The Jurchen army camped in the northern city, but they divided some cavalry to patrol the three wildernesses outside the city. This is actually a blockade of the entire capital, which actually has the effect of besieging it. This move is not only to prevent soldiers and horses from reinforcing Bianliang, but also to prevent the soldiers and horses in Bianliang City from secretly escaping. Especially after learning that the Great Zhou court still stayed in Bianliang City and did not escape, Wanyan Aguda was very happy, and broke the city and captured the emperor of the Great Zhou, killing two birds with one stone. It is also too troublesome to have to hunt down Guo Xu and others after breaking Bianliang.

The preparations for the siege had already been made, the time was pressing, the Liao army in Taiyuan Prefecture was in a hurry, and Wanyan Agu decided to launch a siege operation.

At the beginning of the first hour of the second month, when the sun had just risen over the horizon in the east and the golden light of ten thousand rays illuminated the wilderness with incomparable beauty, the siege of the Jurchens against the capital officially began.

More than 600 catapults, which had been transported all the way to this place, lined up in four teams on the snowfield under the city, and pulled off the stand.

The horn whined, and there was a sense of slaughter in the heavens and the earth, and the murderous aura filled the air.

The battle did not begin immediately, more than a dozen horsemen in the Jurchen array galloped over, and immediately the knights raised their arms to signal that they had no intention of attacking, and the defenders at the head of the city naturally knew what they meant. When the battle between the two countries reached the point of meeting each other, a battle of words between the city and the city was inevitable.

Sure enough, a feathered arrow was thrown high and nailed to the wooden pillars of the tower, which was a letter of surrender.

"Listen to the people in the city, this letter is a letter written by Wanyan Aguda, the great leader of my Jurchen tribe, and it is addressed to your Great Zhou Emperor Guo Xu. Please give this letter to your emperor at once, and we will give you half an hour to ask your emperor to come to the castle tower and answer it personally. Otherwise, our army will set foot on Bianliang City. The soldier below shouted at a loud voice.

The letter was soon delivered to Lu Zhongtian, who supervised the battle on a high platform built more than 100 feet away from the city wall in the northern city. He didn't want to stay on the perilous walls, where anything could happen.

Lu Zhongtian opened the letter and read it carefully, there was no expression on his face, he only folded the letter again, and said in a deep voice: "Present it to the emperor." ”

Guo Xu is standing on the gatehouse of the back wall of Yanfu Palace in full gear at the moment. Although the distance between Yanfu Palace and Fengqiu Gate was more than ten miles, with a large block between the inner city and the outer city, and he could not see any Jurchen shadow on the walls of Yanfu Palace, he still showed his attitude by wearing armor and equipping weapons. This is not only to show others, but also to embolden yourself. He wants to tell others that although he is the emperor, he must be prepared to kill the enemy with blood together with the soldiers defending the city, and be prepared to break the city desperately.

At this moment, the letter of the Jurchens was delivered to Guo Xu's hands by the rushing attendants. Guo Xu took out the letter and looked at it, and suddenly turned pale with anger. It was a letter of persuasion, and it was extremely rude.

"Hello Emperor Guo Xu, I will call you that for the time being, because you will soon be no longer the Emperor of Great Zhou. My Jurchen army is about to set foot on Bianliang City, and I am going to kill all of you. You're dead. However, my military advisor told me that to be a man, you must leave a line, and God has the virtue of a good life. Remembering that you were also the head of a nation, you can't help but give you a chance. Therefore, Lao Tzu wrote this letter to you.

If you lead your ministers out of the city and surrender within half an hour, I will spare your lives. But you can't do anything as an emperor, but I can make you king and let you still enjoy the glory and wealth. What do you think? Don't waste my kindness, I'll only give you this one chance, don't wait for it, there will be no such shop in this village after that. That's all, think about it. ”

Wanyan Agu is vulgar and unliterate, so naturally he can't write the letter with gorgeous rhetoric, but his meaning is clearly expressed, that is, he wants Guo Xu to surrender immediately, he can guarantee that Guo Xu will not die, and give him the title of king so that he can live this life in peace. But the tone between the lines clearly reveals the pride that has always been contemptuous and inevitable. Guo Xu is also a proud person, not to mention that he is the emperor of the Great Zhou, and this letter is simply a humiliation to him.

"Prepare the horse, I want to go up to the North City Tower." Guo Xu shouted.

Soon after, Guo Xu galloped over surrounded by guards and arrived at the Fengqiu Gate. Someone reported the news that Emperor Lu Zhong was going to go up to the city tower, and Lu Zhongtian waved his hand and did not give the order to stop it, but only sat on the high platform and looked at the figure of Guo Xu who was rushing up the city tower.

Guo Xu came to the top of the city tower, and the generals saluted one after another, but Guo Xu came to the battlement and shouted in a deep voice: "Shout, tell that Wanyan Agu to come to the city, I want to reprimand him in person." ”

The soldiers were speechless, how could Wanyan Aguda come to the city at this time. The emperor is a little dumbfounded. But the emperor had to do what he ordered.

"Listen to the people under the city, my Great Zhou Emperor Guo Xu stepped forward to speak." The soldiers shouted.

A Jurchen cavalry rode back, and a moment later, a group of cavalry in the Jurchen array slowly came out of the ranks. A group of heavily armored Tiefutu armed with large shields escorted Wanyan Agu to the city. But they stopped three hundred paces away. Wanyan Agu is not stupid, Yelu Zongyuan was shot by himself with a three-bow bed crossbow under Liaoyang City, and he will not repeat the mistakes of the past. Great Zhou's authentic three-bow bed crossbow can generally shoot three hundred paces away, so he will definitely not enter this distance.

However, the two sides can still communicate, just through the iron horn sound.

"Guo Xu, what did you ask me to do? Have you seen my letter? Do you think you still need any conditions, although you mention it? There is not much time left, less than half a pillar of incense. Wanyan Agu laughed loudly at the city with a trumpet.

Guo Xu raised his voice and reprimanded angrily: "Wanyan Aguda, you ungrateful person. How much help did I give you the Jurchens in Da Zhou, and I made a maritime alliance with you to deal with the Liao people together. My Great Zhou lost 300,000 elites because of this, and your Jurchens benefited from this, and were able to succeed on the flanks and take advantage of it. Now you are leading the army to invade my Great Zhou, what is the reason? If you don't have faith, you won't stand, and if you do this, you will be scolded by the people of the world? ”

Wanyan Agu laughed and said, "Guo Xu, do you still have the face to mention the alliance on the sea?" You Da Zhou are capricious villains. You have made a maritime alliance with us, and you are supposed to work together to keep your promises, but how do you do it? On the contrary, you made peace with the Liao people, and gave them so many silver taels of materials for them to exterminate our Jurchen tribe. In the first battle of Liaoyang Mansion, if it weren't for the heroic battle of my Jurchen army, plus God blessed my Jurchen tribe and taught me to shoot Yelu Zongyuan, and the Liao people themselves were in civil strife,

At this moment, the grass has grown on the grave of my Wanyan Aguda. It was you who rebelled, and it was you who provided supplies to the Liao people to attack us, but you took a bite back, which is really ridiculous. Is this the faith of your southerners who claim to be the state of ceremonies? That's a joke. ”

Guo Xu's face was slightly red, and he shouted coldly: "There are causes and consequences, if it weren't for the defeat of my 300,000 elites at the hands of the Liao, which caused my Great Zhou to be threatened by the Liao, how could I make peace with the Liao?" The Liao people are your feud, and now under the circumstances, you should destroy the Liao country, and you should be ashamed of your blood. Why did you unite with the Liao people to attack my Great Zhou? Who is going back on their word? ”

Wanyan Aguda's laughter came from afar: "Hahaha, in this way, my Jurchen and you Da Zhou are half a catty and eight taels, and no one needs to blame anyone." We're all backsliding, so that's all the same. As for the loss of 300,000 elites, it is even more funny. Who called you that the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou are a group of rabble? What bullshit 300,000 elites? 300,000 people couldn't attack Xijin Mansion, but they were beaten and urinated. This kind of combat power is also worthy of the elite? You Da Zhou has raised a group of waste soldiers, and we can't be blamed for attacking you. Who made you unable to fight? If you are a rabble, you will be beaten. As the saying goes, tigers eat sheep, and sheep eat grass. The sheep monster and the tiger eat it, can't the tiger starve to death? This is the principle of the law of the jungle. You are a bunch of waste, and my Jurchen tribe naturally wants to beat you and eat your flesh. Why do you sheep occupy the best land? I, the Jurchens, can only survive in the bitter cold land of the north? It's not fair. Therefore I will attack you. Don't provoke the relationship between my Jurchens and the Liao people. We all want to eat your meat, that's all. If you were a wolf, wouldn't you eat sheep? ”

Guo Xu was speechless, the failure of the 300,000 army was no wonder to others. The burial of the good situation cannot be blamed on others, but only on the incompetence of Yang Jun and his subordinates. It was precisely because they were seen through the low combat effectiveness of the Great Zhou soldiers and horses that they attracted the covetousness of the other party. It is actually unreasonable to accuse the other party yourself.

"In any case, my Da Zhou has never bullied you Jurchens, and you attack my Da Zhou, which is morally inconsistent, and the teacher is nameless. If you do this, you are coveting my great wealth, and it is a banditry. Guo Xu shouted.

"Yes, we are robbers, Lao Tzu is going to rob you of your land treasures, what's wrong? Do you have an opinion? Guo Xu, I advise you to surrender obediently, I can spare you from death. If not, after the city is broken, you can blame me for being ruthless. Surrender immediately! Wanyan Agu shouted loudly.

"Don't think! Wanyan Aguda, you are ambitious, and you will be punished. Under Bianliang City, is the place where you are buried. I and I have sworn to defend Bianliang to the death, and if you are interested, withdraw your troops immediately, otherwise you will all die here and become fertilizer for the soil of my Great Zhou. Guo Xu also shouted loudly without compromise.

Wanyan Agu sneered a few times and shouted, "In that case, what else to say? It's a pity, you could have lived, but now you've lost that opportunity. Don't speculate on more than half a sentence, and it's useless to talk more. Guo Xu, wait for Lao Tzu to take your head. ”

Wanyan Agu laughed and turned around, and left without looking back under the escort of the Iron Floating Cavalry.

Trumpets sounded, and war drums rumbled. Before Wanyan Aguda returned to the formation, the siege of the Jurchens began.