"I'm afraid this is unlikely, right?"
Colonel Iwai Chaoqing hesitated: "Well, Meng Shaoyuan is really in Suzhou?"
"Yes, I saw him with my own eyes in Suzhou." Koichi Hahara said with certainty: "He was at the celebration banquet! Moreover, he walked face to face with me."
"Wait a minute." Masato Ichimura, the head of the Japanese secret service in Suzhou, suddenly said: "Your Excellency Hahara, do you mean that you and Meng Shaoyuan walked face to face?"
"Yes!"
"You walked past him face to face and didn't arrest him?"
Hikaru Hahara was stunned for a moment: "Well, I didn't recognize him at that time."
"Then, I don't quite understand." The municipal and village officials immediately said: "You said that you know Meng Shaoyuan very well, and you are also an expert on Meng Shaoyuan. The two of them walked face to face, and you, an expert on Meng Shaoyuan, didn't recognize him. Get out of Meng Shaoyuan!"
This sentence was a bit like a tongue twister. After thinking about it for a moment, Haharaguang said: "At that time, he was wearing makeup, so I didn't recognize him. It wasn't until later that I felt that this person looked like Meng Shaoyuan."
"You just used 'image'." Ichimura Masato keenly captured this point: "So, you can't be sure that this person is Meng Shaoyuan, right?"
"Yeah, there was no way to tell for sure at the time."
Hahara Koichi is a hard-working person, and his talent in intelligence is higher than that of his colleagues, but he is definitely not a particularly good at words. When faced with doubts, he would rather handle a few more cases than Be willing to defend yourself.
However, he can't explain it clearly now even if he wants to:
"I did not recognize him at first, but then the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was him."
"Hahara-kun." Colonel Iwai Asahiyo finally said: "In other words, you are still not sure that this person must be Meng Shaoyuan?"
"His appearance has changed a lot from the Meng Shaoyuan I am familiar with, but that is makeup!" Koichi Hahara emphasized the "makeup" again: "However, no matter how good makeup is, body features and eyes cannot be changed. .”
"Only based on physical characteristics and so-called eyes, you asked to seal off the entire Suzhou and launch a large-scale manhunt in the city?" Iwai Chaoqing didn't agree: "Actually, you still can't be sure whether that person is Meng Shaoyuan. These things It's all just your guess. Based on just a guess, you want me to seal off the entire Suzhou, only allowed in and out? You want me to launch a manhunt throughout the city?
Hahara-kun, do you know the importance of Suzhou? She is located in the core of the Yangtze River Delta, connecting Wuxi and Changzhou. It is the central transfer station of the important granary of the empire! Every day, a large amount of food and supplies come in and out here. This will ensure that the imperial warriors on the front line can continue to win! If you do what you said, do you know what the consequences will be? "
"But, Your Excellency Colonel." Koichi Hahara said hurriedly: "This person is Meng Shaoyuan. Although I can't conclude that my judgment is correct, as long as there is a slight possibility, I must go all out. He alone is worth China How many teachers are there!
Your Majesty Colonel, I am not exaggerating. The intelligence provided by Meng Shaoyuan allowed the Chinese to deal with the war more calmly. Some vital information can even turn the tide of the war! "
"Hahara-kun, please calm down." Iwai Asahi's words sounded relatively polite: "Now, let's assume that what you saw is correct. This person is Meng Shaoyuan, and Meng Shaoyuan is in Suzhou. But, does this have anything to do with me? ?”
What?
Hikaru Hahara was completely stunned.
Does this have anything to do with me?
As the highest military commander in Suzhou, how could he say such a thing?
"This has nothing to do with me."
However, Iwai Asaaki repeated his words again: "How to capture Meng Shaoyuan is your business. My responsibility is to ensure the stability of the place, to ensure that the tasks assigned to me by my superiors can be successfully completed, and to ensure that the materials we collect can be transported smoothly. to the front lines.
If the entire Suzhou is blocked as you said, then our transportation insurance will be cut off by ourselves. If my superiors hold me accountable, can you help me take this responsibility? "
Can you help me take on this responsibility?
Of course Koichi Hahara can't.
So in this sense, Iwai Asahi was right both publicly and privately.
In the eyes of the Japanese special agencies, Meng Shaoyuan was their biggest enemy.
But for the Japanese military?
They only care about how to win on the battlefield!
As for a secret agent?
Even if he is a big spy leader, what does it have to do with them?
If the intelligence front fails, the intelligence front will naturally bear the necessary responsibility!
"Hahara-kun." Iwai Asaaki continued to say calmly: "To deal with Meng Shaoyuan, you have enough assistance from Ichimura-kun and the detective team. Suzhou is relatively peaceful under our management."
However, Hahara Koichi still wanted to make a final struggle: "Your Majesty Colonel, then, please allocate another squadron to me!"
"A squadron?" Sarcasm flashed from the corner of Iwai Asahi's mouth: "Do you know how many tasks our army has to undertake? Do you know how many enemies we have to deal with? The loyalty of the military commander rescued the Japanese, and the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army commanded by the Fourth Route Army The East Route Army, the Fourth Route Army Taihu Anti-Japanese Guerrillas, the Taihu Guerrilla Advance Army commanded by the military commander Wang Jingzhong! There are also armed resistance and civil resistance! There are so many that I can’t even count them.
I don't have enough manpower at all. My soldiers must closely monitor everywhere to ensure that there will be no riots and to ensure the safety of transportation! I asked my superiors for more troops, but I have not received a reply because the empire also has a shortage of troops on the front line. A squadron? I can't even assign a single member of the team to you! "
"Hahara-kun, what Colonel-dono said are objective facts." Masato Ichimura also said: "And in order to cooperate with the Nanjing government's Qingxiang campaign, we have invested a lot of manpower. Even the detective team is almost empty now. There are a total of seven or eight staff members left in my office, and the rest have all been sent out. There is no one, there is really no one left."
Hikaru Hahara was disappointed.
But he knew that Meng Shaoyuan must be in Suzhou, for sure!
However, Suzhou's serious suspicion and lack of cooperation seriously affected the arrest of Meng Shaoyuan.
what to do?
This opportunity must not be passed up.
"Then, Your Majesty Colonel." Koichi Hahara seemed to have no better idea: "I will send a group of people from Shanghai, you won't object, right?"
"That's your business, Hahara-kun." Iwai Asahi closed his eyes: "I also hope that you can successfully capture Meng Shaoyuan and write a very important contribution to your illustrious martial arts!"
