thwarted the attack of the Khitans, and everyone was very cheerful, eating and drinking until midnight before they fell asleep. There was a lot of snoring on the walls, and even the sentries were drunk and unconscious. ……

Aliqi was suddenly awakened by a loud noise, and felt a dizzy pain in his head, and he couldn't figure out for a moment whether he was awake or still asleep. Feeling the dazzling light flashing one after another, I subconsciously looked up and saw the fire outside the door. At this moment, the chaotic shouts and fighting voices gradually became clear, as if they had come to reality from a dream. Aliqi was suddenly startled and abruptly rose! However, before the strength of the wine had passed, as soon as he stood up, his body staggered and fell back to his seat.

At this moment, a subordinate general stumbled and rushed in in a panic, and said urgently: "General, it's not good, the Liao people have come in!" ”

Although Aliqi felt that something might have happened, he didn't expect that it was the Liao people who came in, and he didn't know how to react for a while. Coming back to his senses, he quickly rushed out of the hall. The night breeze blew in his face, and the whole person was awake for more than half of the time. I saw that the entire pass was shining with fire everywhere, people everywhere were longing, and the door was open in the distance, and there were infinite soldiers and horses surging in!

Aliqi's eyes widened, and he shouted in disbelief, "How can this be? ”

The general said urgently: "General, our army was caught off guard, and the army has collapsed!" Let's go, or it'll be too late! As if in response to his words, a terrible sound of rushing and killing was suddenly heard in the distance, and then I saw my own soldiers and horses collapse like an upside-down tide! Seeing that the situation was not good, the general didn't care about waiting for Aliqi's reaction, and hurriedly dragged Aliqi towards the south gate.

At this time, the entire pass was in chaos, full of rushing conflicting marching tigers and wolves, full of panicked and fleeing Western Liao soldiers, cold light, blood and rain, this is no longer a battle but a slaughter! In such a situation, I am afraid that even if it is resurrected in vain, Su Wu will be reborn, I am afraid that he will not be able to turn the tide.

Since Yelu Hongjun has decided to attach himself to the Ming Dynasty, although he has some regrets, he also feels a rare relief, at least now he doesn't have to worry about the Liao Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty.

Yelu Hongjun stood on the stargazing platform and looked at the bright starry sky in a daze, and a feeling suddenly rose in his heart: The countries in the world are like the starry sky in the sky, vast, but there are only a few people who can really shine in the night sky and shine on all generations! Liao should be one of them, and Da Ming is definitely yes! And their own Xiliao is just a little star who supports them!

As soon as he thought of this, Yelu Hongjun couldn't help but smile bitterly, and the ambition that was still up and down in his heart couldn't help but dim, only to feel that all this was in vain, it was better to let go of his troubles and enjoy life with peace of mind!

A pro-soldier officer ran behind Yelu Hongjun, bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, the guard general of the Ming Yelu Niangniang is here to see Your Majesty." ”

Yelu Hongjun came back to his senses and hurriedly said, "Please come to the study, I'll be there soon!" The officer answered and stepped back. Yelu Hongjun collected his mood and turned to leave the stargazing platform.

When I came to the imperial study, I saw the female general I had seen before pacing back and forth in the imperial study, and hurriedly greeted her, bowing slightly with a smile on her face: "I don't know if the general has arrived, there is a loss of distance to welcome and a loss of distance!" ”

Yang Qi returned a salute to Yelu Hongjun and said, "Our mother asks His Royal Highness to come over, and there is something urgent to tell us!" "At present, Western Liao has been attached to the Ming Dynasty, and Yelu Hongjun has also removed the emperor title and changed his title to the king of Liao, so Yang Qi called Yelu Hongjun His Royal Highness. Now Xiliao is already a vassal of the Ming Dynasty at the legal level.

Yelu Hongjun felt a little strange about Yelu Tri's summoning late at night, but he didn't dare to raise any objections, and hurriedly said: "Since the mother is calling, let's not delay, let's go!" Yang Qi led the way in front, and Yelu Hongjun followed closely behind.

Soon after, Yelu Hongjun appeared in front of Yelu Tri and bowed: "I've seen Niangniang!" ”

Yelu Hanyu said: "The king of Liao doesn't have to be polite. "Thank you!" Then he straightened up and stood with his head bowed.

Yelu Hanyu said: "I just received an urgent report from Aliqi that the Alashan Pass has been lost. Yelu Hongjun was taken aback and asked puzzledly, "Didn't the Liao people retreat?" How could it be ....... Yelu Hanyu frowned and said, "It's us who are too careless." The retreat of the Liao people is just an illusion, in order to make us neglect our precautions. Then they suddenly turned back and raided the Alashan Pass. Alashankou was defenseless and was captured by them in one fell swoop. Now that Aliqi has led the remnants of his army to retreat into the camp of the West Sea, the situation in the north is very critical. ”

Yelu Hongjun hurriedly said: "The minister immediately ordered the army to go north for reinforcements!" ”

Yelu Hanyu waved his hand and said: "At present, Alashankou has fallen, the Liao people have just won a big victory, and the morale of the Liao people is like a rainbow, and the Western Liao has just experienced a big defeat, and has just experienced a big change, and the morale of the people is turbulent. ”

Yelu Hongjun felt a little overwhelmed, and bowed down and asked, "Please show me the mother, what should we do?" ”

Yelu Hanyu pondered: "The Western Liao army should be invincible first, and as for the expulsion of the Liao people, leave it to the imperial army." Yelu Hongjun heard that the Central Committee of the Ming Dynasty took the initiative to take this matter, and he only felt extremely relaxed. Yelu Hanyu walked to the map hanging on the side, pointed to a place north of Hu Si's ears, Hai Zhili, and said, "Mobilize a large army to defend Hai Zhili," and then moved his finger to the Song Pass, two hundred miles east of Hai Zhili, and said: "Let Mills's headquarters rush to the aid of Song Pass." Yelu Hongjun looked at the map and nodded.

Yelu Hanyu turned around and admonished: "Remember, your task is to cut off the passage of the Liao army to the south, and you must not attack rashly!" "Yes." "I also want to remind the generals that even if the enemy retreats, they must not be negligent, and the defeat of Alashankou cannot be repeated!" "Yes." "Alright, that's all I have to say, let's get on with it." Yelu Hongjun answered and retreated. Yang Qi sent Yelu Hongjun out of the state guesthouse and returned to the hall, and said to Yelu Hanyu with a smile: "Sister Mei'er, this king of a country is as respectful as a minister!" Yelu Hanyu said with a smile: "Xiliao is now a vassal of our Ming Dynasty, and its king is naturally our Ming courtier." Yang Qi nodded vigorously, and then said depressedly: "The Liao people suddenly turned back and broke through the Alashan Pass, are we unable to return to China as originally planned?" ”

Yelu Hanyu pondered: "There is such an emergency, naturally we can't leave immediately!" Thinking of something, he asked Yang Qi: "Eighth sister, did I ask you to send a flying pigeon biography to Aliqi?" Yang Qi said: "Sister Mei'er, don't worry!" Can I still forget what you explained? Yelu Hanyu smiled slightly.

In one fell swoop, he captured the Alashan Pass, and then ordered the fierce general Vest to lead 30,000 Mongol cavalry to the west. Ali Qicai retreated to the camp of the West Sea, and before he could breathe, he heard a terrifying roar from outside the camp, and everyone's faces changed greatly. Realizing that his pursuers had arrived, Aric quickly ordered his men to defend them. However, before the Western Liao army was ready, the Mongolian war cavalry like the sea and the tide, like the wind and waves, slammed through the fence of the military camp and rushed forward, and the column swept through! Aliqi also tried to resist, but the generals were already panicked and fled in all directions, so Aliqi had no choice but to flee west.

The Mongol cavalry captured the camp in the West Sea in one fell swoop and continued to attack and advance in the southwest direction. Halfway through, he suddenly received an urgent order from Yahu Hugo, and this cavalry took the reins of his horse.

Aliqi fled to the north bank of the Chui River, hundreds of miles southwest of the West Sea, and prepared to lead the remnants of his defeated army across the river and rely on the Chui River to defend against the Liao army. At this moment, the scout rushed to report: "General, the Liao army has retreated to Alashankou!" Aric couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard the news. However, in view of the previous lesson, Aliqi did not dare to be careless and asked, "Did the Liao army really retreat?" The scout said with certainty: "It is indeed retreating!" Aliqi ordered the scouts to continue to monitor the Liao army, and then ordered the remnants of the defeated army to camp on the spot, and at the same time sent fast horses to gather the rout in all directions.

Soon after, the scattered rout troops came back one after another, and by the evening there were already 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses. At this time, Aliqi received a message from Yelu Hanyu's flying pigeon, and hurriedly opened it to read it. When it was over, Aliqi's face showed a hint of joy, and he immediately sent someone to inform the whole army: "The Ming army has marched from the east, and the Liao people are too busy to take care of themselves!" The soldiers of the whole army were originally frightened and panicked, but after hearing the news, their panicked hearts couldn't help but settle down, and they only felt that since the powerful Ming Army was dispatched, they should be safe.

Immediately Aliqi ordered the whole army to cut down trees and dig trenches overnight, as if they were going to stay in the area for a long time. When the soldiers heard the news that the Ming army had been dispatched, they recovered a lot of morale and immediately obeyed the order, so the south bank of the Chui River was a busy scene all night.

In fact, the news that Yelu Hanyu told Aliqi was not accurate, although the Northern Ming Army was mobilized on a large scale, the Ming Army did not launch an attack on Liao. It's just that Yang Yanzhao's troops and horses are ready to attack at any time in the Tianshan region. The reason why Yelu Hanyu said this to Aliqi was just to make him not have to panic.

The Western Liao armies hurriedly moved to Haijili and Songguan, and everyone was very nervous, only feeling that the Liao army was about to press over like Mount Tai. At the same time, others have made up their minds. At the residence of King Guiyi, King Hassan called a confidant and brought a letter into his hands.

Hassan mysteriously handed a letter to his cronies and instructed: "Send it to Khorezm at once, and give it to the prince of Jeruiel!" The cronie agreed, took the letter into his arms, and ran down. Immediately Hassan called another confidant and handed him another letter, and ordered him to immediately set off north, and deliver the letter to the Great Liao Emperor Yelu Huge. The cronies took the order and left.

Hassan stood at the door of the hall, looking out at the mountains and sky in the distance, a triumphant smile on his face.

Hassan's cronies traveled west with Hassan's handwritten letters, and finally came to the camp of Jeruiel on the northern shore of the Khorezm Sea (Aral Sea), and delivered Hassan's handwritten letters to Jeruiel.

After reading the letter, Jereil was so excited that he couldn't help exclaiming, "Great, my chance has finally come!" He immediately summoned his subordinates and ordered the eastward expedition to rebel. It turned out that Hassan's letter to Yelu Yilie stated the current situation, and emphasized that now that the Liao State has broken through the Alashan Pass, and the army is overwhelming the territory like Mount Tai, it is a good time to defeat Yelu Hongjun and restore orthodoxy. Yelu Yilie's heart was on the throne of the Western Liao Kingdom, and after getting this news, where would he hesitate, and immediately summoned soldiers and horses to swear to go to the army.

The soldiers and horses left the camp and headed east, and at noon that day, the army came to the small town of Saolan on the bank of the Kuzhang River. This is already an area controlled by the court of the Western Liao Kingdom, Yelu Yilie wanted to kill here to vent his grievances, but he didn't expect to see half a figure after entering the town, let alone a person, even the shadow of a dog was not seen, and a huge town was like a barren mountain and ghost town.

Jereh was bored and ordered the army to rest here for the night. The army stopped, buried the pot and cooked the rice, and soon after, smoke curled from inside and outside the town.

The messenger sent to the Bada came back and reported to Jereil with an angry face: "Great General, the False Commander refuses to submit to the Great General, and scolds the Great General for being a rebel!" "False beating, a minister more than two hundred miles south of Salan, guarded by 8,000 soldiers and horses, is a gateway to the west of Hu Si's ears.

When Yelu Yilie heard the messenger's relay, he was furious and shouted: "I am the only son of the first emperor, and the throne should be mine, and Yelu Hongjun is a rebellious minister and thief!" Since I don't know what to do with the soldiers, I will kill them when the city is broken! He immediately ordered the three armies to rest early, and to march south early tomorrow morning to fight against him.

The alarm reached Hu Siwei's ears, and Yelu Hongjun panicked. He didn't expect that Yelu Yilie would openly rebel at this time, and now almost all of Hu Si's soldiers and horses have been sent out, although Hu Si Er's ears can't be regarded as an empty city, but it can't resist Yelu Yilie's rebels at all!

Yelu Hongjun panicked and thought of Yelu Hanyu, when he rushed to the state guesthouse to report the matter, and then asked Yelu Hanyu's order. Yelu Hanyu said lightly: "You don't have to worry, even if the rebels are coming to the city, aren't there still my army?" Yelu Hongjun thought of the 10,000 elite soldiers accompanying Yelu Hanyu, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and nodded busily: "Yes, yes, yes, there are also Niangniang's soldiers and horses!" The elite of the Ming Dynasty is invincible, and there will definitely be no problem in dealing with those rebels! ”

Yelu Hanyu said: "You just have to rest assured." Now the trouble of the henchmen is the Liao people, not the rebels of Yeluyilie, who are just diseases of the limbs. Yelu Hongjun promised repeatedly. Yelu Hanyu said, "If you don't have anything else, go down." Yelu Hongjun bowed down and retreated.

Yang Qi said with some concern: "Sister Mei'er, if the rebels are killed, do we really want to help them defend against the enemy?" ”

Yelu Hanyu said: "That's for sure. Now that the Western Liao has been annexed, then the rebels of the Western Liao are the rebels of our Ming Dynasty, and the land of the Western Liao is the land of our Ming Dynasty, how can we not defend our own land? ”

Yang Qi frowned and said, "That's right. But the situation is far beyond what was previously anticipated. The Liao people not only did not retreat, but instead went south to capture Alashankou, and now that Yelu Yilie has also come to join in the fun! He glanced at Yelu Hanyu and said worriedly: "Sister Mei'er, I'm really worried about your safety!" You can't let Sister Mei'er take risks for the sake of this reckless place! Sister Mei'er, you are our Ming concubine! If I want to say, if the rebels of Yeluyilie really want to attack the city, my brother and I will lead the army to escort Mei'er to break out of the siege and return to the country. As for the latter things, naturally the eldest brother and the sixth brother will deal with it! ”

Yelu Hanyu shook his head, "How can this work!" If I fled, would the soldiers and civilians of Western Liao see it like this? They will definitely be disappointed, and in the current situation where the Liao army is moving south, maybe they will surrender to the Liao! We can't let that happen! ”

"But ......"

Yelu Hanyu raised his hand to interrupt Yang Qi's words, and said categorically: "As a concubine of the Ming Dynasty, I represent the Ming Dynasty, and the more times like this, the more I can't retreat!" Then he smiled bitterly: "Who told me to marry the Ming Emperor!" When Yang Qi heard this, she couldn't help but be moved in her heart, she really admired the mother and sister-in-law in front of her, and nodded heavily: "Since Sister Mei'er has decided, I will fight for my life, and I must protect Sister Mei'er!" ”

Yelu Hanyu smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, we'll be fine." Yang Qi listened to Sister Mei'er's words, and her worried heart couldn't help but let go of a lot. However, although Yelu Hanyu comforted Yang Qi so much, he had no idea what the situation would turn out to be. The fact that Yehu Hugo captured the Alashan Pass in one fell swoop was really unexpected, how will the situation develop next? It seems that the eldest brother just doesn't want to send troops!

Here, Hu Si's ears are actively preparing for war, and there is a scene of rumors. On the other hand, Jereil led the army to break through the beatings, and then launched an extremely brutal massacre of the soldiers and civilians in the city, and the screams continued until the evening. The whole city was dead silent, blood overflowed the past, corpses were crammed into the streets, old people pressed men, men pressed children, layer upon layer, shocking!

Immediately, Jereil led a large army to bypass Sailan and Tarath, and went straight to Husi to kill him. In half a day, more than a dozen urgent reports were sent to Hu Siwei's ears. Yelu Hongjun ordered the city gates to be closed, and all the troops and militia were ready for battle. The army and the militia stood at the head of the city and looked into the distance, the soldiers were fine, but the militia was so nervous that their hearts were pounding and they were about to jump out of their throats.

After waiting for a long time, I saw a fast horse galloping in the distance. When the militiamen saw such a scene, they couldn't help but become even more nervous.

The fast horse rushed into the city gate, went straight to Yelu Hongjun and Yelu Hanyu at the head of the city, and reported urgently: "Your Highness, Niangniang, the rebels have suddenly retreated!" ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and they didn't react for a while, and then everyone's faces showed a look of surprise, and Yelu Hongjun asked urgently: "What did you say?" Did the rebels of Jeremelel retreat? "Yes, they had not yet reached Frunze when they suddenly turned and retreated! I don't know what happened! ”

Yelu Hongjun and Yelu Hanyu glanced at each other, both puzzled.

At this moment, another dusty officer rushed up and reported excitedly: "Your Majesty, Niangniang, the army of the Liao State has withdrawn!" ”

When everyone heard the news, they were even more surprised, and then they understood why Yelu Yilie's soldiers and horses suddenly retreated, and they must have also received the news that the Liao army had retreated, Yelu Yilie knew that there were no Liao people, and he wanted to deal with the entire Western Liao army and even the Ming army with his soldiers and horses, and he was simply killing himself by hitting a stone, so he hurriedly gave up the plan to attack Hu Si's ears and retreated.

Yelu Hanyu said to Yelu Hongjun: "Although the enemy army has retreated, it cannot be said that we are safe. Alert remains, and scouts continue to monitor enemy movements. Yelu Hongjun bowed down and agreed, and immediately gave the order.

Yelu Hanyu turned to look at the mountains outside the city, and a gentle smile appeared on his beautiful face. She thought of her man, Yang Peng. She knew that the reason why the Liao people not only did not continue to go deeper after capturing Alashankou, but the army retreated sharply was obviously because of their scruples about the Ming army. From this point of view, the surprise attack on Alashankou by Yehu Hugo was not to ignore the warning of the Ming Dynasty and insist on destroying Liao, but to seize the opportunity to seize such a strategic place, first, to better defend this direction, and secondly, when the time permits, to go out of Alashankou and directly take Hu Siwei's ears. But no matter what, the crisis in Xiliao should be considered over.

Soon after, the scouts who were spying on Jereil kept coming back. The army of Jereil fled all the way west, burning, killing and plundering everywhere they passed. This made Yelu Hongjun and Yelu Hanyu very angry. At the same time, the people who had fled from the army of Jeremiah flocked to Tiger Si from the west. In just a few days, Hu Si's ears were overcrowded. Fortunately, Yelu Yilie did not dare to stay in the area controlled by the Liao court, and burned and looted all the way to the west to enter the territory of Khorezm.

The situation in Western Liao gradually stabilized, but there was tension between Liao and Daming, and there was a tense situation that was about to erupt. Both sides have mobilized large armies to move into the vicinity of the border, and every day there is constant friction between the two sides as rangers patrol each other, and tensions are moving into the red line at a straight pace. However, the soldiers and horses on both sides apparently received orders from their respective monarchs, and they were trying their best to restrain themselves, so although there was constant friction, there was no major war.

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