Fu Song

Chapter 743 Welcome Home
Rubbing her face vigorously, some painful expressions flashed in Yeluzhen's eyes.

Sun Chun watched him silently from the side, without speaking.

It seemed that she was waiting for Yeluzhen to make a certain decision.

The morning sun already made people feel its warmth. Yeluzhen opened her collar, regardless of her own image, and opened her mouth like a fish thrown off the shore, breathing hard.

In Daliao, there were not many people who could count on Yeluzhen, and most of them only had one mouth left, and they didn't have much ability other than jijiwaiwai.

And the only ones who were capable were Yeluzhen who let them go out of the mountain after she had done her best to protect them.

People like Yelu Longxu and Yelu Bianji.

"What did the Queen Mother say?"

Sun Chundao: "After you encountered difficulties in Jianghuai, Yelu Longxu began to slack off in Xiangfan. When you drew troops to the city of Xuzhou, he was preparing to retreat. When the news of your failure came, he did not report to the Queen Mother. After asking for any instructions, he led his troops back immediately. As a flank, they originally wanted to storm Xiangfan, forcing the Song army to call in reinforcements there to relieve the pressure on Jianghuai, but he failed to do so. One point. Xiangfan even mobilized most of the naval forces and invested them in the Jianghuai River. The food and salaries from Lianghu and Yizhou Road were continuously invested in the Jianghuai River.”

Yeluzhen sighed: "He thinks that if I do this, I will definitely lose."

"But he didn't express his position like this at the imperial meeting!" Sun Chun snorted coldly: "If you have any questions, you can raise them in person. If you don't say it in person, then you should do your best when implementing it. As for Yelu Braider, it's time to The Zhending Mansion, on the pretext of resisting Zhang Cheng, refuses to go south again, and defending the Zhending Mansion, do we need [-] leather troops? The root is there, and the King of Zhennan should know, right?"

Yeluzhen nodded.

These people are out-and-out imperialists. When they felt that this time the Southern Expedition was likely to fail, they stopped trying their best and began to accumulate strength. As for what they want to do, blind man It is also well known.

"The Empress Dowager wants to know your attitude!" Sun Chundao: "Yelu Longxu, Yelu Bianji, do they really think that they can do whatever they want with the military power in their hands? Do you really think I'm not half prepared?"

"No!" Yeluzhen blurted out, the Sun Chun in front of him had another identity besides the public servant minister's status at the imperial court, he was the deacon of the Daliao School Affairs Office.In the past ten years, the School Affairs Office has long replaced the former Daliao intelligence agency, and Yeluzhen is well aware of the terror of the School Affairs Office.Sun Chun's preparations were probably intended to eliminate these guys physically.

There is no doubt that this is the simplest and most direct way.

"They want to kill you!"

"I know!" Yeluzhen nodded and said: "But with the defeat of Jianghuai, Daliao has fallen into a passive position in terms of strategy, and the past few years of fishing have also accumulated domestic conflicts to a critical value. The big defeat in the country is bound to explode. Internal and external difficulties are the problems we must face next. Yelu Longxu and Yelv Bianji are rare talents, and in the next contest with Song, these people can play even better great effect."

"you prepare?"

"I'm going back to Shangjing!" Yeluzhen said; "Let Yelu Longxu become the governor of Nanjing Road, sit in Xijin Mansion, and Yelu Bianji sit in Hebei Road. Sun Chun, I will go to Shangjing to stay behind. They should be able to accept this plan."

Strictly speaking, Yeluzhen is not the real Queen's party, but only the Queen Mother's political alliance. People like Yelu Longxu want to kill Yeluzhen, but because they feel that Yeluzhen will continue to fight in order to keep her position. He supported the dictatorship of the queen mother and refused to return power to the emperor.

But now the plan proposed by Yeluzhen enabled the imperial party to grasp the real real power, and made them feel that the future was promising, so they would no longer take risks, but would gradually pursue them.And Yeluzhen went to Beijing, the old nest of the imperial party, and it was tantamount to guarding this place for the queen mother.

To put it bluntly, Yeluzhen still made a buffer zone, just like before.

Only this time, Yeluzhen sacrificed her great interests.

After all, the governor of Nanjing Road and the left behind in Shangjing are equal in name, but in terms of actual power, there is a huge difference.

"The queen mother will not agree!" Sun Chun said decisively.

"This is the punishment for my failure in the Southern Expedition! I deserve it!" Yeluzhen said: "This is also the best choice to ease domestic conflicts. Only in this way can we help each other and overcome this difficulty first. There is going to be chaos! The Empress Dowager is well aware of the matter, so she asked you to come to me. And Sun Chun, the center of gravity of Daliao will be in the country."

After a long silence, Sun Chun said: "Since King Zhennan has made up his mind, I will deal with those who are planning to assassinate you quietly. I will report your plan to the Queen Mother."

"Don't kill those people, leave them to me. I want to have a good talk with Yelu Longxu and the others!"

"King Zhennan, your heart has softened!"

"It's not that we've become soft, but that we've lost too much this time." Yeluzhen said with a wry smile, "These people dare to assassinate me, but they are still good men, if they save their lives, they might be able to do great things in the future! "

"It's up to you, but one of them is surnamed Lin, do you think you really want to stay?"

"There are still descendants of the Lin family?"

"One of Lin Ping's concubine sons was hidden by Yelu Longxu back then!" Sun Chun laughed.

"This is really, really" Yeluzhen was tongue-tied and shook her head in disbelief.

"Yelu Longxu didn't train this person carefully. Instead, he treated him as a dead man since he was a child. It was a waste of Lin Ping's time to treat him as a confidant. The only fish in the Lin family who slipped through the net is now a simple-minded person. A pure martial artist, I don’t even bother to kill him!” Sun Chun said with a smile: “Since you want it, I’ll give it to you, my lord, then I’m leaving, you have to take care of yourself!”

"I also ask the queen mother to think about how to deal with the next crisis."

"The army can be stabilized, and the rest will be easy!" Sun Chundao: "The Daliao must be huge. Even if it starts to decline from now on, it will take time. Even if Song Qiang and Liao are weak in the future, as long as they are united, It is also possible to hold back! For this reason, the queen mother has already begun to compromise!"

Yeluzhen clasped her fists and said, "Thank you Queen Mother for me, I will do my best to bring more troops back!"

Kaifeng, Tokyo City.

This big city with a population of one million in the past is now in dilapidated condition. The prosperity of the past has long since become a thing of the past, and there is desolation everywhere. Even those people who remain are living cautiously and cautiously.

In the past few days, nearly [-] troops have once again poured into the city of Tokyo from various places.

More than a year ago, more than 20 troops set out from here and launched an attack to the south. Now, only half of them have returned.

King Zhao and King Song have already reported to King Yan Luo.

If it is said that more than a year ago, the Liao army still had discipline, but now, the Liao army that has withdrawn has no scruples, and the officers of the Liao army are not in the mood to control the soldiers who are wounded, killed, and looted.

Because they understand that soon, they will not be able to stay in this city. The front is defeated, and the Song army may attack at any time, and they will retreat with the order from the superior.

Sooner or later, this city will belong to someone else.

Therefore, there is nothing to cherish.

This time, the Southern Expedition did not catch anything, so we could only get another three melons and two dates in this city that has long since ceased to be wealthy, as a consolation.

This made the surviving people in Tokyo once again live in dire straits.

A man hunched over, leaning against the wall of the small alley as much as possible, advancing silently like a cat.

There were bursts of unscrupulous laughter and other screams and pleadings suddenly coming from the front.
The man was stunned, and suddenly stood up.

Not far in front of him, in an open courtyard gate, two Liao men with their chests exposed came out laughing. They were holding a rope in their hands. At the end of the rope was tied a clothes The disheveled woman was led out staggeringly like an animal, and behind the woman, a man limped along, begging constantly, and a child came from inside the house. cries.

Look at the two men, there are still some cloths on their bodies, and they are carrying a few chickens and ducks in their empty hands.

Obviously, they had just committed violence in this room, and now they want to kidnap the woman from this house.

"come here!"

Although they didn't want to cause trouble, the two Liao soldiers saw the hunched man and immediately roared loudly. Although they couldn't understand the Khitan language, the finger hooked by the opponent showed what they meant.

The man frowned.

The Liao man at the head had already put his hand on the handle of the knife. Obviously, they were not going to let him go.

"Master Jun, here we come, here we come. I just happened to pass by, so I didn't see anything." The man nodded and walked over.

When approaching the Liao man in front, the Liao man suddenly drew his knife with a grinning grin, and chopped it off with one blow.

The man who looked harmless to humans and animals, even a bit wretched, slipped his foot forward, and the whole person had already thrown himself into the arms of the Liao man. After just a touch, he circled around the body of the Liao man and slipped under the opponent's ribs. When he came out, the smile on the face of the Liao man who was holding the rope at the back hadn't disappeared, and he saw the bloody dagger in the man's hand. Then the short blade came in from under the ribs of the second person, Liao Ren. Liao Ren opened his mouth a few times, trying to shout, but fell to the ground without making a sound.

The cries of men and women in the room stopped abruptly.

They stared dumbfounded at the man who suddenly appeared.

"If I were you, quickly drag the corpses of these two beasts into the house and hide them, or let his companions find them, and you will be in trouble!" The man lifted a corpse and threw it into the house. In the yard, "Dig a hole and bury it!"

After leaving this sentence, the man walked towards the distance like a ghost, killing two people in a row, without even splashing a little blood on his body.

The man circled left and right, and finally, through a corner door, he entered the most special family's house in Tokyo.

This family is completely different from the dilapidated lintels of the former wealthy families in Tokyo.
Walking on the street, you can even see a group of soldiers standing guard outside, although there is only one old man living in this big house.

Most of the mansion has been refurbished, and it is exactly the same as in the past.

There is only one place in the whole mansion, and no one can enter it.

Because there was an old man with white hair and beard waving a broom to block the door.

The old man can fall with a light poke of a finger.

But back then, he blocked the Empress Daliao, who was the most powerful in the world, and later the Empress Dowager Chengtian.

Whether it was the former King Zhao Cui Ang or the later King Zhao Quzhen, even Yelu Longxu and Yelu Chengcai never set foot in the house.

Because this place is taboo.

The man was walking in the yard. The old man with white beard and hair moved a small horse and sat in the yard to enjoy the cool air. He didn't seem to notice the man's entry and exit, and the man just bowed slightly in the distance and walked towards him. Go to a row of bungalows on the other side.

Pushing the door open, there were already three or four men sitting there in the room. There was no light in the room, and the moonlight outside shone in through the windows, casting a layer of silver light on everyone.

"Commander Wu!" Several men stood up. "Welcome home!"

The man's name is Wu Ke, the leader of the Zhiqiu Academy of the Great Song Dynasty.

He is a native of Tokyo, but it has been nearly 20 years since he left here, and he only came back a few times intermittently.

"Sit down!" Wu Ke said with a smile: "These years, everyone has worked hard, but the hard days are coming to an end, and everyone knows the battle report ahead, right?"

"I know!" Everyone laughed happily: "The whole Tokyo city is spreading rumors. The Liao people who came back are called fierce hate, but the more ferocious they are, the more it shows that they are rabbit tails." , it won't be long!"

"Exactly!" Wu Ke said with a smile: "It is always the darkest before dawn, but after this period, the light will come."

"Commander, is there any key mission for you to come here specially this time?"

Wu Ke nodded: "I came back this time to kill someone!"

"Who?"

"Yeluzhen!"

"Yeluzhen?"

Several people in the room turned pale, Yeluzhen, the Zhennan King of the Liao Kingdom, the supreme commander of the Liao Kingdom's Southern Expedition, how could it be so easy to kill?
But Wu Ke came back in person, which showed the importance and determination of the upper management on this matter. No matter how difficult it is, this matter must be done.But in this way, I am afraid that many people will die, and the task may not be completed.

It is always a pity to die before the dawn.

"Everything is subject to the order of the commander." After a moment of silence, several people still nodded heavily.

(End of this chapter)