Chapter Twenty-Seven: Breaking Through the Imperial Camp and Capturing the Nobles, Temporarily Hiding and Waiting for the Opportunity
However, it is said that the Jin State conquered the Liao State this time, and the commander was the Jin State Hulubo Extremely Fierce Wan Yan Gao, since the Great Song Xuanhe for three years, Jin Tianfu for five years, Wan Yan Gao had to be Ren Hu Lu Bo extremely fierce, all of which commanded the internal and external armies, and the Jin Emperor Wan Yan Agu ordered his commander to lead the army to conquer the Liao State. Under his command there are Wanyan Pujianu, Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Zongpan and other famous generals of the Jin State, Wanyan Zongjun was appointed to Hezha Meng'an, and they were all given gold medals, and Yelu Yujian was a guide to lead the army to conquer.
In that year, Wan Yan Gao waved his army to attack Zhongjing of Liao, and Wanyan Agu heard the news and issued an edict saying: "The government of Liao is chaotic and abandoned by people and gods. Now we want to unify China and foreign countries, so I order you to lead a large army to go to the crusade. You should use your troops carefully, choose good strategies, give rewards and punishments, and provide sufficient food and wages. Do not disturb the subjugated people, and do not condone the looting of your subordinates. When you see the situation, you can enter the army, and do not delay the military plane. In case of trouble, you have the right to make decisions, and there is no need to be troublesome. He also issued an edict saying: "If Zhongjing is conquered, the seized books and literature of Lile will be sent to the palace one after another."
Therefore, after Yan Gao captured Zhongjing, he seized 1,200 horses, 500 cattle, 170 camels, 47,000 sheep, gold, jewelry, and shells and loaded 350 carts. Then the soldiers were assigned to garrison the key places, and after the army was stationed in Zhongjing, Wanyan Gao sent an envoy to give a good news, offering a prisoner and a captured treasure. There are also more female dependents of the Liao Kingdom clan in Beijing, and more than 500 beauties are selected to present them together.
Then Wanyan Agu issued an edict: "I appreciate you for commanding the troops outside, guarding your duties, capturing the cities, and pacifying the people." The dispatch of soldiers to recruit the tribes in front of the mountain has been planned. If you can't go to the back of the mountain, you can cultivate the fields and graze your herds, wait for the autumn to raise troops, and then go deeper, and if you have the opportunity, you can march. If you want to increase the number of troops, report the number. Don't let a victory in a battle make you slack. Properly appease those who surrender and surrender, and read the edict to the soldiers, so that they may understand my intentions. ”
So Wan Yan Gao took the early spring to continue to send troops to attack the Liao State, and went all the way to Yanjing. The Jurchens marched smoothly all the way, and within ten months, Yan Zonghan subdued Bei'anzhou, and Wanyan Xiyin captured Xi Nilie, the guard of the Liao State, and got the news that Emperor Liao Tianzuo hunted mandarin ducks in the west, and could attack and capture.
Wan Yan Zonghan wrote a letter to Wan Yan Gao, asking for the army. He sent someone again and said, "This is a God-given opportunity, if you can capture Emperor Liao, you will get twice the result with half the effort." Wan Yan Gao's idea has not yet been decided, Wan Yan Zonggan persuaded Gao to follow Zong Han's strategy, and Yelu Yu was persuaded by the side, and finally Wan Yan Gao made up his mind and sent Wan Yan Zonghan and Wan Yan Zonggan to lead 6,000 elite soldiers to attack Mandarin Duck Bo.
Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zonggan asked Yelu Yujian as a guide, leading the army to attack Yuanyang Bo with 6,000 troops, and Yelu Dashi, who was guarding Yanjing, was forced by the power of the Jin army, and did not dare to divide the troops to attack and disturb, Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi was troubled by Sanniang again, delaying the opportunity to escape, and the Liao army never thought that the Jurchens would come so quickly, so there was a fiasco in the battle of Yuanyangbo.
After the capture of Mandarin Duck Bo, Emperor Liao only fled with hundreds of horses, and the rest of the ministers of the Liao clan, Empress Xiao Duoli, Concubine Wen Xiao Sese, and Concubine Xiao Guige were all lost to the Jurchens.
Mandarin ducks in the camp of the Liao army, the embers are still there, the smell of blood still lingers, the Jurchen soldiers and horses are still riding back and forth with knives to search, but the Khitan wounded soldiers are killed with a knife, and then a large number of Khitan prisoners were coerced by knives and guns, and the corpses in the camp were carried out, and several large pits were dug outside the camp to bury.
Outside a few big tents, a Jurchen Meng Anbo led more than a thousand Jurchen elite soldiers and horses to guard here, and it turned out that a cadre of clan ministers captured by the Liao State and the female dependents in the palace were imprisoned here. Meng'an is a Jurchen military position, which is equivalent to a thousand commanders, and this trip to Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zonggan brought a total of 6,000 men and horses to attack, and there were 1,000 people and horses who were detained here, which shows that the Jurchens attached great importance to the capture of these important Liao officials.
The Jurchen military system is strict, and the soldiers guarding the camp tent on the left and right are all standing solemnly, not daring to take it lightly, and the fierce Anbo is extremely strong in Jurchen language and shouts from time to time: "The people imprisoned here are all Khitan key figures, all cheer up!" All the soldiers shouted yes.
At this moment, I saw a few Jurchen soldiers escorting a Khitan woman over, and when they arrived in front of the fierce Anber, a few saluted and said: "When Shicai carried the corpse, he found this woman under a pile of corpses, and she was still alive. ”
The fierce Anbo glanced at the Khitan woman a few times, and saw that she was really richly dressed, but there were blood stains on it, thinking that it was bloodstained by a dead corpse, and her face was also stained with blood, and she couldn't see the beauty and ugliness, but a pair of beautiful eyes were looking forward to it, and her spirit was undiminished, and her momentum was compelling. That Meng Anbo looked at it and thought to himself, such a bearing must be a Khitan noblewoman.
At that moment, the fierce Anbo asked in Khitan language, "Who are you?" The Khitan woman just grinned and didn't answer. That Meng Anbo frowned fiercely and threatened: "If you don't tell the truth, I will treat you as an ordinary Khitan woman, do you know what happened to the ordinary Khitan women in the camp?" ”
The Jurchens broke through the Mandarin Duck Bo Khitan camp, and the female dependents of the Liao Palace and the clan naturally took them into custody first, but no one dared to disturb them, just waiting for the escort to Wan Yan Gao, and then escorted back to the place where Wan Yan Ah was beaten, and the emperor personally sent it down. But the Khitan maids and maidservants in the general camp ended up very miserable, and the good looks were divided by a group of Jurchen Meng'an and Mouke, and the rest were taken by the Jurchen soldiers in turn.
Unexpectedly, the Khitan woman still smiled and didn't speak, and the fierce Anbo was furious and shouted: "Take her to the camp where ordinary women are held, and after checking her appearance, you will decide who to give it to!" ”
Several soldiers under the command of Nameng Anbo came forward and escorted the Khitan woman to the camp of the ordinary woman. Na Meng Anbo looked at the back of the Khitan woman, and only felt that the back of this woman was graceful, and she must not look bad, so he called a henchman Mouke and ordered: "This woman must look like a beauty, and she will wash her face in a basin of water later, and if she sees it well, she will leave it for me first." "Mouke is also a Jurchen military position, that is, quite a centurion, that Mouke nodded when he heard it, and he didn't mention it.
However, it was said that several soldiers escorted the Khitan woman to the place where ordinary Khitan women were held, which was a dilapidated tent, which was crowded with captured Khitan women, and these women were crowded together, all with panicked faces. Just because those ferocious Jurchens will take out a few women after a while, let them wash their faces, if they look good, they will be taken away and given to the Jurchen generals to enjoy, if they look ordinary, a group of wolf-like Jurchens will treat them in public. Those who are lucky enough to not die are assigned to work, laundry, cooking, feeding horses for the Jurchen soldiers, and so on. It is not surprising that the fate of the women on the defeated side has always been so miserable in the northland.
The Khitan woman was brought into the tent, and there were still twenty or thirty women in the tent, all looking at her, these ordinary Khitan women were very ordinary, but this woman was richly dressed, and she was not a Khitan maid at first glance. One of the older Khitan women stepped forward, looked at it carefully, and asked in Chinese: "You are not a Khitan, you are a Han female concubine next to King Jin?" ”
Khitan women and Han women are still very different in appearance and figure, and the older Khitan woman can see at a glance that this woman is not a Khitan woman. At that moment, I saw the woman nodding with a smile, and the old Khitan woman sighed and said: "My name is Boqin, since I am here, don't do anything stupid later, if you can be taken by the general of the Jurchens and be his concubine, you can also escape." Han women have thin waists, many Khitan lords like them, and they will like them if they come to Jurchen. What is your name? ”
The Han girl smiled and said, "I don't have a name, everyone calls me Sanniang." Bo Qin sighed and said, "Sanniang, well, that's what Han girls call it." Later, if a Jurchen general comes, you have to kneel on the ground and don't look up at him, understand? Those Jurchens are very cruel, and if you look at him, maybe he will kill you. ”
The third mother still smiled, just hummed, seeing her innocent look, Bo Qin sighed secretly in her heart, it seems that she is an ignorant little girl. At that moment, Bo Qin kindly pulled her aside and sat down, and said, "Don't you understand the Khitan dialect?" Sanniang nodded, and Bo Qin said: "That's not good, many Jurchens can speak Khitan dialect, if you don't understand it, you'll suffer." Sanniang smiled and didn't speak.
At this time, several Jurchen generals walked in, a group of Khitan women hurriedly knelt on the ground, not daring to look up, Bo Qin pulled Sanniang to bow down, Sanniang bowed to the ground very reluctantly. The Jurchen generals glanced around, only to see that Sanniang was dressed luxuriously, very conspicuous in a group of women, and the first Jurchen general whispered a few words, and then left, a Jurchen general walked out, and pointed to Sanniang and said: "You come out with me!" ”
Sanniang naturally didn't understand, and Bo Qin hurriedly said, "He asked you to go out and wash your face." Then he said to the Jurchen general: "She is the Han maid of our Jin king, and she can't understand the Khitan dialect." The Jurchen general sighed, then pointed at Bo Qin and said, "Can you speak Chinese?" Then you come along! ”
For this group of Khitan women, the best way out for them at the moment is to be favored by the Jurchen generals and be selected to serve the Jurchen generals, so that they can get rid of the fate of becoming a lowly female slave, Bo Qin was very happy when she heard it, and hurriedly helped Sanniang up and said: "The general has taken a fancy to you, let you go with him." ”
Sanniang smiled slightly, nodded and didn't speak, and obediently followed Bo Qin out of the tent. When they arrived outside the tent, several Jurchen sergeants fetched a few buckets of water there, and then ordered Sanniang and Boqin to freshen up first. Bo Qin hurriedly helped Sanniang to freshen up, and then washed all the blood stains on her face, after Bo Qin glanced at Sanniang, she was stunned, and said, "Sanniang, you are so beautiful." (To be continued.) )