After meeting with Xu Zhiyu and briefly introducing the situation, Lin Mo ordered the selection of equipment and ammunition, mainly silent equipment for close firefights and rifle machine guns for medium and long-range firefights.
All preparations were coming to an end, and the team members who had been assigned to dispatch intelligence arrived in time. In addition to bringing relevant resources, they also sent two extra people to Lin Mo.
These two people were naturally the father and son of the Li family. Lin Mo was also familiar with them, so he wanted to understand the connection when they showed up.
After thinking about it, Lin Mo found hats and scarves for the two of them, covering their heads except for their eyes, and arranged a separate compartment on the boat.
The two of them have no power or influence, and they have no brothers. They are informants working alone. Leaking information about the two of them will not be beneficial to everyone.
One party may be implicated in danger and has little ability to protect himself; it is not worth it if one party loses the informant who proactively provides help.
What's more, this behavior was just a simple effort for Yu Linmo, but in the eyes of the other party, it was a move that he had personally considered. It would be a waste of money to treat it as a business, so why not do it?
"Have you prepared all the things I asked you to do before?" After properly arranging the two of them, Lin Mo did not ask anything immediately, but first asked Xu Zhiyu.
"They are all put in the cabin. Forty of them are brand new and have been tried. The quality is not excellent, but they are at least qualified and durable. There will be no problem in handling this operation."
"Brand new? Made yesterday?" Lin Mo raised his eyebrows and asked. What the two were talking about was that after Lin Mo received Xu Zhiyu's stop in pursuit, he arranged for him to get some spare bicycles.
Learning from the lack of effective transportation during daytime operations in places such as the west side of the Yangtze River, communication and slow movement problems, Lin Mo made some temporary arrangements in advance this time.
"When I was looking for it, I ran into an acquaintance from the past. He happened to have a batch of bicycles that had been stranded for two days and had just been unloaded. I spent some money and borrowed 40 bicycles to use for two days and then return them."
Lin Mo nodded. Logically speaking, he had plenty of connections and someone could arrange everything for him with just one phone call. However, after entering the Intelligence Department, he began to consciously keep a distance from his family, especially when it came to small matters. He could solve them himself if he could.
So as not to get too close and get in trouble.
After thinking about it, Lin Mo said: "Let's make up for the shortfall afterwards! We bought these bicycles ourselves, and we happened to be short of them. Originally, we wanted to buy some old ones so as not to attract attention because of their special features.
But it doesn’t matter if it’s new. Let’s send it to the training ground first. Once everyone has practiced it and is able to use it skillfully, it will probably be almost finished. It will be just right by then.”
"That's a coincidence! I thought it would be used in action. We are equipped with a variety of equipment, so we chose a variety of different styles and models, and several different brands. Then we don't have to worry about what features will be touched by others and attract the enemy.
Be wary of suspicion or anything like that.”
Lin Mo nodded, and after asking other people, after confirming that everything was in order, the two speedboats started, slowly drove out of the berth, turned around and speeded up, and went down the river.
On the boat, Lin Mo used the dim light to quickly read through the information that was handed over. After reading it, he put it down and let everyone get familiar with it. He then went to find the Li family and his son to verify the situation and understand the details.
After some understanding, Lin Mo was basically sure that the boat was the target he was looking for. It is estimated that Lin Wenhua, Wang Hefeng and others had the same thoughts and feelings, otherwise they would not have transferred the information.
However, because some of the details of the situation could not be verified and could not be clearly stated in the document for a while, the Li family and his son were sent together so that he could truly understand the various details to avoid misjudgment.
After returning from the inquiry, Lin Mo, Wang Shoufei, Xu Zhiyu and others studied the map and finally focused on the Qixiang River and Convenience River.
Qixiang River is a small river with a north-south direction on the east side of Qixia Mountain and a total length of more than ten kilometers. It is an irrigation and flood discharge river. Although the drainage basin is short, the flow is not bad. In summer, the downstream area can still support boating.
It is mainly a plain river with slow flow speed and merges into the Yangtze River. There is no obvious height difference between the lower reaches and the Yangtze River waters. On the one hand, the river water is accumulated, and on the other hand, the rise of the river water will also raise the water level in the river basin, and even back-irrigation will supplement the storage of more water.
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The Convenience River is an artificial waterway dredged along the south bank of the Yangtze River. It runs east-west and is basically level with the river. In ancient times, the Yangtze River section of the Yangtze River had broad waves and dangerous waves, which brought great trouble and danger to boats. The Convenience River was built for
It was built to avoid the river section here.
Convenience The river starts at the foot of Qixia Mountain in the west and ends in the west of the ancient city of Zhenjiang in the east. It is a busy waterway. Along the way, many waterways intersect and connect in all directions. You can find waterways to enter the Yangtze River at any time.
Regardless of whether you are traveling downstream from the broad Yangtze River, or crossing the Yangtze River north to enter places with crisscrossed waterways such as Yizheng and Yangzhou, there is a high probability that you will not be able to catch up with the other party's exhaust gas.
This is the reason for excluding the Jiuxiang River, that is, the west area of Qixia Mountain, because the escape options in this river area are too different. If several river mouths are blocked, the other side's ships will basically be unable to escape.
As for the specific location of the ship, it must be somewhere with clear roads and land. The other party is unlikely to abandon the car and walk. This is too slow. It must be that the people who are following and chasing are temporarily freed, so they drive over quickly, and then transfer quickly to make them completely lost.
Its whereabouts.
However, Lin Mo also defined a smaller area around the Beijing-Shanghai railway line. The area around the line is mainly flat terrain. Material transportation during construction, personnel labor activities, and later maintenance and inspection, etc., will definitely form a relatively complete and smooth road.
network.
The roads may be old and dilapidated, and the road condition is not as good as that of specialized highways and arterial roads, but temporary access is not a big problem. At worst, it can still be driven on the railway for a while. However, due to limitations in communication, management, etc., the railway dispatching work during this period is not ideal.
, the trains are not frequent and the speed is slow, so avoidance is not a problem.
When traveling on highways and arterial roads, the other party is likely to encounter inspections and blockades. Railways will also most likely have inspections and surveillance, but that is for trains and stations, not the railway itself.
As for waterways, neither the intelligence agency nor the government has much ability to control them. They can set up checkpoints and containment and pursuit, but that is a prerequisite for mobilizing a large number of military police, and the areas that can be blocked and controlled are still quite limited.
Of course, Lin Mo did not make such arrangements on the waterway. After all, he only made big noise during the day and then again at night. It is inevitable that some people would have objections. Moreover, it was done to the city of Nanjing, which would definitely make the newly settled people panic again.
It’s not easy to explain either.
Of course, the necessary surveillance and tracking must have been arranged, and Lin Mo believed that the other party would not easily board the ship near Nanjing City.
Even if waterways extend in all directions, they are still fixed waterways. If you want to escape, you must get rid of tracking and surveillance, otherwise you will easily be trapped in the pursuit.
After all, the speed is not very high when traveling by water. Even if it reaches forty knots, it is only eighty or ninety yards on land. Vehicles on the road cannot easily get on and off the ship quickly. If you abandon the ship, you will most likely have to rely on two legs.
However, areas with smooth waterways are either farming areas or densely populated areas, and it is not easy to escape tracking and suppression in these places.
It is better to take the land route. Vehicles may not be able to reach all directions, but on the flat roads and trails, you can always get around and run around. If necessary, you can also go to mountainous areas or areas with lush vegetation. You can use such places to escape and have more options.
Of course, as far as the road situation in the government is concerned, that is, in and around the city, it is possible to do this at medium and short distances. For long distances, not to mention roads, even getting oil is a big problem.
Lin Mo did not hide any of these judgments. When the boat arrived at the mouth of the Convenience River, the plan and countermeasures were basically discussed.
As the river rises in summer, the water level of the Convenient River is also raised. There are no rough waves in the Yangtze River waterway, and the navigation conditions are excellent. Although it is dark at night, there are still sporadic ships traveling on the waterway.
However, most of the boats have been moored on both sides of the waterway, stretching close together into the distance, waiting for the sun to rise tomorrow before entering the Yangtze River. Only after traveling for several hundred meters did the boats become sparse, which shows how busy this waterway is.
The Li family father and son went to the bow of the boat and used the lights on the boat to identify the boats on both sides. Unfortunately, they did not notice the sight. There were some boats in the middle, moored on the waterway connected by the Convenience River, and they did not enter to check.
This is just a casual inspection, the focus is not here, and other team members have turned off the lights in the cabin, closed the curtains, and adapted to the darkness.
Continue forward until you reach the confluence of Qixiang River and Qixiang River. A boat turns into Qixiang River and goes upstream. A boat slows down and drops off a group of team members carrying bicycles on both sides of the river bank. Then it changes direction.
Patrol other surrounding waters.
The boat that turned into the Qixiang River traveled upstream for a while and then gradually slowed down. On both sides of the bank, the bicycles traveling in the area where the lights on the boat overflowed also disappeared into the darkness, and the lights on the boat also disappeared.
Turn it off and move forward slowly relying only on experience and a flashlight.
"...Cuckoo...Cuckoo..." A sound like the chirping of birds came from the shore not far away. Xu Zhiyu listened carefully, and then pointed the position of the rudder. The ship slowly came to a stop and stretched out a root from the ship.
The plank was put on the shore.
After a while, a team member boarded the boat from the shore and reported the situation. They had found the suspected target and parked it in a branch of the Qixiang River not far from the Jianghu Railway.
However, the other party did not turn on the lights, the shore was covered by reeds, the surrounding situation was not clear, and the team members did not dare to approach rashly, so it was not possible to confirm it yet.
After some discussion, Wang Shoufei took the people off the boat, took the Li family and his son over to see them separately, and took away a long bamboo raft from the boat.
A long bamboo raft is about five meters long. The five bamboos are clamped and fixed with wooden strips. It is used by boats to temporarily set up and disembark in shallow and wide coastal waters or wide swamps. It can pass people and the boat can travel for a long time.
It is not durable on water, but it is lightweight and easy to use. Wang Shoufei took it away to see if it was needed. If the target ship was far away from the shore, he could just hit it and board the ship.