Chapter 900 899 [Deciphering the Code]

About 40 minutes later, Zhou Hexuan was helped into a building and walked upstairs for more than ten steps before the black cloth covering his eyes was removed.

Seeing that Shen Zui was gone, Zhou Hexuan asked, "Where is Xiao Shen?"

The military agent next to him said: "Director Shen is only responsible for spreading news. He has no qualifications to enter this building."

Zhou Hexuan finally began to feel surprised. Shen Zui was now the deputy director and chief inspector of the Inspection Division of the Chongqing Garrison Headquarters. He was also Dai Li's confidant and was an absolutely powerful faction among the military commanders.

Shen Zui is not qualified to enter this building?

"What is this place?" Zhou Hexuan couldn't help but ask.

The agent said: "This floor is the office of the secret code group. Please forgive me for not being able to tell you about the other floors. Please also ask Mr. Zhou not to wander around at will."

Zhou Hexuan asked again: "Why did you bring me here?"

The agent said: "I don't know. I am only responsible for bringing Mr. Zhou here. Please come with me!"

The two soon came to a room with a sign hanging on the door - Team Leader's Room.

The agent knocked on the door and said, "Report! Mr. Zhou has been brought here."

Someone from inside the room immediately came to open the door, shook hands warmly and said, "Mr. Zhou, I am really disturbing you today, I, Wei Daming."

"It turns out to be Director Wei, nice to meet you!" Zhou Hexuan said.

Wei Daming, the director of the Military Telecommunications Division, was responsible for intelligence collection during the Anti-Japanese War and was known as "Dai Li's soul".

Wei Daming invited Zhou Hexuan into the office, made him a cup of tea himself, and explained the reason: "I invited Mr. Zhou here today because I hope you can help me."

Zhou Hexuan poured some froth on his tea and said, "Please speak."

Wei Daming said: "Chongqing is a foggy city, and there is often heavy fog. Logically speaking, it is difficult for Japanese pilots to bomb accurately. But every time Japanese planes bombed Chongqing, it happened to be sunny. Even night bombings could accurately locate the most crowded and prosperous areas. The place."

Zhou Hexuan said: "Do you suspect there are Japanese spies in Chongqing?"

"Definitely, but being able to send information in real time and accurately is something that ordinary spies can't do," Wei Daming sighed. "In fact, we caught a spy at the beginning of the year, but we were able to alert the Japanese invaders." Changing the code is very complicated. I asked Mr. Zhou to come to the code group this time because I hope you can help decipher the Japanese army's telegram."

Zhou Hexuan was speechless and said with a wry smile: "Director Wei, I only know simple Morse code, so I really can't help you."

Wei Daming shook his head and said: "No, this is Mr. Zhou's strength. Through the intercepted Japanese telegrams, we deciphered three English words. After repeated research, those three words should come from an English book. As long as we find out where they are. With this English book, I can easily crack the Japanese secret telegrams. Mr. Zhou is very familiar with Western works, and I heard that you have a photographic memory. I really had no choice, so I thought of asking Mr. Zhou for help."

"Which three words?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

"Mr. Zhou, please take a look." Wei Daming took out a piece of paper.

The words written on the note are: she, pistol and never.

No wonder the people in the secret code group couldn't decipher it. Finding an English book with three words was like finding a needle in a haystack.

It's a pity that Zhou Hexuan has not read Yardley's "China Black Room", otherwise he would definitely be able to point out who the Japanese spy is without even thinking about it.

Of course, the butterfly effect caused small changes in history. The three English words deciphered by the code team were completely different from the words that originally appeared.

Zhou Hexuan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Give me some more tips."

Wei Daming said: "This English book should be more famous in China or Japan, and it should be easier to find in China."

"Why do you say that?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

Wei Daming explained: "Our military commander's control and investigation of Chongqing is very strict. The spy who sent the secret telegram to the Japanese invaders has probably been lurking for a long time, or simply has never left Chongqing. He communicated with the Japanese army in Wuhan using secret codes, which must have Use a relatively common book, otherwise it won’t be easy to get hold of in a short period of time.”

"Let me think about it." Zhou Hexuan closed his eyes.

Wei Daming did not interrupt, but sat quietly and waited.

What English works are famous in China and relatively easy to obtain in Chongqing and Wuhan?

Zhou Hexuan subconsciously thought of a book, and that was his own "Titanic"! The Chinese version of this book has not yet been sold in China, but many English versions have been imported from the United States. It can be said that it is the book with the most English versions in China—second only to the Bible.

Zhou Hexuan recalled carefully and found that he had written three English words: she, pistol and never. Needless to say, she appears very frequently; pistol also appears several times, but the connection between she and pistol should be a dialogue between the heroine's mother and the villain; never is in a narrative after the shipwreck.

Zhou Hexuan opened his eyes and said: "Try "Titanic"."

Wei Daming stood up suddenly, opened the door, and told his secretary: "Go find an English version of "Titanic", now!"

After about an hour, the secretary finally found the book.

Wei Daming took Zhou Hexuan to the code deciphering room and handed the book to a foreigner: "Mr. Yardley, try this book quickly!"

"Okay!" The foreigner did not do it himself, but handed the book to a young man.

Wei Daming introduced: "Mr. Zhou, this is Mr. Yardley, a cryptography expert specially appointed by the military command. Mr. Yardley, this is Mr. Zhou Hexuan, our country's great scholar."

"Hello!"

Zhou Hexuan and Yardley shook hands and greeted each other.

Yeardley is the father of American cryptography and once headed the deciphering section of the US Military Intelligence Agency (the predecessor of the US National Security Agency). He was hired by Dai Li with a monthly salary of US$10,000.

Zhou Hexuan didn't know much about Yardley because he was deliberately ignored by China and the United States after the war, and his book "China's Black Room" was blocked by the United States for more than 40 years. Zhou Hexuan did not have the opportunity to come into contact with this book, and it was impossible for him to deliberately use the Internet to search for relevant information.

To be honest, even if Zhou Hexuan knew this, he would not be able to rely on memory to help decipher the code, because history has changed - the Japanese spies originally used Pearl Buck's "The Earth", but now they use Zhou Hexuan's "Titan" Nick" as a code book.

Catching spies is not the key. The key is to decipher the code and then send wrong information to the Japanese invaders through the code.

Soviet pilot Kurishenko was able to successfully bomb Wuhan W Airport because Yardley sent a message to the Japanese army in Wuhan that there was heavy fog in Chongqing after deciphering the code. This prevented the Japanese aircraft from Wuhan from dispatching that night, and most of them were parked at the airport. As a result, the bombing squadron led by Kurishenko took the blame.

Yeardley's code-breaking efforts in history are as bizarre as making a movie.

First of all, the secret code team did not succeed in finding the English book that served as the code book. Instead, Dai Li's military special agents discovered the Japanese spies. After confirming who the spy was, the military commander did not dare to arrest the person for fear of alerting the enemy. He had to confirm the English book before taking action.

The most amazing thing is that the spy turned out to be a friend Yardley met in the bar.

Even more amazingly, Yeardley had help from another friend he met at a bar. This friend is a woman named Xu Zhen. According to Yardley's account, Xu Zhen should have been Wang Zhaoming's underground lover before he surrendered to the enemy...

Yardley was very courageous. He told all about his identity and the difficulties he faced even though he knew that Xu Zhen and the traitor Wang Zhaoming had a close relationship. Then, Yardley took Xu Zhen to the spy's house as a guest. On the way, the spy heard the air defense siren and left. Yardley chatted and stabilized the spy's girlfriend, and asked Xu Zhen to go to the spy's study and finally find the English book.

Although this strange woman named Xu Zhen had been Wang Zhaoming's lover, she made great contributions to the Anti-Japanese War and was eventually assassinated by Japanese agents.

After dozens of codebreakers were busy, in less than an hour, someone came to report happily: "Director Wei, Mr. Yardley, we have compared and tested more than ten Japanese telegrams that were recently intercepted. The codebooks they used It’s Titanic!”

"Well done!"

Yardley hugged Zhou Hexuan and slapped him on the shoulder: "Zhou, you have done me a big favor."

"You have helped the Chinese people a lot." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

Yardley's dozens of codebreakers were all overseas students who had returned from Japan, because most of the Japanese army's telegram codes used Japanese letters. Who said students studying in Japan are useless? At least these telegram codebreakers intercepted countless Japanese military intelligence during the Anti-Japanese War.