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be able to shoot you to death with only one arrow.” However, Ming would
not take heed of the warning.
T’aejo at last discharged an arrow at Ming, but only to shoot the helmet
off his head. Then he dispatched Wŏn’gyŏng one more time and tried to
persuade Ming to give up. Ming continued to reject the warning. So T’aejo
shot him in the leg, and Ming ran away. But he returned to fight shortly,
despite being wounded in the leg by an arrow. T’aejo again tried to persuade
Ming through Wŏn’gyŏng, but with an ultimatum this time. He said, “I will
shoot you in the face unless you surrender right away.” Chu Ming finally
dismounted from his horse and surrendered, bowing down with his face to
the ground.
A man on the enemy side climbed up to the top of the fortress wall and
shouted, “Our group of people all wanted to surrender when we heard that
your great army was on the way to the fortress here, but the officials forced
us to fight against you. Therefore, if you try harder, you will be able to cap-
ture the fortress.”
The fortress was very high and steep, and the arrows, mixed with tim -
bers and stones, rained down upon the heads of our troops. Despite the
dangers they were exposed to, our infantry advanced to reach the bottom
of the wall and finally captured the fortress after redoubling the assaults.
In the meantime, [Ki] Saiyintiermuer ran away, but our troops captured
Paegan.^87 Then our forces withdrew to the east of the fortress and placed
public notices in places where Nahachu and Yeshanbuhua were potentially
hiding:
“Ki Saiyintiermuer was originally a low-ranking official of our country.
He endeared himself to the court of the Yuan and enjoyed special favors
from the emperor until he rose to the highest rank. He is, therefore, sup-
posed to be loyal to the Yuan, sharing its joys and sorrows. Especially under
the circumstances in which the emperor left his palace to take refuge, he
should have escorted the emperor and stayed with him even if he could
have put himself in danger. Nevertheless, abandoning the emperor and for-
getting all the favors that he received from him, he fled to the Tongnyŏng
Administration. Furthermore, he secretly plotted treason against his moth-
erland out of a personal grudge.
“Last year, the government [of Koryŏ] sent troops to arrest him but failed
to capture him because he managed to escape. Besides, he fled to the- Kim Paegan, the assistant chancellor, who was in charge of Liaoyang and Shenyang.