At 2:00 p.m. on June 22, the meeting room of the Municipal Public Security Bureau was filled with smoke. The heads of five branches in the city, the criminal investigation, the chief and deputy captains of the Public Security Detachment gathered together to wait for instructions. None of the more than 30 people did not smoke. The strong smell of tobacco made Chen Tiejian, who was already a qualified smoker, had to stand up and open the window.

"Director, political commissar, there is a new situation!"

Wei Mingzhong, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment, saw a fax that his deputy hurried over, and immediately reported to Jiang Shangwu and Shen Tiejian: "At 8:00 in the morning, Mo Yaoguang, a worker in the Litang Railway Section, was knocked out by a policeman with wounded face and locked in a tool room 700 meters above the north line of Litang Station. An hour later, he woke up and called for help and was found. He was taken to the Litang Station Police Station fifteen minutes later. According to Mo Yaoguang's report, the height and appearance of the injured policeman was very similar to that of the fugitive Kang Ning. At the same time, he also found that Mo Yaoguang's tool kit had been lost. If it could be confirmed that the fugitive was Kang Ning, it is very likely that he would disguise himself and continue to abscond."

Yang Yong, captain of the second administrative brigade, stood up: "Starting at 4:50 am, we conducted a rigorous search of the eight-kilometer section of Lanning Station to Xinyang Station. In addition to confirming that the broken mango tree was the place where the fugitive jumped, no trace of the fugitive climbing over the isolation iron net was found. From the discovery of the fugitive, all the intersections on both sides of the railway were blocked, and the two speedboats from the water police station also arrived on the river surface under the Yongjiang Railway Bridge in time to guard the river, but no trace of the fugitive was found so far. Therefore, we judged that the fugitive might have climbed up the military train from Pingxiang to flee north. According to the railway department, the time for the military train to arrive at Litang Station was 7:42 am, and the time for the driving was 7:56, while the time for the workers in the Litang Railway section was 8:00 am. From the time analysis, it is very likely that the fugitive was the military train leaving Litang Station."

After listening to Yang Yong's analysis, everyone was excited.

Chen Tiejian frowned and said dissatisfiedly: "At 6:50 this morning, we have informed the Litang Station Police Station and Litang Municipal Public Security Bureau. A brigade of Litang Armed Police also participated in the search. Why did it only report now? It has been four and a half hours since Mo Yaoguang woke up and reported the case. Litang Station is a hub station. During this period, there are at least fifty passenger and freight trains heading to Guangdong, Hunan, Guizhou and Lanning through Litang Station. If the fugitive climbs the car and abscond again, how will we determine the direction of his escape? The work efficiency of the Litang Municipal Public Security Bureau is too low!"

"Report, the latest situation is coming from the Litang Municipal Public Security Bureau!"

Wei Mingzhong's deputy Deng Xudong entered the conference room again: "Half an hour ago, in the tool room where workers at Litang Station were attacked, the police uniform and pants abandoned by the fugitive had been found. The name on the police officer's certificate left in the pocket of the police uniform was Chen Dawei of Chengnan Branch. Therefore, we confirmed that the fugitive appeared at Litang Station was Kang Ning!"

"It's just now that it's a useless thing! Why don't you report such an important situation as soon as possible? What are the guys from Litang doing? Ah?" Jiang Shangwu saw that the speculation was confirmed and immediately felt that the difficulty of chasing him increased exponentially, and in desperation, he got angry loudly.

Everyone who was originally energetic, when they saw the boss getting angry, they all consciously closed their mouths and fell silent.

But Wei Mingzhong knew that the first deputy director in charge of criminal investigation of Litang Public Security Bureau was Jiang Shangwu's brother-in-law, so Wei Mingzhong thought for a moment and suggested: "Director, political commissar, and everyone, you might as well speculate on the possible escape direction of the fugitive. Brothers along the railways in the entire district, including Liuzhou, Guilin, Hechi, Yulin, Bai, Pingxiang, etc., have already launched strict encirclement. Therefore, I suggest: immediately notify the public security bureaus of cities and counties in the above-mentioned regions of the city and county, and at the same time, order the public security bureau of Litang Municipality to launch a large-scale search operation immediately, and even order the Binyang County Public Security Bureau next to Litang to conduct a search."

Everyone agreed with Wei Mingzhong's opinion.

Jiang Shangwu concluded: "I agree! The brother units on the railway have been mobilized. I will contact the Liuzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau later and ask them for their strong assistance. Police forces in the city can be removed, but the inspection points on the main roads entering and leaving at the station, dock and suburbs of the city still need to stick to their posts until the return of Hong Kong on July 2nd. Lao Shen, what do you think?"

"I agree! I have another suggestion, set up a special task force immediately, report the case to the department, and ask the department to provide assistance in technology and strength." Shen Tiejian said slowly.

Jiang Shangwu turned around and whispered to Shen Tiejian: "After the meeting, I will go to the municipal government and the municipal party committee to report your opinions, but before making a decision, we still have to listen to the opinions of the superior organization!"

Shen Tiejian nodded without saying anything. At this time, Liu Weiqing, deputy captain of the Second Criminal Investigation Brigade who had been silent, stood up and spoke: "I think Zhang Jianhan, deputy captain of the First Criminal Investigation Brigade, is most familiar with the fugitive. He should be allowed to participate in the investigation of the case and should not be rejected."

"Damn it! Liu Weiqing, do you understand the discipline and regulations? Do you understand the organizational principles? Sit down!"

Jiang Shangwu saw Liu Weiqing sitting down and lowered his voice to Shen Tiejian, Wei Mingzhong and others again: "I also know that Comrade Zhang Jianhan has strong professional skills and is also a party member with six years of firm party age. If he joins the investigation of this case, it will bring certain promotion to future work. However, after learning about the original objective and substantive relationship between Comrade Zhang Jianhan and the fugitive, we cannot violate the organizational discipline and regulations. At any time, we must put organizational discipline first. Okay, today's meeting will be held here. The decision made by the meeting needs to be implemented immediately after you go back. The political commissar and Deputy Director Lu will listen to everyone's reports at any time. What else does Lao Shen and Lao Lu have to add... If you don't have it, then the meeting will end!"

After the meeting, Wei Mingzhong did not say a word and rushed back to the Criminal Investigation Detachment with his deputy Deng Xudong. As soon as he entered his office, Wei Mingzhong immediately ordered his assistant Tian Wenbo: "Xiaotian, go and call that boy Zhang Jianhan for me."

"Yes!" Tian Wenbo left.
Chapter completed!