Yelu Lianheng was silent when he heard the words. He had been in the army for many years and he didn't know the meaning of these words. The only way to survive after losing on the battlefield was to make two choices, surrender or betrayal.
There is a difference between the two. Surrender can be faked, but betrayal can never be reversed.
Seeing his silence, Zhao Tong said, "I don't need you to surrender. Just do something for me. After you finish it, I will let you go."
Yelu Lianheng's heart sank. This was going to be betrayed. He didn't know what the other party wanted to betray him.
Just listen to Zhao Tong continue to say: "After this matter is done, I will let you go. If you do a good job, I will also let go of the five hundred captured navy soldiers. If your mind is flexible enough, you will not be able to return the favor because of this matter." I can be promoted to an official position."
Yelulian trembled, and the terrible wound on his face began to tremble. If the other person said such words, what he was going to do must be something earth-shattering.
"I... don't believe it!" Yelu Lianheng said: "If I work for you, you will at most let me go. How could you let me go again with the five hundred sailors? Not to mention getting promoted!"
Zhao Tong looked at him and smiled: "Yelü Lianheng, there are many things in this world that no one believes in, just because they can't do it. People who can't do it will naturally not believe it, but I can do it, so you should believe it." I'm the."
Yelulian stayed for a few breaths and said, "What do you want me to do?"
Zhao Tong slowly said a few words, but before he finished speaking, Yelu Lianheng looked shocked and looked at Zhao Tong and said: "This can't be done, this can't be done!"
Zhao Tong's face turned cold and he glanced at Thunder Tiger beside him. Lei Tiger came back a moment later and threw a few heads in front of Yelulian.
Yelu looked around and saw that it was the Liao soldiers from Shuiying. Zhao Tong stood up and walked a few steps on the ground. He reached out and pointed at the head: "Look, they all died because of you, otherwise... ...I will let them go after the incident is completed, and maybe they will be promoted to an official position in the future, maybe they will marry a wife and have a lot of children."
Zhao Tong suddenly shook his head again: "Maybe I was wrong. They are married now and have a lot of children at home waiting for them to return."
Yelulian gritted his teeth and glared at Zhao Tao: "Even if I helped you do this and hide it now, who knows whether you will leak the news in the future. Death then will not be as happy as death now!"
Zhao Tong smiled slightly and looked at the wooden lattice window of the building. From here, he could see the sea outside, and a seagull was flying towards the ship with a fish in his mouth.
He said: "Yelü Lianheng, I'm afraid you have forgotten that we are pirates. How can pirates care about things on land? After doing this, we will never come here again. As for your name, I will forget it." I will forget that you and I have ever seen each other."
Yelulian licked his lips: "Where are you pirates from?"
This question has been in his mind for a long time, and it makes him puzzled. Even if it is harassment and robbery, he still wants to rob the rich Song Dynasty, right? What's going on in a place like Jinzhou?
Zhao Tong chuckled: "I didn't mean to deceive you when I said I would never see you again. We are from Nanhai. My surname is Pu. I come from the largest Nanhai family. As for why I came here, I can't tell you the details of the internal affairs of the family."
"South China Sea?" Ye Lianheng's eyes flashed with confusion as soon as he heard this place. He seemed to have heard the veterans in the water camp talk about that place. It was a very far away place. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was another world. .
"It's very far there, so I'm not lying to you when I say I'll never come back again." Zhao Tong said with a smile: "So, you don't have to worry about the future, not to mention taking 10,000 steps back, who would I believe what a group of pirates say!”
Yelu Lian was kneeling on the ground, and his heart was in chaos at this moment. Yes, who would believe what a group of pirates said, but what the other party said just now was really too big. It was as big as confiscating the family and annihilating the family, implicating the nine clans!
In his name, he used pirates to pretend to be sailors, deceived Laizhou's coastal defense, and then deceived Laizhou's city gate!
This is no different from rebellion!
As for how to protect yourself after doing this, of course everyone who has seen you must be killed and silenced. At least no one who comes to Shuiying in Zhouzhou can be spared!
But how to get promoted is actually simple. No one in the army knows how to take advantage of the situation. When the time comes, all the people who died in Laizhou will be blamed on the pirates, and half of the Shuiying soldiers who died under him will also be pushed over. , of course, died while supporting Laizhou in the battle with the pirates.
Later, after the pirates finished robbing Laizhou, did they think that their own Jinzhou water camp had beaten away the pirates?
Defeated the pirates and saved Laizhou, but the entire Laizhou Shuiying army was wiped out. Is my family...
Yelu Lianheng's expression changed. He always felt that something was not right, that something was wrong! Suddenly an idea came to his mind. Why did the pirates keep him after they robbed Laizhou? There is no reason for this! It's not just a matter of one sword. If it were him, there would be no reason not to chop him down, not to mention these are pirates who kill without blinking an eye.
Zhao Tong looked at his expression and suddenly smiled: "Yelü Lianheng, are you thinking that if the incident is over, it would be clean and easy to kill you with a knife, so why should I let you and your men go?"
Yelulian looked at Zhao Tao and felt that this pirate leader Wei was too insidious. He had insight into people's hearts and hit the point directly. He remembered the Pu family in the South China Sea!
"I just can't figure out why you let us go!" Yelu Lianheng said.
Zhao Tong said: "I believe in Buddhism."
Yelu Lianheng almost dropped his chin when he heard this. Do you believe in Buddhism? You, a pirate leader who kills people without blinking an eye, say you believe in Buddhism?
"God has the virtue of good life, and the earth has the depth of carrying things. Pirates are just one of the 360 professions. Apart from doing things, if I can't help but kill someone, I won't kill them. If the matter ends, how can I do it? Killing innocent people indiscriminately?" Zhao Tong looked at Yelu Lianheng.
Yelu Lianheng didn't believe the other party's nonsense at all, but the current form was that if he didn't agree, he would die immediately, and there were also those five hundred sailors who were captured. These pirates would never keep them to waste food.
If you agree, you can survive for the time being. As for the future, it depends on your fate. As long as the pirates don't kill anyone and silence them and return to the South China Sea, then the court can probably... fool them.
Yelulian glanced at the heads on the ground. He recognized two of them. One was the small battalion commander and the other was the helmsman of the ship. Both of them had families.
Yelulian closed his eyes and gritted his teeth and thought for a moment, then took a sharp breath: "I believe you!"
Zhao Tong looked at him and smiled slightly: "Actually, you don't believe it, but it doesn't matter. I will let you go after the big thing is over, and then you will completely believe it."
Yelu Lianheng opened his eyes: "What do you want me to do?"
Lei Hu stepped forward at this time, and Zhao Tong walked out of the cabin with his hands behind his back and stood on the deck.
In the distance, the water and sky are the same color, the sea is vast and boundless, and there is no end in sight. There are a few white clouds in the sky, blowing in the wind, and I don’t know where they are going...
It's getting dark and we come to Shuiying in Zhouzhou.
Not all sailors live on the ship. When there is no war, only half of the sailors are left on the ship to guard the ship. The rest go into the city to rest. They rotate every day and come to the state. They have not encountered war for many years.
The water camp in Laizhou was full of 500 people, but none of them had fought in naval battles or even seen each other. All the sailors who came from the Jurchen war in Liaodong defected to Jinzhou. There was no one in Laizhou because Jinzhou's military status was higher than that of Laizhou. Much more important.
A patrol boat was rippling on the water, and two soldiers were sitting on the deck, tired and lazy.
The two of them had nothing to talk about. What they wanted to say had been said long ago in the few years of their partnership. If they had wine at this moment, they could still chat a few words. Otherwise, there would be only a dead silence.
Suddenly, a soldier frowned, and he suddenly jumped up from the deck. Through the moonlight, he saw a dark patch of darkness in the distance, as if a large ship was approaching.
When the other person saw this, he also jumped up and looked at it for a few times with a puzzled look. At this moment, a torch was shot out in the distance, and he kept waving it according to a certain pattern. It turned out to be the unique fire language of the Liao Army's water camp. , the two of them felt relieved, it was the ship from Jinzhou Shuiying.
Yelu Lian stood on the bow of the boat. There was blood on his armor and wounds on his face. His expression was cold and sad, looking at the patrol boat coming from the state.
The look on his face was not fake, it was exactly his mood at the moment and the drama he wanted to play.
There were two people standing next to him, one was the deputy commander of Jinzhou Shuiying, and another was a soldier. Both of them also betrayed Daliao and, like him, came to commit this criminal act of rebellion.
Except for the three of them, there was no one from Jinzhou Shuiying on the dozen or so ships. They were all pirates wearing armor and pretending to be pirates. There were even many pirates hiding under the cabins, waiting for opportunities.
There are 200 people in a boat, which is more than 3,000 pirates. How many people are there in Laizhou's city defense? It's just three thousand, which is not counting the full number of soldiers who are on empty pay.
The soldiers shouted to the front: "Brothers coming to the state, we are the Jinzhou Water Camp."
The other person asked: "You just left during the day, why did you come back at night?"
The ordering soldier said: "Something big happened in Jinzhou. We escaped all the way. General Yelu is injured and is beside me. Please take me to the shore quickly."
The people over there were shocked when they heard the words. As the ship approached, they saw the flashing torches on the bow of the ship on the opposite side. The person standing in the middle was not Yelu Lianheng or who else.
Yelulian looked across at the patrolling soldiers on the other side and said, "Is Commander Xiao on the shore?"
Commander Xiao is the military commander who came to Shuiying in Laizhou, and is called Xiao Zan. He is familiar with Yelvlian Hengshuang.
The soldier on the opposite side hurriedly replied: "Commander Xiao has returned to the city tonight, and only the deputy commander is on the boat on the shore!"
Yelu sighed and said, "Take me there quickly. Something big has happened in Jinzhou. We need to report it to Laizhou quickly, otherwise Laizhou will be in danger!"
The soldiers on the opposite side were also panicked when they heard this, and hurriedly led the Jinzhou Shuiying ship to the shore. Several boats from the Jinzhou Shuiying camp were all parked here. At this moment, there were only some lanterns on the bows, and the rest was pitch black. …
After a while, the guards at the top of Laizhou City faintly saw a scattered team coming from a distance. Seeing that they were all soldiers from the water camp, they couldn't help shouting on the city: "The water camp in front of us, What happened, why are you going back to the city now?"
Immediately, a voice from the front shouted urgently: "Something serious has happened. I am Zhou Wen, the deputy commander of Shuiying. Next to me is Yelu Lianheng, the commander of Jinzhou Shuiying. I have something important to report to the governor. Why don't you hurry up and open the city gate."
The guards on the city were stunned for a moment, but then they heard Yelu Lianheng shouting loudly: "I am Yelu Lianheng. The Jurchens and pirates are attacking Jinzhou City. Jinzhou has been lost. If you don't open the city gate quickly, I will report it to the governor!"
The defenders on the city were half numb when they heard this. Laizhou would definitely be the next one to fall to Jinzhou. There was no other place along the coast that could provide support. Only these two places were horns for each other, taking care of each other.
However, the guard did not open the city gate immediately. He did not recognize Yelu Lianheng. At this moment, the city defense commander also arrived after hearing the news. He looked down and said in a panic: "Two generals, wait a moment, I will go and report first." .”
After the military leader finished speaking, he went down to the city, but did not dare to go to the governor's office first. After all, he was not qualified to report directly to the governor, so he hurriedly went to Laizhou Defense General. The general was shocked when he heard this, but he did not Recognizing Yelu Lianheng, he went to find Xiao Zan, the commander of Lai Shuiying. When the two went to the top of the city to take a look, Xiao Zan immediately turned pale and said to the defending general, "Yes, it is Yelu Lianheng, the commander of Jinzhou Shuiying."
The general who defended Laizhou looked extremely sad when he heard this: "Commander Xiao, let me ask you again, has Jinzhou really been lost?"
Xiao Zan shouted: "Commander Yelu, how is Jinzhou doing now?"
Yelulian stood at the foot of the city and said: "Jinzhou has been lost, and the Jurchen governor was killed. I had to take the sea route to escape. There may be pirates chasing after me. Brother Xiao, hurry up and open the city gate, and report important events to the governor."
Xiao Zan looked at the defensive general. The defensive general was confused at this moment and said, "Is it possible that the Jurchen soldiers are already killing him on the way? Let this person come in first and take him to the governor's office!"
A moment later, the gate of Laizhou City opened with a creak. Yelu Lianheng glanced at the deputy commander of Laizhou Water Camp next to him, quietly withdrew the knife at his waist, and said: "Commander Zhou, let's enter the city! "
Zhou Wen's face was ashen, knowing that there was no way out at this moment, so he could only follow Yelu Lianheng until it was dark.
The two men, with dozens of soldiers in tow, had just entered the city gate a few steps when Yelulian showed a violent and ferocious look on his face and shouted: "Kill!"
He drew his knife and hacked to death the Laizhou soldier guarding the rope of the Thousand Jin Gate. Then dozens of sailors dressed as pirates killed the other gate soldiers and quickly took control of the Laizhou City Gate.
The three people, Zhao Tama, Huang Gu and Ouyang Bei, who were mixed in the crowd, headed straight for the head of Laizhou City at the fastest speed.
On the city, the defensive general was about to go down to see Yelu Lianheng when he suddenly frowned and looked into the distance: "Why are there so many people over there?"
Xiao Zan also looked outside Laizhou City after hearing this: "These...it seems they are all from Jinzhou Shuiying?"
The defensive general said: "What a nonsense. Let them all wait outside the city. After losing the battle, they still want to go into the city to rest and dream!"
Xiao Zan looked at it a few more times, but his expression changed: "General, something doesn't seem right. Those following behind don't have armor or weapons, and... they're not good. Those seem to be pirates!"
At this time, some screams were heard from inside the city gate. The defensive general's eyes widened. He listened carefully and then looked outside the city. His face immediately turned pale. He shouted: "This, this is a fake city." , come here, release the Qianjin gate quickly!"
Not all cities have Qianjin Gate. Only military fortresses and some important cities have such things. Laizhou happens to be a military fortress.
Several soldiers in the city ran towards the noose building of Qianjin Gate in panic, only to see that the man who originally guarded the noose building had died inside at some point. Three people suddenly appeared in the shadow behind the noose building, and the swords and swords flickered, killing them instantly. On the spot.
At this moment, the pirates outside the city were getting closer and closer, and the dozens of people who entered the city gate also ran towards the city...
That night, the city of Laizhou in the Liao Kingdom fell and blood flowed like a river.
(End of chapter)
