Spy war in the Republic of China, peak undercover

There was a banging sound behind the iron gate; Tanaka's men were trying to break it down.

Lu Yang moved quickly along the passage, the flashlight light dancing on the damp walls.

There is an explosive pack every fifty meters, and the fuses are all connected to the front.

Lu Yang memorized their locations as he advanced. The power of these explosives was enough to collapse the entire underground tunnel.

"Crack!"

Behind him, there was the sound of an iron door breaking. Lu Yang turned off his flashlight and dodged into a side passage. In the darkness, the footsteps of the secret agent were getting closer.

"Search separately," Tanaka's voice rang out, "We must find him before four o'clock."

Lu Yang pulled out the map from his pocket. According to the markings, this should be the deepest part of the air-raid shelter, once used to store important documents. If he wanted to find evidence...

Suddenly, footsteps came from the side. Lu Yang held his breath and saw a spy approaching with a flashlight in the dim light.

The spy's flashlight swept across the fork in the road, and Lu Yang had already silently slipped behind him. With a single slash of his hand, the spy fell limply.

Lu Yang picked up the flashlight dropped by the spy and found a line of words on the wall next to it: "Military Control Commission Top Secret Archives Room".

The iron door of the archive room was rusty, but the lock was new. Lu Yang searched the spy's body for a bunch of keys and tried several times before finally opening the door.

Dust danced in the flashlight beam. The archives were filled with filing cabinets, but most were empty. Lu Yang searched quickly and finally found a safe in the corner.

The watch showed three fifty.

The lock on the safe is very special. It is not an ordinary combination lock, but an old-fashioned mechanical lock. There is a line of small words engraved on the lock cylinder: "1942..."

Lu Yang remembered the number Zhang Fu left. That was not time, but a password!

“1-9-4-2…”

The safe clicked open. Inside was a single document, the words "Top Secret" printed on the yellowed pages.

Lu Yang quickly browsed the contents of the file, and his pupils suddenly contracted: "So that's it..."

This is a list that records all the Japanese spies lurking within the Military Control Commission. At the end of the list, there is an unexpected name.

“Found him!”

The secret agent's shouts came from outside the door. Lu Yang put the documents in his arms and turned to leave, but found that the door was blocked.

"Director Lu," Tanaka said with a sneer in his voice, "hand over the documents, and I can make your death a quicker one."

Lu Yang put his hand on the pistol at his waist: "Tanaka, do you think the chairman knows the existence of this list?"

Tanaka's laughter stopped abruptly: "You!"

"That's why you're in a hurry to destroy the evidence before four o'clock," Lu Yang continued, "because at four o'clock, the chairman will convene a supreme military meeting, and among those attending the meeting..."

"boom!"

Tanaka fired, and the bullet hit the filing cabinet next to Lu Yang. The archives room suddenly fell into chaos.

The watch hands pointed to 3:55. On the ground, a conspiracy that could change the course of the war was brewing.

Fire erupted in the archives room, and bullets pierced the metal filing cabinets, making a sharp sound. Lu Yang retreated quickly, using the filing cabinets as cover.

"Don't let him get away!" Tanaka roared.

Three agents surrounded him from different directions. Lu Yang drew his pistol and fired at the fluorescent light overhead. Glass shattered everywhere, plunging the archives room into darkness.

“Baka!”

The screams of the spies were heard in the darkness. Lu Yang had already figured out the layout of the archive room. He shot down two spies with three shots and subdued the third with his grappling skills.

"Director Lu," Tanaka's voice sounded particularly cold in the darkness, "Don't you understand? The situation is hopeless. The Military Control Commission has already..."

"Has it been infiltrated by you?" Lu Yang interrupted him, "Just like how you infiltrated Director Li's department back then?"

Tanaka was silent for a moment: "You really know it."

"Director Li discovered the list of the traitors, so you wanted to kill his entire family," Lu Yang's voice was cold, "but you didn't expect that he hid the list here before he died."

The watch reads three fifty-eight.

"What a pity," Tanaka suddenly laughed, "Even if you know the truth, it's too late. At the military meeting at four o'clock, the power we have hidden for many years will erupt in full force. Chongqing is about to change!"

"boom!"

In the darkness, a gunshot rang out.

"You said one thing wrong," Lu Yang's voice came from another direction, "It's not four o'clock, the military meeting started at three o'clock."

Tanaka's pupils suddenly contracted: "What?"

"Do you think those pawns you planted inside the Military Control Commission are really all your people?" Lu Yang sneered, "Among them, there are also our undercover agents."

"Impossible!" Tanaka's voice trembled. "Minister Fang..."

"Minister Fang was taken into custody three days ago," Lu Yang said, "He confessed everything. And your plan has already..."

Before he finished speaking, the ground suddenly shook violently, and the sound of gunfire could be heard faintly from above.

"It's over," Lu Yang said, "all your pawns should have been captured by now."

Tanaka roared like a wild beast and fired in Lu Yang's direction. But in the darkness, all his bullets were empty.

"boom!"

With a crisp gunshot, Tanaka's pistol flew out.

"Director Li's family is still waiting for you to pay with your life," Lu Yang's voice was getting closer.

In the darkness, Lu Yang's gun was pressed against Tanaka's forehead. This Japanese spy chief, who had been entrenched in the Military Control Commission for many years, finally revealed a look of fear.

The hands of the watch pointed exactly to four o'clock.

Lu Yang sat across from Tanaka in the interrogation room at the Military Control Commission headquarters. On the table lay the list, its pages yellowed, but the names still clear.

"Tell me," Lu Yang lit a cigarette, "How did you infiltrate?"

Tanaka lowered his head, a wry smile on his face: "Since 1938..."

The interrogation lasted a full six hours. Tanaka revealed a staggering network of spies: from ordinary clerks to senior military officers, from logistics personnel to intelligence departments, the Japanese secret service had planted dozens of pawns within the Military Intelligence Bureau.

"Director Li discovered the list," Tanaka said. "He was too cautious to tell even his most trusted lieutenant."

Lu Yang exhaled a puff of smoke: "So you killed his whole family?"

"That was an accident," Tanaka's voice trembled. "We just wanted the list, but we didn't expect..."

"boom!"

Lu Yang slammed his fist on the table: "A three-year-old child, is that also an accident?"

There were footsteps outside the door, and Zhou Qing pushed the door open and came in: "Director Lu, Minister Fang and the others have been dismissed. Now..."

"Control them," Lu Yang said, "Don't let any of them go."

Zhou Qing nodded: "They have already started arresting people. But..."

"But what?"

"Several important suspects have disappeared," Zhou Qing handed over a report, "including Section Chief Li from the Intelligence Department, Zhang from the Archives Department..."

Tanaka suddenly laughed: "Do you think it's over once you catch me?"

Lu Yang narrowed his eyes: "What do you mean?"

"Chongqing is just the beginning," Tanaka said, "in Nanjing, in Wuhan, in..."

"Snapped!"

The lights in the interrogation room suddenly went out. In the darkness, Tanaka suddenly jumped up from his chair, his handcuffs already untied.

"Bang! Bang!"

Two gunshots rang out, and Zhou Qing and the guard at the door fell down.

Lu Yang quickly rolled behind the table and took out his pistol. In the darkness, he heard Tanaka's footsteps moving towards the door.

"Goodbye, Director Lu," Tanaka said with a hint of pride in his voice, "This game has just begun."

"boom!"

Lu Yang fired, but the bullet hit the door frame. When the lights came back on, Tanaka had disappeared into the corridor.

"Chase!" Lu Yang rushed out of the interrogation room.

But the corridor was empty, with only a few guards' bodies lying on the ground. It was as if Tanaka had vanished from the face of the earth.

Zhou Qing grabbed his injured shoulder and climbed up: "He must have an insider."

Lu Yang looked at the window at the end of the corridor: "No, he had already prepared a retreat. Just like..."

“Like what?”

"It's like he let me catch him on purpose," Lu Yang's eyes narrowed. "This was all part of his plan."

In the night outside the window, there were faint sounds of gunfire.

The lights at Military Control Commission headquarters stayed on all night. Lu Yang stood in the operations room, a map on the wall densely dotted with red dots. Each dot represented a captured Japanese spy.

"Nanjing, Wuhan, Guangzhou..." Zhou Qing pointed at the map, "Traces of Japanese spies have been found in these places."

Lu Yang stared at the map: "Tanaka is right, Chongqing is just the beginning."

The phone on the table suddenly rang. Lu Yang answered the phone, his expression becoming increasingly serious.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Qing asked.

"Nanjing Station just sent a telegram," Lu Yang put down the phone, "Their intelligence chief committed suicide this morning. Before his death, he..."

"What's up with him?"

“He set a fire in the office,” Lu Yang said. “All the confidential documents were burned.”

Zhou Qing gasped: "Just like Section Chief Li in Chongqing."

“No,” Lu Yang shook his head. “This is not a coincidence. They are destroying evidence.”

The door of the operations room was pushed open, and a staff officer rushed in: "Director Lu, there's a call from Wuhan Station saying..."

"Let me guess," Lu Yang interrupted him, "did one of their senior executives commit suicide as well?"

The staff officer was stunned: "How do you know?"

Lu Yang walked to the map and drew a line between several cities with a red pen: "Do you see it?"

Zhou Qing took a closer look and said, "This is..."

"The Yangtze River route," Lu Yang said, "from Shanghai to Chongqing, Japanese spies have laid a large net along the Yangtze River. And now, this net is shrinking."

"But why?" Zhou Qing asked, "Why would they do this at this time..."

Before he could finish his words, another staff officer rushed in: "Director Lu, we just received news that the Japanese army has assembled a large number of troops in Wuhan and seems to be planning to..."

"It's started," Lu Yang narrowed his eyes, "This is Tanaka's real plan. The spy network within the Military Control Commission is just for this moment."

“What plan?”

Lu Yang pointed to the Yangtze River route: "Cut off our supply line. Once the Yangtze River route is cut off, our troops in Chongqing will be isolated. By then..."

The phone rang again. This time it was an urgent telegram from Shanghai Station: the head of the Japanese secret service in Shanghai had suddenly disappeared, along with a top-secret battle plan.

"Notify all sites," Lu Yang's voice was as cold as ice, "Immediately investigate all senior personnel, especially..."

“What in particular?”

"Especially those who have been transferred recently," Lu Yang said, "An old fox like Tanaka will definitely leave a way out for himself."

Zhou Qing was about to speak when he suddenly saw Lu Yang's expression become extremely serious.

"What's wrong?"

"I remember now," Lu Yang walked quickly towards the filing cabinet, "Three months ago, headquarters transferred a group of new people, one of whom was called..."

He flipped through the personnel file and suddenly stopped, because there was a photo on the last page.

The person in the photo was Section Chief Li, who had disappeared from the Military Control Commission headquarters three days ago.