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Chapter 1339 Drastic changes

"What did you say? Xu Enzeng captured a high-ranking Japanese intelligence officer?"

Listening to He Yijun's report, Zuo Zhong, who had just returned to Shancheng from Jin-Cha-Ji, was so shocked that he almost fell off his chair.

Gu Qi, Wu Chunyang and others standing by were also stunned. What He Yijun said was really unbelievable.

The Japanese General Staff had no idea what was wrong with them and actually suspected that Xu Enzeng was a mole planted by the underground party in the Kuomintang government, and even sent people to instigate opposition against the other side.

As a result, he failed to incite rebellion and instead was able to catch several Japanese spies by following the clues of Xu Enzeng.

Gu Qi felt that the head of the Japanese spy agency must have been kicked in the head by a donkey, otherwise how could he mistake someone like Xu Enzeng for an underground party member.

Putting aside other things, just looking at Xu Enzeng's lifestyle, if he were in the border area, I'm afraid even ten heads would not be enough to chop off.

But no matter how they doubt it, it is true that Xu Enzeng was commended. According to reliable sources, he will be awarded medals together with other members of the Military Control Commission.

After being stunned for a long time, Zuo Zhong slammed the table and said angrily: "We went through life and death and completed the mission with difficulty, so we should be awarded medals. Xu Enzeng did nothing but won the merit. Is this reasonable?"

Seeing the deputy director's look, Gu Qi and others said it was unreasonable and joined the ranks of those denouncing Xu Enzeng, using all kinds of foul language to curse him and the Japanese.

Scolding Xu Enzeng is considered a traditional team-building project of the Military Control Commission, and it has been like this since the days of the Secret Service.

After everyone finished speaking, Zuo Zhong snorted coldly: "Apart from the facts, doesn't Xu Enzeng have any problems at all? Otherwise, why didn't the Japanese come to incite me to rebel instead of you? I think this guy's position is somewhat suspicious."

"The deputy commander is right!"

Gu Qi was the first to speak in agreement, and the others nodded vigorously. As for what they were thinking in their hearts, only they themselves knew.

Zuo Chong's anger subsided a little, and he said, "No one can be lucky forever. I wonder how long this guy can be so proud of himself," and then asked everyone to leave.

But sometimes things in the world are so unpredictable. Just when Zuo Zhong said the above words, the Investigation Office of the Central Bureau of Investigation's Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee discovered two important underground party members, and the discovery process was full of drama.

A bully went to Ji'an to attend the market on a whim. On the street, he saw the underground party cadre who had tried him before, so he reported him to the party investigation office.

Around 8 o'clock that evening, more than agents from the action team of the Investigation Office of the Party Committee of Gan Province secretly surrounded a hotel on Mujiang Street in Ji'an. At o'clock in the morning, the agents broke into the hotel and pinned the two targets to the bed.

"Tell me! Your name and position!" The captain of the action team grabbed one of the men's hair and asked viciously.

The spy asked this question purely as a formality. According to past experience, arrested underground party members were very stubborn and rarely revealed information about themselves or their superiors. But the situation this time was a little different.

The man whose hair was grabbed by the secret agent hesitated for a few seconds, then confessed: "My name is Xiao Tieguai, and I am a courier for the underground party's Gan Province office."

The captain of the action team was shocked at first, then overjoyed when he heard this. The courier was a core position in the intelligence network and had access to a large amount of top-secret intelligence. He was going to become rich.

What surprised and delighted him even more was that the other prisoner, perhaps because he was frightened or influenced by Xiao Tieguai's confession, also revealed his identity and position. This person turned out to be Li Xian, the Organization Minister of the Southwest Jiangxi Special Committee.

The spy, overjoyed, immediately transferred the two to a safe house. The director of the Gan Province Investigation Office was cautious and did not report the matter through regular procedures. Instead, he went to the mountain city in person to find Xu Enzeng.

Upon learning that his men had captured such an important underground party member, Xu Enzeng excitedly paced around the room. However, he soon realized one problem: the matter had to be kept strictly confidential.

The Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics headquarters had previously captured underground party traitors who were willing to cooperate, but in the end, they came up empty-handed every time. It was obvious that there was an underground party mole in the headquarters, and unless this mole was removed, the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics in Shancheng could not be trusted.

Xu Enzeng raised his head and ordered the director of the investigation office that the operation would be under the full responsibility of the Gan Province Investigation Office and that no report should be made to Shancheng before the case was closed.

If someone from the headquarters inquires about the case, even if the other party is Director Zhu Liuxian, it must be reported immediately.

The party affairs system was the Er Chens' territory, so the director of the investigation office would naturally not disobey this order. He returned to Ji'an that same day, preparing to further expand the results through the suspect's confession.

Xiao Tieguai and Li Xian, the two spineless people, did not disappoint the director of the investigation room. Facing the threat of torture, the two revealed more information, and the underground party's Gan Province office was completely destroyed.

The first people to be arrested were the propaganda and united front leaders of the Gan Provincial Office. Not long after, the two former secretaries of the Gan Provincial Office also fell into the hands of the enemy.

Due to lack of faith and fear of torture, some captured personnel surrendered to the Central Bureau of Investigation and became shameful traitors.

The former secretary of Gan Province rebelled.

The radio station director rebelled.

The Minister of Youth, rebelled.

The surrender of these people enabled the Guo Party to completely grasp the signals, wavelengths, codes, and even the list of undercover personnel of the Gan Province radio station.

In just half a month, the grassroots organizations of the underground party in Jiangxi Province basically collapsed, 44 counties, more than 200 districts and the vast majority of branches were destroyed, and more than 2000 party members were arrested.

The spies were not satisfied with the arrest of so many underground party members. They used the radio stations they controlled to send messages to the "Southern Committee", the superior of the Gan Province Office. The "Southern Committee", the full name of which is the Southern Working Committee, is the dispatched agency of the Southern Bureau of the underground party. It has jurisdiction over multiple levels of organizations in Gan Province, northern Guangdong, southern Guangdong, southern Hunan, Guangxi Province, Qiongya, western Fujian, southern Fujian, Chaomei, Dapu, Fujian and Guangdong.

Although the top leaders of the "Southern Committee" had some suspicions about Jiangxi Province, due to the lack of substantial evidence and because they were deceived by the fake radio station, the "Southern Committee" still sent Chen Ran, the head of the Organization Department, to Jiangxi Province.

Chen Ran is from Southeast Asia and is a typical old revolutionary. He joined the underground party in the 16th year of the Republic of China. His mission on this trip is to contact Huang Ji, who took over the original secretary position.

But Huang Ji and his wife had already been arrested. The secret agents used their two-year-old son as a hostage and asked Huang Ji and his wife to lure Chen Ran into captivity. The two pretended to agree and escaped from surveillance by climbing out the window in the middle of the night.

After successfully escaping from prison, Huang Ji and his wife risked being hunted down and shot. They traveled by day and at night, sleeping in the open air, passed through three provinces, and trekked thousands of miles. They found the organization in 3 days and reported the situation in Gan Province in a timely manner.

The head of the "Southern Committee" was shocked when he learned about this and immediately issued a warning to Chen Ran, notifying the other party to evacuate immediately.

According to the underground party's confidentiality and organizational principles, Chen Ran could have been transferred safely, but he did not decipher the early warning telegram immediately after receiving it, and continued to live a life of debauchery in the city, and was eventually arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

In the interrogation room, the coward Chen Ran said he was willing to surrender, but he put forward three conditions.

First, he wanted the funds from the Southern Committee; second, he did not want to make public the fact that he had betrayed the country; third, he wanted the Central Bureau of Investigation to guarantee his personal safety;

Considering that the other party's position was very critical, once the rebellion was successful, it would severely damage the underground party's organization in the southern part of the Republic of China. The Gan Provincial Investigation Office readily agreed to his conditions, and Chen Ran immediately defected.

Chen Ran's rebellion was devastating to the "Southern Committee". Dozens of senior cadres of the "Southern Committee" and its subordinate organizations were arrested. In order to keep the party's secrets, the deputy secretary of the "Southern Committee" was tortured and died heroically.

One of the captured personnel was the son of a veteran of the Guo Party and also an important surveillance target of the Military Control Commission. The actions of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics were therefore exposed, and the Military Control Commission's Gan Province Station sent an urgent secret telegram to Shancheng.

No. 29 Luojiawan, meeting room of the Military Control Commission headquarters.

Zuo Chong held the telegram with anger in his eyes. He was angry not because he was slapped in the face by Xu Enzeng, but because the Military Control Commission failed to discover this matter in advance.

In his previous life, Zuo Chong was just an ordinary person with unsatisfactory academic performance. He had no memory of whether anything happened in the “Southern Committee”.

However, the Military Intelligence Bureau had deployed so many spies in Gan Province and spent a huge amount of money. It shouldn't have been at this time that the Gan Provincial Station noticed the Central Intelligence Bureau's small moves.

What does this indicate? It indicates that the local district station of the Military Control Commission has lost control of the local area and is unable to effectively collect intelligence. This is a very dangerous sign.

"Oh!"

Zuo Zhong slammed the conference table loudly, and his sharp eyes swept over Gu Qi and others on both sides, finally stopping at Wu Chunyang and Wu Jingzhong who were wiping their sweat.

"You two can tell me what the first unit does on a regular basis. Why didn't the Gan Provincial Station find out about such a big incident?"

Before he finished speaking, Wu Chunyang and Wu Jingzhong stood up suddenly, but they hesitated for a long time and couldn't utter a word. They could only lower their heads and wait to be scolded.

The First Division is the supervisory body for intelligence work at each regional station. When something like this happened, they, as the director and deputy director, could not escape blame. According to the rules of the Military Control Commission, losing their heads would be the least they could do.

The good old man Gu Qi coughed twice and pleaded for the two men: "Deputy Commander, the accountability of the Gan Provincial Station can be put off until the end. What is important now is how to deal with this matter. We can't let Xu Enzeng take all the benefits."

Zuo Zhong sighed, pointed at Gu Qi and tapped him a few times: "Old Gu, your biggest problem is that you are soft-hearted. I'm not blaming them, but they have seriously neglected their duties in this matter.

Today, the situation in Jiangxi Province is out of control. What about the future? Will other districts and stations be like this? A thousand-mile embankment is destroyed by an ant hole. We must be vigilant. "

After explaining why he was angry, Zuo Zhong announced the result in a stern tone: "The station chief, deputy station chief, intelligence team leader, and deputy team leader of Gan Province have neglected their duties and will be executed according to family law!"

"Director Wu Chunyang and Deputy Director Wu Jingzhong of the First Division failed to discover the oversight of the Gan Province Station in a timely manner. They bear leadership responsibility and are given a major demerit and have their military pay withheld for half a year."

"All the remaining staff members of the Gan Province Station were sent to enemy-occupied areas and the northwest. Aren't they careless? Let the Japanese, Ji Ni and the underground party teach them a lesson!"

These three punishments were certainly severe, but Wu Chunyang and Wu Jingzhong did not dare to complain at all, as they knew that the deputy director had already shown leniency.

After handling the internal affairs, Zuo Zhong returned to the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics: "Old Gu, you are right. We can't let Xu Enzeng take all the benefits. If we don't teach this guy a lesson, he will definitely step on our heads and piss on us."

Gu Qi nodded and asked, "Co-pilot, what should we do? Do you have a specific plan?"

"As for the plan, of course I have one." Zuo Zhong's expression was grim, and he turned to look at Song Minghao: "Take your men to Gan Province and tell those guys in the investigation room that these arrested underground party members are involved in a military spy case, and ask them to hand over the people."

The Second Department is responsible for counterintelligence work within the army. Song Minghao came forward to legitimate the matter. Only when the traitors and captured comrades are in the hands of the Military Control Commission can Zuo Zhong proceed to the next step.

"Yes!"

Song Minghao stood up and responded to the order, rushing to Gan Province without stopping. As for whether the Party Investigation Office would refuse to hand over the person, it was not within his consideration at all.

If the other party does not execute the order, the Military Control Commission will directly rob them. The people he brought plus the power of the Gan Provincial Station are more than enough to deal with the Investigation Office.

As long as no one is killed, the higher-ups won't care too much about this kind of thing. Song Minghao is confident that he can handle the situation well and not give Xu Enzeng a chance to cause trouble.