Xiangzhou City, Wei Bo Jie Du Envoy Jurisdiction, Liang Hui took advantage of the emptiness of the Liao army's defense, Qi took Xiangzhou City, and voted for Liu Zhiyuan in Hedong. Yelu Deguang was furious, and when the Liao army retreated north and passed through Xiangzhou, Yelu Deguang hated the resistance of the chaotic people everywhere, which caused the Liao army to suffer heavy losses, and ordered to capture Xiangzhou and slaughter the city to shock the world.

Poor Xiangzhou City, the city wall is thin, there are few soldiers and horses, where can it block the attack of the Liao army, after the city is broken, the Liao army captives its women, and the others are slaughtered regardless of old and young. Xiangzhou City is like a ghost domain, with corpses all over the field, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died tragically under the Liao saber.

Yelu Deguang raised his horsewhip, pointed at the blood-colored Xiangzhou, and said loudly: "This is the end of betraying my Da Liao." ”

The accompanying officials of the Ancient Jin Dynasty trembled, and no one dared to say a word.

Yelu Deguang felt bored, and sighed: "The country is so good, who is to blame for the dilapidation that it is now?"

The Liao army continued to retreat north, this day to Luancheng, the weather in April was already a little hot, Yelu Deguang felt upset, his eyelids jumped, and he pointed to a large forest in the distance and said: "Let's camp in that forest today!"

The soldiers of the Liao army under his command immediately prepared and set up camp.

Yelu Deguang asked left and right, what is the name of the forest, left and right at a loss, the right servant shot the door under the servant Lang Pingzhang Shi Zhang Li stepped forward and said: "This forest is called the Killing Fox Forest, according to the "Ji Yilu" cloud: 'The forest shot the fox, because of the name. ’”

Zhang Li, whose name is Mengchen, is a native of Fuyang, Cizhou, and served as the secretary in charge of the Later Tang Dynasty earlier. After Shi Jingjiao destroyed the Later Tang Dynasty, he surrendered to the Khitan, and Yelu Deguang appreciated Zhang Li's talent and was promoted to a bachelor of Hanlin. In the early years of the Khitan meeting (Note 1), he was promoted to the position of Hanlin Chengzhi, and concurrently served as the secretary of the ministry, and later followed Yelu Deguang to conquer the Jin Kingdom.

Yelude frowned, he didn't like it in his heart, "fox" and "Hu" have the same sound, in the eyes of the Central Plains, the Khitan people are all Hu people in the north, which seems to be a little unlucky.

However, as the Emperor of Da Liao, he has a golden mouth, and since his words have been spoken, there is naturally no reason to change them casually.

The soldiers soon set up a golden tent in the middle of the forest, and Jerod Light, restless, rested alone in the tent, and before he knew it, he actually fell asleep. I don't know how long it took, but Yerod heard a cacophony of voices, like a ghost crying wolf, very harsh, but he couldn't hear what he was saying.

"Who dares to make a noise in the Golden Horde?" exclaimed Jerod in a loud voice. When I opened my eyes, I found that there was silence and no sound around me.

"It was just a dream!" said to himself, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.

I thought about it day and night, and I thought that it was because the killing in Xiangzhou City was too heavy and disturbed my thoughts, so I had such a strange dream. After the slaughter of the city in Xiangzhou, Yelu Deguang has repeatedly lost his temper, and it has been more than a day.

Jerod fell asleep, got up, and walked out of the tent.

It was almost dusk, and a touch of sunset was shining through the branches and leaves of the trees, and the gusts of west wind came out, which was indescribably cool and comfortable. However, Yerod felt that something was wrong.

It's too quiet, the camp of tens of thousands of troops shouldn't be so quiet, even if there are guards near the Golden Horde, it shouldn't be so quiet, you can't even hear the sound of birds and insects.

This kind of quietness made Yerod Light feel particularly lonely and lonely, and taught him to be very uncomfortable. Although he is not a sentimental person, the twenty years of imperial life have already made him accustomed to loneliness and loneliness.

"The Emperor of the Central Plains called himself a lonely man, and it really makes sense. Yelu Deguang thought, "There is no emperor in the world who is not lonely and lonely, the higher people go, the more lonely they become, the higher the heights are unbearable, and when they reach the peak, I am the only one left." ”

For some reason, Yelu Deguang's thoughts were a little scattered, and many feelings suddenly appeared in his heart for no reason.

That's not right!

"Someone!" Yerod was alert, the heart of the emperor must not tolerate the slightest sentimentality in the world, the heart of the emperor is iron, ice, but it must not be water!

"Your Majesty, the minister is here! I don't know what His Majesty is summoning the minister?"

Zhang Li's voice came from behind him, which startled Yelu Deguang: "Why do you walk like a cat?

Zhang Li was a little dazed, and replied: "The minister has always been like this, how dare you alarm Your Majesty? I think Your Majesty is thinking about things too much, so he didn't notice the minister." ”

"Zhang Aiqing, tell me, in the past few years, I have been fighting in the south to the Central Plains, is it too heavy to kill?" Yelu Deguang didn't want to be entangled, and asked Zhang Li in a low voice.

"Thunder, rain and dew, all are Jun'en! Why does Your Majesty say that?" Zhang Li obviously did not dare to answer Yelu Deguang's question head-on.

"Everyone treats me like this, I want you to be Wei Zheng, I don't want you to pat me everywhere! Listen to good words, what do I want you ministers to do?" Yelu Deguang suddenly burst into flames in his heart and shouted loudly.

Zhang Li was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "The criminal deserves to die, the criminal deserves to die, and His Majesty will punish him!"

Yelu Deguang sighed lightly and said, "What am I punishing you for?" Get up!" These days, he always can't control his emotions, and Yelu Deguang also knows that this is not good.

"I also have to do it as a last resort!" Yelu Deguang seemed to be speaking to Zhang Li, and seemed to be talking to himself, "If you want to unify the Central Plains, how can you tolerate mercy." You scholars, all you know all day long are benevolence and righteousness, and you must know that the world has never been able to attain benevolence and righteousness.

Since ancient times, all the promising kings have been brutal.

What is it to kill some people, even if I slaughter all the people in the world, a hundred years later, only my great military exploits will be recorded in the history books, who will care about the mottled blood stains on my knife edge?

You Han people have a good saying, those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be punished. That's right.

It is a great sin to kill one person, but it is a great achievement to kill tens of thousands of people. You Confucian scholars don't understand this truth. ”

Yerodguang didn't know why he was saying this, and when he heard him say this, he was surprised!

"Really?" suddenly someone retorted, "you seem to have forgotten that you are also a human being, and you are also flesh and blood." If you go down with a knife, you will also be killed! What do you regard human life as? Do you not know that good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and it is not that you will not be rewarded, and the time has not yet come!"

"Who dares to be so presumptuous?" Yelu Deguang was shocked and shouted, looking down to see the look of doubt in Zhang Li's eyes.

"Do you hear that?" said such a disgraceful remark to me?" said Jerod, his face was full of anger.

Zhang Li opened his mouth: "Your Majesty is not hallucinating, except for Your Majesty talking just now, there is no one else?"

"How so?" said Yerod angrily, "could I be at fault?"

"Of course you can't be wrong! How can you be wrong?" the voice appeared again, "It's everyone else who is wrong, who calls you the emperor? Whoever refuses to admit his mistake will have his head on the ground." The human head is not a leek, it can grow again after being cut.

You listen carefully to see what sounds are all around. ”

"Come out! Hugh will disturb my mind!" shouted Jerod Light.

Suddenly, Yerod Light heard what seemed to be a voice around him, noisy and sharp, which made people feel jealous and uncomfortable when they heard it.

The voice grew louder and clearer, and Jerod understood it, the cry of a woman, the groaning of the dying, the laughter of the mad, the cursing of the hater, the howling of the afflicted...... Countless indescribable voices surrounded him, eerie and terrifying.

"These are the voices of those whom you have slain in the underworld, waiting for you, waiting for you to drag you into the infernal hell, waiting for the flesh of you, the skin of your skin, for you to live forever and suffer the torments of that hell. The voice was unbridled, and the voice was like thunder.

"I am the Son of Heaven, the true dragon of Heaven who is ordered by Heaven, who can endure me?" Yelu Deguang was frightened in his heart, pulled out the treasure knife at his waist, slashed in the air, and shouted loudly, "Who are you?

"Who am I?hahahaha, I am the wraith of thousands of people you have killed. The voice replied in a loud voice, "Do you want to see me?" ”

Suddenly, Zhang Li, who was standing beside Yelu Deguang in a regular manner, suddenly turned into a hideous green-faced ghost, the carrion on his body exuded an unpleasant smell, and his mouth let out a sharp howl, showing his fangs, and pounced straight towards Yelu Deguang.

"Huh?" Yerod Guang was shocked, and slashed at the fierce ghost turned into by Zhang Li with a single sword, and a brilliant sword light slashed through the air.

Everywhere the sword light passed, the powerful ghost turned into a white light, rising into the sky, like a white rainbow, straight through the blue sky.

Yerod Guang gasped lightly, and was about to put away his knife, when he suddenly heard the sound of whistling around him, Yerod looked around, and couldn't help but be frightened, and I don't know how when, the soldiers of the whole battalion turned into dense blue-faced ghosts, and pounced on him together........