After Huang Zhengzhong arrived in Manila, Huang Ke received information about Tokyo from the pre-dry office. After reading it, he said to Yang Yibing: "Has this person named Su Hui found out clearly?" ”

Yang Yibing nodded: "I sent people to check in the United States and the Philippines, she is the daughter of Su Jinbin, a wealthy local Chinese businessman, and there are a total of five people in the family, and she is the youngest; Su Jinbin is a patriotic Chinese, who had donated money during the Anti-Japanese War before, and there was no sign of contact with the Japanese, so there should be no problem. ”

Huang Ke nodded: "Okay, thank you for your hard work." By the way, what's the matter with Zhengzhong returning to China and wandering around outside all day? I don't think he has endured hardship, and he was allowed to leave for China after arriving in Manila, and he was not allowed to stay. ”

"Yes!" Yang Yibing leaned on his heels and stood on the right path.

"By the way, what's new about that side lately?" Huang Ke asked in a low voice.

Yang Yibing naturally knew what he was referring to, and he leaned over and whispered: "Zhou Fohai has grasped the frequency of meeting with the Japanese during this time. The low-key club held three meetings in the past week, and the content of the talks spread from the previous passive resistance to the current defection to Japan. In addition, there is intelligence that Wang Maocai has already lived in Nanjing under a disguised identity. ”

Hearing the news behind him, Huang Ke raised his head, and he asked, "Wang Maocai has lived in Nanjing for a long time, isn't he worried about being recognized?" Or has the enemy already discovered us and deliberately put this outcast here? ”

Huang Ke asked a few questions in a row that made Yang Yibing not easy to answer immediately, and he simply organized the language and said: "This possibility is not ruled out, but the specific analysis shows that the possibility is small." First of all, he has changed his dress now, and his face shape has also changed a little, plus he goes deep into Jane every day, so it is unlikely that he will be recognized. ”

"There's some truth to what you're saying." Huang Ke paced around the office with a cigar in his hand: "But this possibility should not be easily ruled out, it is always a bad thing to be vigilant." You are an expert in intelligence work, and you should pay attention to these details. ”

"You're right, I'll be vigilant in that regard." Yang Yibing replied.

Huang Ke continued: "By the way, how is that little black house? Is it still efficient to decipher enemy Taiwan? ”

"The progress of deciphering the code has accelerated." Yang Yibing thought for a while and said: "During this period of time, we have seen from the deciphered telegrams and a variety of comprehensive intelligence that the Japanese fleet has been assembled near Taiwan Port, and their army forces have also mobilized several divisions to start training in the tropics, it seems that they are preparing for an attack on Southeast Asia, don't pay too much attention to this aspect, they will definitely attack Southeast Asia." You should pay more attention to the dispatch of the Japanese army in Nanjing. ”

After speaking, Yang Yibing began to turn around and go back after recording.

More than an hour before the conversation, a Y-2 modified passenger plane took off from Kunming Airport and headed for Nanjing. The visibility of the sky was not very good, and the leaden gray clouds were clustered, like a white drawing hand-painted by a master.

In the cabin of the plane sat the commander-in-chief of the engineering forces, Batu. He was dressed in a grass-green general's uniform, with a goatskin briefcase on the side of his seat, and the orderly walked back and forth in the car.

Batu smoked his own rolled Mohe cigarette in one gulp, and the cabin was filled with smoke. He looked through the materials related to the establishment and preparation of the engineering troops in his hand, and the adjutant on the side sorted them out and handed them to him from time to time.

Seeing these materials, Batu had a lot of thoughts.

There is no doubt that this is a formidable corps, and their predecessors were the cavalry that Batu was once proud of.

These cavalry Batu began to lead from the Northern Expedition, from the earliest Yunnan kidnapping horse to the later Three Hippos, the mounts under their crotch changed stubble and stubble, and those soldiers wielding war knives also left like flowing water...... Later, out of the needs of the country's military development, they were reorganized into engineering troops by an order, and on the night they received the order, Batu's eyes were blurred with tears.

He believed that there were countless people in the cavalry who had spent the long night with tears and roars like him, but to no avail, and the orders were like a mountain! Subsequently, the iron cavalry of tens of thousands of tigers and wolves took off their riding boots, replaced them with rubber-soled shoes, put down their war knives and picked up shovels and went to Yunnan's Yunnan-Burma Highway to participate in the construction there...... From the jungle in the south to the desert in the northwest, and then to the snow country of Linhai, the engineers have left a heavy mark on both economic construction and the construction of war fortifications.

"Report to the commander, the front is about to arrive in Nanjing." In the cockpit, an officer came out and reported.

The adjutant general breathed a sigh of relief, there was no fighter escort on this way, and he was worried that if he ran into the intruding Japanese plane, it would be more than lucky. For this reason, he also prepared a parachute next to Batu's seat, just worried that something special would happen.

Batu couldn't help but smile when he saw the adjutant's relaxed expression. He was not unaware of the dangers of this flight, the Japanese air force has been frequently haunting the interior recently, and besides, there are several areas from Kunming to Nanjing that are very close to the theater of operations, where a large number of Japanese fighters are moving back and forth every day.

Japanese fighters do not abide by any international law, and if they encounter a transport plane with military markings, they will not hesitate to pounce on it. And transport planes with little protection are often powerless to fight back against heavily armed fighters.

However, now the fighters were too nervous, and Batu was unwilling to mobilize two planes from Kunming to escort the escort, so he had to set off early in the morning. Fortunately, there were no Japanese fighters along the way, otherwise even if they called for support immediately, they might not have been too late.

The plane began to drop in altitude, and the city of Nanjing had gradually appeared in the field of vision, and from the sky, Nanjing was very different from before. Batu remembers that before the war, when he first came to Nanjing by plane, it was a completely different scene, and from above he could see the city surrounded by ancient city walls, green ancient trees and the Yangtze River like a jade belt...... At that time, Nanjing was in the midst of a large-scale construction of the capital, and there were high-rise buildings and asphalt-paved roads everywhere, which was prosperous and lively.

But now it was a different scene entirely, with looming field fortifications visible from above, anti-aircraft guns and important buildings wrapped in camouflage, and even bombed buildings in the distance, like giants with severed arms.

The plane landed at Dajiaoba Airport, and there were not too many changes here, and it was still busy. Fighter jets, transport planes, and various types of aircraft are arranged in a neat row, like an exhibition.

After the plane stopped, Batu gathered and sorted out all the materials on the table, put them in his briefcase in turn, and then picked up the briefcase himself. The lieutenant gestured to help him carry his bag, but he waved his hand and insisted on holding it himself.

After getting off the plane, escorted by the adjutant, Batu stepped out of the tarmac and went directly to a Mercedes sedan outside. The car was specially here to pick him up, and a man in a lapel uniform snapped up and opened the door for Batu, and after sitting down, the car started and drove forward.

It's already nine o'clock in the morning, and the streets have returned to their usual liveliness. The streets of Nanjing are painted with many slogans about the Anti-Japanese War, and some field fortifications are piled up on the streets, and trucks and cars painted in protective colors shuttle back and forth. It's still like usual here, soy milk fritters, duck blood vermicelli, all kinds of small restaurants selling along the street, and the shouts of the vendors are endless, everything is so busy. There is nothing unusual during the day, but at night it becomes a different scene, first with the lights being controlled, the streets going dark, and at night dozens of aerial blocking balloons being raised to protect against enemy air raids; Children and women alike would also burrow into the air defense of the Underground Railroad, and the streets were empty with only the footsteps of patrolling sentries and the occasional guard whistles......

Compared with the last time, the war situation in Nanjing was more intuitive and urgent.

Batu glanced out a few times, thinking about some of the materials to be clarified during this visit to Huang Ke. A few days ago, the Foreign Affairs Office of the Central Military Commission called him and asked him to prepare for his visit to Nanjing. It wasn't until the day before his departure that Huang Ke's secretary Chen Liewen called him and told him that this time he mainly wanted to talk about the construction of defensive field fortifications in Nanjing.

The war in Suzhou was very stalemate, and judging from the current situation, the Japanese should make plans as soon as possible if they hit the city of Nanjing. Previously, the central government had been discussing moving the capital, but Huang Ke did not agree, and many people in the central government even quarreled with Huang Ke at the meeting, but Huang Ke just didn't agree, he could say anything, and he would not do it if he gave up Nanjing.

People don't know why Huang Ke is so stubborn to stick to Nanjing, in a strategic sense, Nanjing does not have many reasons to hold on except for the capital.

Batu also couldn't understand why Huang Ke stubbornly insisted on Nanjing, but he would not delve into this problem, Huang Ke gave him advice on how to build fortifications to hold Nanjing, he only needed to think about this problem clearly.

The car drove very fast, and it took less than half an hour to arrive in front of the Ministry of Defense building. The front of the Ministry of National Defense building was heavily guarded, and heavily armed guards carefully inspected the vehicles before letting them go.

After the car pulled into the courtyard, Batu quickly walked up the steps to a familiar front room. After checking the identity of the personnel in the front room, the other party made a call, and after receiving a positive reply, the other party said, "General Batu, the commander is waiting for you in the office." ”

Batu hurriedly hung up his military hat and walked to the elevator protruding from the left, and when he saw that the elevator was not there, he did not waste time waiting, and almost ran up the stairs and walked upstairs.