Chapter 574 Follow the clues

Lin Nan's idea is not nonsense. If the opponents hiding in the darkness are not driven to a dead end by the situation, then they are likely to choose to abandon the assassination operation after sensing the danger and continue to hide their tracks. In that case, the Ministry of Security

We can only capture Huang Zixing directly, which is very likely to scare the snake away and scare away the big fish. But the current situation is that Haihan's rule foundation in Qiongzhou Island is strengthening every day, and as time goes by, Ming's influence will only increase.

The lower. 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 certain risks, these people will not give up this rare opportunity.

Now, the reactionary scholar Huang Zixing is no longer the main target for the Ministry of Security. Those who are hiding behind him and are ready to take action are the opponents that the Ministry of Security must deal with seriously. Therefore, the reactionary scholar's rebellion case that is being investigated locally has a lot to do with the Executive Committee.

The Jin Yiwei spy case, which was directly supervised, two cases that originally seemed to have no connection, are now being investigated together. Of course, this is a good thing for the Ministry of Security, as it can better allocate the already tense local field manpower.

Monitor higher value targets.

Half a day later, many of the spies who had been transferred away from the vicinity of Zhongming Academy returned to their posts a few days ago. Now they not only have to monitor people entering and leaving Zhongming Academy, but also the mountains and forests near Zhongming Academy.

The scope. Especially the person who secretly meets Huang Zixing in the mountains and forests behind the academy every few days is an important target for them to find. Li Qingyang even believed that the person hiding in the mountains and forests was the Jin Yiwei officer who was hiding his whereabouts. However,

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 would be reasonable for Huang Zixing to deliver them from the academy to the mountains.

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

Wang Baisuo immediately ordered someone to bring a map and spread it on the table. He pointed at the map and explained: "The closest to Zhongming Academy is actually Danzhou City, but Huang Zixing chose to meet outside the city. Presumably the person he was meeting with did not live in the city.

And the nearest town has to climb over a mountain ridge...it's about seven or eight miles of mountain road!"

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

When Lin Nan mentioned this, Wang Baisuo responded with understanding: "If these people want to go into the city to assassinate, they must need weapons. Even if they can buy fire guns 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 with you! The blacksmith shops in the city have long been under our surveillance. If they want to make sharp weapons, they probably can only find a way from the villages and towns."

"Moreover, if a multi-person operation does not have someone who knows how to lead troops to take the lead, it will just 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

He added. He himself was born in Jinyiwei, so of course he is very aware of the gap in organizational ability and action ability between professional level and amateur players. Just rely on the bunch of rotten scholars from Zhongming Academy, they can't do anything good, at most they are like Huang Zixing

Just like the task assigned to Zhang Qianzhi, he tried to create some chaos at the critical moment to disrupt order and confuse the public. As for the assassination, it must be done by someone with basic skills. Soldiers who have received special training in killing skills are obviously

Best choice.

Lin Nan continued: "With the way they transmit information, the people involved in the assassination plan cannot be too far away from Danzhou, otherwise it will be difficult to communicate on the details of the operation in a timely manner. Qingyang, what do you think?"

Li Qingyang naturally understood what Lin Nan meant when he asked him this question, and quickly responded: "With the training he received in the humble position in the past, in a situation like this, all the people involved in the operation will not go into the city to lurk before launching, but there must be eyes and ears in the city.

.Since Zhongming Academy is a den, it is very likely that the ears and eyes lurking in the city are also communicated by people from the academy. We can follow the clues and find them both up and down the line. If the person in charge is the Jinyiwei officer, then

It’s easier to handle, even though Beizhi was only a hundred households before, Beizhi still basically knows the way Jinyiwei handles things.”

Lin Nan nodded and said: "This time, Director Wang will be in charge of the part outside the city, and you will be in charge of the part inside the city. The special service team brought from the base camp will be temporarily placed under your command."

"You have to do your best in your humble position!" Li Qingyang quickly stood up and said, clasping his fists.

For such a big matter, even Lin Nan did not dare to arbitrarily decide. He still sent a telegram back to Sanya that day to report to the headquarters. The headquarters sent a reply the next day, asking Danzhou to report this case.

Properly handled. In addition to giving them sufficient authority to operate, a group of capable troops were once again mobilized from the base camp and set off by boat to Danzhou for reinforcements that day.

In addition, the military, which had been notified, was not idle. It immediately mobilized an army company 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 its preliminary layout in Danzhou. Although it was not yet an airtight dragnet, it now had control over the node of Zhongming Academy. As long as the opponent had something inside and outside Danzhou,

With the actions taken, 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 resolve the assassination operation of the reactionary elements, but to uproot the underground network involved in this matter and catch them all.

Of course, in addition to monitoring these people, the Security Department also has a task, which is to ensure the personal safety of the Haihan leaders currently working in Danzhou.

From a purely functional perspective, 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 travelers is mainly carried out by the special service security team directly under the Executive Committee. However,

Today's situation is quite special. In order to prevent others from taking advantage of it, the Ministry of Security has to send people to follow the travelers to avoid dangers caused by lack of information.

In addition to Zhang Xin, there are currently six or seven people working in Danzhou from the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Shipping, Ministry of Civil Affairs and other departments. The number is not large, and the establishment scale of the previous Danzhou Office has been basically maintained.

The authority has been relatively enlarged. However, the standard number of security personnel for travelers stationed abroad is only two to four per capita. In Danzhou, due to previous deep penetration and better political situation, the allocation is based on 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 10, Wang Tom led a platoon of troops to land at Baimajing Pier in Danzhou Bay. He received an order from the Executive Committee and temporarily handed over the task of leading the fleet to blockade the Qiongzhou Strait to his deputy, while he led a small team.

Disguised as a caravan, they quietly sneaked into Danzhou City and stationed themselves.

The platoon that Wang Tom brought to Danzhou was not an ordinary naval soldier, but a Marine Corps that was undergoing secret training under the Navy's establishment. These soldiers were all "veterans" who enlisted in the army from 1627 to 1628, and generally went to participate in military campaigns outside Qiongzhou.

Actual combat experience. Their original establishment was in the Army. After the Navy was established the year before last, they were transferred to the Navy. And most of this group of people were personally ordered by Wang Tom. It can be said that he started from before the establishment of the Navy.

, are already planning the Marine Corps matter.

After this group of people were selected into the navy by him for "abusing power for personal gain", most of the training content was formulated and executed by him. Of course, in fact, they copied some of the more mature training methods of special forces that he knew. Because

The scale of the establishment is quite limited. Wang Tom also gave up the Army's usual rotational volley formation and adopted Qian Tiandun's method of organizing the special operations force, using close-range high-lethal weapons as the main firepower output. Even individual soldiers'

The equipment is basically the same as that of Qian Tiandun's troops.

The difference is that this unit has stronger amphibious warfare capabilities. Not only for landing operations, but also for sea operations, these soldiers can perfectly play the roles of sailors, gunners, etc., and are not just army soldiers who are packed aboard.

Musketeers.

For Wang Tom, who built this force single-handedly, the Marine Corps can be regarded as his private soldier to a certain extent. In addition to commanding this elite force in combat, it requires orders from the Executive Committee and the Military Commission.

He, the commander, must also nod his approval.

Currently, both military officials are in charge of Qiongbei, and Yan Chujie is in charge of Fucheng. He cannot get away from the many things he has to take care of, so he asked Wang Tom, who had recently returned from an inspection of the Natuna Islands, to lead a team to Danzhou to strengthen this

The area travels through the public’s personal security efforts.

Wang Tom's arrival was like having a backbone for the anxious local garrison and security department. The Danzhou Administrative Committee had already prepared an inn in the city for them early and vacated all the rooms, just for

Make it easier for them to do things after moving in.

Wang Tom was also unambiguous. After arriving, he called together several local time-travelers and held a short meeting for them. The main idea was to ask them to maintain a high level of vigilance before the major case in Danzhou was concluded.

There must be a 24-hour guard around you. You are not allowed to leave the city without special circumstances. You are not allowed to leave the sight of the guards and act alone. You are not allowed to have alone contact with unknown persons, etc.

Tom Wang also gave each of them a stab-proof vest, requiring them to wear it when going out for activities or socializing in the near future. This thing was also one of the munitions purchased for the organizing committee before their North American gang joined the gang.

Produced by PPSS in the UK. This kind of stab-proof vest is not made of cheap Kevlar material, but uses some kind of black technology fabric similar to cotton fabric. Compared with ordinary stab-proof vests, it is lighter and more breathable and comfortable to wear.

It would seem too bulky. At that time, only a dozen pieces were purchased in total, half of which were allocated to the Liaison Office in Guangdong Province early. The remaining pieces were all sent to Danzhou by Tom Wang this time.

Zhang Xin and others also knew that this was a life-saving thing. No one dared to trust it, so they all accepted it immediately. This era is no different from the time and space before time travel. There is a lack of good medical and first aid conditions. Once you are injured, even if it is not

It will be fatal immediately, and it may not be possible to receive timely treatment. If someone takes a chance and stabs him in the stomach, given the local medical conditions in Danzhou, it is hard to say that he will die directly.

As for personal weapons, according to the practice of foreign service personnel, they received pistols and ammunition as early as when they left Sanya and came to Danzhou. However, before that, there were no travelers who were stationed in Danzhou as military police, so these

Everything is locked in the safe of the management committee, and no one usually carries a gun with them.

Not everyone likes guns, and not everyone has the talent to play with guns. Of course, Tom Wang does not expect to train these people into self-protective gunners in a short time. He just warns them to use them.

Necessary scenarios and precautions for guns, and whether they want to carry them with them or not, they can choose by themselves.

On February 15, surveillance personnel outside Zhongming Academy sent back news that they had targeted the person who met Huang Zixing in the mountains and forests outside the academy. Field personnel from the Ministry of Security disguised as woodcutters and herb collectors took turns all the way from outside Danzhou City.

They followed him to Siping Town, which is twelve miles away from Danzhou. As Lin Nan guessed in the previous case analysis, the person who contacted Huang Zixing had a special identity, that is, the former commander-in-chief of the Ming Guards.

This general named Wan was still on the job in the first half of last year and belonged to the Danzhou garrison. However, after the Qiongbei Rebellion, the entire guard army was completely disbanded, and General Wan had no troops to lead.

He can only go back to the countryside and become a small landowner. His identity has long been on the list of officers of the Guards Army compiled by the Ministry of Security, but the town he is in has a population of less than 1,000, and he has nothing in the town.

Popularity has not attracted special attention from the Ministry of Security before.

After finding this thread, the next thing seemed much smoother. The field personnel responsible for the reconnaissance soon discovered that the owner of the only blacksmith shop in the town was related to the man who retired and returned home to farm.

They happen to be cousins.

The Ministry of Security immediately mobilized its resources to investigate the recent pig iron purchases by this blacksmith shop in Danzhou City. As the only pig iron purchase window in Danzhou, the Haihan Ministry of Commerce did not know the flow of local pig iron.

Chu, at least he still remembers clearly how much he sold and who he sold it to, and the accounts one by one. And the blacksmith shop in Siping Town has obviously purchased pig iron too frequently in the past two or three months——

The security department will not believe that a small town with a population of less than a thousand people consumes two kilograms of pig iron per person per month.
Chapter completed!