Chapter 1051 Heading to Hangzhou

According to the official establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the garrison of Ningbo Prefecture was actually divided into four guards. However, among them, Ningbo Guards were stationed in Fucheng and rarely went out for operations. Most of the jurisdiction of Dinghai Guards was in the Zhoushan Islands. Due to the civilian armed forces in this area,

The power has been dominant for nearly a century, and the official guard system has long existed in name only, but the official positions of several thousand households have been retained. On the one hand, the troops stationed in various guards in the government can share the free wages of Dinghai Guards, and on the other hand,

On the one hand, this official position can also be sold to armed smugglers in the Zhoushan Islands to facilitate their daily operations.

The leaders of the Haisha Gang and the Zhoushan Boat Gang who were wiped out by Haihan last year actually had official positions that could be purchased with money, such as deputies such as Trial Thousand Households. It is said that only two to three thousand taels of silver can buy a year's authority. However,

This kind of empty position can only scare ordinary people, but it has no deterrent effect against foreign armed forces like Haihan who do not obey the laws of the Ming Dynasty. However, smugglers have official positions in the military as a cover, and many of them cannot see the light of day.

The behavior can then be carried out openly.

For Haihan, the main military threats that can pose a real military threat to him are the two garrisons of Changguo Guard and Guanhai Guard. The various bribery methods he used after occupying Zhoushan were also targeted at these two guards, but it was easy to ignore almost all of them.

Dinghaiwei existed only in theory. At this time, Gong Shiqi took the initiative to mention it, and Takahashi Nan remembered that Ningbo Prefecture did have such a garrison that was very neglected. If he pretended to be a Dinghaiwei and relied on him to rule

As long as you don't take the initiative to go to Dusi Yamen in Zhejiang to show off your identity in exchange for a thousand registered households in exchange for donating money, it's really unlikely that someone will expose you.

Gong Shiqi continued: "As for the murderous aura in you, it can also be easily explained. Among those who have been running smuggling business at sea all year round, which one is a good person? Armed maritime merchants are merchants on the front and pirates on the back. The seamen of Zhoushan Islands

Shang, no one has a clean foundation."

Takahashi Minami thought it was indeed reasonable. As long as he had a suitable identity, his military qualities could be reasonably explained. Although this official position was fictitious, it was more than enough to cope with the checkpoints in and out of Hangzhou.

After the topic came to an end, the two continued to review the candidates. By the time the dozens of candidates were interviewed, it was already midnight. Takahashi Minami wanted to keep Gong Shiqi for a late-night snack, but Gong Shi

Qi declined, saying that there were still many things to do tomorrow and he had to go back early to rest and recuperate.

The next day, personnel screening and other preparations continued simultaneously. The Ministry of Security must prepare relevant personnel identification documents, clothing, medicines, tools, weapons and other personal items for this operation, as well as the most important command and liaison system for distribution arrangements to ensure these

During the operation in Hangzhou, personnel can maintain a unified pace of action.

After the list of personnel participating in the operation is determined, the Ministry of Security will also invite practitioners from relevant industries to conduct short-term training for these personnel. In the words of Hao Wanqing, "Even if you are a driver, you must have a decent appearance."

", which puts forward higher requirements for the identity disguise of the participants. Of course, this requirement is not only to ensure the success probability of the operation, but also to provide better protection for the personal safety of the participants.

On June 2, the list of personnel participating in the operation has been basically determined. The field team of the Ministry of Security will dispatch 15 people including Gong Shiqi, plus the three people who have been lurking in Hangzhou, for a total of 18 people. The military

Thirty-five people, including Gao Qiaonan, will be dispatched. Ten of them are from the special operations battalion, and the rest are from other troops. Except for Gao Qiaonan, all of them are from Zhejiang.

At this time, Gong Qiaoqi discovered that there was another obvious flaw in Gao Qiaonan, which was his accent. Although Gao Qiaonan had served in Haihan for many years and could speak fluent Chinese, he learned standard Chinese.

Haihan Mandarin is more inclined to the accent of the northern Central Plains area, and there are obvious differences from the dialects of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang generations.

It’s definitely too late to start learning slowly. Fortunately, Gao Qiaonan has been in Zhoushan for a year and can understand most of the common Jiangsu and Zhejiang accents. There won’t be any big problems when communicating with others. After thinking about it,

Gong Shiqi then added another element to Gao Qiao Nan's character - he was born in Yongping Prefecture, Hebei Province. In this way, he found a more reasonable explanation for his northern accent. The Zhoushan Islands were originally a mixed bag, not only

There are people from all over the Ming Dynasty, as well as Westerners from Far Eastern countries and even Europe. It is not uncommon to be from North China.

The fifty-three people who have been selected are the core personnel directly involved in the operation, but they are not all the personnel to be invested in this operation. During the period, the crew members who sailed for them between Hangzhou and Zhoushan were also from the navy. In addition,

The Ministry of Commerce and other relevant departments also have some personnel who need to participate in various stages of the action to varying degrees, and the number of personnel mobilized for this purpose is more than a hundred.

The group of people who will sneak into Hangzhou will be disguised as crew members, porters, wandering monks, businessmen, Ming Dynasty officers, etc., and divided into multiple independent action teams. The manpower of the military and security departments will also be mixed according to the actual situation.

The editor did not completely distinguish between the two identities of personnel.

The leading figures responsible for commanding and coordinating operations on the front line are Gong Qi Shiqi and Gao Qiao Nan. Gong Qi Shiqi used the pseudonym Gong Qi and pretended to be a maritime merchant who came to Hangzhou from the Lingnan area to purchase goods, while Gao Qiao Nan used the pseudonym Qiao.

Nan, pretending to be a member of Ningbo Fuding Haiwei's subordinates, his other identity is a maritime businessman from Zhoushan Islands engaged in smuggling trade.

Both of these identities make it easier to appear in public with a group of servants without arousing suspicion. Among the more than fifty people who enter Hangzhou, half of them will follow the two of them and obey their orders at any time.

Originally, Wang Tom also considered whether to allocate a set of radio stations to the operators and let them bring them into Hangzhou for use to facilitate communication with the base and transmit information. However, Gao Qiaonan and Gong Shiqi both actively rejected this somewhat risky arrangement.

When using existing radio stations, the antenna must be set up high, otherwise the transmission distance will be very limited, and it will be easily exposed when used in the densely populated city of Hangzhou. Not only will it not be effective, but it will easily cause you to get burned.

As for weapons, the Ministry of National Defense has given great support this time and issued revolver-type flash cap pistols to all personnel involved in the operation. This five-shot revolver is currently only issued to officers above the company level in the military.

, although there are still many shortcomings in performance, it is still much more advanced than the single-shot firecrackers of this era. And the firepower output level of several armed personnel equipped with this kind of pistol at close range can be said to be

It is no less than an infantry platoon's rotational shooting tactics.

This time, Takahashi Minami also saw various special service equipment equipped by the field team of the Ministry of Security, including various drugs and poisons used for assassinations and kidnappings, syringes that can launch flying needles, barbed nets, and tools used to fly over walls and walls.

Seven or eight large wooden boxes were packed here and there, including grapples, rope ladders, etc.

"With so much stuff, just these few boxes of medicine are enough for you to kill half of the people in Hangzhou, right?" Gao Qiaonan looked at the equipment being packed and couldn't help but joked to Gong Qiqi.

Gong Shiqi smiled and said: "It would be great if it was that easy. We don't need to bother Battalion Commander Gaoqiao to dispatch. We can just load a boatload of poison and run to the upper reaches of the Qiantang River to scatter it into the river and kill all the people in Hangzhou Prefecture."

Once you're stunned, wouldn't it be nice to go into the city and take away the person you want to arrest?"

After the two of them finished speaking, they couldn't help but smile at each other. They had each carried out many difficult tasks before, but this trip to Hangzhou was a brand new challenge for them. The risks of the operation were certainly high.

, but success or failure has a greater impact on Haihan. Although there is currently no complete certainty of success, and many details need to be planned slowly after arriving in Hangzhou, these two people are determined people, and they embrace the task after receiving it.

He was determined to make some achievements in Hangzhou so that the northward strategy planned by the top management could proceed smoothly.

After the candidates were determined, Gong Shiqi and Gao Qiaonan took these people for a week of special training on Zhoushan Island, mainly to practice some of the most basic tactics, and in the process, participants from different departments could interact with each other.

They became familiar with each other. Of course, during this period, everyone, including Gong Shiqi and Gao Qiaonan, changed their names to each other to avoid inadvertently exposing their flaws after going to Hangzhou.

Hao Wanqing and Qian Tiandun also took time out to provide guidance at the training ground in the past few days. Although they will not go to the front line to command operations in person, their nervousness will not be less than that of their subordinates who are about to go to Hangzhou.

How many.

On June 8, Zhoushan received a telegram from Sanya. The second batch of materials and personnel needed for the northbound operation had been shipped from Sanya. This batch of materials was mainly various building materials and living supplies, including the personnel who were heading north.

The Jiaodong Peninsula needed cotton-padded jackets and quilts for the winter, as well as nearly twenty shiploads of clean coal and grain. Since the reconstruction of the Jiaodong Peninsula after the war was very slow, the local area was quite short of various materials, including grain, so the personnel heading north needed

More than half of the supplies have to be transported from the south, and this situation will last for at least three to five months. Only after the troops heading north have consolidated their control areas locally and reorganized the production of supplies, the supply pressure is expected to be relieved to some extent.

As for the second batch of personnel rushing to Zhoushan, Zhejiang, in addition to the first battalion of new troops who came to replace the existing garrison, there were also non-military personnel who were to accompany the large army to the north, including civil affairs cadres, businessmen, doctors, and people from various industries.

Professional craftsmen, etc. Although the number of these people is not large, they are an indispensable force for Haihan to establish a base in the north.

Most of this fleet are heavy-loaded cargo ships. They will also replenish and transport some materials and personnel in Hong Kong and Penghu on the way, so the speed of traveling north will not be too fast. According to the estimates of the Ministry of Shipping, at least in February

It will only arrive in Zhoushan in ten days. However, by the time this fleet arrives in Zhoushan and settles down, it will basically be time for the large force to head north. Otherwise, with such a team of several thousand people piled on Zhoushan Island, the huge daily expenses will not be any.

The return must be a very uneconomical deal for Haihan.

This means that there are only about twenty days left for the joint operation team to go to Hangzhou to complete the mission. If the operation does not go smoothly, the base in Zhoushan will probably become as crowded as a refugee camp this summer.

If it is delayed for too long, it may even make it impossible to carry out the operation to the north within the year. The executive committee in Sanya will not be able to understand the difficulties faced by the Zhejiang garrison.

After military expenditures, the responsibility for mission failure can only be placed on the military. Even military leaders such as Wang Tom, Qian Tiandun, and Shi Diwen would find it difficult to bear this result.

At this time, Tom Wang brought everyone some good news. He personally went to the local shipyard in Zhoushan as a supervisor and spent five days installing a radio station on a ship that was about to be sent to Hangzhou.

After the joint action team arrives in Hangzhou, the ship can dock at the dock in Hangzhou Bay and regularly report the status of Hangzhou City to Dinghai Port.

Of course, just installing the radio station doesn't actually take that long. The construction period in the past few days was mainly spent on camouflaging the antenna. Wang Tom ordered the craftsmen to carve a groove on the mast, pull the antenna up along the groove, and then

Use glue to mix wood chips, fill the grooves to fix the whip antenna, and then paint and polish the outside. After the completion, if you don't get close and touch it with your hands, it will be difficult to find the small hands and feet that have been moved on the mast.

Wang Tom spent another day debugging the invisible antenna with a standing wave table. In this way, the radio station could be hidden in the bottom cabin, and the communication staff used a hand-cranked generator and batteries to replenish power, so that it could operate 24 hours a day.

It can make contact with the Zhoushan base camp, and it is difficult for the outside world to discover the secrets of this spy ship. The ground wave signal emitted by the shortwave radio station on the ship can travel along the surface for about a thousand kilometers. Under normal weather conditions, messages can be transmitted between Hangzhou and Zhoushan.

There won't be any problem.

"The workmanship is great!" Qian Tiandun and Shi Diwen went to the dock for inspection and were full of praise for Wang Tom's transformation results.

Tom Wang himself is quite satisfied with this work: "In the future, we can make similar spy ships wherever there are ships, and we no longer have to worry about the timeliness of information."

“We don’t have to wait for the future, this operation will be of great use!” Qian Tiandun could not hide his excitement: “With this ship, we can get information feedback from Hangzhou City every day and issue information to frontline personnel.

Order, this is much better than waiting anxiously for news in Zhoushan."

As preparations for various projects were completed, the departure time of the joint action team finally arrived. On June 12, a fleet of four ships left the port before the morning fog had dispersed, heading towards Hangzhou Bay.

Go ahead.
Chapter completed!