Immediately look at Qilian, and the strange peaks are high in the sky. Go west to Jiayu, and there is no green cloud in condensation.

Suzhou is located in the north of Qilian Mountain in the Hexi Corridor, adjacent to Jiayuguan in the west and Ganzhou in the east. The mountain peaks to the southeast are stacked, the green grass under the mountain is green, the lake is rippling, the water and grass are abundant, the terrain is flat, it is the natural agricultural and animal husbandry resort of the Hexi Corridor.

It is another day when the morning sun rises, and the spring morning light spreads all over the city and outside Suzhou, benefiting all things in the world. As the sun rises in the east, the sky is clear, and outside the city wall, all the sores and ugliness are clearly presented to the world, making the endless grassland and the rolling Qilian Mountains lose their vitality.

The walls were smoky and burning, and the city was in tatters. The corpses under the city wall are stacked on top of each other, broken arms and legs can be seen everywhere, swords, guns, feathers and arrows, rolling stones and wood, scattered cars and broken flags, and the scattered foot of the city wall is densely packed.

Looking out again, the heads of the horses are crowded, the camps are innumerable, extending far to the banks of the Shule River, countless horses are drinking horses by the river, countless Mongolian troops are drawing water in the river, cooking smoke curls, huge stone throwers and ballistas are bathed in the sun, and the silence of the early morning is broken by the shouts of horses neighing.

On the official roads, by the river, in the grass, and on the wasteland, there were corpses and blood everywhere, men, women, and children, soldiers and civilians. The wheat in the fields is being devoured by the horses and trampled by the horses, and this year's harvest is hopeless.

In the large camp of the Mongolian army, a group of Mongolian generals were looking at the head of Suzhou City, pointing and discussing countermeasures.

Atachi, the commander of the Mongolian West Road Army, is in his forties, short and concise, full of anger, with a pair of small eyes staring at the city of Suzhou.

The siege of the city for two or three days, intermittently, killed and wounded thousands of soldiers, the Xia army in Suzhou City, it seems that there is no intention of opening the city to surrender.

Since Genghis Khan unified the Mongolian steppe, the Mongol army under his command has conquered Western Xia five times, and strategically attacked Western Xia from the Hexi Corridor. This time, Genghis Khan used troops against the Western Xia, and the armies of the East and West Roads were sent together, and the Western Route Army still marched from the Hexi Corridor, first getting rid of the Hexi land on the flank of the Western Xia, and then besieging the confidants of the Western Xia Xingling.

The Mongol East Road army led by Genghis Khan broke through Heishui City and went straight to the camp of the Kyimen Xia army in Helan Mountain. The armies of the east and west struck together, vowing to destroy the Western Xia.

From far to near, first weak and then strong, first remove the wings, then attack the heart, divide and encircle, and annihilate each one. However, the military offensive of the Mongolian army on the Western Route in the Hexi Corridor did not seem to be going well.

Hexi Corridor, from northwest to southeast, Guazhou, Shazhou, Suzhou, Ganzhou, Liangzhou, except for Guazhou and Shazhou City, the other three big cities are not easy to attack, especially Ganzhou and Liangzhou, the city is strong and thick, and there are more than 10,000 garrisons, all of which are hard bones.

But what the Mongolian generals did not expect was that the attack on Suzhou was not easy.

"Cyri, why hasn't there been any movement in the city? Your brother lifted Lisha's side, it can't be a fraud, right? ”

Atachi's gaze swept to the Western Xia general, and now the Mongolian Qianhu Xili Division.

Suzhou Shou General Ju Lisha is the brother of the Mongolian Thousand Households Xili Division. The day before yesterday, he shot a letter to the Mongolian army outside the city, saying that he wanted to open the city gate and surrender, but the night passed, but nothing happened, causing the Mongolian army to toss all night.

"Marshal, the city gate is not opened, I am afraid that my brother's life will not be guaranteed."

Cyri's face was sad, and his eyes never left the city.

Atachi frowned, but held back his silence.

A month ago, the army of the Western Mongolian Road entered the Hexi Corridor from Yumen Pass, and when Atachi led his army to attack Shazhou, he first sent Kudu Timur and Xili Cha to recruit him. The Xia army defended the general by pretending to surrender and set up an ambush to attack, and the Mongolian army suffered many casualties, and Atachi was almost captured. If it weren't for the desperate rescue of the Cyri, Atachi would have already seen the king of Hades.

It is precisely because of this that the cold and resolute Atachi did not blame the Cyriban.

"Xili Zhanbu, don't worry, when Suzhou City surrenders, your brother will raise Lisha and be the Daru Huachi of Suzhou."

The godson of the Mongolian Khan Genghis Khan, said with a smile.

The Uighurs of Western China in the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs of Gaochang in the Song Dynasty were attached to the Western Liao before submitting to Genghis Khan, and their jurisdiction was in most of the Western Regions.

In 1209 A.D., Yidu Hubalshu saw that Western Liao was weakened, and killed the young eunuch of Liao and defected to Mongolia. In 1211, he met with the Mongol Khan Temujin, was given a marriage, changed the country of Gaochang Uighur to a Uighur, and enjoyed the treatment of the fifth son.

Because the Qocho Uighurs were the first of several ethnic groups in the country to submit to Temujin, they were treated favorably, and the Qocho Uighurs were always treated better than other countries.

However, due to the opposition of his wife, although Genghis Khan gave his daughter to him as his wife, the Mongolian princess stayed in the Mongolian steppe and failed to marry Balshu and marry into the Gaochang Kingdom.

Atachi nodded, and his gaze turned to Chahan, Genghis Khan's other son.

"Chahan, after taking Suzhou, whether Ganzhou can be persuaded to surrender depends on you."

Chahan is also a native of Western Xia, who went to the grassland in his early years, and was accepted as a righteous son by Genghis Khan because of his strength and bravery, and now he is also a thousand households in the army.

Ganzhou Shou General Qu is also cowardly is Chahan's father, although the father and son rarely meet, but there are often correspondence, and the relationship is not bad. When the Mongolian army flooded Zhongxingfu, Qu was also cowardly and ordered to go to the grassland to seek peace with Genghis Khan, and the relationship between the two sides was not shallow.

"Atachi, I'm afraid it's not that simple. The deputy general of Ganzhou City, Ah Sui, is ruthless and has some prestige in the army. If you want to persuade you to surrender, I'm afraid it will not be easy. ”

Chahan shook his head, and seemed to have little confidence in persuading Ganzhou to surrender.

"What to do to persuade surrender? A direct siege is! There are stone throwers and ballistas, whether it is Suzhou or Ganzhou, they have all collapsed for him! ”

"Not bad! and Liangzhou, as long as he dares to resist, like Guazhou and Shazhou, he will be killed! The Great Khan is still waiting to destroy the Zhongxing Mansion, and he can't delay any longer! ”

The fierce generals pressed Zhu Er and Zhenhai, and seemed to be dissatisfied with the persuasion.

Because there was Chahan, a Western Xia man in the army, the Mongol army always tried to persuade him to surrender, and the battle of Shazhou was a lesson. It's better to attack in a big way, and directly attack the city.

With the current siege ability of the Mongolian army, why be afraid of Suzhou?

"You know what? Do you think you can take these big cities in Hexi in a day or two? ”

Atachi glanced at a few proud generals with dissatisfaction.

These big cities in Hexi, plus the surrounding flints, if they are attacked, they may not be able to be leveled in two or three months.

Since this expedition, the Khan's body and bones seem to be much worse than before. If these cities in Hexi could be captured earlier, perhaps the Great Khan would be able to return to recuperate earlier.

"The Great Khan vowed to destroy the Tang Vulti Kingdom, and the land of the spirit was the hatred of the Great Khan. For these cities in Hexi, they can be persuaded to surrender as much as possible. If they don't know each other, it's not too late to break the city. ”

Another Khitan civil official, Bijachi, bonded to Chongshan and agreed with the idea of the commander Atachi.

Bijachi means the clerk in the army, in charge of clerical and other things. Glue Chongshan is the same as the other army in the Bijachi Yelu Chucai, both of whom are generals of the Jin Dynasty, and they are very favored in the Mongol army, where civilian officials are scarce.

Atachi nodded proudly, and instantly became complacent.

"As long as the Tang Wuti people in Hexi surrender, I will spare ......"

Before Atachi's words fell, the war drums suddenly sounded on the city wall of Suzhou, and a group of Xia soldiers followed them up to the city wall, and soon the battlements were all over the city. Xia Bing held a gun and a bow and stood solemnly.

Everyone looked at the city intently, only to see a team of Xia army generals on the city, Xi Li Zhan divided the crowd, and took a few steps forward to look at the city, but did not find the figure of the elder brother holding up the sand.

Cyri's tribe couldn't wait to get on his horse, and when he reached the moat, he shouted at the city.

"What about my eldest brother lifting the sand? Where is he? ”

"Ju Lisha, he'll come to see you right away!"

The generals of the Xia army at the head of the city sneered and waved their hands. A few Xia soldiers gave way to the city, and several other Xia soldiers came up and hung the corpses on the city wall.

"Lift the sand!"

When he looked at it carefully, he couldn't help but feel heartache.

Among the dozen or so corpses hanging on the city wall, his brother Ju Lisha's family was in sight.

"Listen to the Tatar army outside the city! Lisha was appointed as Xia Chen, conspired to chaos, sacrificed the city and betrayed the country, and now he has been killed. The Tatars have sinned against my Great Xia, killed my people, fornicated my women, plundered my goods, and are inferior to beasts. All my people of Great Xia swear to fight the Tatars to the end! ”

The generals of the Xia army at the head of the city shouted loudly and were impassioned. Cyri was ashamed and painful, and beat the horse back to the big formation.

Atachi looked at the city wall and snorted coldly.

"Give the order to go down and prepare for the siege."

So far, there is only a strong attack.

The generals were speechless for a while, their eyes swept to the east, smoke and dust flew, dozens of horses came to the dust, and soon arrived in front of the Mongolian army.

Atachi and the others were taken aback when they saw it clearly.

The rangers who came turned out to be scouts of the Mongolian Eastern Route army led by the Great Khan Genghis Khan.

"Atachi, the Great Khan has an order, if Suzhou does not surrender, immediately attack the city, and do not seal the sword for seven days after breaking the city!"

"Where is the Great Khan now?"

Atachi couldn't help but perk up.

"The Great Khan led the army to capture Heishui City, and then broke the Tang Wuti army in Helan Mountain, killed Ah Kill and dared to arrive in Suzhou in a few days!"

After the scout finished speaking, he beat his horse and left, and Atachi and the others were excited.

"Spread the order of the Great Khan, the first to enter the city will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold and ten slaves! After the city is broken, the knife will not be sealed for seven days! ”

Atachi did not hesitate and immediately passed down the military order.

The drums and horns in the Mongolian great array sounded in unison, countless stone throwers were pushed out, countless Mongolian troops carried ladders, and countless Mongolian troops held swords, guns, horns and bows, and gathered out of the large array.

Chahan's heart was beating and he sighed secretly. The two armies of Mongolia are about to meet, and with the strength and slaughter of 100,000 Mongolian troops, the weak city of Suzhou may not be able to escape.

In the next Ganzhou City, will the Xia army resist stubbornly, is it the same as Suzhou City, and it will inevitably be a catastrophe?

And Hexi and Western Xia, are they also immune to this catastrophe?