The Jurchen army attack began in the early hours of the next morning. The original plan of the Jurchens was to wait for the arrival of the next batch of black oil bombs, carry out multiple rounds of bombardment and burning of the four cities of Bianliang City, destroy all the defenses of Bianliang City Walls, and further blow the confidence of the other side to defend the city, and destroy the will of the other side of the army and people to defend the city. However, to achieve that level, I am afraid that it will be necessary to wait for at least half a month before the replenished ammunition can reach the battlefield. It takes even longer.

As the weather warms up, the snow will melt quickly after the New Year. At such times, it is impossible to say that when the glacier freezes, supplies will not be able to pass through the ice at Hakuba Ferry, and it will be extremely troublesome to build pontoon bridges or cross the river by boat.

In addition, the Liao army in Taiyuan Province has been out of contact for two days. Since the arrival of the Jurchen army in Gyeonggi, the Liao defenders have sent messages almost every day to urge the Jurchen army to speed up their movements, saying that they are almost unable to withstand the attack of the Northwest Army of the Great Zhou. But in the past two days, they have suddenly lost news, which makes Wanyan Aguda also worried. Wanyan Aguda believes that there is a great possibility that Taiyuan Mansion has been lost and the Liao army has been destroyed, so there is no news coming. If that is the case, it means that the Great Zhou Northwest Army will soon arrive in Bianliang for reinforcements. This view of Wanyan Aguda was also supported by many generals.

In view of the above situation, after discussing with the military advisor Li Guoqiu, Yan Agu decided to immediately launch a formal siege to avoid changes. In fact, the time was ripe for the siege, and the defensive system on the walls of the entire northern city was basically destroyed, and now only the bare and tall walls remained. Now that the attack is too less threatening and hindering than the siege at the beginning, and the other side has also suffered a major blow in terms of morale and confidence, it is time to fight with real weapons.

The soldiers and horses who stayed at the head of Fengqiu Gate saw the scene of the Jurchen army in full force in the cold wind of dawn. The black pressure of the Jurchen soldiers and horses did not make any horns or shouts of killing, they swooped their heads, shrunk their shoulders, and rushed silently towards the city. The sound of the horn warning at the head of the city quickly spread throughout the northern city, and a large number of Great Zhou soldiers and horses who were stationed outside Li Xu to prevent the other side from attacking with black oil bombs reacted quickly and immediately rushed to the city wall to fight.

Fortunately, the moat of Bianliang City is almost the deepest and widest moat among all the cities of the Great Zhou, and the Jurchens cannot fly across the moat with their wings to reach the city wall, so the reaction time of the Great Zhou defenders is still enough. By the time nearly 60,000 forbidden troops reached the top of the city, the Jurchen siege soldiers had already begun to build passages on the other side of the moat.

The defenders of the city rained down arrows, and the Jurchen archers who covered the passage under the city did not show weakness, shooting countless feathered arrows at the head of the city. After losing the cover of the battlements and the firepower of a large number of arrow towers and bed crossbows, the Great Zhou defenders were able to use it

The only way to resist the enemy is to use a bow and arrow. Less than sixty or seventy bed crossbows were re-transported to the city, but they were nothing compared to the ferocious firepower of as many as seven or eight hundred bed crossbows before.

The casualties on both sides were heavy, and there was no cover on the bare walls, and the only advantage was the condescending terrain. Overall, with the blocking of the moat, the Jurchen soldiers and horses still became a live target for the defenders of the city. A large number of people who had built passages by the river with wooden rafts were shot in large numbers. But the soldiers and horses at the head of the city also saw the clues, and those who carried mud and wood to fill the river were not Jurchens, some of them were young and strong men, some were old men with gray beards, and some were adult women. They were all ragged and embarrassed, and they seemed to be the people of the Great Zhou who were forced to the front line by the Jurchens.

In fact, these people are all refugees from the Great Zhou Dynasty who were ordered by Wanyan Aguda. A large number of refugees from the north gathered in the land of Gyeonggi, but they were not allowed to enter Bianliang City, and a large number of people gathered near Bianliang City before, and many of them also took refuge in the Jurchen army. Wanyan Aguda sent men to drive out the refugees and held them in a circle. He selected 30,000 men to be cannon fodder for the siege, and his main duty was to fill the passage in the moat. Of course, these people are reluctant to go to war, but they have no choice. They are now desperate, they have no way to live, and if they refuse to die for the Jurchens, they will be killed immediately, and their families, parents, wives and children will all be killed. The despicable Jurchens chose these people by choosing one or two people from a family, so that the lives of their parents, wives, and children could be used as a reason to force them.

Wanyan Agu swore to tell them that they would complete their mission as long as they carried a large army and built a passage through the moat. If they die on the battlefield, they will take good care of their families, and they will never let their families freeze and starve. If they can come back alive, then everyone will be very happy, and he will give them freedom, and give them money, food, clothing, and so that the whole family can leave on their own, and go wherever they want. Although such a promise seems very false, but for the last faint hope of life, for the sake of their parents, wives and children to live, these people have to choose to believe this and fight for this slim chance. If he dies, at least his death can keep his family alive, otherwise, in fact, the family has no way to live. If you are lucky enough to make it back alive, you can still be reunited with your family, and you can still get funding to escape here. For this last hope, many people are still willing to give it a go. Of course, they had no other choice, because in front of them, they slashed and killed more than a dozen Dazhou people who did not want to be cannon fodder, as well as their entire families, and even two-year-old children were cut in two. The ferocity of the Jurchens is not just lip service.

More than 30,000 people carried mud bags and logs on their backs, pushing carts full of stones and mud bags to the most dangerous front. They had no armor or any protection, and some were just flesh and blood to meet the rain of arrows at the head of the city. The defenders at the head of the city did not relent, but because their action of filling the river was the most critical node in the siege war, and it was the group of people who attracted the most hatred. So, most of the arrows are aimed at these people. 30,000 people were shot dead in less than half an hour. These people will never be able to be reunited with their families and parents. As the people of the Great Zhou, they used to be the luckiest group of people, but now they are the most miserable group of people.

At the cost of the death of cannon fodder, the operation to fill the levees in the moat is not slow. An hour after the siege had begun, the first passages had begun to be filled with sandbags, stones and wooden rafts. The moat of Bianliang City, which is seven zhang wide and eight zhang deep, is driven by the Jurchens, and the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty fill a dam with mud and stones and a cart of stones. Most of the remaining 20 or so passages have progressed. The breach of the moat is unstoppable. But by this time, less than 8,000 of the 30,000 cannon fodder had died.

But this is nothing to Wanyan Aguda. The second group of 20,000 people of the Great Zhou Dynasty were driven and reinforced. These people are even one of the parents, brothers, wives and children of the 30,000 cannon fodder before. How could Wanyan Agu keep his promise, even if these Great Zhou people were all dead, they would fill the moat with corpses.

As noon approached, the first phase of the siege finally came to an end after the Jurchens retreated like a tidal tide. Because the siege passages on the twenty-three moats have all been built. The purpose of the first phase of the offensive has been achieved. In the moat under the city walls, corpses obscured the water like duckweed. On the embankment, beside the riverbank, there were dead bodies everywhere, most of them cannon fodder for those who were forced to go to war. A total of 50,000 people were forced to go to war, and less than 12,000 returned alive. The rest all died on the battlefield. These people actually died very sadly, they didn't even belong to any of the sides of this battle, they were abandoned by the Great Zhou court, and at this moment they were forced by the Jurchens. Their deaths are unclear, without dignity and dignity, but this is the sorrow of ordinary people in troubled times. They just want to live, to live for themselves and their families, but obviously, this is the most extravagant idea.

More than 4,000 soldiers and horses defending the city of the Great Zhou Dynasty were killed and wounded, and more than 6,000 were killed and wounded by the Jurchen army. If it is calculated in terms of the number of dead and wounded, the Great Zhou Forbidden Army seems to have won. But in terms of strategic goals, the Jurchens were actually the victors. The moat has been breached, and the next round of attack will be a long-lasting, ferocious siege.

Bianliang City is finally facing its first real attack in a century.