kingnovel Chapter 1208 Pilot
Chapter 1208 Pilot
Even though they are two unrelated buildings, the radio waves make it easy for the other party to detect that you are watching them. Furthermore, the East China Information Gathering Center has powerful capabilities, making it difficult for other radio stations to intercept intelligence from here. However, it's not impossible that someone might actually do it, like today.
"What exactly happened? Why are you in such a panic so late at night?"
Colonel Watanabe rushed over. There was supposed to be a victory celebration tonight. They had just completed the encirclement of an infantry division in the Fifth War Zone, and they were expecting to receive new credits next week. But then the intelligence gathering center sounded the alarm.
"Reporting to Colonel, during our routine patrol just now, a signal swept over us, and it was clearly targeted at us. As soon as we detected it, we immediately retreated. We can only locate it in the Pujiang South District; we know nothing else. The speed at which this signal appeared was extremely fast; it has never happened before."
Lieutenant Colonel Aoki, the chief technical officer, was already drenched in sweat. This entire information gathering center was his brainchild. Despite Colonel Watanabe being in charge, he was merely a figurehead and knew very little about much of the technology involved.
"Please explain it more clearly."
Colonel Watanabe frowned as he spoke, and many around him suppressed their laughter. He was clearly an idiot, yet he insisted on commanding in such a place; it could only mean he had powerful backing. If his backing wasn't strong enough, any other officer saying something like that here would have been widely known long ago.
“Someone is spying on our location and has basically figured out our general location. For a long time to come, they will pinpoint our location, and eventually they will carry out bombing or other activities against us.”
Lieutenant Colonel Aoki gave a brief explanation, and Colonel Watanabe's face stiffened. During this period, all sorts of praise, and even promises of promotion from above, were related to this intelligence gathering center. In just one month, they intercepted a total of 192 telegrams and deciphered most of them, providing crucial support to the frontline units.
This place is arguably Colonel Watanabe's most important asset. If anything were to happen here, forget about a promotion; he would probably be taken away by the Imperial Military Police immediately.
You're an official who doesn't understand technology, and you've begged your superiors to put you in charge of everything here. If something goes wrong, not only will you be in trouble, but the superiors who pleaded for you will also be implicated. Everyone, from top to bottom, is extremely concerned about this intelligence gathering center. Just yesterday, a telegram came from the capital that several generals at Army Headquarters wanted to review the work logs here.
Of course, a single intelligence gathering center isn't that important; what's important is that this is a pilot unit. After successful trials in East China, the intelligence gathering center will be expanded to the entire China theater. Therefore, every step of development here is closely watched by many generals.
If this place were to be destroyed by the Nationalist government's special task force, Colonel Watanabe felt a chill run down his spine. He estimated that his political life would be over, including that of the elder who pleaded for him. At most, he would have to spend the rest of his life in university, or perhaps he wouldn't even have that chance.
"Notify the Expeditionary Army Headquarters that I have something important to report. All personnel on guard around here, be on high alert. Starting today, no one is allowed to take leave. All Chinese must leave the area within 150 meters of the intelligence gathering center. Everything must be done by the Japanese."
Colonel Watanabe shook his head and immediately issued the order. He also knew that under the current circumstances, the traitors around him could not be relied upon; on the one hand, they were begging for mercy from the Japanese, and on the other hand, they had an inextricable relationship with the Yamashiro government.
These people can only be assigned to specific tasks. If they were placed around the intelligence center, there would likely be gaps in the defense. That's why he issued such an order. Although it might chill the hearts of those traitors, in the eyes of the Japanese, those traitors were hardly human.
The operations staff in the room sprang into action. They knew this was no small matter. Since the information center's inception, the rewards they had received were almost taller than each of them. If they were to be wiped out by the mountain city agents now, they would all bear the stigma of failure, and it would be much more difficult for them to rise again in the future.
Conversely, if they can hold out against the attack by the Yamashiro agents and wipe them all out, they will become a legend in Japanese intelligence history. When other major bases are about to establish information gathering centers, these individuals could all be promoted three ranks to take charge.
Both a bright future and a daunting prospect are laid out before you; the choice is yours. At this moment, everyone desperately wants to use all their strength to quickly eliminate all the special agents in the mountain city, so that our futures will be bright enough.
Unfortunately, the investigation report contained no intelligence beyond the southern district of Pujiang. The southern district was vast; even if the more than 3000 military police in the Pujiang area worked without food or sleep to search it, it would take a very long time. Moreover, some areas in the southern district belonged to two separate concessions.
Within the two concessions, you can send a group of people in to look for someone, but you cannot search the area. Furthermore, you have no authority to order the people in the two concessions to cooperate with you; this was stipulated in the original agreement between them. Although the Japanese have become increasingly audacious these days, they haven't gone so far as to search the two concessions.
During this period, intelligence records indicate that the Chongqing agents have used the foreign concessions as cover and have all retreated into the two major concessions. If they can find out the specific locations and produce concrete evidence, the concession authorities will not interfere.
But if you can't produce it, the concession authorities won't let you run wild just because of your word, since they have deep interests here.