My spy diary

Chapter 460 Survey (asking for monthly ticket)

"Yes. I will do my best to be loyal to the party and the country. If I break my oath, I will be struck by lightning." Lai Guomin put down his wine glass and saluted respectfully.

boom---
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a faint explosion in the distance. Maybe it was late at night, the sound was particularly clear. Everyone was sobered up by the shock and stood there in a daze.

Dai Chunfeng, who was sleeping with Hu Die in his arms, was also awakened by the explosion and sat up from the bed with a "whoosh".

Without thinking too much, he immediately ran barefoot to the telephone in the living room.

At this moment, the phone rang first, ringing again and again, as if it was urging me to die.

Dai Chunfeng picked up the phone and was stunned after hearing what was said on the other end:
"What did you say? The Army Hospital's main warehouse exploded?"

After hanging up the phone, he immediately sent field staff to the Army Hospital warehouse.

However, at this time, the phone rang again.

He grabbed the phone and after listening to just one sentence, his face suddenly changed. He clenched his fist, slammed it on the table, and cursed "Fuck you". The murderous look on his face made Hu Die, who had just walked into the living room in pajamas, turn pale and stand there motionless.

"I'm going to the chairman's office. You should go to bed early!"

After saying this expressionlessly, Dai Chunfeng left in a hurry.

Flames shot up into the sky inside the main warehouse of the Army Hospital. People were swept around like headless flies, swept by the crowd of fleeing people. The fire was so strong that winds were blown, and the raging fire made a deafening roar that merged with the sound of the explosion in the building, covering the entire sky above the warehouse and drowning out the people's cries and wails.

When the Director of Operations He Zhiyuan arrived at the scene with several secret agents, the warehouse was already filled with armed garrison gendarmes. He asked a few questions, but these people could not explain what caused the explosion. They had no choice but to continue walking towards the center of the fire. At this time, they saw several dusty firefighters walking out cursing.

He Zhiyuan stopped one of them and asked, "Why don't you go put out the fire?"

"The fire is too big to put out, so now we can only evacuate the surrounding residents."

He Zhiyuan's heart sank, and he continued to ask, "Do you know what caused the explosion?"

"You ask me, who should I ask? Who are you?" The man snorted and turned away.

"How can you talk like that?" An agent was angry and was about to grab the man. He Zhiyuan waved his hands and saw a middle-aged man lying on the ground crying not far away. He hurriedly walked up to him and asked:
"I'm from the Military Intelligence Bureau. Do you know what caused the explosion?"

The middle-aged man was as sad as a bereaved family. He seemed not to have heard his words, and his mouth trembled: "It's over, it's all over, hundreds of boxes of medicine are all gone."

"Are there any casualties?"

"Gone. Dead. All dead."

He Zhiyuan's face turned dark. He had a premonition that this explosion must be unusual and very likely man-made. He ordered the scene to be blocked and quickly rushed to the bureau.

When Zhang Yi, who was slightly tipsy, received the notice and rushed to the conference room of the bureau headquarters, the directors of each department had already arrived. Although there were more than a dozen people sitting in the huge conference room, it was completely silent. He quickly found a seat at the bottom and sat down.

Soon, Dai Chunfeng came in with a document in his hand, looking grim, and asked, "Are you all here?"

After he walked in, the door was immediately closed by the guards outside, and the atmosphere in the conference room was solemn.

Dai Chunfeng walked to the middle chair and sat down. He glanced around coldly and said in a deep voice:
"The explosion just now alarmed most of the city. Did everyone hear it?"

"I heard it. Who did it?"

"Japanese spy?"

As soon as the whispers started, they were stopped by Dai Chunfeng's cold look.

He snorted coldly and slammed the table heavily. "Let me tell you another piece of bad news. At the same time as the explosion, someone broke into the confidential room of the Presidential Palace and stole a top-secret document. Damn it, this is a great shame."

Dai Chunfeng's eyes were red, perhaps due to lack of sleep or too much pressure. He blinked bitterly and continued:

"The old man ordered us to find out the truth within three days, otherwise I will be beheaded. Humph, once the Japanese spies get the documents, they will immediately confront the Americans. Then the old man in the wheelchair will stand up angrily and say that we Chinese are more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything. Humph, the chairman will lose face, and I, Dai, will be the first to suffer. No one here can escape."

Dai Chunfeng had a blank expression on his face, and his voice sounded calm but gave everyone present a chill, as if they were feeling an invisible pressure coming at them.

Mao Qiwu asked carefully, "Mr. Dai, what documents are missing?"

Dai Chunfeng glanced at the people who were waiting with bated breath before continuing:
"Arms purchase contract, arms agreement signed with the Americans."

With his brief explanation, everyone finally understood the content of the agreement.

After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 37, the Kuomintang government purchased military supplies in the United States. However, due to the restrictions of the US Neutrality Act arms embargo and other clauses as well as the US's negative stance on the situation in the Far East, the supplies that China could buy were mainly non-weapons.

After the outbreak of the European War in 39, the US arms embargo policy began to change. In 40, the puppet regime of Wang Tianhai was established, and the US government's proposal to strengthen aid to the Shancheng National Government gradually prevailed. However, the United States was also a supplier of strategic materials such as steel, arms, and oil to Japan. Due to various interests, this proposal was not implemented.

Until today, March 3, the U.S. Congress passed and President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act.

This act authorizes the United States to approve the production of defense materials for any country's government and to "sell, allocate, exchange, and lease" defense materials to it, and China is among the recipient countries.

After receiving this news, the National Government immediately appointed Minister Song as the plenipotentiary representative to establish a defense supply company in the United States to be responsible for related matters.

This bill can be said to have laid the foundation for large-scale arms trade between China and the United States, but who would have thought that the secret agreement that had just been reached would be stolen.

After explaining, Dai Chunfeng looked at the Intelligence Director Yang Rong:

"What did the Intelligence Department say?"

Yang Rong just felt his scalp was in trouble. He was silent for a while before he said:
"Director, there have been no reports of any suspicious activities by Japanese spies in recent times, proving that our crackdown under the leadership of Mr. Dai is effective!"

"No reports of suspicious activity? This is the most suspicious. Do you think Japanese spies would just sit there and do nothing? Then how do you explain the frequent bombings?"

Yang Rong lowered his head in shame, not knowing what to say.

"Operations Department."

He Zhiyuan was startled and said quickly: "I just came back from the explosion site. The warehouse of the Army Hospital suffered serious damage."

Dai Chunfeng shouted angrily: "Is this what I am asking?"

He Zhiyuan replied timidly, "I just learned about the Presidential Palace incident and sent someone there right now." "It's too late to close the door after the thieves leave!" Dai Chunfeng snorted coldly, "If the case is not solved, you will be held responsible and you will be the first to bear the brunt of the blame."

This statement was not unfair to He Zhiyuan. The Operations Department was in charge of operations. In addition to leading the operations corps and battalions across the country, it was also responsible for directing the work of the Military Control Commission's Special Agent Regiment and the Special Guard Group of the Chairman's Secretariat. The security of the perimeter of the Presidential Palace was the responsibility of the Operations Department's Special Agent Corps. Now that a spy had infiltrated, he naturally had no choice but to take responsibility.

"Where is the telecommunications department?" Dai Chunfeng turned his gaze to Wei Daming again.

Wei Daming said quickly, "Director, the Telecommunications Department's Intercepting Division discovered two sets of unknown radio waves today. We have successfully monitored and intercepted them. I believe we will be able to detect the location of the radio station soon."

"How long is soon? A minute? A day?"

Wei Daming was silent.

Dai Chunfeng snorted coldly, slammed the table and said, "You are a bunch of good-for-nothings. What can I expect from you? We raise an army for a thousand days but only deploy it for a moment, but you are so good that when something goes wrong, you don't know anything. If you continue like this, I think the Military Control Bureau should be disbanded."

Everyone was silent, no one dared to speak.

Seeing that Boss Dai was really angry, Mao Qiwu, who had not spoken for a long time, said:
"Mr. Dai, calm down. Now is not the time to pursue responsibility. Should we arrange the follow-up investigation first?"

"Of course, I understand your difficulties."

Dai Chunfeng sighed, and suddenly changed the subject, his tone softened a little, "The most urgent task is to solve the case." He thought for a while, and then ordered, "What happened tonight is obviously a trick of the enemy to divert attention. The explosion at the Army Hospital must be investigated, but the key is the theft of secrets at the Presidential Palace. We can't let the old man lose confidence in our abilities, so this case must be solved. No matter how powerful the Japanese spies are, can they fly into the sky and hide in the ground?"

Mao Qiwu immediately agreed: "The director is right. The presidential palace is heavily guarded. Ordinary people can't even get close to it, let alone sneak into the confidential room. If they want to be absolutely sure, there must be someone colluding with the outside world. There must be an insider."

"No way? Is there something wrong with the guard in the attendant's room?" He Zhiyuan said in astonishment. If this was true, he and the Operations Department would be screwed.

Yang Rong looked at him sympathetically and said sinisterly, "Director He, don't forget that although Vice President Wang Tianhai defected, he also laid a lot of traps for us."

Zhang Yi sat in his seat and listened carefully to the speeches of several people. Compared with others, he seemed very excited. However, he was in charge of the Judicial Department now, and it was not his turn to investigate the case. However, he agreed with what several people said about the traitor. Sometimes thieves or scammers are not very smart. The secret to their repeated success is: there is an traitor who leaks information.

"That's enough!" Dai Chunfeng interrupted the two men. "No matter what the mine is, we must dig deep into the ground to find it. We must completely eradicate this group of people and their spy network. We must follow the clues and catch all the Japanese spies lurking under our noses."

"The leak case will be fully investigated by the Intelligence Department, and the explosion case will be handled by the Operations Department." Dai Chunfeng pondered for a while and made the final decision, "You all go and get busy. Report to me after all the intelligence is gathered. Get out."

Upon hearing this, everyone felt as if they had been pardoned. They immediately closed their notebooks and walked out of the meeting room one after another.

After leaving the meeting room, Zhang Yi was about to return to the office when he saw He Zhiyuan catching up with him. He sighed softly:
"Brother, would you please come sit with me?"

Zhang Yi saw that he looked unhappy and asked directly, "What about the case?"

"There was an explosion, and everyone died. There are so many things to deal with, and I don't know where to start." He Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "Brother, after all, the Operations Department is your mother's home, you can't just leave it alone."

"Is the damage serious?"

"Brother, you don't know that hundreds of boxes of sulfa drugs were destroyed. More importantly, several boxes of penicillin just imported from the United States were also destroyed. I don't know how many people are waiting for it to save their lives."

Zhang Yi's expression was startled. This was the first time he heard someone talk about penicillin.

Penicillin was discovered in 1928, but no method of extracting it in high purity was found until 40, when Howard succeeded in extracting it using freeze-drying and successfully tested it on mice. The US military began to intervene, and penicillin began to be mass-produced.

Thinking about this, he immediately said solemnly: "It is our duty to serve the Party and the country together."

He Zhiyuan immediately changed his worry into joy: "Let's go to the scene now?"

"it is good."

The two of them rushed to the explosion site in the same car. The fire had finally been put out. The gendarmes and police were doing the finishing work. In the distance, a few brave residents were watching the excitement.

Zhang Yi and his companion got out of the car, and a group of people who were left behind by the Operations Department surrounded them.

He Zhiyuan looked around for a while and asked a plainclothes officer, "Where are the hospital director and the warehouse manager?"

"Dean He just came and said he had something important to deal with first, and then he left."

He Zhiyuan and Zhang Yi looked at each other and sneered. They knew very well that the man surnamed He must have gone to smooth things over and inquire about the situation in order to prepare a way out for accountability and punishment.

He Zhiyuan snorted coldly and said, "I said to seal off the scene. What's going on with those residents? Yes, those people standing over there. Arrest them all."

As he was talking, he heard crying in the distance and vaguely saw a few middle-aged women crying. A few people nearby pulled them aside and asked, "Are they the relatives of the deceased?"

Plainclothes: “Yeah.”

"Bring everyone to the police station first. Traffic will be controlled within 1000 meters of the explosion site. No one is allowed to stay except our people! Pass the word down, all plainclothes police will cooperate with patrol officers to immediately conduct interrogation and search within a one-kilometer radius. Anyone who is suspicious will be arrested. Remember, if anyone dares to desert or neglect his duties during this process, he will be directly dismissed and investigated. This is no joke!"

The plainclothes officer looked at his angry eyes, not daring to meet his gaze. He hurriedly remembered his words and immediately went to make arrangements.

"Have the people from the technical department arrived?"

"coming."

"Okay, let's quickly inspect the scene." He Zhiyuan looked at his watch. "It's eleven thirty now. We have to finish the inspection before six o'clock and clean up the scene before the sun comes out in the morning. Do you understand? Okay, let's get started now."

Plainclothes officers immediately delivered shoe covers and gloves.

Zhang Yi and He Zhiyuan put on their gear and walked into the scene with the technical staff.

The survey work is extremely important and naturally has to be meticulous. Everyone holds a flashlight and a magnifying glass, starting from the center of the explosion to look for bomb fragments and footprints.

The thick smoke was filled with the smell of blood, leaving dark red marks on the broken ground.

Zhang Yi used his white-gloved fingers to pull out a piece of the charred pillar, and a small piece of silver-gray metal gleamed under the flashlight.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, leaned closer, his nose twitching slightly, and the pungent burnt smell was clearly mixed with a faint smell of sulfur.

Zhang Yi immediately picked up the metal fragment and took a closer look. He rubbed it with his fingertips, and the uneven spiral touch made his pupils shrink suddenly - this was clearly the fuse fragment of a German M24 grenade.

(End of this chapter)