Quartet turned and left the communication room, walked through two doors in succession, and came to his office. After entering, the door was slammed shut, so as not to be seen by the officers on duty outside.

He straightened his collar, walked solemnly to the phone, and when he reached out to hold the microphone, he felt like he was carrying a thousand pounds of weight.

"Your Excellency, I have failed again."

There was a moment of froze on the microphone, and then a cold voice began to speak:

"What, the tracking didn't go well?"

"Yes, we shot down an enemy plane, caught the pilot, I almost went along and found out the whole thing, but ...... On the side of the navy, the enemy grabbed a plane and fled. In any case, I cannot shirk my responsibility. I ask your Excellency to thank Your Majesty the Emperor for my own judgment. ”

"What a stupid thing to say. Such a small setback made you lose confidence? ”

"This ......"

Quartet realized that the call from his mentor seemed to have another purpose, not to scold him.

"Listen, I have something important here...... You don't have anyone else around, right? ”

"Don't worry, it's just me."

"Have you heard anything about Tokyo lately?"

"I heard that there are reds again?"

"The guards are almost finished. The small circle around him was infiltrated by hostile countries. Now there is no reliable person in the whole of Tokyo, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the General Staff Headquarters, everyone is probably a Communist Party. ”

"What's going on?"

"It's not convenient to talk about it on the phone. However, at least Hideki Oki really caught the current criminal, and it was still Kagesa Zhenzhao who caught it. ”

"Aoqi, he's not the prime minister's private secretary?"

Quartet was taken aback, even if he wasn't very responsive, but at this moment he guessed that the fiasco in Shanghai would not be held accountable, because something bigger was happening in Tokyo.

"That's right, Oki is a Soviet spy hiding next to the guard, and he may not be the biggest. I can't rest assured that all the people who have a relationship with Konoe must find some reliable people from overseas to help me, and I thought of you first. ”

"Your Excellency, have you got a confession?"

Quartet asked tentatively.

"Not yet. However, eavesdropping equipment used by the agents was found. You immediately come to Tokyo and take over the gendarmerie. I believe that with your skill, the toughest Communist Party will also speak. ”

"Leave it to me, I'll let them speak!"

"I'll send a plane to pick you up, and I'll be here tomorrow."

"But...... Here in Shanghai? ”

"Leave Shanghai alone. Tomorrow's Imperial Council will definitely stage a good show. And the Navy will be on my side this time. ”

"So...... Your Excellency, you will ......"

"So, I need a brave and loyal soldier like you to take charge of Tokyo, not just against spies, but also against the restless newspapers."

"Yes."

The four sides held the phone and bowed ninety degrees. The person on the other end of the line hung up.

After a long time, Dazuo was still clutching the phone, reminiscing about the conversation just now. His fiasco suddenly became insignificant, and suddenly there was a new and important mission waiting to be accomplished, which could possibly affect the fate of the empire. Yes, all failures are not due to their own incompetence, but because of their inner ghosts. His mood suddenly relaxed a lot. When his headquarters was attacked, he sensed that the enemy had very accurate information and knew the structure of the building well. Sure enough, it was the Soviets again, and maybe the United States and Britain.

"The spy found next to the Duke of the Guard? Is this worth it? Wei Qi, this kid has thief eyebrows and rat eyes, and he has long seen him like a spy. He must not be the biggest yet, the prime minister himself will not be a spy, right? ”

He immediately recovered from the successive defeats and began to think about the serious challenges they would face next.

When the sun rises above sea level, the task force is running through a saline field, occasionally disappearing into the reeds. The report sent by the drone before returning home showed that the enemy's horse team was scattering in pursuit, and the saline-alkali land on the coast in this area was sparsely populated and the land was barren, which was very suitable for cavalry.

The loss of Chu Aiyun made Lin Xiuxuan feel frustrated, and he basically didn't get any benefits from going ashore to perform the mission this time, so why bother to lose someone. This may make Cheng Dayang unhappy because he lost his best subordinates.

They still have 5 kilometers to go in a straight line, and when they reach the intended location, a rubber boat will pick them up to the submarine, but the drone runs out of fuel and returns, which makes them lose their reconnaissance advantage. Of course, there is nothing to worry about, if even a few cavalry can't deal with it, the special group has no point in existing.

The search wing of the 33rd Division has been crusading in the Taihu Lake area for a long time, and it can be regarded as a very experienced public security combat unit. These well-trained cavalrymen could stand on horseback in the morning and dusk and see figures running on the dark horizon several kilometers away. In fact, they had already found some clues, the footprints of the fishermen who had returned from the last night's drive to the sea had been cemented from south to north, while the footprints of those who tried to escape to the sea had gone in the opposite direction.

One of the squad leaders jumped off his horse and examined the footprints in the swamp, and he saw that in an hour two or three men had been heading southeast, and that their pace had been kept at a constant pace, in a straight line, rather than the casual formation that a few fishermen or salt-drying men would walk out of.

The squad leader decided to chase along the footprints with 6 fast horses. The Anglo-Norman horses they rode could run for hours on such cool mornings, and of course he estimated that they would catch up with the runaway in less than 30 minutes. When the time comes, be sure to take a closer look at whether these people have three heads and six arms.

The Japanese did not find the fourth person in the group, because Lu Qingshan had been acting alone, alternating with others to cover. It was he who was the first to see six tall horses, chasing east along the coast. It seems that today it is impossible to simply withdraw the submarine, and an ambush will have to be fought.

The six cavalrymen quickly chased to the seashore and found the footprints hidden in a patch of reeds. They carefully dispersed, and someone tried to stand on horseback and look into the distance.

After a single gunshot, the Japanese soldier dismounted. The rest of the Japanese quickly took the rifles from behind, but it was too late. Ma Qiang was the first to emerge from the reeds, holding a * in his hand. The other two flashed out one left and one right. The three of them opened fire almost at the same time, and with dense firepower, they beat one of the Japanese cavalrymen who had caught up with them on their backs. The two horses were also swept away by the fire, and they fell to the ground with a long roar and died. The rest of the horses fled with the dead in tow.

The ambush is over in 30 seconds. Lin picked up a Type 44 cavalry gun from the ground, and on the bright side, this landing was not empty-handed anyway. They took several dead bodies from the ground. Also found some soldier papers and pistols, which will be useful later.

There was no time to hide the corpses, so they could only be dragged into the reeds, and then they re-entered the road and retreated. Rendezvous with Lu Qingshan at the predetermined evacuation site, it was he who fired the first shot from 400 meters away just now and shot the first enemy.

In the distance, a dinghy appeared through the morning mist, this time the boatswain drove to pick them up. The submarine is just 1 km away. The four people quickly got into the rubber boat and returned home. Before enemy patrol boats could reach the nearby seas, they boarded the submarine and descended to periscope depth.

The mission ended in such an unsatisfactory ending.

As soon as Lin Xiuxuan returned to the submarine, he hurried to the translation room, he knew that today (September 6) was a critical day, and the Japanese Imperial Palace was going to hold a pre-imperial meeting. It was roughly decided that Konoe would step down and start the national policy. He didn't know if the events that caused Hidemi Ozaki to be arrested early in the Tokyo landings a while ago would affect the development of the main lines of history, and it was reasonable that this unfortunate incident would help the belligerent Tojo cabinet to come to power smoothly. However, the various changes that occur after the disturbance of time and space are difficult to predict by general logic.

As soon as he got on the boat, he went to the translation room, which made Cheng Dayang very dissatisfied, and the captain felt that Lin should at least have an explanation for Chu Aiyun's matter, instead of hiding. At this moment, the plane had just disappeared from the radar. Before disappearing, several Japanese planes pursued it in the direction it had fled. This four-engine plane is related to the honor of the Japanese military department, so the Japanese pilots will never let it go easily, and if they have the opportunity, they will definitely kill the worst possibility, and even do not hesitate to hit it, so the fate of the deputy captain has not yet been decided.

In the translation room, Lin Xiuxuan hastily read the enemy telegrams that Qin Xiaosu had sorted out these days and that he thought were meaningful. The military and police in Tokyo are unusually frequent. None of the cables mentioned Zorge and his group, but the sense of urgency could be read from the telegrams exchanged between the military headquarters and the intelligence units of the various sides. The General Staff Headquarters issued a list of nearly 150 people, demanding that their use in key departments be immediately stopped and that the level of access to classified information be reduced, including even three lieutenant generals and four senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Apparently some kind of remedy, Ozi has been involved in many classified operations, and has also been in contact with the big names in various departments, and it is enough to be busy for a while to screen all the contacts who may be developed by him into downlines. Hayashi believed that the telegram between Tokyo and the Chinese military to freeze personnel was only the tip of the iceberg, and that the real action might unfold slowly, and that what was now a big concern for the Tokyo military department should be how to find a reliable person to take over such a mess.

There is no mention of the Japanese traversers at all in the telegram, and there is no mention of any of the people who attended that meeting at the Army Medical School, and the absence of information is good news, at least to confirm that they are still not taken seriously.

"So, what will happen to Makino? Will it be killed by the military department? If that's the case, I'll save myself here. ”

Lin can't do anything about them now, and can only hope for such a low probability of good things happening every day. Shu Ping once reminded him that if he hadn't interfered too much, most of the three people would not have the current energy, and according to the normal script, there should have been one or two who were tortured to death or driven crazy in army prisons.

He left the translation room with doubts and walked into the corridor, where Cheng Dayang was waiting at the door, with a look of inquiring about the teacher.

"Lao Cheng, don't worry too much, the deputy captain must be fine."

Cheng Dayang was originally blocked at the door and wanted to hear how he was slippery, but he didn't expect Lin Xiuxuan to give a satisfactory conclusion first.

"How do you know he's going to be okay?"

"Because I think that since they can escape so magically, they will not simply be shot down."

After Lin finished speaking, he quickly lowered his head and slipped past Cheng Dayang.