Lin Nan's suggestion is not nonsense, if the opponents hiding in the dark are not avoided by the form, 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 can only directly arrest Huang Zixing, and it is very likely that the big fish will be scared away. But now the foundation of Haihan's rule on Qiongzhou Island is strengthening every day, and the influence of the Ming Dynasty will only become less and less in time. If they want to rebel against 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.

And now the reactionary literati Huang Zixing is no longer the main target of the Ministry of Security, and those people who are hiding behind him are the opponents that the Ministry of Security has to deal with seriously. As a result, the case of the reactionary literati conspiracy against the local government, and the Jinyiwei espionage case directly supervised by the Executive Committee, two cases that originally seemed to have little connection, are now being investigated together. Of course, this is a good thing for the Ministry of Security, which can better deploy the already tight field staff in the local area 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. They now have to monitor not only the people who enter and leave Chung Ming Academy, but also the mountains and forests near Chung Ming Academy. In particular, the people who secretly connected with Huang Zixing in the mountains and forests behind the academy every few days were an important target for them to find. Li Qingyang even thought that the person hiding in the mountains and forests was the Jinyi Guard officer who was hiding his whereabouts, but Wang Baisuo felt that this could not explain the package 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 who sent it from the academy to the mountains and forests.

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

Wang Baisuo immediately ordered someone to bring a map and spread it on the table, pointed to the map and explained: "The closest to Zhongming Academy is actually Danzhou City, but Huang Zixing chose to connect outside the city, presumably the person who connected with him did not live in the city, and the nearest town nearby also had to climb over a mountain beam...... It's about seven or eight miles of mountain road!"

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

As soon as Lin Nan mentioned this, Wang Baisuo replied with understanding: "If these people want to enter the city to assassinate, they must need weapons. Even if they could buy firecrackers from the black market, they wouldn't be able to bring them into Danzhou City, so they had to find a way to get some sharp weapons that they could carry with them! The blacksmith shops in the city had long been under our surveillance, and if they wanted to make sharp weapons, they could probably only find a way to make them from the villages and towns. ”

"And if there is no person who knows how to lead the troops to take the lead, it will only be a scattered sand. Huang Zixing may be okay to run an academy, but he probably doesn't have the ability to organize assassination operations. Li Qingyang also immediately added. He himself is a Jinyiwei, and of course he is well aware of the gap between his professional level and amateur players' organizational ability and action ability. Relying on the sour and rotten literati of Zhongming Academy alone, they can't play anything, at most, like the task assigned by Huang Zixing to Zhang Qianzhi, try to create some chaos at a critical moment to disrupt order and confuse the public. As for the assassination, it must still be done by someone with a foundation, and a soldier who has received special training in killing techniques is obviously the best choice.

Lin Nan continued: "With the way they delivered the information, it was impossible for the people 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 time. Qingyang, what do you think?"

Li Qingyang naturally understood the meaning of Lin Nan's question, and hurriedly responded: "With the training he received in the past, similar to this situation, the people involved in the operation will not all enter the city before launching, but there must be eyes and ears in the city. Since this Zhongming Academy is a den, it is very likely that the eyes and ears lurking in the city are also connected by the people of the academy to transmit information from it, and we can find out both the upper and lower lines. If the person in charge is the officer of the Jinyi Guard, it will be easier to do it, although the lowly post was only a hundred households before, but the Jinyiwei method of doing things, the lowly position is still basically known. ”

Lin Nan nodded and said, "Then this time, Director Wang is responsible for the part outside the city, and you are responsible for the part inside the city." The special service team brought from the base camp will be handed over to you for the time being. ”

"If you are lowly and you must do your best!" Li Qingyang hurriedly got up and hugged his fists in response.

For such a big matter, even Lin Nan did not dare to be arbitrary, so he sent a telegram back to Sanya on the same day and reported it to the headquarters. The headquarters sent a reply the next day, asking Danzhou to handle the case properly. In addition to giving them enough authority to operate, they also mobilized a group of capable men from the base camp again and set off for Danzhou for reinforcements by boat on the same day.

In addition, the military that had already been notified was not idle, and immediately transferred a company of land forces from each of the two directions of Changhua and Qiongzhou Fucheng, and secretly went to the vicinity of Danzhou to station, ready to reinforce the local operation at any time.

When the opponent was not aware of it at all, the Ministry of Security had already completed the preliminary layout in Danzhou, although it was not yet an airtight net, but now that it had mastered the node of Zhongming Academy, as long as the opponent acted inside and outside Danzhou, it would be difficult to hide the monitoring of the Ministry of Security. Moreover, the goal of the Ministry of Security now is not to neutralize the assassination of reactionary elements, but to uproot the underground networks involved in this matter and wipe them out.

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

This task is purely functionally speaking, and it is not entirely the responsibility of the Ministry of Security, after all, the Ministry of Security is in charge of intelligence 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 not to let people take advantage of the opportunity, the Ministry of Security also has to send people to follow the traverser to avoid the danger caused by poor information.

At present, in addition to Zhang Xin, there are six or seven people from the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Shipping, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other departments. However, the standard security personnel for the crossers stationed abroad are only two to four people per capita, and because of the deep penetration and the better political situation in Danzhou, it is configured according to two security personnel per capita. However, under the current situation, even with the additional manpower of the Ministry of Security, it still does not seem to be particularly stable.

In the early morning of February 10, Tom Wang led a platoon of troops to land at the 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 he led a team of men and horses disguised as a caravan and infiltrated Danzhou City in a low-key manner.

The platoon that Wang Tom brought to Danzhou was not an ordinary naval soldier, but a marine corps that was secretly training under the naval establishment. These soldiers were all "veterans" who had enlisted in the army in 1627-1628, and most of them had gone to Qiongzhou to participate in actual battles. Their original establishment was in the army, and it was only after the establishment of the navy the year before last that they transferred to the navy. Moreover, most of these people were personally ordered by Tom Wang, so it can be said that he had been planning the affairs of the Marine Corps since before the establishment of the navy.

After this group of people were selected into the navy by him for "using power for personal gain", most of the training content was formulated and implemented by him, of course, in fact, it was copied from the more mature training methods of some special forces that he knew. Due to the rather limited scale of the establishment, Wang Tom also abandoned the army's customary rotational gun formation and adopted Qian Tiandun's practice of forming that special operations unit, using high-lethal weapons at close range as the main firepower output. Even the equipment of individual soldiers is basically the same as that of Qian Tiandun's troops.

The difference is that this unit has a stronger amphibious combat capability, not only landing battles, but even sea operations, these soldiers can perfectly play the role of sailors, gunners, etc., not just army musketeers who are packed on ships.

For Tom Wang, who single-handedly built this army, the Marine Corps can also be regarded as his personal soldier in a certain way, and in addition to the orders issued by the Executive Committee and the Military Commission, commanding this elite unit to fight must also be approved by him, the commander.

At present, the two military officials are in Qiongbei, Yan Chujie is in Fucheng, and he can't get out of the things he has to take care of, so he asked Wang Tom, who has just returned from the Natuna Islands expedition, to lead a team to Danzhou to strengthen the personal security of the people crossing the area.

The arrival of Wang Tom is like a backbone for the anxious local garrison and the security department. The Danzhou Management Committee had already prepared an inn for them in the city early and vacated all the rooms, just to facilitate them to act after moving in.

Wang Tom was not ambiguous, and after arriving, he summoned all the local traversers together and held a short meeting for them, to the effect that they should maintain a high level of vigilance before the conclusion of the big case in Danzhou, and they must arrange 24-hour escorts around them, and they must not go out of the city without special circumstances, and they must not leave the field of vision of the guards to act alone, and they must not have contact with unidentified people alone, etc.

Tom also gave each of them a stab-proof vest, which they were required to wear on their recent outings or entertainment. This thing was also one of the munitions they purchased for the Preparatory Committee before the North American gang joined the gang, and it was produced by PPSS in the United Kingdom. This stab-proof suit is not made of cheap Kevlar material, but is made of some kind of black technology fabric similar to cotton fabric, which is more light and breathable than ordinary stab-proof vests, and does not look too bulky to wear. At that time, only more than 10 pieces were purchased, half of which were allocated to the Guangzhou Office early, and the remaining pieces were all sent to Danzhou this time.

Zhang Xin and the others also knew that this was a life-saving thing, and no one dared to hold it up, so they all accepted it immediately. This era is no more than the time and space before the time travel, there is a lack of good medical and first aid conditions, once you are injured, even if it is not immediately fatal, you may not be able to get timely treatment. If someone stabs him in the stomach in case of being seen in the hole, with the local medical conditions in Danzhou, it is difficult to say that he will hang up directly.

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

Not everyone likes guns, and not everyone has the talent to play with guns, and of course Tom Wang doesn't expect to train these people into gunners with self-protection ability in a short period of time, but just warns them of the necessary scenes and precautions for using guns, as for whether they want to wear them with them, they can choose by themselves.

On February 15, the surveillance personnel outside Zhongming Academy sent back a message that they had already targeted the person who was connecting with Huang Zixing in the mountains and forests outside the academy, and the field staff of the Ministry of Security, disguised as woodcutters and medicine pickers, took turns watching all the way from outside Danzhou City, and followed Siping Town, which was twelve miles away from Danzhou. As Lin Nan guessed in the previous case analysis, the person who connected with Huang Zixing had a special identity, that is, the former commander of the Ming Guard.

This general, surnamed Wan, was still in office in the first half of last year, and he belonged to the Danzhou garrison. However, after the Qiongbei Rebellion, the entire Weisuo army was completely dispersed, and the 10,000 men who had no soldiers to bring could only return to the countryside and become a small landlord. His identity has long been on the list of officers of the avant-garde army counted by the Ministry of Security, but his town has a population of less than 1,000, and he is not very popular in the town, so he has not attracted special attention from the Ministry of Security before.

Once you've found this thread, the rest of the story is much smoother. The reconnaissance field crew soon discovered that the owner of the town's only blacksmith shop was a cousin of the man who had retired and returned home to farm.

The Ministry of Security immediately mobilized the strength at hand 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 Ministry of Commerce does not say anything about the flow of local pig iron, at least how much it is sold, who it is sold to, and it still remembers the accounts one by one. The blacksmith shop in Siping has apparently been buying pig iron too frequently in the last two to three months – the security authorities would not believe that a town with a population of less than 1,000 people could consume two catties of pig iron per capita every month.