Chapter 284: Sending a Letter
However, what is frightening is that three groups of people were sent out in succession, but they were all intercepted. The letter was searched, and the messenger was knocked unconscious and sent back, and did not ask for the lives of these people. This move seems to be a warning to General Tong not to meddle in this matter.
General Tong Wenye was furious!
He is not only the emperor's confidant, but also the younger brother of Concubine De, Murong Hong's maternal uncle, and the general of the imperial court. His duty was to defend his homeland and the country, eliminate the pirates and bandits, and ensure the peace of the people along the southern coast.
And now, he has even blocked the channel to send a letter to the emperor, and he is too failed and too merciful as a general!
Since the other party's subordinates left the invitation and intercepted the letter as soon as possible, there is no doubt that there is a traitor around him!
When discussing this matter, because the matter was too serious, there were only a few lieutenants who he trusted at that time, so the mole could only come from these few people.
This realization almost made Tong Wenye vomit blood angrily!
These men followed him from birth to death, treated him with all sincerity, and were loyal to him, saving their own lives several times. And the reason why this traitor let go of the soldier who sent the letter may not have completely lost his conscience, and he still has a trace of compassion.
But even if so, so what?
If this person dares to communicate with foreign countries, he doesn't have to show mercy.
However, who to send the letter has become a problem. Although the letter was intercepted three times, the life of the messenger was not required. But who can guarantee that he will show mercy next time?
When Tong Wenye was entangled and contradictory, Xue Bajin came to the army, which was like sending charcoal in the snow.
So, Tong Wenye secretly told Xue Bajin about the matter, and asked him to send his performance to the emperor in the capital, which is a 100,000 urgent matter!
What can Xue Bajin say? He can only agree. So, in a sad state, he only stayed in the army for one night before setting out on the way home again.
In order to cover Xue Bajin, Tong Wenye wrote two identical notes, one of which still sent a confidant and was escorted by fifty soldiers to the capital to deliver the letter. One was handed over to Xue Bajin, and he was asked to transfer to Jiaozhou, secretly set off from Jiaozhou, and went to the capital to deliver a letter.
really let Tong Wenye guess, the soldiers who delivered the letter were in danger this time, and they were not as lucky as the previous ones, they were killed by ferocious assassinations. Thanks to Tong Wenye's early preparation, he secretly sent someone to respond, and annihilated all the killers with several times the force, so that the plan of the people behind the scenes fell through.
For the sake of insurance, Tong Wenye did not let the messenger come back, and let them continue to deliver the letter.
And Xue Bajin's messenger in the army only went on the road after leaving, although on the same day, the hour was only one hour apart, but no one noticed Xue Bajin's departure.
Naturally, this is just the wishful thinking of Xue Bajin and Tong Wenye.
In fact, after Xue Bajin left the east gate of Thornton Port, he found that someone was following him, and there were no less than five people following him. They dressed up as merchants or swordsmen, and followed behind them two hundred meters.
And these people's martial arts are all above Xue Bajin, even if Xue Bajin really has three heads and six arms, he is not their opponent.
After realizing this, Xue Bajin thought of a way out as he walked.
Later, when spending the night in a deep mountain and dense forest, the other party suddenly attacked, attacking Xue Bajin from five directions, and the moves were all fatal killing moves, and there was a posture that would kill Xue Bajin!
Xue Bajin was waiting for this moment, when the five swords beckoned to him, he made a move of the white snake to spit out the letter, soared into the sky, the sword in his hand emitted a cold light, only to hear the sound of "jingling", his body had already jumped into the air, with a move of swallows and three water, stepping on the branches and going straight to the cliff next to him.
Before these people could react, Xue Bajin had already flown off the cliff and disappeared completely.
This cliff is a cliff that he and Zhao Erli once passed by when they went to Minyue Kingdom on a secret mission.
In fact, he and Zhao Erli are not the guards of the Tong family, but scouts hidden behind the scenes in the army, who are responsible for surveying the terrain and landforms, finding out news, and sometimes assassinating alternative soldiers.
They are under the direct command of Mei Yixuan's uncle Tong Zhuoxin, and they are another branch of the army, and the ordinary soldiers in the army, including some low-level generals, do not know them, and only General Tong and General Tong know their establishment.
When he returned to the capital last time, Tong Zhuoxin deliberately brought them along, firstly, to change places for them, and secondly, to let them protect Mei Yixuan's mother and daughter. Because their identities were exposed during a mission, they were no longer suitable to stay in the army.
Because at that time, Tong Zhuoxin had already noticed that there were people in the army who were eating inside and out, so he decisively let the two of them leave the army.
This is also the reason why Tong Zhuoxin told Mei Yixuan that they were the guards of the Tong family.
At that time, he and Zhao Erli were still serving in the army, and a spy suspected of being a Japanese was snooping in the military camp. He and Zhao Erli were ordered to track down the widow and chase them all the way to this cliff.
The Japanese were strong in martial arts, and after a fierce battle, the three of them finally knocked him off the cliff.
Worried that the Japanese would escape under the cliff, they climbed the branches and went down to the bottom of the cliff, where they found the Japanese who were struggling and seriously injured. When the Japanese saw them, they immediately pulled out their waist knives and committed suicide without waiting for the two to arrive.
It was on that occasion that he found a small river at the bottom of the cliff, leading directly to the outside of the mountain, and if they hadn't discovered it in time, the Japanese would have escaped along the river.
This time, Xue Bajin used this river to get rid of the tracking. After arriving outside the mountain, he bought another horse and stayed overnight all the way, and then returned to Bacun. When they arrived in Bacun, they learned that Mei Yixuan and the others had moved to Jiaozhou, so they chased them to Jiaozhou.
Mei Yixuan listened to Xue Bajin's words with a solemn face, and a strong uneasiness surged in her heart!
She suddenly remembered the isolated island, Wu Xin, Zheng Ximei and the other twelve people, and the disgusting and terrifying cave, could there be any connection between the two?
What if this island is just one of them? Could there be a place like this somewhere else?
If it really becomes the climate for the Japanese to practice this kind of vicious kung fu, then the Heavenly Domain Dynasty will be reduced to the world of some people with ulterior motives. Even if the crown prince ascends the throne, he will become their puppet!
She suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of crisis in her heart!
If this kind of vicious kung fu is really practiced, it is not only the coastal fishermen who will suffer the most, but the entire army of the Celestial Empire, and even the entire Celestial Empire, may be subverted!
This information should be reported to the emperor as soon as possible, so that the court can prepare early.