The Dark and Foolish King: The Fierce and Crazy Concubine Has Infinite Strength

The three of them looked at each other. Xia Younan couldn't help but walk forward curiously and asked the two soldiers at the door, "Who is inside?"

A soldier clasped his fists towards her and replied, "It was Du Wenjie, the grain transport officer of Zhujing Kingdom. He was transporting grain from the enemy's capital to Yanggu City a few days ago. When he was returning, he was bumped into by our detachment that was sent to spy on the military intelligence and was captured."

Xia Younan nodded and asked, "Will it be useful to catch him?"

"He just came out of Yanggu City. The general wanted to force him to tell him about the military situation in Yanggu City, but he refused to speak no matter what he tried. We are going to execute him tomorrow."

Xia Younan didn't say anything else, but frowned slightly, and his wise eyes turned a few times, looking as if he was thinking about something.

Suddenly, her eyes flashed and a bright smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

After laughing, she excitedly said to the two soldiers guarding the gate, "You two, General Tang has given up on him anyway, why don't you give me some face and let him go?"

"What?!" The two soldiers opened their eyes wide in surprise.

The night grew darker, the moon was covered with a layer of gray, and the stars were scattered in the night sky like chess pieces. Even the nightingale stopped singing and returned to its nest to rest.

Inside the tent, the ragged Du Wenjie was hung on the beam with his hands tied. The severe pain all over his body made it difficult for him to sleep, and he kept uttering low, painful groans.

Du Wenjie was about forty years old, with unkempt hair and untidy beard.

There was not a single healthy spot on his body. Whip wounds, stick wounds, and branding iron wounds crisscrossed his body. Fresh red blood continued to ooze out of his cracked flesh, staining a large area of ​​his tattered shirt red.

He drooped his head weakly, a long streak of blood appeared at the corner of his mouth, and his face showed despair.

"That's great! Yanggu City will soon be ours, all thanks to Liu Tonghai."

Suddenly, an unclear voice was heard outside the door. Du Wenjie's mind started to stir. He raised his head abruptly and listened carefully with his ears pricked up.

The reason why he reacted so strongly was that the Liu Tonghai they were talking about was the name of the general defending Yanggu City!

He couldn't understand why the people here said that Yanggu City was in their hands and that it was all thanks to Liu Tonghai?

Soon, the conversation outside the door could be vaguely heard again.

"That's right. Liu Tonghai is a man who knows the times. He knew that Zhujing Kingdom was doomed, so he surrendered to us as soon as possible. If he hadn't secretly leaked Zhujing Kingdom's military intelligence to us, how could we have captured so many of their cities in a row?"

"That's right. Liu Tonghai is a great hero. He will hand over Yanggu City to us soon. When the time comes, a million soldiers will march south and attack the imperial city. It will be just a matter of time before Lingjiang Kingdom unifies the world!"

"Hahaha, great!" The soldier's voice was filled with irrepressible joy. "After this battle, we can go home and reunite with our wives and children!"

"By the way, do you know? Liu Tonghai just sent another secret letter to the general, asking us to kill the grain officer as soon as possible. He said that the grain officer went to Yanggu City and might have discovered the secret of his affair with us." The soldier changed the subject and mentioned the grain officer again.

Another soldier responded, "I see. Didn't he tell us the whereabouts of the forage officer so we could arrest him? The general said he would be taken out and chopped off soon."

"Hahaha, it's fun to fight a war with people helping you from the inside and outside!"

The two soldiers were talking and chatting, and their voices gradually faded away with the sound of their footsteps, until they completely disappeared from Du Wenjie's ears.

"Liu Tonghai!"

Du Wenjie, who heard everything, had bloodshot eyes, veins bulging on his forehead, his teeth chattering, and his scarred body trembling.

He hates!

He never expected that the city guard general Liu Tonghai actually colluded with the enemy and defected to Lingjiang State! He also secretly informed Lingjiang State, causing his country to suffer heavy losses in troops and horses, and even lost several cities!

What was even more unforgivable to him was that, because Liu Tonghai was guilty and thought he had discovered his secret, he actually wrote a letter to the general of Lingjiang State asking them to arrest him and execute him!

"Liu Tonghai! You'd better pray that I don't escape alive. If not, I will file a complaint with the emperor and have him execute all your clans!"

Du Wenjie thought with gritted teeth, hating Liu Tonghai to the core.

After a while, the door of the tent creaked open, and two soldiers came in with swords in their hands. They untied him without saying a word.

"What are you going to do?" Du Wenjie asked weakly.

One of them snorted coldly and replied, "Since you won't say anything, there's no need for you to stay in this world. Our general has ordered you to be taken to the river for sacrifice."

After saying that, several people took Du Wenjie down from the beam and pulled him out roughly.

Du Wenjie was covered in wounds, and the fear of death made him unable to stand steadily. He staggered away as they dragged him.

On the way, the soldiers who were escorting him complained: "General, what a fool! Wouldn't it be enough to just kill such a small person with a knife? Why do you have to drag him to the river for sacrifice? Isn't that asking for trouble?"

Another person explained, "I heard that the Huai River not far away has a long history, and legend has it that a river god has appeared. The general's intention is to sacrifice a living person to the river, so that the river god will bless us to conquer Zhujing Kingdom as soon as possible."

"So that's how it is. This person can be considered as a piece of trash being utilized." The soldier suddenly realized.

The two men quickly dragged Du Wenjie to the bank of a large river, first kicked him to his knees, chanted a few prayers for the river god to bless him, and then raised the big knife high at Du Wenjie's neck...

Du Wenjie shivered violently all over. In front of him was a raging and turbulent river. The river water was roaring and rushing towards the east like a wild beast in the night.

"It's time to go! We will throw your head and body into the river." The cold voice of the soldier behind him came, and then the big knife was swung towards his neck with a sharp chill.

Du Wenjie clenched his fists, and when his sword was about to come down, he suddenly leaped forward and dived into the river.

There was a loud noise from the river surface, splashing water several meters high.

Then Du Wenjie poked his head out of the water and swam eastward desperately along the direction of the current.

"Oh no!" The soldier was horrified, cursed, and immediately chased along the river bank.

With the help of the water flow, Du Wenjie drifted downstream at a very fast speed without much effort.

On the way, he also broke a reed and made a simple "respirator" and held it in his mouth to avoid drowning.

Looking back at the pursuers getting farther and farther away, he couldn't help but feel ecstatic.

A life-saving opportunity! A life-saving opportunity!

He never expected that they would execute him in this way. They certainly didn't expect that he would dare to jump into the river, nor did they think that he was such a good swimmer!

Although the water was turbulent, there was still a chance of survival if I jumped in. Those fools, were they dumbfounded? Hahaha!