Espionage: I became sworn brothers with Zheng Yaoxian at the beginning, and became the Seventh Broth

Chapter 921 Internal and External Cooperation

So what did Ye Shaohong do?

While everyone's attention was focused on Mao Renfeng, Ye Shaohong quietly passed a message to Chen Gongshu through his special channels.

Instruct Chen Gongshu to launch an assassination operation in Manchuria targeting high-ranking Japanese officials and traitors.

There are no restrictions on the goals of the action, nor are there any time requirements.

There were no death orders.

In other words, Chen Gongshu is free to choose his goals and act freely, and he can give up at any time if he encounters difficulties.

Such an order, if given to anyone else, would certainly yield no results. But Chen Gongshu was different.

As one of the four top assassins of the Military Intelligence Bureau, most of Chen Gongshu's achievements within the bureau were earned by killing enemies and eliminating traitors.

He was the most skilled assassination commander within the Military Intelligence Bureau.

Upon receiving Ye Shaohong's order, Chen Gongshu immediately arranged for personnel to conduct an investigation and follow-up.

He quickly identified his first target.

Kotuchi, Detective and Prevention Section, Police Department of Manchuria Riverside Province.

A native Manchu.

A guy who still pinned his hopes on rebuilding the Qing Empire and restoring the glory of his ancestors.

To achieve this goal, he didn't hesitate to grovel before the Japanese devils.

Besides sending large sums of money and antiques to the high-ranking officers of the Kwantung Army, he also directly offered his uncles and nieces to the Japanese. He even became a hunting dog for the Japanese, conducting a large-scale search for anti-Japanese personnel throughout Binjiang Province.

He has dozens of lives on his hands.

This person deserved to die; he was guilty of a heinous crime.

Because Tucci is a local, his daily routine is easy to track and discover.

This created an opportunity for Chen Gongshu.

He personally led a team to assassinate Tucci on a dark and stormy night, on his way home from get off work.

The operation went smoothly.

When Tucci left work, he was accompanied by guards, but his guards were nowhere near as elite as those of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

Tucci's guards suffered casualties as soon as the battle began.

By the time the battle reached its most intense moment, Tucci was terrified and hid under the car chassis. Now, he had no hope of escape.

After killing Tucci's guards, Chen Gongshu went over personally and shot Tucci dead.

Then they immediately fled far away.

By the time the police from Binjiang Province heard the news and rushed to the scene, Chen Gongshu and his men had already disappeared without a trace.

However, this matter didn't really cause much of a stir.

At most, it only caused a brief upheaval within the Binjiang Provincial Police Department.

As for the Japanese devils, they didn't care at all about losing a lackey. In any case, there were plenty of people in Manchuria who wanted to restore the Qing Empire.

There are quite a few sycophants too.

They can find a few more anytime, anywhere.

They are still drinking and singing in izakayas, still making money and sleeping with women.

But these joyful moments will inevitably be gone forever after this night.

Now that Chen Gongshu has already taken action, how could he possibly stop so easily?

That evening, while the officers of the Binjiang Provincial Police Department were busy collecting Tuqi's body, formulating plans, and searching for the assassin, two majors of the Kwantung Army were assassinated by Chen Gongshu and his men on their way home after getting drunk at an izakaya.

This time, however, the situation is different.

Tucci's death did not alarm the high command of the Kwantung Army, nor did it attract the attention of the Special Higher Police.

But the deaths of the two majors were enough to make them concerned.

Just then, the undercover intelligence agent embedded within the Military Intelligence Bureau sent another message to the Special Higher Police in Manchuria, claiming that although the previous search operation had angered the core leadership of the Military Intelligence Bureau, they had not given up.

Mao Renfeng even personally drafted an urgent telegram and sent it to the Military Intelligence Bureau's Manchurian branch.

In this way, the contrasting information led the Japanese to misunderstand.

They immediately abandoned the possibility of a random assassination.

A targeted investigation into the connections between the three deceased began.

And sure enough, this investigation actually uncovered some problems.

Perhaps it was a joke played by God on the Japanese.

It's also possible that Chen Gongshu's chosen targets were incredibly lucky. Through roundabout connections, these three victims eventually made contact with a secret plan that the Kwantung Army was secretly carrying out.

This plan relates to an operation by the Kwantung Army against the Tsarist Russian Empire. It concerns their attempt to bribe a high-ranking Tsarist Russian official.

After making contact, the high command of the Japanese Kwantung Army and the Special Higher Police personnel in the Harbin area became nervous.

They worried that their operation might have been leaked, which was why the Military Intelligence Bureau had discovered it.

And targeted actions were taken.

The Japanese soldiers got anxious. In order to confirm their suspicions, they took the initiative to contact the undercover agent and asked him to investigate the matter immediately.

Once the order is given from above, even a spies lying in wait, no matter how unwilling, must take action.

This is a military order.

It is also a silent threat.

That undercover spy changed his identity and entered the Nationalist government's territory, but his family was still in the Japanese-controlled area.

For the safety of his family and for his mission, the lurking Japanese spy had no choice but to temporarily set aside his usual caution and begin to probe.

This time, however, his attempt was destined to be fruitless.

It wasn't that the Military Intelligence Bureau did a good job of keeping secrets.

Instead, this decoy operation was a plan personally orchestrated by Ye Shaohong and Mao Renfeng.

Very few people know the truth behind it.

The spy, not daring to take too many risks, could only try to gather information indirectly, which made it even more difficult for him to obtain intelligence.

However, this predicament will not last long.

Ye Shaohong and his group had set up a plan, and they were determined to continue it.

There will inevitably be some oversights.

When Chen Gongshu sent the third encrypted telegram from Manchuria, Ye Shaohong finally unleashed his trump card.

He instructed Mao Renfeng to convey the false action plan to a trusted confidant whom he absolutely trusted.

Then, this person inadvertently let slip a little bit of information.

The bait was then cast into the water.

The subsequent work was much simpler. With a preliminary list of suspects and the pre-determined bait, Ye Shaohong began to arrange for Chi Tiecheng and Li Yunlong to secretly monitor Mao Renfeng's trusted subordinates.

They were observing closely to see who was deliberately getting close to him.

Someone is secretly following us.

If any of the individuals appearing overlap with the suspects they investigated in the previous two investigations, then there's no need to try again; Chi Tiecheng and Li Yunlong will immediately launch a secret arrest.

They took him to the Zhazidong Prison for extremely brutal interrogation...