Yu Hengzi heard the conversation between the two, and only then did he realize that the young man in the big tent was not the Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThis person's name is Yelu Ruan, the eldest grandson of the founding emperor of the Khitan Yelu Abaoji, and the eldest son of the late crown prince "King of Dongdan" Yelu Bei.

When Yelu Bei left the Khitan that year, in order to avoid Yelu Deguang's suspicion, he reluctantly left his son Yelu Ruan and his wife in the Shangjing Palace. Under the pretext of accompanying the concubine to the temple to offer incense to the newborn daughter, Yelu Bei avoided the people sent by Yelu Deguang outside the palace, and took the carriage that had been prepared at the back door of the temple, and fled to the Later Tang Dynasty with his wife and daughter, and defected to Li Siyuan of Tang Mingzong. That year, Yelu Ruan was only thirteen years old.

Although Yerod was furious when he saw that his heart was in trouble, he did not blame his sister-in-law and nephew because of his mother's face. Since then, Yelu Ruan has been dependent on his biological mother. Within a few years, Yelu Ruan had grown into a handsome and strong young man. When Shu Luping saw him, he thought of his son Yelubei, who was far away in Luoyang.

Yelu Deguang was worried that his mother's change of mind would not be conducive to the stability of his throne, so he sent Yelu Ruan to the army and had his every move closely monitored. Yelu Ruan endured hardships and stood hard work, and soon won the favor of the sergeants, and rose through the ranks in the army.

A few years later, a coup d'état occurred in the Later Tang Dynasty, and Shi Jingjiao won the trust of Yelu Deguang on the condition of the sixteen states of Yanyun, and sent troops to help him attack Luoyang and destroy the Later Tang Dynasty. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li Congke died in the chaos, and Yelubei and his wife, who were regarded as VIPs in the palace by Li Congke, died together. Their only daughter has been in exile ever since, and her whereabouts are unknown. Yelu Ruan sent people south to the Jin Kingdom many times to inquire about his sister's whereabouts, and those people came back disappointed each time.

After hearing the bad news, Yelu Ruan failed to close his eyes for three days and three nights. Although the Khitan soldiers were involved in this matter, Yelu Ruan was weak and did not dare to complain about the emperor's uncle's behavior. He thought about it and found that the initiator was Shi Jingjiao, so he hated the newly established Jin monarchs.

Later, Yelu Deguang let Yelu Ruan inherit the title of his father King Dongdan, and he still served in the army. In this battle against the Jin State, Yelu Deguang appointed him as the commander of the front battalion and led 30,000 men to attack Dingzhou of the Jin State.

Yelu Ruan had long hidden his hatred, thinking that one day, he would make the enemy double his return. This time he led his troops to the expedition, which was a good opportunity for revenge. Yelu Ruan took the lead, and his soldiers were well-trained in peacetime, and they were able to fight bravely when they were in battle, so they captured Dingzhou in less than a month. The Khitan army marched south to Hengzhou and confronted the Jin army on the north bank of the Hutuo River.

There were only 7,000 Jin soldiers stationed in Hengzhou City, which was led by Li Shouzhen, the warden of soldiers and horses. Li Shouzhen knew that he was outnumbered, and saw that the Khitan army was waiting on the other side of the river, so he sent people to the Khitan military camp to sue for peace, as a strategy to delay the army, and on the other hand, he sent people to gallop to Kaifeng Mansion to rescue Emperor Shi Chonggui.

Yelu Ruan saw through Li Shouzhen's plan, ignored the visitors, and still ordered the siege of the city. The walls of Hengzhou City are more than ten zhang high, and there is a natural moat such as the Hutuo River, the Khitan soldiers attacked for three or four days, lost hundreds of people, and failed to occupy Hengzhou.

Yelu Ruan had nothing to do, and did not want to increase the casualties in vain, so he sent people back to the Khitan camp in Dingzhou to ask Yelu Deguang. Yelu Deguang had already sent his daughter Yelu Zhongying to the capital of the Jin Kingdom at this time, trying to win without a fight. Who knew that the emperor of the Jin State, Shi Chonggui, refused to bow down again, decided to fight to the death with the Khitan, appointed Du Chongwei as the envoy of the northern camp, led an army of 100,000 to Hengzhou, and fought against the enemy together with Li Shouzhen.

Yelu Zhongying returned to his father in Dingzhou and politely conveyed the meaning of Shi Chonggui. Yelu Deguang was furious in his heart, and decided to let the 50,000 troops of Yelu Wuzhi, the commander of the middle battalion, go to Hengzhou to fight. Yelu Zhongying remembered what Chen Ruseng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, had said when he was in the Jin Kingdom, and said softly: "Father, the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom has no respect for you, and it is just his own business. Why do you want to go out into a crusade with all your country's troops?"

Jerod was startled, and thought, "This precious daughter of mine has always been gentle and considerate, and will never say a word against me. She has only been in the Jin Kingdom for more than a month, how can there be such a big change. He looked at Yelu Zhongying, and saw that she was bowing her head and pondering, her eyes were full of tenderness, and she suddenly understood two or three points.

Yerod retreated from the crowd, leaving only four guard officers, Lu Wanli, Heliantian, Hupingqiu, and Xishuishen. These people are all Khitan masters, and they respectively lead the royal forest guards in the east, west, north and south of the palace.

Lu Wanli and He Liantian accompanied Yelu Zhongying to envoy to the Jin Kingdom, and they felt that they had a great responsibility, so they did not dare to have the slightest negligence. When the two saw that Yerod had left them behind, they naturally understood what was going to happen next. Yelu Deguang was stunned and asked, "Two Aiqing, if I ask you, you must answer truthfully. ”

Lu Wanli and He Liantian glanced at each other, bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, the ministers will not dare to hide anything they know. Yelu Deguang said: "In that case, you can tell me what happened along the way, and who people did you meet?" He Liantian stood up and gushed endlessly, telling all the things about the assassins he met on the way, the stone nobles he met when he entered the palace, and the people he fought with in the love building.

Yelu Deguang was silent after hearing this, and only said after a while: "I asked Ying'er to envoy to the Jin Kingdom before, originally I wanted her to ask her to ask for the guilt, but who knew that she was fascinated by the young man of the Jin Kingdom, and now she is still in her soul, and she is worried about the safety of that kid, and she actually persuaded me to collect troops and return to China, which is really unreasonable!"

Lu Wanli and He Liantian heard that Yelu Deguang's tone was wrong, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this has nothing to do with Her Royal Highness the Princess, it is all the sins of the micro-ministers, so that Le Yiyang and Her Royal Highness the princess met, and the micro-ministers are willing to be punished." ”

Yelu Deguang sighed, shook his head and said, "Two Aiqing, what are you guilty of? Ying'er is my daughter, I can't take care of her, can you still control her?" Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped, looked at the four people in front of him, and said, "This is just a private matter of my Yelu family. Let's not talk about it for now. Aiqing, what do you think about the current battle situation?"

Lu Wanli said: "Your Majesty, this is a major national matter, you should consult with the privy envoy Zhao Yanshou, the former battalion commander Yelu Ruan, the middle battalion commander Yelu Wuzhi, the rear battalion commander Xiao Han, the king of the northern courtyard Yeluwa, the southern court king Yelu roar and others. The ministers are just people who practice martial arts, and they don't know anything about military affairs, so if they have any useful insights, please ask the emperor to find out.