The Commission can be very lenient with its own intelligence department, but it is impossible to be as merciful to the "Feiyantang" as it used to be. Now that they have obtained the evidence that "Feiyantang" is a private spy organization created by Zhang Yongde, then for this secret spy organization that is getting stronger and stronger and more threatening to themselves, the crossing team will naturally not allow it to exist anymore, especially when the Battle of the Clouds is about to start soon.

Therefore, on the fifth day of the ninth lunar month of the eighth year of the Liao Ying calendar (the fifth year of the later Zhou Xiande), the committee issued a kill order codenamed "Operation Sticky Net" to the Ministry of Intelligence, and ordered the Ministry of Intelligence, with the support and cooperation of the Military Department (led by Tang Chao) and the Ministry of Security (led by Yang Xin himself), to carry out secret raids on all the Tangkou and contact points of the "Feiyantang" in the 16 Prefectures of Youyun, and to arrest the leaders of the "Feiyantang" at all levels and all the official members - ordinary informants, small shrimp such as Ma Zai are just running errands. Eating with a mouthful of food is not within the scope of arrest, and it can be regarded as an escape.

With the order of the committee, from the morning of the sixth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar to the fifteenth day of September for nearly ten days, the capitals and counties of the sixteen prefectures of Youyun and the relatively large towns and stores began to stage similar scenes one after another -- a certain family or a certain person in a certain place suddenly disappeared overnight and did not know where to go; A certain family or a person was suddenly looted by bandits at night, and the whole family was killed, and none of them were spared; When a guy or shopkeeper of a certain shop suddenly leaves without saying goodbye, the proprietor of the shop not only ignores him, but also forbids the rest of the store to talk about it, and so on.

If this kind of thing happens once or twice, everyone won't care about it, and things like moving, quitting jobs, and encountering thieves often happen, and everyone will at most treat these things as after-dinner conversations, and there is nothing to make a fuss about. However, as more and more similar things happened and everyone talked about it more and more, some people began to wonder if there was a so-called connection. In particular, the relatives and friends of those involved are even more suspicious, and some of them even went to the state or county government to file a complaint or report their disappearance.

However, what puzzles everyone is that whether it is the state government or the county government, this kind of case is either not accepted at all, or the progress is slow after acceptance, the chief officials do not pay attention to it, and the officials procrastinate and perfunctory, and they simply look like they love to ignore it. There are many similar situations, even the most stupid people can see that these officials don't want to take these cases at all, let alone solve these cases. In this way, everyone can see some clues from it, and know that the water is very deep, and it is better not to get involved in it. Therefore, as time went on, not only did no one report similar cases to the government, but some of the people who had reported the cases before also went to the yamen to withdraw the cases, so as not to bring trouble to themselves.

The swift and effective actions of the three departments of the crossing team, the tacit cooperation of the local government that had greeted them in advance, and the comprehensive grasp of all kinds of information by the Intelligence Department of the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyantang" made the "Sticky Net Operation" go very smoothly. The ten-day operation completely destroyed all the intelligence networks of the "Feiyan Tang" Youzhou Branch in the territory of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, and more than 200 official members below the deputy head of the "Feiyan Tang" Youzhou Branch were arrested or eliminated. So that the traversal team no longer has any worries when dealing with the upcoming battle of the clouds.

However, there are few times when things are perfect. While achieving the great victory and achievement of destroying the entire "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou Branch, there is still an equally huge regret in this "Sticky Net Operation", that is, it failed to catch Liu Yunyan, the hall master of the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou Branch.

When they first heard the news, almost all the traversers, including several members (alternate members) of the committee, suspected that someone within the team had leaked secrets, causing this Liu Yunyan to get the news in advance and flee. After all, the Ministry of Intelligence has not been able to find the "Feiyantang" spy who successfully infiltrated the team, and there is conclusive evidence that can prove that a certain traverser has been infiltrated by this secret agent, so it is not surprising that the arrest operation was leaked.

However, the subsequent interrogation of the arrested members of the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" shocked the traversers. On the one hand, according to the confessions provided by a deputy hall master and several senior members of the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall", they had no idea that someone on their side had infiltrated the interior of the crossing team. Although Liu Yunyan often shared some information about the crossing team with them, she never revealed the source of these messages to them, only saying that she had obtained them from reliable sources. In other words, the secret spy of the "Feiyan Hall" who made the crossing team feel like a fish in the throat was in one-way contact with Liu Yunyan, and the other people in the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" not only had never seen him, but they were not even sure whether this person really existed. ,

On the other hand, this Liu Yunyan did not get the news of the "sticky net operation" of the crossing team in advance and escaped. Two days before the operation began, she received an order from the headquarters to return to Beijing to report on her work and left. In other words, this Liu Yunyan's escape this time was not the credit of the secret spy, but purely by luck.

As for what the captives said that they didn't know about the infiltration of their own secret agents into the crossing team, the brothers of the intelligence department could understand it. After all, a secret spy who successfully infiltrated the crossing team was not easy to come by, and it was reasonable for Liu Yunyan not to reveal it to her subordinates for the purpose of secrecy. Although it seems a bit too coincidental that Liu Yunyan escaped because of good luck, these prisoners were all held in solitary confinement after being captured, and there was no chance of collusion at all. It is also possible that one person or two people say this because of the tacit understanding between each other, and they are lucky enough to make up the same lie to deceive others. However, the six or seven senior leaders of the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" all said so, and their credibility was relatively high. What's more, with the interrogation ability of Liang Ziyue, Zheng Zhiwei and others, these prisoners said that they were not lying, and they could still easily distinguish them.

Second, if the people of the "Feiyan Hall" had received the news from the secret spy who had infiltrated the team before the launch of the "Sticky Net Operation", then the most important thing they should do was not to form an offensive and defensive alliance and discuss how to deal with the people who crossed the team after being caught, but to evacuate as quickly as possible before the operation of the team, and withdraw as many people as they could, and withdraw as far as they could. Compared with keeping the secret spy who was no longer a secret, the spy team that the "Feiyan Tang" Youzhou branch had spent several years building up was more important to the "Feiyan Hall", and Liu Yunyan would never take his entire Youzhou branch for a secret spy who was likely to have been exposed - even if Liu Yunyan wanted to do this, the "Feiyan Tang" main hall would not allow it. If Liu Yunyan really does this, I'm afraid that what awaits her is only a dead end.

Therefore, although the committee and the brothers of several departments involved in the "Sticky Net Operation" were reluctant to admit it, in the face of this result, in addition to saying angrily that "God is not fair, he actually let people like Liu Yunyan go such 'shit luck'", they can only accept the fact that they failed to catch Liu Yunyan unwillingly. Of course, the brothers only accepted this fact for the time being. Although with the collapse of the "Feiyantang" Youzhou Branch, the "Feiyantang" spy who infiltrated the inside of the crossing team basically did not pose a threat to the crossing team, but it was always uncomfortable to leave such an unstable factor around. And at present, the best way to dig up this spy is to catch Liu Yunyan and get the true identity of this spy from her mouth. Therefore, after the Ministry of Intelligence completed the interrogation of the high-ranking leaders of the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" who were arrested, and found that they did not know the identity of the secret spy, it had already ordered the "Dark Feather" to be distributed in all the halls of various places to make every effort to find out Liu Yunyan's whereabouts. Once Liu Yunyan's traces are found, report to the main hall immediately, and there must be no delay.

However, despite the great regret that Liu Yunyan slipped through the net, the "Sticky Net Operation" was successful no matter what. Therefore, a large number of personnel who participated in the operation, including Liang Ziyue, Zheng Zhiwei, Tang Chao, Yang Xin, and other department heads and deputy directors, who were also the direct commanders of the operation, were commended by the committee. And after clearing the thorn that had been pierced into their flesh in the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall", the crossing team could finally devote all their minds to the preparation of the Battle of Youyun.