Shanta didn't take these stakes and straw ropes to heart at all, and laughed: "No problem, we must scare their courage." ”

In the blink of an eye, it was night, and when it was just dark, the Liao soldiers just finished all the surrounding wooden stakes.

Guarding Xiao obviously didn't have the slightest trust in the stake and the straw rope, in his opinion, these things didn't guarantee the safety of the Huanglong Mansion in the slightest, except for allowing the soldiers to exercise for a day.

Yelu Hongji also questioned: "Chen Shimei, is this really useful?" ”

Chen Yuan confidently pointed to the farthest row of wooden stakes in front of him: "Look, prince, that place is exactly a stone's throw away from us, if those Jurchens dare to come tonight, I promise to avenge our brother who died yesterday!" ”

Looking at the sky, Chen Yuan immediately said: "Okay, now there are a total of 3,000 wooden stakes outside the city, and it is almost dark, let 3,000 people go out with torches, tie the torches to the wooden stakes, and then put on the wind cover." ”

Although he was a little skeptical, Yelu Hongji still did what Chen Yuan said.

When the first row of torches were all tied, Xiao Guard's face suddenly smiled, and the faces of those soldiers also smiled!

They saw that there was already a bright light ahead, and as long as the torches were not extinguished, it was impossible for anyone who approached the Huanglong Mansion to go undetected.

There are ten rows of wooden stakes, and after torches are tied to each of them, although the outside of the city cannot be said to be like daytime, as long as the eyes are not short-sighted and presbyopia, they can see everything clearly at a glance.

Chen Yuan smiled: "Okay, now what we have to do is to put some people on this earthen wall, where the iron bucket rings, where the torch is extinguished, shoot arrows wherever it is, don't see if there is anyone, hehe." ”

And after the torch was lit, Narum really didn't give up, and wanted to send someone to extinguish a torch first, and then sneak in.

As a result, he was killed by a burst of bows and arrows by the Liao soldiers, not only losing more than ten people, but also shooting an arrow in his own arm.

After the Jurchens retreated, more than 1,000 Liao soldiers walked out, lined up in a neat defensive formation, and lifted up the wooden stakes that had just been knocked down again, and lit the torches again.

Rum and a group of ghost-like Jurchens, in front of this simple wooden stake and torches, could no longer find a chance to sneak attack.

After shooting and killing the enemy who wanted to sneak attack twice, the Huanglong Mansion was lively again, and everyone praised Chen Yuan's strategy, and Yelu Hongji also set up a special celebration banquet.

Of course, after the celebration, everyone let go of the nightmare that was coiling in their hearts and set up the gambling table again. The generals of those armies now understood what Yeluhongki meant, and stayed here until reinforcements came.

Several generals jointly made a memorabilia, and wrote on it: The Liao army found traces of the Jurchens near Huanglongfu, and in the first confrontation between the two sides, several officers of the Liao soldiers died heroically, and the Jurchens also paid the price of more than 100 people.

This recital, coupled with Yelu Hongji's recital, has enough persuasive power to convince others that they have indeed encountered the enemy, and they did not suffer losses in the first battle, but Liu Fang acted without authorization and brought trouble to the troops.

Then, it was here that we waited for reinforcements.

When Kuaima sent the war report to Yanjing, it was already night, and Liao Xingzong was in Xiao Tatar's dormitory. Xiao Tali is the queen after all, and she is the original wife of Liao Xingzong. He and her only son went on the expedition, and Xiao Tatari had been a little restless during this time.

Liao Xingzong put down the young concubines around him, stayed by Xiao Tatar's side, comforted her, and fulfilled the responsibility of a husband.

From the bottom of his heart, Liao Xingzong always felt that he owed Xiao Tatari a lot. Back then, he was able to ascend the throne of the emperor and take power from the hands of the queen mother, and Xiao Tali was indispensable. But what did he give her?

It seems that there is no other than the title of a queen.

What touched Liao Xingzong the most was that Xiao Talili had never complained, including when he said that he didn't plan to make Hong Ji the crown prince, Xiao Tatari still didn't say anything.

In his opinion, Xiao Tali is completely different from those concubines who like to compete for power and favor.

Manager Liang sent the urgent letter asking for help to Liao Xingzong's hands, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I thought that he would definitely ask for help, but I didn't expect it to be so soon!" It's only been a few days? Thinking about it, they had just arrived in Huanglong Mansion and hadn't been around for long. ”

Xiao Tatari's expression looked very anxious: "Your Majesty, is Hongji in danger?" You already knew that he was not material for war, so why did you want him to go? ”

Liao Xingzong said with relief: "Don't worry, everything is under my control, I have asked Weiling and Jiu'er to prepare the soldiers and horses, and they can go out tomorrow." ”

Xiao Tali knelt down in front of Liao Xingzong: "Your Majesty, I beg you, let them go on the expedition now, let them rush as fast as possible, those female straight people are really fierce, I think Hong Ji must be frightened now." ”

As he spoke, his eyes turned red, and tears suddenly filled his eyes.

As soon as Liao Xingzong saw her appearance, he immediately nodded: "Okay, don't worry, queen, I'll go and let Jiu'er and the princess come to see me now." ”

As he spoke, he put on his clothes and said to the chief steward of Naliang, "Now go and call Jerüne Gollum and the princess to me, and I will wait for them in the study." ”

Mr. Liang bent down and said, "Yes." ”

Liao Xingzong looked back at Xiao Tali, who was crying very sadly, and comforted: "The queen can rest assured, everything has me, and Hong Ji will come back safely." ”

Xiao Tatari's crying still didn't stop, but he also bent his knees slightly: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”

Liao Xingzong left, Xiao Tatari's face immediately changed a look, the pitiful look just now disappeared in an instant, and a sneer hung on her lips, a little proud. After a while, Xiao Tali made an anxious look again, and shouted softly: "Someone." ”

A palace maid immediately ran in: "Queen Mother, what are your orders?" ”

Xiao Tali basically has no cronies in the palace, and the palace maids and eunuchs around her were all arranged for her by Liao Xingzong. This is also one of the reasons why Liao Xingzong trusts her very much, and the ordinary palace concubines and concubines do everything possible to win over the palace maids around them to do things for themselves, but Xiao Tatar does not.

Because, she is not an ordinary palace concubine.

"I'm a little messy in my heart, you go and let the outside report and call Uncle Guo to come to see me." When a woman is upset, it is not too much to ask her brother to talk to her.

Even if Liao Xingzong knew, he wouldn't suspect anything.

The palace maid answered and went, and Xiao Tatari pondered again. Now, she's 70 percent sure she'll find an opportunity to pit Yeluhonki and Yelu Gollum. Given the opportunity, she believed that no one would be able to stop Yeluhonki from ascending to the throne because he was her son.

Why is it only 70% sure? The remaining three percent depends on Yelu Hongji's own performance, although Xiao Tatari fought for Yelu Hongji for this opportunity, but the only thing she is not worried about in her heart is Yelu Hongji.

Women are sometimes really good at deceiving people and acting.

Xiao Tali easily deceived Liao Xingzong, Yelu Renxian and Yelu Zongyuan. By the time they come to their senses, everything will be irreparable.

Although it was summoned in the middle of the night, Yelu Gollum did not dare to slack off, nor was he willing to slack off at all. He is willing to do everything for Liao Xingzong now, and what he is doing for Liao Xingzong now is actually to solve his future problems.

The elite cavalry under his command had already been prepared, and after receiving the order, they were assembled before a cup of tea.

Ten thousand people, silently without a sound, seemed to merge with the silent night around them.

After the princess's guards arrived, the two forces of soldiers and horses converged into a torrent and drove out of the city, and the scene of thousands of horses galloping suddenly was like a landslide, piercing the silent night and surprising those who were asleep.

When they are quiet, people are imperceptible, and when they move, they have the momentum to shake the mountains, which is the elite.

Yelu Ling and Yelu Gollum walked side by side and ran out of the city gate together, Yelu Lingling said: "Brother Jiu, it will take at least more than ten days to get from here to Huanglong Mansion, according to the speed of the fast horse back and forth, Hongji has been surrounded for at least half a month, do we want to speed it faster?" ”

Although she knew Chen Yuan's plan, Chen Yuan and Yelu Hongji were more than 2,000 miles away, and even her light cavalry would have to run for more than ten days to arrive. I can't see with my eyes, and I always have some worries in my heart.

Yelu Gollum also nodded: "Well, I have sent the most elite scouts to inquire about the information first, Imperial Sister, I know what you are worried about, I don't want to explain too much for my brother." Let me tell you this, if I don't come out of Hongji this time, I won't have the face to come back to see Uncle Huang. ”

Yelu Gollum really didn't plan to make a fuss about this matter now, because if something happened to Yelu Hongji now, it would not do him any good.

The military newspaper said that they had killed more than 100 Jurchens, and Yelu pinched and purred to estimate that ** was fake. If it was really a face-to-face confrontation between the two sides, how could it be so coincidental that the few dead on the Liao soldiers' side were all generals?

Also, Liu Fang is the commander of the army next to Yelu Hongji, why did he suddenly disappear? All this information led to Yelune's speculation that Yeluhongki's current situation should be very dangerous.

"Hahaha, leopard! Kill! ”

Yelu Hongji's luck was very smooth tonight, more than half a month had passed, and after leaving the palace, he suddenly found that he was not as unbearable as he thought.

At least tonight was very majestic, and he actually threw three leopards and hugged all the money in the pockets of Xiao Huwei and others.

Xiao Escort had already lost all his gambling books, his expression was very depressed, looking at Yelu Hongji's proud appearance, his heart was ruthless, and he took a piece of jade pendant from his neck: "I'll bet on this!" ”

Yelu Hongji didn't know the goods, so he looked at the jade pendant: "How much is this worth?" ”

Xiao Huwei had already forgotten his identity relationship with Yelu Hongji, and said like a market: "You open your eyes and show me clearly, this is given to my father by the emperor, even if it is less, it can be worth three thousand!" ”

Yelu Hongji looked at Chen Yuan, who was sitting at the gate of heaven: "Chen Shimei, can you help me see if it's worth it?" ”

Chen Yuan still studied these a little, took a look at them and said, "Well, it's worth three thousand guan." ”

Yelu Hongji smiled: "Okay, how much do you say you press?" ”

Xiao Escort thought for a moment: "Just bet on five hundred guan, if you win, I will come back with all the losses in the past few days." ”

Yelu Hongji didn't talk nonsense, and looked at the general next to him who was watching the pile for himself: "How about it, are we enough on this table?" ”

The general said: "Enough, it's enough to eat him a thousand times!" ”

Yelu Hongji put the dice into the bowl: "Okay, everyone bets!" ”

Chen Yuan saw that Guard Xiao's forehead was covered with sweat, and there was a look of contradiction and fear on his face, and he knew that this jade pendant might be very important to him.

Within two handfuls, Xiao Guard's jade pendant was accepted by Yelu Hongji, although he was given two thousand yuan, but Xiao Guard's face was already a little ugly and pale.

The jade pendant was bought by his father for saving the emperor's life with one arm, and it was also the only relic that his father left him before he died.

The gambler was like that, he felt guilty when the jade pendant was taken away, but his eyes were red at the gambling table, and he wanted to dig his father out of the grave and put it on him.

Seeing that the jade pendant was carried into Yelu Hongji's arms very indifferently, the corners of Xiao Guard's mouth moved twice, and finally he didn't say anything, and put the two thousand guan that the general found for him into his arms, and got up from the gambling table: "I'm not lucky today, come back tomorrow." ”

Immediately, some people around him squeezed into his place and sat down, and some people shouted: "Then you go out to inspect and see if any of the soldiers on duty are lazy." ”

Escort Xiao replied casually, but his eyes glanced at Yelu Hongji again, and then turned to leave.

Chen Yuan saw all this, didn't say anything, and continued to gamble his money. Chen Yuan also won some tonight. In fact, gambling money is like this, like this kind of occasion, no one cheats, one is by luck, and the other is by confidence.

Chen Yuan's luck has always been good, and he has a lot of money and confidence, so Yelu Hongji won one night, but he didn't win his money.

It wasn't until three o'clock that more and more people lost at the gambling table, and Yelu Hongji was almost in high spirits, and everyone dispersed.

Yeluhongji's face was full of smiles, the kind of smile that standard gamblers have when they win. Chen Yuan helped him put the money away, and several soldiers came in to put away the table, but Yelu Hongji was busy stopping him: "Don't move, don't move these." I've had a good night tonight, don't move this table, maybe I'll be able to do it tomorrow." ”

Chen Yuan smiled: "Prince, if you are like this every day, I am afraid that these people will have to beg to go home." ”

Yelu Hongji disagreed: "Don't worry, I won't let them beg for food, if that's the case, where will I go?" I also saw Xiao Guard's look just now, and I was really happy in my heart, but I don't want that jade pendant, do you say I should return it to him now, or let's wait for two days? Let him have two more days of heartache? ”

Chen Yuan was stunned for a moment, he was thinking about buying the jade pendant and returning it to the Xiao guard, but he didn't expect Yelu Hongji to plan like this, this child, has he really grown up, or is he not so unbearable?

(To be continued)