Chapter 382: Leaking secrets

(… Sometimes I doubt what color of underwear I change every day ** I know. There are too many spies they arranged in our internal place, and they are completely unpredictable; we caught a lot, but it seems that we can't catch them all... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

The military meeting was held in the afternoon. In order to highlight Cao Xiaomin's status, Chiang Kai-shek arranged for him to be the submitter and explainer of the entire plan. This seemed to be a very glamorous task. Cao Xiaomin's speech ran through the audience, but in fact it was a exhausting task. Cao Xiaomin submitted the plan while his mind was constantly moving, because he had to participate in the refutation of some objections, especially those from the opposite camp at any time.

It was very surprising that the representative of ** had no refutation of the plan outline at all! According to common sense, all military deployments were proposed by the General Staff. Even if the ** side felt it was reasonable, there should be refutations, but there was no, not one!

"Although General Cao's proposal still has some discussions on the arrangement of troops, there is nothing to add in the general direction..." When Cao Xiaomin finished his statement and looked at Chiang Kai-shek with a little suspicious look, Zhu De, the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, who looked like an old peasant, made the first speech: "In the previous period of continuous battles, the various units of the China Democratic Revolutionary Army suffered heavy losses, and the 18th Group Army participated in many large-scale battles. This time it was understandable to push us to the forefront of multiple operations; I will only mention a little, materials! As long as we are given enough combat materials, we can fully deploy defenses according to this plan!"

Traitor! The first word that appears in Cao Xiaomin's mind is traitor!

According to his plan, in the first round of deployment, the main forces of the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army were almost pushed to the contact surface with the enemy. The ** side would never accept such an arrangement; then, you can retreat a little, then retreat into my encirclement! This is Cao Xiaomin's idea, but he did not expect that Zhu De would take all the cards he played out! Although he couldn't figure out the reason for this, since the ** side did not follow his own layout at all and did not follow every step, there was only one possibility: his plan was leaked, and after research, the ** side concluded that they still had a good way to get out of trouble according to this deployment, and absolutely had it!

Cao Xiaomin looked at He Yingqin: "You have to ask Minister He about this material..."

There is still some time before the afternoon break, how can I drag it over? Cao Xiaomin was really confused. He was ready to twist ** and twist it with himself, but he didn't expect it to go completely with him. Now he has no idea how to deal with it!

Before He Yingqin could answer, Cao Xiaomin spoke again. He kicked the ball to He Yingqin, which was actually like a professional player asking him to fall down. Just a small pause made him sort out his thoughts.

"Of course, Minister He will not answer now; because you have to wait until President Zhu gives a reasonable explanation, why do you need those supplies..." Cao Xiaomin recovered. After asking a seemingly boring question, he continued: "I remember reading some material replenishment records for the 18th Army. Your supply standards are based on the same supply of the regular combat troops of the Central Army. However, from the combat records, I didn't see any battles that you can take to the table. I think your surplus supplies should be not small, right?"

Cao Xiaomin was a little proud: If you say it is not enough, then you can only admit that you have privately expanded the army without the central government's consent; if you have not expanded the army, that is enough!

"General Cao, you think of horses quickly and don't eat grass!" Zhu De's voice was not small, but his face was very gentle and he smiled: "You haven't fought a war. Don't you know how much the loss of those weapons is? If you don't win a battle, it's normal to lose one-third of the guns alone? Is the number that the Ministry of Military Affairs gave us really enough?"

Cao Xiaomin can argue with Zhu De for one day in the debate on numbers, but Cao Xiaomin didn't want this. What he wanted was to find out what Zhu De really wanted! Obviously, Zhu De just did not expose the number of the Eighth Route Army. This was an open secret, but Zhu De still hid. Why? Did Zhu De only intend to use the number of the 18th Army recorded in the central government to participate in the war? He did not dare to drive the large army in? This means that the ** side already knew my intentions?...

"Okay, whether it's enough or not enough, this is an endless debate. So what I want to know is the amount you requested. Are you prepared?" Cao Xiaomin looked at Zhu De with a smile. If you are even ready, then the ** side has really taken measures to deal with it.

"I came to the conclusion that the combat materials were insufficient based on the combat plan. I have to calculate carefully how much is needed..." Surprisingly, Zhu De was not ready! Cao Xiaomin was completely disgusted. Why is this? No, this is a negotiation strategy, and they should have prepared it!

"I think some specific numbers or questions about whether they should be asked should be put aside first, and everyone will discuss it before continuing. I want to know some specific things, such as how you plan to set up defenses in each defense zone!" Cao Xiaomin asked.

"We are not familiar with our defense zone, and we only know it after the command issued an order; so how to defend is still necessary to conduct on-site inspections to determine. We just accept the task in a spirit of fighting against Japan and being responsible for it..." Zhu De's tone of the words showed a very disproportionate sleekness that was very unfavorable to his appearance, and once again flashed with Tai Chi...

One afternoon, the Battle of Wuhan seemed to be like the 18th Army fighting; one afternoon, it seemed that only Cao Xiaomin and Zhu De were in a meeting. Cao Xiaomin was very tired. He knew why Jiang, Li and Bai didn't speak. They were also confused by the response of **, and they were also thinking. Cao Xiaomin also knew why Zhou Enlai, who was the best eloquent and eloquent in terms of **, did not speak, because it was not his turn! After finally wasting a long time, Cao Xiaomin finally stood up until the end of the first day of the meeting, which made Cao Xiaomin very angry.

"There are traitors among us!" When Cao Xiaomin came to Chiang Kai-shek, he said something softly, and Chiang Kai-shek nodded slightly. He waved and asked Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and Cao Xiaomin to follow him into the conference room.

"It is obvious that the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army is not afraid of facing the Japanese army, but they do not want to fall into our siege. What does this mean? They know the time of the Japanese attack!" Bai Chongxi said to Cao Xiaomin: "** There are very advanced spies who directly understand some of the decisions of the Tokyo Base Camp, and at least have the opportunity to get information that is enough to infer the time of the military operation."

"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Lie! Today is a headache..." Li Zongren said: "It is obvious that our plan is clear. They also have very high-level spies here, which is enough to understand our entire plan!"

"I'll let Yunong come here!" Chiang Kai-shek's spirit before the meeting disappeared, and instead looked tired.

"I think this way, concentrate all the meeting minutes and watch the situation develop; they will never figure out all the details, right? Look at what details they made mistakes, and then compare our decisions to see who are in the meeting, including clerks, etc. At least after excluding some of the people, we will be easier to find out who is the traitor..." Cao Xiaomin suggested.

Li Bai and the other two were not, Chiang Kai-shek was not, he was not himself, Chen Cheng was not... Although Cao Xiaomin didn't have rich historical knowledge, he at least knew who had gone to Taiwan among the few officials!

"I remember that some meetings were not all present at the same time, like Ci Xiu was not present before making a plan, like when the final decision meeting of the defense zone was arranged, no one was present except for the four people here..." Cao Xiaomin thought hard.

At this time, the attendant brought the most advanced meeting records, and the others were tortured by fatigue. Only Cao Xiaomin, the most tired, picked up the meeting records to read. After a while, Cao Xiaomin arranged a lot of lists, just like playing a game, one by one was cut out and arranged there...

Dai Li came, and he respectfully presented everyone, including Cao Xiaomin, who was much younger than him. How dare Cao Xiaomin take it? He quickly replied.

Knowing that this smart spy leader was coming, Cao Xiaomin didn't want to show his shame anymore and said casually: "Those are better left to Boss Dai, I can't play with it..."

Dai Li actually stuck out his tongue mischievously: "I'm just a waiter..." It's obvious that he came to Cao Xiaomin's words, Boss Dai, and everyone laughed together.

"I've heard that Director Dai has an amazing memory. Now, let's take Director Dai?" Bai Chongxi might have felt so depressed, so he simply joked with Dai Li and Cao Xiaomin: "General Cao found someone among so many people who appeared the most in the meeting except for the four of us. The name General Cao was written there. Maybe some people will appear the same number of times, it depends on who you are looking for, right?"

"This..." Cao Xiaomin shrugged: "Okay, it takes ten minutes for each person, no, five minutes, how about it?"

"Believe it or not, I can find one in one second?" Dai Li smiled.

"One second? This is impossible!" Cao Xiaomin really couldn't believe there was such a genius!

"It's not enough if there are too many, one can!" Dai Li walked to Cao Xiaomin, picked up the meeting minutes and said, "I glanced at these records. They were the handwriting of the same person..."

"It's so speculative..." Li Zongren laughed as soon as he heard this, and the others laughed together... Suddenly, I don't know who started, and the laughter stopped abruptly!

Including Dai Li who just came in, there are five people in the room, and I look at you...

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Chapter completed!