Tang Cheng's guess was only based on his own judgment. The actual situation was that when the Zhongtong arrested people, there was indeed no conclusive evidence. It was just a coincidence that among the people arrested by the Zhongtong, there happened to be one Wang Puppet Agent who just came to Chongqing. The Wang puppet spy who was captured by the Central Government confessed everything just after being tortured. The leaders of the Central Unification Committee, who were thinking about how to turn around their image, were overjoyed. With this bargaining chip, they would no longer be scolded in front of the Chairman.
The senior officials of the Central Unification Committee were happy now, but the people working under them were thinking more. So, they also tortured and interrogated the remaining captured people one by one, but no more fake spies were found. . The two captured guerrillas naturally gritted their teeth and refused to let go, but the Zhongtong side was not in a hurry to release them. When Tangcheng learned of this, the Zhongtong side had already locked up the remaining few people. Entered the dungeon of the Central Unification Headquarters.
It was not easy to find the people who were imprisoned in the headquarters of the Central Military Commission. Tang Cheng then informed the senior officials of the Chongqing underground party organization through Huang Ping. When a comrade is captured, he naturally needs to find a way to rescue him, but the Central Unification Headquarters is heavily guarded, and it will be difficult to rescue the two operational members of the Southern Sichuan Guerrillas in a short while. Even if the matter of rescuing the guerrillas has been put on hold for the time being, Tangcheng has not given up on the matter.
Fortunately, Tangcheng was soon distracted by another incident. When Zhao Dashan and the others were arresting cigarette dealers in the city, they found two letters written in Japanese from the home of one of them. These two letters written in Japanese immediately attracted Zhao Dashan's attention. In addition, these two letters were found in hidden compartments, and Zhao Dashan became increasingly aware that these two letters were not simple. Zhao Dashan did not dare to delay, so he went to Tangcheng with these two letters.
"Captain, when we arrested the Xie brothers, we found this from a secret compartment in Mr. Xie's house. I saw that both letters were in Japanese, so I immediately blocked the news." In the lobby of the hotel in the city , Zhao Dashan whispered as he took out the two letters and handed them to Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng can speak Japanese, and the veteran policemen in the search team all know about this, so Zhao Dashan immediately thought of bringing the letter to Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng, whose expression was full of surprise, reached out to take the letter from Zhao Dashan and opened one of them. Sure enough, it was all in Japanese.
"Well! These two letters are quite useful!" After reading the two letters, there was no trace of anything strange in Tang Cheng's expression. Zhao Dashan, who had been paying attention to his reaction, couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Looking at the reaction of the Tangcheng assassin, it seemed that the two letters were not very useful. Zhao Dashan actually did not expect that Tang Cheng, who had read the contents of the letters, tried his best to restrain his emotional changes, because the things mentioned in these two letters had far exceeded Tang Cheng's expectations.
Tang Cheng, who pretended not to care, watched Zhao Dashan and others leave, and immediately called Zhang Jianghe, who was stationed in the military camp, to come to the hotel. Tang Cheng did not tell the truth on the phone. He just said that he had something to discuss with Zhang Jianghe. Perhaps he felt that there was something in Tang Cheng's words. Zhang Jianghe on the other end of the phone did not ask any more questions. He just said that he would rush over to follow him soon. Meet in Tangcheng. After hanging up the phone, Tang Cheng was not idle. He immediately took a pen and recorded all the contents of the two letters on a piece of paper.
More than half an hour later, Zhang Jianghe rushed to the hotel in the city. As soon as they met, Tang Cheng took out the two letters sent by Zhao Dashan. "This was sent by Zhao Dashan for more than half an hour!" Tang Cheng did not choose to go straight to the topic this time. Instead, he handed the letter to Zhang Jianghe first, and waited until Zhang Jianghe discovered that the two letters were all written in Japanese. , and when he looked up at himself in astonishment, Tang Cheng opened his mouth to clear up Zhang Jiang's confusion.
"All the cases in the dock warehouse have been handed over to the second department for disposal. Zhao Dashan and the others were unhappy, so they found trouble with the tobacco dealers in the city. They found these two letters from the Xie brothers' homes. Zhao Dashan felt that These two letters found in the secret compartment were not easy, so they were sent to me immediately! I read them briefly before and found that one of the letters vaguely mentioned the Firebird Intelligence Team that we had rounded up, so I I just called you."
Zhang Jianghe was not unfamiliar with the Firebird Intelligence Team mentioned in Tangcheng Discourse, because Zhang Jianghe was also present when the intelligence team was rounded up. "I remember that when we arrested this intelligence team, we only captured three people alive and found two corpses! However, during the interrogation afterwards, the three survivors all confessed that there was still someone in the Firebird team who had not been arrested, and it seemed that he was The guy whose code name is Wooden Man." Zhang Jianghe's words made Tang Cheng nod secretly. He didn't expect Zhang Jianghe's memory to be so good.
"That's right! Our arrest operation at that time was relatively successful, but we also escaped this guy codenamed Wooden Man!" Tang Cheng said as he reached out and picked up one of the letters from the table. "In this letter, the word wooden man appeared, and more than once!" The solemn expression on Tang Cheng's expression made Zhang Jianghe also become serious. The Japanese spy code-named Wooden Man was a fish that slipped through the net during the search team's operation. Due to emotions and reasons, the search team had reasons to arrest this person.
Tang Cheng's reaction at this moment made Zhang Jianghe mistakenly believe that Tang Cheng had been tracing the whereabouts of the wooden man. Therefore, Zhang Jianghe did not know at this moment that Tang Cheng was preparing to use these two letters to continue to make a fuss. "It says here that the Xie brothers have always purchased tobacco from outside the customs. Although the tobacco from outside the customs is not as good as Yuntu, it is cheaper. So starting from the beginning of this year, most of the tobacco sold by the Xie brothers in their tobacco business comes from The smoke and soil outside the customs. They get the goods from the black market just to cover up people's eyes. In fact, they have already established a connection with the outside. "
The area outside the Pass has long been controlled by the Japanese army. The large-scale opium cultivation outside the Pass was also the Kwantung Army's instruction. When the Xie brothers took the road outside the customs, they actually connected with the Japanese. Zhang Jianghe immediately understood what Tang Cheng meant. Zhang Jianghe was not in a good mood for such a scum who secretly had contact with the Japanese, but he still asked, "Are you sure about this?" Zhang Jianghe's words shocked Tang Cheng, because he had just Those mentioned are indeed the contents of this letter.
"The Xie brothers and their families have been controlled by Zhao Dashan. We can interrogate them later. I believe we can get verification from their mouths." Tang Cheng did not answer Zhang Jianghe directly, but said that Zhao Dashan had already The fact of controlling the Xie brothers. The Tangcheng dialect had already reached this point, and Zhang Jianghe no longer doubted the authenticity of the two letters. "The question now is, I don't know about this matter. Do I need to report it to the bureau?" After Tang Cheng finished speaking, he paid attention to Zhang Jianghe's reaction out of the corner of his eye.
Zhang Jianghe smiled when he heard this, pointed at Tang Cheng and said, "You boy, I knew you would be up to no good if you asked me to come over!" At this time, Zhang Jianghe had fully understood and dared to admit that this was happening again. Designed by Tangcheng. Fortunately, Zhang Jianghe was not really angry. He just teased Tang Cheng casually, then picked up the phone and called the military command headquarters directly. The call was quickly connected, and the person who answered the call happened to be the bureau seat. Zhang Jianghe immediately informed the bureau seat of the matter on the phone.
"Commander, that's what happened! We were originally just looking for trouble with the two cigarette dealers, but we didn't expect that when we searched the other party's residence afterwards, some team members found a hidden compartment, and then found these two letters from the hidden compartment. Letters. In one of the letters, the word wooden man appeared many times, which attracted our attention." After Zhang Jianghe explained the situation, he did not forget to explain the meaning of wooden man on the phone.
The bureau officer who answered the phone was also greatly surprised when he learned that the fish that had slipped through the search team's case had reappeared. Having been engaged in intelligence work for many years, he knew what it meant for a fish that slipped through the net to appear again, so he immediately spoke on the phone. "Then what do you mean now? After all, you just discovered that the word wooden man appeared in a Japanese letter. You are not sure that the agent codenamed Wooden Man is still in the city!"
When Zhang Jianghe heard this, he could only hand the phone to Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng, who took the phone, first identified himself and then spoke to the bureau seat on the other end of the phone. "Director, you are right. There is really no way to determine the wooden man's current location based on just one letter. But what I am sure of is that the Xie brothers must know the situation of this wooden man. The relevant files and information of the Firebird Team , we have already handed it over to the headquarters, so I think that by handing over the Xie brothers as well, I believe the headquarters will be able to pry open their mouths."
Tang Cheng acted very proactively, with an attitude of giving away all the credit, which made the bureau officer on the other end of the phone even more surprised. Under the bureau chief's questioning, Tang Cheng was very embarrassed to explain the reason, "Bureau chief, it's not that I don't do my best! The main thing is that I still have a lot of things to deal with here, and besides, there's also the matter of the cigarette dealers here, so we need to I'll handle it, I don't have any extra time now!"
The person on the other end of the phone did not choose to believe the explanation given by Tang Cheng, but he did not expose Tang Cheng either. After hanging up the phone, Tang Cheng turned around and saw Zhang Jianghe looking at him, so he had no choice but to explain with a slight smile. "Uncle, it's not that I don't want to pay attention to this matter, the main reason is that I don't want to cause trouble! I believe you have seen what is going on in the city now. I wish I could hide on the farm outside the city all day long." Tang Cheng gave The explanation sounded far-fetched, but Zhang Jianghe already understood what Tang Cheng meant. And looking at Tang Cheng's performance these days, it's obvious that he doesn't want to get involved in some things, so even if Zhang Jianghe didn't agree with Tang Cheng's ideas, he didn't say much.
