"Why don't you leave?" Yelu Jinning had already left, but after a moment, he saw dozens of soldiers standing there in the camp. These dozens of soldiers "watched" the others leave, but they themselves didn't
leave.
"We have to return to Yanyun!" A soldier looked at Yelu Jinning and said in silence for a moment.
"Return to Yanyun? But how do you go back? Songting Pass is occupied by Han people, Yu Pass in front is also occupied by Han people, and Xijing Datong, thousands of miles away, is also occupied by Han people! You can't go back at all!" Yelu!
Jinning frowned.
He originally thought that after he said these words, the soldiers would start to move, but unexpectedly, the soldiers still stood there motionless. Some soldiers lowered their heads, not knowing what they were thinking.
Yelu Jinning's eyes swept over these soldiers, and suddenly his heart became cold, and he suddenly understood what these soldiers were thinking.
"Do you want to surrender to the Han people? Damn it! How could you do this?" Yelu Jinning asked loudly.
The soldiers lowered their heads even more. After a long time, a soldier stood up. He looked at Yelu Jinning and didn't even take a step back.
"Tell me, why do you do this?" Yelu Jinning asked coldly.
"Sir, we have had enough of this kind of life! For 10 years, we have not had a break and have been constantly fighting with people! When we fought with the Jurchens, almost all the brothers beside me died, but now, you are actually
We must unite with the Jurchens! In the past few days, you have
We have to fight the Han people, and our brothers continue to die! After ten years of this fearful life, we don’t want to live anymore! You generals, these adults, you have been in Yanjing City, how can you understand our thoughts? "
The soldier gritted his teeth and said stubbornly.
Yelu Jinning was stunned. He was a real nobleman of the Liao Kingdom. He used to be a young master. As the soldier said, he used to live in Yanjing City and had no idea what kind of life the soldiers lived. Therefore,
I really can't understand what these people think.
He looked at the soldier and found that he was already over forty years old. In this era, as long as you are a soldier, you will last a lifetime. Unless you are sixty or seventy years old and can no longer pick up weapons, there is absolutely no such thing as retirement. Of course, the Liangshan Army is now
The exception is the case. These ordinary soldiers have been fighting all year round and have been constantly defeated. You can imagine their fatigue.
If they are still at war with the Jurchens, they will never surrender, because the consequences of surrender are extremely tragic, either being killed directly by the Jurchens, or becoming slaves of the Jurchens. Only those with the best health and the strongest
Only the Jurchens will become new vassals of the Jurchens, and the rest will live a life worse than pigs and dogs. But the Han people are different from the Jurchens. The Han people are famous for their "kindness" in the world. They will not kill and surrender, but follow the consequences they receive.
The suffering was much less severe than that of the Jurchens, so they decided to surrender.
Yelu Jinning frowned. He stopped talking to the soldier and rode forward. Along the way, he only saw countless soldiers standing there motionless. It seemed that these people didn't want to follow them. This
The total number of soldiers was at least 50,000. This number shocked Yelu Jinning.
"No, I must tell uncle!" Yelu Jinning said secretly.
At this moment, Yelu Jinning rode forward and ran towards the direction of Yelu Dashi. At this moment, Yelu Dashi was directing the army to dismantle the tents. At the same time, he sent people to take over some military rations from the Jurchens and used these rations to appease the soldiers. Watch.
When Yelu Jinning arrived, he just nodded, and then immediately got busy with other things.
"Uncle, something bad is going on!" Yelu Jinning fell off his horse and said hurriedly.
"What happened?" Yelu Dashi had been frightened for the past few days, fearing that he would hear bad news, so he hurriedly asked.
"Uncle, look over there!" Yelu Jinning pointed at the soldiers in the distance.
"Why are they standing there motionless?" Yelu Dashi asked in surprise.
"Uncle, they are unwilling to follow us. They want to surrender to the Han people and then enter Yanyun!" Yelu Jinning said.
"What?" Yelu Dashi was shocked and at the same time in disbelief.
At that moment, he had no time to deal with other military matters, so he immediately led a group of soldiers towards those soldiers. In fact, the other generals of the Liao Kingdom had also been alerted, Yelu Yuzhu, Guo Yaoshi, Xiao Yu and others were already riding towards the soldiers.
As they headed in that direction, these people's faces were extremely ugly. No one expected that so many people were unwilling to follow them.
After Yelu Dashi arrived, he immediately started asking questions.
"You are all good sons of the Liao Kingdom. Get on your horse immediately and follow me to Shenshan County in the west to rescue His Majesty!" Yelu Dashi said coldly.
But the soldiers stood there in silence, no one spoke.
"Don't you know that you are loyal to your emperor and patriotic?" Xiao Yu had already arrived and was yelling loudly at this moment.
"Loyal to the king and patriotic? Whose king is the king? Whose country is the country? That is not our king, nor is it our country!" Finally a soldier stood up and whispered.
"What did you say?" Yelu Dashi said angrily.
"Am I right? Our emperor of Daliao lived in romance every day, and he only knew about hunting every day! Even if the Jurchens came to attack him, he was still hunting in the west! And you adults, you royal relatives
Relatives of the country, you are richly clothed and well-fed. During the war, you
Hiding behind the soldiers, you eat and drink well in the city on weekdays! Who are we? We just work hard for you! Why should we be loyal to the emperor and patriotic? If you want to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic, just do it!" The soldier's voice
Suddenly excited, he cursed loudly.
At this moment, he no longer had any fear, he just expressed his thoughts.
In feudal society, the contradiction between civilians and nobles has always existed, but there was no chance for it to break out. At this moment, the Liao Kingdom was at the end of its rope, and these ordinary and humble soldiers finally unleashed the anger in their hearts!
As the soldier cursed, countless soldiers drew their weapons and looked at Yelu Dashi, Xiao Yu and others with cold eyes.
Yelu Dashi was taken aback. Under such gazes, he suddenly felt a little scared in his heart! He thought of yesterday's mutiny and suddenly felt like he was leaving here.
Xiao Yu was also surprised. He felt his mouth was a little dry and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
"Okay, I allow you to stay here! But your weapons and horses must be handed over!" After a long time, Yelu Dashi said.
The remaining soldiers agreed to Yelu Dashi's proposal. Anyway, they had decided to surrender to Liangshan, and the weapons and horses were of no use to them.
Countless weapons and horses were left behind. Those soldiers who were still following Yelu Dashi but did not have weapons or horses took these things. It was not until dusk that more than 100,000 Liao soldiers began to move towards Shenshan County in the west.
.At this moment, the generals and soldiers of the Liao Kingdom are very pessimistic. No one can
Do you know if you can rescue the emperor? Moreover, even if you rescue the emperor, what can you do? The Liao Kingdom has lost the sixteen states of Yanyun, Shangjing, Zhongjing, Tokyo, and Xijing. The Liao Kingdom has not even a big city.
, the vast majority of the population no longer exists. What future does the Liao Kingdom have now?
"Is this the end of Daliao?" Yelu Dashi was extremely depressed and kept sighing.
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The Liao army marched westward, with the Jurchens following behind them.
Five days later, they walked nearly half of the journey. From here on, they saw countless corpses on the road.
"These are the corpses of Xixia people!" Yelu Dashi said in surprise as he picked up the bodies of these people.
"Xixia people? Did they encounter Han people?" Xiao Yu was also surprised.
"Go and check to see if there is anyone alive." Yelu Dashi said hurriedly.
After a while, the soldiers reported back, saying that they were all corpses and that no Xixia soldiers were alive.
The Liao army continued to move forward. This day, the road was full of corpses. The ordinary soldiers of the Liao army were frightened. Their morale was not high to begin with, and now their morale dropped a lot.
When passing by a mountain forest at night, there was a noise in the forest. Yelu Dashi ordered a group of Liao soldiers to pounce on them. Finally, they captured several Xixia soldiers.
Yelu Dashi was very happy when he saw these Xixia soldiers, and he hurriedly ordered these people to come up and speak.
"What happened? Why are there so many dead people along the way?" Yelu Dashi said, riding on his horse.
"Sir, we encountered a large army of Han people! We were defeated by the Han people, and almost more than 100,000 people died here." said a leader among the Xixia soldiers.
"All more than 100,000 people died here?" Yelu Dashi was shocked and asked: "How many Han people are there?"
"Sir, there are so many of them, they seem to be endless. I don't know." said the leading soldier.
Yelu Dashi frowned, thinking that these were ordinary soldiers after all. Their knowledge was limited, and it would be impossible to rely on them to know how many Han people there were. The next day, the Liao soldiers continued on the road, and this time they met someone on the road.
More Xixia soldiers, and their
Some of them were Xixia generals. Every time they met these people, Yelu Dashi, Xiao Yu and others would inquire in person, wanting to know the specific situation of the war. By that night, in their hearts, they felt about the war between Xixia and the Han people.
I already have a rough idea.
According to many Xixia people, the number of Han people would not exceed 10,000, but the Han people were extremely ferocious. They launched a surprise attack at night, using 10,000 cavalry to attack more than 100,000 Xixia cavalry, and they actually won! The war continued from night to night
At dawn, more than 100,000 Xixia cavalry were surrounded and beaten by 10,000 Han cavalry. At dawn, the ground was covered with corpses, and only a small number of people escaped their lives by hiding in the mountains and forests.
"With 10,000 cavalry fighting against more than 100,000 cavalry, they can actually fight in a circle? How is this possible?" Late at night, several generals gathered together, Yelu Dashi shook his head and said.
"Are those Xixia generals and soldiers so frightened that they are talking nonsense?" Medical Master Guo said in disbelief.
"But many people say this, so it shouldn't be wrong." Xiao Yu frowned.
"It is not impossible to besiege more than 100,000 with ten thousand." Wanyan Zongwang said calmly from the side. He remembered that when the Jurchens first raised their troops, his father used 20,000 cavalry to attack the Khitans.
With hundreds of thousands of Liao troops, the Liao troops could not escape even if they wanted to.
At this moment, he was also extremely vigilant. He did not expect that the Han people could do this. His father could do it because his father was a war genius. His commanding ability on the battlefield went beyond the scope of the so-called famous generals. Almost no one could do it.
We can defeat them, but how can the Han people do the same?
After another three days, they finally arrived at the range of the sacred mountain.