In April 1937, the Lixing Society, which Dai Li, was in charge of, and the Party Affairs Investigation Section of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, which Xu Enzeng was in charge of, completed the merger.

The name is still the "Statistical Survey Bureau of the Military Commission of the National Government", with Chen Lifu as the director.

Xu En was the director of the first division, and Dai Li still served as the director of the second division.

It seems that it is just a merger, a change of soup and not a change of medicine, but in fact there is a fundamental change.

One is responsible for party affairs.

The second division undertook all the intelligence and spy work.

At the same time, it has also deepened the organizational structure and rules and regulations of the secret service.

Whether it is an internal or external service or a spy stationed in an open office, it is a lifelong profession and is not allowed to quit.

It has also increased its prisons and detention centres and confinement cells.

The rights of the two divisions have been expanded without restriction.

Moreover, the title of "Lixing Society" began to fade out of the historical stage, and they began to call themselves more "military commanders".

In fact, there is no difference between the names of "special agent" and "special agent", but the status of the word "special agent" in the minds of the Chinese people is obviously not so good.

During the same period, Major Meng Shaoyuan, deputy chief of the Operations Section of the Second Military Command Department, also had his rights increased.

He can organize actions at any time without asking for instructions, and call on the prison at any time.

"Call prison at any time" is just a nice name.

To be more precise, Meng Shao could have arrested any suspect at will.

Dai Li's paramilitary forces also began to form vigorously:

Armed Rangers.

This is based on the special operations group spearheaded by Meng Shaoyuan.

Meng Shaoyuan also made some changes accordingly:

The special operations group commanded by Yue Zhenchuan and Wei Yunzhe remained unchanged, and he selected some personnel from the spies and police to supplement the group.

By April, the Einsatzgruppen had expanded to 53 members.

In accordance with Dai Li's wishes, he set up the First Brigade of the Armed Rangers, of which he personally served as the leader, which was a second paramilitary echelon inferior to the Special Operations Group in terms of combat quality and according to the standards of paramilitary organizations.

The quality of the personnel is high, and after a long period of training, the well-armed special operation constitutes his heart and soul baby, the elite of the elite.

Actually, this is not his original either.

Just as the Armed Forces have a template, so does the Einsatzgruppen:

Later the paramilitary organization of the CIA.

Anytime, anywhere, you can be deployed to any location where conflict occurs.

And that's just the beginning.

In order to increase the rapid response capability of the special operations group, Meng Shaoyuan took advantage of his privileges to add a large number of vehicles to the group.

This, of course, also caused some people to be dissatisfied.

But he, Meng Shaoyuan, is now deeply favored by Director Dai, who can do anything to him?

Not only did he begin to develop at full speed in the military, but Meng Shaoyuan also set up an internal training course to conduct in-depth training for his promising agents.

For example, Guo Rui once proposed to transfer himself directly to the special operations group, because in his opinion, this organization can have more direct intimate contact with the battlefield.

In his heart, he still has some resistance to "spies".

In response to this problem, Meng Shaoyuan specifically talked about it in the training class: "You have all participated in the training, and in each training class, you have learned the skills that shooting, fighting, and driving agents must have, and I have learned the same as you."

Some of you will become spies in the future, and you will have to forget these skills from the first day you become a spy. ”

This was something that none of the agents of the time could understand.

Why forget the skills you have learned so hard?

"If you are on the battlefield, these skills can bring you a lot of use, but in spy work, the usefulness of these skills is basically equal to zero, and no one will ask a spy to fight and kill all day long, and chase people. More often than not, spies are silent. ”

Meng Shaoyuan said slowly: "Guo Rui, for example, when one day you are ordered to lurk, think about it carefully, do you use guns more often, or do you use your brains more?" I can tell you a saying, 'A lawyer with a suitcase steals more money than a gangster with a gun'. ”

This sentence immediately made everyone's faces smile.

This is not Meng Shaoyuan's invention, but a famous quote from the CIA.

Meng Shaoyuan didn't have the slightest smile on his face: "Many of you, especially those who have not been spies for a long time, are always more eager to go to the army and go to the battlefield to kill the enemy with your own hands.

Or you, Guo Rui, if you are now asked to become a company commander, command a company, a company of the Central Army, how many enemies can you command your company to kill on the battlefield? ”

Guo Rui thought for a while, and was full of spirits: "At least two hundred to three hundred people!" ”

"Bragging, you can't kill that much. If one day, really and...... Ah, as you all know, if the war really started, a company of the Central Army would be able to kill fifty enemies and it would be considered a brilliant victory. ”

Meng Shaoyuan finally smiled: "Okay, I'll assume that you can kill five hundred enemies, but what about a completely latent spy?" When he delivered a vital piece of information, he was able to wipe out tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of enemies!

Just one person! This is something that no unit can do, and you can't do it as a small company commander, or even a division commander.

I've told people before that there are famous heroes on the battlefield and unsung heroes, and we belong to the latter. In war, a great spy is more useful than an army. ”

Guo Rui's heart was shaken.

Famous heroes, unsung heroes.

Which one should I choose?

If another person told him this truth, he might not be convinced.

But now the one who says these words to himself is the idol in Guo Rui's heart.

That's right, like many spies, Guo Rui also regarded Meng Shaoyuan as his idol.

Therefore, Guo Rui began to accept his identity.

Be an unsung hero and exert more than the energy of an army group.

"Time is running out."

At this time, no one understood what Meng Shaoyuan meant by "time is running out".

"If any of you still have doubts in your hearts now, and think that you are not suitable to be a spy, you can say it." Meng Shaoyuan said lightly:

"I, Meng Shaoyuan, will definitely not delay your future, and I can even issue you a certificate so that you can find the most suitable position in the army.

But if you choose to stay, I want you to be able to admit who you are, what you're doing, spies, not just arresting people. Our mission from now on is also about to change. ”

The party affairs work was handed over to Xu Enzeng to do, and his enemies would have only one from now on:

Japanese!

In April 1937, there were only a little more than three months left before blood and fire!