The sounds inside the room continued for quite some time.
Creak! The door swung open. Jing Wu looked up to see Xia Siheng standing before him, fully dressed, his expression icy.
"Talk as we walk. A traitor managed to hide in the Fifth Battalion for so long without anyone noticing. What use is there in keeping you?"
Xia Siheng's face was so dark it could almost drip water. It was not that he deliberately wanted to blame his subordinates.
But if Old General Mo's troops could not pursue the Sovereign to the walls of East Lin in time, it would be difficult to spark conflict within East Lin.
What official or commoner would not be curious and shocked to see Great Xia's soldiers chasing their own Sovereign all the way home?
Old General Mo's troops were not actually out to kill the Sovereign. They were a bomb meant to explode within East Lin.
Once the people of East Lin learned that their Sovereign had tried to assassinate the Emperor of Great Xia, they would surely resent him for bringing the threat of their nation's destruction upon them.
When East Lin's ruler and people were divided, and ruler and ministers distrusted one another, that would be Xia Siheng's key to breaking East Lin!
Yet who could have imagined that, at such a crucial step, someone would suddenly turn traitor and block Old General Mo's troops?
After some thought, Jing Er reported, "Your Highness, we are not deliberately shirking responsibility. Before Yuan Can took command of the Fifth Battalion, we sent people to investigate his background. He has a wife and a son. A few years ago, his son passed the provincial examination with high honors and had boundless prospects. His parents were also extremely proud of the military merits he had