The transportation in Cambodia is extremely backward. Pan Qiwu judged that after Zuo Shaoqing crossed the border and entered Cambodia via Dalat Mountain, she had only one way to go, which was to take a train from Phnom Penh to Bangkok, Thailand.
There is only one railway in Cambodia, which was built with the help of the French in 1931. It runs from Phnom Penh via Kampong Chhnang, Matwang, and Sisophon to the Cambodia-Thailand border city of Poipet, and then enters Thailand to reach Bangkok.
But for Zuo Shaoqing to reach Phnom Penh from the Cambodia-Vietnam border, it was a long journey with almost no means of transportation. She might have to walk, and there would be very few opportunities to hitchhike.
Pan Qiwu understood this on the plane and felt that he was more certain to complete the mission and had plenty of time. Now, he is focusing his attention on Phnom Penh, especially around the Phnom Penh Railway Station. He believes that left
Shaoqing will definitely appear at Phnom Penh Railway Station.
At twelve o'clock at night, Pan Qiwu and his entourage got off the plane at the dilapidated Bochengtong Airport, located west of Phnom Penh. The person who came to pick him up was Jiang Shanyan, the leader of the Cambodian team of the Intelligence Bureau. He did not go
Jiang Shanyan arranged hotel accommodation for him, but went directly to Phnom Penh Railway Station.[
Together with Jiang Shanyan, he repeatedly inspected the environment around the train station. Although it was in the dark night and the surrounding dilapidated houses and narrow lanes constituted an extremely complex terrain, Pan Qiwu still saw that a watertight net could be formed here.
He took out a photo of Zuo Shaoqing and handed it to Jiang Shanyan, stared at him with bright eyes and said: "Team Leader Jiang, you must not let this person leave Phnom Penh, this is a death order!"
It was late in the afternoon of the next day, and Pan Qiwu had just set up a dragnet at the Phnom Penh Railway Station. Zuo Shaoqing arrived in Phnom Penh exhausted as expected. Her first destination was the Phnom Penh Railway Station.
Two days later, Du Ziyuan, Qin Donghai and others also tracked them to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. However, they were a step too late.
These four words, "lucky luck", sometimes you really get it right.
In fact, Pan Qiwu, who was mature and cautious and wanted to win back Ye Gongjin's trust, still underestimated Zuo Shaoqing.
He believes that although the Cambodia-Vietnam border is not far from Phnom Penh, transportation is inconvenient. From the border, you have to walk or take a ride, plus you have to evade the police and the army. Therefore, Zuo Shaoqing must have set up a trap before arriving in Phnom Penh.
But Zuo Shaoqing's wisdom and ability were not comparable to those of Pan Qiwu. In addition, she had a stack of two hundred US dollars in her backpack, so she easily rented a truck and went straight to Phnom Penh.
However, God unexpectedly did Pan Qiwu a favor, causing Zuo Shaoqing to be delayed for two days, and unknowingly stepped into the trap that Pan Qiwu had specially set for her.
The problem was that when Zuo Shaoqing rented the truck and was about to hit the road, all the roads and alleys on the Cambodia-Vietnam border were suddenly blocked by the army and police, and no vehicles were allowed to pass. Therefore, Zuo Shaoqing's time to finally hit the road was delayed.
for two days.
The army and police blocked the border road in order to hunt down a man named Ta Chun. This is a small thing, but for every Cambodian, it is a big thing. This matter must be learned from Cambodia and Vietnam
Let’s talk about an unsolved case in the history of the two countries that has been entangled for more than four hundred years.
From the perspective of Cambodia, the Mekong River Delta and the area south of what is now Vietnam, including Saigon City (today's Ho Chi Minh City), known as the Paris of the East, were once part of Cambodia. Around the 16th century, the then Vietnamese King General
The sixth princess married King Jizhede of the Kingdom of Cambodia. The sixth princess was married, but her heart was still with her mother's family. She actually used the favor of her new marriage to ask King Jizhede for the Mekong River and other
A large piece of land in the southern region was given to his father. It was really unjust for such a daughter-in-law not to take off her pants and spank her. Later, this sad territory was called "
"Lower Cambodia", the two countries have been in constant dispute over this land for hundreds of years. Later, the French colonists made a settlement for them and assigned "Lower Cambodia" to Vietnam. They called this land "osoxne"
, meaning "the land begged by the Sixth Princess". This is a problem that Cambodians still can't let go of.
From the perspective of Vietnam, how can the ambitions of the Vietnamese be satisfied by a mere delta? From 1858, France began to colonize the Indochina Peninsula, and by 1893, it had conquered Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
Form a "French Federation of Indochina". This "Federation" gave the Vietnamese a lot of room for imagination. In February 1930, Ho Chi Minh presided over the establishment of the "Communist Party of Indochina" (listen to the name) in Hong Kong.
), and also specially established a Laos branch and a Cambodian branch under this party. Ho Chi Minh also passed a resolution at the founding conference to prepare for the establishment of the "Indochina Socialist Federation" in these three countries after the success of the revolution in the future. This
The Vietnamese have never given up on ideas. In 1975, after the reunification of north and south Vietnam, the Vietnamese army first took control of Laos, which was then Laos. In 1978, it launched a comprehensive military campaign against Cambodia.
The purpose of the invasion was still for their "Indochina Federation". Although this military invasion ultimately failed, the Vietnamese still did not give up this dream.
This was the historical background before and after Zuo Shaoqing escaped from Vietnam in 1957.
Prior to this, in the Cambodian general election in 1955, King Sihanouk took control of the parliament in order to maintain his dominance in Cambodia, announced that he would give up the throne and become a prince. From then on, he was called Prince Sihanouk.
He also formed the "People's Social Alliance" as his main force in the parliamentary elections. In order to strengthen his momentum, he roped in the more prestigious people in the society at that time into the "alliance". Among these people was Lon Nol (19
This was the man who launched the military coup in 1970 and dethroned Prince Sihanouk), Ta Chun (this man was once the main leader of the famous anti-French armed force "Issara"), Song Shuang (he later became Sihanouk)
An important adviser to Croak. In 1982, he became the prime minister of the coalition government of Democratic Kampuchea), Shen Hua (he founded the first Cambodian newspaper in Cambodian history). In the general election of this year, Prince Sihanouk led the "
The People's Social Alliance won a resounding victory.
At this time in April 1957, the above-mentioned Tha Xuan secretly went to the Republic of South Vietnam for unknown motives, secretly negotiated with President Ngo Dinh Diem, and planned to overthrow the Sihanouk government and establish a pro-South Vietnam government.
, a pro-American government, and at the same time secretly discussed the establishment of the "Indochina Federation". When Sihanouk received the news, he couldn't help but became furious and ordered the army and police to block the Cambodia-Vietnam border and hunt down Tachun.
Surprisingly, although this Tachun had organized a team and engaged in armed struggle, he was an incurable "addict". When he abandoned his car and fled for his life in the mountains and forests, he suffered from drug addiction and fell to the ground. He was chased
The soldiers shot him to death indiscriminately.
It was because of this incident that Zuo Shaoqing was delayed two days before setting off on her journey. When she finally arrived at Phnom Penh Railway Station, Pan Qiwu had already laid a dragnet at the train station.
This makes people very sad, maybe Zuo Shaoqing should have such a disaster in his life. This disaster also made Du Ziyuan and Zuo Shaoqing, lovers of nearly twenty years, miss each other even though they were close at hand.[
As mentioned before, Du Ziyuan and Qin Donghai arrived in Phnom Penh two days later. But when they arrived, Zuo Shaoqing had already been imprisoned in the national prison south of Phnom Penh. The matter of her being imprisoned will be discussed later.
Slow narration.
Let’s talk about Du Ziyuan first.
At the meeting in the top-floor conference room of the Liuguo Hotel, the two deputy ministers of the Central Investigation Department personally explained the situation and seriously explained the tasks, which doubled Du Ziyuan's pressure and made him extremely anxious. An incident happened in Cam Ranh Bay, far away in South Vietnam.
It was beyond his imagination that the assassination case was so closely related to whether China could obtain the technology to manufacture atomic weapons.
When he asked Qin Donghai to prepare, he immediately contacted the Air Force through his connections. He learned that the Air Force had a transport plane that was about to fly to Nanning. However, the plane was carrying secret supplies, and the Air Force did not agree to Du Ziyuan's flight. In the end, he still
The "authorization" from the Central Office worked, and the Air Force reluctantly allowed them to board the plane.
Du Ziyuan and Qin Donghai made urgent preparations and hurriedly boarded the plane with a Vietnamese translator and a beautiful student union president and party branch secretary Long Jinyun who had just graduated from Peking University last year.
Five hours later, the plane landed at Nanning Military Airport. Two comrades from the Guangxi Investigation Bureau were already waiting for them at the airport. Without any delay, Du Ziyuan immediately got into the car that picked them up and went to a quiet road behind the Guangxi Autonomous Region Government.
The investigation bureau in the side street.
In the small conference room of the Guangxi Investigation Bureau, two comrades personally sent by Du Ziyuan to investigate the cause of the interruption of the Jinlan Bay communication line were nervously waiting to report to him.
As soon as he entered the conference room, Du Ziyuan pointed at them and said, "Tell me what's going on." Before he could sit down, he pointed at them.
The report is very simple. The Cam Ranh Bay connection line is manned transportation, and there are no problems at all points from Beijing to here. The problem is after entering Vietnam. Five days ago, they sent a traffic officer to enter Vietnam secretly as usual, with the purpose
It was to check the traffic conditions of the traffic line. But the traffic officer has not come back yet. They are very uneasy because of this, but they don't know what to do.
Du Ziyuan's face was stern, and he stared at the two people opposite him coldly. He sat at the table without speaking for a long time. The expressions of the two people were even more nervous. They did not complete the work assigned by Deputy Director Du himself. This was a
A dereliction of duty acceptable to the law.
Qin Donghai was also very serious. He knew that this trip was an important mission. Although he did not know the details of the mission.
Long Jinyun was frightened by this scene. After graduating from college last year, she studied in the investigation department cadre training class for half a year and graduated with honors. This was the first time she took on an important task. She looked at the two people opposite her uneasily.
Comrade, I am very worried about them.
The atmosphere in the conference room became quiet and uneasy.
