dognovel Chapter 321 Assisting in the Capture
Chapter 321 Assisting in the Capture
"Thank you, sir." Jiang Yue stood up and clasped her fists, and continued to tell him everything about how she had escorted Master Yue Tingshan home, and what the general had asked her to do.
"We just discovered this morning that we couldn't leave the city, so we came to ask for help from the Assassin."
Jiang Yue briefly commented that after Xie Yuanzhi heard how Yue Tingshan died in battle, he could hardly hide his grief.
Although he had never met Yue Tingshan before, he had heard of his heroic deeds a long time ago. However, later on, Yue Tingshan seemed to have disappeared.
I don't want to hear news about him again today, it's so miserable.
"Since you have to send General Yue home and also go to the palace to see the emperor, I will personally escort you out of the city."
Jiang Yue heard this and asked:
"Thank you, sir. What happened in the city? Why was the city suddenly closed?"
After all, they were soldiers stationed at the border, so Xie Yuanzhi knew that Jiang Yue wanted to ask about this matter.
"I just received a report from the court yesterday saying that a spy from Northern Yan had sneaked into the imperial city and stole our Donglin topographic map. And the Northern Yan prince's men sneaked into my Qingyun Prefecture last night."
He was still thinking about moving up step by step, and didn't want to stop because of a momentary mistake.
Jiang Yue was feeling gloomy. The theft of the topographic map was no small matter.
"The topographic map contains a lot of location information. Once the location information is leaked, it will be easier for the enemy to accurately strike Donglin. Donglin's defensive weaknesses will also be exposed. If Beiyan takes advantage of it, Donglin will probably cause a lot of unnecessary trouble."
After hearing this, Xie Yuanzhi fell into deep thought. It was indeed true. Those spies must be found as soon as possible.
This matter is a bit tricky.
Jiang Yue thought for a moment and asked, "Does your Excellency have any clues?"
Xie Yuanzhi shook his head, looking helpless. "Qingyun is a vast place with a mixed crowd of people. It is extremely difficult to investigate."
Jiang Yue: "Why are you so sure, sir, that the spy is in Qingyun?"
Xie Yuanzhi explained:
"Qingyun is a transportation fortress with frequent trade and commerce, making it the easiest place to hide one's identity. And yesterday someone reported that a person who was suspected to be a spy had sneaked into Qingyun because he was being chased."
For things like this, it is better to believe it than not to believe it. It is always better to be cautious.
"I have already sent people to check the inns to see if there are any people with Northern Yan accents or behaving suspiciously."
As she was talking, Jiang Yue suddenly thought of the man in black clothes she met yesterday and this morning.
"Thank you, sir. We met a few suspicious people at the inn yesterday. Or perhaps, they are officials sent by the court to the border. You can find them and ask them about this."
"Oh?" Upon hearing the news, Xie Yuanzhi couldn't wait to capture and kill the Beiyan spy.
"Jiang Yue, where is the inn? Please lead the way. I will send someone to accompany you right away."
Jiang Yue: "They had already left the inn. We discovered that they were heading towards the city gate."
Xie Yuanzhi thought about it and felt that his city gate was guarded tightly, so he decided to check it out himself.
"Go to the city gate to check for any abnormalities." Xie Yuanzhi instructed his attendants, and then said to Jiang Yue:
"I know you have important matters to attend to. It is urgent to hurry on. Let's go. I will personally escort you out of the city."
Since Jiang Yue had received the order from the general to go to the capital, Xie Yuanzhi would naturally not neglect her.
Jiang Yue's mind was filled with the loss of the Donglin topographic map.
Seeing that Donglin was winning battles frequently, she didn't want the soldiers on the border to be threatened in any way.
Just as I was thinking this, I heard the official report back,
"Sir, something strange has been discovered at the city gate."
"But have you spotted the spy?" Xie Yuanzhi became nervous.
"My Lord, someone broke into the city gate and wanted to leave the city in a hurry. I wonder if it was a spy."
Xie Yuanzhi didn't ask anything else, so he hurried over.
Jiang Yue and others followed closely behind.
At the Qingyun City Gate,
As soon as Jiang Yue and others approached,
Then I found that the city gate that was originally tightly closed was open.
On the ground lay a group of policemen whose faces had been beaten beyond recognition.
When Xie Yuanzhi arrived, his face was as black as charcoal.
"Who opened the city gate?"
A guard replied: "Your Excellency, someone is holding the royal token, and I dare not stop him."
"Royal token?" Xie Yuanzhi made the worst plan in his heart.
"How long have you been gone?"
"Just left!"
When Jiang Yue and others heard this, they didn't wait for anything and rushed out of the city gate immediately.
Following the horseshoe prints,
From a distance, I heard a fight.
It’s still the conflict I saw this morning.
A group of more than twenty officers were fighting fiercely with a man in black and his five servants. From a distance, the two sides seemed equally matched, but from a closer look, the man in black and his servants were slightly inferior and tended to retreat.
When Jiang Yue and others saw this scene, they thought to themselves that they must not let anyone else escape.
In addition to Jiang Wuni, she and Lin Guo beside her quickly joined in to help the officials.
In an instant, the officers were in the upper hand, and the four guards were beaten back one after another.
"Helpers are coming." The man in black looked at the direction not far away, and saw his 10,000 elite soldiers who had already left. He regretted his original decision.
He held a long sword in his hand and pointed it directly at Jiang Yue.
Jiang Yue stepped back a little and responded with a counter attack.
The black-clothed man had a very ugly expression on his face, and he swung his sword straight at Jiang Yue's heart.
The situation was urgent and he regretted not bringing more people with him.
Jiang Yue dodged sideways and suddenly drew his knife.
The opponent dodged, and the sword was about to pierce Jiang Yue's chest.
When Jiang Yue bent back, the long sword was solemn, and in an instant it was against the opponent's neck.
The black-clothed man's body suddenly tensed up, and his expression became extremely ugly.
Jiang Yue did not relax his movements and asked, "Who are you?"
The black-clothed man disdains to reply.
Then I heard a leading officer saying while beating:
"They are Beiyan's secret agents!" After saying that, he did not forget to look at Lin Guo and Mu Heng, because the two had just made extraordinary moves, and said anxiously:
"Kill them now!"
"Confusing right and wrong!" The man in black suddenly realized from what the officer said that Jiang Yue opposite him was not an helper of those people.
He guessed that it was more like a passer-by who saw injustice, so he asked:
"Who are you?"
Jiang Yue: "I am Jiang Yue, the deputy general of Donglin. No matter who you are, as long as you are a bandit from Beiyan, you will never escape!"
After hearing this, the man in black's heart, which had just sunk to the bottom, regained its composure.
"Lieutenant Jiang? Let go, or I will destroy your family!"
Jiang Yue: “…”
When the officials heard this, their faces changed. "He is the prince of Northern Yan. Kill him!"
At this moment, Jiang Yue's long knife was still against the opponent's neck.
But when she saw clearly the suspicious figure she had seen this morning among the group of officers, her knife-holding hand suddenly loosened.
Immediately, the officers quickly withdrew from the fight, turned their horses around, and ran away.
Because Lin Guo and Mu Heng were still fighting with the four guards and were clearly at a disadvantage, Jiang Yue said anxiously,
"Stop it, we're one!"
Then, she took the lead and chased after the group of officials who had just fled.
"Where to run?"
The "officials" who had just been grateful to him suddenly changed their expressions.
Seeing that his identity had been exposed, he tried to bypass Jiang Yue.
However, due to Jiang Yue's obstruction, Lin Guo and Mu Heng, together with the four guards, had already rushed forward.
A fierce scene was about to break out, Jiang Yue joined in, and after several rounds of fighting,
The fake officials died one after another, leaving only the last leader, who was the fake night watchman in official uniform, who was stabbed in the neck by Jiang Yue.
"You caught him!"