Cypress Boat Floating

The capital seemed calm on the surface, but in reality it was turbulent. Ye Honghai, who was rushing to the capital, had a restless journey as well.

Ever since he learned that someone had framed him for treason, he had been prepared. He knew that the journey to the capital would not be peaceful, but he never expected that he would be ambushed as soon as he left Beiguan City.

The ambushers had a clear understanding of their numbers and strength, and all their moves seemed to be aimed at him.

After all, Ye Honghai is a great general. He has a natural sixth sense and can sense when danger is approaching. Under his leadership, the escort team successfully dealt with the first wave of people.

During the following period, in order to avoid being hunted down, a legitimate royal escort team became an unknown merchant caravan, with each of them unkempt and dirty, heading to the capital in a secretive manner.

However, no matter how they dressed up, there were always some people who knew where they were going and ambushed them in appropriate places. This made Ye Honghai wonder if there was a traitor among them.

On this day, after the team lost three more people, more than ten to twenty people rushed to the nearest city with injuries, trying to get into the city before nightfall.

"General, the Night City is ahead." The spy went around and came back to report.

"Speed ​​up and rest in Yedu City tonight." Ye Honghai gave the order.

Because Liang Kai, who came to take Ye Honghai back, had great respect for Ye Honghai, and Ye Honghai's general style was too conspicuous, Liang Kai could not treat Ye Honghai as a prisoner at all. He provided him with good food and drink along the way, and even led him throughout the process of dealing with ambushes. It can be said that the entire command was given to him.

Even so, no one in the team dared to say anything, and no one expressed any objection.

In fact, as long as one joined the army, there was no one who did not know Ye Honghai, and no one who did not respect Ye Honghai. Before there was definite evidence, no one believed that Ye Honghai was really a traitor, so everyone was willing to obey his command.

Twenty people formed a caravan, with Ye Honghai at the front. They had a smooth journey, and except for being stopped and questioned when entering the city, nothing else happened.

For safety reasons, Ye Honghai discussed with Liang Kai and decided that they would not go to the official post station and would remain incognito. So they found a restaurant outside that could accommodate so many people to stay for one night and replenish their dry food.

"General Ye." After arranging the accommodation, Liang Kai put down his things and came to Ye Honghai's room to find him.

"What's wrong?" Ye Honghai was very cold. Whether it was to Liang Kai or anyone else, he had been indifferent for some time and did not show much expression.

"What do you think about the ambush?" Liang Kai asked directly. In fact, he himself suspected that there was a spy in the team, otherwise it would be impossible for them to encounter ambushes wherever they went. In this short distance, they had only passed through two cities, but they had encountered five ambushes. Moreover, the signal he sent out seemed to be intercepted, and there was no reinforcement to help.

Ye Honghai glanced at him and said, "If you have any ideas, just say them directly. This general doesn't like beating around the bush. It's annoying to hear them."

"All the people present here are from the Imperial Guards and the Beijing Suburban Army appointed by the Emperor. Although they are not as loyal as the Fiery Army, this group of people was personally selected by me, and they are all clean. I don't want to believe that there are spies among them." Liang Kai's face was not good.

Ye Honghai asked: "Who do you think sent these assassins, Commander Liang? The desert? Or the capital?"

"Beijing?" Liang Kai frowned slightly. He could understand why people in the desert wanted to kill Ye Honghai, but why did they do that in Beijing?

"What do you think, Commander Liang?"

"I dare not make a random guess. But I believe in General Ye." Liang Kai clenched his fist towards Ye Honghai to express his trust and respect.

Perhaps he was moved by Liang Kai's words, or perhaps he had seen Liang Kai's every move during this period of time and had a good impression of him. Ye Honghai chuckled and explained his doubts for him: "The emperor suspected that I was collaborating with the enemy and treason, and Da Mo killed me at this time in order to kill and silence me, so as to prove the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason. Of course, it is also possible that they wanted to kill me in the first place, and it has nothing to do with this matter.

That makes it easier to explain why the people in the capital want to kill me.

Several princes in the court are fighting each other. How do you know which prince has no rift in his heart and dares not attack me in order to gain control of the Flame Army?

Commander Liang is a good man and has been an official for many years. How could he not understand these things? "

Liang Kai was ashamed and his face changed slightly. He had projected his personal thoughts onto other people in the court and had not thought of this. He always felt that General Ye was far away in Beiguan and had no connection with the struggles in the court.

He still thought too shallowly. It was a mistake for Ye Honghai to have the Flame Army. When he had this ability, the Flame Army was a help to him. But now he was convicted and deprived of this right by the emperor. Then the Flame Army was the gem that put him in danger.

"But, we have been changing routes constantly in the past few days, why can those people still track us?" This is what Liang Kai is most puzzled about. When they were ambushed for the first time, they did not follow the original route and deliberately took another road, but they were still ambushed the second, third, fourth, and fifth time.

Every time they would change their route, but the next ambush would still come as planned, as if someone had been following them, knew where they were going, and had ambushed them there in advance.

Because of this incident, Liang Kai even suspected that there was a spy among them.

"Who knows? Commander Liang, if you have time, you should check to see what went wrong." Ye Honghai sent Liang Kai away with a light sentence. He was not very sure about himself, and he did not dare to make a conclusion on things that were very clear.

After seeing Liang Kai off, the sky gradually darkened. After dinner, Ye Honghai washed up, blew out the lights and went to bed. He didn't know whether he could reach the next city smoothly in the next few days. He needed to rest better. After all, he was not younger now.

The moon was rising above the branches, and people went back home to rest. Night watchmen began to come out, walking on the road while beating the gongs in their hands to announce the shift to the people who were sleeping and those who were not, while reminding everyone: "The weather is dry, be careful with fire."

Hiding behind the sound of the night watchman, someone quietly ran across the eaves and ran from a distance to the inn where Ye Honghai was staying.

Facing the dozen or so rooms in the inn, the people in night clothes seemed to already know which one Ye Honghai was staying in, and they headed straight towards their destination.

Ye Honghai, who was originally lying on the bed and should have fallen asleep, opened his eyes at this time. There was no confusion in his eyes as if he had just woken up, and a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.

The person outside the door had already inserted the knife into the crack of the door and quietly lifted it up until it touched the bolt.

A bamboo tube was sticking out from the paper-covered window nearby, and a wisp of smoke was emitting from the tube.

Ye Honghai glanced at the smoke and the knife, and did not take any action, but just held his breath. Fortunately, the smoke was not thick and soon dissipated, but Ye Honghai did not dare to relax his vigilance and still held his breath waiting for them to come in.

Fortunately, this group of people did not make Ye Honghai wait too long. After a while, Xiaodao opened the door bolt, and several people stood on tiptoe and quietly reached the bed.

In the reflection of the moonlight, the knife flashed a green light, obviously coated with poison.

Ye Honghai didn't dare to touch the knife directly with his body, so he quietly held a corner of the thin blanket in his hand when they were not paying attention. As soon as the poisoned knife fell, he wrapped it with the thin blanket and captured the person holding the knife.

Perhaps they did not expect that Ye Honghai could remain sober under the effect of the smoke and be caught by them, so the remaining few people were a little panicked.

Seeing this, the man who was pressed on the bed by Ye Honghai shouted: "Go, kill him."

Urged by this voice, the remaining few people picked up their weapons and rushed towards Ye Honghai one by one.