Chapter 160: Shocking News (Part II)
It turned out that the two "Feiyan Tang" spies who came to surrender to the Beiping Army this time were Qi An and Tong Ming, who were severely punished because of their disagreement with the master of the Huairou Branch. First, the two of them were very dissatisfied with Shi Ran's handling of the conflict between them and He Ping, the head of the Huairou branch hall, and felt that Shi Ran favored He Ping, who had a backstage, and deliberately staged a drama of "killing chickens and monkeys" for other members of the branch. In order to use the severe punishment of the two of them to warn the other spies in the branch who were dissatisfied with He Ping. Second, since Shi Ran's punishment of obviously favoring one side, He Ping's oppression and revenge against the two of them have intensified. Not only did they not wait for the two of them to heal from their injuries, they gave them tasks, and they were also the most difficult and dangerous tasks to complete. If the two of them failed to complete the task, then He Ping would reprimand and scold them, or at worst be a whipping that could not be said. Even if the two of them complete the task, He Ping will "pick a bone in the egg" and reprimand them for a random reason to show his authority. It can be said that since the end of September to the present, Qi An and Tong Ming, a pair of difficult brothers, have not had a good life. If it weren't for the high psychological quality of the two of them, and they both had the intention of revenge, they were afraid that they would have been killed headlong ago, so as not to suffer such a living crime.
Speaking of which, as early as the beginning of October of the lunar calendar, the two brothers and sisters had already made up their intention to betray the "Feiyan Hall" and surrender to the Beiping Army. It's just that, at that time, both of them had torture injuries on their bodies and needed a period of recuperation. Especially if Qi An broke a hand, it is impossible to recover without a month or two. Second, as a large and complex secret spy organization, the "Feiyan Hall" has very strict control over its members. The spies were watching each other and keeping an eye on each other, and it was not easy to leave the precinct of their branch without them knowing it. What's more, since Shi Ran severely punished Qi and Tong, He Ping also knew that these two people must have a grudge against him, and he was afraid that they would make some unconventional moves, so he specially sent his henchmen to keep an eye on them to prevent them from making any changes.
Qi and Tong, who knew what He Ping had done, on the one hand, pretended to submit to their bosses on the surface, and never had the slightest dissatisfaction or complaint against He Ping's beating and scolding, which was completely a manifestation that had been shocked and suppressed by him. On the other hand, he carefully observed the every move, word and deed of all the members of the Huairou Branch, so as to figure out how many of them were He Ping's hardcore cronies, how many were sent by the Beiping Branch Hall or the main hall to secretly supervise, and how many were also dissatisfied with He Ping, but they were forced by the other party's obscenity, and had to temporarily bow their heads and make false promises, so that when they decided to act, they could more quickly avoid He Ping's cronies and the surveillance of the secret piles of the main hall.
Facts have proved that Qi An and Tong Ming's weak and soft performance has been effective. As time passed, He Ping really believed the illusion they had created, believing that he had completely subdued the two wild wolves and turned them into two obedient dogs. As a result, although every time the two of them go out on a mission, there will still be other spies secretly tracking and monitoring according to the rules of the hall, but both the intensity of surveillance and the degree of care are greatly reduced compared with before. And it was precisely because of the relaxation and carelessness of the monitors that Qi and Tong were given the opportunity to subdue and dispose of them when they were unprepared on the way to Beiping City to carry out their mission.
After dealing with the tail of tracking and surveillance, Qi An and Tong Ming had no other thoughts, and immediately rushed into Beiping City, and asked all the way to the Yamen of the Beiping Prefect - they chose to come to the Yamen of the Beiping Prefect to surrender, instead of directly surrendering to the Yamen of Huairou County or their superior, the Yamen of Shunzhou, but because the two of them knew that there were "eyelines" for the development of the Huairou Branch of the "Feiyan Hall" in these two yamen, and if they went to these two places to surrender, the news would soon reach He Ping. In this way, the other party will run away and lose the opportunity to catch it and be ashamed. In the worst case, he may be killed by the "eyeliner" in the yamen. As far as the two of them knew, except for one of the "Qingyuan" brothers who was pulled into the water by the head hall, there should be no other eyeliner in the heavily fortified Beiping City of the "Dark Feather Hall". And in order to keep it secret, the contact between this "Qingyuan" brother and Zhang Yan is very secret and low-key, far less efficient than the "eyeliner" in Shunzhou or Huairou County to transmit news. Therefore, despite the risk of being known to the members of the "Qingyuan" brothers, Qi An and Tong Ming finally chose to go to Beiping City to surrender to the Beiping army. Of course, in order to delay the time when the other party knew about his surrender, Qi and Tong chose the object of surrender to the Yamen of the Beiping Prefect, rather than the Beiping Military Festival. In this way, unless they encounter the "Qingyuan" brother who defected to the "Feiyan Tang" is such a tragic thing as the Beiping Prefect, otherwise, with the efficiency and rigor of the "Dark Feather Hall", they will definitely have the ability to control the insiders of their defection to the minimum, thus greatly increasing the chances of successfully arresting He Ping.
Facts have proved that Qi and Tong's worries about the leakage of their surrender news are superfluous. Because, in the process of Qi and Tong, who had never been to Beiping City before, kept asking passers-by about the route to the prefect's yamen, the plainclothes spies of the "Dark Feather" Beiping Branch who were patrolling and inspecting the city had already targeted them. Seeing that these two guys with suspicious appearances and foreign accents were getting closer and closer to the prefect's yamen, after reporting to their superiors as quickly as possible and receiving the order to arrest them immediately, the spies of the Beiping Branch Hall scattered around rushed up and captured Qi An and Tong Ming, who had been secretly surrounded by them for a long time, and then escorted the two to the secret stronghold of the Beiping Branch.
After some interrogation, after learning the identities of these two suspicious characters and their purpose for coming to Beiping City, the hall master of the Beiping branch hall was a little unconvinced of his ears. After repeated interrogations, it was confirmed that the other party was indeed a senior spy of the "Feiyan Hall" who had come to surrender to Cheng, the hall master of the "Dark Feather" Beiping Branch did not dare to slack off, and even though he personally led someone to escort Qi and Tong to the main hall, and immediately reported to his boss Liang Ziyue -- out of the consideration of their own safety, and also out of the selfish desire to invite merit, Qi and Tong only said that they had come to surrender to Cheng, and did not immediately reveal the secret of the "Qingyuan" brothers' collaboration with the enemy, but planned to wait until they met the other party's supreme commander.
Liang Ziyue, who listened to the report, was also quite surprised, because although the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence had arrested many spies from the "Feiyan Hall" before, it was the first time that someone who took the initiative to come to Chengcheng like this time. Therefore, in order to avoid lying about the military situation, Liang Ziyue personally interrogated Qi and Tong, and checked the report materials on the suspected "Feiyantang" spy activities in his own jurisdiction previously reported by the branches of the Ministry of Intelligence in Shunzhou and Huairou County, and finally confirmed the authenticity of the confessions of the two men. Although Qi and Tong did not know the exact hiding place of Zhang Yan in the Beiping Army due to the restrictions of their identities and ranks, at least they were sure that Zhang Yan was still in the Beiping Army on the one hand, and on the other hand, they narrowed down the scope of their possible hiding to the county seat of Luxian County, which was also a gain. And the most important point is that they provided Liang Ziyue with another piece of news that is far more important, more shocking, and more urgent than Zhang Yan's hiding place, that is, in the Beiping Army and within the "Qingyuan" brothers, there are people who secretly communicate with "Feiyantang" and Zhang Yan, leak secrets, and betray information -- this is the real reason why Liang Ziyue came in such a hurry.
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