1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 3169
As Shi Diwen said, the assassination of high-ranking Haihan officials by the Daming factory guards is actually nothing new.As for this operation commanded by Zhu Zhongyun, the preliminary planning can be traced back to more than a year ago.

When this action plan was first designed, the target was not actually the Executive Committee, but Shi Diwen, the consul of the East China Sea Region, and Beks, who was inspecting Hangzhou on behalf of the Executive Committee.

At that time, there were rumors that Haihan would move the capital to Hangzhou, and Beks' visit further confirmed this rumor.

This is certainly a great benefit for Hangzhou, but for Daming, if Haihan is really established as the capital of Hangzhou, it is definitely not good news.

In the past, although Haihan occupied a lot of territory of Ming Dynasty, and even had a foot in Liaodong region, its capital was located on the remote Hainan Island, which determined that its development focus would only be in the South China Sea region. I thought about making a comeback a little bit.

However, if Haihan moved the capital to Hangzhou, turning the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas into the Gyeonggi region, it may mean that Haihan will shift its development focus to the north, and it will probably take the encroachment of Daming as its first goal in the future.

The cabinet of the Ming Dynasty unanimously believed that once this matter was confirmed, Haihan would definitely station a large number of troops in the area and build defensive facilities to defend Hangzhou.

Send troops to counterattack Jiangsu and Zhejiang, expel Haihan, and regain lost land. Everyone wants to do this, but no one can.The difference in strength between the two armies is obvious. With passion and loyalty alone, it is impossible to defeat the Haihan army with strong ships and guns.

Therefore, the plan to launch a counter-offensive to regain Hangzhou on the frontal battlefield in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was unanimously rejected in the cabinet discussions without any controversy.

No one, including the emperor, thought the plan was feasible, even if it was only theoretical.

But to just sit back and watch Haihan move its capital to Hangzhou and complete the preparations for the embezzlement of Ming Dynasty step by step, the court is really unwilling.

At this time, Jin Yiwei proposed a plan to send people to assassinate the high-ranking officials of Haihan headed by Shi Diwen in Hangzhou City, so as to make Haihan doubt the safety of the capital Hangzhou, and at the worst, let him move the capital The plan stalled for a while.

If it succeeds in one fell swoop, it will definitely deal a heavy blow to Haihan and boost the morale of its own side. If this causes panic among Haihan's high-level officials, the move of Haihan's capital may be cancelled.

The planner was Zhu Zhongyun, but when the senior cabinet officials reviewed the plan, most of them were not optimistic about its prospects.

Because the risk of this plan is too great, no matter whether it succeeds in the end, it may provoke Haihan to restart the war.And the armistice agreement, which was exchanged at a huge price before that, will become a piece of waste paper by then.

This is not a joke, Da Ming finally got a few years to recuperate, and now the peasant army who is in trouble inside has not been completely wiped out, so how can he still have time to resist the offensive of the Haihan army.

Once the war starts, it is very likely that the army will be defeated like a mountain.

But after all, Jin Yiwei is the emperor's personal soldier and has won the emperor's trust, so he still got a chance to explain his plan face to face.

Although Zhu Zhongyun tried his best to persuade the emperor and the cabinet to approve his action plan, but at that time Beks was already on his way to Hangzhou, and the time left for Jin Yiwei to prepare was very limited, which would greatly reduce the probability of success.

Even though Zhu Zhongyun was extremely confident in his plan, he had to admit that this was the biggest shortcoming of the whole plan, and there was no proper solution.

The final result of the discussion was that all parties reached a compromise plan, which is to retain the action plan formulated by Jin Yiwei, but it is not applicable to the implementation at this moment.Jin Yiwei can further improve the plan, make preparations in all aspects, and wait for the next suitable opportunity to appear.

For this reason, the cabinet also allocated a special sum of money to Zhu Zhongyun, asking him to organize a team by himself to prepare for this matter, which can be regarded as giving enough attention.

After receiving the grant, Zhu Zhongyun did three things. One was to personally select manpower and organize targeted training; the other was to find a way to buy high-end weapons produced by Haihan; hiding place.

Zhu Zhongyun is also a veteran who has fought against Haihan for many years, and he knows that Jin Yiwei has also been deeply infiltrated by his opponent. It is hard to say when his action plan can be kept secret.So from the preparation stage, he consciously used many means of blocking information.

The manpower he selected were not members of the Jinyiwei, but recruited from various ministries of the Ming army, divided them into several teams, and arranged them to receive special training in different places.

Each team only knew the part they participated in. As for the entire action plan, even Zhu Zhongyun's boss only knew the whole picture, not the details.

In this way, in case someone defected to the enemy, or was caught by mistake, other teams could still act according to the original plan, minimizing the possibility of interference.

The real estate purchased in Hangzhou was also purchased with completely irrelevant identities, so as not to let the Haihan Security Department follow clues to find Jin Yiwei.

The so-called three caves of the cunning rabbit, he also prepared three hiding places for each team. Although doing so cost a lot of money, it also greatly increased the probability of escape.

As for the choice of weapons, Zhu Zhongyun learned from the failed experience of previous assassination operations. From the beginning of formulating the plan, he gave up traditional weapons and chose to purchase Haihan weapons through special channels.

This channel is a contact that Jin Yiwei has been operating for many years. It is a businessman who has done business in Haihan but is loyal to Daming. standard weapons.

At Zhu Zhongyun's request, this person provided him with four [-]-type rifles produced by Haihan and hundreds of rounds of ammunition for the training of the action team.

Although the performance of the Type [-] rifles is much better than that of the Ming army's own muskets, these guns are too old, and they misfire and jam from time to time. They are obviously on the verge of being scrapped. He used it to carry out the assassination mission, but Zhu Zhongyun was very worried that he would stab Lou Zi at a critical moment.

Moreover, the number of guns is too small, and each team is divided into one gun, which is far from the firepower that Zhu Zhongyun hoped for.If each team can have a few more guns, maybe they can deal with multiple targets at the same time.

After Zhu Zhongyun asked for an increase in supply, the other party said that he could provide multiple [-]-type rifles at one time, but this opportunity was limited to one time, because the few rifles provided to him before were pieced together from parts of scrapped old guns. But Zhu Zhongyun wanted too much, so he could only start directly from the arsenal of the Haihan Army.

If such standard weapons were lost from the army in batches, it would not be possible to hide them for too long. The officer who operated this must be a felony and could only flee immediately after doing it.

And Haihan will definitely track down the whereabouts of the rifle, maybe he will follow the clues to find the businessman, and then implicate Jin Yiwei.

Zhu Zhongyun didn't want to startle the enemy and reveal his purpose prematurely, so he decided to wait until before the official action, and then use this one-time special channel to obtain weapons.

(End of this chapter)