On the night after the end of the Weixian Valley War, something earth-shaking happened in the Khitan barracks, and the Khitans who had always united actually had internal strife.

Yelu Hugu, who hopes that Xiao Qi will take the blame, uses his prestige and connections in the army to completely undermine Xiao Qi, while Xiao Qi, who is unwilling to sit and wait for death, accused Yelu Hugu of being the culprit of this failure.

He also poured out all the clues he found in the Song army's camp to the various unsafe departments when entering the valley, hoping to use this to defeat Yelu Hugu.

However, Xiao Qi did not expect that the so-called evidence he had carefully prepared became an excuse for Yelu Hugu to bite him back. If he knew about it, he would definitely be slapped on Xiao Qi's head, which made Xiao Qi, who was full of confidence, suddenly had no choice.

In the end, Xiao Qi, who could not defeat Yelu Tiger Bone, had to pull his confidant general, attacked the Khitan camp at night, and ran towards the Song army camp.

As it was a certain fact that taking the blame was a certain fact, in order to protect Yelu Tiger Bone, Xiao Qi chose to be an enemy of the entire Daliao. In Xiao Qi's heart, he was not only caused by Yelu Tiger Bone, but also the entire Daliao all had faults.

Sometimes, once people reach adversity, they will inevitably go to extremes. Now Xiao Qi feels that the entire Liao Dynasty is sorry for him.

As her aunt, Empress Dowager Xiao did not give her absolute help. If she had the support of her aunt, Yelu Hugu would not dare to underestimate herself like this.

His mentor Yelu Mo is even more sorry for him. Since he wants to stand alone, why should he send an arrogant and domineering veteran general like Yelu Hugu to assist him? Doesn’t his mentor know that it is easy to be undermined with his prestige and connections in the army?

As for the Emperor Liao Shengzong who still has not ruled, he has not escaped Xiao Qi's complaints. Xiao Qida looked down on him from the bottom of his heart for this emperor who was still protected by his mother. Xiao Qi believed that if Yelu Longxu could rule, an old fried dough stick like Yelu Tiger Bone would have been eliminated from the court long ago.

And he would not have reached this point today. In short, everything that happened has nothing to do with him. He is not wrong, but the world is wrong.

But Xiao Qi didn't think about what would happen if he raised all the doubts he saw? Even if Yelu Hugu didn't accept it, there would always be wise people in the army, let alone he is the commander of the army, so it shouldn't be too big a problem to force a delay in the march.

But he did not do this. He thought about using these suspicions as evidence to prove Yelu Tiger Bone, but he did not expect that he would be bitten backward in the end and completely lost the room for a turnaround.

Now that he was determined to take revenge, he led his personal guards to run westward to the Song army's camp.

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When the war in Weixian ended, the Song army did not rush to pursue the Liao army. In addition to the fact that it was not easy for infantry to pursue cavalry, cleaning the battlefield was also an important link.

After all, after killing the heavy cavalry of the Liao army, the heavy armor on those cavalry are all good things. Even if they don’t wear it, it’s good to take it back and re-melt it.

What's more, there is another most important reason, that is, through these heavy armors, can Yang Yanzhao find out who provided so many high-quality steel for the Liao Kingdom?

Yang Yanzhao looked carefully and found that these heavy armors were made of first-class steel. There was absolutely no such steel casting technology in Liao Kingdom. Except for the Song Dynasty, there was only Japan.

But the problem is that Japan, which has such casting technology, will definitely not be able to produce so much steel. Their own domestic steel has to be imported from the Song Dynasty. How could it be that it could be sold to the Khitans if it was freshly cast and heavy armor.

Therefore, Yang Yanzhao felt that the merchants in the Song Dynasty might be suspected of colluding with the enemy. Just as Yang Yanzhao was discussing the matter in the entire staff group, including Zhao Linger, a scout broke into the tent and reported that a Khitan team was quickly approaching the camp.

After careful questioning, there were less than a hundred people in this team, which made Yang Yanzhao feel a little confused. But even so, he still did not take it lightly and immediately issued an order to be alert.

Just as the Song army was on full alert, the men led by Xiao Qi stopped a mile away from the Song army's camp. Xiao Qi also knew that such a rash approach would inevitably be directly killed by the Khitans who were attacking by the Song army.

So he sent an eloquent confidant to step down and approach the Song camp alone, hoping to gain Yang Yanzhao's trust.

As Xiao Qi thought, when the confidant was still more than a few hundred steps away from the Song camp, the Song soldiers were aimed at their heads with guns.

"The Khitans in front, stop your steps and explain your purpose, otherwise I will shoot."

Just after Song Bing finished saying this, his confidant decisively raised his hands and shouted, "Don't attack me, I don't have any weapons in my hands." He also showed his empty hands and waist.

Although he saw that his confidant was indeed not equipped with any weapons, the Song army soldiers still did not dare to take it lightly and continued to raise their guns to point them at their confidant.

Seeing such a situation, the confidant had to speak again: "Not far behind me is the Liao army commander Xiao Qi. We are here to join the Song army. Our general hopes to meet you, General Yang."

After saying this, the Song soldiers could no longer react. They were surprised that they finally decided to split one person back to the camp to return, and the rest continued to look at the Khitan.

"What? The Liao army commander came over to join us? Did you hear that right?" Yang Yanzhao was shocked when the soldiers gave Yang Yanzhao the situation outside the tent.

During his more than ten years of military career, he had fought against the Khitans dozens of times. No matter how big the Song army won, he had never seen the Khitan commander surrender once.

This made Yang Yanzhao wonder if this was a plan by the Khitans, and he was preparing to commit fraud and surrender.

However, just when Yang Yanzhao was still hesitating, Zhao Linger stood up and asked the return soldier: "How old is the Khitan commander who claims to be coming to surrender?"

"I don't know much about this. It's just a soldier who came to claim to surrender."

"So, call the soldier in first."

After receiving Zhao Ling'er's order, the soldier turned around and walked out, preparing to lead the trust in. However, at the same time, Yang Yanzhao was a little puzzled.

"Ling'er, would it be inappropriate to call that person in rashly?"

"Uncle, I don't think anything is wrong. After all, he only has one person, so he can't make any big waves. Let's call him in and interrogate first. If the Khitan coach really comes to surrender, then it will be a time when the Song Dynasty established the country. Don't you want to establish such a great contribution?"

In fact, Yang Yanzhao did not value such great achievements too much, but as Zhao Ling'er said, just asking only one person to come in, even if they had any conspiracy in front of everyone, it would probably be difficult to perform.

After a while, the confidant was crushed into the tent by the soldiers. However, he was not tied up, but Yang Yanzhao also saw that the man did not have any weapons, at least on the surface.

After the man came in, he did not kneel down to Yang Yanzhao for a big bow. He just hugged his fists and began to introduce himself: "Where is Xiao Wen, the Liao commander Xiao Qi, the personal soldiers of the Liao army commander. Since our general was defeated by his general Yelu Hugu, he had no choice but to come to join the commander, just to ask the commander to give him a chance to make contributions."

Xiao Wen's words were neither humble nor arrogant, and his previous attitude of coming in caused many generals of the Song army to be very dissatisfied.

However, Yang Yanzhao did not care much about his attitude. Instead, he felt that this person's words were a little vague. How could he, Xiao Qi, a marshal of the Liao army, be subject to a marshal of his subordinates?

"You said that General Xiao was defeated by his subordinates, how could he, the commander of the Liao army, be defeated by his subordinates?"

After hearing Yang Yanzhao's question, Xiao Wen answered without thinking: "Because Yelu Hugu is an old general, he has a lot of connections and prestige in the army. However, he was only named deputy general in this battle, so he was very jealous of our General Xiao. In addition, his previous defeat in the valley was commanded by Yelu Hugu. He hoped to pass the blame on us General Xiao, so he joined forces with other direct descendants to launch a mutiny."

Xiao Wen's words sounded like that at first glance. It is actually normal for a young coach to match a veteran to have such a thing. In addition, it was necessary to lift the responsibility before the previous defeat, so it seems that such a thing happened.

Many generals of the Song army basically believed Xiao Wen's words, and even Yang Yanzhao believed them 80%. However, Zhao Ling'er was a little skeptical about Xiao Wen's words.

"Uncle, can you come out with me alone?"

When Yang Yanzhao heard that Zhao Ling'er actually asked to speak alone, he naturally thought that Xiao Wen had something to doubt. So he agreed to her request and the two of them left a big tent alone.

"Ling'er, is there something wrong with Xiao Wen's words?"

Zhao Ling'er bit her finger and said, "If you want to say something inappropriately, the battle before Xiao Wen was commanded by Yelu Tiger Bone. But as the commander of the Liao army, why is Xiao Qi so important in such an important battle? "

"Then what do you mean is Xiao Wen lied to us?"

"I think that's not the case, but the situation in the Liao army may be more complicated than what Xiao Wen said. But Xiao Qi's surrender should be true, but even if he surrenders, this person still has to be careful."

Since Xiao Qi's surrender should be true, he should really invite the young commander of the Liao army to come in and talk. So after Yang Yanzhao returned to the tent, he sent a team of troops to welcome Xiao Qi with Xiao Wen.
Chapter completed!