Spy Wars: I am the Captain of the Military Police

"Yun Zi, I'm a little disappointed in you. Why didn't you report such important news to me as soon as possible?" Zhou Zhengqing asked with a hint of blame in his tone.

"Ah! Young Master, I only learned this news last night. I have a good acquaintance among the several divisions newly dispatched to China by the Empire, and I specially invited them to dinner last night.

I only found out about this when they accidentally mentioned it at the dinner table," Nanzō Yunko quickly explained.

"An acquaintance? Who is it?" Zhou Zhengqing asked.

"It's a staff officer of the 5th Division, an aide to Lieutenant General Rensuke Isogai, and several other marginal characters. They all arrived in Tianjin with their respective division commanders. Just now, I saw them at the military police headquarters..." Nanzō Yunko said in a low voice.

Zhou Zhengqing secretly exclaimed in his heart, Oh my god!!!

Asking Sakagami Seishirō and others for information on his own was considered taking the upper-level route, and it cost a lot of effort.

But no one would have expected that Nanzō Yunko had actually known the news earlier through her subordinates. It turned out that everyone has their own expertise. The gap was too big!

"Yunzi, it turns out that beautiful women have advantages!" Zhou Zhengqing said to Nanzō Yunzi with emotion, with a hint of helplessness and ridicule in his tone.

Nanzō Yunko smiled gently, gracefully lifted the hair hanging from her ears, and whispered, "They are just superficial guys. Compared with you, young master, they are simply a bunch of incompetent good-for-nothings. Yunko has no appeal in front of you, young master." After saying that, she winked playfully.

Zhou Zhengqing's Adam's apple rolled slightly, and he coughed softly, bringing the topic back on track. "Let's continue talking about the previous question. Takeda designed to arrest Chen Gongshu, the head of the Military Control Commission's Tianjin Station. How does this relate to us?"

Nanzō Yunko may have been sitting for too long, or she may have done it on purpose, she twisted her body a little, then leaned gently against Zhou Zhengqing's feet, raised her head slightly, and her eyes flickered.

"Master, ever since I heard about the attack on the venue, I've been thinking about the connection here. I believe that Takeda Koichi would never attack the Military Control Commission without a reason at this critical juncture."

"So what did you think of?" Zhou Zhengqing frowned slightly, staring at Nanzō Yunko, and asked impatiently.

"Haha, if you don't understand the inside story, it's really hard to think of the subtle connection here, but as long as you connect all the things together, it's easy to understand the truth." Nanzō Yunko said, with a smug look on her upturned face.

Zhou Zhengqing did not interrupt her, but waited quietly for Nanzō Yunko to continue speaking, with a hint of concentration in his eyes.

"At Lugou Bridge, an infantry regiment of the garrison army walked unprepared into a trap carefully set by the Chinese and was completely wiped out.

During this period, there were rumors that our military police's Taniguchi Battalion was supervising the battle and brutally executing all those who retreated from the battlefield.

When Taniguchi's troops entered Wanping City, they discovered a very strange situation there. There was not a single Chinese person resisting, and they even took away the bodies of those who died in the battle. "As Nanzō Yunko spoke, she smiled meaningfully, as if revealing a long-hidden secret.

Zhou Zhengqing still didn't respond. He knew that Nanzhao Yunzi hadn't gotten to the point yet, so he just waited quietly for her to continue. Nanzhao saw that Zhou Zhengqing only raised his eyebrows slightly without showing much expression, and his smile became even brighter.

She continued, "Katsuki Seiji has always coveted the position of commander of the North China Expeditionary Force, but he has lost a large amount of military funds for the garrison. If he cannot replenish this deficit in time, he may not be able to keep his current position as commander of the garrison."

Zhou Zhengqing nodded slightly and continued to wait for Nanzō Yunko's next words. He had a vague feeling that what came next was the crux of the matter.

As expected, Nanzō Yunko continued, "Besides the thorny issue of lost military funds, Katsuki Seiji faces enormous resistance to his rise to power, especially from the Kwantung Army."

Having said this, Nanzō Yunko paused, frowned slightly, and seemed to be organizing her thoughts.

Then, she slowly spoke a few seemingly scattered sentences: "Xu Zhongyi, a businessman supported by the Military Police Headquarters, there is news that he has a lot of scarce goods, and these goods are all good things obtained from the Kwantung Army.

Suzuki Shigeyasu and Goto Juro personally visited Xu Zhongyi.

Chen Gongshu, station chief of the Military Control Commission’s Tianjin Station.

Finally, the Chinese defenders of Tianjin previously had many imperial standard weapons in their hands."

After Nanzō Yunko finished speaking, she lowered her head and stopped talking.

After listening to this, Zhou Zhengqing suddenly stood up and his expression became extremely complicated, sometimes gloomy, sometimes excited.

I see! I see!

Zhou Zhengqing was secretly amazed in his heart. He finally understood the whole story.

Kazuki Seiji and Takeda Koichi were trying to kill two birds with one stone. They were trying to strike a blow against their own military police headquarters in order to successfully recover the lost military funds, and they also wanted to use this opportunity to force the Kwantung Army to give in and support the formation of the North China Expeditionary Army!!!

"Many people know about Xu Zhongyi's affairs?" Zhou Zhengqing asked coldly with a sullen look on his face.

"Young Master, Xu Zhongyi is incredibly bold. He immediately handed over a large batch of weapons upon arriving in Tianjin. Even if he carefully kept it a secret, the news spread like wildfire in Chinese territory, and rumors began to spread among the Chinese.

But it was actually the Fourth Division that leaked the news about Xu Zhongyi reselling weapons.

You may not know that during the month you were away from Tianjin, the 4th Division was not idle. They transported a lot of weapons and equipment to Tianjin by train and sea.

"From what I've learned, these weapons and equipment aren't just the 4th Division's own, they also include so-called 'battle-damaged' weapons purchased cheaply from other divisions," Nanzō Yunko explained in detail.