"Have all the surveillance points along the way been arranged?"
Zuo Zhong watched as the mountain sedan carrying Qiu Yuan Yumi gradually disappeared, his eyes scanned the street, and he turned to ask Wu Chunyang.
"Everything has been arranged according to your requirements."
Wu Chunyang nodded, unfolded a map of Shancheng City in his hand, and made two gestures on it to introduce the surveillance plan.
"It's 2 kilometers from Junweihui to Xinglong Street. According to the regular route, we have to pass through Jiaochangkou, Huangjing Bridge, Tonggutai, and Civil Hospital.
If the target takes a detour or performs counter-tracking, it must also pass through the water plant and Qixing Gang. There are a total of 6 key locations that need attention.
Our people have established multiple surveillance points in these places. They are all old people who worked in the Secret Service and are absolutely reliable in terms of professional skills and background.
The surveillance points are equipped with new German-made cameras and telescopes to take photos of suspicious persons who have been in contact with the target or may be monitoring the target. "
"Yea, very good."
Zuo Zhong withdrew his gaze, walked to the chair and sat down: "Go ahead and tell everyone to pay attention to counter-surveillance. Our opponent this time is not easy.
The people appearing around the target are likely to be operatives of the Special Committee on China. This is a new organization, and we have not yet grasped many situations.
For example, the opponent's action characteristics and tracking techniques are all unknown. We must remain cautious about this unknown enemy.
Without my order, everyone can only conduct surveillance at the surveillance point and is not allowed to conduct close investigations. Anyone who alerts Japanese spies will be punished for leaking secrets. "
After speaking, he pointed to the phone again: "Let them report anything directly through the field phone, and I will wait for their news here.
When they encounter undecidable or unexpected situations during action, they are allowed to make decisions on the spur of the moment. As long as they are not exposed, I will be able to withstand it if the sky breaks through. "
Wu Chunyang saluted, picked up the phone and conveyed the order, not worrying at all whether his subordinates could complete the deputy director's order.
Long-distance surveillance is a basic skill for intelligence officers, and they are operating on their own territory. If there are problems with this, don't do it.
Following his several phone calls, secret surveillance points at six key locations began to operate, and the agents widened their eyes and waited for the arrival of the target.
Huangjing Bridge.
It is located in the urban area of Shancheng. There are many residential houses nearby, with a large population and narrow streets. There are wooden two-story buildings on both sides of the road.
This place survived the Japanese bombing at the beginning of last month. Many refugees and people who had lost their homes gathered here, forming an alternative prosperity.
People selling broken furniture, broken bedding, and even selling children and women blocked Huangjing Bridge, and pedestrians passed each other one after another.
A mountain sedan squeezed out from the crowd. The bearer in front shouted, "People are crossing the bridge." The bearer in the back replied, "The water flows to the East China Sea."
Hearing the mountain city's unique mountain sedan chant, the people moved out of the way, and the mountain sedan briskly crossed the Huangjing Bridge and continued towards the Tonggu Tower.
At this time, in a room not far away, a small agent holding a telescope whispered: "Found the target, ten meters southeast, on a mountain sedan, take pictures."
The little spy on the other side heard the words and immediately turned the camera to quickly find the target. He looked at the passengers on the mountain sedan in the view frame and quickly pressed the shutter with his hand.
"Kacha~Kacha~Kacha~"
The Leica 3(a) camera, which costs hundreds of dollars each, kept making crisp noises and clearly captured Akizono Yumi's face.
This kind of camera is equipped with a separate slow shutter setting dial, which can set the shutter speed up to 1/1000, and can shoot moving objects.
In addition, its rangefinder is also equipped with an eyepiece adjustment wrench, which can adjust the rangefinder based on visual inspection to ensure image clarity.
Therefore, it is very suitable for intelligence operations. Many intelligence agencies in various countries have purchased it, and military commanders are no exception, spending huge sums of money to purchase more than a dozen units.
In the past, old-fashioned cameras had great limitations on the time for collecting evidence. Too dark or too bright environment, too far or too close distance will affect the effect of the photo.
Sometimes the intelligence officers finally managed to take a photo of the target, but when they went back and cleaned the film, they found that the photo was so poor that it could not be used as evidence.
This is the first actual use of this type of camera. If the effect is as good as Leica's advertisement, the military will purchase it on a large scale.
The birth of any new technology will directly affect the intelligence industry. If you want to not fall behind, you must always remain sensitive to new technologies.
Look at the little agent operating the camera. He skillfully adjusted the rangefinder and easily locked on the pedestrians and vehicles passing by the target and took pictures.
After shooting the next roll of film at high speed, the little agent casually put on a new camera and continued to take photos of suspicious persons.
Qiu Yuan Yushi didn't know all this. Sitting on the rickety mountain sedan, he carefully turned his head and looked behind him with his peripheral vision.
The refugees with sad faces, the proud patrolmen, the smiling businessmen, and the bowed clerks all seemed to be no different from usual.
After confirming that there was no stalker through standard procedures, Akizono Yumi leaned back in his chair with a sigh of relief and leisurely looked at the people of the Republic of China around him.
Since arriving in the Republic of China when he was a teenager, he has repeated the same actions countless times every day. It is this caution that has allowed him to successfully lurk until today.
And those companions who found it troublesome have long since died in state prisons and execution grounds. In this business, you are dancing on the tip of a knife, so you must not be careless.
Thinking of the top-secret information he had sent back over the years, Akizono Yumi smiled slightly. The military commander with a good reputation was not as scary as the legend said.
It is true that before the 23rd year of the Republic of China, their actions encountered some risks, but after 23 years, the situation changed fundamentally.
To be precise, it was Deputy Minister Hase, no, it was Minister Hase. After taking office, the intelligence activities of the Special High School in the national government suddenly became safe.
From this, it can be seen how important it is to have a reliable boss. Yumi Akizono can't help but admire Mr. Minister, whom he has never met before.
As long as the empire defeats the Republic of China, he can return to his homeland as a hero, enjoy the honors he deserves, and even become a senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This is all thanks to His Excellency Hase Gu.
Akizono Yumi decided that after the mission was over, he must thank his boss. However, he heard that he was never short of money, so it was difficult to thank him.
While he was thinking, the mountain sedan took more than ten minutes to slowly walk through the narrow streets and alleys to the Civil Hospital, and then followed the path next to the hospital into Xinglong Street.
Along the way, the little spies at the surveillance points along the way took hundreds of photos, and the rolls of warm film were immediately sent back to the military technical department for development.
Leaving aside for the time being Akizono Yumi, the spy who was sold and still helping Hase Ryosuke to count the money, Zuo Zhong was sitting at the surveillance point opposite the Junwei Association, holding a copy of the document sent by Fu Ling's team from Tokyo. top secret messages.
"Saionji Kōji, reporter Ozaki, and German writer Sorge visited Konoe Fumiya yesterday. The content of the conversation is unknown. Konoe sent the two of them off personally, and Saionji Kōji returned alone 30 minutes later.
That night, Ozaki and Sorge secretly went to the Saionji Residence. On the same day, there seemed to be some unusual movements in the Tokyo underground party. Unidentified people were active near the Japanese Cabinet and General Staff Headquarters, requesting further instructions. "
Looking at the contents of the translated message, Zuo Zhong raised his eyebrows. Asking Fu Ling and the others to monitor the Prime Minister Konoe Fumiya was just a casual move, but he didn't expect there would be unexpected gains.
How did the four of them, Konoe Fumiya, Saionji Koji, Ozaki, and Sorge, get mixed up together? You must know that the positions and beliefs of these four people are in huge conflict.
One of them is the chief culprit of Japan's war of aggression against China, the other is an old friend of a certain people in the future, and the other two are underground party fighters who sacrificed their lives for the anti-French cause.
The latter three can be understood when they meet, but adding Fumiya Konoe seems a bit strange, unless... Fumiya Konoe needs to listen to the opinions of the three people on something.
Recalling Sorge's disguised identity as a reporter from the German "Frankfurter Zeitung", Zuo Zhong thought thoughtfully. This may be related to the intelligence of Zhukov's replacement of Feiklenko.
There are no secrets in this world. He is not the only one who knows about the secret military cooperation between the Germans and the Red Russians. The Japanese also know it.
As a German and a well-informed journalist, Sorge's opinions and views on the situation in Nomenkan and even the Far East are of certain reference value.
What Konoe Fumiya did was the same as his search for staff officers with a background in German military academies, all to think about the Nomonkan conflict from the perspective of the Red Russians.
I just don’t know how Konoe Fumiya will feel when he finds out that the three people he invited are all related to Red Russia. I guess he will be similar to someone more than ten years later.
Smiling softly, Zuo Zhong took out a lighter and ignited the secret cable. He picked up a pen and wrote "Continue to observe" on the blank message paper, and then asked the little agent who sent the telegram to hand it over to the Telecommunications Office for sending to Tokyo.
Now that it is confirmed that the Japanese high-level officials know about Zhukov, the Mirage Plan should enter the next stage. The risk of this matter is extremely high, and Fu Ling's team cannot be involved.
After pondering for a moment, Zuo Zhong got up and walked around the room, perfecting the action steps in his mind little by little, until Wu Chunyang's report interrupted his thinking.
"Second Officer, all the photos taken at the surveillance point have been sent. Knowing that it was your order, the entire technical room went to work and developed the photos as quickly as possible."
Wu Chunyang said as he put a heavy suitcase on the table and took out a stack of thick photos. The photos showed faces with different expressions, including men and women, old and young.
This scene reminded Zuo Zhong of the days when he was in Jinling searching for the Nandou Group through photos. He slowly picked up a stack of photos and flipped through them quickly, then looked at Wu Chunyang with a smile.
"Chunyang, do you want to have a test of eyesight and see who of us can find the hidden mouse in these photos first? How about the loser asking the brothers to go to Guansheng Garden?"
"Yes, deputy seat."
Wu Chunyang grinned. With his current overt and covert income, a meal was nothing. As long as he could maintain a relationship with the deputy director, no matter how much money he spent, it was worth it.
After talking, the two of them began to screen the photos one by one. Unfortunately, after several hours, they still found nothing. However, Zuo Zhong found someone in them who shouldn't be there.
