After the Western Liao army retreated from Yanyun, Yelu Longqing arrived at Hamili. Hamili is close to Yumen Pass, Yelu Longqing doesn't want to return to the capital for the time being, he still wants to see the situation. However, the news that kept coming from Yan Yun was bad news, Yan Yunjun's prestige was getting stronger and stronger, Yelu Longqing was very disappointed, knowing that there was no chance anymore, at least for the time being.

After careful consideration, Yelu Longqing sent a peace envoy. Soon after, the envoy returned with Yan Yun's envoy. Yan Yun's envoy conveyed to Yelu Longqing that King Yan agreed to the peace talks, and the two sides began to negotiate. However, the two sides could not negotiate on one issue anyway, and that was the ownership of Yumen Pass. Yanyun insisted on taking back the Yumen Pass as a precondition for peace talks, but Yelu Longqing did not agree and refused to hand over the Yumen Pass. The two sides are at a standstill on this crucial issue. In fact, both sides have to take Yumen Pass into consideration. For Xiliao, with Yumen Pass, it can be attacked, retreated, and defended, and it can rely on Yanmen Pass to resist Yanyun's attack, and it can also launch an attack on Yanyun at the right time! For Yanyun, Yumen Pass is controlled in the hands of Western Liao, just like a fish in the throat, and it is difficult to have security in the Hexi Corridor; If the Yanmen Pass is recovered, not only will the Hexi Corridor be safe, but it can also be used as a bridgehead for the future attack on Western Liao, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Just when the two sides were at a stalemate, Yan Yun's envoy suddenly unexpectedly said that the issue of Yumen Pass could be reconsidered, and his attitude was obviously much looser than before. Yelu Long was overjoyed, and in order to promote Yan Yun to give up the Yumen Pass, he immediately expressed his willingness to offer thirty beautiful women and a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry to King Yan as compensation. So far, substantial progress has been made in the negotiations.

That night, Yelu Longqing stood in front of the map and looked at it, smiling, for the first time in so many days, his mood was so relaxed, because the negotiations were about to be successful. A peace agreement is about to be signed, and they will keep the Yumen Pass in Western Liao. Yelu Longqing secretly thought: Yang Peng is by no means a person who is willing to give up, the reason why he gave in this time must be the reason why he had to give in, maybe although Yan Yun won this time, but it was not as beautiful as it seemed on the surface, in fact, the loss was very heavy. Yelu Longqing smiled, thinking that this was the reason.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, Yelu Longqing retracted his thoughts, looked out of the door, and saw one of his generals hurrying in and bowing, "Your Majesty, I'm back." ”

Yelu Longqing nodded and asked, "Have you brought all the gifts for King Yan?" ”

The general said: "Yes, thirty beautiful women and ten boxes of gold, silver and jewelry have been brought. ”

Yelu Longqing said: "Tomorrow, the peace treaty will be signed, and then you will return to Bianliang with these gifts and Yanyun Envoy." The general agreed.

At this moment, a pro-soldier officer came in and reported: "Your Majesty, a Han man came from outside, saying that there is an important military situation to report to Your Majesty." ”

Yelu Longqing was very surprised, "Han? How could the Han people come to see me? After thinking about it, he said to the pro-soldier officer: "Bring him in!" ”

The pro-soldier officer answered the promise and ran down, and a moment later led in a Han man dressed in a colored eyed man's costume. The Han people are not very old, thirty years old, looking like a dusty servant, as soon as they saw Yelu Longqing, who was sitting on the top, he bowed and said: "The villain Mo Fu greets His Majesty the Great Liao Emperor, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" ”

Yelu Longqing glanced at him and asked, "Who are you?" Why do you want to see me? ”

Mo Fu raised his head and said, "The villain is a subordinate of Mo Haotian Mo Gongzi, and he has come to report the emergency military situation to His Majesty on the order of my son-in-law!" ”

Yelu Longqing showed a sudden look and said, "Mo Haotian, it turned out to be him." "Secretly said: 'I heard that the rebellion launched by those Han scholars in Bianliang was wiped out by Yan Yun overnight, and this person must have come here at this time to use my Da Liao!' As soon as he thought of this, he glanced at Mo Fu and asked, "Does Mo Gongzi have any urgent military information to report to me?" When I asked like this, I didn't care at all.

Mo Fu said: "My son-in-law found out the news and learned that Yan Yun has no sincerity in making peace talks with Da Liao at all, and is secretly planning to seize Yumen Pass in one fell swoop!" ”

Everyone present was shocked, and Yelu Longqing suddenly stood up and shouted, "What did you say? ”

Mo Fu continued: "According to the news that my son-in-law heard, King Yan has secretly informed Yang Yanzhao that the latter will seize the Jade Gate Pass in one fell swoop!" ”

Yelu Longqing calmed down, sat down in his seat, and said lightly: "You are clearly talking nonsense!" If Yan Yun wants to seize Yumen Pass by force, why should he come to negotiate peace with me? ”

Mo Fu saw Yelu Longqing's look of disbelief, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty Mingjian, that's just a trick played by Yan Yun, it's nothing more than to make Your Majesty take it lightly!" According to the information we have obtained, King Yan has no interest in peace talks at all, but is just using peace talks to paralyze the monarchs and ministers of Daliao in order to achieve the purpose of raiding! ”

Yelu Longqing naturally thought of this, but he couldn't immediately believe Mo Fu's words, although what he said made sense, but no one could guarantee whether he was deliberately spreading rumors so that Da Liao and Yan Yun would fight again, and create a favorable situation for them. Yelu Longqing was silent for a moment, raised his head and glanced at Mo Fu, a deep cold look suddenly flashed in his eyes, Mo Fu couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart when he saw this.

Yelu Longqing raised his hand and pointed at Mo Fu and said, "Take this guy who spreads rumors, put me down and lock him up!" The two pro-soldiers immediately stepped forward and detained Mo Fu on the left and right. Mo Fu was shocked and shouted: "Your Majesty, what the villain said is true, how can you arrest the villain instead!" Your Majesty! Yelu Longqing frowned, waved his hand, and the two pro-soldiers immediately dragged Mo Fu down. Mofu's shouts quickly faded away, and soon he was inaudible.

Yelu Longqing pondered for a moment, and then instructed one of his own soldiers: "You go and inform Yanyun's envoy immediately, and say that I want to talk to him." The soldier said yes and ran down.

Yan Yun's messenger is Fan Yong, who is living in Hamili's guest house at the moment, and when he receives the call of Yelu Longqing, he leaves the guest house and comes to Yelu Longqing's camp hall. Seeing Yelu Longqing, he hugged his fists and said, "Your Majesty." ”

Yelu Longqing smiled and asked, "Your envoy must not be used to living here!" Compared with the prosperous Central Plains, the gap between us here and the prosperous Central Plains is indeed too big! ”

Fan Yong smiled and clenched his fists and said, "Your Majesty is polite." In fact, Hamili has the beauty of Hamilli, but it can't be simply said which side is better! ”

Yelu Longqing smiled slightly and said, "Regarding the peace treaty, I feel that since the two sides have already negotiated, it is better to sign it now." ”

Fan Yong was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, but I still have to scrutinize the content of the peace treaty, and it is really not good to sign a peace treaty with Your Majesty now for the time being!" ”

Yelu Longqing smiled: "Your envoy is really too cautious, the content of the peace agreement is only that, you can see it clearly at a glance, can there be any problems?" Fan Yong said with a smile: "This envoy is entrusted by King Yan, so he must be cautious!" Thank your Majesty's understanding! ”

Yelu Longqing nodded and said, "Your envoy's caution is understandable. When will your envoy make peace with me? ”

Fan Yong thought for a while, hugged his fists and asked, "How about three days later?" ”

Yelu Longqing nodded and said, "Then three days later." Fan Yong clenched his fists and said: "If Your Majesty has nothing else to do, the envoy will retire." Yelu Longqing said: "Your envoy is easy to go." Fan Yong bowed slightly and left.

Yelu Longqing's face immediately became gloomy, and he muttered, "Does it take three days to review such a peace agreement?" It seems that nine times out of ten what that Mauffoue said is true! Yan Yun's peace talks with me are fake, and the purpose of their pretense peace talks is nothing more than to paralyze our side, and they must be planning to seize Yumen Pass at this time! Hmph, it's not that easy! After thinking about it, he immediately ordered his soldiers to summon the generals.

When Fan Yong returned to the inn, he felt very uneasy for no reason, and always felt that something was wrong. Fan Yong sat at the table and muttered to himself, "Yelu Longqingshi's performance today is really strange!" The third watch suddenly called me in the middle of the night, and actually just asked when the peace treaty would be signed! ......" Fan Yong's heart suddenly moved, Huo Ran got up, and changed color: "It's not good! He must have sensed something! He called me to tempt me with words. After a pause, he frowned and recalled the words between the two, feeling that the peace treaty he said would not be good if he signed a peace treaty three days later. As soon as he thought of this, when he called a cronie and gave him a careful order, the cronie said yes and left in a hurry.

Fan Yong paced back and forth in the room, wondering how Yelu Longqing had discovered the problem. But after thinking about it for a long time, I didn't come up with a reason. He was not an immortal, so he naturally would not have expected that Mo Haotian would hear the information from the Yan Wangfu, and naturally he would not have thought that Mo Haotian had sent someone to inform Yelu Dashi.

Soon after, the cronies sent out hurriedly returned and reported to Fan Yong: "My lord, the gate of Hamili City is closed, and you can't get out!" Fan Yong frowned and asked, "Why did they close the city gate?" "The officer guarding the gate said that it was their emperor who ordered that from now on the whole city be curfew, and that no one should leave Hamili without the permission of their emperor!"

Fan Yong was anxious, pacing back and forth in the room, muttering, "How is this good?" How good is that? Yelu Longqing must have started to take action, if he didn't notify General Yang in time, the consequences would be unimaginable! The cronies clasped their fists and said: "My lord, it's better to take advantage of the late day and let my subordinates secretly go out over the wall!" Fan Yong thought about it and felt that there seemed to be only this way now, so he couldn't help but nodded.

Fan Yong stood in the courtyard of the inn, looking at the night sky, worried in his heart, worried about the situation on Yang Yanzhao's side, and worried about whether his cronies would be able to successfully get out of the city.

Suddenly, the sound of gongs and drums and shouts was heard in the distance, which seemed to be in the direction of the western city wall. Fan Yong couldn't help but raise his heart to his throat, and pinched the boss sweat for his cronies. After a few moments, the sound of gongs and drums and shouts ceased, and the city was silent again, but Fan Yong felt as if the air had frozen, making it impossible for him to breathe, he was anxious to know what was going on with the commotion, but at this moment he could not inquire.

There was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and then the door was slammed open, only to see a fierce and vicious Xiliao general leading hundreds of soldiers to break in, surrounding Fan Yong and others.

Seeing this scene, Fan Yong immediately guessed the cause and effect of the commotion just now, looked at the general of Xiliao, and asked with a flat expression: "General, what are you doing here?" ”

The general of Xiliao snorted coldly, did not answer, raised his right hand and waved. When even two sergeants came to Fan Yong and the others with a seriously injured man in black, Fan Yong's expression did not move, and the others couldn't help but show a look of shock.

General Na Xiliao pointed to the black-clothed man covered in blood and said: "This person was on the third watch in the middle of the night, wearing a night coat and secretly climbed over the city wall, and was taken down by our army. Someone recognized him as an entourage of your envoy, so the general came to ask your envoy, do you know this person? ”

Fan Yong glanced at the man in black, and the two of them exchanged glances, neither of them showing any expression. Fan Yong looked at the general of Xiliao and shouted angrily: "What a boldness! What do you Xiliao want to do? I don't know where to arrest a person, but I want to slander my Yanyun Mission! If you want to fight, why play these tricks! Everyone in the mission immediately drew their swords out of their sheaths, and everyone showed indignation, and they were not afraid of the Western Liao army, which had an absolute advantage in strength.

The general of Xiliao was surprised to see Yan Yunren's reaction like this, and he didn't know how to deal with it for a while!

At this moment, the black-clothed man who was held up by the two Western Liao sergeants suddenly broke free from the grasp of the two sergeants with a loud roar, and then before the two of them could react, his left elbow slammed into the door of the sergeant on the left, and with a loud pop, the Xiliao sergeant screamed and fell backwards. The man in black pulled out the scimitar on the sergeant's waist, reflexively slashed open the chest of the other sergeant, and then rushed towards the general of Xiliao, slashing with a swing of the knife, like a mad tiger. General Xiliao was startled and hurriedly dodged backwards. The man in black missed a blow and continued to pursue, the sergeants behind the general of Xiliao reacted at this time, and they all pulled out their scimitars and rushed up, the men in black did not dodge or dodge the scimitars cut by the opponent, but just slashed and killed, for a while there were roars and screams, and the scene was full of flesh and blood, and in the blink of an eye, several sergeants and the man in black fell in a pool of blood.

General Xiliao was shocked and angry, and shouted at a frightened officer beside him: "Go and see if he is still alive?" The officer answered, hurriedly ran up, checked it, and rushed back to report: "General, he is dead!" General Xiliao was greatly annoyed, but there was nowhere to vent.

Fan Yong said coldly: "General, what do you mean by making such a fuss here with me?" ”

General Xiliao snorted, waved his hand, and raised his voice: "Let's go!" "Wait a minute!" Fan Yong shouted. General Xiliao stopped, pulled out his scimitar, and said with a hideous face: "Do you want to find death?" ”

Fan Yong walked up to the Western Liao general, looked at him, and asked angrily, "That's how you treat Yanyun's envoy?" General Xiliao was speechless, frowned and asked, "What do you want?" ”

Fan Yong snorted and said, "Such a very infuriating thing has happened, of course I want to see your emperor!" General Xiliao frowned, put the knife back into the sheath, and stretched his hand: "Please!" Fan Yong strode away.

Fan Yong met Yelu Longqing at Yelu Longqing's camp and expressed his indignation at what the soldiers of the Western Liao Army had done in front of Yelu Longqing. Yelu Longqing had no choice but to ask the general to apologize to Fan Yong, and the matter was over.

After Fan Yong left, Yelu Longqing asked the general angrily, "How did it become like this?" The general said depressedly: "I didn't expect those Han people to see their accomplices, and they didn't panic at all!" The Han man who tried to climb over the city wall suddenly broke free and slashed several of our soldiers, and the soldiers had no choice but to kill him! Yelu Longqing frowned and said, "In other words, there is no proof of death now!" ”

The general asked puzzledly: "Your Majesty, is it really that important to die without proof?" Isn't Yan Yun's conspiracy already confirmed now? We have already torn our faces with Yan Yun, and if you want me to say anything, we will simply cut down all those hateful Han people! ”

Yelu Longqing shouted angrily: "Nonsense! How can it be that simple! "The general closed his mouth, but he was very depressed in his heart, he was really a little puzzled by His Majesty's approach: 'Since you want to lure and annihilate the main force of Yang Yanzhao's department at Yumen Pass, why do you still keep those Yanyun envoys?' In fact, Yelu Longqing's idea was very simple, he did not want to start a full-scale war with Yan Yun again, but to promote peace. Previously, the six parties jointly attacked Yanyun, but the result was not only in vain, but the two Zhao and Song forces in the south were also wiped out! Now there is only his own side left, no matter how much Yan Yun lost in the previous war, it is not something that his own side can fight alone! Therefore, war is only a means, peace is the goal, and only when the Yanyun people are heartbroken will they honestly sit down at the negotiating table. But if their envoy is slaughtered, then the two sides will no longer have room to turn around, it can only be an endless ending, and it will be impossible for Western Liao to confront Yan Yun alone, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

Yelu Longqing asked the general, "Have the reinforcements been sent?" ”

The general nodded, "It has already been sent according to His Majesty's orders." ”

Yelu Longqing thought for a moment and told the general: "The vigilance of the four gates must be strengthened, and no one from the Yanyun Mission must be allowed to escape from the city!" Otherwise, my plan will fall short! ”

The general felt that His Majesty the Emperor was really doing this too much, but he didn't show it on his face, so he promised, bowed to Yelu Longqing, and went down.

His gaze turned to the secret camp of the Yan Yun Army. Unbeknownst to anyone, Yang Yanzhao personally led an army of 100,000 into a deserted valley dozens of miles northeast of Yumen Pass, preparing to attack Yumen Pass. Xiliao left 60,000 troops on the Yumen Pass, if it can't raid and capture the city in one go, the war will inevitably evolve into a storming operation, and attacking the Yumen Pass is not an easy thing, even if the Yanyun army wants to capture the Yumen Pass in a short period of time, it is impossible, at that time, the Western Liao reinforcements will continue to come to reinforcements, and the war will inevitably fall into a protracted stalemate, which is naturally very unfavorable for Yanyun! Today, everything is in place.

Yang Yanzhao arranged the task in the big tent, and finally glanced at the generals and asked, "Do you understand everything?" The generals agreed in unison. Yang Yanzhao said: "Let's all go down and prepare, and we will start the operation tomorrow night!" The generals answered and left the tent.

Yang Yanzhao walked out of the big tent, climbed the high mountain next to him, and looked to the southwest, only to see a city looming in the long yellow sand, that was the goal of this battle, the jade gate was closed! Yang Yanzhao recalled the entire plan and felt that everything had been taken into account and there were no loopholes.

The next day, just after nightfall, the army hidden in the valley set out, and under the cover of yellow sand and night, they advanced towards Yumen Pass. At this time, the chief of guarding Yumen Pass was the most resourceful general under Yelu Longqing, Mordo, who did not dare to slack off at all since he was appointed as the chief general of Yumen Pass, and arranged dozens of watchtowers east of Yumen Pass, and also sent a large number of meticulous works to infiltrate Xingqing Mansion, Xiliang Mansion and recently Shazhou and Guazhou to reconnoiter Yan Yunjun's every move; However, although Mordo was shrewd, his actions were all expected by Yang Yanzhao, in order to avoid the eyes and ears of the Western Liao side, on the one hand, he made people pretend to be sitting in Shazhou, making some movements to attract the attention of the other party, and at the same time, he himself secretly led 100,000 soldiers and horses, crossed a small desert from the north, and unknowingly entered the valley close to Yumen Pass and hid.

Mordo fought with two perverted beauties for more than an hour, and finally fell asleep.

Bang Bang Bang ...... There was a banging on the door.

Mordo, who had just fallen asleep, woke up and shouted unhappily, "What's the matter? ”

The knocking on the door stopped, and the voice of a subordinate general came in: "General, Your Majesty has sent someone to send an urgent book!" ”

When Mordo heard that His Majesty had sent an urgent letter, he dared to slack off, so he quickly got out of the entanglement of the two sluts, put on his shirt and trousers, and ran out. When I came to the door, I saw the cronies standing at the door. The general of the cronies saw that the general had come out, and he was about to present the book he had just received.

Mordo picked up the book, looked at the envelope, and saw that the envelope was indeed stamped with the seal of the Emperor of Liao. Quickly opened the envelope, took out the stationery, and unfolded it to look at it. With a look of surprise on his face, he immediately finished reading the letter and said with a smile: "Your Majesty doesn't know whose nonsense you listened to!" The general asked curiously, "General, what did Your Majesty's letter say?" ”

Mordo said: "Your Majesty actually said that Yan Yunjun intends to seize the Yumen Pass, and you want me to guard it carefully!" The general was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "How is this possible?" We have sent fine work in Xingqing Mansion, Xiliang Mansion, Shazhou, and Guazhou, and Yan Yun has no intention of entering the army at all, so Yang Yanzhao trains the army in Shazhou every day and inspects the people, where is the attack on Yumen Pass? Besides, none of the dozens of watchtowers placed in the east have found anything unusual! ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.