Kingsman Agent in Film and Television

Chapter 660: Letter of War Sent to the Wrong Person
Ito's hidden private office.

Kishida reported to Ito the intelligence he had monitored in recent days.

After the report, Kishida concluded: "Teacher, the Military Control Commission is still silent, while the underground party is still active."

"As expected."

Ito chuckled: "However, the Military Control Commission must make some moves tonight!"

Kishida looked puzzled.

"Tonight, secretly escort Zhou Jixian out of the city and send him to the Imperial Guard Cultural and Tourism Group!"

Kishida's first reaction was:
Is this what he mentioned before, that the results will be known in three days?

He asked carefully: "Teacher, do you mean to lure the snake out of its hole?"

After Iwai arrested Zhou Jixian, he decided to send Zhou Jixian to the Imperial Guards Cultural and Brigade Corps, using Zhou Jixian to threaten and surrender the Special 1st Battalion - although the Special 1st Battalion is a battalion-level organization, it is just the battalion's number. Its current size is already on par with most of the New Fourth Army's regimental-level organizations. In terms of combat effectiveness, the Special 1st Battalion, equipped with all American weapons, crushes all the regimental-level organizations of the New Fourth Army.

The Japanese army believed that if the entire Special 1st Battalion could be persuaded to surrender, it would be an unparalleled blow to the New Fourth Army.

Even if they could not persuade the entire Special Battalion 1 to surrender, the Japanese army believed that the Special Battalion 1 would be destroyed as long as they could incite Zhou Weiguo and his direct subordinates to rebel.

But, but, this plan was stopped by Ito, and Ito himself came to Suzhou secretly - under this circumstance, it was impossible for Kishida Shota to believe that Ito would send Zhou Jixian to Konoe Fumio.

That’s why the question of luring the snake out of its hole arises.

"As expected, he was the most outstanding graduate of the Intelligence Department of the NCO Academy at that time." Ito looked at Kishida, his face relaxed and satisfied. He smiled and said, "Of course we are luring the snake out of its hole. The Military Control Commission has made no move, so we will issue him a declaration of war!"

"Tell Zhang Shihao, don't think you came here secretly, you are just a clown!"

"You are personally responsible for this matter - well, don't use the warriors of the imperial army to lure the snakes. Go find Shi Hao and ask him to send all the dissidents over."

After Ito finished speaking, he reminded: "Kishida-kun, this ambush will definitely succeed, but the credit will be given to Shi Hao's Security Bureau. I hope you don't mind it then."

"Teacher, don't worry. I understand."

Kishida smiled and nodded, but when he turned and left, his face looked sad.

[Is it going to start now? ]

Shota Kishida was really worried. He wanted to ruin Ito's plan to prevent him, the sheep, from being implicated and becoming a scapegoat after the fight between the two tigers. However, Shi Hao, whom he had selected, was as slippery as a loach. Although the other party showed respect for him, he had a lot of ulterior motives and his attempts to make him a "knife" failed time and time again.

Now Ito is going to challenge Zhang Shihao;
How to break this game?
……

In the teahouse, the disguised Zhang Anping meets with Gu Wei, the stationmaster of Suzhou Station.

"There has been a change of power in the Suzhou Security Bureau in the past few days. The original Commissioner Zhu Zheng was replaced by an agent named Shi Hao. The other party's identity is a bit complicated and is still under investigation."

"The underground party has been very active recently. They probably believed the news released by the Japanese and may be planning to rescue us by force."

"The headquarters forwarded the order from the attendant's office, requiring our department to rescue Mr. Zhou."

Gu Wei reported the news of the past few days.

When mentioning the new director of the Security Bureau, Shi Hao, Gu Wei felt very regretful. He had a subordinate named Sun Zhiming, who was a cousin of the previous commissioner Zhu Zheng. He had always hoped to use Sun Zhiming to incite Zhu Zheng to defect - once Zhu Zheng was incited, Suzhou would become the back garden of Suzhou Station.

Unfortunately, before Sun Zhiming had time to incite Zhu Zheng to rebel, he obtained information from Zhu Zheng that the Japanese army was going to arrest Zhu Mingchun and Chen Jiaotong. After Sun Zhiming and the two evacuated, he was temporarily controlled by him. The original plan was to let Sun Zhiming continue to incite Zhu Zheng to rebel after the traitor was found, but he didn't expect that Zhu Zheng was dead!
This made Gu Wei very regretful.

After listening to Gu Wei's report, Zhang Anping was silent for a while and then asked:

"What are the results of Suzhou Station's infiltration in the Security Bureau?"

He did not tell Gu Wei that Shi Hao was himself - this is also the rule of the spy industry. Although Zhang Anping is quite "wandering", he is still very cautious in doing things. He is in a wolf's den, and the more people who know about it, the more dangerous it is.

"Because Sun Zhiming is Zhu Zheng's cousin, our department learned the news in advance and placed a total of nine agents in the Security Bureau. They are..."

Gu Wei reported the list to Zhang Anping one by one.

Zhang Anping's expression remained unchanged, but he secretly complained about Gu Wei's stupidity in his heart. He believed that with Gu Wei's professionalism, he would not let Sun Zhiming know the undercover list, but Sun Zhiming must have been used in the undercover process. The Japanese may not have the detailed list, but they must know the general idea!
Thinking back to the call from Kishida at noon when he was about to get off work, asking for a list of dissidents, Zhang Anping couldn't help but be secretly cautious.

"According to my information, the Security Bureau may expand its staffing again in the near future," Zhang Anping arranged:
"You arrange for some brothers not to go through the previous channels this time, and not to have any relationship with the previous undercover personnel."

"Yes."

Gu Wei was secretly amazed. Suzhou Station was considered the local tyrant, but District Chief had only been in Suzhou for ten days at most, but he already had a more efficient intelligence network than Suzhou Station. He was worthy of being District Chief!
"Also, the underground party may make some moves tonight. Suzhou Station should not interfere. Even if the underground party suffers heavy losses, Suzhou Station cannot interfere. Do you understand?"

"I see."

After Gu Wei agreed, Zhang Anping asked again: "Is there any progress in the investigation?"

The investigation he asked about was naturally about identifying the traitor - Zhou Jixian was arrested. Although the Japanese spread the rumor that it was because of the underground party, and the Suzhou Station also fueled the flames and implemented this statement, in fact, Gu Wei clearly realized that the arrest of Mr. Zhou was the result of the problem with the Military Control Commission.

There were three direct suspects, including Zhu Mingchun and Chen Jiaotong who escaped from danger, and the captain of the action team. After Zhang Anping intervened, the captain of the action team was also investigated by the Southern Jiangsu Command.

But unfortunately, there has been no result.

He said awkwardly: "District Chief, there is no result yet."

Of course there will be no result, because the real traitor is Sun Zhiming!

According to the files of the Military Control Commission, Sun Zhiming should not have known Zhou Jixian's identity, and the other party also had the credit of helping Zhu Mingchun and Chen Jiaotong escape from the clutches of the enemy. He is now being investigated because he is implicated by the two of them, but the investigation against him is just a pretense.

We are all spies. When faced with a comrade who helps his brother in danger, who is crazy enough to identify such a person as a traitor?
There are a lot of operational guidelines for spies. If we really want to be serious, Sun Zhiming should be carefully examined.

But spies are also human beings. If they are human beings, there will be loopholes in the implementation of any rules. This is the reason why Sun Zhiming dared to come back and act as a traitor!
Sure enough, the Suzhou station had been interrogated for eleven days. He had received the least interrogation and the highest treatment. Each interrogation was basically just a show, unlike Zhu Mingchun and Chen Jiaotong next door, who faced all kinds of tricky and weird questions during each interrogation...

The chance of finding a traitor in an internal investigation is already small, and Sun Zhiming is facing special care, so it is unlikely that the traitor can be found.

Zhang Anping said casually, "Let's finish the investigation tomorrow. We will then strengthen the surveillance. Whether it's a human or a ghost, they will eventually reveal their true colors."

"Yes."

Although Zhang Anping knew Sun Zhiming's identity, he could not arrest him directly, otherwise Shi Hao would be the first suspect. Only after lifting the investigation on Sun Zhiming and setting him free could he wait for an opportunity to catch him.

……

After finishing the meeting with Gu Wei, Zhang Anping changed back to Shi Hao's identity and returned to the Security Bureau before work in the afternoon.

Then he quickly wrote a list.

If Gu Wei were here, he would definitely be shocked, because on the list there were exactly six undercover personnel that he provided to Zhang Anping at noon.

This list is the list of dissidents that Zhang Anping is going to hand over to Shota Kishida. If Zhang Anping's prediction is correct, these people will be arranged by the gendarmerie to "escort" Zhou Jixian.

If possible, Zhang Anping certainly does not want the undercover personnel to be exposed.

However, Sun Zhiming's betrayal made these undercover personnel unsafe. Zhang Anping was not sure how detailed the intelligence the Japanese had, so he had to grit his teeth and withdraw six people.

That’s right, although these six people seem to be in danger, it is actually the evacuation arranged for them by Zhang Anping. If they are ambushed by the underground party at that time, it would be easy for them to reveal their identities and evacuate. The ones in danger are the three brothers who stay behind.

But that's how it is in the intelligence industry, you have to make choices eventually.

After compiling the list, Zhang Anping sent Zheng Yi to the gendarmerie. As the saying goes, one should appoint people based on their ties to the profession. After Zhang Anping became the director of the Security Bureau, it was natural for him to arrange Zheng Yi to the secretariat. Even James got a job as a shooting instructor.

It is said that when a person attains enlightenment, a chicken or a dog ascends to heaven, it is nothing better than this.

The first thing Kishida did after receiving the list sent by Zheng Yi was to take out the list that Zhu Zheng had previously handed over from the safe.

Just as Zhang Anping expected, although Sun Zhiming did not know about Gu Wei's undercover list, after Sun Zhiming's rebellion, Zhu Zheng and Sun Zhiming reviewed the situation and determined the approximate list - but this list was not a detailed list of nine people, but eleven people.

As the captain of the gendarmerie, Kishida naturally also got the list.

Because Sun Zhiming had re-infiltrated the Military Control Commission, the list was kept confidential, and the military police never took any action against the people on the list, not even conducting any surveillance.

At this time, Zhang Anping brought the list of dissidents. Kishida hoped that the eleven people on the list were not on the list of dissidents. This would make it easier for him to manipulate Shi Hao and label him as a traitor.

But the result surprised him. Seven of the eleven people on the list appeared on the dissident list!

Four of them were circled in red.

Kishida then called Zhang Anping.

"Director Shi, I received the list. I want to know what the four people in the red circle are like?"

"Captain Kishida, I checked the Security Bureau's files, and these four people were secretly investigated by Zhu Zheng."

"Oh? Any results?"

"No, or if there is, I don't know." Zhang Anping on the other end of the phone answered very straightforwardly, and even quoted a famous saying of Mr. Wang:

"But Mr. Wang has a saying - it is better to kill three thousand people by mistake than to let one person go unpunished!"

"Whether they are suspects or not, since they have all been investigated, I will hand them over to Captain Kishida for handling."

"Director Shi, you are really cautious in what you do."

Kishida said something meaningful before hanging up the phone. After hanging up the phone, he whispered:
"Shi Hao, Shi Hao, what you did...really surprised me."

Judging from the fact that this person arrested Zhu Zheng without hesitation, this person is indeed decisive, but Kishida did not expect that the other party would be so decisive that as long as he had any doubts, he would send people over without hesitation!

But this is not good news for Kishida. The more decisive and cautious Shi Hao acts, the more difficult it will be for him to trick Shi Hao!

After a sigh, Kishida sent the list to Ito.

After obtaining Ito's consent, Kishida called Zhang Anping again and ordered Zhang Anping to send all 38 people on the list to the gendarmerie.

Zhang Anping then made arrangements. These people were divided into three teams and sent to the gendarmerie. After arriving at the gendarmerie, they were told that they were forbidden to contact the outside world. They were then treated to delicious food and drinks. It was not until 8:30 in the evening that they met Iwai, the second-in-command of the gendarmerie.

Iwai came over to give them instructions:

"At 9:30 tonight, you will follow a platoon of the security group to escort an important prisoner to the base of the Guards Cultural Brigade. This mission is very important. You are forbidden to mention it to anyone, and you are also forbidden to have any communication with the prisoner along the way."

There are many smart people among these spies, but they could never imagine at this moment that, in fact, from the beginning to the end, they were just a group of abandoned pawns.

……

At 9:30 in the evening, the motorcade secretly assembled at the military police training ground. There were eleven cars in total. In addition to the thirty-eight people from the Security Bureau, there was also a platoon of soldiers from the Suzhou Security Corps escorting them. As for the people being escorted, they were put into the truck bed with hoods on. The traitors could not confirm the other party's identity, but from the old hands exposed by the other party, the traitors couldn't help but think of one person:

Zhou Jixian!
The convoy did not set off immediately after it assembled.

On the contrary, the gendarmerie suddenly went out in full force and raided two schools, three factories and several hotels in Suzhou City. After the gendarmerie caused chaos, the convoy set off secretly.

Outside Huangdai Town, Zhou Weiguo was ordered to lead a company of the Special 1st Battalion to lurk here.

They had only sneaked in at around nine o'clock in the evening, and all the soldiers, including Zhou Weiguo, were confused about this mission.

It was not until ten o'clock in the evening that a female comrade arrived at the ambush position under the escort of several soldiers.

"Chief? Why are you here?!"

After seeing this female comrade, Zhou Weiguo was very surprised, because this person was Comrade Qian Chongwen, the representative of the military.

Sister Qian looked unusually solemn: "Comrade Weiguo, come here, I have something to tell you."

She took Zhou Weiguo aside and said softly, "Comrade Weiguo, I hope you will listen carefully to what I am about to say and make your own judgment."

"Say it, Chief."

"The Military Control Commission informed us that the Japanese are very likely to secretly escort Mr. Zhou to the headquarters of the Konoe Cultural and Tourism Group. Our mission this time is to rescue Mr. Zhou."

After Sister Qian finished speaking, Zhou Weiguo couldn't help but show surprise, but then he suppressed his excitement and began to think.

"Commander, is this information accurate? Military Control Commission... I don't trust the intelligence from the Military Control Commission!"

Zhou Weiguo had cooperated with the Military Control Commission several times. Although the Zhongjiu Army gave him a different feeling from other national army troops, the three words "Zhang Shihao" were tied to the Military Control Commission, and he did not trust the Military Control Commission!

Zhou Weiguo's words made Sister Qian happy. Most people would easily lose their composure when faced with such matters involving their relatives, but Zhou Weiguo obviously did not!

Sister Qian explained: "The Military Control Commission said that the intelligence might not be true, and it might be a trap."

Sister Qian's words naturally deceived Zhou Weiguo, but if Zhang Anping was really a member of the Military Control Commission, then the only information she obtained could be this.

Hearing the Military Control Commission say that this might be a trap, Zhou Weiguo was at a loss. According to his thinking, the Military Control Commission should have tricked their own side into taking over, so how could they come up with the excuse that "this might be a trap"?

He said, "Commander, if it's convenient for you, please tell me the details."

Sister Qian then recounted the details of her conversation with Zhang Anping after they met.

After listening carefully, Zhou Weiguo said in a serious tone, "This might really be a trap, a trap prepared by the Japanese for Zhang Shihao. Zhang Shihao, this bastard, didn't want to use the Military Control Commission to step on the landmine, so he used us to step on the landmine!"

"No wonder Zhang Shihao is so frank, huh!"

Zhou Weiguo's "Ha" was clearly filled with anger.

He hated the filthiness of the allies scheming against each other, even though they were clearly united against the outside world!

"In fact, comrades all have similar concerns, but what if it is true?" Sister Qian sighed, "We must act as if this is true, but we cannot help but be prepared if this is a trap, so I have rejected everyone's opinion and hope that you will be responsible for this ambush."

"Comrade Weiguo, if this is a trap, can you lead your comrades to evacuate safely?"

Sister Qian stared at Zhou Weiguo with burning eyes.

"Please rest assured, I will not take the lives of my comrades lightly!" Zhou Weiguo assured without hesitation, and then said: "Commander, shall I send someone to escort you away? This place will soon become a battlefield."

Sister Qian shook her head: "No, I'll stay with you."

Does Zhang Anping feel guilty for "plotting against" his comrades?
Guilt!

Sister Qian could sense this from her conversation with Zhang Anping, but some things had to be done!
As the chief of the Beijing-Shanghai district of the Military Control Commission, Zhang Shihao's primary task is to ensure the safety of his own people. Under the current circumstances, if Zhang Shihao were to take the lives of members of the Military Control Commission to accept the "declaration of war", it would be inconsistent with his character!

Therefore, even though he knew it was a trap, he still had to "calculate" and let his comrades step into the trap.

Sister Qian was not feeling well at this moment either. She was watching her comrades stepping on the mines helplessly, and she was also the one pushing them - so, she wanted to stay here and bear the unknown dangers with her comrades.

Not only for her, but also for Zhang Anping.

Seeing that Sister Qian was so determined, Zhou Weiguo had to give up and began to make arrangements - if it was just an ambush, he would arrange it according to the ambush, but now he was obviously worried that this was a trap, so he needed to make more arrangements.

……

Zhang Anping was stunned by the sudden mass arrests by the gendarmerie, but only for a moment, because he was sure that the underground party and the Military Control Commission would never be affected by the so-called arrests.

This was indeed the case. After the large-scale arrests, the Japanese army did not bring the hundreds of captured people to the gendarmerie all at once, but handed them over to the police station and the security bureau - it was obvious that the so-called arrests were purely a feint.

"What on earth is Ito trying so hard to do?"

Zhang Anping was full of doubts at this time.

According to the information he had, a convoy secretly left Suzhou while the large-scale arrests were taking place.

Judging from the size of the convoy, there were at most a hundred people - this should be the convoy "escorting" Zhou Jixian.

He was sure that the so-called "escort" was a trap.

But he couldn't figure out how Ito was going to use this trap!

Suzhou is a plain, an endless plain. If it were a mountainous area, it could be said that the Japanese had prepared an ambush, and once they attacked the escorted convoy, the ambush would surround the attackers.

But on the plains, this plan doesn't work!
If there really is an ambush, it will be easily discovered!

So, what on earth are the Japanese trying to do?!

……

Shota Kishida had the same question.

At this time, he was with Ito, feeling uneasy.

Ito saw that Kishida was uneasy, so he took the initiative to ask:
"Kishida, do you have something to say?"

"Teacher, I don't understand why you didn't send out support troops."

It was obvious that Kishida had been holding back his doubts for a long time.

The bait has been put out - but can you believe it, there is no hook in the bait?
If an escort force of more than a hundred people is attacked, it will not be difficult for them to hold out for more than an hour if they are commanded properly. And more than an hour is enough time for subsequent reinforcements to arrive.

However, Ito did not send any reinforcements at all.

This is Kishida’s question.

Why do this?

Ito smiled and said, "This is a declaration of war."

"Since it's a challenge, why bother about the result?"

Kishida was puzzled and said, “I don’t understand.”

Ito smiled mysteriously: "Wait a moment."

……

Outside Huangdai Town.

A convoy appeared moving forward in the darkness.

Zhou Weiguo watched the convoy traveling in the darkness coldly without giving any orders.

It was not until the convoy was about to break out of the encirclement that Zhou Weiguo gave an order. With the explosion of the landmines, the convoy's way forward was blocked. Then there was a concentrated fire attack on the vehicles behind. After the explosions in front and the blocking in the back, the premeditated ambush began.

Kishida had estimated that if he had commanded properly, these hundred people could have held out for at least an hour.

But the fact is that the battle lasted only 17 minutes from the beginning to the end!

In seventeen minutes, 21 enemies were killed and the rest were captured. When Zhou Weiguo's subordinates sent the "escorted" target to Zhou Weiguo, Zhou Weiguo said in surprise:

"Uncle Liu?"

As expected, the person being escorted was not Zhou Jixian, but unexpectedly it was Liu Bo, the housekeeper beside Zhou Jixian.

However, the counter-ambush that Zhou Weiguo was worried about never happened from beginning to end!

……

After receiving the information, Kishida read it out immediately:

"Teacher, the convoy was ambushed and the battle lasted for 17 minutes!"

"Oh? That's pretty efficient. It looks like Zhang Shihao has dispatched his most elite commandos."

Ito laughed and took out a prepared press release:

"Kishida-kun, please send out this press release - make sure to use Shi Hao's name!"

Shota Kishida took the press release and read it quickly.

This press release is a complete exposure of Zhang Anping.

In the press release, the authors recounted many times of Zhang Shihao's collaboration with the underground party, and then used the example of the Military Control Commission's rescue of Zhou Jixian, claiming that Zhou Jixian was clearly working for the underground party, but Zhang Shihao, as the head of the Military Control Commission's Beijing-Shanghai District, took the trouble to lead his troops to rescue him personally - and finally concluded that Zhang Shihao was a complete sympathizer of the Communist Party and was even very likely a Communist spy!
After reading it, Kishida was surprised and said, "Teacher, this... I'm afraid no one will believe it, right?"

Ito laughed and said, "It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. What matters is that it gives some people an excuse to criticize him."

"What's more, this is just a declaration of war, a declaration of war from Shi Hao to Zhang Shihao!"

Ito laughed out loud, feeling relieved as if he had let out a breath of anger.

The famous Zhang Shihao was defeated by Shi Hao, an unknown person. I just want to ask you, Zhang Shihao, is it embarrassed?

This is just a declaration of war.

Next, Zhang Shihao, who had suffered a great loss, would use the Security Bureau to make trouble in order to retaliate against Shi Hao!
But no matter what Zhang Shihao does, now he will only think that the poisonous snake hiding in the dark is called Shi Hao, and has nothing to do with him, Ito.

And this is Ito’s goal in the first stage.

Causing trouble to him was incidental, but the illusion created was that Shi Hao wanted to deal with Zhang Shihao by means of a strategy of alienation, thus arousing Zhang Shihao's anger.

Ito believes that everyone will be burdened by fame. After the famous Zhang Shihao was schemed against and covered in dirty water by an unknown man named Shi Hao, Zhang Shihao, no matter what his purpose was, had to fight with his opponent Shi Hao and teach him a lesson.

And this is the opportunity Ito has been waiting for!

(End of this chapter)