1627 Rise of the South China Sea

There was a seal on the wooden box, and the cover was nailed to death. It seemed that the recipients had not had time to open the box and inspect the goods before they were chased by the security department and ransacked the house.

Gong Shiqi took the waist knife he had seized just now, used it as a crowbar, and pried open the cover of the box in two or three strokes.

This wooden box, which is one foot wide and four feet long, is wrapped in a layer of oilcloth.After tearing off the tarpaulin, the expressions of the surrounding audience changed drastically when they saw what was inside, and some people even exclaimed.

Four rifles were placed neatly on the tarpaulin, and the gaps were filled with dry straw.

Gong Shiqi didn't make a sound, reached out and took out one of the rifles, weighed it in his hand, checked the body of the gun again, and then said to Qu Shengfeng: "Type [-] rifle, the number of the gun has been worn off. This Helping guys sneak into Hangzhou is here to do great things!"

While speaking, he took out another box of ammunition from the straw, which was wrapped in oiled paper, but the position where the serial number was printed on the package had also been torn off.

Qu Shengfeng was also quite surprised at this time: "So the boxes of things they transported into the city with the help of Wang Yuan are all rifles!"

Gong Shiqi said with a gloomy face: "It seems that we can't just rely on us to investigate this case... You should notify the places that should be notified as soon as possible, and let them send someone here to meet...I'll go to the trial first Prisoner!"

Qu Shengfeng didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to notify the relevant yamen.

The 1633-type rifle is a rifle model that was mass-produced by Sanya Tiandu Arsenal in 20 and installed in the army.Although this is an old-style weapon more than [-] years ago, it is still in production because of its relatively stable performance, simple structure and convenient maintenance, and the military has always maintained a considerable equipment scale.

There are at least a thousand Type [-] rifles that have reached the normal scrapping period every year.These scrapped rifles may fall into the hands of some unknown buyers at high prices through smuggling channels and underground black markets.

The gun number engraved on the gun body is information that can be used to track the source of the gun, and will naturally be cleared by the seller in advance.Most of these rifles with their numbers worn off were resold from the arsenal of a certain army in the name of being scrapped.

But even without the serial number of the gun, it is not impossible to trace it.For example, now that the downstream buyers have been captured, they should be able to find some relevant information more or less.

However, the search for the source of the guns can be delayed for a while. The most important task at the moment is to quickly find the whereabouts of the other boxes, otherwise there will be chaos in the future.

Among the four people who were blocked in the yard, one was shot dead on the spot, two were shot and injured and were receiving medical treatment, and only one surrendered in time without being shot.

The object of Gong Shiqi's interrogation was the guy who surrendered.Since this person didn't dare to fight to the end just now, it means that his determination to die is not so firm, and it should be easier to open a breakthrough from him.

Gong Shiqi walked into the room and saw the guy knelt on the ground with his hands handcuffed behind his back, and two people behind him put their hands on his shoulders to prevent him from violently resisting.

Gong Shiqi sat down on the chair without hesitation, and said to the man, "I am Gong Shiqi from the Haihan Security Department. Since you are Jinyiwei, you should have heard of my name."

When the man heard Gong Shiqi identify himself, his body couldn't help trembling.

Gong Shiqi's reputation in Ming Dynasty's intelligence department is like a devil from hell. According to legend, those who fall into his hands will not be able to escape the fate of being skinned and cramp.

Jin Yiwei even once issued a huge reward for Gong Shiqi, but those who tried to get the money basically never returned.Even the commander who set up the reward died unexpectedly during a tour of the south of the Yangtze River, and no one mentioned it after that.

Gong Shiqi said in a deep voice: "Listen well, I only give you one chance to live! If you confess honestly, I will protect you from death. If you want to play tricks with me, I will let you see your naked body with your own eyes. How did it get picked off!"

The man pursed his dry lips, and asked tentatively, "Really...can you not die?"

Gong Shiqi said: "If you want to save your life, you have to take the blame and make meritorious deeds, understand? If the information you recruit can come in handy, your dog's life can be saved!"

About an hour later, the heads of various relevant departments rushed to the small courtyard where the incident happened.

Dai Chengrong, the head of the Second Regiment of the [-]th Division of the Hangzhou Garrison, Li Qingyang, the head of the Special Liaison Office of the East China Sea Region, Qu Shengfeng's immediate superior, Lin Nan, the person in charge of the East China Sea Region from the security department, and some other local officials, all He rushed over as soon as he received the news.

After checking the box of Type [-] rifles they seized, they all gasped.

It would be fine if this happened at another time, just follow up the clues slowly, but tomorrow the big figures of the executive committee will come to Hangzhou for inspection, and at this juncture, they found that a batch of rifles were smuggled into the city by personnel suspected of being the Imperial Guard of the Ming Dynasty , who dares to sit idly by.

Gong Shiqi succinctly explained the current situation to them: "At least four such boxes were transported into Hangzhou City this morning, and what you saw was only one of them."

"There is no definite information about the whereabouts of the other boxes. Our opponent is Jin Yiwei. They are divided into several teams. Each team has an independent action plan. The people we caught did not know the other teams. hiding place."

"But we have confirmed one thing. The purpose of their sneaking into Hangzhou City is to wait for an opportunity to assassinate important people in our country in the near future! Before these people came to Hangzhou, they had received a month of shooting training."

"The numbers on these rifles have been worn off, and the ship that delivered them to Hangzhou has also fled, so it is not possible to trace their source for the time being, and it is impossible to confirm whether any weapons have been transported into the city through other channels."

"Everyone, I don't need to say more about what day tomorrow is. If something goes wrong, even if you grow ten heads, you won't be able to pay for it. We must take action as soon as possible to catch these dangerous people before tomorrow!"

After listening to Gong Shiqi's explanation, everyone's expressions were not very good-looking.

Of course, this is not the first time that the Daming factory guards have formulated this kind of assassination plan. In the past 30 years, there have been eighty if not a hundred similar plans that have been foiled by Haihan.

But before that, most of the plans of the Daming factory guards used tricks such as poisoning, assassination, and kidnapping. For the first time ever.

The effective range of the [-]-type rifle is more than [-] feet, which is far beyond the warning distance of the bodyguard, and its lethality is even more unmatched by traditional weapons.In a big city environment like Hangzhou, it is not easy to rely on traditional security measures to prevent rifles from aiming and shooting at long distances.