"Uncle Di, the Liao people's offensive seems to be very fierce!" Gan Qi said, looking at the corpse under the wall.

Di Qing nodded: "Since the day before yesterday, as soon as the battle report from Datong arrived, the offensive became more and more ferocious, and the Liao people no longer took human life seriously. ”

"What about the casualties between friend and foe?" Gan Qi asked.

"It is estimated that the enemy has suffered forty or fifty thousand casualties. In front of the head, various parts took turns to attack the city, and now it is a team by team, and it is very fierce. In our army, the various divisions also took turns to defend the city, but the Liao people were too fierce, so they couldn't, so they had to transfer the competent departments to defend the city, and no longer rotated, because they were afraid that those recruits and recruits would not be able to use them and have problems. Originally, 30,000 capable soldiers were dispatched, but now there are 8,000 casualties, and tomorrow it should exceed 10,000. Combined with the casualties of the previous divisions, there are almost 20,000. Di Qing slowly introduced.

The so-called elite personnel are the more than 10,000 people who were originally assigned to the Wansheng Army under Gan Qi's command, plus some people who dare to fight from all over the place.

Di Qing This is also a way to do this, such a strong onslaught, for the sake of safety, ordinary people Di Qing did not even dare to send it to the city.

In the battle to defend the city, the ratio of casualties on both sides was not one-to-three.

This surprised Gan Qi a little, it stands to reason that his side is on the city wall, in a big advantage, and the enemy is at a big disadvantage when he climbs up. How small is the casualty ratio?

"The Liao people are so fierce?" Gan Qi asked.

Di Qing nodded: "This time, the elite of the Liao people is exhausted, and the Khitan people account for a large part of them. And there are many craftsmen accompanying him, and every day passes, new ordnance will be created, ballistas, trebuchets, ladder carts, more and more, so the old man does not dare to easily teach those new soldiers to go to the city to defend. ”

Gan Qi figured out that the Khitans were no longer nomadic fishing and hunting after all, they really entered the era of civilization, occupied Yanyun for a hundred years, and had been a brotherly country with the Great Song Dynasty for decades, and also said the sentence "My cultivation of cultural relics is not different from China".

This sentence is really not bragging.

If you want iron armor, you need a bed crossbow and a bed crossbow, you need a trebuchet to make a trebuchet, and a ladder car is no problem. It's really no different from China.

The ladder car is to create a wooden cart, and there is a big slope on the car, and the slope is naturally a ladder. This kind of cart was pushed to the side of the city wall, and people could climb the stairs behind the car in a steady stream at night.

This is the real siege weapon, the soldiers on the city wall want to use manpower to push down the ladder car, it is impossible, this kind of car, large and heavy, a hundred times more convenient than the ordinary long ladder, set fire to the car is the only way. But this big wooden cart can't be burned for a while and a half, and you can only watch countless people coming from the car, and the battle to defend the city has become a battle for the city wall.

If the enemy occupies a small area on the city wall, the enemy will swarm up, and it will be even more difficult to defeat the enemy.

The level of technology has always been the key to determining the outcome of a war.

Gubei is not better than Datong, Datong is a city, Gubei is a pass, there are mountains on both sides, there is no other city gate, except for going over the mountains and mountains, there is no other way to go north, it is difficult to even attack here, only suitable for defense. It is difficult to even attack, which naturally makes most of the art of war tactics useless.

Gan Qi also frowned, Gubei Pass, there is only one left to fight hard, it depends on who has more life to fight. There is no strategy to talk about, even if there is a way to attack, with the thousands of cavalry under Gan Qi's command, what can he do to rush out?

Is it an attack on the enemy's camp? That's self-defeating.

Attacking the enemy's food routes? The enemy has no food to speak of, they don't have much grain reserves at all, and they eat sheep and kill horses. And this method is not realistic, because Gan Qi doesn't even know the terrain and landform outside the pass, which is the homeland of the Liao State, don't go around and be surrounded and killed by the enemy.

Going to attack the enemy's city? Not to mention the homeland of Liao, other people's people will also unite as one, just say that they will attack the city, which city will they attack? Dading Mansion? Liaoyang Mansion? Linhuang Mansion? What can you do if you take down a city? The emperors are on the front line, and the crown prince is obviously also on the front line, where to fight?

It makes no sense to go deep alone.

Thinking about it, Gan Qi looked left and right at the mountains on both sides, and then at the low pass, and sighed.

After reading too many stories, I always want to think of any war as a clever IQ, which is obviously not an ordinary situation.

"Dao Jian, what are you thinking?" Di Qing asked.

Gan Qi shook his head: "Helpless thoughts." ”

"Yes, it's quite helpless, but fortunately, your reinforcements came in time, and there are 50,000 usable soldiers, and this pass should be able to be defended." Di Qing also looked helpless.

"But you can't make the Liao people so comfortable, you always have to make some trouble for them." Ganchi was not discouraged.

"What is Dao Jian's plan?" Di Qing asked.

"I caught Yelu Yixin and let him go again!" Gan Qi said.

"Huh?" Di Qing was surprised, and said, "I thought you didn't hold Yelu Yixin, the original way was that you held him?" ”

Gankey nodded.

"What are you going to do?" Di Qing asked.

"Early tomorrow morning, write a letter and send it out, and ask for peace!" Gan Qi said.

"Summation? The Liao people must be unwilling, they came with the strength of the country, that is, to recapture Yanyun, how can they be willing to make peace? Unless Yan Yun is returned to them, it will definitely not work. Di Qing thought it was simpler.

Gan Qi smiled: "I also know that it will not work, but seeking peace is just the beginning, and there is a backhand." ”

Di Qing thought about it, but he would also be happy: "Isn't it a plan to discord?" ”

Gan Qi smiled sinisterly: "If you let Yelu Yixin go, you will always collect some interest and come back." ”

Di Qing also smiled: "Then it depends on how you plan it, the old man will wait and see, if you really want to talk about the wisdom of fighting, the old man is not as good as you!" ”

"When it comes to the courage and courage of going into battle, Di Xianggong is unparalleled in the world." Gan Qi replied.

Di Qing waved his hand: "When you are old, you are old, what do you say about being brave and courageous, in a few years, you won't be able to swing the knife." ”

"Go back to the camp and sleep early, tomorrow I think there will be a fierce battle." Ganchi turned and descended the wall.

But at this time, in the imperial study of the Bianliang Imperial City, two people who had been silent for a long time finally began to speak.

Zhao Shu opened his mouth and asked, "Fu Xianggong, can the sobering soup be effective?" ”

Fu Bi said with a smile: "This soup is very good, and after a bowl of it, most of the wine will be gone." ”

Zhao Shu gently patted the table with his hand, and suddenly said: "Dao Jian is a good courtier, a pillar of talent, and a great talent that is rare for thousands of years." ”

"The old minister thinks so, such a young talent, it is not worse than shouting Huo Yao." Fu Bi replied, he followed the emperor's words, and knew that the emperor would get to the point after all.

Zhao Shu suddenly said: "Yes, Huo Quai's illness is nothing more than that, when Huo Qubing defeated the Huns, what kind of officials were sealed?" ”

Fu Bi thought for a while, and said: "Before Huo Qu's illness and meritorious service, he was the captain of Yao Yao, so he was called Huo Yao, and he was seventeen years old at that time. Later, he entered the desert and made meritorious contributions, won the title of champion of the whole army, and was awarded the title of champion Hou. Huo Quai's last official position was the general of the Great Sima Hussars. ”

Zhao Shu rubbed his hands lightly while listening, and asked again: "When the Han Dynasty was in the Han Dynasty, how many were the Great Sima Hussar Generals?" ”

"The military attache is the second class, the first class is the general, the second class is the hussar general, the third class is the general of the chariot cavalry, and the fourth class is the general Wei." Fu Bi, this old literati is really erudite, and the control level of the Han Dynasty can be at his fingertips.

"How old is Huo Quzhi?" Zhao Shu asked again, but this sentence was not so clear.

But Fu Bi knew what Zhao Shu meant by asking, and said, "Huo Qu is twenty-three years old. ”

Feng Wolf Ju Xu Huo went to illness, and he was jealous of his talents, so he only lived to be twenty-three years old. The people in their early twenties wiped out the Huns, and announced to heaven in the Wolf Juxu Mountain that the great cause of destroying the Huns had been completed. This story, I don't know how many generations of Chinese sons and daughters have been inspired, and the generals who have been sick in the military have not been second for thousands of years.

Zhao Shu asked again: "Dao Jian's merit is ...... than Huo Qu's illness."

Fu Bi immediately replied: "That's still far away, the old minister is not saying that Gan's secret merits are not great, but that Huo Quai's merits are the first in ancient and modern times, Huo Quai's disease is thousands of miles away from the desert and exterminates the Huns." Although Gan Shumi is also outstanding and rare for thousands of years, it is still much worse. If Gan Shumi can attack the Linhuang Mansion in Liaoshangjing from afar, and destroy the entire Khitan in a war, it can be comparable. ”

Where is Linhuang Mansion? In the later generations of Inner Mongolia Chifeng City, Bahrain Left Banner, from Bianliang to Linhuang Mansion, the straight-line distance is more than 2,000 miles.

Zhao Shu nodded: "Well, it makes sense." ”

Speaking of which, saying so much, probably just because this sentence makes sense. Zhao Shu is looking for a reason in his heart, this reason is probably used to suppress Gan Qi, not what Zhao Shu wants, but this emperor feels that now that the war is settled, Gan Qi should not be sealed again, and if it is sealed again, it will be unsealable.

Gan Qi and Huo Qubing are not only the difference in military merits, they also have a difference, that is, Huo Quzhi died at the age of twenty-three, and if Gan Qi had no accident, he would have to live for decades.

Fu Bi finally waited for him to speak, he said tentatively: "Your Majesty, the eldest husband is a martial artist, one is to make meritorious contributions, and the other is just to seal his wife and son......

This sentence reminded Zhao Shu, and he immediately said: "Yes, seal your wife and shadow ......"

Speaking of this, Zhao Shu was a little embarrassed, Gan Qi's wife was already the county lord, Gan Qi's son had not yet been born, Gan Qi only had a daughter now, and he had been busy outside, and he didn't have time to give birth to a son.

Fu Bi said: "Why don't you make Gan Qi's wife, Lord Yongjia, a princess? What does Your Majesty think of the title of Ganqi's daughter as the county lord? ”

This is said to Zhao Shu's heart, and he made his sister a princess, isn't that a disguised way to say that his father Zhao Yunrang is the emperor?

Zhao Shu immediately nodded: "Okay, just do it, this time when Dao Jian returns to Beijing, I will use this as a reward!" At that time, there will be an additional article on the holy decree of the reward, as long as Gan Qi gives birth to a child, he will be sealed...... Guogong, Feng Chu Guogong. ”

Zhao Shu felt okay in his heart, and he didn't feel guilty. The wife and daughter are secondary, the most important is Gan Qi's son, who was born as the Duke of Guo and the Duke of Chu. This kindness is big enough to be worthy of Ganqi, but it also has to be Ganqi to give birth to a son.

Fu Biben also hesitated to make Gan Qi's wife a princess, because this involves a lot of problems, and it doesn't hurt if it's normal, the royal family has many precedents for appointing a woman who is not the emperor's own daughter as a princess, especially in the past dynasties that needed to be friendly.

But doing this at this juncture will definitely cause a lot of controversy, because now is the time of "Pu discussion", and the court is arguing about the name of Zhao Yunrang, the king of Pu. If you do this suddenly, there will be controversy in the meeting.

But Fu Bi didn't care about that anymore, he suggested this, and obviously had other ideas.

For example, Zhao Zonglan became a princess, and Gan Qi became a concubine. Many things are very different, if Gan Qi is just a "county horse", even if he is not a real relative, now once Gan Qi becomes a colt, the name of the relative will be confirmed, a safe and secure relative.

Relatives, in power.

This kind of thing, since the Han Dynasty, has been a taboo in all dynasties. The horses of the Tang and Song dynasties could eat, drink and have fun, but it was not okay to be in power, and this was not a legal provision, but a law of the conventions of the ancestors.

This is Fu Bi's back hand.

Zhao Shu and Fu Bi, this can be regarded as discussing Gan Qi's reward. Both of them have unexpected gains, Zhao Shu's harvest is in the name of his father, and he seems to have won first. Not only did the respected old minister Fu Bi support Zhao Zonglan as a princess, but when Lian Ganqi came back, his wife was a princess, so don't you have to support this princess?

Fu Bi's windfall is that Gan Qi is going to become a colt master, and there will be an article to do at that time.

This is the end of the discussion in the imperial study.

Dawn!

At the Gubei Pass, the war came a little late today.

The reason is that Yelu Yixin arrived at the camp in the army, a carriage, a team of guards, staggered out of Datong, and then came to the Gubei Pass from the north of the Yanshan Mountains, which was a day slower than Ganqi.

Yelu Yixin knelt in front of Emperor Yelu Hongji and wept bitterly.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, there are countless civil and military forces, all of them are pale, and the news of the defeat has come for two or three days, Yelu Yixin has finally arrived, obviously many of them hate him to the bone, hating him for burying hundreds of thousands of troops in Liao.

The crown prince Yelu Jun jumped out first and said angrily: "You still have the face to come back?" How can you not die? Don't die on the battlefield? ”

Emperor Yelu Hongji has always relied on Yelu Yixin, when the Luanhe mutiny, the first to protect the emperor was Yelu Yixin in front of him, and it was he who stabilized the situation at that time and guarded the gate of the palace to keep Yelu Hongji's throne, of course, Yelu Yixin was also deeply used because of this matter.

Therefore, Yelu Hongji hated his defeat, but he did not speak directly.

Yelu Yixin slammed his head on the ground: "The minister is willing to die a hundred times, and he will attack the city with his life, so let the minister die on the head of the ancient northern city!" ”

Yelu Yixin is very smart, it is better for him not to explain at this time, and he is bent on death, which is a clear will and loyalty.

In the imperial era, one loyalty could cover up a hundred ugliness. Even if you do anything, as long as it is out of "loyalty", you can forgive, such as Bao Zheng, no matter how you spray the emperor, but everyone knows that he is loyal, and the emperor knows even more, no matter how rude Bao Zheng is, he can be forgiven.

Instead, Yeluhonki asked, "Don't you have anything to say?" ”

"The minister has nothing to say, but as soon as he dies, he will be a soldier and die in front of the battle, so that he can die a well-deserved death, and he will not be in vain as a Khitan man." Yelu Yixin's head was knocking again and again, and the scene was a little touching.

Yelu Hongji laughed angrily, laughed a little fiercely, and then asked: "I will do as you wish, there are still more than 10,000 horses in the Southern Privy Council, and I will let you take them to the city today until you die!" ”

Yelu Hongji really thinks so, if you die, this pass must be broken, and Yanyun's homeland must be recaptured. For the Liao State, Yanyun is the homeland, left by the ancestors, and for the Great Song Dynasty, Yanyun is also the homeland, the homeland of the Central Plains Dynasty of all dynasties. This Yanyun is fortunate to have become the homeland of the two countries.

"Thank you, Your Majesty Longen, after death, the minister is willing to be corrupted under that city, and there is no need to waste a good skin with a horse leather shroud, let alone be buried in a coffin, so that the minister will die between heaven and earth. Thank you again Your Majesty! Jereusin's words were a bit tragic, and they could not help but feel pity in the hearts of many people.

Yelujun didn't like it: "You guy, hundreds of thousands of troops have been buried by you, you still have the face to say that between heaven and earth, you are dead, and you have no shame to see your ancestors and ancestors!" A hundred deaths are not enough to make up for such a great sin of yours! ”

Yelu Hongji waved his hand and motioned to his only son not to say much, but said, "Say a few words, talk to me." ”

Yelu Yixin stopped kowtowing at this time, raised his head, his head was already full of flesh and blood, and the people around the sect sighed, he slowly spoke: "Your Majesty, as soon as this battle is over, please send troops to the grassland, but the barbarians, the Damiri people, all razed and razed to the ground!" ”

Yelu Hongji's face turned pale when he heard this, and the faces of everyone present changed greatly, and when he said this, it seemed that he had said the reason for this defeat.

"They escaped?" Yeluhongji asked.

Yelu Yixin was resentful: "According to the military order, the minister personally led the troops to fight against the Song people, the two tribes of Naiman and Damiri, plus some small tribes, should have made a detour to the rear of the enemy army, and they could have annihilated the Song army in one fell swoop, but they didn't expect these 40,000 people to only patrol outside the battlefield for a while, and then turn their horses and flee." Such repeated thieves are waiting for the defeat of the ministers, waiting for the defeat of our Great Liao, they have long harbored evil intentions, and this time they must want to unify the grassland and support the army to stand on their own. The incompetence of the ministers led to such a defeat, and there was nothing to say. But I beg Your Majesty to kill all these thieves in the future! ”

When the crown prince Yelu Jun heard this, he hurriedly looked left and right, and saw that most of the people on the left and right had angry expressions, obviously began to sympathize with Yelu Yixin, and immediately said: "You said that the barbarians and Damili people have escaped from the battle, but there is evidence!" ”

Yelu Yixin immediately replied: "There are countless people who have witnessed it, and there are many witnesses. But there is no need, it only takes a while, and it won't be long before there will be an urgent report for help if you want to come to the Northwest Road to recruit the division. These dog thieves have a big plan! ”

If you say this, then there is nothing to say, the Northwest Road Recruitment Division is in danger, Emperor Yelu Hongji's complexion has changed greatly, once the Northwest Road Recruitment Division is gone, the grassland will not be controlled, the key is that at this time, it is not possible to go west to the grassland to suppress the ministries, and the problem is big.

Yelu Hongji took a few deep breaths, didn't say anything, just got up, and waved his big hand: "Siege!" ”

A moment later, the drums beat in the camp and the tribes gathered.

Although Yelu Yixin received some forgiveness and sympathy, he still had no choice, and personally dressed himself in perseverance, leading more than 10,000 people to line up in the first row of the large array, preparing to take the lead and die under the head of the pass city.