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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.
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.
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.
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.
He said that his duty was to stand by his troops, and, if he could not defend them where they were, to endeavor to draw them away, while there was an opportunity, to a place of safety. So Wan-yen, finding his proposal rejected, went away in a rage.
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