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Chapter 185 Offense and Defense

Woohoo!With the sound of the trumpet.The attacking Khitan army dropped their siege equipment and returned one after another, while the defenders also twisted their waists and sat weakly on the edge of the city wall.

It has been ten days since Khitan's one hundred thousand troops gathered at Yuyi town.Now the yellow rammed earth walls of Dahong City are covered with human blood, and black flies and mosquitoes are clinging to the black mud-like city walls. Only when the Khitan army climbed the city did these ants and insects scatter in all directions with a bang.In the hot summer of July, the corpses were exposed to the scorching sun, and the whole city was filled with stench. The defenders endured such scenes every day.

After the embarrassment of the first day of siege, the Khitan barbarians finally realized that the siege was not so easy.The Yuliangdao siege plan, which cost thousands of lives, was abandoned, and the Khitans honestly switched to using ladders to attack the city, competing patiently with the defenders for casualties.In the next ten days, both Dahong City and Gaoshan Fort were attacked by the Khitans.

The horns between the two cities of Gaoshan Fort in Dahong City are enough to make it difficult for the besiegers to mobilize their troops smoothly, and the attacks of the Khitans are constantly frustrated.But three days ago, the Khitan stepped up their attack on Gaoshan Fort.This was almost a desperate strategy. The pile of dead bodies under the fort was like a hill. After a full day of onslaught, more and more Khitan troops climbed to the top of the high mountain fort, and finally the top of the castle was almost full.The city general Shi Defeng saw that there was no hope of defending the city, so he led the remnant army out of the city and broke out in the direction of Dahong City.Li Chongjiu sent Er Tuo to lead [-] cavalry to escort Shi Defeng back to the city.Of the [-] Xi soldiers in the Gaoshan Fort, less than a hundred successfully entered the Dahong City.The Khitan cheered and poured into the Gaoshan Fort, and then ransacked the fort.
Looking from the top of Dahong City now, there is a row of heads hanging from the Gaoshan Fort, all of whom surrendered and were captured after the city was broken. However, the heads of the more than 200 Xi soldiers who were tortured and killed by the Khitan people are all taken high. Hang up and demonstrate in the direction of Dahong City.Gaoshan Fort was conquered, now Dahong City is an isolated city, in the past three days, the Khitans tried every means to attack Dahong City, although the city is still firmly in the hands of Cangtou Army, both armies suffered heavy casualties.

Right now, the Khitan army under the city receded like a tide, and the wounded tribal soldiers were carried off on stretchers made of nets by the clansmen, while those with lesser injuries lay on their horses and were dragged away.In the tent under the city, more than a dozen wounded Khitan people lay in a row, and the witch doctors of the Khitan tribe, with black oil on their faces and wearing grass skirts, jumped up and down in front of the wounded's door and turned around several times Well, I grabbed some unknown herbs and rubbed them on the wounds of the clansmen.Under the green bull and white horse banner, the Khan of Khitan and the heads of various ministries faced east and performed some kind of primitive ceremony. From the perspective of the Han defenders at the top of the city, it was unclear whether the other party was praying for the dead or wishing for the dead. The war can lean on their side.

After night fell, the Khitans from all sides of the city lit bonfires and started cooking food.Seeing inside the city that the Khitan people had no intention of attacking the city overnight, the defenders on the top of the city retreated with their weapons.The soldiers who guarded the night stood under the city wall together, ready to go up and replace them.But at this time every day, the six soldiers in the wounded battalion were busy all the time. They not only had to bandage the wounds of the soldiers, but also had to cut the flesh if the wounds festered, so there were endless screams.

In the era without antibiotics, wound infection was absolutely fatal. At least half of these wounded soldiers wailing on the sickbed would not survive.Therefore, when the flesh was cut, those men who did not frown on the battlefield would almost cry like children when they encountered a doctor holding a knife.Death is not terrible for them, but what is often terrible is that they have to suffer such torture before death.When Li Chongjiu came to the wounded barracks, a soldier who had followed him to assassinate Shibi Khan cried and begged Li Chongjiu to tell the doctor not to cut his flesh, but to give him a happy one.

Li Chongjiu shook his head. He ordered people to go directly to the cesspit at the city gate, dig up a few piles of feces, and then catch all the maggots in the dung, and then ordered people to put them on the wounded soldier's wound.The doctor had never heard of Li Chongjiu's treatment method, and he couldn't help being shocked, not only the doctor, but also the soldiers.

So Li Chongjiu patiently explained to the Langzhong soldiers the truth that maggots can remove carrion. This is what he has heard in later generations, but whether it is really effective still needs to be tested.Seeing what Li Chongjiu said, the Langzhong soldiers were skeptical and watched the maggots gnaw on the soldier's wound.Li Chongjiu saw the rough hands and feet of the servants, and secretly made up his mind to bring in future battlefield hospitals. If women are allowed to take care of the wounded, then the female soldiers will undoubtedly be more meticulous and meticulous.

At this time, Er Tuo suddenly entered the wounded barracks and said to Li Chongjiu. "Prefect, the Khitan people are more tired today than in the past few days!"

Hearing this, Li Chongjiu and Ertuo went out of the wounded barracks and went up to the top of the city. Looking down from the top of the city at night, the Khitan camps were dotted all around, and countless torches and bonfires were shining.

Li Chongjiu looked at it for a while, and said: "That's right, compared with the previous few days, there are fewer Khitan people watching the night. After ten days of fighting, the Khitan should be tired, let's beat the drums to test it out!"

After the order was given, the sound of drums on the top of the city was heard, and the Khitan people under the city woke up from their rest one after another, took up their weapons and swarmed in front of the wooden fence of the camp, and found that the city soldiers had no intention of going out of the city, they couldn't help shouting scold.

"Prefect, look at the reaction of the Khitan people after hearing the sound of our drums today, it seems to be much slower."

Ten days ago, the Khitan people besieged the city, and Li Chongjiu also played drums every night to pretend to be a night attack, but the result was false and real, five lies and one truth. There were two 300 people.The second time was the sneak attack the day before yesterday. This time the Khitan people took good precautions, and they didn't gain much.

Li Chongjiu stopped his hand and said: "The Khitan people are not stupid. I didn't see that their arrangement tonight is much more orderly than the previous few days. They have dug trenches and set up anti-horse fences in several key places. Knowing that in the past few days, they knew almost nothing about setting up camp to guard against night raids."

Li Chongjiu looked at the Khitan camp on all sides, and said: "In the past ten days, although the Khitan people have suffered a lot of casualties outside the city, they have also been tempered. In the past, they had too little experience in fighting the Han people and did not know how to attack the city. Now they are attacking the city. It is no longer possible to kill thousands of opponents like on the first day."

"Khitan Khan is not stupid, obviously he used us to train soldiers." Li Chongjiu's eyes flashed.

At the same time, in the camp of the Khitan people, the Khitan Khan Da He Duo Luo said to the chiefs: "In the past few days, you have also seen that Han'er's ability is no more than this. If you attack for three more days, you will definitely break the city!"

(End of this chapter)