Chapter 307

"Go ahead."

After giving the order, Lin Chong waved his hand nonchalantly.

Although this precious horse was precious and a fine gift to present to His Majesty, it was not in his eyes.

His eyes were only on Emperor Tianzuo; Emperor Tianzuo was the best gift to present to His Majesty!

This world is very large, enough to hold hundreds of millions of common people,

but this world is also very small; one Son of Heaven is enough.

Who else could be the true Son of Heaven but their Great Gan Emperor?

The mere Emperor Tianzuo of the Great Liao was nothing but a fake emperor and a fake dragon.

And this precious horse was just icing on the cake.

"Pass the order down: the one with the big beard is Emperor Tianzuo!"

After sending Hua Rong away, Lin Chong examined Emperor Tianzuo carefully again and issued the order.

This Emperor Tianzuo, not only did he ride a white horse, but to show his uniqueness,

he also had a chin full of smooth, thick beard.

"The one with the big beard is Emperor Tianzuo!"

"The one with the big beard is Emperor Tianzuo!"

Having gained the absolute upper hand, the Great Gan cavalry, feeling the joy of the hunt, began to clamor excitedly.

From ancient times to the present, how many people have been able to hunt down the emperor of a country like this?

They could be considered men standing at the pinnacle of countless military men.

"Big beard?

I will get rid of this big beard today!"

Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi, who heard the clamor of the Great Gan cavalry in front, hardened his heart, pulled out the small gold knife at his waist,

and with two or three cuts, removed the beard he had meticulously groomed in the past.

Even though the sharp, cold blade scratched the skin on his chin,

and drops of fresh blood kept seeping out, he did not care!

"Your Majesty!"

Xiao Wuna, the Prime Minister of the Great Liao, who followed him closely and never left his side, looked at Emperor Tianzuo with worry.

Although their Emperor had suffered some hardships when he was young and had narrowly escaped death several times before ascending the Liao throne,

he was, after all, an imperial descendant with the blood of the founding ancestor Yelu Abaoji;

how had he ever been so humiliated as he was this time?

What if he was stimulated too much and couldn't think straight?

"Haha!"

"The Southern Tang poet Du Mu wrote a good poem.

Success or failure is unpredictable for a military strategist; to bear shame and endure humiliation is the mark of a man.

The young men of Jiangdong are talented; it is unknown if they will make a comeback."

"I have suffered such humiliation today just to make a comeback in the future,

and return this humiliation ten or a hundred times to those Southerners!"

Yelu Yanxi laughed loudly, seemingly completely unconcerned about this failure.

"Your Majesty is wise and martial!"

Seeing him like this, the spirits of the demoralized personal guards were lifted a little.

Having cut off his beard, Emperor Tianzuo simply went all the way, threw away Xiao Fengxian's brocade robe,

and changed into armor identical to that of the surrounding personal guards, completely submerging himself among them.

"Giddyap, giddyap, giddyap!"

Emperor Tianzuo embarked on his journey of flight once again.

"He won't turn back until he hits the south wall!"

Lin Chong, who had seen every move of Emperor Tianzuo from the rear, sneered,

and led his knights to bite firmly onto Emperor Tianzuo's tail.

"Your Majesty, a great victory, a great victory!"

At the same time, in the Great Gan central army, in the tent where Zhang Jie was,

Wu Yong, who was counting the battle results, came to report with a face full of excitement, holding a stack of battle reports.

Zhang Jie remained calm and composed: "What is the specific battle situation?"

He had long anticipated the result of this time and was not at all surprised by the great victory.

If he couldn't win even with black technology that transcended the era by hundreds of years

against a group of ancient Liao cavalry who were still playing Mount & Blade,

then he would have to doubt whether the Great Gan soldiers, generals,

and civil officials under his command were all mud that couldn't be plastered onto a wall.

"Your Majesty, in this battle, our army beheaded more than 30,000 people,

and we have already captured more than 100,000 prisoners, and there should be more than 100,000 more prisoners later.

Other Liao dynasty generals, ministers, and concubines are countless!"

Wu Yong, whose face was flushed with excitement, reported the battle reports one by one.

As for why there were concubines here?

Well, Emperor Tianzuo was preparing to enter the Central Plains, to surpass his ancestors,

and become the new master of the vast and ancient Central Plains; how could he not bring his family?

Even if he couldn't enter the Central Plains in the end and could only plunder in places like Taiyuan,

that was a matter for other soldiers and generals to consider.

As the Emperor of the Great Liao, he only needed to keep playing music and dancing in the rear.

Without concubines and beauties, how could he keep playing music and dancing?

And when Emperor Tianzuo was fleeing, these delicate concubines who couldn't carry anything on their shoulders or

lift anything with their hands, and couldn't even ride fast horses, were naturally a burden.

Yelu Yanxi had the style of the Han Emperor Liu Bang, who, in order to escape,

could even kick his own biological children off the carriage,

and directly abandoned the ministers and concubines who were inconvenient to move,

leading thousands of personal guards, and fled rapidly with light equipment.

By the time the Great Gan soldiers attacked the central army, these ministers, concubines,

maids, and even eunuchs were all scooped up in one go.

Yes, although the Great Liao was a dynasty established by the Khitan people, who were a nomadic people,

it actually had inhumane creatures like eunuchs.

There was no eunuch system in the early Liao dynasty, but since the time of Liao Taizong Yelu Deguang,

they began to learn the Han culture of the Central Plains and gradually introduced eunuchs as palace attendants.

During the time of Liao Muzong, they even formally established the Neishi Province to manage eunuchs and set up castration institutions.

Thinking that the Ottoman court far away in the West also had eunuchs, one can only say that once a dynasty becomes large, it will converge and evolve.

However, one thing worth mentioning is that

the eunuchs were mostly Han people captured or taken prisoner from the Central Plains, not Khitan people themselves.

For example, the eunuchs Wang Ji'en and Zhao Anren recorded in the "History of Liao",

all came from Han groups and were responsible for palace services and political affairs.

Zhang Jie had also thought that if he really couldn't do without eunuchs,

then just like the Ottomans using black people, using foreigners seemed to be okay.

In his opinion, the islanders across the sea who weren't living very well were quite suitable.

"Why is it only more than 200,000 people in total?"

Zhang Jie's attention was not on those ministers, concubines, palace maids, and eunuchs;

he was concerned about how much of the Great Liao's war potential had been destroyed in this war.

War potential, in the final analysis, is people!

As long as the main force of the Great Liao could be completely destroyed in one battle, the northern grassland could be stable for at least ten years.

But if most of them were allowed to escape, the security war alone would be enough to give him a headache.