Chapter 196: Revealing Flaws

Zhou Yi, the female spy of the military commander, is now in the cover identity of Wencheng Railway Station, and she is a miscellaneous servant in the north freight yard of the station.

Since Wencheng was occupied by the Japanese Otsuka United, there are no civilian passenger cars at the railway station to stop or arrive at the station, in addition to the Japanese army transporting troops and transporting heavy military trains on the railway line, several freight trains will come from the direction of Taiyuan every week, all of which are the goods traded by some merchants who are still powerful in the city or Taiyuan during the war. And here in Wencheng, there are occasionally trains loaded with goods heading for Taiyuan.

The two freight yards in the north and south of the Bunjo Railway Station are now clearly divided, and the south freight yard is occupied by the Japanese army, and it is already the location of the military station of the Hagiwara Brigade. The North Freight Yard is also operated by the private freight yard owner; It was in this context that Zhou Yi entered the North Freight Yard to do miscellaneous work after Li Yan's introduction. Li Yan used his old acquaintances in the Tongpu Road Construction Bureau to contact Zhou Yi for this job; introduced to the outside world that Zhou Yi is his cousin. The current public identity of the male lieutenant of the military commander is the deputy manager of the Fuhua Trading Company founded by Wang Suihua, so he can go in and out of Wencheng and along the Tongpu Road in a grand manner. People who don't know the truth usually regard Li Yan as the kind of wartime businessman with great powers.

The reason why Wang Suihua asked Li Yan to come forward and arrange her only female subordinate at Wencheng Railway Station had two purposes. First, monitor and record the movements of Japanese troops on the Tongpu Road; Second, wait for the possible appearance of the strange Japanese army. Especially the second item, which was once pinned on by the female major of the military commander. But last time, Li Yan found that the strange military train drove out of Xiaoyushu Mountain at night, and did not enter Wencheng Station, but went to the opposite direction of Taiyuan, which made Wang Suihua waver about being able to catch the shadow of the strange military train at Wencheng Railway Station.

However, Wencheng is the rear base camp of the main force of the Japanese Sena Division going south after all, so Zhou Yi has always been guarded by Wang Suihua at the railway station.

As a handyman, Zhou Yi's daily duties include: guarding the goods unloaded or waiting to be transported by trucks, simply counting the number of goods, running errands between the cargo owner in the yard and the station dispatcher, and cleaning. It turned out that she was working as a typesetting and proofreading worker in a newspaper in Taiyuan, that is, the newspaper where her husband Fang Moshu was the editor, and Zhou Yi was still very comfortable with doing rough work. At the age of forty, she is capable and easy-going, so she is very appreciated by the owner of the freight yard.

After Wang Suihua drove south with Li Yan and Fang Moshu, Zhou Yi and Liu Liu, the elder of the radio station, stayed in Wencheng. Before leaving, the female major of the military commander told Zhou Yi to sort out the movements of the Japanese troops at Wencheng Railway Station once every two days if there was no emergency, and deliver it to the director of the radio station to send it to Shanxi Station at an opportune time.

Therefore, as far as the current Wencheng Railway Station and freight yard are concerned, Zhou Yi is clear about the identities and details of those frequent passengers who haunt here. It was for this reason that when the military police captain of Songjiagou, Hirai Shoichi, came to the railway station dressed as a civilian, Zhou Yi quickly discovered that something was wrong.

Hirai Jiyi wandered around the Wencheng station in a wide range, and he saw the box office, the luggage room, the platform, the small square before the war, and even the freight yard; And it's back and forth.

Zhou Yi really noticed this medium-sized man when he inadvertently found him hiding under a telephone pole outside the freight yard, facing the direction of the platform, taking out a small notebook to draw, and then quickly put the small notebook into the pocket of the cotton robe. This unusual action aroused the vigilance of Zhou Yi, who was sweeping the floor with a broom. She remembered that the man seemed to have been in the area earlier today, and she hadn't paid much attention to him at the time.

Inside and outside the Wencheng Railway Station, there are many plainclothes spies of the Japanese army on weekdays, and they are all under the command of Masao Kojima, the head of the Wencheng secret service. The location of this station is actually the west wall of the original Wencheng - in the past, Wencheng, like Taiyuan, was surrounded by four city walls, with four gates in the south, east and west. However, when Yan Xishan built the Tongpu Railway, the railroad tracks were paved from the outside of the west city wall of Wencheng, so he knocked down the west city wall of about two miles, including the city gate, and built the railway station and the north and south freight yards on the original site. In this way, the railway station has become a gap and passage for people to enter and exit the city without going through the city gate. In view of this, Masao Kojima arranged a lot of manpower to inspect and monitor the train station openly and secretly.

Zhou Yi, as an agent of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command, has undergone professional special training, and his training and service time is longer than that of Li Yan, and he is second only to Wang Suihua, the leader of the second intelligence group. Few of the plainclothes Japanese soldiers in the vicinity of the station can escape Zhou Yi's identification.

But this suspicious middle-aged man should not be a member of the Japanese military secret service here, not only has a very vivid appearance, but also acts in a completely different style from those plainclothes.

He was obviously observing the terrain and even taking notes; He thought he was writing and drawing in a notebook very secretly, and in the eyes of a true insider, it seemed very lame and lame.

Since he was not a colleague - Zhou Yi initially judged that he was a secret agent based on Hirai Teruichi's actions, and it was not even ruled out that he was from the anti-Japanese camp - then what was this person doing at the train station?

Until Zhou Yi discovered the real spy: it was precisely two Japanese plainclothes soldiers who haunted this area every day. The two of them were about a dozen feet apart, and they followed the middle-aged man unhurriedly, not stalking, but - protection!

Zhou Yi's heart pounded nervously. This guy is actually protected by two (who knows if there will be more) Japanese spies behind the flank, which seems to be quite a small one!

The female spy of the military commander swept the ground unhurriedly with a broom, got as close as possible to the other party, and secretly recognized his appearance and clothing several times. She quickly came to the conclusion that this person had certainly not seen it before, and that he was definitely not Chinese. He was supposed to be a Japanese in civilian Chinese clothes, just like the two spies who protected him.

The next day, when Zhou Yi found out from afar that Hirai Temple had reappeared at the train station, he began to look for opportunities to get close to the other party twice, but he didn't find any valuable clues.

She was sure that the subject of her reconnaissance had not been aware of her deliberate approach, and that she had not aroused the suspicion of the plainclothes Japanese soldiers who were protecting him—Zhou Yi's movements around the train station had been taken for granted as a freight yard handyman.

However, the military commander spy did not expect that a pair of eyes secretly noticed her - just when she approached Hirai Teraichi for the second time - the owner of those eyes was the head of the Bunjo secret service: Masao Kojima.

Kojima Masao really didn't have any good feelings about the military police captain in Songjiagou, and he really looked down on this fake lieutenant who rose to prominence by fiddling with a group of women and was promoted by a captain quartermaster to two levels. Helplessly, Hirai Temple is a popular man of the brigade commander and major general at a glance, and his work even affects the nerves of the top level of the North China Front Command.

Therefore, the brigade commander himself personally called him and informed him that the No. 1 Middle School of Hirai Temple was going to come to Wencheng City for a "private visit to Weifu", and asked him to arrange manpower to protect and assist.

Needless to say, the brigade commander apparently knew the motive of the impostor in the city of Zolai, and that motive must have something to do with the secret recruitment of comfort women in the future. Kojima Masao was too lazy to ask on the phone, and immediately asked Hirai Temple to report to his secret service, and a special person would be arranged to accompany him to wander around the city at that time.

Masao Kojima currently has a large number of things on hand, including the focus on preventing and detecting the Blue Coat Society organization in this area, so he didn't bother to ask the gendarmerie captain about the activities of the gendarmerie in the first place. But two days later, he thought about it and felt that it was safer to pay attention to it personally: after all, Wencheng was his own territory, and if something happened to that fake Nakasa in the city, he would have to explain it to the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade. Knowing that Hiraiji went to the train station yesterday and today, Masao Kojima asked people to prepare the car immediately.

At the train station, Masao Kojima did not get off immediately, and the car stopped in a corner of the small square in front of the station, and from this angle, you can clearly see the whole view of the station. One of his petty leaders, who was in charge of directing agents at the station, came running over to report that the "target" was now on the platform.

Out of secrecy beforehand, Masao Kojima did not reveal the identity of his subordinates about Teriichi Hirai, but only vaguely told them that the "target" to be protected was the guests of the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters. The two spies he arranged were to follow him around the clock, and if no situation occurred, they were not allowed to take the initiative to openly contact the "target". As soon as Hirai Temple arrived at the train station, considering the complex environment and background of this area, Kojima specially ordered two people to be arranged from the plainclothes agents at the station to also maintain a distance to carry out covert protection.

At this moment, Masao Kojima, who was pacing on the platform, saw the figure of Hirai Terarichi in disguise at a glance. He observed for a moment, and decided not to greet the impostor: this guy was safe and sound, and as for what the hell was going on in his stomach, it wasn't a matter for the head of the secret service to worry about.

Kojima Masao went around the rest of the station, secretly asked a few of his plainclothes subordinates about the movement of the station in the past few days, and felt that there was nothing unusual, so he quietly paced out of the station again, he noticed that Hirai Teraichi seemed to have ended his "micro-service private visit" to the station and entered the box office from the platform; When the head of the secret service was about to get into his car and leave, the figure of Hirai Teriichi appeared at the gate of the box office towards the small square in front of the station.

"Snort." Kojima Masahiro couldn't help but sneer in his heart: This guy turned out to be a Nakasa, the Imperial Army is really blind!

With a little emotion and indignation, the head of the secret service slipped into the car and slammed the door shut. However, just as he was about to say "drive" to the driver, his heart shook violently, and his eyes were fixed on a woman who had just walked up to Hirai Temple.

The woman's upper body was wearing a vest with the logo of the railway station freight yard - the stevedores, compradors, and handymen in the freight yard all had such a vest to facilitate passage and identification between the freight yard and the station, and in her hand carried two small packages. Despite the distance, Masao Kojima could clearly see that the woman was begging Hirai Temaichi to help her straighten the crumbling package in her hand; And after Hirai Temple came to his aid, the woman said something to him; Hirai Teruichi was obviously a little overwhelmed, and turned around and left the box office gate without speaking.

The woman went on her way as if nothing had happened.

But Masao Kojima immediately pointed out the figure of the woman to the little boss who had been waiting by his side and was still standing by the car door at the moment:

"Keep an eye on the woman in that yard for me, don't be alarmed, and quietly find out her identity."

Masao Kojima never believed in coincidence. His resume as the head of the secret service in several cities of the Manchurian Empire also made his sense of smell extremely sensitive. He had clearly remembered at this moment that on the platform just now, the woman dressed in the freight yard had appeared near Hirai Teraichi! Just a few minutes later, she actually appeared next to Hirai Teruichi again, and took the initiative to have a relationship or even a conversation with the other party.

This is definitely no coincidence!

The head of the secret service has an unmistakably accurate sense of smell. That woman was indeed not the Hirai Teraichi who had been inadvertently contacted, and Zhou Yi, an agent of the Second Intelligence Group of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command, was consciously approaching to reconnoiter the Japanese man wearing Chinese clothes. It's just that she didn't realize that she had exposed her flaws and entered the field of vision of the veteran Japanese spies.