Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Xiqi Spy
After a while, the room was a lot quieter, and Feng Wei said to Xiao Nan, "You are also tired today, go back and rest first." She didn't really care if she could catch the Assassin, as long as the Assassin was gone, it would be enough.
But Xiao Nan is different, he can't tolerate sand in his eyes, this assassin is unknown, when did he come? Is it an undercover agent who has been lurking in for a long time, or a probe who has been following outside? How much did the assassin hear the conversation with His Majesty just now? And how much useful information did you have? If the consequences are unimaginable if it is leaked, he must catch this person.
"Your Majesty, I believe that in less than a quarter of an hour, Chu Li will definitely be able to catch the assassin, it was my dereliction of duty just now, I must give Your Majesty a satisfactory explanation." Xiao Nan said that it was his fault that he had just let the assassin go.
Seeing that Feng Wei was not objecting, Xiao Nan repeatedly explained to the soldiers outside the door, and surrounded the four corners of Feng Wei's tent, this time I was afraid that even a bird would be difficult to fly in to disturb Feng Wei.
Besides, Chu Li was here, and he walked towards the woods with a group of men and horses. Chu Li was not a person who practiced martial arts without a mind and relied on brute force alone, and he immediately found that there were fresh blood stains under a poplar tree.
A soldier shone the torch at the bloodstained area, and found more clues, which looked scattered and scattered, but if looked closely, they could be found to be extending in the same direction, indicating that the Assassins were withdrawing there.
"Found a trace, he's on the west side, let's go!" Chu Li shouted, and asked the large army to rush towards the east with torches, but he took a few personal guards, extinguished the torches, and walked towards the west.
The blood on the ground was clearly facing west, but he deliberately shouted at the top of his voice to mislead the Assassin and make him let his guard down. The man was injured, and now that he found that someone was chasing him, he must have run as hard as he could. As long as he found that there were no pursuers behind him, he would naturally stop to rest and treat his wounds, otherwise even if he ran away, he would die of excessive bleeding.
Chu Li and a few people tiptoed along the direction of the bloodstain towards the west, and when they fixed their eyes, there was indeed a figure flickering in front of them. The man, seeing that the torch was far away, slowed down and sat down under a tree.
Chu Li motioned for a few small soldiers to outflank him from both sides, while he himself looked at the enemy head-on. The man's whereabouts were unknown, and he didn't know if he was still carrying any weapons on his body, or if he was a person with strong martial arts, so he had to be more guarded.
The three of them had already arrived at the strategic location, and under Chu Li's order, several of them took out their weapons and pounced on the assassin. As for this assassin, who originally thought that he was out of danger, he was tearing off his shirt and trying to bandage his wounds, but he unknowingly fell into Chu Li's encirclement.
A stalemate ensued, and the Assassin was defeated, with no weapons but a pocket knife. After being captured, the Assassin fainted and fell to the ground, before being picked up by the soldier and led him towards the camp.
After a while, Chu Li came to Feng Wei's tent. "Your Majesty, the Assassin has been captured." Chu Li stood outside the account and announced.
"Bring it in." Finally waiting for the news of the assassin, Xiao Nan was overjoyed, he glanced at Feng Wei and opened his mouth to respond.
The assassin, dressed in black, was thrown to the ground by the soldiers. He was wearing a black night suit, wearing a black mask on his head, and blood was still oozing out, and the first arrow should have pierced him in the face just now, but because there were not many arteries on his face, and he was protected by a mask, there was not much blood on the first arrow.
The real serious injury was in his legs. At that time, after he escaped, he quickly hid behind the poplar tree, Xiao Nan shot an arrow, hitting his thigh artery, and immediately blood gushed.
In addition, he had just fought with the soldiers, and after being carried back, he was already unconscious.
"Go take his mask off." Xiao Nan gave an order, he really wanted to see if this person had been lurking by his side undercover, if he had been lurking by his side for a long time, but he hadn't seen it for a long time, then I am afraid that he was no longer worthy of the position of national teacher.
Chu Li stepped forward, took off the assassin's mask, and burned the word "West" on his face with a soldering iron.
"Xiqi, he's from Xiqi." Chu Li said that Xiqi people have a special hobby, as long as they are boys, they will be scalded with the word "west" representing the national mark since they were young, to show their patriotism. Although this kind of mark is not mandatory now, there will still be many Xiqi men who voluntarily do this.
"The people of Xiqi are so bold and shameless that they have even begun to use assassins to assassinate Your Majesty!" Chu Li said indignantly on the side.
"No, he's not an assassin, he's a spy." Xiao Nan already understood what was going on, this person did not come to assassinate His Majesty, but just to find out the news, otherwise he would be able to sneak in so without moving, if he really wanted to kill someone, he would have already done it. What's more, he didn't have any weapons on him, only a knife, which was obviously only for self-defense.
"Bring him water and splash him awake." Xiao Nan decided to start interrogating him.
A basin of ice water went down, and the spy was awakened.
"Say, 'Who sent you?' What do you hear? Xiao Nan sat on the Taishi chair, playing with the stone ball in his hand, and his tone was colder than the basin of ice water that had just been poured down.
The spy raised his hand and wiped the side of his mouth, but he didn't know if it was water or blood, he took a sip and said viciously: "I'm unlucky to be caught by you today, if you want to kill it, you will kill it at will!" ”
Xiao Nan looked at the man sharply: "It's a little interesting, it's still a stubborn temper." Okay, since you don't say anything, come to someone, and go to punishment. In fact, Xiao Nan had long expected that it would not be so easy to get any useful information, but anyone who had the courage to infiltrate the enemy camp as a spy was ready to be a dead soldier.
Several soldiers took the tiger bench that had been prepared and placed it in front of the spies, ready to set him up.
"Hmph." The spy squinted at the tiger chair in front of him, and let out a trace of disdain with contempt. "What can I do when you are a big yong, it's just a tiger chair, I advise you to save your energy, if this kind of thing is also called criminal law, then this hot brand on my face is simply the first of the ten tortures."
The soldier was so angry that he was speechless for a while, how could there be people who disliked that their criminal law was not heavy enough, so they increased the intensity of the execution, but this spy was determined not to say a word of information that was not good for his country as if nothing had happened.
Xiao Nan stared at the spies, his eyes slightly fascinated, but there was a hint of murder in his eyes. "Stop, if this trick doesn't work for the spies, why waste each other's time! There is a kind of respect to you for being a good man. You don't think it's a big deal, come on, drag it out and cut it off. ”