Chapter 258
After Ruan Xiaoqi left Obai's mansion, he immediately found twenty smart and capable Jin Yiwei.

Ruan Xiaoqi did not tell the twenty Jin Yiwei what happened.

He just wrote twenty secret letters in cipher text and handed them to the twenty Jinyiwei respectively.

As for how to interpret this kind of cryptic text, ordinary Jin Yiwei had no idea how to start, even if the cryptic text was placed in front of them, they would not be able to understand a single word.

Among the Jinyiwei, only the commander in charge of dispatching the Jinyiwei in one place is qualified to know how to interpret the secret text.

This is a measure of confidentiality of information and a means of avoiding information leakage.

Ruan Xiaoqi and the twenty Jinyi guards, after some disguises, divided into three groups and secretly sneaked out of Wujun County, heading towards Jiangxia County, Xiangyang City, and Wancheng respectively.

Ruan Xiaoqi personally led five people, disguised as merchants, and drove a small boat carrying a boatload of Jiangdong specialties, and walked along the river. Guan Ming passed the Jiangdong army's interrogation and headed towards Jingzhou. .

Although Jiangdong and Jingzhou are guarding against each other, they are not openly hostile, so business exchanges are not prohibited.

As long as it is not a large-scale caravan, the defenders on both sides will basically let it go.

Ruan Xiaoqi took advantage of this and dared to pretend to be a merchant, passed the Jiangdong Army's interrogation openly, and drove the boat towards Jingzhou.

The other two teams of Jinyiwei joined forces and did the same thing. With a lot of money, they pretended to be a caravan going to the Central Plains to buy goods.

In this way, Ruan Xiaoqi and his party took the information out of Jiangdong and headed towards Wancheng, Jiangxia and Xiangyang respectively.

On the other side, Ruan Xiaoer stayed with Ruan Xiaowu in Wu Jun to take charge of Wu Jun's daily work.

Ruan Xiaoer personally led ten Jin Yiwei out of Wu County in disguise and went to various places in Jiangdong to contact all the Jin Yiwei in the east of Jiangdong.

Make preparations in advance. When the war in Jingzhou is unfavorable and they lose to Jiangdong's army, they will set up forces in various places in Jiangdong to stab Sun Ce in the back and delay Jiangdong's army from encroaching on Jingzhou.

Three days later, Aobai led Zhang Qing and a hundred brocade guards to the army, Zhuge Jin and Zhou Tai had been waiting for Aobai for a long time.

Ao Bai exchanged a few words with Zhuge Jin and Zhou Tai, and then took out Sun Ce's military talisman, ready to go out.

Aobai is a vanguard general, and he doesn't need any complicated ceremonies, he just needs to march fast, open mountains when encountering mountains, and build bridges when encountering water.

The task of the vanguard is to clear all obstacles for the army behind them and reach their destination smoothly.

Two hours later, Oboi led the [-] Jiangdong vanguard army, with Zhou Tai as the front, leading the [-] Jiangdong army to pave the way for the army to march and build bridges.

Aobai himself was the central army, leading [-] Jiangdong troops as Zhou Tai's backup, and Zhuge Jin led [-] Jiangdong troops as the rear army, responsible for escorting food, grass and military equipment.

Although Oboi's troops were the vanguard, they were also the former army of Huang Gai's army, so Oboi asked Zhou Tai to lead the [-] Jiangdong army as the front army and act as the vanguard.

The [-] Jiangdong Army led by Obai marched extremely fast, and the [-] Jiangdong Army led by Zhou Tai marched even more rapidly, paving the way for the army behind them to build bridges and clearing away all obstacles blocking the advance of the army.

Together with Oboi, there are also the vanguards of the navy to which Ling Cao and Ding Feng belong.

The [-] Jiangdong water army, driving the battleship, sailed away from the water village, across the river and headed straight for Jiangxia.

It was not until five days after the two vanguard armies of Oboi and Ling Cao set off that Huang Gai and Sun Ce led the Qi army. After holding a grand swearing-in ceremony, they led the army to the expedition with the welcome of the people of Wu County.

It took Ruan Xiaoqi three days to successfully land in Jingzhou. He abandoned a ship of goods and led five Jinyi guards to go straight to Wancheng with light clothes.

Time was running out, and they couldn't help delaying it.

……

Jiangxia Prefect's Mansion!
"Report! Report to the general, there are Jin Yiwei outside the door asking to see the general!"

Gan Ning, who was dealing with military affairs, heard the shouts outside the door, and immediately raised his head to look at the personal guards who barged in.

"What's the matter?"

Gan Ning asked in a deep voice.

"Report to the general, there is a Jin Yiwei outside the door asking to see the general, saying that there is an urgent military report."

Hearing Gan Ning's question, the personal guard replied anxiously.

"Quickly, please, inform Jiangxia Jinyiwei Commander to come over."

Gan Ning said in a deep voice when he heard the report from the personal guard.

Not long after, the personal guards walked into the meeting hall with two ragged brocade guards.

"Jiangdong Jinyiwei pays homage to the Empress General!"

Two ragged brocade guards saluted Gan Ning in a deep voice.

"Why did the Jin Yiwei from Jiangdong's department come to see me?"

Hearing what the two Jinyi guards said, Gan Ning frowned and asked in a deep voice.

The Jinyiwei branches in various regions of the Han Dynasty are not affiliated with each other, especially the Jinyiwei in the enemy-occupied areas are even dark, and rarely reveal their identities on their own initiative.

Gan Ning frowned when he heard that these two ragged brocade guards were from the Jiangdong Branch.

"After returning to the general's words, it seems that something big happened to Jiangdong.

Commander Ruan of the Jiangdong Jinyi Guard personally led twenty brothers, divided into three groups, and headed to the three places with Commander Ruan's personal letter.

Commander Ruan personally took several brothers to Wancheng.

Our eight brothers were in charge of delivering letters to the general in Jiangxia, and were hunted down by spies from other forces on the way. Only the two of us successfully arrived in Jiangxia and met the general.

Another team of brothers went to Xiangyang to deliver the letter! "

Hearing Gan Ning's question, the two Jinyi guards took out the secret letter written by Ruan Xiaoqi from the interlayer of their clothes at the same time.

Hearing the words of the two guards in Jinyi, Gan Ning frowned, his keen war instinct told him that something serious must have happened.

It is very likely that the Jiangdong Army has changed and wants to invade Jingzhou.

Hearing what the two Jinyiwei said, Li Jun, the leader of Jiangxia Jinyiwei who rushed over, immediately took the secret letter in the hands of the two, and began to decipher the secret letter against the code book.

"Take the two brothers down to rest!"

Gan Ning gave instructions to the guards in a deep voice.

Hearing Gan Ning's order, the guards took the two guards down to rest.

Gan Ning looked at Li Jun, quietly waiting for the result of cracking the secret letter.

Gan Ning knew very well that the content of the secret message was very important and probably contained very important military intelligence.

Otherwise, the commander of Jiangdong Jinyiwei would not hesitate to expose his identity and send him a secret letter so eagerly.

Jin Yiwei has always acted cautiously and concealed his whereabouts very well. This kind of eight people acting at the same time will only happen when the information is very urgent.

Li Jun compared the code book and deciphered the secret letter word by word. The more he deciphered, the more frightened Li Jun became, and cold sweat covered his forehead.

Gan Ning has been watching Li Jun's movements. When he saw the sweat on Li Jun's forehead, his heart sank. He knew that this matter was serious, and it might have a bearing on the survival of the entire Jingzhou.

(End of this chapter)

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