The Jurchen army camped in the north city, but they separated some cavalry to station and patrol in the wilderness outside the city in the southeast and west. This actually blocked the entire capital and had the effect of a siege. This was to prevent reinforcements from coming to Bian.
Liang also prevented the soldiers and horses in Bianliang City from escaping secretly. Especially after learning that the Zhou Dynasty court still stayed in Bianliang City and did not escape, Wanyan Aguda was very happy. He broke the city and captured the emperor of Zhou Dynasty, killing two birds with one stone.
, kill two birds with one stone. It also saves you from having to hunt down Guo Xu and others after defeating Bianliang, which would be too troublesome.
Preparations for the siege had been made long ago. Time was running out and the Liao army in Taiyuan Prefecture was in a hurry. Wanyan Agu decided to launch an siege.
At the beginning of the first hour of February, when the sun had just risen above the horizon from the east, and when thousands of golden lights illuminated the wilderness with incomparable beauty, the Jurchens' siege of the capital officially began.
More than 600 catapults, which had been transported all the way here, were lined up in four lines on the snowy field below the city and took up a posture.
The horns whined, and there was a sense of solemnity in the world, and murderous aura filled the air.
The battle did not start immediately. More than a dozen horsemen from the Jurchen formation galloped over. The knights on the horses raised their arms to indicate that they had no intention of attacking. The defenders at the top of the city naturally knew what they meant. When the battle between the two countries reached the point where the swords met, the city
A battle of words between the city and the people is inevitable.
Sure enough, an arrow shot up high and was nailed to the wooden pillar of the city tower. It was a letter of persuasion to surrender.
"People in the city, listen, this letter is an autographed letter from Wanyan Aguda, the great leader of the Jurchen tribe. It is written to your Emperor Guo Xu of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Please give this letter to your emperor immediately, and we will give you half
Hours of time, please ask your emperor to come to the tower and give a personal answer. If not, our army will crush Bianliang City." The soldiers below shouted loudly.
The letter was quickly delivered to Lu Zhongtian, who was supervising the battle on a platform more than ten feet high built more than a hundred steps away from the city wall in the North City. He was unwilling to stay on the dangerous city wall, where any accident could happen.
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Lu Zhongtian opened the letter and read it carefully, with no expression on his face. He just folded the letter again and said in a deep voice: "Send it to the emperor for inspection."
Guo Xu was now fully armed and standing on the gate tower on the back wall of Yanfu Palace. Although Yanfu Palace and Fengqiu Gate were more than ten miles apart, separated by large blocks of the inner city and outer city, he was in Yanfu Palace
No Jurchen could be seen on the city walls, but he still showed his attitude by wearing armor and weapons. This was not only to show others, but also to embolden himself. He wanted to tell others that although he was a
The emperor and the soldiers guarding the city must be prepared to kill the enemy in a bloody battle and be prepared to fight tooth and nail to defeat the city.
At this moment, the Jurchen's letter was delivered to Guo Xu by the servant who rushed over. Guo Xu took out the letter and looked at it, and his face turned pale with anger. It was a letter of persuasion to surrender, and the words in the letter were extremely rude.
"Hello, Emperor Guo Xu of the Great Zhou Dynasty, I will call you this for the time being, because you will no longer be the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty soon. Our Jurchen army will conquer Bianliang City and kill all of you. You are dead. But,
My military advisor told me that you should keep a thin line in your life, and God will provide you with the virtue of good life. Remembering that you were once the master of a country, I cannot but give you a chance. Therefore, I wrote this letter to you.
As long as you lead your ministers out of the city and surrender within half an hour, I will spare your lives. But you, the emperor, have nothing to do, but I can make you king and let you still enjoy the glory and wealth. You see
What do you think? Don't waste my kindness. I'll only give you this one chance. If you don't wait, there won't be this shop after you pass this village. That's all, think about it."
Wanyan Agu was vulgar and illiterate, so naturally he couldn't write a letter with gorgeous words and beautiful words, but his meaning was expressed clearly, that is, he wanted Guo Xu to surrender immediately, and he could guarantee that Guo Xu would not die and give him the title of king.
Let him live this life peacefully. But the tone between the lines clearly reveals the pride that has always been contempt and the inevitable victory. Guo Xu is also a proud person, not to mention that he is the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and this letter is basically for him
A humiliation.
"Prepare your horses, I want to go up to the North Tower." Guo Xu shouted.
Soon after, Guo Xu flew over surrounded by guards and arrived at Fengqiu Gate. Someone reported the news that Emperor Lu Zhongtian was going to the tower. Lu Zhongtian waved his hand and did not give any order to stop him. He just sat on the high platform and watched as he was flying.
The figure of Guo Xu ascending the tower.
When Guo Xu came to the city tower, the generals saluted one after another, but Guo Xu walked directly to the crenel and shouted in a deep voice: "Shout and ask Wanyan Agu to come to the city. I will rebuke him face to face."
All the soldiers were speechless. How could Wanyan Aguda come to the city at this time? The emperor seemed a little stupid. But he had no choice but to obey the emperor's orders.
"People below the city, listen, I, the Emperor of Zhou Dynasty, Guo Xu, Wanyan Agu, came forward to speak." The soldiers shouted loudly.
A Jurchen cavalry flew back, and a moment later, a group of cavalry came out of the Jurchen formation slowly. A group of heavily armored iron pagodas holding large shields escorted Wanyan Agu to the city. But they were three hundred meters away.
He stopped outside. Wanyan Agu was not stupid. Yelu Zongyuan was shot dead by him with a three-bow crossbow at the gate of Liaoyang City. He would not repeat the same mistake. The authentic three-bow crossbow of the Great Zhou Dynasty can generally shoot three hundred
Bu Yuan, so he will never enter this distance.
However, the two parties can still communicate, just by transmitting sound through the iron horn.
"Guo Xu, why did you ask me to come? Have you seen my letter? If you think you need any more conditions, just ask for it. There is not much time left, less than half a stick of incense." Wanyan Agu
He held up the loudspeaker and laughed loudly at the top of the city.
Guo Xu raised his voice and angrily rebuked: "Wanyan Aguda, you are an ungrateful person. I, the Zhou Dynasty, gave you so much help from the Jurchens, and made a maritime alliance with you to jointly deal with the Liao people. I, the Zhou Dynasty, lost three hundred thousand for this.
Elite, you Jurchens have benefited from this, and you have been able to win on the flanks and take advantage of everything. Now you lead an army to invade my country, what is the reason? If you do not trust, you will be reviled by the world.
What?"
Wanyan Agu laughed loudly and said: "Guo Xu, why do you have the nerve to mention the sea alliance? You, Zhou, are the capricious villains. You have made a sea alliance with us, and you should work together to stick to the promise.
, but what did you do? In turn, you made a peace agreement with the Liao people and gave them so much silver and supplies for them to annihilate our Jurchen tribe. In the battle of Liaoyang Prefecture, if my Jurchen army had not fought bravely, plus
God bless me, the Jurchen clan, and teach me to shoot Yelu Zongyuan. If the Liao people themselves are in civil strife,
At this moment, grass has grown on my grave, Wanyan Aguda. It was you who went back on your promise, and it was you who provided the materials for the Liao people to attack us, but you bite back, which is really ridiculous. This is how you southerners claim to be a country of etiquette.
Faith? That’s a joke.”
Guo Xu's face was slightly red, and he shouted coldly: "Everything has a cause and effect. If my 300,000 elite soldiers were not defeated at the hands of the Liao people, which caused our great Zhou Dynasty to be threatened by the Liao people, how could we enter into a peace treaty with the Liao people? How could the Liao people have concluded a peace treaty with them?
It's your feud. Under the current situation, you should destroy the Liao Kingdom, and it would be a shame to show your blood. Why did you unite with the Liao people to attack me, the Zhou Dynasty? Who is going back on your word?"
Wanyan Agu's loud laughter could be heard from far away: "Hahaha, in this way, I, the Jurchen, and you, Da Zhou, are evenly matched. No one needs to blame the other. We are both renegades, so it's even.
As for the loss of 300,000 elites, that’s even more ridiculous. Who told you that the Zhou soldiers and horses are just a bunch of rabble? What the hell are 300,000 elites? 300,000 people can’t even attack Xijin Mansion, but they are defeated by it.
You're beaten to pieces. This kind of fighting power is worthy of being an elite? You, the Zhou Dynasty, have raised a bunch of useless soldiers. You can't blame us for attacking you. Who makes you incompetent in fighting? You are a mob, so you will be beaten. As the saying goes, tigers eat sheep.
, sheep eat grass. If the sheep blames the tiger for eating it, won't the tiger starve to death? This is the law of the jungle. You are a bunch of trash. We, the Jurchen tribe, will naturally beat you and eat your meat. Why do you sheep occupy the territory?
The best land? I, the Jurchen, can only survive in the bitter cold land in the north? This is not fair. So I want to attack you. Don’t sow discord between my Jurchen and the Liao people. We all want to eat your flesh.
, that’s all. If you were a wolf, wouldn’t you eat sheep?”
Guo Xu was speechless. The failure of the 300,000-strong army was not to be blamed on others. The ruin of a good situation could not be blamed on others, but the incompetence of Yang Jun and his troops. It was precisely because the low combat effectiveness of Zhou's soldiers and horses was seen through that they caused the enemy to suffer
The covetous heart. It is actually unreasonable to accuse the other party.
"In any case, I, the Great Zhou Dynasty, have never oppressed you, the Jurchens. You are attacking me, the Great Zhou Dynasty, because you are morally inconsistent, and your disciples have no name. What you are doing is coveting the wealth of my Great Zhou Dynasty, and it is an act of banditry." Guo Xu shouted.
road.
"Yes, we are robbers. I am going to rob your land, treasure, and women. What's wrong? Do you have any objections? Guo Xu, I advise you to surrender obediently. I will spare your life. If not, don't blame me after the city is destroyed.
You are cruel and ruthless. Kaicheng surrenders immediately!" Wanyan Agu shouted loudly.
"Don't even think about it! Wanyan Aguda, you are so ambitious that you will be punished. Below the city of Bianliang is the place where you will be buried. I and the millions of people in Bianliang swear to defend Bianliang to the death. You will withdraw your troops immediately if you know what is right, otherwise you will
They will all die here and become fertilizer to fertilize the soil of my great Zhou Dynasty." Guo Xu also shouted uncompromisingly.
Wanyan Aguda sneered several times and shouted: "In that case, what else can you say? It's a pity, you could have survived, but now you have lost this opportunity. It is useless to say more without speculation. Guo Xu
, just wait for me to come and take your head."
Wanyan Agu laughed loudly, turned around on his horse, and left without looking back under the escort of the Tiefutu cavalry.
The horns sounded and the war drums rumbled. Before Wanyan Aguda returned to the formation, the Jurchens' siege began.
