1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 574
The opinion put forward by Lin Nan is not nonsense. If the opponents hiding in the dark are not evaded by the situation, then they may choose to abandon the assassination after sensing the danger and continue to hide their whereabouts.In that case, the security department can only arrest Huang Zixing directly, and it is very likely that the big fish will be scared away instead.But the current situation is that Haihan's ruling foundation in Qiongzhou Island is strengthening every day, and Ming's influence will only decrease over time.If they want to resist Haihan's rule, there is indeed not much time left for these restless people. Even if they have to take a certain risk, these people will not give up this rare opportunity.

But now the reactionary literati Huang Zixing is no longer the main target for the Ministry of Security. Those who are hiding behind him are the opponents that the Ministry of Security must seriously deal with.So the reactionary literati conspiracy case being investigated locally, and the Jinyiwei espionage case directly supervised by the Executive Committee, two cases that seemed to have no connection at first, are now being investigated together.Of course, this is a good thing for the Ministry of Security. It can better deploy the already tense local field staff to monitor higher-value targets.

Half a day later, many spies who had been transferred from the vicinity of Zhongming Academy returned to their posts a few days ago.Not only did they have to monitor the people entering and leaving Zhongming Academy, but they also wanted to include the mountains and forests near Zhongming Academy.Especially the person who secretly meets Huang Zixing every few days in the forest behind the academy is an important target for them to find.Li Qingyang even thought that the person hiding in the mountains was the Jin Yiwei officer who hid his whereabouts, but Wang Baisuo felt that this could not explain the packages that Huang Zixing carried every time he returned to the academy—even if he wanted to send food and clothing, it should be Huang Zixing going from the academy to the mountains It makes sense to send.

"Are there any villages and towns near this forest?" Lin Nan interrupted their argument and asked.

Wang Baisuo immediately ordered someone to bring a map and spread it on the table, pointing to the map and explaining: "The closest to Zhongming Academy is actually Danzhou City, but Huang Zixing chose to meet outside the city, presumably the person who meets him does not live in the city, And the nearest town nearby also has to cross a mountain ridge...about seven or eight miles of mountain road!"

"Send someone to monitor that town!" Lin Nan immediately ordered: "If there are officers from the former Daming Guard Army or blacksmiths in the town, they must be monitored!"

When Lin Nan mentioned this point, Wang Baisuo responded understandingly: "These people must need weapons if they want to enter the city to assassinate. Even if they can buy firecrackers from the black market, they can't bring them into Danzhou City, so they can only find ways to get them. Some sharp weapons that can be carried around! The blacksmith shops in the city have long been under our surveillance, and if they want to make sharp weapons, they probably can only find a way from the villages and towns."

"Moreover, if there is no one who knows how to lead the army to take the lead in a multi-person operation, it will only be a mess. Huang Zixing may be able to manage an academy, but he probably doesn't have the ability to organize an assassination operation." Li Qingyang also immediately added.He himself was born in Jinyiwei, so of course he is very aware of the gap between professional level and amateur players in terms of organization ability and action ability.Relying solely on the sour literati of Zhongming Academy can't do much, at most it is like the task assigned by Huang Zixing to Zhang Qianzhi, trying to create some chaos at critical moments to disrupt order and confuse the public.As for the assassination by hand, it must be done by people with basic skills. Soldiers who have received special training in killing skills are obviously the best choice.

Lin Nan continued: "Based on the way they transmit information, it is impossible for those involved in the assassination plan to be too far away from Danzhou, otherwise it would be difficult to communicate the details of the operation in a timely manner. Qingyang, what do you think?"

Li Qingyang naturally understood the meaning of Lin Nan's question, and quickly responded: "The training I received in the past in a humble position, in a situation like this, those who participated in the operation would not all enter the city to lurk before the start, but there must be eyes and ears in the city .Since this Zhongming Academy is a hideout, it is very likely that the eyes and ears lurking in the city are also sent in series by people from the academy. We can follow the clues and find them both offline and offline. If the person in charge is the Jinyiwei officer, then It's easier to handle, even though it was only a hundred households before, the humble staff still basically knows the way Jinyiwei handles affairs."

Lin Nan nodded and said, "Director Wang will be in charge of the part outside the city this time, and you will be in charge of the part inside the city. The special service team brought from the base camp will be temporarily handed over to you to command."

"You must do your best in a humble job!" Li Qingyang hurriedly got up and clasped his fists in response.

For such a big matter, even Lin Nan didn't dare to authorize it arbitrarily, so he sent a telegram back to Sanya on the same day to report to the headquarters.The headquarters sent a reply the next day, asking Danzhou to handle the case properly.In addition to giving them sufficient authority to act, they also mobilized a group of capable people from the base camp again, and set off for Danzhou by boat today for reinforcements.

In addition, the military that had been notified was not idle, and immediately dispatched a company of troops from Changhua and Qiongzhou Fucheng, and secretly stationed near Danzhou, ready to reinforce local operations at any time.

Before the opponent was even aware of it, the Ministry of Security had already completed the preliminary layout in Danzhou. Although it could not be called an impenetrable net, but now it has mastered the node of Zhongming Academy, as long as the opponent has inside and outside Danzhou It will be difficult to hide from the monitoring of the Ministry of Security.Moreover, the goal that the Ministry of Security wants to achieve now is not to defuse the assassination of the reactionaries, but to uproot the underground network involved in this matter and wipe them out.

Of course, in addition to monitoring these people, the Ministry of Security has another task, which is to ensure the personal safety of the Haihan chiefs who are currently working in Danzhou.

From a purely functional point of view, this task is not entirely the responsibility of the Security Department. After all, the Security Department is in charge of intelligence and security work, and the protection of the personal safety of the traversers is mainly carried out by the special security team directly under the Executive Committee.But today's situation is quite special. In order to prevent people from taking advantage of the opportunity, the Ministry of Security has to send people to follow the traverser to avoid danger caused by poor information.

At present, apart from Zhang Xin, there are six or seven people from the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Shipping, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs working in Danzhou. The authority is relatively enlarged.However, the standard security personnel stationed abroad are only two to four security personnel per capita. Because of the deep penetration and good political situation in Danzhou, it is allocated according to two security personnel per capita.However, under the current situation, even with the addition of additional manpower from the Ministry of Security, this configuration still does not appear to be particularly stable.

In the early morning of February 2, Wang Tom led a platoon of troops to land at Baimajing Wharf in Danzhou Bay.He received an order from the executive committee to temporarily hand over the task of leading the fleet to block the Qiongzhou Strait to his deputy, and led a small team of people to disguise himself as a caravan and sneak into Danzhou City to station in a low-key manner.

The platoon that Wang Tom brought to Danzhou was not an ordinary navy soldier, but a marine corps that was being secretly trained by the navy.These soldiers are all "veterans" who joined the army in 1627-1628, and generally have the experience of participating in actual combat outside Qiongzhou.Their original establishment was in the army. After the establishment of the navy the year before last, they transferred to the navy.Moreover, the vast majority of this group of people are ordered by Wang Tom himself. It can be said that he has been planning the Marine Corps since before the establishment of the Navy.

After these people were selected into the navy by him for "using power for personal gain", most of the drill content was formulated and executed by him. Of course, it was actually copying some of the more mature training methods of special forces that he knew.Due to the rather limited scale of the establishment, Wang Tom also abandoned the army's usual rotary gun formation, and adopted Qian Tiandun's method of forming the special operations force, using short-range high-destructive weapons as the main firepower output.Even the equipment of individual soldiers was basically the same as that of Qian Tiandun's troops.

The difference is that this unit has a stronger amphibious combat capability, not just a landing battle, even in sea combat, these soldiers can also perfectly play the roles of sailors, gunners, etc., not just the army packed on board Musketeers.

For Wang Tom, who built this unit with one hand, the Marine Corps can also be regarded as his personal soldiers to a certain extent. Commanding this elite unit requires orders from the Executive Committee and the Military Commission. He, the commander, must also nod in agreement.

At present, the two military officials are both in Qiongbei, and Yan Chujie is in Fucheng. He cannot get away from the things he has to take care of, so Wang Tom, who has just returned from the Natuna Islands, leads a team to Danzhou to strengthen this The personal security of the people traveling through the area.

Tom Wang's arrival seemed to have a backbone for the anxious local garrison and the Ministry of Security.The Danzhou Management Committee had already prepared an inn for them in the city early on, and vacated all the rooms, just to make things easier for them to check in.

Wang Tom was also unambiguous, and when he arrived, he called all the local traversers together and held a short meeting for them. 24-hour guards must be arranged by your side, and you are not allowed to leave the city unless there are special circumstances, and you are not allowed to leave the guards' sight to act alone, and you are not allowed to contact unknown persons alone, etc.

Wang Tom also issued a stab-proof vest to each of them, requiring them to wear it when going out for activities or socializing in the near future.This thing is also one of the military supplies purchased by their North American gang for the Preparatory Committee before they joined the group, and it is produced by PPSS in the UK.This kind of anti-stab vest is not made of cheap Kevlar material, but is made of some kind of black technical fabric similar to cotton fabric. Compared with ordinary anti-stab vests, it is lighter and more breathable, and it will not look too bulky to wear.At that time, only a dozen or so pieces were purchased, half of which were allocated to the Guangzhou Office early on, and the remaining few pieces were all sent to Danzhou by Wang Tom this time.

Zhang Xin and the others also knew that this was a life-saving item, and no one dared to trust it, so they immediately accepted it.This era is no different from the time and space before time travel. There is a lack of good medical treatment and first aid conditions. Once trauma is suffered, even if it is not fatal immediately, it may not be able to receive timely treatment.If someone stabbed him in the stomach because of an opportunity, it's hard to say that he might just die because of the local medical conditions in Danzhou.

As for personal weapons, according to the practice of foreign affairs personnel, they received pistols and ammunition when they left Sanya and came to Danzhou.However, before that, among the personnel stationed in Danzhou, there were no traversers who served as military and police officers, so these things were locked in the safe of the management committee, and no one usually carried a gun on their body.

Not everyone likes guns, and not everyone has the talent to play with guns. Of course, Tom Wang doesn't expect to train these people into gunmen with the ability to protect themselves in a short period of time. He just warns them to use guns. The necessary scenes and precautions for guns, as for whether to wear them with them, they can choose by themselves.

On February 2th, the surveillance personnel on the periphery of Zhongming Academy sent back a message that they had already spotted the person who met Huang Zixing in the forest outside the academy, and the field personnel of the Security Department disguised as woodcutters and herb pickers took turns from outside Danzhou City. Followed and followed to Siping Town, twelve miles away from Danzhou.As Lin Nan guessed in the previous analysis of the case, the person who joined Huang Zixing had a special identity, that is, the former general of the Daming Guards.

The general manager surnamed Wan was still in office in the first half of last year, and he belonged to the Danzhou garrison.However, after the great chaos in Qiongbei, the entire guard army was completely dismantled, and the ten thousand soldiers who had no soldiers to take could only return to the countryside and become small landlords.His identity has long been on the list of officers of the avant-garde guards counted by the Ministry of Security, but the town where he is located has a population of less than 1000, and he is not very popular in the town. He has not attracted special attention from the Ministry of Security before.

After finding this thread, the next thing seemed much smoother.The field personnel in charge of reconnaissance soon discovered that the owner of the only blacksmith shop in this town happened to be a cousin of Mr. Wan, who had retired and returned home to farm.

The Ministry of Security immediately mobilized its resources to investigate the recent purchase of pig iron by this blacksmith shop in Danzhou City.As the only pig iron purchase window in Danzhou, the Haihan Commercial Department does not give a clear picture of the local pig iron flow, but at least remembers how much it sells and who it sells to.And the blacksmith shop in Siping Town has purchased pig iron too frequently in the last two or three months—the security department would not believe that a small town with a population of less than [-] people can consume two pig irons per capita per month. catty.

(End of this chapter)