Chapter 1049 Cross-departmental cooperation
The special operations battalion was a force formed by Qian Tiandun during the development of the Black Earth Port of Annan. The soldiers recruited were naturally mainly Annan refugees, the main source of the population at that time. It was not until 1631 that this force was transferred to Fujian to station. Gradually, Han people began to be recruited into the army. However, due to the gap in enlistment time and combat experience, almost all junior officers in this unit are of Annan descent. Of course, there is also an outlier like Takahashi Nan. Not only is he not of Han descent, but he is also a prisoner of a hard labor camp. He has climbed all the way to his current position as the commander of the special operations battalion thanks to his military exploits.
Before last year, the highest latitude in the area where this unit was stationed was only in Taipei, which is located at 25 degrees north latitude, almost on the edge of the tropics. The climate is somewhat different from that of Zhejiang. While spending the winter on Zhoushan Island last winter, many soldiers wore thick cotton clothes for the first time in their lives and experienced the cold outside the tropics.
Gao Qiaonan once heard Qian Tiandun say that the Ming Dynasty is currently in a climate state called the "Little Ice Age", and even the southeastern coastal areas occasionally experience snowfall in winter. Last year, Songjiang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Yangzhou Prefecture and other places north of Zhoushan, as well as individual areas in Zhejiang and Fujian, saw the spectacle of heavy snowfall in winter. Although Zhoushan was not affected, the temperature dropped to less than five degrees, which made many officers and soldiers from the south feel uncomfortable. If the logistics department had not prepared the heating equipment and winter clothes needed for winter in advance, many people in this special operations force from the south would have fallen in front of the invisible opponent of the weather.
The destination we will go to this year is said to be farther than the distance from Taipei to Zhoushan, and closer to the cold north. Takahashi Minami is actually a little worried about whether his troops will be able to adapt to the climate there and retain a few percent of their combat effectiveness by then.
Thinking of this, Gao Qiaonan couldn't help but admire his boss Qian Tiandun's foresight. A year or two ago when he was stationed in Fujian, he began to recruit young people from the north to join the army. Now, in the special operations camp, there are many young people from the north. Officers and soldiers also account for a certain proportion. When they go to the north, there are at least some leading parties who can help the troops adapt to the local climate and environment as quickly as possible.
Gao Qiaonan escorted the Japanese prisoners back to Dinghai Port. During the handover at the dock, he heard that the troops led by Wang Tom had arrived in Zhoushan two days ago, so he knew that the movement to the north was about to begin. He immediately handed over the matters at hand to the adjutant. , he immediately rushed back to the headquarters to report to Qian Tiandun.
"You came back just in time." When Qian Tiandun saw Gao Qiaonan appear, he greeted him: "Commander Wang and Minister Hao are both here, and I want to talk to you about business."
Gao Qiaonan is currently a relatively well-known figure in the military. Naturally, he is also familiar with the top brass of the military. He had performed missions with Wang Tom and others as early as the Annan Civil War. Although Hao Wanqing had never interacted with him before, , but Takahashi Minami also knew his identity, and immediately stepped forward to salute several people one by one. Gong Shiqi stood next to Hao Wanqing. When their eyes met, they each nodded their heads to say hello. Although they belong to different departments, they are all stationed on Zhoushan Island. They meet quite often, so they are not strangers.
"Regarding the plan to go north, we have been making preparations since the beginning of the year. We will definitely take action within the year. However, before we go north, we must first deal with the affairs in Zhejiang." Qian Tiandun told Gao succinctly Qiaonan explained the situation: "The Ministry of Security hopes to conduct a joint operation with the military to deal with some people who are currently showing strong hostility towards us in Zhejiang official circles, so as to prevent further problems from affecting our future after the army moves north. .”
What does "get rid of" mean? Gao Qiaonan has been with Qian Tiandun for several years, so he naturally understands what he means. There is no doubt that this will be a wave of assassination operations led by Haihan officials. Similar methods were used by Haihan on Hainan Island a few years ago to calm down some restless voices in the officialdom of Qiongbei area. However, Zhejiang is no better than Hainan Island. Ming Dynasty's rule here is much deeper, and the risks required to perform tasks of this nature are also much greater. It was obvious that the Ministry of Security was not completely sure about this task, so it pulled the military into the water to increase the safety factor of the operation.
Qian Tiandun continued: "This operation is led by the Ministry of Security. Director Gong is responsible for formulating the plan. The special operations battalion will allocate manpower to cooperate according to the needs of the plan. You will be responsible for contacting Director Gong and respond as needed. We will try our best to satisfy you, do you understand?”
"I understand my humble position!" Gao Qiaonan responded in a deep voice. He has been with Qian Tiandun for many years and has long been accustomed to obeying orders as his bounden duty. At the moment, he does not consider the difficulty of the task or whether he will bear the risk. If there was any detail that bothered him a little, it was probably that the plan would be led by the Ministry of Security rather than the military.
Of course, Takahashi Minami also knows what kind of department the Ministry of Security is. In terms of the level of trust and dependence of the Executive Committee, the Ministry of Security may even surpass the military in some cases and perform some tasks that are inconvenient for the military to directly come forward. At that time, the field team of the Security Department was often the first choice for senior management.
Takahashi Minami also understands that there are specialties in the arts. Some secret missions are not suitable for dispatching the army. Even a special operations battalion with certain research on urban street fighting is not as safe as long-term practice of tactical skills such as assassination and kidnapping. Ministry field team. Moreover, the field team has far more tricks on how to hide their tracks in the market than the military. The nature of the task determines who will play the leading role in this cross-department cooperation.
"Director Gong, please give me your advice!" Takahashi Nan said, clasping his fists towards Gong Shiqi.
"You're welcome, Battalion Commander Takahashi!" Gong Shiqi immediately returned the salute with his fists clasped.
In fact, this is not the first time that these two people have cooperated. During Haihan's attack on the Zhoushan Islands last year, the intelligence and investigation activities carried out by the Ministry of Security were coordinated with the military. During this period, the two people had many contacts. Both of them are aces in their respective departments. During the cooperation, in addition to striving to gain merit for their own camp, there was also a certain sympathy between strong men.
"Minister Hao, would you like to say a few words about this mission?" Qian Tiandun waited for the two to greet each other and then motioned to Hao Wanqing.
Hao Wanqing nodded, took over the conversation and said: "The target of this mission is the Ming officials who are against us, so we should keep a low profile as much as possible to avoid official conflicts. In terms of time limit, you have thirty days to complete the mission. Although we are scheduled to go north before autumn, there are still two months left, but we must leave some space to evaluate the results of the operation to see whether we have achieved the expected results. What I want to remind you is, If the local hidden dangers in Zhejiang are not better resolved, the Executive Committee and the Ministry of National Defense may consider the risk of going northward to be too great and postpone this action.”
Hao Wanching paused, then increased his voice and emphasized: "I believe you all know how much preparation we have done before heading north. Considering the weather in the north, once the trip north is postponed, it may have to wait until the spring of next year. Action. You should also be able to imagine how much damage this period will cause to our country's development process. "In the plan formulated by the Ministry of National Defense, the first batch of troops going north will exceed 2,000 people. If a force of this size is due to unexpected reasons. If we cancel our trip north, we will have to stay in Zhoushan for more than half a year. During this period, these troops seemed to have nothing else to do except cultivate land in Zhoushan. The Executive Committee and the Ministry of National Defense spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to mobilize elite troops to Zhejiang, obviously not to send them here to reclaim the islands.
The meaning of Hao Wanqing's words is that Gong Qiqiao and Gao Qiaonan should be aware of the urgency of the situation and not relax because they think there is still enough time to act. If the expected action results are not achieved, it may affect Go to Haihan's overall layout on the Daming coastline.
When the two came out of the command center, they both felt the pressure on their shoulders and couldn't help but look at each other and smile. However, this smile is inevitably a little worried, because they all know how difficult it is to enter the area under the Ming Dynasty to carry out beheading operations. Moreover, this operation targets more than one person. Once one of them is attacked, it may arouse the vigilance of his comrades, and it will become increasingly difficult to solve them one by one. The consequences of failure in action are a responsibility they cannot bear at all.
"Batalion Commander Gao Qiao, it's still early, why don't you come over to my place and discuss the action arrangements?" Gong Shiqi took the initiative to send an invitation to Gao Qiao Nan.
Gao Qiaonan thought that there were many people in the military camp and it was difficult to keep secrets. It was true that the security department wanted to be more clean and secretive, so he nodded and agreed to Gong Shiqi's invitation.
The Ministry of Security does not have a registered organization anywhere outside Sanya, and has adopted various cover-ups. For example, the office in Dinghai Port, Zhoushan, is located in a business warehouse. This store, which nominally belongs to the "Qiongzhou United Development Company", deals in groceries from the north and south on the surface. It looks no different from dozens of other storehouses in Dinghai Port. However, after entering the guarded second courtyard, it becomes clear that You will realize that this place is Haihan's secret intelligence agency.
Every room entering the courtyard is filled with strip-shaped desks and tall filing cabinets, as well as clerks copying various materials. If he hadn't known in advance that this place was an office of the Ministry of Security in Penghu, Gao Qiaonan would have almost thought that this place was an academy for cultivating scholars.
Although Gao Qiaonan has been stationed in Zhoushan for a year, this is the first time he has visited the Ministry of Security’s station. Looking at the staff sitting in the side rooms on both sides of the yard and the main hall in the middle, he couldn’t help but sigh: "I I always thought that the staff of the Security Department was very small, and it would be good to have one or twenty people in one place. But I see that your place has more people than my special operations battalion headquarters.”
"Our Ministry of Security has many things to manage." Gong Shiqi explained: "Immigration, trade, finance, culture, as long as it involves national security, we have jurisdiction. For example, every month, transportation from Zhoushan Port to the south For immigrants, we will have a file here that is exactly the same as the one held by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which may even be more comprehensive than theirs. We also have corresponding records for every official trade transaction at the Dinghai Port. The Ministry of Security not only discloses it to the outside world. , and will also monitor all departments within the jurisdiction that are related to the outside world, and will copy all the information we are interested in as archive backup. The people you see are copying this information, and these information will be copied when necessary. From time to time, it will also be shared with the military, public security agencies and other departments.”
Takahashi Minami wondered: "Can this information be useful for your intelligence work?"
Gong Shiqi said: "Of course it is impossible to put them all to use, but even if only one thousandth or one ten thousandth can be used when needed, then it is worth doing. Because you and I don't know, these When and under what circumstances will the collected information be used?”
"This...sounds very metaphysical." Takahashi Minami was noncommittal about Gong Shiqi's statement. He personally did not trust this method of obtaining intelligence purely by accumulating data, and he did not understand the implications of this approach. in accordance with.
Gong Shiqi didn't explain much at the moment, and invited Gao Qiaonan to the third courtyard. He had an independent office in the wing here. After entering, someone followed and served hot tea and refreshments. Takahashi Minami said: "Go and inform the people in the information department that the information I asked for yesterday will be sent over if it is sorted out."
After his subordinates took the order and left, Gong Shiqi explained: "I came back from Ningbo yesterday and received the mission one day earlier than you, so yesterday I ordered my subordinates to start sorting out relevant information to see what we have on hand that can be used. Conditions... I don’t have anything good to entertain you here, but the tea and refreshments I brought back from Ningbo yesterday are pretty good, you can try them.”
After Takahashi Nan thanked him, he picked up the tea cup and took a few sips when Gong Shiqi's men came back to resume their duties. They placed a document book wrapped in brown paper on the desk and left.
Gong Shiqi picked it up and looked through it for a moment, then said to Gao Qiaonan: "Currently, among our personnel stationed in Zhoushan, there are 307 people from Zhejiang, and 41 of them are from Hangzhou. These four Among the eleven, twelve are serving in the military, and your special operations battalion accounts for two of them. The other three are from the Ministry of Security, but these three are currently lurking in Hangzhou and not on the island. "
Gao Qiaonan understood what he meant after hearing half of it, and took over the conversation: "If we want to understand the situation in Hangzhou, these people may be able to provide us with some useful information."
Gong Shiqi nodded and said: "This is one of the benefits of registering information. When we need to collect intelligence, these information will let us know where to start most conveniently."
(End of chapter)