Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 1129 - 21: Caught Red-Handed! (Part 2)

Thinking about Wang Yan and the people from the Dongqi Police Bureau and the Dongqi Tobacco Monopoly Bureau who had been on stakeout for several days, Han Yu quickly took out his phone to confirm there was a signal in this area, and smiled, saying: "Uncle Shen, you've been on the boat for many days, you must be very tired. There's no need to stay up with me, go get some rest, I'll be waiting for news at the helm."

"You've been on operations like this before, so you should know there's no day and night in such big operations. My body clock is completely messed up, you could say it's dayless and nightless now; sleep when tired, get up when there's work. I'm not tired at the moment, and it's been a long time since we've caught up, so of course, we should take this opportunity to chat."

"Alright."

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While Han Yu and Deputy Captain Shen were chatting leisurely on the Fishery Administration Ship, Wang Yan and twelve law enforcement officers from the Dongqi Police Bureau Criminal Police Team and Dongqi Tobacco Monopoly Bureau Inspection Team had been staking out in an old factory building behind the Yongchang Aquatic Products Wharf for over six hours.

Wang Yan lay on the ladder, eyes sharp, closely monitoring the surrounding movements.

The water anti-smuggling operation had only been underway for a week, but the land anti-smuggling operation had been ongoing for more than a month. Investigating the smuggling of cigarettes was one of the key focuses of the land anti-smuggling operations, and multiple cigarette smuggling leads had been captured during these operations.

Intelligence indicated that a smuggling gang was about to smuggle imported cigarettes here.

Over the past week, auxiliary police and tobacco inspection team personnel were arranged to inconspicuously observe the area 24/7, with no activities detected previously.

Until this afternoon, or rather yesterday afternoon, there finally was a discovery.

A middle-aged man with a Dacang accent, driving a car with an East Sea license plate, arrived here around four-thirty in the afternoon, closed the door and talked with the wharf manager for half an hour, then stood by the wharf for a while before making a phone call from his car.

At six-twenty in the evening, a large articulated truck uncommon in Dongqi arrived.

The gate creaked open, and the large articulated truck slowly drove into the wharf.

There are cold storage facilities at the water plant wharf. If it were to transport frozen seafood, the cold storage should have been opened, and the wharf manager should have called in loaders for work, but the cold storage remained closed, and the containers on the flatbed truck weren't opened, nor was anything loaded into the containers.

They must be waiting for the ship.

Waiting for fishing boats returning from the sea to sell fish catches is quite normal in Dongqi, but Dongqi's Lvsi Fishing Port is not here!

Looking at the map, Dongqi resembles a peninsula.

To the south is the Yangtze River North Branch Channel, the east is the Yellow Sea, and to the north is the bay bordering Linghai Sanzao Port, where Lvsi Port is located.

Fishing boats that catch fish at sea usually sell directly to seafood purchase boats at sea, and these boats transport the seafood to the Lvsi Port area, where they are wholesaled or stocked as needed.

The Yongchang Water Plant Pier in front of us has long ceased acquiring local fishermen's catches, mainly loading and unloading feed needed for offshore farming and some frozen seafood.

In any case, the appearance of a large articulated truck usually only seen in large terminals like Binjiang Port here is highly suspicious, and clues collected earlier suggested that the wharf manager is very likely engaging in smuggling activities.

Wang Yan was pondering where the Salted Fish was when the distant sound of an engine thumped suddenly.

Soon, a shadow resembling a fishing boat appeared on the river's surface, moving quickly, and in the blink of an eye, reached a point not far from the wharf.

Deep in the quiet night, few boats navigated the river, and with the sea nearby, river ships generally didn't dare venture to sea, so even in the day, few ships passed, allowing the anti-smuggling team members squatting under the corner wall to hear it clearly, subconsciously looking up at Wang Yan.

Wang Yan sensed it and waved his hand, signaling everyone not to make any reckless moves.

At this moment, the faintly visible fishing boat did not slow down or approach the wharf, but continued sailing upstream.

Just when Wang Yan thought they had made a mistake, thinking the fishing boat was returning home early due to a poor catch, surprisingly, the upriver sailing fishing boat turned around, reduced its sailing speed, and drifted along with the current towards the wharf.

Wang Yan, though not a sailor, had participated in water rescue training and had been on boats with Xu Sanye back when the Criminal Investigation Fourth Squad was stationed at Bailong Port, and later under Xu Mingyuan's lead, assisted Customs in several anti-smuggling operations on the river.

He knew well that whether encountering strong winds and waves or berthing, boats always head against the wind and waves, and rarely do so with the current because such berthing is unsafe.

Under normal circumstances, a ship captain would not make such a rookie mistake.

There's only one possibility for berthing like this: the ship captain is ready to sail off at a moment's notice!

Wang Yan felt a surge of excitement, gesturing once more to indicate to his fellow operatives to wait a little longer, while instructing his subordinates to quickly go to the factory area to call Han Yu and report the situation. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

What happened next made him extremely excited: the wharf manager, the middle-aged man from the afternoon, and the truck driver all ran to the wharf.

The people on the boat moved large boxes one by one to the shore, while those on shore loaded the boxes onto the articulated truck, coordinating seamlessly without any communication, as if prearranged; this was clearly not their first time!

Wang Yan strived to control his emotions until estimating that they had loaded more than half the truck when he softly commanded, "Action!"

The participants had been ready; upon Wang Yan's command, they took the already prepared ladders, climbed over the walls, and struck from the east and west sides.

"Freeze, we are the police!"

"Yes, you, stay put!"

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Powerful flashlights lit up, illuminating the people on shore and on the boat.

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