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Chapter 52: Good Birds Choose Wood

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Late at night, Wenguangbi.

The Liao army broke through three times and was repelled. At dusk, the Liao army soldiers were hungry and completely fell into despair. Many people began to surrender, and more people were helplessly waiting for the verdict of fate.

Mao's army shot the Liao army and took the initiative to ask for an appointment with the monk Xiao. Xiao Shangnu thought for a long time and called the deputy envoy Yelu Qingji and several commanders of the army to discuss. He looked at the letter of Mao's army's persuasion to surrender to several subordinates, but before he could speak, the deputy envoy Yelu Qingji spoke first, "The rebels were prepared, and their troops were several times more powerful than me. It is impossible to break through. We can only rely on reinforcements. But we don't know whether Your Majesty brought the main force to Xijing. We don't know whether Yelu Dashi was in Weizhou. If you take a step back, even if Your Majesty and Your Majesty

Yelu Dashi received our letter of help and rushed to come quickly. It will take at least two or three days. Can we still last two or three days? We have no food, no water, our morale is extremely sluggish, and more and more people fleeing. It is estimated that by tomorrow morning, more and more soldiers will surrender to the rebels. This battle is impossible, and sticking to the aid is also a self-deception. In my opinion, it is better to surrender. Taking advantage of the rebels' failure to attack and we still have an army in our hands, we can bargain, and surrender quickly."

Everyone here agrees with this sentence. Although everyone has their own concerns, such as whether they can save their lives after surrender, and whether they have the hope of keeping their vested interests after following Li Hu, things have come to this point, except surrender, there is no other way to choose, so we should surrender, and we will talk about the future.

Monk Xiao sighed, feeling pain and helpless. I don’t know when it started, surrendering was no longer a shame, but a survival choice in the eyes of the Liao people. I remember that when the Jurchens rose, most of the Liao army and the prefecture officials on the Northeast Road chose to escape rather than surrender, but with the founding of the Jurchens, their strength became stronger and stronger. The Liao army and the prefecture officials first surrendered passively, and later evolved to surrender voluntarily, especially after Xiao Bao and Yelu Eurye surrendered with tens of thousands of troops, this momentum was even more uncontrollable. After Yelu Yuji defected to the Jin Kingdom with his tribes and 100,000 troops, surrendering in the mouths of the Liao people was no longer surrendering, but became "good birds choose trees to live in the trees, and wise ministers choose masters to work". Surrender or defection has become a high-sounding life choice under their modification.

"Empress, since you have a friendship with the traitor commander, then try to protect the army when negotiating conditions." A military commander said anxiously, "We still have 15,000 people in our hands, which is the capital, so you can surrender, but the army cannot be handed over. In this way, we will have a chance to turn over and save our lives in the future."

"What opportunities will be left in the future?" A military captain Yu Hou next to him smiled bitterly, "Li Hu rushed into Xijing Road, and had not yet arrived in Xijing. His Majesty fled to Yuanyanglu with his men and gave Xijing Road to Li Hu. What do you think there is hope for the Great Liao? This is nothing, but what is even more terrifying is that His Majesty and the King of Yan have broken openly. In the current situation of the Great Liao in danger, His Majesty and the King of Yan broke up, one ran to the desert and the other stayed in Yanjing. The palace tent was divided into two, and the ministers and the army were at a loss. What do you think there is hope for the Great Liao?"

Monk Xiao felt that his heart was starting to bleed, and the country that the Khitan ancestors had worked hard to conquer was buried in the hands of their descendants. It was heartbreaking. It was basically a fact that the emperor broke up with the King of Yan. This could be seen from the fact that the emperor would rather go to the distant desert than stay in Yanjing. However, the reason for the breakup between the two made the ministers of the palace tent feel a heart-wrenching pain. Although the emperor was foolish, did he not want to protect his country? Although the King of Yan coveted power

But didn't he want to save his ancestors' foundation? The ministers in the palace tent each supported one side, and the more dangerous the country's destiny was. The bloody battle between the two sides was, but the final result was contrary to their original intention. The Great Liao was shaky, and life and death were on the front line. But at this time, in order to protect their own interests, they began to betray the Great Liao and abandon the Great Liao. They began to turn their backs on their roots and forget their ancestors. And they actually became one of them.

Monk Xiao met Mao Jun. This former colleague betrayed the Daliao and the Khitans. He became one of the leaders of the rebels. To some extent, he saved his own interests. In the distant future, he might be able to suddenly expand his interests. Monk Xiao asked himself, what is the future of our place? The Daliao has no hope, and the Khitans' country is about to collapse. As a nobleman of the Daliao, where will I go?

Mao Jun was very polite to the monk slave. During the chat, they talked about their past relationship. In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, and the person is still the same, but Liaodong is earth-shaking.

"What are your conditions?" Mao Jun asked.

The monk slave sighed and asked back, "What are your conditions?"

"If you and your subordinates want to go back, I can agree." Mao Jun said. "You can take away any officers at the battalion commander or above."

The monk slave stared blankly at the fire in front of him. After hesitating for a long time, he asked in despair: "Where am I going back?"

Where else can I go back? Be defeated. The Wuding army was wiped out. Most of the prefectures and counties in Fengshengzhou could not be saved. And he was a native of the King of Yan. How could the emperor spare his life? Although he could go back to Yanjing, he lost his army and lost Fengshengzhou. The flanks of Yanjing were completely exposed to the attacks of the rebels. How could the King of Yan forgive him? Perhaps he would use the imperial edict of the emperor to cut off his head to ease his relationship with the emperor and try every means to regain Xijing Road. The King of Yan was capricious and this kind of betrayal of brothers. He did more than once. Yelu Zhangnu, Yelu Chentunu, and even Yelu Yukyu. They were all victims of his strife with the emperor?

Mao Jun looked at him in surprise. Then he turned to look at Hou Ji. Hou Ji was also surprised. He immediately asked, "Where is your emperor?"

"He is somewhere outside the Great Wall." The monk said in frustration. "For a long time, we didn't know where he was. Unless he told us on his own initiative, we are foreign ministers and we sometimes cannot figure out where he is."

"Can you go back to Yanjing?" Mao Jun cherished his old friendship and did not want to force the monk slave to death, so he took the initiative to propose, "If you want, I can let you go to Weizhou and go to Youyan from Feihu Fortress."

When the monk heard the Feihu Fortress, he hurriedly asked, "Where is Yelu Dashi? Is he in Weizhou?"

Mao Jun shook his head, "We left some troops on the Feihu, Lingqiu and Lingxian line. According to their return, Yelu Dashi has been on the border of Song and Liao, and there is no sign of marching into Xijing."

The monk's head drooped, his heart was ashamed, and he was unable to speak. It seemed that the rumors were true. Li Hu suddenly entered Xijing Road, and there must be the shadow of the King of Yan behind him. Yelu Chun finally decided to be the emperor, but unfortunately he chose the place very badly. He was not saving the country's fortune, but overthrowing the country's fortune. In despair, he made a terrible decision that would lead to the country's fortune.

The monk slave also made a decision, a decision to survive.

"I want to ask, how is Xijing now?" asked the monk, weakly, "Of course, you can not answer." In the siege of our land," said Hou Guai, "After you wiped out all your annihilation, your emperor must be afraid, and he will probably lead his army to move towards Yinshan."

"After we take Xijing, we will go north to pursue it." Mao's army continued, "so the general general asked us to wipe out the Wuding Army at midnight. Please make a decision as soon as possible."

The monk slave had been in a long time and finally said two words, "Surrender."

Since the Liao army chose to surrender, the next thing was easy to do.

The monknu only proposed one condition, not to massacre the Khitans and Xi people in the army. Mao Jun agreed readily, and the two sides quickly agreed on the details.

At night, the Liao army surrendered.

In the early morning, the Mao army held a banquet in the military tent to entertain Xiao Monk Nu and Yelu Qingji. During the meal, Mao army carefully inquired about the military strength of the Liao army on Xijing Road, the southwest and northwest routes. Only then did he know that the Liao army had about 100,000 to 120,000 troops on the front line of the Great Wall, and the commander of the Liao army turned out to be his old boss, Yelu Ma Ge.

Hou Gui, Gao Yuan and others interrogated senior officials of the Jiedu Office in another military tent. The monk's marching staff revealed all the secrets, including the code words of the connection between the emperor and the monk's marching staff. Hou Gui asked the marching staff to urgently write to Xijing to report the location of the Wuding Army and find a reason to delay the advancement speed.

Hou Gu continued to report to Li Hu. Before retreating, Monk Xiao sent someone to go to Yunmen Mountain to Baishuilu for help from the Khitan Emperor. According to the journey, two days later, the Khitan Emperor should be able to receive news of the Wuding Army being surrounded, and the position of our main army was immediately exposed. If two or three days later, Yelu Ma Ge still did not go south, we would consider retreating to Weizhou.

September 28th, early morning, Cailiang Mountain.

Li Hu, Dong Xiaochou and others gathered next to the map and discussed fiercely.

The Mao army ended the Battle of Wenguangbei, wiped out all the monk Xiao and his Wuding army, and learned about the specific situation of the Liao army in Xijing.
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