Putting himself in Tang Zong's perspective, he did not think that the Central Bureau of Investigation's agents could continue to be active with impunity after Zhang Anping ordered the news to be blocked.

That was Zhang Shihao, the one who easily broke up their alliance and turned them into enemies;
That was Zhang Shihao, who had kept the Japanese special forces and the emotional community suppressed for several years!
As his opponent, how could he not monitor me?

Therefore, he was very clear that once he contacted the Central Bureau of Investigation agents, the other party would definitely arrest the Central Bureau of Investigation agents as soon as possible!

However, Tang Zong still chose to contact the other party "without hesitation".

why?
Because he wanted to force Zhang Anping to lose his composure and do all kinds of extraordinary things out of helplessness.

For this reason, he had given Zhuang Weihong a shot of prevention before.

But is that really a vaccination?
No, that was to prove the fact that Zhang Anping knew that his subordinates were in collusion with the Communists but yet condoned them - the so-called vaccination was just a prelude.

And now, everything was going according to Tang Zong's plan. The moment he contacted the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics agents, he was caught in the act by Zhang Anping's men.

And this is exactly what Tang Zong wanted!

On the way to the headquarters, Tang Zong adjusted his glasses as if nothing had happened. Through the thick lenses, one could see the pride flashing in his eyes.

Zhang Anping, even if you have a lot of clever tricks, this time you will end up having to drink my, Tang’s, foot washing water!
……

Command.

Zhuang Weihong was talking to Zhang Anping and a group of officers from the Loyal Rescue Army.

Then, a major came in hurriedly, obviously wanting to report, but after seeing Zhuang Weihong, he chose to keep silent, just like the deputy director of the confidential office before, and cast an anxious look at Zhang Anping.

Zhang Anping looked extremely angry and said, "What happened to you all today? If you have something to say, just say it. Don't make faces!"

The major had no choice but to report: "District Commander, something happened."

"Say!"

"Mole, Mole's contact has been caught, but, but..." The major stammered, "But the contact person is Attendant Tang."

"Attendant Tang? Secretary General?!"

Zhang Anping stood up immediately: "What happened? Did they catch the spy in the chief secretary's body?"

Zhang Anping has always addressed Tang Zong as Secretary-General - this was Tang Zong's position when he was in the Secret Service.

"A bunch of bastards!"

After angrily cursing, Zhang Anping asked anxiously, "You didn't do anything to the secretary-general, did you?"

The major shook his head hastily.

"I have to go take a look. Sergeant Zhuang, please wait a moment. I'll be right back."

Zhang Anping left as soon as he said so. Zhuang Weihong deliberately said with a gloomy face: "I'll go and take a look too."

When Zhang Anping was about to speak to Zhuang Weihong who stood up and was about to follow him, the major quietly pulled Zhang Anping back:

"Servant Tang came over angrily."

Hearing this, Zhang Anping angrily shouted, "You are more likely to cause trouble than to help. I will go to the door to greet you, you bastards!"

After reprimanding his men, Zhang Anping smiled at Zhuang Weihong: "Attendant Zhuang, Brother Zhuang, this is because my people were unreasonable. The Secretary-General must be very angry. Please comfort the Secretary-General. Zhang will be grateful."

Zhuang Weihong did not comment, but his thoughts were racing.

Judging from Zhang Shihao's performance, is he trying to embarrass Tang Zong or is this just a misunderstanding?
As the group walked towards the door, Zhuang Weihong asked with a gloomy face, "Captain Zhang, what is going on?"

Zhang Anping smiled apologetically: "Brother Zhuang, I really don't know the reason. How could we catch the secretary-general when we were trying to catch a spy? Asshole, come over and tell me what's going on!!"

The major who was hiding carefully in the back was called by Zhang Anping, so he had no choice but to step forward quickly:

"District Commander, we have been keeping an eye on the mole. Today, we saw some unusual movements from the mole and suspected that he was going to make a connection, so we set up a trap to capture him. But we never thought that the mole would make a connection with Attendant Tang!"

Zhang Anping angrily cursed for the third time: "You are more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything!"

Zhuang Weihong saw that Zhang Anping didn't seem to be pretending, so he asked, "Mole? What is this?"

Zhang Anping quickly explained: "It's a code name. We didn't find it before, but we noticed in the past few days that this mole is very active. The Supervisory Office concluded that this is a spy."

Zhuang Weihong said nothing.

When the group arrived at the door, they saw Tang Zong "slipping" over with a group of Zhongjiu Army soldiers and officers. These officers and soldiers of the Zhongjiu Army were dejected, forming a sharp contrast with the angry Tang Zong.

At this time, Tang Zong noticed the group of people "greeting" him at the door, and wondered if Zhang Anping was trying to intimidate him. When he approached and saw Zhang Anping looking at him with a dark face, he took the initiative to attack:
"Zhang Shihao, very good, you are very good!"

"You even want to arrest me - who gave you the courage?!"

Zhang Anping asked with a dark face:

"What's going on? Are you so bold that you even dare to arrest Attendant Tang?"

The deputy director of the Supervisory Department defended himself aggrievedly: "Teacher, we didn't expect the mole to contact Tang Shicong."

"Ha, ha," Tang Zong laughed twice. "Can this little trick of the Central Bureau of Investigation be hidden from your eyes, Zhang Shihao? Stop pretending here - Zhang Shihao, you have the guts to silence someone, don't you have the guts to admit it?"

"Quiet?"

Zhang Anping was stunned and looked shocked.

Tang Zong did not realize that Zhang Anping's astonishment and shock were actually for Zhuang Weihong to see, or for everyone else except Tang Zong to see.

But from Tang Zong's perspective, this was just Zhang Anping's refusal to admit it.

He said aggressively:
"Are you pretending to be confused? Zhang Shihao, do you think you can conceal the truth by blocking the news?"

Anger flashed across Zhang Anping's face: "Block the news? What news?!"

Tang Zong said word by word:
"More than half of the senior officials at the Zhongjiu Army headquarters are in cahoots with the Communists!"

"Tang Zong," Zhang Anping said angrily, "Don't think you can accuse people just because you were ordered to investigate!"

"More than half of the senior leaders of the Loyal Rescue Army are in communist contact?"

"Why the hell don't you say that I, Zhang Shihao, am a communist?!"

Tang Zong sneered:

"Can you keep it secret? Li Zheng, tell me what information you have!"

Li Zheng was naturally the nail planted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Zhongjiu Army. He was a major staff officer in the General Staff Department.

Li Zheng, who was named by Tang Zong, felt inexplicably flustered at this time, but he had to stand up and face Zhang Anping's angry and cold gaze.

Seeing Li Zheng standing up but not daring to say anything, Tang Zong comforted him, "Just tell the truth, and my investigation team will take care of everything for you."

Li Zheng swallowed hard after hearing this, and then said:
"Commander Zhang, Commander Zhang adjusted the tactical deployment and let the 89th Army take the lead because of the leak of information from the Zhongjiu Army."

Tang Zong's face flashed with a hint of smugness that was hard to conceal: "I know it was a leak, but how was it leaked?"

"Commander-in-Chief Xu opposed the use of force against the Communist Party. Six people, led by Chief of Staff Tan, secretly sent people to inform the Communist Party. These people were arrested and then secretly released by Liu Yunfeng, Director of the Supervision Department."

"Commander Zhang saw that the news had leaked out and he was in a dilemma, so he had to ask the 89th Army to take action first to delay the New Fourth Army."

After Li Zheng finished speaking, he let out a long sigh.

Tang Zong laughed: "General Commander Xu, Chief of Staff Tan, huh, the top commanders of the Loyal Rescue Army are actually... all in communist collusion!"

His voice turned cold, and he angrily scolded Zhang Anping: "Zhang Shihao, you, Zhang Shihao, are to blame for this failure!"

Zhang Anping was silent for a moment: "This failure is definitely my responsibility. I have never shirked any responsibility."

Tang Zong pressed on: "But you protected your subordinates for colluding with the Communists! Zhang Shihao, how do you explain this?"

Zhuang Weihong stared at Zhang Anping, waiting for Zhang Anping's answer.

Zhang Anping said in a serious tone: "The matter of collusion with the Communists is completely false. Attendant Tang, please stop slandering me."

After saying this, Zhuang Weihong, who was staring at Zhang Anping, frowned, while another attendant showed a solemn look - Zhang Anping's answer disappointed them.

The purpose of the investigation team coming here is to investigate the failure of the operation.

Emperor Tang used a piece of intelligence to attribute the defeat to the collusion with the Communists.

The facts created by Emperor Tang are:
It was precisely because of the communist connections among the top leaders of the Zhongjiu Army that Zhang Shihao's original plan had to be changed, which ultimately led to the 89th Army taking the lead and Han Chuzhen being captured.

At this point, Tang Zong had already drawn his sword. It was reasonable for Zhang Shihao to give an explanation instead of simply denying it.

But Zhang Shihao responded with a soft "Please stop slandering me" - is he feeling guilty?
Tang Zong thought the same. He would not give up when he saw Zhang Anping's "weak" denial. He immediately gave the evidence:

"Han Mingyuan, the staff officer of the General Staff Office; Liu Xiaofeng, the operations officer of the General Staff Office; Cao Yue, the deputy captain of the direct guard squadron - Commander Zhang, may I ask where these three people are now?"

These three people were the three executors arranged by Tan Zhongshu and others to "leak the information".

After Tang Zong asked this question, the expressions of Tan Zhongshu and others changed slightly.

Zhang Anping stared at Tang Zong: "Secretary General, why are you asking these three?" "Because they are not here!"

Tang Zong said coldly: "The three of them are the specific executors who were ordered to pass on intelligence to the Communist Party - of course they are not here!"

The investigation team knew this information. After the Central Bureau of Investigation provided this information to Tang Zong halfway, Tang Zong informed the rest of the investigation team of this information.

But the original intention of the investigation team was to investigate secretly rather than to make it public.

But for Tang Zong, secret investigation was not in his interest.

You have to know that in the information cocoon they have woven for the chief attendant, there are too many deliberately concealed messages.

The investigation team is equivalent to the eyes of the Chief Aide-de-Camp. If the investigation continues, detailed information of the battle will be presented to the Chief Aide-de-Camp, which is not in the interests of Emperor Tang.

It is in the Tang clan's interest to cut the Gordian knot, let the investigation team look at Zhang Shihao with tinted glasses and quickly end the investigation.

Therefore, he created the current situation, intending to kill Zhang Anping with one blow.

As long as it is confirmed that Zhang Anping was forced to change his plan because several high-ranking members of the Loyalty Rescue Army were in contact with the Communists, other information will become unimportant.

One thing to be clear here:
The information that the chief aide-de-camp saw could not be what time a certain troop arrived at a certain place or what a certain troop did at a certain time.

The information he could see was usually briefly written, such as the participating units, generals, how to fight, etc. At most, some special characters would be mentioned in more detail.

After all, this was a battle that had already been fought and lost, and it was impossible to give a detailed explanation of it in tens of thousands of words.

And this is where the Tang Emperor can have influence.

Therefore, as long as it is confirmed that many high-ranking members of the Loyalty Rescue Army are in contact with the Communists, everything else is really not important.

Tang Zong worked so hard to create so much "momentum" just for this one strike -

Of course they are not here!
the reason is simple:
After all, Zhang Shihao is a general of the Party and the State. Since these three people have tipped off the Communist Party, it is impossible for them to come back and die.

At this moment, facing the fatal blow from Tang Zong, Zhang Anping sighed, and after seeing Tan Zhongshu and the others, he glared at them fiercely:
"Look at what you've done!"

This sentence made Zhuang Weihong and others feel confused, but Tang Zong, who was confident that he could knock Zhang Anping down with this one sword, inexplicably developed a sense of fear.

Because Zhang Anping's words did not sound like an angry rebuke for Tan Zhongshu and others' collusion with the Communists.

Zhang Anping looked at Zhuang Weihong at this time: "Attendant Zhuang, Attendant Tang, Secretary General, shall we... go in and talk?"

Faced with Zhang Anping's change of address from "Tang Shi" to Secretary-General, Zhuang Weihong finally gave Tang Zong an overly selfish evaluation in his heart, but Tang Zong realized that his fear was not without reason.

Zhang Anping, he has a way to break the impasse!

Tang Zong shouted in his heart:

How is this possible? How is this possible? How can he still have a way out?

He is pretending, he must be pretending!

"Brother, let's go inside and talk. Team Leader Tang, come inside and talk." Zhuang Weihong finally showed his dissatisfaction with Tang Zong, but at this time Tang Zong was shouting in his heart and did not notice Zhuang Weihong's expression.

A group of people entered the command center. Those who did not have high enough rank naturally could not come in. However, Li Zheng also entered the command center at this time.

After entering the headquarters, Zhang Anping asked Zhuang Weihong, Tang Zong and another attendant to sit down, then sat down with a sigh, and then said with a wry smile:

"Brother Zhuang, this was originally a family scandal within the Zhongjiu Army, but I didn't expect that it would be spread around and turned into collusion with the Communists..."

"Eh……"

Zhang Anping's sigh of shame caused the three servants to react to varying degrees.

Tang Zong suppressed his fear and sneered, Zhuang Weihong was curious, and another attendant was looking around - he looked at the senior leaders of the Loyal Rescue Army and found that embarrassment and shame appeared on the faces of several of them.

Zhang Anping said to Xu Baichuan at this time: "Old Xu, go and bring the person here."

"Ah."

Xu Baichuan agreed and turned to leave, which made Tang Zong even more frightened.

After a while, three haggard officers were brought in. Judging from their condition, they had obviously been detained for quite some time, so much so that they had a strange stench on their bodies.

"These are the three 'communist collaborators' --" Zhang Anping glared at the three people who were brought up, and then introduced the names and identities of the three people to the three attendants one by one.

Tang Zong did not believe Zhang Anping's introduction, but looked at Li Zheng.

Li Zheng looked as if he had seen a ghost, the meaning of which was self-evident.

"What's going on?" Zhuang Weihong asked curiously, "Shouldn't they be on the Communist Party's side?"

"This is what these bastards did!" Zhang Anping angrily glared at Tan Zhongshu and the others, and said, "Brother Zhuang, you guys can judge the case yourselves. I'll just stay out of the way - hey, this matter is really... shameful and hateful!"

Another sigh, this one broke Tang Zong's pretending to be strong heart.

Zhuang Weihong did not ask Tang Zong to interrogate him at all. Instead, he asked directly: "What is going on with you? Tell the truth, otherwise your commander Zhang will be accused of shielding the Communists!"

"Sir, we have no collusion with the Communists." The first thing the three men said was to complain, and then they recounted what had happened.

"We have had too many negotiations with the New Fourth Army, so when Commander Zhang proposed the plan of two columns to launch a surprise attack on Siyang, he was attacked by the commander-in-chief..."

Three "communist collaborators" recounted what happened:
Zhang Anping wanted to deal with the New Fourth Army, but his plan was opposed by all the high-ranking members of the Loyalty Rescue Army.

But it was not because they did not want to fight the New Fourth Army, but because they had dealt with the New Fourth Army too many times and believed that even if the surprise attack was successful, it would cause heavy losses to the Zhongjiu Army.

In other words, they agreed to deal with the New Fourth Army, but did not want the Zhongjiu Army to suffer heavy losses.

So, the General Staff proposed another plan:
Let the 89th Army take the lead. As long as the tens of thousands of troops of the 89th Army enter Siyang, they will be able to disrupt the situation in Siyang and cause chaos for the New Fourth Army in Siyang.

At this time, if the Zhongjiu Army gathered a large number of troops and attacked, they could end the battle like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

However, this plan was rejected by Zhang Anping, because Zhang Anping was worried that the 89th Army would not be able to do the job, and this was a task assigned by the Bureau Chief himself, and Zhang Anping did not want the plan to end in failure.

However, the members of the Zhongjiu Army were well aware of the New Fourth Army's combat effectiveness.

"Before they were reorganized, a brigade of two regiments was more capable than one of our columns. Now they have two refitted brigades. If the Loyal Rescue Army really fights the main force in this battle, even if they win, I'm afraid they will never recover from this!"

"But Commander Zhang was determined to do this. He even forced the commander-in-chief out of the meeting room in the face of his objections."

"After two meetings to no avail, the commander-in-chief and Chief of Staff Tan discussed and finally decided to take a radical approach. They asked the three of us to pretend to be undercover agents of the Communist Party and send out intelligence. This would force Commander Zhang to change his plan."

What the three "undercover agents" told presented to the investigation team a drama in which "generals are not subject to military orders when they are abroad."

Honestly, this feels a bit far-fetched.

However, compared to the fact that more than half of the senior leaders of the Loyalty Rescue Army were in communist collusion, the latter is easier to believe.

How is it possible that more than half of the top leaders of the Zhongjiu Army, which was personally organized by Zhang Shihao, are in collusion with the Communists?

Such a comparison makes people feel that this fairy tale is more reliable.

Now, it makes sense!

It all makes sense!

Li Zheng, an undercover agent of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, was pale and staggering at this time. After shaking for a while, he finally fell to the ground with a thud.

There is no need to ask, because Li Zheng’s performance has already explained the problem!

At this time, Emperor Tang was actually not much better than Li Zheng.

He worked so hard to create the situation, but he didn't expect it was wrong from the very beginning!
There is no greater sorrow than a dead heart. At this moment, Tang Zong just wanted to be alone and examine where he had lost - it was precisely because of this mentality that he noticed that when Li Zheng was carried away by two awe-inspiring men, a smile of success appeared at the corner of his mouth.

bang
There was an explosion in his mind, and all the mysteries were dispelled in an instant.

Li Zheng, or the Central Bureau of Investigation, was schemed against by that despicable bastard Zhang Anping from the very beginning!

This is a sinkhole!

It was Zhang Anping who deliberately created the illusion that "more than half of the senior leaders of the Loyalty and Rescue Army are in contact with the Communists" in order to lure himself into being deceived.

As expected, he was foolish enough to be fooled, and he used this as an entry point, using the investigation team to nail Zhang Anping to death with one blow.

And now, with this hammer hitting him, he was nailed to death, but the person being nailed to death was himself!
So cruel!

So poisonous!

After thinking it through completely, Tang Zong could only feel "admiration".

He really couldn't imagine that someone would dare to use this kind of thing to make a fuss.

He slowly took off his glasses and said sarcastically:
"I always thought I could see people more clearly when I wore glasses, but it turns out that I can see more clearly when I take them off."

"Commander Zhang, I admire you! I admire you!"

"Tang, I admire you from the bottom of my heart this time!"

After saying that, Tang Zong ignored the others in the headquarters and staggered out of the headquarters, holding his glasses. (End of this chapter)

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