Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

For the safety of Beigang City's transportation line, some small fry must be cleared out before a large amount of goods arrive. Especially the deep lurkers like the enemy who are familiar with every aspect of Beigang City must not be left behind.

Even if the enemy intelligence department notices something unusual in the future and sends people over, it will probably take a long time to figure out the situation in the city. Moreover, it will be easier to deal with if they are unfamiliar with the place.

In order to better open up the transportation lines and prevent the enemy from finding ways to sabotage us after knowing about it, we also sent an action team with various advanced detection equipment to Beigang City to cooperate with the intelligence personnel dispatched by Commander Li to launch a counter-espionage operation.

The head of the intelligence personnel on the Gui army's side was named Li. He was holding a telescope specially developed for intelligence personnel in our base and carefully observing the situation near the grocery store.

After a long while, he put down the telescope and said with infinite sigh:

"Section Chief Zhou, your unit's monitoring equipment is truly excellent. Take this telescope, for example. When observing enemy movements, we don't have to worry about reflections that could reveal us. It's practically tailor-made for us intelligence reconnaissance personnel. Unlike us, we can only make do with a few pairs of military binoculars at best."

"But the Japanese intelligence officers who sneaked in are all veterans in this field. If we reveal even the slightest flaw, they'll easily detect it. Previously, when we were at the Fifth War Zone Headquarters, we had several instances where we weren't discreet enough and were discovered by the enemy in advance, causing us to lose several of our intended targets."

"If we had the specialized equipment we have now, those famous Japanese spies would never have been able to escape."

As a professional intelligence officer, it is a shame to be let slip away right under your nose by the enemy's spy. It is a shame that can never be erased.

But he had no choice. Due to the huge gap in industrial strength between the two countries, the enemy's intelligence personnel could receive professional training, and if special equipment was needed, they could go to the arsenal to customize it.

But we have nothing. In addition to the lack of professional training, we have to rely on foreign imports for everything. The bitterness of this is something that ordinary outsiders cannot understand at all.

After hearing this, Section Chief Zhou smiled and consoled him, "This was recently produced in our industrial zone. If you need it, you can send someone to the industrial zone to have it custom-made. It's definitely good quality and affordable."

"Not only is the price about half that of those from European and American industrial powers, but the performance is also far superior to foreign imports, especially those that beat the Japanese."

In fact, Section Chief Zhou's visit this time, in addition to assisting the Gui army in clearing out the enemy's spies, also had a special purpose, which was to promote various weapons and equipment produced in the base.

There are two benefits to doing this. One is to sell various high-value industrial products and recover a large amount of funds to be used for researching more advanced things; the other is to kill the imports from abroad.

After all, the things shipped back from abroad are expensive and of average quality. It’s just that our previous industrial foundation was poor and we couldn’t even produce the simplest military helmet, so we had to buy them from abroad at high prices.

It is precisely because we are in an absolutely disadvantaged position in this kind of transaction that those foreigners look down on us Chinese with arrogance.

Now our base can also produce all kinds of weapons and equipment, and even in terms of function and quality, they far surpass those foreign products of the same kind. We can loudly say to those foreigners: "No, get out!"

Director Li was also very excited after hearing this. If he could buy various high-quality and low-priced special equipment from the domestic market, who would be willing to buy those junk equipment from abroad that came with various preconditions?

But now is not the time to discuss this. He just picked up a pile of information and introduced the current situation in detail.

"The grocery store owner's name is Gao Fugui. He's been in Beigang City for five years. Actually, our people noticed something was amiss with him in the first half of this year. They had only four assistants to look after this small grocery store, and a dedicated chef to cook."

"And Gao Fugui likes to wander around every day. He can be seen at ports, military camps, and other strategic locations. Not only him, but the guys in their store do the same. After a long time, we naturally discovered something amiss."

"To be honest, there was basically nothing important going on in Beigang City before. Most cargo ships came into the port from Guangdong Province. We in Guangxi Province imported materials by land transportation and basically had no use for this small port."

"However, as the war situation worsened, many major coastal ports were occupied by the enemy, and Beigang City became of great importance to our superiors. That's why we were sent to set up an intelligence station in the city."

"It's precisely because of this that we discovered there was such a person hidden in the city, and that he was a spy planted by the enemy five years ago. After discovering this, intelligence professionals like us all felt a chill down our spines."

Faced with this situation, Section Chief Zhou has long been accustomed to it. In their base, such things are often encountered and are no longer surprising.

At this moment, a man came in hurriedly with a telegram in his hand.

"Director, our Telecommunications Department just intercepted a telegram from Beigang City. We've confirmed it's not on one of our registered radio frequencies. It must have been sent from an enemy station."

Director Li took the telegram and said with some regret:

"It's a pity that we can only monitor the enemy's telegrams. It's definitely impossible to decipher such strictly encrypted information in a short period of time. What a pity! I dream of deciphering the contents of the enemy's telegrams."

After receiving the telegram, Section Chief Zhou smiled and replied, "How about we give it a try? We recently developed an advanced code-breaking machine and cracked dozens of enemy intelligence stations and a large number of telegrams. We've figured out some of the patterns of these hidden enemy radio stations. I'd also like to know what the Japs' telegrams contain?"

About three months ago, a new code-breaking department was established in the intelligence department of the headquarters. Kong Hao specially sponsored three top-level code-breaking machines. These advanced high-tech equipment can quickly decipher the content of telegrams based on previous rules. They were specially exchanged from the system and can also be quickly deciphered through the most primitive programming programs.

The most important thing is that this equipment can run continuously for 24 hours, which is many times faster than manual deciphering.

After all, people need rest. For mental work like deciphering codes, which requires high concentration, you basically have to rest for half a day after working for three or four hours in a row, otherwise it is easy to cause confusion.

Machines are completely different. As long as they are maintained regularly, one machine can do the work of hundreds of people.