In the big tent, Yelu Zongzhen sat on the felt with a gloomy face, the cold wind howling outside kept roaring, which made people even more upset and irritable, under the candlelight, it was Yelu Zong's real dinner today, but compared to the delicate lamb he liked to eat before, the current dinner was rough beef, which really made him difficult to swallow.

In fact, Yeluzong's true reason also told him that it was indeed time to withdraw from the army, after all, there was no food left in the army, the livestock brought was almost eaten, and even the requisitioned food was almost gone, and now the army can only kill horses for food, those are precious war horses, even if the Liao State is good at raising horses, but eating these war horses is enough to make them feel distressed.

But reason is reason, Yeluzong's real conceit and pride did not allow him to retreat, and he was even more unwilling to bow to the Song people, especially he was unwilling to admit his defeat to Yelurenxian, so he even gave his imperial food to Yelurenxian, in order to make the other party think that the food and grass in the army were sufficient.

However, the reality will not change because Yeluzong really deceives himself, just today, there were two more rebellions in the camp of the Liao army, although the scale was not large, and it was quickly suppressed, but the army's spirit has been dispersed, and even Yeluzong's real order can no longer be completed and implemented, after all, even the stomach is not full, how can the soldiers have the heart to do anything else?

"It is impossible to retreat, I am the emperor of Liao, the co-lord of the world, how can I fail!" Yelu Zongzhen in the shadows gritted his teeth and whispered, he didn't know whether to cheer himself up or say it to others, but there was no one else in the entire big tent except himself.

The night was already deep, and the wind outside was getting stronger and stronger, although there was a fire in the tent, but there was still a cold wind coming in along the gap in the tent, so that the heat in the brazier was quickly blown away, Yelu Zongzhen also felt sleepy and tired at this time, so he lay down and prepared to rest, but he lay down in the bed for a long time, but he still did not fall asleep, one after another troubles were like a marquee in his mind, and he couldn't close his eyes at all.

I don't know how long it took, and finally when it seemed that the eastern sky had turned slightly white, Yelu Zongzhen fell asleep in a daze, but before he could sleep for too long, he was suddenly woken up by a noise outside...... The Leather Chamber Army has rebelled! ”

"What!" Yelu Zongzhen also jumped up at once when he heard the report of the inner servant, with an incredible expression on his face.

The leather room army used to be the most elite army of the Khitan people, at the beginning of the founding of the Liao State, the leather room army was equivalent to the current Su Guard, but later after the establishment of the Liao State, the scale of the leather room army became larger and larger, and finally gradually became the garrison of Liao all over the country, and it was mainly composed of Khitans, although it was not as good as the Su Guard Army in status, but it was still one of the main elites of the Liao army.

"What kind of leather room army rebelled?" Yelu Zong Zhen immediately asked eagerly, this time he also mobilized nearly 30,000 garrisons from various places, if all these people rebelled, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"It was the leather room army of the three border defense cities who killed the grain transport officer in the early hours of this morning because they were dissatisfied with the distribution of military rations, and now they have fought with the Su Guards who went to suppress it, and there is chaos outside!" The chamberlain immediately reported again.

The so-called three frontier defense cities, that is, Zhenzhou, Fangzhou, Victoria, these three places are connected into a line of defense line, mainly responsible for guarding the northwest frontier of Liao, before Yelu Zongzhen expedition to the south, the three cities of the troops were transferred most of the troops, as a result of Li Yuanhao found an opportunity, in one fell swoop to capture the three cities, resulting in the garrison of the three cities even homeless, which also led to their great resentment, plus now there is not enough to eat, it is normal to raise troops to rebel.

"Who gave them the guts, come and mobilize troops to suppress it with all their might!" Yelu Zongzhen immediately roared angrily when he heard this, although the leather room army is no longer what it used to be, it is still the main force of the Liao army stationed in the place, but now even they have rebelled, which makes him extremely annoyed.

With Yeluzong's real order, someone immediately conveyed his order, but the troops mobilized by the three border defense cities this time were nearly tens of thousands, this was not a small fight before, after all, after the Liao army now removed the casualties, the rest is only sixty or seventy thousand people, and now there are tens of thousands of people rebelling, and if one is not done well, it may cause the collapse of the Liao army.

Although Yelu Zongzhen was proud and conceited, he was not stupid, and naturally knew the serious consequences that the rebellion of the leather room army might bring, so he immediately put on his armor, and then personally went out of the camp to command the army to suppress it.

Fortunately, because the Three Frontier Defense City was far away from Zhongjing, it was not very trusted by Yeluzong in comparison, and their station was also placed in the northwest corner of the camp, which also limited their rebellion to the northwest direction of the camp and did not affect the safety of the camp of the Chinese army.

And when Yelu Zongzhen arrived here in person, he saw that the entire northwest camp had been in chaos, although the leather room army was no longer what it used to be, but their armor weapons were still issued according to the standards of the Su Guards, so now it was impossible to distinguish which were the leather room army and which were the Su guards, as for the tribal troops who were recruited, they had already hid far away at this time, after all, both the leather room army and the Su Guards were Khitans, so they didn't want to wade into this troubled water.

Seeing this chaotic situation in front of him, Yelu Zongzhen was even more annoyed, and immediately ordered the Su guards to withdraw, and then tied strips of cloth on their arms to distinguish between friend and foe, this method was very effective, and the situation on the entire battlefield slowly became clearer.

In fact, the leather room army didn't really want to rebel, but because of the uneven distribution of food, they were resentful, and someone took the lead in making trouble today, and as a result, this resentment was also provoked, which caused a conflict between the two sides, and finally turned into a chaotic war.

It's just that after a lot of people died, the generals on both sides slowly calmed down, coupled with the arrival of Yelu Zongzhen, which made some of the leather room troops even more afraid, after all, the royal family's deterrence is still very strong, which also caused them to start to tie their hands on the battlefield, and finally were finally besieged by the Su Guard Legion, in this case, the rebellious leather room army also surrendered quickly.

"Your Majesty, there are too many people involved in the rebellion, look at this ......" At this time, I saw a Han official with a white beard stepped forward to report to Yeluzong Zhenyu, this Han official's name is Zhang Jian, born in a family of eunuchs, and was once the champion of the Liao State, and is currently the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, the prime minister of Zuo, and the political order, and is very trusted by Yeluzong.