Datong is a small basin, but it can be regarded as the easternmost extension of the Loess Plateau, surrounded by highlands, the grassland people come south, but also through some mountains, but there is no real obstruction, that is to say, the grassland to the Datong Basin is very convenient, and Datong City, in the northernmost part of this basin, blocking the grassland from the convergence of various roads.

If Datong is broken, you can enter Taiyuan in the south, Taiyuan is also a basin, Taiyuan City is also in the northernmost part of the basin, and you have to pass through Yanmen Pass and other passes to go to Taiyuan.

If Datong to the east, then it can be directly inserted into Yanyun from the remaining veins of Taihang Mountain, there is Juyong Pass sandwiched by two mountains on this road, and the so-called Badaling in later generations is also on this road, Juyong Pass used to be Yanjing. However, the pass defense line on this road has long been abandoned, because the Liao people have occupied Yanyun for so many years, and this defense line has long been useless.

Therefore, if the Great Unification is broken, Yanjing will be besieged by hundreds of thousands of Liao troops, and the sixteen states of Yanyun will be in danger.

Gan Qi personally went up to Cailiang Mountain, overlooking the Liao army in the northwest, northwest of Datong, and a huge flat land, enough to deploy more than 300,000 troops, Cailiang Mountain is the best place to observe.

The gray-white yurts stretched endlessly, horses and people, coming and going like ants, and countless white dots one by one, which were flocks of sheep and military rations. The various tribes of the grassland, this time they are pouring into the nest, it can be seen that the power of the Khitans after defeating the barbarians, almost the entire grassland is exhausted.

Gan Qi sighed: "The Khitan people completely ignore the life and death of all the tribes of the grassland, just in the middle of summer, it is the time for all the tribes to graze, and the strong men are all drawn, and I don't know how many people will starve to death in the grassland in winter......"

"Yes, big brother, look at the flock, the rations of 300,000 people, all here. These sheep are all eaten at one time, and the winter of the grassland is not far away. Di Yong replied.

Gan Qi suddenly laughed: "It's okay, the Khitan people don't care about the life and death of all parts of the grassland, and they don't have any hands and feet for us." ”

"What do you mean by that, big brother?"

"The various departments of the grassland, this winter will be a large-scale attrition, the Khitan people are so killing chickens and eggs, the grassland population is only afraid that they will lose more than half, and when the Liao people are defeated, the grassland will no longer be a threat in a short time." Gan Qi said so, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, the Khitan people are really killing chickens and eggs this time, even Genghis Khan in the future to fight the Jin country is only tens of thousands of horses besieged, a country, war is never the only one, production is the top priority, production cannot be guaranteed, everything is suspended.

If Gan Qi really won a big victory this time, it would be to solve two things at once, the Khitan people are declining, and the grassland departments are also declining, and if the grassland tribes want to restore the people, it must not be a matter of a short time. If Ganchi wants to attack the grassland in the future, the resistance will be greatly reduced.

Coming down from Cailiang Mountain, Gan Qi entered Datong City, the preparations for war in the city were in an orderly manner, the 1,200 pounds of cannons were also being lifted to the city wall, countless ropes, dozens of men, sweating like rain, trying their best to pull the cannon up to the city.

Di Yong asked Gan Qi: "Big brother, does this thing really have earth-shattering power?" ”

Gan Qi nodded: "Invincible." ”

Di Yong said with longing: "Big brother, can you give it a try?" ”

Gan Qi waved his hand: "You can't try, when you use surprise weapons to catch the enemy off guard, when the time comes, use this thing to break the enemy's last psychological defense." ”

Di Yong licked his lips, somewhat disappointed, Gan Qi's words, he believed it, but he couldn't see it with his own eyes immediately, so what could he do?

"Tell me to go down and push the cannon behind the wall, so that it doesn't have to be placed under the battlement to occupy space, and then push it forward when you need it." Gan Qi wants to use the cannon on the blade, if you really want to talk about lethality, artillery is unique, but if you really want to say that you want to use 5,000 shells to eliminate hundreds of thousands of Liao people, it is impossible, this solid shell, is not enough to really kill people on a large scale.

Therefore, the artillery must be used well, and as soon as the artillery comes out, the mountain collapses and the ground cracks, which must become the last straw that overwhelms the enemy.

Outside Datong City, among the Liao people's Chinese army, Gan Qi has many acquaintances, Yelu Renxian and Yelu Yixin, these two people sit around the emperor Yelu Hongji, and the crown prince Yelu Jun stands behind.

The two privy envoys, once again in power, relied on these two men, and led the army to chase the Nabarian all the way to the west of the Altai, and by virtue of this merit, on the occasion of this employment, the two privy envoys will be atoned, even if they have a great mistake.

Yelu Hongji is majestic, not angry and self-prestigious, defeated is barbaric, with the most powerful means gathered almost all the young and strong on the grassland, this emperor is now more and more iron-blooded and mighty, suffering really sharpens people's hearts, Yelu Hongji is familiar with the history, in his heart compared to the courage of the gou, no matter how difficult it is, but also vows to recapture Yanyun.

Without Yan Yun, the Liao State is like losing everything, and it is necessary to take Yan Yun back after gambling everything. If all the Khitan nobles were really allowed to choose, they would rather lose the grassland than Yanyun. Without Yan Yun, they seemed to see that the Song people felt that the dwarves were three points, how many generations of Chinese cultural relics had been cultivated, and how many ancestors had died, and finally became a country of brothers with the Song Dynasty, and suddenly became a northern barbarian.

The heart of the Liao people seems to be saying: I finally learned to write lyrics and poems like you, and you let me go back to Ru Mao to drink blood? Absolutely unacceptable, this is my self-esteem.

This is the power of civilization.

Yelu Hongji had an iron face, looked at the people around the seat, and only one sentence: "Tomorrow, the siege of the city, even if all the departments are killed and wounded, they can't retreat, you pass the word, which one dares to take half a step back, I turned back into the grassland, the Manchu old and young, women and children, not a single one is left, all of them will be destroyed!" ”

Yelu Yixin's eyes were like eagles: "Your Majesty, rest assured, these words have already been spread, and all the ministries have promised that they will fight to the death." ”

"Retreat, I will watch the battle in person tomorrow on the high platform." Yelu Hongji waved his hand and watched the many officials slowly retreat, and as soon as the people were finished, he suddenly showed some fatigue and malaise, his momentum had decreased, and he leaned down diagonally into the couch.

The crown prince Yelu Jun was beside him: "Father, this time I will definitely be ashamed, go to Bianliang, arrest the emperor of the Song people, and solve the hatred with a thousand knives." ”

Yelu Hongji looked at his son obliquely, and for some reason, he couldn't look at it well, and said angrily: "Whimsical." ”

"Father, how can you be whimsical? As long as they enter Yanyun, hundreds of thousands of troops will take advantage of the situation to go south, and Song Gou will inevitably not stop. As long as you enter the Song soil, you will have as much food as you want. Yelujun was excited, and he danced with his hands.

Yelu Hongji shook his head, if everything could be thought as casually as a child, it would be simple. The current prestige of the Song army is difficult to win, this Datong City does not know how many lives to fill in, after filling here, you have to fill in Yanjing, Gan Qi's generation, in fact, what kind of people who have lost ground? How can Ganchi be underestimated? The price of underestimation is the lesson of a few years ago.

After filling the two big cities of Datong and Yanjing with human lives, how to attack Yanmen Pass again? How to break Xiongzhou again? The Great Song Dynasty still has a strong army in the west, and it is necessary to destroy the Song Dynasty with the strength of the Liao State now? Isn't that whimsical? If you can really defeat Yanyun, you should immediately stabilize the defense line and prevent recurrence, and the next thing to do is to work hard and accumulate strength.

Song and Liao, from decades ago, have long been two gamblers at the gambling table, wins and defeats, are in a weak heart, so many years, no matter what the victory or defeat, who can really help whom? In the stories of the Song people, there is the sorrow of those soldiers who died in battle. Isn't that what the Liao people are all about? Even the commanders of the three armies died on the front line, what is the difference between the sorrow and the Song?

The only difference is that there will be no more Liao in later generations, and there will be no Liao people who spread these stories. However, the story of the Song people has been passed down for thousands of years, so that people after a thousand years only remember the sorrow of the Yang general. If you really want to say sadness, the commander of the Liao State was shot by the Song people in front of the battle, which is more sad than the story of the Yang family.

Yelu Jun saw Yelu Hongji shaking his head and sighing, knowing that his father didn't look down on him, so he said: "Father, how can you not come out of this evil breath?" Kaifeng must be conquered and the emperor of the Song people will be arrested. ”

"Alas...... You are like this, how can I trust this country to you? Yelu Hongji only felt tired, and he could only be in front of people with such an iron face in front of people.

When Yelu Jun heard this, he was shocked in his heart, and his face was already pale, the blow to him was too great, could it be that his father was easy to have the heart of a prince? Yelujun hurriedly bowed and asked, "Father, my son really didn't know where he said the wrong thing. ”

"That's it, it's still a long time, you're still young, and there will always be a day when you will grow. You can go down too......" Yelu Hongji lay on the couch, weakly waving his hands.

Yelujun's face was cloudy, and he bowed and withdrew.

Early the next morning, Yelu Hongji sat on the high platform with a hundredfold spirit, and between his gestures, he was more powerful than before, and his eyes went back and forth, bringing countless pressures to people, and his eyebrows were locked, which could make people's hearts beat faster.

Yelu Ren first stood with Yelu Yixin aside, personally holding the command flag, and began to dispatch troops, the drums had already filled the air, beating people's hearts to beat with the rhythm.

The more sad grassland people began to line up, whether the ranks were neat or not, they had already filled the open space in the north of Datong City.

Crossbows, all kinds of crossbows, large crossbows, small crossbows, long crossbows and short crossbows, are neatly placed, which is operated by the Khitan army.

The steppe people were thinly dressed, carrying bows and wooden shields, carrying long ladders, and cowhide armor, and they probably didn't know why they had come to fight such a battle, but they had to come.

The Liao people's overseers were already holding big swords, beating horses to patrol left and right, and the Liao emperors had already gathered their arms and slowly waved them down.

The drums thundered like thunder, the pace was chaotic, and the people were like the walking dead.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Di Yong shouted.

Gan Qi saw it, he slowly turned around, went down the wall, and sat down under the wall, making tea, with a harp in front of him.

Feathered arrows flew overhead, sending adjacent roof tiles flying sideways.

The shouts that erupted from the throat of human beings, although the words were different and could not be understood, were nothing more than rushing and killing.

Then the shouts of the Song people came from overhead: "Release the arrows, release the arrows, release the arrows quickly!"

"Shoot, shoot all the feather arrows."

"The reserve team goes up to the city, the wooden rolling stones are transported upward, the wooden fork, the wooden fork, here and here, ......"

"Don't pour oil on fire, wait a ......"

Gan Qi touched the strings slightly, he couldn't touch the lyre, at least a few months ago he couldn't play the piano, but now he can only play a little, and he can't play any wonderful melodies.

Therefore, the piano placed in front of him is just an ornament, which can only make Gan Qi Ding Dong touch a few sounds.

But these few sounds are enough for Gan Qi to relax a lot.

He closed his eyes slightly, stood up, drew the long sword at his waist, and remained motionless again. Gan Ba on the side was puzzled, not knowing what Gan Qi was going to do.

But I saw Gan Qi swinging his sword slowly, and he actually practiced swordsmanship, his steps would move forward and backward for a while, his body would toss and turn, and his movements would sometimes open and close, sometimes small and delicate.

No one could relate to how Ganchi felt at this time...... Maybe there is one person who can understand it, that person is the mighty and iron-blooded in front of him, and the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji who is weak in the back.

In this moment, they are one kind of person.

Gan Ba asked: "Big brother, do you want me to find a Datong aunt who can play the piano?" ”

Gan Qi put away his sword and stood still: "That's it, so as not to frighten people." ”

"Maybe there's that boldness." Gan Ba said again.

Gan Qi thought for a moment, noncommittal.

Gan Ba turned over his horse and galloped away, and the woman who stroked the qin was either in the Qinglou or in the boudoir of a large family.

The green building in Datong is not looked down upon by Ganba. So he went straight to the homes in the center of the city and knocked on doors.

The person who opened the door, seeing the wolf-like soldier, was frightened one by one, and Gan Ba asked bluntly: "Do you have a girl who can play the piano?" ”

The vast majority of people subconsciously nodded, looking at Gan Ba's fierce face, and subconsciously forgot to lie.

"You go and ask, do you dare to go to the city?"

Where did anyone dare to say anything, hurriedly asked, turned his head back, shook his head and bowed again and again: "There is a war going on in the city, the youngest daughter's family, I really don't dare, and I ask the general to forgive my sins." ”

I thought Gan Ba was going to be angry, but when I saw Gan Ba nodding, I went to the next one. Ganba is a wicked person, but he is also a person who has a tiger in his heart and sniffs roses, and he really doesn't do that thing to persecute women.

Every time I saw Gan Ba turn around and leave, the host's family was relieved, and I only felt a chill down my spine.

Gan Ba asked one family after another, but he didn't get discouraged, he still asked one by one, and the hard work paid off, when Gan Ba knocked on the door again, it was still that rhetoric, and the owner was still scared to sweat.

But before the master turned around and asked, a woman's words came from the front hall: "I dare, I dare to go." ”

Gan Ba was overjoyed: "Okay, you come out and follow me." ”

The master was so frightened that he had no master, and hurriedly turned back to the hall to stop his daughter, but he didn't stop it, a little girl walked out directly, and in front of Ganba, the master didn't dare to say anything to stop him.

Where did Gan Ba manage so much, and said directly: "Quick, Qin is there, the frame is outside, go, take advantage of the enemy army attacking the city, quickly follow me." ”

Why do you want to go while the siege is taking advantage of it? Because once the enemy has retreated, the second wave of arrows should come, and the city will be scattered and easily hit by stray arrows that cross the walls. Only when the enemy is attacking the city, there are fewer stray arrows flying around.

The girl got into the carriage, and Ganba galloped with the carriage.

When she arrived at the foot of the city wall, the girl who got out of the car was already pale and stunned. This little girl obviously overestimated herself, she thought that she was not afraid, she really went to the battlefield, she really heard the heart-rending shout, where could she still be a little calm.

Gan Ba also stepped forward and asked, "Didn't you say that you weren't afraid?" ”

The girl replied tremblingly, "I thought I was not afraid." ”

"Yes, get in the car, I'll take you back, hurry." Ganba's face was annoyed.

"Who...... Who wants to listen to the piano? The girl suddenly asked.

"My father-in-law wants to listen to the piano." Gan Ba replied, leaning over to carry the steps of the car again.

The girl said, "Is it Gan Xianggong?" I don't go back, I can play. ”

Gan Ba got up, looked at the little girl, raised his hand and pointed to a team of armor soldiers in the distance: "There, in the middle of many soldiers, sitting is my father-in-law." ”

The little girl mustered up the courage somewhere, trembling and trembling, while going towards the pile of soldiers, through several layers of soldiers, and finally saw Gan Qi sitting inside, dressed in golden armor, mighty.

Gan Qi also looked up at her and said with a smile: "Is there really such a bold woman?" ”

"The slave Fan's Mo Yan has seen Gan Xianggong." The little girl bowed, her face was still pale, but her body stopped shaking.

Datong's mother-in-law, convex and backward, plump and complete, tall and tall, Gan Qi glanced up and down, and raised his hand: "Sit down." ”

The little girl sat down slowly, her face was nervous, and she asked timidly, "I don't know what kind of music Xianggong wants to listen to." ”

"Play whatever you want, and sing a few words if you can." Gan Qi closed his eyes slightly, and leaned back.

The sound of the piano sounded, but the rhythm was unstable, intermittent, and the little girl was annoyed by herself, why was she so uncompetitive, but she didn't open her eyes when she saw Gan Xianggong.

The sound of the piano slowly stabilized, just like the wailing of the city, and it also had a rhythm, from time to time someone fell from the high wall, from time to time someone was roared by the fire, and from time to time there were soldiers who shouted and cursed.

The piano sounded for a long time, and the girl's gentle throat began to tune, and the rhythm began to change to its normal rhythm. The girl's mind seemed to have calmed down a lot.

Suddenly, a soldier covered in blood hurried down from the head of the city, and knelt on one knee in front of him: "Xianggong, General Di will ask in the future, whether you want to send cavalry to attack from the east and west gates and attack the enemy's two wings." ”

The little girl looked at the general, right beside her, the blood all over her body was disgusting, the blood on her face was already black, the little girl didn't dare to look at it, she quickly lowered her head and stopped the piano sound.

"Keep playing." Gan Qi still didn't open his eyes, and the little girl heard Gan Qi's words and hurriedly bounced it again.

The general was still waiting for Gan Qi's reply, and Gan Qi seemed to be thinking about it, and only replied after a while: "You go and reply to General Di, be safe, and don't attack, so as not to go back." ”

"Yes!" The general got up, wiped his face, and ran away panting.

The little girl Fan Moyan slowly raised her head, and carefully looked at the Gan Xianggong in front of her who didn't like to open her eyes, with a fair face, well-defined edges and corners, not very handsome, but giving people a sense of heroism, the stubble was slightly short, frowning slightly, and her eyelashes shook a few times from time to time, looking preoccupied.

This is the world-famous Gan Qi Gan Xianggong, the well-known young prime minister Gan Daojian, a great Confucian, a famous man in the literary world, and an invincible brave general?

Suddenly, Ganqi's eyes opened, and the little girl hurriedly lowered her head to avoid it.

"Dud, give the order, let the mighty army go to the city." Gan Qi's voice was loud, which frightened the little girl, and the sound of the piano stopped abruptly.

Gan Ba asked: "Big brother, the mighty army is the elite of the elite, and they are all rare cavalry, are they really sent to defend the city?" ”

Gan Qi replied: "Today's first battle must be the most ferocious time of the enemy's offensive, when the elite is used to defend, the enemy can not see a little flaw, can not let the Wansheng army show a little tired of coping, it is necessary to let everyone know that the Datong strong city must not be broken." ”

"Yes." Ganba went up to the city.

Gan Qi closed his eyes again and raised his hand: "Keep playing." ”

"Oh, Xianggong, yes...... Obey, slave family...... That's it. The little girl was a little flustered, and the flustered Gong Shang Jiao Zhengyu, who was so familiar, hurriedly lowered her head to find it.