Chapter 735 Domino effect

The conversation was divided into two parts. Yelu Ningu summoned all the commanders in the city, told him about the surrender, and took out the letter written by Yelu Hongji. After some discussion, no one had any comments.

In fact, people are selfish. They may be able to sacrifice for the sake of the famous and noble families of the Liao Kingdom, but when Chen Yuan cleverly avoided the mountain of ethnic conflict, there were really not many people willing to bury Yelu Niegulu.

The next day, Yelu Ninggu opened the ruined city gate in Fengzhou, and brought more than 4,000 Liao soldiers under him to accept Xiao Suli's reorganization.

Yelu Ninggu, who was riding on the horse, felt a lot of emotion. To be honest, after fighting for decades, he never thought that he would surrender to others one day.

Xiao Suli was very polite to him and helped Yelu Ninggu up as he was about to dismount and bow down: "Don't do this for the veteran general. We have been respecting the veteran general for a long time. Today, the general can understand the righteousness and stand on our side for the survival of our Khitan people. We should salute the general in the face of the general."

No matter how he did things, at least he said it was high-sounding. Yelu Ninggu felt a little more comfortable. For the survival of the Khitan people, this was really a reason he could accept.

They obviously had already prepared the reorganization matter. The more than 4,000 regular cavalry of the Liao Kingdom were disrupted and incorporated into Xiao Suli's original troops. Most of the senior generals were idle. Even though Yelu Ninghu still had the title of Marshal of Rebellion, his power was greatly restricted.

This was expected. Yelu Ninghu knew that the other party could not feel at ease. For those senior commanders who were undermined, Yelu Ninghu tried his best to calm their emotions.

However, some grassroots commanders were promoted, and some even surpassed their former Shangguan and became Shangguan's Shangguan. And those soldiers were fully fed at the first time. Some second-line weapons from the Song Dynasty quickly equipped these Liao soldiers and food, and they were finally unable to worry about food.

What made these soldiers most happy was that each of them received a tael of silver in military pay. Really, the people of Liao used to rarely pay military pay. Since the last defeat of the Liao Kingdom, military pay has become a distant term. The only benefit of being a soldier is that they will not starve to death.

All of this made the surrendered soldiers very happy. The original unhappiness on their faces immediately dissipated, and they all showed a look of longing, planning their future life.

There are also those civilians, Xiao Suli set up two porridge sheds in the city so that they no longer have to dig wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger.

Yelu Ninggu looked at the long queue in front of the porridge shed, and looked at the smiles on the faces of ordinary soldiers and the expectant eyes of ordinary people when they looked at the steaming big pot. He couldn't say a word. He stood beside him and watched, doing nothing or saying nothing.

I don’t know when Xiao Suli walked to his side and asked softly: “Elder General, what are you thinking?”

Yelu Ninghu then came to his senses and sighed and said, "Maybe, you are right. Letting them live is more important than anything else."

Xiao Suli smiled at the corner of her mouth: "I always think so. General, don't be surprised. You and I are two kinds of people. You are pursuing loyalty and righteousness, but I just want to live."

Yelu Ninggu nodded: "What do you plan to do in the future?"

"From the future?" Xiao Suli really didn't think about this question, because he knew that Chen Shimei would arrange for him in the future, and it was not his turn to worry about it. So he couldn't find the right words to answer for a while.

Yelu Ninghu had obviously got the answer he wanted, and looked a little sad: "Is it over in Liao Kingdom like this?"

Xiao Suli looked at him and suddenly said, "Yes, the Liao Kingdom is over. The Song people promised us to leave a place for us Khitan in the north, but we will become his vassal states in the future. I think our result may be Dali and Goryeo are like this now, maybe it is Japan."

Yelu Ninghu heard that Xiao Suli was talking in his heart and immediately lowered his voice: "Mr. Xiao Suli, are you really willing?"

Xiao Suli shook his head: "I'm not willing to give up, but I can't do it. Now no one can save the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Niegulu can't do it. You haven't seen those Song troops. The cavalry that fought with you yesterday was only 50,000. In Zhongjing, they still had more than 100,000 cavalry, all of which were like that. Moreover, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty was still sending people to the old general. Yelu Niegulu really couldn't win. Letting him continue to fight would only cause more deaths for us Khitans."

Yelu Ninggu said, "Aren't you afraid of the descendants of Khitans in later generations scolding you?"

"Call me, just scold me. At least there are descendants who can scold me alive. Only they can scold me. Maybe I am wrong, but only they can change my mistakes."

Yelu Ninghu looked at him, and the eyes of the two met in the air. After a while, Yelu Ninghu patted Xiao Suli on the shoulder: "Okay, I understand."

There is no need to say anything. Really, he can now understand what Xiao Suli thinks. These backboneless people may have harmed the Liao Kingdom, but they can protect the Khitan.

"Where are those Song dynasty troops?"

"They are already preparing to attack the reinforcements sent by Yelu Negolu to rescue you. I heard that there are 50,000 reinforcements in this group. The general may wish to guess what they will do?"

Yelu Ninggu raised a wry smile on the corner of his mouth: "Do you still need to guess? Reinforcements are here to save me. Now that I have surrendered, the people of the Song Dynasty will naturally put them on the edge of the city to fight. In that case, maybe these 50,000 brothers will make choices like me."

He was right.

When the reinforcements from the Liao Kingdom rushed to Fengzhou, they were already tired. They thought they could go to Fengzhou City to have a good rest, but they didn't expect that the flag on the top of the city had changed. The men who were still comrades shouted loudly on the top of the city a few days ago, asking them to put down their weapons and surrender.

This had a great blow to the morale of reinforcements. While the general was hesitating whether to withdraw or attack the city, the Song Dynasty's troops cut off their retreat.

Then, there was the tricks that had dealt with Yelu Ningu. When the soldiers saw that even the veteran Yelu Ningu was standing on the other side, they saw that even the veteran Yelu Ningu was standing on the other side, and when they saw that the people who were also wearing Khitan clothes always appeared in their sight, their eyes were full of hostility towards them, their originally firm thoughts were shaken.

Why is this happening? Didn’t Shangguan say that he was here to save them? Why didn’t the people in the city welcome him? Why did those comrades fight with them now?
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