After leaving the village in the east of Dunhuang County, the spy wanted to run all the way along the official road, hoping to return to Chang'an City as soon as possible to report to Li Shimin. But soon after he stopped hiding the gunpowder, he felt as if there were countless pairs of eyes staring at him in the dark. No matter how fast he pushed the mount under his crotch, he couldn't escape this kind of surveillance, and his gaze swept around him. This is the intuition he has cultivated over the years as an intelligence spy, and this sixth sense that he doesn't know where he got it has also allowed him to escape death many times, and now this spy knows that he must be being targeted by some people, but the enemy is in the dark and he is in the light, and it is impossible to confirm which force is targeting him for a while.

Therefore, this spy did his best to keep moving in the direction of Chang'an City, in order to return to Chang'an as soon as possible, he was hungry and thirsty and stayed overnight along the way. ran all the way to the southeast, not to mention the difficulties and dangers along the way, just Li Wenyuan's side.

The soldier stationed at the east gate had been ordered by the commander not to search the beggar. But he was not completely unsuspicious, but because his boss gave an order, he didn't dare to disobey, so he directly let the beggar go and let him leave Dunhuang County directly. But watching the beggar's figure move farther and farther away from him until he disappeared into the official road, the soldier's frowning brow never relaxed.

For the city gate defenders of Dunhuang County, Li Wenyuan borrowed from the method of arranging shifts in later generations. Schedule them a week in advance and let them work shifts. If you need to explain something to the peak in advance and write an application report, you or the peak will find other soldiers who are free to change shifts. Generally speaking, the officers stationed at the gates worked in three shifts to ensure that officers would be present at twelve hours a day. And in order to be sure, the soldiers are staggered in shifts. Considering the limits of everyone's body and energy, and at the same time, there is a fear that the soldiers guarding the city gate are too tired, which will lead to problems in the work, which can lead to catastrophe. So in general, in the absence of a special emergency, soldiers on a shift only need to be on duty for two hours, and then well-rested soldiers will come to replace them. There are six shifts a day, and a total of six groups of soldiers take turns to guard the city gate and protect the safety of Dunhuang County.

And because of the recent theft of gunpowder in Dunhuang County, the task of the city gate defenders has increased a lot, so the number of shifts on duty every day has directly doubled, increasing to twelve, which means that everyone only needs to stare at an hour to rest temporarily.

The soldier returned to the lounge to rest after completing his hour-long mission today, but he always felt that something was wrong with lying on the bed. So he turned over and got out of bed, came to the table and wrote down everything he saw and heard on the fold, and then went out with the fold, and asked the guard at the door of Li Wenyuan's office to hand over the fold to Li Wenyuan, who was handling official business. In his recital, he mentioned that a beggar with a strange appearance and a mysterious behavior had appeared in the county town of Dunhuang in recent days, and had left the county this morning in a southeasterly direction.

Li Wenyuan had already intended to turn this matter into a big one, but in the end, it was not resolved. But he thought about it, if he could take this opportunity to capture the spies sent by Li Shimin in one fell swoop, it would also be a good thing. So it was immediately ordered. The regular division that had previously been involved in pacifying the order in the city was immediately dispatched, and followed the spy all the way to the rear.

These men searched in the direction of the spies in such a meticulous manner that the village in the eastern part of Dunhuang County became lively. They searched the way and learned that the beggar who had gone out of the city had been there. So they came to this village, and after searching around the village, they finally found the merchant who provided the horses for Li Shimin's spies to coil. Although no direct evidence was found that the businessman allowed Li Shimin's spies to safely remove their disguises and escape from Li Wenyuan's pursuit, the soldiers still surrounded the businessman's family and arrested his entire family and put him in prison.

After several days of torture, the merchant finally couldn't stand it anymore and confessed everything he knew, including a few chess pieces that Li Shimin had hidden in the county town of Dunhuang in addition to this stronghold. It stands to reason that he is just a peripheral person in charge of receiving intelligence officers, and he has no authority to know so much. However, in order to allow the merchant to help the spies in difficulty in a more timely manner, he told him all the identities and names of some dark chess pieces in Dunhuang County, as well as the secret addresses and the location of the last safe house.

After getting this information, Li Wenyuan nodded with satisfaction, this is what he really wants. Li Wenyuan once personally studied a set of torture, and in this set of torture, Li Wenyuan not only borrowed some punishments that later generations heard about, but even practiced them on some death row prisoners. For him, having obtained this list of personnel, as long as he catches a few of them, it is equivalent to knowing the nails that the citizens have planted in Dunhuang County in the past few days.

After obtaining this list, Li Wenyuan sent his subordinates to various places in Dunhuang County with this list and arrested them. Until it was finally confirmed that it was correct, it was handed over to Qiu Niang, and Qiu Niang was responsible for priing open the mouths of these people.

This is Li Wenyuan's action in Dunhuang County, and as for the outside of Dunhuang County, there are still those regular army soldiers who are arresting and following the traces left by Li Shimin's spies all the way. On this day, they tracked down to the vicinity of Wuwei County, and seeing that one step further forward was Xue Ju's territory, these soldiers had to stop the pursuit, and this time the arrest of the spies who stole gunpowder ended in failure.

As long as this spy escaped from the vicinity of Wuwei County smoothly, he would completely leave Li Wenyuan's sphere of influence, and no one could stop him from returning to Chang'an. When he arrived in Xue Ju's territory, the spy could be regarded as breathing a sigh of relief, and then remembered what Li Shimin had told him before, and then put his hanging heart back into his stomach.

The spy sat on his horse and turned to see the soldiers behind him who were gradually emerging in the dust and smoke before stopping before the border, and then he assumed the appearance of a victor, waved at the soldiers, and then turned his horse's head and calmly headed southeast.

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