Chapter 1118

Xu Taining arrived.

Wearing a white shirt and bringing more than 20 subordinates, he arrived in Lanyue City together.

Dai Mingsheng brought the municipal government leaders to meet with Xu Taining.

Both sides conducted a serious and rapid consultation.

The expressions were serious, the language was rapid, and the consultation heated up everyone's intelligence and emotional quotients.

Until Jiang Yuan led the Jiangning team into the hall.

"Jiang Yuan!" Xu Taining's voice suddenly became cheerful.

He also liked working on cases with Jiang Yuan. There was a sense of stability, he could fully utilize his talents, and furthermore, the resources for Jiang Yuan's cases were extremely abundant. Although Xu Taining could always secure plenty of resources for the cases he handled himself, with Jiang Yuan's participation, superiors were often more likely to loosen their purse strings and even provide excessive resources.

"Xu Chu, thank you for your hard work. I hope I haven't affected your case." Jiang Yuan shook hands with Xu Taining.

Xu Taining laughed and said: "I was only doing some consulting work for them anyway; your case is more exciting."

Jiang Yuan smiled upon hearing this.

Dai Mingsheng's face darkened.

"By the way, you should have met these old brothers of mine. Wan Wang is my chief of staff, responsible for the specific implementation work ahead. Wan Wang is also my eldest apprentice; you should have met him when we were looking for old Liu." Xu Taining introduced the subordinates he had brought to Jiang Yuan. He was meticulous about every detail, and the most important thing was execution, so he always brought his own people whenever he went out.

Liu Jinghui's face darkened.

Wan Wang looked to be about 10 years younger than Xu Taining, just over thirty, and still looked very energetic. He gave Jiang Yuan a proper salute, then pulled the young man behind him over and said: "This is my apprentice, Xie Xiangdao, who is also Xu Chu's grand-apprentice. This case is complex, and the scale of the search is quite large, so little Xie is responsible for running errands."

Xie Xiangdao was a young man with a defined jawline, and with a keen eye for the situation, he called out: "Grand-master."

Xu Taining smiled slightly and then said: "Use titles during work hours."

"Yes." Xie Xiangdao turned and said: "Director Jiang. Who should I coordinate with here?"

Jiang Yuan called over Miao Ruixiang and introduced him: "Miao Ruixiang is my junior fellow apprentice."

Xie Xiangdao looked at Miao Ruixiang, whose eyes still carried a clear, naive stupidity, thought for a moment, and said: "Grand-uncle-master!"

Miao Ruixiang smiled as if he were ecstatic.

"Everyone, get familiar with each other; there will be plenty to keep us busy soon." While Xu Taining sighed with emotion, he also laughed out loud: "As expected of Jiang Yuan from Ningtai, haven't seen you for a while, and the first meeting is a city-wide manhunt!"

Dai Mingsheng's face darkened once again.

The leader from the municipal government had an even darker expression. He turned to look at Dai Mingsheng's face and asked: "City-wide! Manhunt! What does that mean?"

"That's just a figure of speech." Xu Taining coughed twice and said: "When we reach the implementation stage, it will still be as we just discussed..."

"I haven't even agreed to what you just said yet!" The leader frowned with some anxiety and said: "Explain your figure of speech properly, and do it right in front of Jiang Yuan."

Then, he looked at Jiang Yuan, his tone much gentler: "Director Jiang, it's not that we are stingy. If you feel it is truly necessary, we are willing to invest. What we pursue, after all, is solving the case; we cannot end up just being showy. If we invest too much all at once, it will be troublesome if it all goes down the drain."

He had already spoken very bluntly, which could be considered revealing his bottom line completely. Of course, even if he didn't say it, everyone knew that the bottom line was solving the case. A huge investment that could solve the case was understandable, while a tiny expenditure that couldn't solve the case was unbearable.

Although Jiang Yuan hadn't shouted the slogan "Must solve every case accepted," in the eyes of others, it was pretty much the same thing.

Xu Taining looked at Jiang Yuan with a bit of sympathy. He could particularly understand this kind of pressure, but even at twice his age, he wouldn't dare to promise a 100% success rate in solving a case.

Even though he also did his best to do so.

However, Jiang Yuan at this moment, wearing a face that had never suffered a setback, said affirmatively: "I trust Xu Chu's judgment. I believe the municipal government's investment will not go down the drain."

Xu Taining was stunned for a moment and hurriedly added: "Our planning is to avoid loopholes as much as possible; the municipal government's investment will definitely see results."

"We certainly trust you too..." Things having reached this point, the municipal leader also began to adopt an encouraging policy, only pulling Dai Mingsheng aside to have a long talk just before leaving.

After Dai Mingsheng returned, his mood was quite stable, like a calm person, and he said: "Everything is ready. Next, it's time to watch Xu Chu's performance."

Xu Taining had seen too many of these dead-end situations; he just felt he had entered his rhythm, laughed, and said: "It's not a performance. I've always been a bit clumsy in how I do things. I don't understand those meticulously constructed plans; those are Axis power stuff. My idea is very simple: Lanyue City has 6 districts and one suburban county; let's just go with grid-based deployment."

Xu Taining had someone unfold a map of Lanyue City on the spot, which had thirty or forty grids drawn on it, clearly meticulously prepared.

Xu Taining said: "I prepared this in advance. Without the participation of local friends, there are bound to be many omissions. Our goal today is to perfect this grid, and then deploy defenses according to this grid. The benefit of doing this is to prevent the existing criminal gangs from connecting. Because as far as I know, the gang members, in addition to the finished firearms prepared for sale, also have a large amount of parts and spares stored. We must prevent certain people from merging once the operation begins."

Dai Mingsheng's expression finally became more vivid: "This idea is good. Indeed, many members of the Heavy Load gang possess large quantities of ordnance parts, as well as explosives; we must prevent them from uniting."

Xu Taining nodded: "Second point, Jiang Yuan and the investigators will continue to investigate and interrogate. Once there are results, a specialized capture team will coordinate with the long-gunners and the SWAT riot squad to carry out a surprise attack. Infantry fighting vehicles are too heavy... I mean, they are too conspicuous. In a provincial capital city, it's best not to use them."

Dai Mingsheng nodded repeatedly, finally feeling that Xu Taining was much more agreeable, and hurriedly said: "If we can avoid using heavy weapons, that's definitely a better choice, but... how do we control the casualty rate?"

"Anti-materiel rifles equipped with thermal imaging. Stun grenades for the assault. The traditional model is sufficient. We are already at the stage of closing the net; if the criminals resist, just shoot them dead," Xu Taining said.

Dai Mingsheng couldn't help but slap his own forehead hard: "I was led astray by the Pingmeng Municipal Bureau. This is good, this is good..."

Xu Taining nodded and said: "If you're worried, just approve a bit more explosives. Just blast your way in; most scenarios should be solvable that way."

Dai Mingsheng: "No problem."

Xu Taining: "Additionally, I personally like to prepare a few excavators, modify them slightly, and transport them on small flatbed trucks. If the opponent's firepower is too intense, raising the excavator's bucket to use as an armored vehicle is about enough. This way, the disturbance is a bit smaller."

Dai Mingsheng's eyebrows furrowed: "That works too."

Xu Taining: "As for personnel, use the branch bureaus of each district as nodes and mobilize the backbone forces of each district..."

Dai Mingsheng felt Xu Taining's momentum rising again and hurriedly said: "Let's just have the long-gunners be the main force for the captures."

"It's for the interrogations," Xu Taining emphasized: "Isn't our goal a city-wide manhunt? In that case, the interrogations must be strengthened. Following the one-to-three standard, if we bring in 100 people, we have to prepare 300 people. Additionally, I suggest capturing the buyers collectively as well, but that can be placed a bit later. In that case, we must at least send communication teams to each province..."

"This... alright." When Dai Mingsheng heard words like "each province" and looked at Xu Taining again, he was already back to being the pure Xu Taining.

Jiang Yuan interjected at this moment: "I suggest sweeping up the small-time thugs as well, to make it perfect."

"No problem." Xu Taining's mouth curled into a smile: "Just add more people."

"Add... how many?" Dai Mingsheng was like a man preparing for a wedding. He knew holding a wedding was expensive, but he didn't know it was this expensive. Most importantly, he already felt he was on the verge of being unable to bear it, yet the budget was still rising.

Xu Taining looked at Jiang Yuan, then at Dai Mingsheng, and said: "With normal thinking, we don't need that many people. Spending a little more time might achieve the same effect. But in my experience, time is money."

Xu Taining's smile seemed a bit cruel in the eyes of the Lanyue police officers: "With the current scale of our special task force, there are already nearly 200 criminal police officers, right? A branch bureau scraping together people will surely have to come up with two hundred. Not counting the long-gunners, just for these people, food, drink, and transportation, 200 yuan a day won't cover it... These are still the minor costs. Are we not doing other cases? If the branch bureaus are affected for a long time, something big is going to happen!"

When Xu Taining said the last sentence, Dai Mingsheng's hanging heart finally died.

Dai Mingsheng thought about it carefully; what Xu Taining said was correct. He sighed: "Let's not talk about this anymore; let's discuss the specific execution."

"Right. Once you open up your perspective, there's no problem!" Xu Taining said with a tone of praise, then continued: "The specific planning is quite tedious to talk about. If you don't find it tedious, let me state a few points first."

Xu Taining: "First, the collection of equipment. The number of anti-materiel rifles must be sufficient. I emphasize anti-materiel rifles; they cannot simply be replaced by large-caliber sniper rifles. The ammunition types must also be compatible. Additionally, the snipers must also be compatible, and the quantity must be high. The same goes for thermal imaging; the observers must know how to use them and use them well. If these two points don't meet the requirements, I suggest requesting external support!"

Xu Taining didn't even ask if Dai Mingsheng could provide the conditions, and continued: "The assault teams must also be prepared. The protective measures for the front-line members must be in place. Shields, helmets, bulletproof vests, ceramic plates, etc., must all be prepared to the Level 4 standard. But not everyone can wear heavy bulletproof vests; if you're afraid of death, don't be a police officer!"

"Don't worry, we have no problem with that." Dai Mingsheng nodded.

Xu Taining became eloquent: "Stun grenades and the like must also be checked. Choose ones with recent manufacturing dates; it's best to pick the manufacturer too. I've encountered ones that didn't go off when thrown in, and that's the best-case scenario. What if they go off slowly? By the time we rush in, everyone is dizzy, and if everyone starts shooting wildly at each other, we're finished..."

Xu Taining: "... Beyond equipment, logistics cannot be underestimated. Clothing, food, housing, and transportation are the basics. Later, I will let my subordinates discuss the specifics based on your conditions. Let me state one point first: the accommodation issue. For such a big case, with so many people gathered together and equipment fully assembled, we definitely can't go home anymore. I suggest booking at least two hotels for each district, at least at the level of an express hotel..."

Jiang Yuan only cared about the case itself and found it somewhat boring. Looking left and right, he saw that the white-shirted officers of the Lanyue Municipal Bureau were becoming increasingly nervous.

Hearing the latter part, Dai Mingsheng was clearly clenching his fists, trembling slightly.

Jiang Yuan's criminal investigation mindset quickly came online, and he made an analytical judgment: Although Lanyue is rich and Dai Mingsheng is wealthy, it is not enough to cope with the Xu Taining universe.