Reborn in Liangshan: I built the strongest lineup

The capital of the Liao Kingdom was thrown into great chaos by the sudden news of the fall of Liaozhou.

An elder stepped forward and said, "Yelü Zhangnu, you bastard! It's all because of your recklessness that Tokyo has been lost. You, Yelü Zhangnu, are to blame!"

"Yelü Zhangnu! Didn't you want to depose Yelü Yanxi? Fine! I'll give you a chance! Now, immediately take your troops and go to reclaim Tokyo! If you reclaim Tokyo, you can also become one of the contenders for the throne!"

The elders of the Yelü family directly informed Yelü Zhangnu of their decision.

"Elder, everything Zhang Nu has done is for the Yelü family; he has no selfish motives whatsoever! If I have even the slightest thought of betraying the Yelü family, may I die with a thousand arrows piercing my heart!"

Yelü Zhangnu genuinely had no idea that someone would cause trouble in Tokyo, and he still didn't know who was behind it!

Many names had already passed through his mind. Wuyan Guang? No, the location is wrong. Wuyan Guang went west, not to Tokyo.

The Jurchens? No, that's not right either. There are hundreds of thousands of people fighting on Hubudagang right now, and the Jurchens are almost all engaged in battle. They wouldn't have any spare strength to launch a sneak attack.

Western Xia people? Koreans? That's even more impossible. The Western Xia people were too far away, and the Koreans wouldn't dare to do that.

Could it be that... the people of the Song Dynasty?

But the next moment, Yelü Zhangnu was amused by his own thought.

Song Dynasty people? What are those? They're spineless cowards, the least likely to be them!

"As long as you have no selfish motives, we won't interfere with anything else. Just take it back to Tokyo, and we can talk about anything else."

"If you can't get it back, then just end it all in front of the ancestral hall."

The clan elders said that all they wanted was Tokyo, and for the Liao Dynasty to be stable. If Yelü Zhangnu could do that, then they would do whatever he said.

"Alright, but I have a request, please grant it, elders."

Yelü Zhangnu made his own request.

"You said."

“A country cannot be without a ruler for a day. Since Yelü Yanxi is not in the capital now and I am going to Tokyo, I hope that the elders can summon Prince Wei, Yelü Chun, to the capital to govern. With him there, the capital will not be in chaos.”

Yelü Zhangnu said that he would agree to anything as long as his uncle could take power.

"Alright, we'll send Yelü Chun to the capital right away, but you have one day to prepare, and then you must go to Tokyo immediately!"

"Yes!"

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Thus, Yelü Zhangnu reached an agreement with the clan elders. Yelü Zhangnu personally led 50,000 troops to Liaozhou to prepare for the recapture of Tokyo.

Yelü Chun, summoned by the clan elders, set off from Nanjing under cover of darkness for the capital. (Nanjing in the Liao Dynasty is present-day Beijing.)

The news quickly reached Yelü Yanxi's ears, and Yelü Yanxi went completely mad!

"Yelü Zhangnu! You are not a human being! You are not a human being!"

"Return to the capital! Return to the capital! I want to return to the capital!"

Yelü Yanxi is preparing to return to the capital. If he doesn't return soon, the capital may change hands!

"Your Majesty, Uncle Chun also has the surname Yelü."

Yelü Dezhong indicated that not changing the surname meant changing the person.

"Brother! What do you mean?!"

Yelü Yanxi retorted, "How can this be the same? My uncle being emperor and me being emperor are not the same thing."

"I want to go back, I must go back! Besides, isn't there a problem in Tokyo too? That bastard Yelü Zhangnu went to Tokyo, so I can go back to the capital!"

"Your Majesty, if you leave, what will happen to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the front lines?!"

Yelü Dezhong could no longer hold back. He stood up from his chair and shouted at Yelü Yanxi!

Do you know how many people the Liao Kingdom mobilized for your personal expedition?

"Seven hundred thousand! When has my Liao Kingdom ever mobilized such a large force?! Do you know what this means?"

"This means that basically all able-bodied men of marriageable age in my Great Liao have been conscripted by you!"

"so what?"

Yelü Yanxi now only cares about his throne; he doesn't care about anything else.

"so what?!"

Upon hearing this, Yelü De was furious and kicked over his chair!

"Your Majesty! Do you still consider yourself the Emperor?"

"The stability of the Liao Dynasty over the years is due to three factors: first, the unity of the Yelü family; second, the diligent governance of the emperors; and third, the support of the people of Liao!"

"Seven hundred thousand soldiers at the front are waiting for you, the emperor, to personally lead the expedition and fight against the Liao people. And you're telling me you're going to abandon them and return to the capital? What are these seven hundred thousand people in your eyes? What are their lives?!"

In the end, Yelü Dezhong was really about to lose his temper.

"What do you know! If I don't go back, I won't be the emperor!"

"If I were no longer the emperor, why would I care about the lives of these people?!"

"Furthermore, if it weren't for your failure to discover Yelü Zhangnu's rebellion in time, would the 300,000-strong vanguard have suffered a defeat? Yelü Dezhong, don't portray yourself as so great! Do you think you understand the Liao Dynasty? Otherwise, you could have the throne!"

"I'm offering you the throne, do you want it? You've been a coward since childhood, what right do you have to criticize me?"

Feeling humiliated by Yelü Dezhong's retort, Yelü Yanxi, in a fit of anger, directly retorted by spitting at Yelü Dezhong.

Silence reigned within the large tent.

Yelü Dezhong felt all the blood rushing to his head!

What did Yelü Yanxi just say?

How dare he say that!

Yelü Yanxi had just lost his temper. After he finished cursing, he realized that he shouldn't have cursed Yelü Dezhong like that, since Yelü Dezhong was currently the most loyal to him.

But he is the emperor, and emperors are never wrong. Even if they are wrong, they can choose not to admit it!

So Yelü Yanxi didn't say anything, and continued to glare at Yelü Dezhong with his neck stiff.

“I have fought half my life and shed so much blood for the Liao Kingdom. I believe I have done right by the Liao Kingdom, but I never thought that one day I would encounter such a thing.”

Yelü Dezhong looked at Yelü Yanxi and felt his heart grow cold.

Perhaps, General Wuyan's decision back then was truly out of necessity?

Perhaps Yelü Zhangnu's approach was correct?

"Yelü Yanxi, you are able to become emperor because of the Yelü family's patriarchal system."

"If you can't handle it, then get out of that position!"

This was the first time Yelü Dezhong had addressed Yelü Yanxi by his name instead of as "Emperor" after Yelü Yanxi ascended the throne.

"Yelü Dezhong! You, you are insolent! You..."

Yelü Yanxi clearly did not expect Yelü Dezhong to speak to him like that, and he felt his mind suddenly go cold!

"Shut up! You don't want to fight, huh? Then don't!"

Yelü Dezhong interrupted Yelü Yanxi directly, saying, "Since he can't be helped, then don't bother trying!"

"Fine! You won't fight! I will! You don't care about the soldiers on the front lines, I will!"

"Yelü Yanxi, tuck your tail between your legs and get back here!"

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