The battle of the Liao army's counterattack on the imperial city began.

According to the promise in advance, Yelu Chongyuan allocated 40,000 soldiers and horses to Yelu Hongji, forming the main attack force to attack from the east city gate, and tens of thousands of horses and horses were arranged on the other three sides to carry out a feint.

Yelu Hongji personally put on his horse and stood on the battlefield on the front line of the East Gate, in order to recapture the imperial city and atone for his crimes, he had no way out, but fortunately, the imperial uncle was not as insidious as he imagined; At the critical time, he did not fall into the well but pulled himself, which made Yelu Hongji feel a little regretful for the slanderous words he had said to the emperor behind his back.

But Yelu Hongji will not be moved by this matter, the emperor's uncle wants to inherit the throne This is a well-known thing, and he should be the heir to the throne, which is destined to not go together with the emperor's uncle, this time to allocate his own soldiers and horses, to help himself recapture the imperial city may be the most stupid decision of the imperial uncle, the father must be willing to take over the throne by himself, as long as he can make up for the loss of the imperial city, his status will not fall in his father's heart.

As for the murder of the queen mother, the father will never blame himself in his heart, because the father is such a person, after the father ascended the throne, he deposed the queen mother under house arrest, cut off her food supply, and let the old queen mother die of depression, although it was not killed with his own hands, but it was equivalent to dying at his hands; I was able to kill the queen ruthlessly, on the one hand, because I refused to let the queen and princess be humiliated by the Song people to blackmail me, and on the other hand, I am afraid that it is also the genetics in the bloodline that are at work.

The battle was in full swing, and of course Yelu Hongji would not personally rush to kill, he only watched the progress of the battle in the rear, and listened to the battle report from the front at any time; Not half an hour after the battle began, Yelu Kanrong rode at a gallop in a rage, his face flushed.

"Your Royal Highness, how did you discuss with the Imperial Brother? Why has there been no movement in the other three places until now, there are so many Song troops in the city, and there are more people defending the city than besieging the city, so how can they attack? ”

"No, what Uncle Huang said is good, as soon as we attack, the other three sides will start to feint, don't you make a move?"

"Hands-on bird." Yelu Kanrong had already ignored the prince's presence, "I sent someone to ask, and the soldiers and horses were in place, but one by one they hid in a sheltered place to bask in the sun, saying that they had not received an order." ”

Yelu Hongji faintly felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "I will immediately send someone to the Imperial Uncle's Tent in Seoul to ask, suspend the attack, and wait for my news." ”

Yelu Kanrong said angrily: "I have lost more than 3,000 lives, and I am only shouting to stop now, what kind of battle is this?" ”

Yelu Hongji comforted: "General, don't be impatient, casualties are inevitable, now is our chance to atone for our sins, so why not be patient?" If we attack the city again, we can send the 40,000 troops allocated to us to take the lead first, and our soldiers and horses will be placed in the rear, so as not to hurt our vitality. ”

Yelu Kanrong didn't listen to this, and when he heard this, he was even more annoyed, and said angrily: "Your Royal Highness, the last general doesn't know how you and the imperial brother discussed, and said that 40,000 main troops will be allocated to attack the city, do you know what kind of soldiers and horses those 40,000 are?" They are all old, weak, sick and disabled men and miscellaneous soldiers, I am afraid that all the waste in the army has been selected and sent to us, and some people have a hard time walking, and they are still attacking the city? Attack the fart! ”

Yelu Hongji was shocked and said, "How can this be? Uncle Huang ......"

Yelu Kanrong sneered: "The last general knows that there is no such a good thing, and the imperial brother will kindly let you take the credit alone?" Your Highness has been calculated, and you don't know it. ”

Yelu Hongji's hands and feet were cold, and he muttered: "I fell for the emperor's uncle, this despicable villain who is not as good as pigs and dogs, this is to send me to death." ”

Yelu Kanrong said: "In my opinion, this matter was arranged by him, and you can't ask for a famous name, so it's better to stop the siege directly, return his 40,000 waste, and let's take the troops back to Ningzhou, don't take this credit." In the future, the emperor and the last general will only excuse the prince, and the emperor will not blame the prince too much, after all, they are all forced by the situation and forced to do so. ”

Yelu Hongji dismounted softly, sat on the stone, and muttered, "It's late, I'm standing...... The military order is over; If you can't take the imperial city, the imperial uncle wants to take the military rule of law and ......"

"Huh?" Yelu Kanrong couldn't believe his ears, the eldest prince was stupid and actually made a military order, this is a very typical fake public and private, it is ridiculous that the eldest prince was actually used by him to make meritorious contributions into the game, and this time it is really troublesome.

"This is killing people with a knife, Uncle Huang wants to take this opportunity to get rid of me, what should I do? What am I going to do? Yelu Hongji panicked, after all, the seventeen-year-old boy lacked experience, although he was very shrewd, but how could he know that there were so many tricks in this world, how could a prince in the palace see through it.

Yelu Kanrong's face was pale, the matter had come to this point, and it was useless to blame the prince, Yelu Kanrong thought for a long time, and sighed: "There are only two ways to go, first, you can only use the little manpower at hand to desperately capture the imperial city, although this is almost impossible." ”

Yelu Hongji shook his head and said: "You don't know the defense of the imperial city, it is still possible to besiege a little breakthrough from all sides, and now it seems that the imperial uncle is just transferring troops to other sides to make a show, it is impossible to feint and contain it, this is not possible." ”

Jelu Kanrong said, "Then there is only one last way." ”

"Say it, say it."

"Thirty-six strategies, go for the best policy! Let's transfer the 40,000 old and weak remnants to attack fiercely, I and the generals will take our 20,000 people to escort the prince from the battlefield and flee to Ningzhou to hide, Yelu Chongyuan can't get out at the moment, he won't take troops to Ningzhou to find our ballast, and the prince will report this matter to the emperor, so that the emperor has a preparation in his heart, and in the future, he will not be sued by the wicked people of Yelu Chongyuan. ”

Yelu Hongji's eyes straightened and said, "This ...... Done? Can you go? ”

Yelu Kanrong said: "If you can't succeed, you can only do this, if you stay, you will die, the military order is child's play, kill you, the emperor has no reason to blame him, because it is the punishment you are willing to accept; It is said that the emperor's younger brother is really scheming, if you are killed by him, the throne can only be inherited by him, in the final analysis, it is still the fault of the real seizure of the throne, but if the prince is a little more restrained on weekdays, if he does not make a lot of nonsense everywhere, there will be no disaster today. ”

Yelu Hongji gritted his teeth and said: "The general is right, the general will prepare immediately, let's leave this place of right and wrong quickly, fortunately, the thief may not know that we have discovered his intentions, and we may be able to escape." ”

Yelu Kanrong turned around and got on his horse, turned his horse's head and said: "His Royal Highness the prince will take his personal guards to go quietly first, and the last general will come with the troops later, otherwise it will be too delayed, and if the emperor's brother finds out, it will be troublesome." ”

The assault on the head of the city continued, and the shouts resounded through the surrounding snowfields, and Yeluhonki rode on horseback, disguised as scouts, and fled frantically to the east with a dozen of his guards; Originally, it was a shortcut to run north, but there was a Liao army pretending to feint outside the northern city, and God knows if it was an interception team prepared by Yelu Chongyuan to prevent himself from seeing through the plan, and it was the safest way to run east and go north in a circle.

The wind in his ears was whistling, blowing cold and piercing on his face, Yelu Hongji had tears in the corners of his eyes, and the tears were soon blown into thin ice crystals and hung on his eyelashes.

Once upon a time, I thought that Da Liao was the most powerful country in the world, and that the Song and Xia kingdoms would be subjugated under the iron hooves of Da Liao, and that Da Liao would become the super-power with the widest territory and the strongest national and military strength in the world, and that would be the emperor of the most powerful country, what a glory and respect it was.

The father has high hopes for himself, and the father has hinted to himself more than once that the emperor's uncle is just to stabilize the situation, in fact, it is impossible to pass the throne to him, and he is the real crown prince, but now, the Song people are extremely vicious, the emperor's uncle designed to frame him, he first killed his biological mother, and then lost the capital, and now he wants to escape the killing, what is going on with all this?

The sound of shouting and killing was gradually left behind, it was already inaudible, the imperial city in the distance had become a shadow on the horizon, Yelu Hongji breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly rejoiced, no matter what, he was lucky, he saw through the emperor's poisonous plan early, once he got out, he was still the prince of the Great Liao Kingdom, there were still 400,000 iron horsemen in the hands of his father, and there were still a large number of people in the city in Nanjing Road, Tokyo Road, the Song people could not destroy the Great Liao, and the imperial uncle would never dare to usurp the throne, and he had a lot of opportunities to counter the imperial uncle.

The hill in front of him was covered with snow, and there were a few sparse cedar trees under the hill, and Yeluhongji rarely rode a horse, and the bumps on horseback made his bones ache, so he decided to take a break under the tree and drink saliva to catch his breath.

More than a dozen horsemen slowly galloped close to the edge of the tree, Yelu Hongji was suddenly surprised to find that there was a straw mat under the tree, a pot of wine and two wine glasses on it, and a roasted fat sheep on it. ”