Wu Yingying said: "Why do you need to get out of trouble, Brother Han Shicai doesn't mean to be shallow and deep, and he speaks from the bottom of his heart, how can he not know about virtue." The two of them laughed together, they are both commanders and generals, and their words are more important than Ding, and they don't make trouble about the soil and kowtow for the incense to kowtow to those false texts, a preface of the teeth, Han Delet the elder be a brother, and Wu Yingying is a brother.

In the early morning of the next day, Yelu Shilie seemed to understand that with the strength of the Khitan in Shuozhou, forcibly attacking the mountain could only lose the troops, but it was better to surround it, and on this palm-sized hill, there were more than 10,000 people in the households alone, as long as they drank the water, they could go up to collect the corpse in less than three days. He called the nearby Khitan people to inquire carefully, the terrain here is high, and it is impossible to dig the ground to get water, so he put his mind at ease and did not send troops to provoke all day. Just urge the Khitan people to dig trenches and erect antlers.

Seeing this, Han Derang said to Wu Yingying: "This Yelu Shilie is also a figure in the Khitan royal family, he made a big mistake yesterday, and after a night, he actually changed his course and turned from attack to defense. ”

Wu Yingying saw that he was not in a hurry, and his heart was a little relieved, but he didn't know that although he had already released a message to call the police, but the ground in Shuozhou was Yelu Shilie's sphere of influence, and the reinforcements would not arrive until a few days later. It's just that such actions are detrimental to his reputation, so he must not carry out them unless he has to.

On this day, Han and Wu sent troops to harass and destroy the Shuozhou Khitan many times, digging trenches and erecting antlers under the mountain, but they were all shot back by random arrows, and both of them were at a loss. "My lord, the sturdy men in the tribe have been out for two days, only the old and weak women and children are waiting at home, in case there are wolf cubs who take advantage of the weakness, then it will be a big loss, I really can't stay here anymore, I beg the adults to let the sons and daughters go back." Ku Lie, the head of the Khitan, complained loudly, this time he brought more than a thousand men over, originally thought that it would only take one day to bring hundreds of slaves and all kinds of Han ordnance back, who would have thought that two days down, in vain lost a hundred men, but the meat on the mountain did not hold a mouthful, and if it was delayed, those barbarian tribes on the border heard the wind and went to the tribe to rob cattle, sheep and women, and it was too late to cry.

"Yes, my lord, I have folded dozens of warriors, and I don't want slaves and horses to be compensated by the Bandan Ministry, I just ask the lord to let us go back. ”

"Just let us go. "Many leaders begged together, but it was just to dispose of Yelu Shilie in the name of Shuozhou, Yelu Shilie was not established for a long time, although the official system of the Central Plains was modeled on the establishment of prefectures and counties, but most of the power below was still in the hands of the heads of various departments, at this moment, everyone wanted to go, Yelu Shilie had no choice.

These people made Yelu Shilie upset, and was about to get angry, when he suddenly felt that his sleeve was gently pulled, he turned around and wanted to scold, but he saw that it was Rilian who came to Beijing to contact, although this person was a slave, but he was a favored person in front of the nobles in Shangjing, and it was not easy to offend, so he had to ask in a low voice: "What's the matter?"

"Your Excellency, please move. Rilian pulled Yelu Shilie aside and said in a low voice: "The master has ordered before, in case there is disharmony, it can be like this. ”

Yelu Shilie frowned when he heard this, and asked suspiciously, "Is this really true?"

Rilian humbly bowed his head and said: "How dare the little one deceive the nobles, it's true." ”

Yelu Shilie didn't see the disdainful look on his face, he only felt a little indignant, his royal status, it was not as good as Rilian, a slave, to be trusted by the nobles in Beijing, and the key hole cards were still concealed from themselves.

But fortunately, there was still this card in his hand, Yelu Shilie calmed down, cleared his throat, and said: "Everyone, you only need to hold on for half a day, and before noon today, keep it so that everyone can get what they want." ”

On the small hill, after distributing the limited number of water bladders to the thirsty Han people, the Lanzhou army was close to running out of water, despite the extreme economy.

"Don't hold it out, drink it. Han Derang handed over the water bladder, and half of the water tinkled loudly, and he could imagine the sweet taste just by listening to the sound. The palace division army does not care about the Han people, and there is still some water left.

Wu Yingying licked his chapped lips, looked at his comrades in the Lanzhou Army who were also swallowing saliva next to him, and firmly pushed away Han Derang's water bladder: "Thank you Brother Han for your kindness, the soldiers have no water to quench their thirst, how can I be an exception." ”

Han Derang smiled and carefully hung the water bladder back on the saddle behind him.

"We can't wait any longer, we have to break through tonight. Looking at the Lanzhou sergeant who looked exhausted because of thirst, Han Derang said in a deep voice.

Wu Yingying tried his best to avoid opening his mouth to speak, and nodded.

Han Derang smiled slightly, took out the water bladder again, and said, "Really don't drink it?"

Wu Yingying still pushed away his kindness, and squeezed out two words from his smoking throat with difficulty: "Thank you." ”

At this moment, under the small hill, two horsemen marched to the halfway slope with white flags, and shouted loudly: "My master invites Xiao Guiren to talk before the formation, and the two families will make peace!" After speaking, he planted the white flag on the ground and waited in place. Xiao Qin is Han Derang's pseudonym, and Yelu Shilie doesn't know that he has identified himself to Wu Yingying, so he is still called Xiao Guiren.

"This Yelu Shilie gave birth to a bad look and went into the water. Han Derang looked at the white flag thoughtfully and muttered, "I don't know what the hell he has in mind." ”

"Brother Han, don't take risks. Wu Yingying stopped him loudly, "It doesn't matter what he plans, we just need to fight hard and break through in the dark." ”

Han Derang nodded, then looked back at the Han people who were holding back their thirst and looked at the soldiers around him with their eyes, and said in a low voice: "For the sake of these people, if he is willing to bow his head and admit his mistakes, I will no longer embarrass him." After saying that, he waved his personal entourage, and the two rode away to the white flag.

Everyone was very thirsty, and seeing the prospect of peace, they all gave birth to a lot of hope out of thin air, and the soldiers of the Lanzhou army, along with the Han people, all flocked to the side of the hill with the white flag and craned their necks to watch. Wu Yingying also stared nervously at the white flag, the place where the flag was planted was quite measured, and it was chosen outside the arrow range of both sides, only a little closer to the Khitan camp under the mountain, which just offset the condescending advantage of the army on the mountain, and it was relatively safe for both sides of the peace talks.

I saw Han Derang walking to the white flag with his entourage, talking to Yelu Shilie for a few words, like a reprimand, Yelu Shilie bowed his head and promised, as if he was making amends to Han Derang.

Wu Yingying said in his heart, although this Han family is a Han person, he is really very powerful in the Liao State, otherwise how can Han Delet the Han officials in the south reprimand the Khitan royal family in such a large court.

Seeing that it is expected to solve the difficulty, everyone is relieved. Suddenly, seeing Han De let the entourage behind him pull out a sharp blade, and was about to head towards his back heart, Wu Yingying shouted in a hurry: "Be careful!"

Before he could say anything, he saw that the blade had pierced into Han Derang's back. Fortunately, Han Derang was alert at the last moment, and desperately dodged to the side to avoid the vital point of the heart, but the knife was inserted into the shoulder blade, and the gurgling blood soaked a large part of the robe.

Han Derang had a look of surprise on his face, and staggered to the side to dodge, but the personal attendant drew his waist knife and chased after him, and Yelu Shilie and the others also drew their blades and stepped forward to besiege. The two of them blocked the road on the mountain, and Han Derang had to stagger down the mountainside in order to avoid the pursuit of the entourage, and below was the camp of the Khitan in Shuozhou.

Wu Yingying was shocked and shouted: "Follow me down to save people." Turning over and climbing on the horse's back, urging the horse to run down the mountain, everyone reacted, Yu Furen, Xingu and other cavalry generals, Han Derang Gong branch soldiers and soldiers got on their horses and rushed down the mountain. The Shuozhou Khitan cavalry at the foot of the mountain also launched at the same time, desperately rushing to the halfway point where the four people were entangled and chasing, and the Khitan cavalry took this opportunity to attack the mountain from all sides.

Wu Yingying almost recklessly risked his horse to rush down at full speed, listening to the wind whistling, although the hill is not very steep, but there are potholes and rocks everywhere, it is very dangerous to run the horse with all his strength, and several times he almost broke the horse's hooves, and he was able to avoid it by a fraction of a second.

Rushing to the front, just as the entourage was about to slash at Han Derang's back with a knife, and there were two enemies in between, Wu Yingying was anxious for a while, and shouted: "The thief is bold, look at the knife!" He threw the horizontal knife in his hand with all his strength, and this throw was very poor, and it smashed into a low tree next to it far away with a strong wind, and fell to the ground with a bang. The murderous entourage was distracted, and his hands were a little slow, and Han Derang took the opportunity to run two more steps. Wu Yingying was about to throw again, but he grabbed an empty space, it turned out that he was in a hurry to get on the horse, except for the horizontal knife he was wearing, he didn't carry any weapons, and now there were only two bags of feather arrows hanging on the saddle. Fortunately, Yelu Shilie and the other three only cared about chasing Han Derang, and did not notice that Wu Yingying was already barehanded.

Wu Yingying didn't dare to approach too closely, lightly lifted the reins of the horse, went around in a circle, bypassed the chasing four, rushed ahead of them, and shouted: "Brother Han, get on the horse!"