in and disturb them.

After listening to Wang Xiaoshan's report, Zhuang Jihua thought calmly, and then shook his head lightly: "Wang Geng can't be a spy, Xu Changming, at least there is no evidence to prove that they are spies, Wang Gengna, I'll remind him, Xu Changming continues to monitor, but I think he is a spy, if he is a spy, Yucheng's counterattack will not be so smooth, and he is most likely the target of a spy." ”

After finishing speaking, his tone changed to stern: "It's okay to slow down our internal affairs, it's a ghost, and sooner or later it will be dug up." However, the actions of Shanghai and Nanjing must be implemented in the near future, and I have already released them, so don't let people say that we will only talk big. ”

"Yes, I understand." Wang Xiaoshan replied with a high chest.

(To be continued)