Chapter 225: The Alley Was Attacked
After leaving Fengchan Temple, Yelu Ruan walked slowly in Kaifeng City with a long sword and a horse. After Kaifeng City fell, the guards of the passes in the city were replaced by Khitan soldiers, and soldiers lined up in line on the streets from time to time. Yelu Ruan was traveling in a very quiet dress tonight, and did not want to alarm the soldiers who were patrolling the night patrol, so she specially selected secluded alleys to return to the tent of the Qianying camp.
After traveling about two miles, Yelu Ruan saw the candlelight in the tent in front of the camp in the distance, so he waved his horse whip and quickly moved. Suddenly, a strong wind came from the walls on both sides of the alley. Seven or eight masked warriors descended in the air with big swords. These people glanced at Yelu Ruan and raised their sharp swords to slash at him without saying a word. Yelu Ruan is worthy of being a person who has seen the world, but he was not panicked when he met an assassin. While he slapped the butt of the mount with his hand, he quickly drew his sword to meet the enemy. The warriors were frightened and rushed forward like crazy. The warriors could not avoid it. Two people were knocked to the wall and vomited blood and died.
Yelu Ruan did not wait for these people to recover and wield their swords to attack the nearby assassins. The masked warriors were not weak in skill. After dozens of rounds, Yelu Ruan wiped them all out. Yelu Ruan looked at the corpse lying on the ground and felt a little exhausted. He could not figure out who knew his whereabouts in advance, so he chose this place to ambush. Yelu Ruan walked to one of the assassins, squatted down and uncovered his face towel to find out what was going on.
At this moment, someone shot dozens of sharp arrows with flames from the wall. Yelu Ruan was shocked and quickly let go of her face towel and turned over to avoid them. The bows and arrows fell to the ground, all of which shot on the corpses on the ground. The fire burned more and more vigorously on the corpses, but in a short while, the corpses were burned to a pile of coke.
Yelu Ruan was still in shock and saw dozens of warriors holding big swords rushing out not far away. Yelu Ruan saw that the visitor was not wearing a face towel, but everyone's face was full of murderous aura. Obviously, they were not his subordinates, so she held her breath and protected the long sword in front of her.
After those people approached, Yelu Ruan found that they were not Khitans, so he asked, "Who are you? Why are you lying here?" One of them stepped forward and replied, "You don't have to know who we are, because we never deal with dead people." Yelu Ruan saw that the man was full of evil spirits and said angrily: "Rareless! Do you know who this king is?"
The man looked at him intently and said coldly: "Aren't you the one who lives a life of silence? You know who killed your father, Dongdan, but you are still indifferent over the years. You act like such beasts, and you are angry with the gods. In my opinion, you will still cut off yourself so that we will not get dirty with our weapons."
Yelu Ruan took a deep breath, wondering who was so arrogant that he dared to assassinate the commander under the eyelids of the front camp tent. These people were not afraid that Yelu Ruan would know their appearance, and obviously made up the cruelty to succeed if he failed. Now that his reinforcements had not arrived, Yelu Ruan did not dare to act rashly.
The warriors had already surrounded Yelu Ruan firmly. At first, the man said in a low voice: "Yelu Ruan, today we have our old worries and new hatreds together!" Yelu Ruan held the long sword in his hand, and did not dare to relax his vigilance at all, and he said in confusion: "I have never met you, so where did you get the deep hatred? I guess you misunderstood. If there is really something wrong, I am willing to make compensation. The tent of the front camp is close to you, and there are still gold, silver and jewelry inside. If you don't dislike me, you can go with me to collect it."
After hearing this, the man laughed twice and said, "Yelu Ruan, do you think we are three-year-old children? When we go to the front camp with you, don't we fall into the trap? You dare to take out such a trick!"
Yelu Ruan sighed and said to himself: "Although I attacked Kaifeng City, I did not do anything to sorry to the people. My front camp army is disciplined and has never happened to burn, kill, plunder. I didn't expect that I would die in Kaifeng City today."
The man was a little impatient and shouted: "Shut up! What does the life and death of the people of Jin have to do with us! Even if you make the corpses of the Central Plains like Xiao Han, the commander of the Hougang, make us blindly see them. But our Xiang brothers died that day because of your sister Xiao Cuixin and were defeated in Yingzhou City recently. How can we not avenge this blood-seaven revenge! Yelu Ruan, your death date has come, and tonight next year will be your day of worship."
At this time, Yelu Ruan realized that these people were actually Dangxiang Warriors. Unexpectedly, a bloody battle in the Boqing Tower actually affected the Khitan prince. Yelu Ruan learned about the identities of the people and scolded: "Where is Tuoba Jiyu? Let him come out to see me!"
On that day, Yelu Ruan led the army of the former camp to set off from Yingzhou, and Tuoba Jiyu took the initiative to ask to stay in the city to respond. Although Yelu Ruan had some concerns, he still agreed to his request. Although Tuoba Jiyu reached an alliance with Yelu Ruan, he was just using each other. At this time, Yingzhou City had just won a great victory, and the Khitan soldiers guarding the city must have taken it lightly.
Tuoba Jiyu thought the time was ripe, so he made up his mind to part ways with Yelu Ruan and do a grand event alone. As soon as Yelu Ruan left, Tuoba Jiyu summoned all the Dangxiang warriors and asked everyone to take advantage of the generals guarding the city to kill all the Khitan soldiers, and then rushed north, bypassed the camp of Mozhou, and directly attacked Shangjing, which destroyed the Khitan.
There were only a few hundred Dangxiang warriors in Yingzhou City, but more than 3,000 troops stationed in the city. Tuoba Jiyu came up with a vicious plan and ordered people to secretly put down the red-headed snake venom in the water tank of Khitan soldiers. Unexpectedly, heavy rain fell on the afternoon of the day, destroying the houses in the water tank, and thousands of soldiers in the city survived. Tuoba Jiyu was completely unaware of this matter and still acted according to the original plan. Hundreds of Khitan warriors hit stones with eggs, and most of them were killed or injured. Only less than a hundred people escaped from Yingzhou City.
If the front camp army learns that there is a rebellion in their rear, their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. The generals guarding the city will consider the long-term, in order to minimize the impact of the rebellion as much as possible, no longer pursue the remaining Dangxiang warriors, and allow them to disperse from the outskirts of Yingzhou.
Tuoba Jiyu fled to the mountains in a panic, unable to understand why the red-headed snake venom failed. He thought that it was the samurai under his command that leaked the news and made the Khitan soldiers notice it, which led to the failure of his conspiracy. Tuoba Jiyu was furious and killed two warriors who had confronted him one after another. Seeing this, everyone did not dare to chew on the sound again.
Chapter completed!