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Wu Yanguang knelt on Brother Xiao’s lap while receiving massage and feeding fruits from the daughters of the Liao Dynasty while reading the memorial, saying, “I am incompetent and cannot persuade Yelu De to abandon the darkness and turn to the light.”

It is undeniable that Yelu Dezhong is a talent, a rare talent, and his character is also highly appreciated by Li Yan. But because of this, if Yelu Dezhong cannot be used by Li Yan, Li Yan would have to kill him even more. Otherwise, everyone in Liao would imitate Yelu Dezhong, how could his great governor rule the territory obtained from the Liao Kingdom?

Therefore, without even hesitation, Li Yan said to the eunuch who sent the order, "Go and tell Lin Ren that Yelu Dezhong will be executed, and his four sons will be executed together. All the men in his family will be put into labor camps, and all the women in his family will be put into the Jiaofangsi."

Li Yan turned his head and looked at Wu Yanguang, saying, "He will give you his princess."

Wu Yanguang hesitated for a moment and said, "Thank you for your kindness!"

Seeing Wu Yanguang hesitate for a moment, Li Yan put down the memorial in his hand, then sat up, then looked at Wu Yanguang and said, "Wouldn't you not touch Yelu Dezhong's princess, give her up, right?"

Wu Yanguang hurriedly said, "I don't dare!"

Li Yan looked at Wu Yanguang for a while and said, "I set up a new volunteer army. I originally wanted Yelu Dezhong to serve as the lieutenant, but he didn't know how to be polite... Do you know how to be polite?"

The original three camps, namely the Khitan Army, the Xi Army and the Bohai Army, performed well in this battle.

There was a Khitan named Yelu Chi, who was originally just an ordinary cavalry, but he personally killed more than 20 Liao army soldiers in this battle, and he was extremely brave.

Later, Shi Xiu learned through collecting information from multiple sources that there was a reason why Yelu Chi killed the Liao army soldiers so hard.

It turned out that although Yelu Chi was a Khitan, he was not a Khitan noble, but just a Khitan civilian. His family had been severely persecuted by Khitan nobles. Therefore, he had no feelings for the Liao Kingdom, only hatred.

There are actually many people like Yelu Zhi. After all, there is oppression everywhere. If the Liao Kingdom was really a solid piece, it would not have been destroyed by the Jurchens.

Yelu Zhi is one of the twenty adopted sons chosen by Zhao Ding and others for Li Yan. Although he is twenty-six years old and is not a few years younger than Li Yan, Yelu Zhi is willing to be Li Yan's adopted son and is so grateful. Besides, Li Yan's two eldest adopted sons, Li Chou and Li Qi, are already twenty-seven this year. Compared with them, Li Zhi's twenty-six years old is not so conspicuous.

In addition to taking over twenty adopted sons, Li Yan also selected fifty personal guards from the Khitans, Xi people and Bohai people who performed well, and took them wherever they went.

For those Khitans, Xi people, Bohai people, and Li Yan, who did not perform outstandingly but also made military achievements, also drew them out and awarded them the medal of "the man who dared to fight" to each of them, and then spread them into the army. From now on, they will be part of the Liangshan Army, and the waters of Liangshan will treat them equally.

These also include Li Fo, Li Ye and Li Zan, the three commanders of the Khitan Army, Xi Army, and Bohai Army. Because they performed well in this battle, they each received the medal of "A Taught War" and were then transferred to Fang Jie, Wang Sheng and Xu Qing as deputy by Li Yan. From now on, they will also enter the normal sequence of Liangshan Army and will be treated equally by the waters of Liangshan Mountain.

As for the soldiers of the Khitan Army, Xi Army and Bohai Army who had not made meritorious contributions, they were incorporated into the newly established Volunteer Army.

In addition to these Khitan Army, Xijun, Bohai Army, the Political Department and the Ministry of Recruitment, thousands of Khitan, Ximen, and Bohai soldiers who had no meritoriousness were sent.

The two were added to one piece, and there were about 6,000 people, which happened to be the two battalions of troops.

Li Yan prepared to treat the Volunteer Army as a suicide squad, and then transferred the neutral soldiers of this army with military achievements to the other troops.

In other words, the soldiers of the surrendered army must first enter this suicide squad to prove their loyalty and courage in order to become the real Liangshan army soldiers.

Li Yan originally planned to let Yelu Dezhong lead the Volunteer Army, but Yelu Dezhong was not polite, so Li Yan changed his mind and wanted Wu Yan Guang to lead the Volunteer Army.

Wu Yanguang was the first general of the Liao Kingdom and was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Liao Kingdom. Even if his ability and prestige were not as serious as Yelu, he would never be much different.

The key is that judging from Wu Yanguang's performance after surrender, he is still quite sensible in the current affairs and should be able to use it for Li Yan.

Of course, before using Wuyan Guang, Li Yan had to force him to completely cut off his retreat.

Wu Yanguang quickly said, "I am grateful for the praise of the emperor."

Li Yan asked, "How do you prove that you are polite?"

Wu Yanguang knew that Li Yan was testing him. If he could not complete Li Yan's test on him, even his life might be lost, so Wu Yanguang gritted his teeth and said, "I will take Yelu Dezhong's princess Xiao Linlin as his concubine tonight, and I have two more requests."

Li Yan said quietly, "What request?"

Wuyan Guang said, "My first request is to give Yelu Zongyun, Yelu Zongdian, Yelu Zonglei, Yelu Zonglin's wife to Zhao Qi, Qian Bao, Sun Yan and Zhou Qing. They are all warriors and are willing to serve you as the Grand Commander. The Grand Commander can give them some rewards to win their hearts. My second request is... I want to personally kill Yelu Dezhong!"

After hearing this, Li Yan laughed and said, "Okay! Li Yanguang, you are indeed loyal to me. Well... I will let Li Cao do the matter for you to take a concubine, and I will guarantee that it will be lively for you."

Li Yan said that he would do his best and ordered Li Cao to hold a concubine ceremony for Li Yanguang and others that caused a sensation in the entire Yunzhong Mansion, and personally presided over it for them.

The next day, Li Yanguang, Zhao Qi, Qian Bao, Sun Yan and Zhou Qing brought their newly acquired concubines to the prison and behead Yelu Dezhong and his son.

Seeing Li Yanguang hugging Xiao Linlin, although Yelu Dezhong felt very heartbroken, he didn't say anything, just closed his eyes and waited for death.

However, Yelu Zongyun, Yelu Zongdian, and Yelu Zonglei cursed Li Yanguang and others continuously, but Yelu Zonglin turned against his previous toughness and prayed for surrender in public.

Li Yanguang did not dare to make his own decisions about Yelu Zonglin's surrender, so he immediately sent Qian Bao to ask Li Yan for instructions.

Li Yan only replied with one word "kill."

Li Yan thought to himself, "What have you done long ago? He surrendered until the end of his death. Why do you want to test my bottom line? If everyone ends up like you before surrendering, the difficulty of the trick will increase invisibly. So, go to die. Since you want to be a hero, you must learn from your father and persevere to the end."

Not only Yelu De respected his father and son, but all those who wanted to be loyal ministers of the Liao Kingdom, Li Yan helped them all.

The rest are basically all about current affairs.

Soon, Li Yan asked Li Yanguang to take Zhao Qi, Qian Bao, Sun Yan and Zhou Qing and others to join the Volunteer Army, and asked Li Yanguang to take the Volunteer Army to station in Xinzhou.

Han Shizhong's army and Yue Fei's army were stationed in New South Wales with the Volunteers.

From the mobilization of these three armies, it is not difficult to guess that Li Yan has begun to prepare for the capture of Yanjing.

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Chapter completed!