Spy Wars: I have space, but I choose to work alone

After the poison gas dissipated, the unwilling Kuomintang defenders organized a suicide squad night attack in an attempt to retake the position, but unfortunately failed.

A battalion of more than 500 suicide squad members launched a night attack, but only more than 30 of them returned.

Li Longting, the head of the 544th Regiment who personally served as the captain of the suicide squad, was seriously injured and was rescued by his soldiers at the risk of their lives.

The Xiangkou position, which had been defended for 27 days, was lost.

After losing the core position of Xiangkou, the remaining positions were lost in less than 7 days.

On the 38th day, the Japanese army captured the Madang Fortress with the help of poison gas bombs.

With Ma Liang's intervention, the Madang Fortress, which had been defended for less than two days, lasted for 38 days, and relying on the solid fortress fortifications, it inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese Hata Detachment and the 106th Division that came to reinforce it.

As a result, after the Japanese army captured the Madang Fortress, they were temporarily unable to continue attacking from the side and rear and threaten Ezhou's flank.

However, the National Army also paid a heavy price, with more than half of the two divisions responsible for defense suffering casualties.

In the Battle of Madang, the National Army achieved the best casualty ratio of 1 to 1.5 on the battlefield.

The Japanese troops directly participating in the Ezhou battle were the 2nd Army and the 11th Army, with a total of 9 divisions, totaling more than 25 people. The Ma'an Fortress directly crippled about one division.

The Ninth War Zone National Army troops defending Ezhou had a total of more than one million. Although the combat effectiveness of the two sides was quite different, with the intelligence support of Ma Liang, the two sides fought hard and neither could do anything to the other for a while.

The battlefield suddenly came to a stalemate!

In the New Fourth Army base, the door of a dark room was suddenly opened.

The sudden brightness made Wang Xingyue, who had not seen the sun for a long time, instinctively block the sun with her hands, and she began to mutter nervously:

"I didn't betray, I was loyal, I didn't reveal the secret..."

But strangely, there was no scolding this time, only a familiar and gentle voice:

"Pharaoh?"

Minister Gao of the Enemy Work Department looked at the humanoid creature in front of him who had an untidy beard, gray hair, and was as thin as a stick.

For a moment, he found it difficult to connect this person with the Wang Xingyun who controlled the tungsten ore trade, earned a lot of funds for the army, brought back a lot of weapons, ammunition, and medicines, and was always high-spirited in the base.

Wang Xingyun, who had been held in solitary confinement for a long time, had a brain that had long since rusted away. It took him more than ten seconds to react before he timidly whispered, “What’s the matter with you?”

"Minister Gao?"

After saying that, he looked cautiously at the middle-aged man with fair skin, neat military uniform and glasses who came in with him, and took a step back in fear.

Minister Gao's eyes suddenly turned red. He stepped forward and shook Wang Xingyun's hand tightly, regardless of the dirt on his hand. He said with tears in his eyes:

"Old Wang, you have suffered!"

After Minister Gao finished speaking, he immediately turned around and scolded the fair-skinned cadre like a storm:

"Is this how you, the Political Review Department, conduct your review work? Is this how you treat your own people? Is this how you, who are educated in foreign languages, conduct your revolution?"

This series of questions made Deputy Director Zhang of the Political Review Department blush. He stammered for a long time and couldn't utter a complete sentence.

It turned out that Wang Xingyun had been recuperating in that mountain village for nearly twenty days, and his injuries had not yet fully healed.

Worried about the tungsten ore transaction, he hurriedly returned to the base with Xiao Li and Xiao Zhang. As a result, they were taken to the political review department as soon as they entered the base.

It is understandable that people who have been captured must undergo strict political review.

This is a necessary procedure in any country.

But the bad thing was that the confessions provided by Wang Xingyun and the other two were too outrageous.

Why did they refuse to surrender even when they were about to die? Before they were executed, a mysterious central special envoy rescued them by killing a squad of Japanese military police and eight spies in the enemy's hinterland at night.

Then he successfully escaped in the enemy's car with a lot of loot.

You have to know that in night battles, if one side wants to escape, the other side will never be able to kill them all, and there will always be some who slip through the net and escape under the cover of darkness.

This is still within the enemy's sphere of influence, so we must kill them all without leaving a single one behind.

At least a company of troops would be needed to completely surround the enemy, and this would require a certain amount of casualties.

My goodness, you are telling me now that the Central Special Task Force is composed of a company of people, all of whom are carrying rifles and have rich combat experience, who entered Shanghai to engage in underground intelligence work?

This sounds like a fantasy!

Therefore, the people in the Political Review Department naturally believed that Wang Xingyun and the other two were spies who had defected after being arrested and were sent back by the enemy.

In addition, a celebrity figure in the base like Wang Xingyun naturally made many enemies, especially in the Political Review Department.

Deputy Director Zhang and others have studied abroad and are used to drinking coffee in foreign countries.

But there was no base in the rural areas at all, and those who were short of military funds could only barely get enough to eat. The money they had was already spent on food, so where was the money left?

Naturally, their attention was focused on Wang Xingyun, who often went out to big cities and was responsible for tungsten ore trading and material procurement and had a large amount of capital in his hands.

But Wang Xingyun, who was hot-tempered and principled, refused it in public, saying that the money belonged to the army, not for some petty bourgeoisie to enjoy.

The people in the Political Review Department were embarrassed in public.

One can easily imagine what Wang Xingyun’s political review experience was like!

As for what Wang Xingyun said about being able to verify with the central government, it is even more difficult in this war-torn era.

It is naturally impossible to inquire about such top-secret sensitive information directly through the radio, which violates the principles of intelligence work.

Ma Liang did not provide his code name, identity information such as the person directly responsible for the leadership, etc. He was just a special envoy without even an alias.

It can only be verified offline by the intelligence leaders with each other.

But the two parties are thousands of miles apart, and there is no chance to meet for the time being, so it is impossible to verify.

It was not until the batch of medicines that the military urgently needed was successfully transported back to the base after nearly two months of hard work under the tight blockade of the Japanese army.

At the same time, it was also reported that this batch of drugs was successfully traded with the help of a powerful special envoy. With these two pieces of evidence confirmed, Wang Xingyun was cleared of some suspicion.

Only then did Minister Gao come forward to protect Wang Xingyun.

After spending nearly half an hour, Wang Xingyun's brain finally recovered. He did not care about his own problem at first, but asked anxiously:

"Where are Xiao Zhang and Xiao Li? How are they?"

Deputy Director Zhang was suddenly asked this question, and after being scolded by Minister Gao for a long time, his mind was confused, and he responded reflexively:

"Xiao Li? He's not afraid..."

Suddenly he realized that the wind had changed, and quickly changed his words:

"Well, Xiao Li unfortunately passed away due to wound infection and lack of medicine."

Seeing Wang Xingyun's eyes blazing with anger, Deputy Director Zhang quickly added:

"Xiao Zhang is still alive!"

Three days later, Wang Xingyun, who had changed into a new military uniform, was led to a warehouse by Minister Gao. Pointing to the warehouse full of tungsten ore, Minister Gao said to Wang Xingyun:

"This is your new mission!"