Chapter 769: Cluster Campaign

"Old Shi, how is it over there?"

Brigade Leader Jin Nanyan's voice was clearly audible, with a little concern.

Shi Zhonglong squirmed twice in the narrow space in the car and said: "Everything is going well, the suspect is currently under our surveillance."

The brigade leader said: "Watch it well, identify the person correctly, don't make a mistake."

"Yes. Won't. The suspect is as thin as a quail, and he opened a courier station. He can't even move a courier box. If there is time one day, we really have to screen these people who open courier points."

"It's easy to say, you catch 13 people for me one day." Jin Nanyan *hummed* twice and said: "You talk about tactics like two-five-eight-thousand (arrogant), and when you ask for criminals, you spread your hands."

"Jin Zhi, to be honest, if you compare me with Jiang Yuan, I will take it as you are lifting me up." Shi Zhonglong laughed happily.

"Alright, remember to bring the people back properly. What Jiang Yuan wants is clues, is confession. We white-dropped a few third-class merits, at least get the people together later." The brigade leader gave two quick instructions and hung up the phone.

13 suspects, distributed in 12 places, arresting them requires 13 teams of people. Considering that two of them have clear suspicions of carrying guns, the remaining 11 groups of people dare not be negligent at all. They are all full-staffed teams of 8 people and two cars, and everyone carries guns.

This is also the difference between anti-drug police and other police types. They are always prepared for the worst possibility, ready to attack when the firepower is not as good as the other party. The so-called fear of insufficient firepower is real among anti-drug police.

"Xiao Ma, how is it over there?"

Shi Zhonglong hung up the brigade leader's phone and started calling his subordinates to check the post.

Female police officer Ma Xiaopei said sternly: "We are ready, we can arrest at any time."

Shi Zhonglong: "Watch it well, identify the person correctly, don't make a mistake."

"Yes."

"What is the situation at the scene?"

"The suspect..." Ma Xiaopei's voice paused and said: "Is a single mother, also bringing a child, estimated to be very short of money to be a mule... The difficulty of arrest should not be high, it is just that the placement of the child is difficult."

"After catching the person, you find the internal affairs to contact the Women's Federation, and ask if the suspect has any relatives who can take in the child." Shi Zhonglong's voice was cold and ruthless, saying: "You can pay attention to the method when arresting, but what you must pay attention to first is to protect your own safety. If there is a threat, pull the gun decisively, understand?"

Ma Xiaopei *ah* and said: "Shi Da, we will protect ourselves."

"You not only have to protect yourself, but also protect your team members. I say this, the brigade leader won't say it, and the bureau chief won't say it either. People who speak on the media must be saying what everyone likes to hear. But life is our own. Everyone is born by parents. She is a single mother, and we are also parents' children. To say whose life is more noble than whose, everyone's life is more noble than a drug dealer's!"

"Yes!"

"You don't care if she is pitiful or not. Which mule is not pitiful? This batch of mules was bought from their channel. They are all people who have no way to borrow online loans. It's not a matter of one or two days."

Ma Xiaopei hesitated and said: "It may also be that the debt collection has no way. Bringing a child alone, not comparable to other situations."

"Our country has many means to restrict debt collection. She is a single mother. If she calls the police, will no one help her? Crying in the police station with a child, she will definitely find help. Xiao Ma, I tell you, people who are willing to take one or two thousand yuan to be a mule, some may be really desperate, but some people want to find a way to turn over."

Ma Xiaopei was stunned, looking at the roadside stall. The single mother who was busy making pancakes was sincere and natural to customers. Her little daughter was only four or five years old, just returned from kindergarten, and was drawing pictures under the eaves of the shop next to her.

If you draw the scene in front of you, years later, when the little girl recalls this scene, is it happiness or sadness?

If the family is rich and happy, it is about happiness. If the family is poor or unhappy, it is about sadness.

And a single mother wants to turn sadness into happiness by being a mule, at least she has to harm a school's teenagers to have hope.

Ma Xiaopei took out the 64 from her waist and checked it. The power of this gun is much smaller than 92. Shooting it on a person is like the difference between a cow hitting a person and a pig hitting a person.

However, 64 is much better than 92 in concealment. Xiao Ma is a female police officer and often has to perform extremely dangerous forward reconnaissance missions. Sometimes she doesn't even bring a gun for the sake of convenience.

In her heart, Ma Xiaopei still hopes to catch Wang Qian smoothly, and it is better not to move knives and guns.

"All prepare, countdown 30 seconds to start the arrest."

When the order came, Ma Xiaopei opened her eyes sharply.

"Act according to the plan."

Ma Xiaopei pushed the door and got out of the car, heading straight to the small stall on the roadside, and then said the sentence she had prepared for a long time: "Boss, make a pancake."

"Okay." The boss answered crisply.

"The boss is doing business alone and bringing a child, it's quite hard." Ma Xiaopei observed the boss's technique of spreading pancakes.

The boss smiled, looked at her daughter, and said: "Bitter for a few years, it will be fine when the daughter grows up. In fact, life was not very good before, it was just passing by. In the past few years... hey, it's also passing by."

Taking advantage of the time she was talking, two other police officers approached quietly.

As a stall owner, although the boss observed their approach, her face only showed a smile.

"Eat spicy?"

"Eat." While Ma Xiaopei was talking, a side step pushed the boss away from the stall.

Two other police officers approached at the same time, one twisted one of the suspect's arms and pressed her to the ground.

As the owner of a snack stall, although the landlady observed their approach, she only revealed a smile on her face.

"Do you eat spicy food?"

"Yes." As Ma Xiaopei spoke, she took a side step and pushed the landlady away from the stall.

Two other police officers stepped forward simultaneously, each twisting one of the suspect's arms and pinning her to the ground.

The landlady was stunned for a moment, then began to resist violently, until the cold handcuffs fell onto her hands.

"Are you police?" The landlady looked at Ma Xiaopei.

"We are police." Ma Xiaopei nodded slightly and asked, "What is your name?"

The landlady suddenly gave up struggling, her whole body pressed against the ground, and seeing another female police officer holding her daughter and turning away, she had even less strength left.

"What is your name?" the police officer on the left asked loudly while pinning her arms.

"Wang Qian, my name is Wang Qian!" the landlady said, tears streaming down: "Why are you arresting me?"

"You tell us, why are we arresting you?" Ma Xiaopei's expression was cold; she sympathized with Wang Qian, but that was limited to the discussion stage before the arrest. Once they truly entered the action, the rigorous training and numerous real-life experiences left no room for sympathy.

Moreover, the procedures after catching someone were not something she could control.

Zhengguang Bureau.

Command Center.

It was still the silver-gray walls, with a screen wall composed of over a dozen large screens, showing the different situations of over a dozen battlefronts.

Live video streams of law enforcement scenes, recordings from law enforcement cameras, videos from interrogation rooms, satellite and drone imagery, traffic and surveillance videos, data icons from unknown sources...

The massive amount of information displayed on over a dozen screens seemed chaotic, but in reality, under each screen, there was a corresponding technician managing it, with two display screens in front of them—one for what they saw, and one for their own operational tasks.

The bureau chief looked at this screen wall, which was dozens of meters long, with satisfaction and said with slight pride: "The efficiency of our command center is still quite good, especially when conducting these kinds of cluster campaigns; the results are prominent, and the effect is obvious."

"It is indeed; various departments can receive support from the rear, real-time feedback, and the command hub can also receive information at the first opportunity..." Tao Lu echoed the bureau chief's words, his eyelids twitching.

A cluster campaign is a major concept. It is a new combat method proposed in recent years, which can be said to be the most advanced strike mode in the country, organizing multiple departments together to serve one or a series of cases. It not only crosses police types but also crosses regions, sharing intelligence, coordinating investigations, and acting in unison.

Compared to the special task force model, the strike power of a cluster campaign is much greater, and the cases it can handle are more complex. It is equivalent to a temporary police synthetic brigade; whichever unit is needed is added in, and whichever region needs to participate in the battle is contacted.

In terms of results, cluster campaigns are even more prominent, often involving arrest warrants for hundreds of people, fighting across provinces and regions, and saving the police officers of the special task force from the hardship of traveling back and forth.

Naturally, this level of combat power also requires high-level police officers to command; as far as the Zhengguang Bureau is concerned, Tao Lu, as the captain of the criminal police detachment, is not quite qualified.

Normally, it might require the ministry, or at the very least, the municipal bureau to send personnel to command.

However, looking at it from another direction, if someone can command a cluster campaign, they actually have the qualifications to become a high-level police officer.

Captain Tao couldn't help but glance at Jiang Yuan; this operation couldn't yet be counted as a cluster campaign, but it had to be said that it already had a bit of that meaning.

Moreover, Jiang Yuan has actually commanded similar campaigns several times already.

"The people on the coconut meat line should all be arrested." After waiting for each team to report, Jiang Yuan came over happily to report.

The bureau chief had already heard the report before coming, and couldn't help but laugh, saying: "Good, good! Although it was a bit of a grand mobilization, it was worth it! It's equivalent to wiping out a latent heroin transport and trafficking line, and incidentally solving multiple homicide cases!"

"It's mainly to prevent them from forming a complete chain." Tao Lu also claimed credit for Jiang Yuan, saying: "Coconut Meat also had the intention of transitioning to synthetic drugs, but the chemist he found wasn't good enough, and Coconut Meat's strength at the raw material end wasn't good either. But this chemist got into corpse-dissolving and gained some experience; there are 11 bodies confirmed now, and although they were all drug addicts and traffickers, it's still very dangerous."

The bureau chief nodded: "Indeed, this front must be well-established; various chemical reagents that need to be regulated must be regulated, and the intensity of inspections and reviews for existing regulated items must be increased..."

When he said this, he was no longer facing Tao Lu.

Tao Lu was facing Huang Qiangmin.

"If it's 11 bodies, our 'Supplement to the Second New Agreement of the Xinjia Addendum' agreement can be considered completed." Huang Qiangmin whispered to Tao Lu in a way that wouldn't disturb others.

Tao Lu smiled apologetically: "I know, as for what's next..."

"Next, we have to go back for a trip." Huang Qiangmin interrupted Tao Lu, smiling, and said: "There aren't many cases left here at the Zhengguang Bureau, and the 'Homicide Cold Case Breakthrough Action' in Qinghe City has also reached a critical stage; we have to go back and help out."

Huang Qiangmin introduced the "Homicide Cold Case Breakthrough Action" in Qinghe City in detail. When Tao Lu heard it was an annual task arranged by the superior municipal bureau, he knew it had to be dealt with seriously. While feeling regretful, he also inexplicably felt a sense of relief.