All of those spies sent to the country were highly trained. They all chose to kill themselves when it became obvious that they were unable to win in order to prevent the enemy from exploiting them.
At the same time, Yun Sheng got his hands on the case containing the Heirloom Seal of the Realm.
He was finally able to rest easy. When his superiors called him and asked him to intercept those robbers, he had been very frightened.
That was because when James and Sakata Juuzaburo were leading their men in circles. Any men that he sent were quickly dealt with by the enemy when they were about to corner those robbers.
While the enemy suffered huge losses in doing so, they had nonetheless prevented the Chinese forces from catching up with them.
