Although Kawasaki Saburo was not very respectful to the head of the secret service, after all, the other party's military rank was Osa, and he also held the sword of the brigade commander and major general, so he had to deign to carry out Kojima Masao's order.

His cavalry squadron had three squadrons, each with fifty horsemen. Since he was transferred to Bunjo, he was under the direct command of Major General Hagiwara's brigade headquarters and was entrusted with the task of patrolling the city. On weekdays, there is always a small group of cavalry, divided into groups of five to ten horsemen, who keep cruising through the streets and alleys of the key areas. Recently, there have been frequent anti-Japanese incidents in Wencheng, and in addition to daily patrols, the cavalry squadron has inevitably mobilized more men and horses to participate in the tracking and arrest of anti-Japanese elements. This, of course, made the Kawasaki squadron leader very dissatisfied, thinking that this was a trivial use of the cavalry: a few sneaky anti-Japanese elements who fought with black guns, where is it worth the noble cavalry to deal with it! What's more, you have to be under the dictation of a local spy chief!

If you are dissatisfied, you must obey the military order, otherwise, it will be the brigade commander and Major General himself who will punish him.

So, the cavalry, who had just appeared on the Avenue of the City Hall, trotted away in the direction of Dongguan Street. Along the way, you pass the shops on the street, most of which are closed.

Suddenly, the plaque of a photo studio on the street caught the eyes of the cavalry squadron leader, and at this moment, Kawasaki Shaosa's heart suddenly moved, recalling the scene at the entrance of the Koga clinic just now - the middle-aged man who walked in front of his horse's head, he felt a little familiar at the time, and now he finally remembered: he is a photojournalist! They used to deal with each other in Linfen City!

Once the floodgates of memory were opened, details poured out - at that time, his cavalry wing was entering Linfen with the main force of the division, and he had invited the reporter to take some battlefield photos in the area of Linfen Railway Station on the Tongpu Railway Line. Moreover, the reporter obviously has a very good background, not only has a driver driving a special car, but also has a female assistant and Japanese translator by his side - that female translator is very beautiful and sexy, if it weren't for the identity of the other party, I really want to get her into a hotel in Linfen City and enjoy it!

Thinking of this, Saburo Kawasaki, who was in a mood, subconsciously grabbed the reins of his war horse and looked back at the path he had come. Of course, it is impossible to see the reporter again on the city hall boulevard under the dim street lamp.

- So that reporter actually came to Wencheng! It was a coincidence that he had not seen him again since he had been in Linfen, and he promised to post the photo in the Tianjin Huamin Daily, even though he had not had the opportunity to see the newspaper so far. And what about his beautiful female assistant? Will they also come to Wencheng together? This time, if I had the chance, I would have to consider getting the little woman who spoke fluent Japanese to her bed—wasn't she going to use her hard work to learn Japanese for the service of the Empire of Japan, including the soldiers of the Empire?!

The leader of the Japanese cavalry squadron, who was imaginative, couldn't help but get excited, clamped his legs hard, and the war horse under his crotch immediately began to run.

Saburo Kawasaki's vision and memory were not wrong. The middle-aged man who had just passed by him did call himself a reporter from Tianjin Huamin Daily, and at that time he also claimed to be assigned by the newspaper to Linfen, an important town on Tongpu Road, to cover the war on the front line in southern Jin. His press card obtained through a special channel uses his real name: Fang Moshu.

It's just that Fang Moshu, who is known to the outside world as a reporter from Tianjin Daily, also has a real identity - an agent of the Second Intelligence Group of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command. Time passed, and he had just been awarded the rank of lieutenant in Taiyuan, and was immediately sent back to Wencheng.

In the memory of the leader of the Japanese cavalry squadron, the so-called reporter's driver and female assistant also have their real identities: the former is Lieutenant Li Yan, an agent of the second intelligence group of the Shanxi Station of the military command, and the latter is the leader of the second intelligence group, Major Wang Suihua.

Just now in front of the Koga Clinic, Kawasaki Shaosa of the Sena Division's Cavalry Wing recognized the reporter Fang Moshu who had taken pictures of him; And when Fang Moshu walked past this group of Japanese cavalry at close range, he didn't recognize the other party as an old acquaintance at all.

This was not due to Fang Moshu's negligence - the cavalry rode on high horses, and it was difficult for those on foot to see their faces at night unless they deliberately looked up.

What's more, the front of the Koga clinic was already on alert at that time, in addition to the Japanese cavalry, there were also infantry with 38 big covers and spies in civilian clothes driving away passers-by, Fang Moshu was naturally in the ranks of being driven away, and he had no time to look at the small group of Japanese cavalry riding on tall horses.

This military commander agent, who has hardly received decent training and is a halfway monk, was officially awarded the military rank by Shanxi Station only a few days ago, and Colonel Zhao Qingwen, in addition to issuing Fang Moshu a military uniform and certificate with the rank of lieutenant, also handed over a pension of 500 oceans to him - his wife, Captain Zhou Yi, an agent of the second intelligence group of Shanxi Station, was unfortunately martyred in the course of performing a mission in Wencheng in the previous stage and was posthumously awarded the rank of army major.

Fang Moshu, who had never served in the army, was directly awarded the rank of lieutenant, which can be regarded as another way for the Military Administration to comfort him for the loss of his lover. In view of the shortage of manpower in the second intelligence group, Fang Moshu, who had not yet recovered from this heavy blow, accepted the task and rushed to Wencheng again.

According to the previous report of the second intelligence group, Shanxi Station pointed out to Fang Moshu the registration location of No. 1 Courtyard of Yangliu Lane in Wencheng. But to the surprise of all parties, when Fang Moshu was still on the small train from Junling to Wencheng, the radio station of the second intelligence group sent an urgent telegram to Taiyuan, informing the station chief that someone had been captured and that the base camp of the second intelligence group was in danger of being exposed.

At that time, the Shanxi Station could no longer contact Fang Moshu who was on the road, so they could only call the radio of the second intelligence group to inform Fang Moshu that he was on the way back to report to the team. As for the result, I can only resign myself to fate.

Fang Moshu, who didn't know anything about the sudden crisis, arrived at Wencheng Station by train, and used the "Tianjin Huamin Daily" to successfully pass the inspection of the Japanese puppet army at the entrance of the station and stepped into the ground of Wencheng after a long absence.

He originally planned to go straight to the north of the city to find No. 1 Courtyard of Yangliu Lane, but in the square in front of the station, Fang Moshu, carrying a large suitcase, got on the rickshaw and informed the driver of the destination. However, not far from the square in front of the station, a riot broke out nearby. Fang Moshu had no way of knowing that it was the cause of the crossfire on City Hall Boulevard, but on the road after that, the news that was constantly spreading on the road finally made him understand the general situation.

This situation made Fang Moshu vigilant, and he began to consider whether the crossfire incident spread by passers-by would be related to the Second Military Intelligence Group. If it was really the operation organized by the female major Wang Suihua, then it was not appropriate for me to enter the No. 1 courtyard of Yangliu Lane right now—not only to avoid adding chaos to the operation, but also to prevent the failure of the operation from endangering the stronghold of the second intelligence group.

So, Fang Moshu instructed the coachman to send him to the Nanyang Hotel instead: the place where the second intelligence team stayed when they first came to Wencheng. He asked for a room to stay in, and then pretended to take a stroll towards the city hall avenue where the firefight had erupted, intending to find out first.

In this way, he encountered an "acquaintance" when he was pretending to be a reporter in Linfen City: Saburo Kawasaki, the leader of the Japanese cavalry squadron.

Fang Moshu, who had just become a lieutenant in the military command, would never have dreamed that the captain of the Kawasaki squadron, who was showing off his might in Linfen County, a few hundred miles away, would take his cavalry to Wencheng at this moment! Cautiously, he hurried past the tense Koga clinic and confirmed the legend of the explosion among passers-by.

However, he still has not found out whether the explosion was the work of Intelligence Unit 2. For the sake of safety, he decided to return to the Nanyang Hotel for a short stay and return to the camera the next day.

There are currently two newspapers in Wencheng City, one is "Wencheng Daily" and the other is "Tongpulu News"; The former is managed by the Wencheng Security Maintenance Association, and reports are issued every day; The latter is privately sponsored by the owner of a coal mine in the city and is published every Monday and Thursday. The next day, both newspapers reported on the horrors of the Japanese expatriate clinic on City Hall Avenue the night before, lacking detail but giving their readers a rough outline. The "Wencheng Daily," which is controlled by the traitorous organization, in particular, bitterly criticized the anti-Japanese elements for creating chaos and indiscriminately killing innocent people.

Reading these two bought newspapers in the room of the Nanyang Hotel, Fang Moshu, who was a journalist, had a bottom in his heart - it seemed that he was not bad, and this matter was very likely to be done by the military commander. Judging from the contents disclosed in the newspapers, the Japanese puppet military failed to catch the perpetrator of the explosion at least last night.

Dropping the newspaper, Fang Moshu walked out of the Nanyang Hotel again, he did not choose to check out, but hired a rickshaw and went straight to the No. 1 courtyard of Yangliu Lane in the north of the city.

At the same time, Li Yan, an agent of the Second Intelligence Group of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command, who really participated in the raid on the Guhe Clinic last night, also made a judgment that the No. 1 Courtyard of Yangliu Lane had been safe—after reluctantly assassinating Peng Sanxi, a soldier of the Special Service Company, he personally returned to the base camp of the Second Intelligence Group the next morning.

The entire Yangliu Lane is as calm as ever, and there is no abnormal situation in the No. 1 courtyard located at the mouth of the alley. With mixed feelings, Li Yan unlocked the door of the courtyard and walked into this extremely familiar mansion.

However, before he could sit his ass hot in his room, the copper ring facing out of the courtyard door was knocked.

The lieutenant of the military commander was not small in surprise, and with a whoosh pulled Mauser* from his waist, calmed down, and began to tiptoe in the direction of the courtyard gate.

The knock was neither loud nor small, but it was lasting and firm. Definitely not your own people! ——In the hidden place of the door frame outside the courtyard gate, there is a hidden handle, which is connected to the rope to the courtyard wing, and a copper bell is tied to the end of the rope. When all the members of the second intelligence group secretly returned from outside, they would quietly pull this organ, and when the bell rang, the people in the courtyard would know that they were comrades.

Of course, Li Yan would not have guessed that the person standing outside the gate of the courtyard at this moment would be a colleague from the second intelligence group who had just come here. He stood in the courtyard and pondered for a moment, and finally decided to ignore the knocker for the time being, but to climb the big willow tree in the courtyard and take a secret look first.