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Updated: May 13, 2025
Dreadful ravages. Base use made of the captives. Extent of Mongul conquests. The siege of Yen-king. Proposed terms of arrangement. Difference of opinion. Consultation on the subject. The conditions accepted. Terms of peace agreed upon. Consultations. The emperor's uneasiness. Abandonment of the capital. Revolt of the guards. The siege of the capital renewed. Wan-yen and Mon-yen. Their perplexity.
Soldiers at such a time, while engaged in the sack and plunder of a city, are always excited to a species of insane fury, and take a savage delight in thrusting their pikes into all that come in their way. Mon-yen excused himself, when he arrived at the quarters of the emperor, for having thus abandoned the women to their fate by the alleged impossibility of saving them.
What became of the unhappy women who were so cruelly deceived by Mon-yen in respect to their hopes of escape does not directly appear. They doubtless perished with the other inhabitants of the city in the general massacre.
Mon-yen at once left the city, and very soon after he had gone, Mingan, the Mongul general, arrived at the gates, and, meeting with no effectual resistance, he easily forced his way in, and a scene of universal terror and confusion ensued. The soldiers spread themselves over the city in search of plunder, and killed all who came in their way. They plundered the palace and then set it on fire.
At length one of them, Wan-yen, proposed to the other that they should kill themselves. This Mon-yen refused to do. Mon-yen was the commander on whom the troops chiefly relied, and he considered suicide a mode of deserting one's post scarcely less dishonorable than any other.
These women who were left, when they heard that Mon-yen was intending to abandon the city with a view of joining the emperor in the south, came to him in a body, and begged him to take them with him.
He could not have succeeded, he said, in effecting his own retreat and that of the troops who went with him if he had been encumbered in his movements by such a company of women. The emperor accepted this excuse, and seemed to be satisfied with it, though, not long afterward, Mon-yen was accused of conspiracy against the emperor and was put to death.
He immediately sent orders to his son to leave the city and come to him. The departure of the prince, in obedience to these orders, of course threw an additional gloom over the city, and excited still more the general discontent which the emperor's conduct had awakened. The prince, on his departure, left two generals in command of the garrison. Their names were Wan-yen and Mon-yen.
As soon as the officer had gone, he drank a cup of poison which he had previously ordered to be prepared for him, and in a few minutes was a lifeless corpse. In the mean time, the other general, Mon-yen, had been making preparations to leave the city.
Suicide proposed. Wan-yen in despair. His suicide. Mon-yen's plan. Petition of the wives. Sacking of the city by Mingan. Massacres. Fate of Mon-yen. Treasures. Conquests extended. Governors appointed.
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