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As my terrifying thoughts fell, Xiao Huo suddenly stopped the car. I couldn't hold back, and I was lying on the back of the front seat, feeling dizzy. Chen Jingyu had already stepped over the front seat with half of his body, and almost grabbed me. The collar yelled at me.

"How do you know?!"

"Chen Jingyu, they got the code wrong, they thought the devils had hit Xinhe, and they were going to set fire to Changsha!" With a pale face, I regarded her as a life-saving straw, and now I don't care if I really shouted the idea in front of me come out.

"Sir, sir, didn't you say that this is confidential, only a few senior officers know..." Xiao Huo panicked and murmured beside Chen Jingyu.My ears are sharp, and I can hear clearly, my brain is still translating the implication of his words, when I looked up, I saw Chen Jingyu's pale face, with an eager expression, but more of a surprise.

"Lu An, tell me the truth, did you secretly intercept the code and decipher it?"

I was still dizzy from the impact of the front brake, so I told the truth when I heard her ask.

"After I finished the code last night, I was testing the radio station and accidentally received a telegram from the Presidential Palace. These telegrams are top secret and are usually heavily encrypted, but I saw the keyword 'Changsha' in the ciphertext before it was burned. In our army's telegram code, the names of people and places have always been unified for convenience. I have memorized the cipher text after returning to China, and I know the code name of 'Changsha'... Now the battle situation is tight. Changsha is in danger after Yueyang falls. I want to know the battle situation..."

"Nonsense!" Chen Jingyu cut me off angrily, "The top secret documents of the party and state, are you supposed to read them! Do you think you are still in Cambridge, where the professor pampers you, the dean loves you, and deliberately opposes fellows? Go stepping on the lawn! Lu An, when will you play with your cleverness, intercepting confidential documents and deciphering them casually, will this greatly satisfy your vanity?"

She scolded me all over my face, and I was so overwhelmed by her scolding that I just subconsciously shook my head and defended in a low voice: "I'm not..."

Chen Jingyu closed her eyes and took a deep breath, as if suppressing her bad emotions.When she spoke again, her tone had softened, "Lu An, you are the cryptography specialist and the hope of the party and the country. Whether we can take the initiative is yours to seize this opportunity. You are the eyes of the army, so if the devil really attacks Here you are, technicians who will be the first to transfer military secrets, so don’t be afraid, I will protect you, and my colleagues will protect you, even if you risk your life, they will protect you and return to Chongqing .”

When she said this, her tone changed from out of breath to calm, as if she was describing something extremely ordinary.

But I was deeply saddened to hear that she was actually insulting me and my uniform.She told me not to be afraid, that she would send me back to Chongqing even if she risked her life. She treated me like an unarmed civilian, not a captain.

I know that the expression on my face must be ugly now, I think my eye sockets are probably red, because it has tears in it, "Is that how you look at me? You think I am afraid of death, I am afraid of war, so I cut it off." This telegram is as big as the whole of China, and the battle lines run from east to west. I intercepted the telegram from Changsha just because I was in Changsha. I wanted to know the battle situation as soon as possible so that I could avoid the war and flee to the rear of Chongqing to save my life. .Is this how you see me?"

Chen Jingyu pursed her lips and said nothing, and I thought she had acquiesced in her silence.

At that moment, I felt only grievance and sadness in my heart. I thought to myself that I would come to this place to suffer if I didn’t study in Cambridge.I am a cipher specialist, and I came from the military command. I know what to intercept and what to translate. However, the more you know, the sooner you will die. This is what I was told on the first day of my tenure.I intercepted and translated the telegram, and I didn't stop and hesitate, knowing that being discovered would be a dead end, but I still deciphered it without hesitation, and still say it now.

I wiped my eyes, leaned back and sat in the shadow cast by the hood, and said in a normal tone: "Then who do you think I am doing this for?"

My voice was too clear. Xiao Huo probably didn't hear it when he was concentrating on driving. As for Chen Jingyu, I don't know if she heard it. Anyway, she didn't answer. From my angle, I could see her resting her head on the seat and closing her eyes.

She's not taking a nap, she's taking a break.

When I saw her action, I knew she had heard that sentence.

I didn't have anything to say for a while, I think we have a very big difference now, I don't even know where the difference came from, it's as inexplicable as if it was blown by the wind.I don't know what she is angry about. Of course, military secrets are not the main reason. If she is so loyal to her party, she should have asked Xiao Huo to tie me up and send me to a military court as early as the first time.

There was silence along the way, until we stopped at the gate of the provincial security office, and Chen Jingyu and I had no further conversations.

Chen Jingyu got out of the car and walked straight in. For some unknown reason, the guards didn't stop her. I guess it might be because she was wearing a military uniform and was very aggressive.When Xiao Huo got out of the car, he still looked at me anxiously, probably not sure if he wanted to leave me alone, but in the end his loyalty prevailed, and he chased after Chen Jingyu with his hand on the holster, walking on the left of Chen Jingyu as usual.

I silently wiped away my tears in the car, and got out of the car after sorting out my emotions. As soon as I entered the lobby of the security department, I heard Chen Jingyu scolding: "I told you, I am a staff officer of the General Staff Headquarters in the theater. Since you have no right to let me I'm going to interrogate, then let Xu Quan come and talk to me!"

"Sir, our Director hasn't been back since yesterday's meeting, and we couldn't find him either."

"call him!"

"This..." Several people in the security department looked at each other, apparently not daring to disturb their superiors in the middle of the night, but they wanted to fool the officer in front of them and did not move for a while.

Chen Jingyu was so angry that he punched the table. I just came in and had a face-to-face meeting with Chen Jingyu. When I saw her getting so angry, I froze immediately.

She was definitely not angry because she was stopped by the security department and couldn't interrogate the Japanese.

I had a bad premonition in my heart, Chen Jingyu gritted his teeth angrily, threw his hand and said to Xiao Huo, "Let's go!"

Xiao Huo followed her like a tail, Chen Jingyu walked up to me, lowered his voice and asked me as he walked: "Where is the 'article' you intercepted?"

I was taken aback, and then I realized that what she was asking about was not the "text" of "composition", but the one I intercepted that was issued by the presidential palace and photographed by Generalissimo Jiang personally to Zhang Zhizhong, chairman of the Hunan provincial government. telegraph.

After I deciphered the original text, the number of words was not much, half vernacular and half classical Chinese, and I could barely understand it. After I understood it, I was in a cold sweat. For the first time, I found that my memory was so good that I couldn’t forget that line of words even if I wanted to.

I saw that although Chen Jingyu was angry, but her expression was solemn, I knew that what she asked was serious.I tremblingly raised my hand to take out the telegram, but she pushed my hand down, "Said the car."

The three of us got into the car again, and Chen Jingyu asked Xiao Huo to drive directly to the security headquarters.

I took the telegram out of the closet and gave it to Chen Jingyu. Chen Jingyu opened it, glanced at it, folded it again, and asked me solemnly, "Who else knows about this?"

"only you."

Chen Jingyu glanced at Xiao Huo, as if weighing whether Xiao Huo was worth trusting.In fact, I missed a sentence just now, as an adjutant, Xiao Huo almost stayed by Chen Jingyu's side and never left. He knew every move of Chen Jingyu, not to mention that I hadn't avoided Xiao Huo before.

It is precisely because he is an adjutant that he is trustworthy.

Chen Jingyu pursed her lips and turned to look at me again: "From now on, forget about it. You haven't intercepted it, and you haven't deciphered it. I won't say anything about it, and neither will Xiao Huo." She said She took out the lighter and directly ignited the telegram, and she threw the last piece of ashes out of the car, and it turned into ashes as soon as the wind blew, "Just pretend it never existed."

Listening to her lightly describe it like this, it seems that millions of lives are just a piece of paper dust, which will be scattered when the wind blows, and if it is scattered, it can be regarded as not existing.This is an obvious act of self-preservation.

My heart suddenly became cold, "In fact, I have already intercepted and deciphered it. I read the content and remembered it." Without waiting for Chen Jingyu to stop me, I quickly recited the content silently: "If Changsha falls, the whole country must be captured." The city will be burned down, so please make proper preparations in advance, so don’t miss it!” [Note 1]

Xiao Huo trembled in fright, the car swayed for a while, and then he straightened him upright, his eyes fixed on the road ahead.

Chen Jingyu sighed, and looked back at me staring at her without hesitation, "Lu An." She softened her tone, "Be obedient, forget about it. I'm looking for a solution now, don't make trouble, this is The scorched-earth policy set by the chairman himself, if Changsha can't keep it, the supplies that we can't transport can't be left to the devils."

"But now the Japanese have not reached Changsha, we are going to burn our own city! What about the people here? What about the buildings here? This is burning the city! If one day we win, we will drive the Japanese back , but what have we left behind? Empty city! Scorched earth! Our fields have no crops, our museums are empty, our buildings and culture are all burned! What's the point of victory?"

"Where the country is, there are people."

"That's your China! That's not mine!"

Chen Jingyu stopped talking, lowered his eyes and handed over Fang Pazi, "Xiao'an, I'm not trying to escape, nor am I afraid of death. I'm trying to figure out a way, but the premise is that I must take the lead. I have the inside story. If I can protect myself, I can also protect you. Can you understand what I mean?"

"I don't understand." I answered her.No matter how much we disagree, I can't let her take the risk.

"Lu An!"

"Sir, sir, sir!" Xiao Huo braked suddenly, and called Chen Jingyu in a panic, "It's burning, look at the south gate, they set it on fire!"

The author has something to say: [Note 1]: The original secret order sent by Jiang Zhongzheng to Hunan Provincial Government Chairman Zhang Zhizhong