Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter two hundred and ninety third fire

History is like the surging rivers passing by. Although the boating on the water is in it, what you can see and know is usually only around you. On the road to New South Wales, lazily paving the foothills with the chilly sunshine, yellow leaves piled up beside the road, and the shafts were crushed over. It was already early October.

“…..Is it going to be a fight?”

In the carriage, Bai Ning was in charge of the north, and when he was not well informed, he almost spread all the characters in his hand as scouts, and placed them in the east and west armies. He had to guard every detail of the army. Although it seemed that his hand was a little far away, the current situation was getting more and more urgent. No one knew whether the Jurchens were coming now or whether they would have to go after this winter.

He dared not take this risk.

On this day, I walked on the way to Xinzhou for a while, and the report Xin Xingzong gave to Bai Ning, which roughly said that Liang Yuanchui and Suo Chao did not obey the general's order and acted privately to make enemies with friendly forces.

His fingertips gently touched the document, moved up the words, and then threw it out of the car. As the shaft of the car rose and fell, Bai Ning closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Bai mist spit out from his mouth, and his fingertips beat on the low table rhythmically, "These guys who can't see the facts clearly, friendly forces... It's hard to say whether the Jurchens can afford to look at them. When the other party hits the door of the house, kills and sets fires, and grabs things, who will take care of them?"

He was filled with anger. It was true that Dongchang had great power. It would be impossible to find a reason to kill Xinxingzong, but Bai Ning knew one thing, killing the other party would be useless. As long as the emperor in the southern capital still had fantasies and was still dreaming, he would always be restrained.

Soon, the front team on the other side of the road slowed down. Several people rode horses toward this side, wearing thick casual clothes, sharp eyes, and embroidered swords tied around their waists. The team close to this side stopped quickly. There was a rogue in the team here to meet them. When the tick was right, they took the note.

Bai Ningli opened the note and looked at it, and his cold expression became even colder.

"Supermaster?" Cao Shaoqing was ordered to accompany him outside the curtain of the car. He seemed to notice that the person inside was in a bad mood and asked.

"….. Two news came here. Liang Yuanchui and the other two had sex with the Jin people."

Cao Shaoqing also knew something about military affairs, "It should have been a long time ago. The money allocated to them by the East Factory every month was not a waste of money."

"I am also looking forward to the war. Whether the Jin people are strong or weak, whether the new army raised by the Dongchang can fight, now our family has a clear idea."

"Then... what's the outcome?"

"The one who led the army was Wanyan Zonghan, a very strong man, both civil and military! The deputy general was Wanyan Yinkeshu, a veteran. Liang Yuanchui and others fought and then retreated. After all, there were only two or three thousand people, so they were not defeated."

"If Xin Xingzong cooperated with him, wouldn't he be able to win?"

Bai Ning suddenly sneered in the carriage, "I don't dare to think so. They will only drag back and forth when they go over. Once 100,000 people are defeated, Liang Yuanchui and their military morale will also be implicated and affected. However, this time, I have some hope in my heart."

However, another thing made Bai Ning feel moved. The story was about the daughter of the Empress Dowager Xiao Puxian of Liao. This woman took her royal family to the northwest all night before the Jurchens came. She escaped from the Jurchens' scouts out of Gubeikou and found Yelu Yanxi in a place of four tribes.

But this woman's fate was quite miserable.

"Before and after, this woman is not as simple as defending a country, she is guarding a home." Thinking of the contents in the words, Bai Ning's tone was a little heavy and admirable, but his expression was still very cold.

"A woman can do this even if her family is destroyed, but those people in the south still hold Yan Yun and make a fuss with the tiger. She doesn't think that the entire Liao Kingdom was basically defeated by the Jurchens. What was the Wu Dynasty doing at that time? Why should others share good things with a weak person?"

"What should we do next?" Cao Shaoqing asked.

"do what?"

Bai Ning's face was gloomy and showed a sneer, "Of course I went to the Western Army and killed Xin Xingzong! I fought a tough battle with the Jurchens."

*********************************************************************

As October approaches, four tribes.

The squeaking north wind had already blown, and in the next few days, the temperature was cold and infiltrating. In the hidden foothills, towering bonfires were burning, and some Liao people were still adding firewood to it. During this period, children came over in thick clothes and looked at the huge bonfires in confusion. Why were there no sheep on the huge bonfires?

But then he was taken away by his mother, and fear and sorrow flashed in the eyes of the young mother, looking at a simple and air-lost tent on the side.

A woman gently combed her messy hair and then tied it up. In a few days, her hair had already become more white, and her face was covered with powder and it was difficult to hide her sudden aging. She no longer had the luxury of the past, but only a few simple jackets sewn with animal skin.

The simple tent had no curtains, and was guarded by Liao soldiers. When the wind came in, the woman shook coldly, and her naked feet were red and swollen, folded together and rubbed against each other.

Perhaps it was time, and the Liao people guarding outside came in and dragged her to the ground and walked out. The woman did not struggle, but just stared at the top of the tent, and then there was the gloomy night sky.

"The Queen Mother... I offended." A soldier next to him said in a low voice. Another companion next to him quickly pulled him off and signaled not to talk nonsense.

In the camp, in the imperial tent, Yelu Yanxi, wearing a thick fur, had red eyes and came to the woman's side by side with her hands behind her back. Looking at the huge pillar of fire that was ignited, she said hoarsely and deeply: "I am the emperor of the Liao Dynasty. You, a woman, actually, acted as an act of decree and enactment. I now recall how painful it was when I received the news that day. You are my emperor and a relative! Do you know what it feels like to betrayed by your own relatives? Later you also made my five sons the emperor..."

Xiao Puxian was tied to a wooden stake and turned his head to look at the emperor over there. He was a little excited and trembling, but he still did not speak out his excessive tone and slowly spoke: "…. Where is Yelu Ding, where is Dinger? Let him come to see me, I want to see him."

"….I killed him." The emperor said in a stiff tone, "Do you know what it feels like to kill his son with your own hands?"

A bright light of fire shone from there, and the sparks floated in the air with the heat waves. Xiao Puxian girl on the other side was silent first, and then struggled wildly and twisted outwards, "Ahhh, you beast, I'm going to kill you!"

"Do you know, it's you who killed my son!" Yelu Yanxi seemed to be a little nervous and pressed her face over a distance from her nose, with a crazy smile in her red eyes, "How could there be two emperors in an army? What are the thoughts of those generals? Do you know? A woman... plays with my country and country."

"Take her into the fire and burn it to death!" The emperor took a step back and waved his hand.

The wooden stake was pulled up, and the woman was tied to it without panic. At the moment she was thrown in, she watched the rising Mars floating in the sky, and a song sung in Khitan slowly opened under the night sky.

"The celestial girl who has lived in the Heavenly Palace for a long time... came stepping on the clouds and riding a green cow's car, walking in the forest. A god man rode a white horse to meet her..."

The wooden stake was raised high and threw it into the fire. The singing was still coming out, intermittently, as if a figure was spinning in the flames, swaying his arms and dancing.

Around the surroundings, the soldiers of the Liao people raised their weapons and cheered. Yelu Yanxi lost his previous excitement and his face darkened. Shortly afterwards, he was discovered by the Jurchen scout, and Wanyan Loushi captured him and killed him.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next