Takeo Nakata waved to his six subordinates and found a stool to sit down. One of his subordinates quickly brought bowls and chopsticks. Takeo Nakata motioned for everyone to sit down. None of them made a sound and just lowered their heads to eat.
After finishing the large pot of mutton including the soup and meat, Takeo Nakata put down his bowls and chopsticks, wiped his mouth with a towel, and said to one of the short and sturdy men: "Shangjing, don't go out again in the next few days. We will wait for the information from the Viper team. If there is no accurate information after a week, we will withdraw to Shanghai first."
"Hey!"
Nakata Takeo is obviously a very cautious agent. He knows that Nanjing is the current political center of China and the location of China's newly established intelligence organization Lixingshe Secret Service. The means and measures to prevent Japanese intelligence organizations are certainly not comparable to other cities. , even if he still has doubts about the working ability of this secret service, the rigor and caution that should be required have become a part of his bones, which are also the basic qualities of an excellent agent.
Therefore, after entering Nanjing for more than a week, Takeo Nakata only asked his men to go out and familiarize themselves with the streets and alleys of Nanjing and the general locations of various military and police agencies to prepare for the next action. As for any contact and intelligence with the outside world, All the spying was carried out by the Viper Group that had been lurking in Nanjing City for several years.
Moreover, due to the confidentiality and disciplinary requirements of agents, he did not know anything about how the Viper team worked and whether it would exchange information with other sleeper teams. He even knew nothing about how many members of the Viper team. .
However, he believed that since Jinchun Jinyi, the section chief of the Shanghai Special High School, asked Viper to be responsible for the intelligence work of this operation, it was enough to illustrate the capabilities and role of this veteran agent.
Takeo Nakata didn't even know Viper's Japanese name. He only knew that his Chinese name was Wang Yichun, and he was usually called Lao Wang.
As for the specific means of this operation, Nakata is currently unable to determine. It is necessary to decide whether to assassinate or capture alive based on specific intelligence and conditions. But he has enough confidence in the operational capabilities of himself and his men. No matter what method is used, as long as he determines who the Chinese commander is, no matter where he is? There is always a way to achieve the goal.
This confidence does not come from his arrogance, but is based on countless victories and achievements in the Soviet Union and Northeast China over the years. You must know that there were dozens of imperial agents that he personally trained and led. However, in the past five years, in the darkness, on the front line invisible to ordinary people, only a few of them were able to survive to this day. There are a total of eighteen people in the three action teams. It can be said that each one is an elite agent who has experienced hundreds of battles, and each one is an action master with superior experience and tactical ability.
Now, a team under him has gone to Shanxi, and he has brought a team to Nanjing. If necessary, another team can rush to Nanjing from Shanghai within a few hours for support, so he is not very familiar with specific actions. Worried, but not very confident in obtaining information about the mysterious Chinese force and its commander.
Just because the mission given by Lao Wang to his men has been sent out for many days, but most of the feedback information is hearsay or self-contradictory, and there is basically no valuable information. The Chinese army is still shrouded in fog.
You must know that one of the most important tasks of the Japanese espionage team in China is to instigate rebellion and develop important personnel and officials in the Chinese military and political circles. The Viper team has been lurking in Nanjing for several years, and it must have developed many downlines and Chinese intelligence agents. However, there was still no substantial progress after a week, which shows that China's confidentiality work is indeed beyond his knowledge, and it further illustrates the weight and importance of this mysterious Chinese force in the hearts of Nanjing's senior officials.
In fact, in this matter, the confidentiality measures of the Nanjing government can certainly be considered as a reason. More importantly, Zhou Wen foresees from the beginning that the battlefield performance of the mercenary group will definitely attract the great attention and attention of the Japanese army, so from the moment he entered Shanghai From that moment on, he tried to keep a low profile and never accepted interviews from any news media. The garrison was strictly guarded and any battles he participated in were not reported in the name of the Shanxi Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army of the Central Party Headquarters, including Yunzaobang and Miaohang. The two major victories were reported to the outside world in the name of the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army.
In this regard, we also benefited from the support of the two generals Jiang and Cai of the 19th Route Army. Chief Zhang of the Fifth Army knew the powerful relationship, and he already knew Zhou Wen’s character and ambitions well, and knew that Zhou Wen came from the Plains. From the beginning of the war, there was no need for military success or prestige.
Therefore, with the deliberate cover-up and help of several of their senior generals, the reputation of the mercenary group did not spread on the Songhu battlefield. Even most of the mid-level officers of the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army did not know the details, let alone Those low-level officers and soldiers.
Even so, several commanders issued hush orders in their respective units, and officers at all levels in the army were not allowed to inquire, hear rumors, or discuss.
As a result, it aroused curiosity and speculation among interested people. Some officers ranked the top troops in the country with their fingers, and some guessed that they were from the tax police regiment because they had the best equipment and training. Some people guessed they were from the Military Police Corps, because their soldiers have the highest quality. There are even speculations about the mysterious guard team around the principal and so on.
When these rumors reach the ears of those Japanese intelligence agents, they must carry out analysis, investigation, elimination, screening, etc. As an underground spy, due to the inconvenience of his identity, every task requires a lot of time and the mobilization of resources from all parties, and sometimes he even faces the risk of being exposed.
Take the Tax Police Corps established by the Ministry of Finance as an example. There are three regiments in the Tax Police Corps, and they are the first troops in China to be trained by German instructors. In terms of numbers, each regiment may be the mysterious Chinese army. Although these three regiments are all deployed in Nanjing, their locations are different, and their training time and content are different. Sometimes it is common to be sent to the mountains for field training for months. Moreover, military and political hierarchical management is adopted. Generally, officials of the Ministry of Finance We don’t know the specific situation. Only the Finance Minister and the principal know about the transfer of the tax police corps.
Even with the penetration capabilities of the Japanese intelligence organization in Nanjing, it would be impossible to find out immediately. Not to mention the mobilization of the principal's security forces, which is the highest level of confidentiality project, how can ordinary people find out.
Moreover, there are only a few high-level officials in Nanjing who have successfully instigated rebellion by the Japanese intelligence organization. Most of them work in government departments. There are no senior officials in the Military Commission and the General Staff Department. It is naturally very difficult to detect the intelligence of these units that are not under their respective jurisdictions. big.
