On Sunday evening, Wang Yan once again took a car to the vicinity of the consulate to attend a victory banquet for the North China battlefield, hosted by the Japanese Consulate.
The difference was that today's banquet was not held at the same venue as last time, but somewhere else, with the consulate's offices directly upstairs. That was only normal. Other than the International Settlement and the French Concession, the Japanese occupied every part of Shanghai, so they had plenty of venues to choose from.
Of course, the more important reason was that the plot demanded it...
Wang Yan knew very well that at tonight's banquet, Ming Tai and Cheng Jinyun would steal the consulate's deployment information concerning the Third War Zone. This was a key part of the plot.
It was a psychological contest of truth and falsehood. If the Japanese intelligence on the Third War Zone was stolen and Ming Tai was not exposed, then perhaps there would be no Death Spy Plan. After all, if the Third War Zone obtained genuine intelligence and prepared for an enemy who was unaware, it would still be a victory. But Ming Tai was exposed. Although they had not taken the original documents directly and had instead photographed them with a spy camera, once such a thing happened, there would inevitably be risks. The original plan would have to be discarded and other contingency plans activated.
Correspondingly, if the covert acquisition of intelligence failed, the Third War Zone would also draw up a set of false offensive and defensive plans and continue carrying out the Death Spy Plan.
Of course, there was another possibility: the intelligence Ming Tai stole might itself have been a backup plan, in which case there would be other responses. In actual practice, there were no plans