Chapter 772: Take It Step by Step

"Whether Chifeng will be lost or Rehe will be lost is actually not something we can control at all." Su Yi said quietly.

At this point, he actually saw very clearly that under the wheel of history, the power of an individual is insignificant.

War is not a competition between one army and another army, nor is it a fight between one general and another general, but a contest and collision between countries.

Can killing a few generals change a war?

This is impossible.

After killing Nishi Yoshiichi, Nakamura Kotaro came.

After killing Nakamura Kotaro, Shimomoto Kumamiya came.

What to do? Continue to kill?

If you continue to kill, Zhepeng will continue to send people. How many can you kill?

Su Yi took action here, and Tang Yulin just retreated. The current military talent reserve of Zhepeng people is still sufficient. Can Su Yi kill them?

Besides, the Zhepeng people are not vegetarians. I am afraid that the situation like Tongliao will happen frequently in the future. Once they were 100% alert to Su Yi, the probability of Su Yi's assassination success was actually very low.

Because maybe you went through so much trouble to get to the headquarters, only to find that you killed a substitute.

The substitute trick was not only used by Su Yi.

"If we stay in Tongliao by force, even if we can succeed, we don't know how long it will take." Su Yi said, "Although Sun Laodian's troops can fight, their supplies and ammunition cannot be replenished in time. How long can they hold on? If we wait until Chifeng falls before we find an opportunity, even if we succeed, it will be too late."

"Instead of staying and fighting for an illusory opportunity, it is better to change the target. Whether Chifeng will be lost or whether Sun Laodian can hold on, don't consider it at all, and it is not our turn to consider it..."

Su Yi looked to the south: "Let's go to the Jinxiu State and kill Zhang Jinghui, the nominal commander-in-chief of the attack on Rehe this time. This trip to Rehe will end."

Everyone heard the retreat in Su Yi's words and looked at each other.

Just because he might be sold out, Master Geng became so depressed?

This shouldn't be the case...

As if he had guessed what they were thinking, Su Yi said with a smile: "I'm not backing down, I just know more about what we should do and how to do it."

Even if Su Yi became the king of assassination, even if he became a master of his generation, would he be a big shot?

To those who hold high positions and hold great power, Su Yi is still a small shot.

Small shots shouldn't worry about things that big shots should worry about.

The direction of the war and the future of the country should not be borne by small shots.

Geng Liangchen is just an ordinary man, and what ordinary men should do is to take revenge and shed blood.

As for the performance task...

It's just an illusory goal, there's no need to care about it.

"But even if the goal is changed, it can't be a wasted trip!" Su Yi narrowed his eyes slightly, "At least, if my guess is correct, the traitor who betrayed us must be dug out!"

"How to dig it out?" Yixiantian asked.

"Kezhi, you send a telegram to Haiqing in person, using the second set of codes." Su Yi said, "The message has only eight words - the enemy is prepared, we should take it slowly."

"Okay!" Hua Kezhi agreed, and immediately asked Chen Chutai to help him with the radio.

"Mr. Geng, just send a telegram, and you can dig out the traitor?" Sun Fengming asked in confusion.

Su Yi smiled: "It depends on the tacit understanding between Haiqing and me."

Everyone was puzzled and didn't understand what he meant, but Su Yi didn't explain any more.

When Hua Kezhi finished sending the message, Su Yi had already asked everyone to prepare the horses.

"Let's go to Jinxiuzhou!"

Jinxiuzhou is located in the south of Ye Baishou, in the opposite direction of Tongliao.

More than 300 kilometers of road, all through the enemy-occupied area, the danger can be fully anticipated.

Everyone knows the difficulty of this, and they all understand that night is the best time to concentrate on the journey. Don't even think about sleeping during these two days and two nights.

But no one complained about it. With Su Yi's order, everyone rushed into the snow again.

Chifeng.

The head of the Three Youth League Intelligence Station received another telegram signed by Ertijiao. He did not dare to neglect it and immediately delivered the telegram to Liu Haiqing in person.

"I will go with you?" The deputy station chief who delivered the telegram suggested, "I didn't get to talk to the director last time. Alas, I missed a good opportunity in vain."

"You are ambitious, kid!" The station chief pointed at him with a smile, "For the painting you gave me two days ago, I can't refuse you. Okay, come with me!"

"Look at what you said, this is you taking care of me." The deputy station chief hurriedly stepped forward to help the station chief with his bag, and said inadvertently, "In fact, if the code book is here with you, you don't need to make a trip at all. You just need to call the director. Just give him a call."

"Ertijiao is not one of us, he only recognizes Chuzuo!" The stationmaster said as he walked out, "Besides, these days, you can't know a person's heart by his appearance, so it doesn't hurt to be cautious."

"That's right." The deputy stationmaster followed him in small steps, saying, "To be honest, our Chuzuo really has a wide range of friends, even a desperate criminal like Ertijiao has contacts..."

"Not necessarily," the stationmaster shook his head, "Ertijiao and Chuzuo may not know each other, and he may contact Chuzuo just because of Chuzuo's identity."

"That's right." The deputy stationmaster opened the car door for the stationmaster, "But Virgo is a man with both civil and military skills, so it's hard to say that Zhen and Erqiji recognize him. When I went to his place that day, I saw two books on his desk. , he is really motivated, no wonder he can be a Virgo..."

The webmaster seemed to be smiling but not smiling: "It's just arty and just showing off."

The deputy station director started the car and continued: "I don't think it's just for show. The book is quite old. I should be reading it all the time. Virgo must really love reading."

After a pause, he said jokingly: "What kind of book is it? I will buy one and read it some other day, and I can chat with you later."

"You? Forget it! How many douda'ers do you know?" The stationmaster laughed and turned his head away, but there was a bit of doubt in his eyes.

The deputy webmaster did not continue the topic. The two of them laughed and chatted about other things, and soon arrived at the place.

When the two of them were about to go in, the stationmaster suddenly seemed to have just remembered and said to the deputy stationmaster: "Made, look at my memory. In the morning, Virgo even talked to me about the local Laodao cigarettes he smoked. I was choking, and I said I wanted to bring him three forts, but I forgot about it. "

The deputy station director was startled and said: "This...has come..."

"Thank you for your hard work, go and get it quickly!" The stationmaster smiled and pushed the deputy stationmaster into the car, "Ask Secretary Sun for two, and keep one for yourself! Go and come back quickly, I'm here Waiting for you here!"

After giving the order without any explanation, he took his bag from the deputy stationmaster's hand, turned around and walked towards the door.

"Hey..." The deputy station manager wanted to stop the station manager, but the latter had already entered the door.

"Am I running errands for you? Grandson!" the deputy station director cursed angrily, but had no choice but to start the car and did as he was told.

After receiving the message, Liu Haiqing asked the webmaster to go out and wait, but the webmaster stood still.

"Is there anything else?" Liu Haiqing asked doubtfully.

"Virgin, there is something that I think is a little suspicious." The stationmaster said, "Zhang Lie has volunteered to accompany me during these two times when I came to send you the second message. In the car just now, He also asked in a roundabout way what book was on your desk this morning..."

Liu Haiqing's pupils suddenly shrank when he heard this.

He remembered that after receiving the news of Kotaro Nakamura's beheading in the morning, he was so happy that he let two of his men in without putting the code book away.

Fortunately, although he did not put the book away, he put the book cover upside down, so the two men would definitely not be able to see the title.

Liu Haiqing secretly warned himself that there was really no room for negligence in intelligence work.

"Virgo, you also know that those in our industry are very sensitive to anything involving words... How could Zhang Lie not know this?" the webmaster said, "In addition, this kid took the initiative these two times... Follow me, so I think he is suspicious."

Liu Haiqing's heart was ringing with alarm, but on the surface he said calmly: "Do you doubt him? He respects you very much. You are turning your back on me."

"Oh, Virgo, if you look at me like this, I have wronged you even more than Dou E!" The stationmaster yelled, "Colleagues are seeing each other off, and I can't refuse people thousands of miles away, but etiquette is etiquette. , Principles are principles, I can still tell the difference.”

"As long as you can tell the difference clearly!" Liu Haiqing said, "As you said, Zhang Lie also came out of the same special training class as you. How could he not understand the things you know? He asked you about your book. Could it be that he Don’t you know this issue is very sensitive? Or does he trust you not to doubt him?”

"He is sure to be a loser." The webmaster laughed at himself, "You know me, Virgo. I have always been low-key..."

"You are pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger!" Liu Haiqing couldn't help but interrupt him, thinking of Su Yi's evaluation of this kind of person.

The webmaster thought for a while and smiled: "Expressive! Virgo, these four words are quite wonderful. This will be my motto from now on."

"Stop talking nonsense and get down to business!" Liu Haiqing said.

"Yes!" The webmaster stood at attention, "I usually like to hide my clumsiness and pretend to be confused, and I tend to do nothing. I can see that Zhang Lie doesn't think highly of me. He must think that I only know how to do it. He is flattering and prejudiced against me, so he despises me, so he thinks that I will not doubt him. "

Liu Haiqing nodded expressionlessly: "Go and wait at the door."

"Yes!" The webmaster simply turned and left.

Liu Haiqing waited for him to close the door, and immediately took out the "Zhu Xi Family Instructions" from the drawer and tried to translate the message.

But after only two words were translated, he frowned.

Because these two words are unrelated, they obviously shouldn't be next to each other.

"Second set of passwords?" Liu Haiqing muttered, his expression becoming solemn.

According to the agreement he and Su Yi had made long ago, the second set of passwords would be activated only if one party felt that there was a possibility of leakage of confidentiality in the communication between the two parties, or encountered an unexplained emergency.

For example, the master copy of the first set of passwords was leaked.

For another example, one party is arrested and forced by the enemy to contact the other party. In this case, a second set of passwords is activated, which is a veiled cry for help.

Liu Haiqing directly ruled out the second scenario.

Because in the early morning, Su Yi said that he was going to Tongliao. There was no way he could be arrested so quickly.

Moreover, Liu Haiqing did not believe that Su Yi was the kind of person who would be quietly arrested by the enemy.

In his impression, Su Yi would never be caught by the Japanese unless he was shaken up.

Therefore, the high probability is the first situation.

He remembered that in the early morning, he was so happy that he read out the eight words in the telegram in front of his two subordinates.

He thought again about the suspicious situation reported to him by the webmaster just now.

In addition, Su Yi suddenly activated the second set of messages...

Liu Haiqing's expression darkened, and murderous intent burst into his eyes.

Although there was no evidence yet, he was almost certain that a leak had occurred!

The source of the leak is most likely Deputy Webmaster Zhang Lie!

He took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, took out a copy of "Zengguang Xianwen" from the locked drawer, and began to translate the message.

This vernacular annotated version of "Zengguang Xianwen" printed by Peking Book Company in the eighth year of the Republic of China is the mother copy of the second set of codes.

Soon, the message was translated - "The enemy is well prepared, so be prepared."

This completely confirmed that a leak had indeed occurred!

Liu Haiqing let out a long breath.

The words "the enemy is prepared" mean that Su Yi told Liu Haiqing that the enemy already knew about his trip to Tongliao. The reason why he sent a message to Liu Haiqing specifically to tell Liu Haiqing was because he suspected that someone on Liu Haiqing's side had leaked the secret.

Liu Haiqing could completely imagine that these three simple words meant that Su Yi and the others had already experienced the danger of almost exposing their whereabouts!

Only Liu Haiqing can understand the meaning of the sentence "Take care of it slowly".

If someone else intercepts this message, even if they get the original version and successfully translate it, they will only think that Su Yi means "the enemy is on guard, so I have to plan slowly."

But in fact, what this sentence means is "There may be a traitor on your side, but you have to catch him quietly and slowly, don't be anxious."

Liu Haiqing's expression was uncertain. He thought for a moment, found a piece of paper, and wrote this sentence on it - "The enemy is well prepared, please ask for support from within."

He thought for a moment more, nodded with satisfaction, and then his eyes fell on the two books "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" and "Zeng Guang Xian Wen".

"I can't keep this book." He scratched his head with a headache and murmured helplessly, "I still have to memorize it..."

Then he put away the two books, called the stationmaster in, and gave some instructions.

When deputy webmaster Zhang Lie anxiously took out a cigarette and rushed back, when he entered Liu Haiqing's office, he saw his two bosses chatting and laughing in the office.

"Virgin, stationmaster!" Zhang Lie stood at attention and saluted with a very respectful attitude.

He glanced across the desk. There was a folder in the middle of the desk. The word "Top Secret" was written on the folder. It looked like there were only a few pieces of paper in it.

Zhang Lie pretended to look intently, but his heart was pounding. He guessed that this folder should contain the translated content of the telegram just now!

If only I could get my hands on it...

Definitely another great achievement!