In May of the first year of Kangzheng, under Huangzhou City in the Sixteenth Continent of Yanyun, Guo Zhaotu received military reports from the remaining four Continents of Yanyun.
Wanyan Zongbi attacked the Yanyun Five Continents with an army of 100,000. Except for Guo Zhaotu's Huangzhou which did not fall, the remaining four continents all chose to surrender in Kaicheng when Wanyan Zongbi approached the city.
The Jing army in the other four continents did not even resist. Nearly one million people in the four continents eventually became slaves of the Jin people.
In Huangzhou City, Guo Zhaotu threw away the battle report in his hand, his eyes filled with anger.
"The Jingjun is incompetent, incompetent people. Why did I, Guo Zhaotu, choose to surrender to the Jingchao in the first place? Such a fatuous and incompetent country and a fatuous and incompetent monarch are rotten to the roots. Hmm...Jingjun! Surrender without even resisting. ...You really misunderstood me...you misunderstood me!"
Guo Zhaotu looked up to the sky and said with grief and anger.
"General, in that case, why don't we surrender the Jin people? Now we are alone in the city. No matter what, it is impossible to fight against the Jin people. Could it be that we lost our lives in vain for that incompetent king!"
At this time, one of the several generals on the side spoke up.
"Shut up, the general and his family are all hostages in Tokyo. If the general pays the money, the general's family will suffer! Don't mention this!" Another general heard this and immediately shouted angrily.
Following this person's voice, Guo Zhaotu's face turned ugly and sad. His eyes were full of unwillingness, and he regretted why he chose to surrender to Jingchao. If I had known this, I should have voted for the Golden Man.
To blame, I can only blame myself for coveting the status of that king with a different surname. But in the end, it brought him to a desperate situation. If you retreat, your family will die; if you advance, you will die! He will also be buried with tens of thousands of brothers who will follow him!
"Guo Kun, leave the city...send the surrender watch..." With his eyes flashing, Guo Zhaotu seemed to have made a great decision and said sadly and angrily.
"What...General, don't...like this, your family..." At this time, all the generals hurriedly advised together.
"But if I insist on resisting, you will be the ones who die. No matter how ruthless I, Guo Zhaotu, am, I don't want to put all my brothers to death. Moreover, is it worth it for that stupid and incompetent dynasty! Surrender, just think that I, Guo Zhaotu, have failed my family! Wait. If I die, I will go and apologize to them in person!"
"Get out of the city...send the surrender watch!" His expression instantly became firm, he stood up and walked out. The generals behind him heard the words. With a complicated expression, he also followed out.
Outside the city, Wanyan Zongbi, who received the message from Fei Jian, arrived in front of the Jin army's formation and watched coldly as the Huangzhou city gate opened. Guo Zhaotu led two lieutenants and ten personal guards. Arriving at the Jinjun camp.
Looking at Wanyan Zongbi on the horse, Guo Zhaotu had a wry smile on his face. He got off the horse, came to Wanyan Zongbi, and knelt down respectfully.
"Guo Zhaotu has led all the soldiers and civilians in Huangzhou City to surrender... Please accept it, Commander-in-Chief!"
Wanyan Zongbi looked at Guo Zhaotu coldly, and a faint smile slowly appeared on his cold face.
"General Guo, you made the right choice... I made it right..."
When Guo Zhaotu heard this, he closed his eyes instantly, tears fell from his eyes, and his heart was filled with sadness. His surrender also foreshadowed that his family would eventually die.
Since then, in the middle of May of the first year of Kangzheng, Guo Zhaotu, the newly ennobled king with a different surname, surrendered to the Jin people, and all the Yanyun Continents that the Jing Dynasty had just acquired were lost. Lost together were the Chinese people who had just returned to the Jing Dynasty from Khitan.
By the end of May, the military news reached Tokyo, and the new emperor Song Ming, who was sitting on the dragon throne, slumped on the dragon throne. His eyes were dull. His eyes were full of anger and unwillingness.
"Come here... pass on my imperial edict to kill everyone in Guo Zhaotu's family and kill the nine tribes!" He roared, roaring incompetently.
He had always wanted to be the emperor, but when he became the emperor, he discovered that the emperor was not as good as he had imagined. At least, now he is in a state of despair.
Facing the loss of his country one after another, and facing the courtiers in the court who usually claimed to be patriotic but had no independent opinions at the critical moment, he himself was confused and didn't even know how to restore the current decline.
In particular, the officials headed by Li Zheng had no idea at all. They even repeatedly thought of ceding land or paying tribute to seek peace to prevent the Jin from invading.
It's a pity that if the Jin people were so easy to deal with, they wouldn't invade Jingchao. What they want is not just the money accounts, but the entire Jingchao.
The imperial guards immediately left Guo Zhaotu's wife, children, and parents in the capital. As well as more than 200 relatives, they were all captured. He was killed outside the Meridian Gate that day.
After hearing the news, the people of Tokyo rushed outside the Meridian Gate angrily and threw vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at the bloody corpse. There were endless insults.
The beheading of more than 200 people took nearly half an hour. The ten executioners were almost cut off with their swords.
Guo Zhaotu, who was in Huangzhou, heard the news. Although he was well prepared, he was so angry that he almost overturned his general's mansion. In grief, he vomited blood and fell into a coma.
The first time he woke up, he applied to Wanyan Zongbi to attack Tokyo. After Wanyan Zongbi learned about this, he retained 50,000 of his Guo family's troops and asked Guo Zhaotu to lead the troops to join the attack on Tokyo.
Wanyan Zongbi himself led an army of 40,000 to defeat Wanyan Zonghan's army of 100,000. After all, I heard that there were 300,000 Qinwang troops in various parts of the Jing Dynasty, and 250,000 Imperial Guards and patrol troops in Tokyo.
With an army of 550,000, even if the Jin people have a legend that they are invincible, in terms of siege warfare, if an army of 100,000 fights against 550,000, it will be very difficult to capture Tokyo.
When Wanyan Zongbi led the army to rush for reinforcements, Wanyan Zonghan had already wiped out the cities on the road. One hundred thousand troops and one hundred and fifty thousand slaves and civilians arrived at the gates of Tokyo.
Looking at the 20-meter-high Tokyo city in front of him, Wanyan Zonghan's resolute face was calm. The generals beside him frowned.
Along the way, except for a few cities that resisted, almost all the remaining cities surrendered. But now, they were facing the capital of Jing Dynasty.
There are nearly three million people in the city, as well as the royal family of the Jing Dynasty. If this strong city is broken, the entire Jing Dynasty will also be destroyed. By then, the rest will erode the land of the Jing Dynasty bit by bit.
"Commander, when will we attack the city..." General Yin Shuke next to Wanyan Zonghan looked at Zongbi and said.
"Commander, if we attack the city, Wei will be willing to be the vanguard!" At this time, Wanyan Bahan on the side also spoke up.
He is one of Wanyan Zonghan's top ten generals, as famous as Yin Shu, and his combat prowess is enough to rank among the top three among the top ten generals.
The remaining generals also asked for battle, although their army only numbered 100,000, and the Tokyo city in front of them was much higher than the walls they encountered along the way.
But the Jin army, who were used to fighting sieges, didn't take it to heart at all. They even felt that as long as they attacked with all their strength, they would be able to break the city in almost a day.
When Wanyan Zonghan heard this, there was a hint of joking at the corner of his mouth, he shook his head and said: "Don't worry, let the civilians set up the trebuchet first, and the ladder is also ready. In addition, is there any news from the scouts about King Qin's army around him! "
Wanyan Zonghan was not in a hurry, and although he was brave, he did not rely solely on his bravery. If you only rely on blood and courage to fight a war, you will only die miserably in the end.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Jing Dynasty's army is very weak, there are 300,000 reinforcements after all. They only focus on attacking the city. If they are surrounded by those reinforcements, the final result is likely to be their entire army destroyed here.
"Back to the general, Lord Ceres has blocked the place where the reinforcements must pass. The scouts reported that half of the reinforcements have not arrived yet, and the other half are wandering within two hundred miles of the surrounding area. Lord Ceres is keeping a close eye on them. With these reinforcements."
At this time, a general said quickly.
Hearing this, Zong Han's mouth showed a hint of amusement. He glanced at the figures on the wall of Tokyo, his expression moved and said: "Bahan, you lead ten thousand people and attack the city head-on. Silver skills are good, Kuishan... You each take five thousand and destroy the 150,000 people wandering around!"
At the end of his speech, his voice was filled with a strong murderous aura. The voice was also a bit colder.
Upon hearing this, the generals immediately took orders. Bahan rode up on horseback, ordered 10,000 soldiers and horses, and asked the soldiers to carry ladders to launch an attack on the city of Tokyo in front.
The 10,000-strong army was divided into three waves. The first wave had 2,000 men, including 2,000 civilians holding shields. The second wave was four thousand, and the third wave was also four thousand.
At the same time, when Bahan's siege army stepped into the arrow range of Jing's army, the trebuchet with adjusted angle also instantly threw stones and fireballs onto the walls of Tokyo City.
The siege officially began. On the walls of Tokyo, the guards' faces were full of solemnity. Yang Wu and other generals stared at each other at the Jin army attacking the city below. Yang Wu even drew his knife and roared!
"Kill..." Following his voice, a group of imperial guards rushed over. In the blink of an eye, they were fighting with the first batch of Jin troops who climbed onto the city wall.
The combat effectiveness of the Imperial Guard is considered to be the most powerful army in the entire Jing Dynasty. The imperial guards on the city wall fought fiercely. Although, the enemy attacked the city wall several times. But let them fight.
However, the Imperial Guards suffered heavy casualties. The Jin Army's combat effectiveness is extremely strong, not only because they are an army that has been baptized in blood and fire, but also because the overall combat effectiveness of the Jin Army is higher than that of the Imperial Guard.
First of all, in terms of physique, the Jin people are a bit taller than the Jing people. Secondly, in terms of momentum, the Jin people are not afraid of death. That ferocious expression was enough to make the imperial guards of Jing Army feel timid.
Once timidity appears on the battlefield, it will be fatal. The Imperial Guards barely managed to hold on to the city wall with a battle loss ratio of almost ten to one.
The first wave of Jin attacks caused the Imperial Guards to retreat. At this time, the city wall was in a mess, with corpses and fire everywhere. Many places on the top of the city wall were smashed. There were also many people with twisted corpses who had been killed by trebuchet stones.
Screams and palpitating eyes could be seen everywhere, and most people's eyes were even filled with fear. That is the fear of the golden man. They finally understood why the Jin people had the reputation of being invincible.
