Chapter 712: The Death of Yelu Renxian
Yelu Renxian felt like he had a very long dream. In the dream, he was defeated like a mountain. The soldiers who followed him died one by one in front of him. The Song army was surrounded by evil-looking Song soldiers, holding swords and guns to kill him. Fortunately, he was protected by his younger brother Yelu Zhixian, and finally broke out of the siege, but Yelu Zhixian was chopped into meat paste by the Song army.
However, just when Yelu Ren finally escaped back to Liao Kingdom, he did not expect to be arrested immediately by Yelu Jun, because there were only less than 100 troops left in his hand, and a large area of territory in the south was also stolen by Song Kingdom. This made Yelu Jun, who had originally wanted to kill him, finally seize the opportunity. So on a gloomy afternoon, Yelu Jun actually came to the prison with a knife and then inserted the knife into his chest...
"Ah~" Just as Yelu Jun inserted the knife into Yelu Renxian's chest, he finally screamed in pain, and then woke up from his coma. When he opened his eyes, he still saw his handsome tent, and there were still people shouting and neighing outside. Although it was very noisy, Yelu Renxian felt relieved when he heard this sound.
"San brother, you... you finally woke up!" But at this moment, a blood-covered figure rushed to Yelu Renxian's bed and said excitedly. Although his face was full of smiles, because a few inches of holes were cut out on his cheeks, his smile also looked particularly ferocious.
"Fourth...Fourth brother? What's wrong with you?" ▼ Looking at the extremely embarrassed person in front of him, Yelu Renxian took a long time to recognize that the other party was his younger brother Yelu Zhixian. It was just looking at the other party's appearance, as if he had just come down from the battlefield. Could it be that there was a war outside?
"Stern brother, why have you forgotten? We encountered the ambush of the Song army in Bei'an City before, and Yang Huaiyu from the rear also took the opportunity to chase us. The army from all sides surrounded us. In the past few days, we led our brothers to escape to a hill, and we were attacked countless times every day. Now the entire army is suffering heavy losses, and our food supplies are cut off. The brothers have not had a serious meal for several days!" Yelu Zhixian said with tears in his eyes at this moment. Although the situation in the army was very bad, he had a blind confidence in the third brother in front of him, believing that as long as he could wake up, he would definitely lead the army to get rid of the current predicament.
Hearing Yelu Zhixian's words, Yelu Renxian only felt a "buzzing" sound, and finally remembered what happened before he fell into a coma. He heard the difficulties facing the army now, which made Yelu Renxian feel like a disaster was coming for a while. He sat there for a long time without saying anything.
Seeing Yelu Renxian sitting there without saying a word. This shocked Yelu Zhixian, for fear that he would fall into a coma again, and he couldn't help but grab his shoulder and said, "Third Brother, the situation outside is already very urgent. I guess if I don't think of any good idea, I'm afraid that the temporary defense line built by the army will be broken by the Song army. At that time, we can only let the Song army slaughter, so you must come up with a good idea!"
Yelu Renxian was awakened by Yelu Zhixian's words. However, at this moment he sighed softly: "Fourth brother, I'm very confused now. Why don't you go out and give me some time to calm down so that I can come up with a good idea!"
After hearing the third brother say this, Yelu Zhixian also knew that he was a little too anxious. After all, Yelu Renxian had been in a coma for several days before and had just woken up. Looking at his pale face now, he probably was still very serious. In addition, he also knew that his third brother didn't like to be disturbed when he was considering the problem, so he did not doubt it. He immediately agreed and retreated.
As soon as Yelu Zhixian left the camp, he immediately asked someone to gather all the main generals such as Xiao Oliduan. Then he informed the news that Yelu Renxian had woken up. As a result, the Liao army, which was already in a low morale, was extremely motivated and repelled several attacks from the Song army. This was enough to show Yelu Renxian's position in the hearts of the soldiers.
After Yelu Ren first drove his fourth brother out of the camp, he also showed a meditative expression while sitting on the bed. However, he did not consider how to escape, but was considering the dream he had when he was in a coma. In fact, it was not so much a dream, but rather a deduction of his future destiny when he was in a coma.
For him now, the Song army was facing the outside, but the inside was facing Yelu Jun, a king who wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible. In addition, his previous failed rescue of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and now he lost huge troops. This has given Yelu Jun enough reasons, so no matter whether he can break through the siege this time, he will be unable to escape death. The difference is just whether he dies in the hands of the Song army or Yelu Jun.
Thinking of the above, Yelu Renxian couldn't help feeling discouraged. If he was only forced to this extent by the Song army, he might not feel desperate, because he knew that the Da Liao would definitely not sit idly by and watch the 100,000 troops in his hands be wiped out. As long as he persisted for a few days, he would definitely be able to wait for reinforcements in the rear. However, under the current circumstances, even if Yelu Jun issued an imperial edict to order other troops to rescue, he would probably not take those generals of the army seriously. At least in a short time, he would not be able to wait for reinforcements from the Da Liao. Without the cooperation of the reinforcements, he would not have the confidence to break through the encirclement.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, if you think the old minister is out of sight, just let the old minister retire and return home. If you give me three feet of white silk, I will be ordered to hang myself, why bother to let these 100,000 troops be buried with me? Don't you know that if my Daliao lost these 100,000 troops, I will never be able to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun in the future. This is equivalent to giving the sixteen states to the Song people!" Yelu Renxian said to himself at this time, and when he spoke at the end, his face also showed a heartbroken expression.
Thinking of what Yelu Jun has done in recent years, Yelu Ren suddenly felt that there were many things he wanted to say to him, but unfortunately the other party was not in front of him at all. So Yelu Ren first forced himself to sit on the bed and stood up, then came to his desk to grind the pen, and wrote down all the things he dared not say in front of Yelu Jun. Finally, Yangsao actually wrote more than a dozen pictures before finishing.
However, after writing the letter to Yelu Jun, Yelu Renxian was stunned and motionless. After a long time, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and finally understood what he wanted to do. He immediately saw him take an envelope and write eight big words "Renxian's final pen, Your Majesty personally opens it", and a calm smile appeared on his face.
Yelu Zhixian and others were waiting outside for a long time, and everyone was hoping that Yelu Renxian could come up with a good way to get them out of the siege of the Song army. Even Xiao Wuliduan, who was a little wary of Yelu Renxian, put down his prejudice at this time, hoping that Yelu Renxian, the mainstay of the Liao army, could turn the tide. Even if he could not defeat the defenders, he would at least lead them out of the siege. After all, he did not want to be a prisoner of the Song army.
However, they waited from the afternoon until the evening. During this period, many anxious generals wanted to break into the commander's tent, but they were stopped by Yelu Zhixian, for fear that they would disturb the third brother's thinking. However, by the evening, Xiao Wuliduan also lost his patience and must go in to see Yelu Renxian. At this time, Yelu Zhixian also had a bad premonition, so after hesitating for a while, he finally nodded in agreement.
At that moment, led by Yelu Zhixian and Xiao Wuliduan, several important generals of the Liao army opened the gate of the camp and walked in. However, as soon as they came in, they smelled a familiar smell of blood, which made everyone scream in secret. They took a few steps to the back tent, but found that Yelu Renxian was sitting upright on the chair, and there was a bloody wound on his neck. The blood almost dyed his chest red, and a lot of blood even flowed to the ground in front of the table, making the ground dark red and look particularly ferocious.
"Three Brother!" Seeing that Yelu Renxian had committed suicide, Yelu Zhixian immediately screamed in grief and snatched forward to hug Yelu Zhixian's body, but found that his body was not completely stiff. It seemed that he had not died for a long time, which also made Yelu Zhixian both sad and regretful. Perhaps he had not stopped other generals from entering just now, and maybe his third brother would not have the chance to commit suicide.
"Die? How can he die? Who will lead us out of the siege if you die?" At this time, when Xiao Wuliduan saw Yelu Renxian commit suicide, he also said in disbelief that Yelu Renxian was their last hope. Now that the other party died, what should they do?
When the other generals saw this, they all showed sad expressions. They were all subordinates following Yelu Renxian for many years. Under the leadership of Yelu Renxian, they quelled Yelu Chongyuan's rebellion and quelled the rebellion of the Jurchens, Xi people and other ethnic minorities. In their hearts, Yelu Renxian was simply an invincible military god, but they did not expect that this unbeaten military god would commit suicide after being besieged by the Song army, which made them unacceptable for a while.
Yelu Zhixian hugged Yelu Renxian's body and cried for a while, and suddenly found that his third brother was holding a stack of things in his left hand. It seemed very important, otherwise he would not let go until he died. So Yelu Zhixian stopped crying and reached out to take down the things in the hand of the body. It turned out that it was a letter and a piece of paper. The letter was Yelu Renxian's last letter, and it also indicated that Yelu Jun opened it himself, so Yelu Zhixian did not move the letter, but was very careful and close to his body.
Next, Yelu Zhixian opened the paper and looked at it, but he saw a very simple sentence written on the paper, "Transfer our military order: The entire army surrendered to the Song army!" (To be continued...)
ps: It was already 8:30 when I came back today. Lao Yu actually used an hour and a half to code three thousand words. This was a creation of my typing record, but it was still too late. Lao Yu finally apologized to everyone and try to update it on time in the future.
Chapter completed!