In the battle to recover Yiling, the commander of the Sixth Theater Chen Wei personally went to the front line to supervise the battle, with nine infantry divisions of the troops to storm Yiling, after more than a week of hard fighting, annihilated more than half of the Japanese 13th Division, division commander Uchiyama Eitaro and officers at all levels of the headquarters committed suicide after burning the battle flag, Yiling, an important city known as the throat of the Yangtze River, once again returned to the control of the Shancheng government.

President Chiang, who got the news, was overjoyed and announced that Chen Ji would be awarded the Order of the Blue Sky and the White Sun in recognition of his outstanding military exploits, and the generals who participated in the war were also awarded various medals one after another, and they would personally go to Yiling to confer medals on meritorious soldiers, and the Military Commission specially rewarded the troops of the Sixth Theater with 200,000 legal currency.

Since the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, this was the first time that the regular army of the Yamashiro government had fought head-on to annihilate the defenders in the city, forcing the Japanese lieutenant general and more than a dozen adjutants to commit suicide.

Wu Kuiyuan and Peng Jiacui, two female agents of the Special Service Department of the General Office of the Military Commission, blew up the ammunition depot of the Japanese army at a critical time, which played a vital role in the operation.

Zhou Bingqing, the head of the Hankou Intelligence Station, was awarded a third-class Baoding Medal and a bonus of 10,000 yuan in legal currency.

In order to prevent the enemy from attacking Yiling again after withdrawing from Tanzhou, the Sixth Theater set up a forward command in Yiling, Chen Wei personally sat in the town, and the troops defending the city were nervously digging trenches and building fortifications, and the Military Commission also transported a large number of weapons and ammunition to make up for the combat consumption through waterways, but the Japanese army, which had suffered heavy losses in Tanzhou, had no intention of attacking Yiling in a short period of time.

"Boss, you played the biggest role in this battle for Yiling, and we all got medals and bonuses, but you didn't, is President Jiang old and confused?" Wu Kuiyuan said very dissatisfied.

"That's it, I knew that in the end it would be like this, we didn't want this broken medal, you don't have it, our second-class Baoding Medal always feels very cheap." Peng Jiacui said.

"Don't talk nonsense, if I were willing to accept the honor, I would have received the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal a long time ago, how could it be your turn to complain for me? During the Anti-Japanese War, I needed to go to the occupied areas often to highlight my role in the war against Japan, which was not a good thing for me to deal with the Japanese puppets, and the more low-key the better. ”

"This time, the Ninth Theater successfully repelled the Japanese attack, and the Sixth Theater and the Fifth Theater worked together to recapture Yiling, which is equivalent to double happiness, and the committee is happy, otherwise it would not have given such a heavy reward. The matter of Yiling is over, you are ready to prepare, tomorrow we will take a boat to Shanghai, and some things should be settled. Han Lin said.

Just as he was about to rush to Shanghai, a huge crisis befell the head of the military commander in Shanghai, but Chen Gongshu and Qi Qingbin knew nothing about it.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of October 2, a man wearing a top hat, sunglasses, and a long gown, unhurriedly carrying his bag, got out of a car and entered the gate of the Shanghai branch of the Bank of China. And his appearance made the agents of the first department of the secret service headquarters, who had been waiting for a long time, cheer up again.

The spy who was sitting at the door pretending to be a rickshaw driver saw that this person was a pockmarked face, and this was the twenty-fourth pockmarked face they had found in the four major banks.

"Captain, we see a pockmarked face again!" A spy ran to the opposite car and said to the operation captain Jiang Maojie.

"You guys follow and see, it's a hope, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack, for three months, in order to monitor and track these numb faces, my legs are going to run off, and I can't eat or sleep well," Jiang Maojie said weakly.

When this person came out, the bag was bulging, as if it was carrying a large sum of money, a car drove over quickly, picked him up and ran away, but the spy around the corner, but the spy around the corner followed far behind in the car, and after more than half an hour, the spy who guarded the contact number hurriedly came to the car to report, this time the target was found.

That's right, this person with a pockmarked face is Li Genfa, an accountant in the Shanghai urban area of the military command, and he went to the branch of the Bank of China to obtain the operational funds allocated by the bureau headquarters to the Shanghai urban area.

Chen Gongshu planned to lease a new house in the concession, transfer the old agents to the Songhu Action Corps of the Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army, and then transfer new people from the Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army to rearrange the latent net in the urban area of Shanghai.

The reason why we are waiting for Li Genfa now is that the Military Command Bureau has difficulties in funding, and Boss Dai has not allocated funds for a long time, so he only transferred money from the bank yesterday, so that the spies of the first department of the secret service headquarters have been waiting for three months, and they are already exhausted, such a task is too boring, and they don't know when they will be encountered.

Li Genfa, who returned to his residence, had no idea that he had been targeted by the spies who were waiting for him, and the destruction of Shanghai City was because of his exposure.

The second section of the advisory department of the special high school is stationed.

There were only Liao Yaquan and Chiyo Hoshino in the office, and both of them looked a little lonely. Chiyo Hoshino took a boat from the mountain city to Hankou to join Liao Yaquan, and the two did not stop and flew back to Shanghai.

"I really didn't expect that the situation of this battle would evolve like this, the 11th Army's attack on Tanzhou failed, the 13th Division suffered more than half of the casualties, and even General Uchiyama was martyred this time, and Yiling was recaptured by the Shancheng government, relieving our threat to Shancheng, which was the worst battle in the empire since the Battle of Jiangcheng." Chiyo Hoshino said.

"The Chinese often say that victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and how can there be an army that does not defeat a battle? In Jiangcheng and the surrounding areas, the empire only had one strategic mobile corps of the 11th Army, and it had to defend Jiangcheng and carry out large-scale operations, and its strength was far from enough. ”

"It's not because this time I want to attack Tanzhou, and the 26th Infantry Brigade of the 13th Division has been transferred, which has led to a shortage of troops in the defenders of Yiling, so that they have been exploited by the Shancheng government.

"We are also losers, the bombing operation of the Third Flying Regiment failed, the assassination operation of the Advisory Department also failed, the intelligence base that Yamashiro has operated for many years has been taken to a pot, dozens of agents have been arrested, if it weren't for the teacher to intercede for me, the punishment I got this time would not be as simple as dismissal, it is certain to go to a military court." Liao Yaquan said.

In view of the fact that the two top-secret operations taken by the advisory department of the special high school against the Huangshan official residence were all failures and suffered heavy losses, the military department was extremely angry about this.

At a critical time, Kenji Dohihara, an old spy, played a role, secretly found a high-level dredge, removed Liao Yaquan from his position as section chief, and allowed him to continue to stay in the second section of the advisory department to make meritorious contributions and temporarily act as section chief.

With such serious consequences, the advisory department must give an explanation to the military department, and Takeda Qing, as the minister, is to blame, although he did not personally command, but the biggest black cauldron is still buckled on his head, and Liao Yaquan carries the black cauldron.

In Kenji Dohihara's mind, although Takeda Qing is also a rare talent, his performance is very disappointing, such a minister who has no achievements can't afford the responsibility of the advisory department, and Liao Yaquan, a student, is more valuable than him.

(End of chapter)