"Did you find it?"

"I found out, the Italian wants Tony Kiriyanli."

"Mr. Tony."

"What? Teacher? No, he is in business on the surface. ”

"Ah, nothing."

Meng Shaoyuan just suddenly remembered his "Teacher Tony", who was famous in the acting industry at that time.

"Tony is the plenipotentiary commercial representative of the 'Italian Marquini Trading Company' in China, a director of the Public Concession Ministry of Industry, and the chairman of the Music Committee." Wu Jingyi took the information and reported:

"He also has a special role as a business guide for business exchanges between the Italian government and our national government."

The so-called commercial exchanges between Italy and the Nationalist Government are in fact Italy's large-scale arms sales to China.

As the sixth largest industrial power in the world, Italy still has two brushes, especially in the military industry, Italy's level is very high, and it is very distinctive, and many weapons are more advanced than Japan.

Before the Anti-Japanese War, China had cooperated closely with Italy, imported a large number of weapons from Italy, and Italy also helped China build many military enterprises.

At that time, China had just finished the Central Plains War, and in the "September 18 Incident", Japan had robbed the rich northeast and the only heavy industry it had. At that time, all countries did not want to offend Japan, so they were unwilling to provide help to China.

In China's embarrassing circumstances, the Germans extended a helping hand to China. As a result, Sino-German relations warmed up day by day, and entered a honeymoon period in the 30s.

With the help of the Germans, China initially established a modern defense industry, laying a solid foundation for the War of Resistance Against Japan.

Sino-German cooperation made Italy feel red, so in 1934 Italy expressed its intention to cooperate with China. China is naturally very willing to accept the olive branch extended by Italy.

On the one hand, Italy is one of the great powers, and it is very beneficial for China to improve relations with Italy.

On the other hand, although Italy's weapons and military level are not as good as those of Germany, they are very distinctive, and they can be called high-quality and inexpensive, which is very suitable for a country with insufficient financial resources like China.

For example, Italy's CV33\\35 ultra-light tank, although the armor is thin and the firepower is weak, but the price is low and the performance is good, especially suitable for the Chinese battlefield that lacks anti-tank weapons and has complex terrain. So China imported dozens of tanks from Italy in one go, which is the largest number of tanks imported by the Nationalist Government.

China has also ordered from Italy a variety of weapons such as the Bailu 34 47-mm anti-aircraft gun, the Breda 35 20-mm anti-aircraft gun, CR32 fighter jets, and mines.

At the same time, Italy sent a large number of military advisers to China, and China also sent many military personnel to Italy for study, and the air force advisers of the Nationalist Government were mainly Italians.

In order to show his friendship to China, Mussolini also presented a landline plane to the chairman. In addition, Italy also helped China build the Central Nanchang Aircraft Factory, which was built with advance funds from Italy, and Italy contributed money and technology to produce the Bretta-25 trainer aircraft, the Savoya S-81 twin-engine bomber, and other models, which will be redeemed by China in five years after they are put into production.

Italy has said that the Central Nanchang Aircraft Factory ranks first in the Far East in terms of equipment and scale. However, as soon as the Nanchang Aircraft Factory was put into operation, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, and the aircraft factory was forced to move to the rear.

Japan is very frightened and dissatisfied with the cooperation between China and Italy, and the Japanese government has repeatedly protested to Italy. But Italy turned a deaf ear, and in the face of money, Italy's position was still very firm.

Because of this identity, Tony was bought by the Japanese secret service. His status as a business guide allowed him to come into contact with many national government officials, easily obtain China's military and economic information, and then resell it to the Japanese special organization. Wu Jingyi's investigation is very clear:

"We've also found out about some intelligence leaks in the past, but we always think that something is wrong internally, and we have investigated a lot, but we never thought that it was an Italian who betrayed it. You talked to my husband, and you quickly locked down his spy identity just by virtue of his performance inside and outside the bank, Director Meng, I really admire you. ”

yes, admire.

An Italian who talks and laughs with a Japanese in a sedan is nothing wrong with looking at it from any angle.

Very few people are associated with spies.

Director Meng did it.

The question is, do you really think that Young Master Meng locked on this Italian and was a spy for the Japanese just by relying on a few words?

Think too highly of him.

It's just that when An Guang was talking about this Italian, Meng Shaoyuan's mind suddenly popped up with something that Little Glasses told him back then:

During the Anti-Japanese War, the military commander once secretly arrested an Italian, who was bought to become a spy for the Japanese special agency very early, and the evidence is conclusive.

It was only later that the news of the secret arrest leaked, and under pressure from the Italian side, the Nationalist Government had to release the spy.

It's not just this person, even Tan Zhanchao, the colonel of the new First Army under the famous general Sun Liren, and his original wife, the Italian countess Bianca, are all spies.

So as soon as An Guang mentioned Italians and Japanese, this story immediately came to Meng Shaoyuan's mind.

He asked Wu Jingyi to conduct a secret investigation, but he didn't expect that in only half a day, he had already investigated so clearly.

"Tony has a mistress in Shanghai, the dancer Xu Manke, Tony is very infatuated with her, spends a lot of money on her, and some things that are inconvenient for him to come forward, let Xu Manke help him." Wu Jingyi continued: "Xu Man understands Italian and has been exposed to a lot of Tony's business, so he knows Tony's details very well.

In the morning, I bought off Xu Manke's mother, and when I walked into Xu Manke's bedroom, she hadn't gotten up yet, so I put a pistol and ten gold bars in front of her and asked her to choose by herself. Xu Manke is a smart person, she chose ten small yellow croakers, and then explained everything. ”

Meng Shaoyuan sighed: "So women, it's not trustworthy......"

Well? Seems to be murderous?

Meng Shaoyuan saw Wu Jingyi's cold gaze, and quickly changed his words: "It's not all, it's not all, Assistant Wu, you are different from those women, ah, it's different, it's beautiful." ”

Wu Jingyi snorted coldly.

Young Master Meng's mouth, a deceitful ghost!

Not only that, Wu Jingyi also took out the documents that had been prepared a long time ago, asked Xu Manke to sign them, and pressed his handprint.

It was a letter of allegiance to the military commander.

In other words, Xu Manke will become a military commander from that moment on.

Whether she likes it or not.

Once you join the military, you will be a lifelong spy!

The woman is ruthless, it's terrible.

With such an assistant by his side, Meng Shaoyuan didn't know whether to be happy or to be afraid.

"Immediately pass Xu Manke and capture Tony." Meng Shaoyuan made a decision.

"Director Meng." Wu Jingyi reminded him: "Tommy is a foreigner, and now that the government has cooperation with Italy, I am afraid this matter is a little tricky." In case it leaks out......"

"That's why I said it was a secret catch." Meng Shaoyuan was confident: "Don't let the family know?" ”

He's scared of a fart.

At the end of October, in a few days, Italy will join the German-Japanese "International Agreement Against Industry", and then it will quickly stop all cooperation with China.

By that time, he would be of little use to the national government.

Besides, he secretly captured Tony, not to use him to fight the Japanese special agency or anything, but to have other uses, very big uses.

"Got it, I'll go and prepare it right away." When Wu Jingyi said this, she thought of something: "My position in the field was lost, and our army retreated to western Shanghai on all fronts, and our various action squads, one of which stayed behind the enemy and continued guerrilla operations, followed most of the rest and retreated to western Shanghai. Do I want to give special instructions? ”

"Command." Meng Shaoyuan's expression suddenly became serious: "Stay behind the enemy team, lurk quickly, don't rashly attack the Japanese army, and avoid unnecessary losses." The rest of the ministries entered the concession in batches in rotation for secondary repairs. And began to prepare for the work after the fall of Shanghai. ”

Everyone can see that the fall of Shanghai is already a matter of time.

"Even if Shanghai falls, it will still have to connect the concession and the Japanese-controlled area into a line, and advance and retreat freely. The brothers in the Japanese-controlled area immediately withdrew into the concession as soon as they found that the situation was not right. Meng Shaoyuan sneered: "The public concession is our public concession. Wu Jingyi! ”

"Here!"

"I appoint you as the commander of the army...... That one...... The captain of the special detachment of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang special forces, I am subordinate to all action teams, and they are under your command. ”

Wu Jingyi pouted.

There are only five detachments in total, when did there be a special detachment?

It was he, Young Master Meng, who spoke to himself.

Captain?

That's a nice thing to say.

It is nothing more than coordinating all the agents under his command of Young Master Meng, providing them with support and logistics services, and providing all-round services for the future work in Japan.

Meng Shaoyuan is strong and strong, robbing people everywhere, so many agents, I am afraid that she Wu Jingyi will be troubled in the future.

"That's right." Meng Shaoyuan suddenly thought of something: "What happened to the Sixing Warehouse?" ”

"Xie Jinyuan's battalion?"

In order to cover the westward retreat of the 100,000-strong army, our army counterattacked on all fronts before the 25th, so that the Japanese army did not know its intentions. At this time, Sun Yuanliang, commander of the 88th Division, was ordered by the command to select a firm and resolute officer to lead a small unit to hold the key points and serve as cover. He also demanded that a certain period of time be held in order to win the forthcoming nine-nation pact to condemn Japan's acts of aggression, and at the same time hoped to arouse the attention, sympathy, and solidarity of international public opinion for China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

This difficult and dangerous task can only be accomplished with courage, vigilance, and the belief that we must die.

After thinking twice and making a solemn choice, Commander Sun Yuanliang ordered Xie Jinyuan to lead a battalion of the 524th Regiment to cover after breaking off.

Meng Shaoyuan pondered: "Find a way to send someone to inform Xie Jinyuan, and our military commander is responsible for helping them open a retreat channel, so that they can safely withdraw to the concession after completing the task." ”

"Understood."

"Then go ahead. By the way, by the way, where did you get your ten gold bars? ”

"Yours?"

"Mine?"

"I asked Xu Chengbo to get it."

No way!