The weather is hot, within three or four days, the stench has permeated the Datong city wall, this kind of smell, smell too much to teach people to gag again and again, smell a little more, the appetite of the day is gone, if you smell too much, dizziness is normal.

Fortunately, these corpses were layered on top of each other and covered with some soil and sand, and if they were really naked, the stench would be much greater.

The method of isolating the smell is nothing more than a wrap around the mouth and nose, although it cannot be completely isolated, but it can also be of some use.

Di Yong covered his nose and asked Gan Qi under the city: "Does the eldest brother want to go back to the yamen?" ”

Gan Qi, who was wearing a simple mask, just waved his hand, war and epidemic have always been together, even in the afterlife, to World War II, it is still the same.

Gan Qi said: "In addition to ensuring the basic water supply in the city, all wells must be requisitioned, even those in people's houses. ”

When the corpse decomposes, a large amount of liquid will be produced, and the water will be constantly flushed under the city walls, and this liquid can be washed away, and even let this liquid flow into the enemy's camp, or at least to the enemy's path.

Sickness is certain, many enemies will get sick, and your own people will also get sick, and this is the process of war, which is unavoidable. What Gan Qi can do is to ask his soldiers to boil water when drinking, change clothes frequently, and bathe frequently. Prepare a military doctor to deal with it at any time.

War is suffering.

Many people have learned from this war, for example, the corpse of a person will swell after a long period of decay, and after the expansion, it will explode slightly, and the explosion will be muffled.

The Liao people outside the city became even more frenzied, constantly urging those steppe people to continue to beat their horses and rush forward, fill in the sand and gravel, and carry the corpses up.

From time to time, there are still the collapsed steppe people, standing under the head of the city, neither advancing nor retreating, and bursting into tears. Not only were the feather arrows of the Song army shooting the steppe people, but also the feather arrows of the Khitan people began to shoot those disobedient steppe people.

It was a purgatory of blood and fire, testing everyone on both sides, as well as Ganch, who had fought many battles and had never fought such a tragic battle. If a war occurs randomly, it is often not tragic, and if it occurs again after both sides have been preparing for a long time, the war will become a real meat grinder.

Gan Qi made countless preparations, made countless predictions, and as time went by, Gan Qi could not have imagined that there would be soldiers under his command who began to have a heart breakdown, crazy, crazy, laughing and crying, and clamoring to go home......

Military law is ruthless, and there is no mercy, and there is no need for Gan Qi to order, there will be people who will immediately deal with these people who disrupt the morale of the army, and the way to deal with it is to cut them with a knife to set an example.

Everything is cruel, on the tower of Datong City, there are hanging heads of Song soldiers, but in seven or eight days, there are hundreds of them.

Gan Qi appeared on the tower more frequently, patrolling everywhere, dressed in golden armor, and from time to time chatting with the soldiers everywhere, telling the soldiers that this battle would be won, and telling the soldiers that Gan Xianggong had a clever plan in his arms, but the time had not yet come, and when the time came, he would be able to win a big victory.

Does Gan Xianggong really have a clever plan? Apparently not. Although he had many winning chips, he could not have the magic plan to win.

But when Gan Xianggong said this in person, the soldiers and men in the audience must be smiling, and they all feel that Gan Xianggong is different from others, as smart as a fairy, saying that there is a clever plan, that must be a clever plan, this kind of thing has often happened before, under Gan Xianggong's clever plan, the enemy army was broken, and this time it should be the same, and victory is in sight and naturally happy.

An army of more than 100,000 people, Gan Qi inspected it all over again, and once it was not enough, and then again. Even many middle and high-level generals are waiting for Gan Xianggong's clever plan, just waiting for the clever plan to come out, defeat the Liao people, and reward them for their merits.

At night, Gan Qi could no longer sleep, often pacing back and forth in the backyard of the yamen in the middle of the night, and every time Gan Qi came out of the bedroom, someone would inevitably inform Gan Ba, and Gan Ba would also come out of the bedroom and accompany Gan Qi.

The moonlight shone like snow, spreading a silvery white light, Gan Qi was anxious, and the anxiety that had never been shown by his predecessors was only seen by Gan Ba.

The situation still has to be stalemate, and the enemy's construction period will inevitably exceed half a month, at least about 20 days, which means that the decisive battle will have more than 10 days. The place of the decisive battle is on the city wall, and the tactics of the decisive battle, that is, the Liao people rushed up the ramp, and the Song army guarded on the ramp.

This ramp is only about 200 paces wide, and countless enemies will rush from here to the city walls, like a tidal wave.

Gan Qi kept rehearsing this scene, and if he really stood at the head of the city, there would inevitably be few defenders facing the enemy, and it would be easy for the enemy to rush up.

Therefore, once the decisive battle begins, you can't wait on the city walls, you have to rush up first.

Yes, the enemy has to charge down first, so that there is enough space to accommodate enough defenders.

How to swing the cannon? There is not enough space on the head of the city on that section of the ramp, and if you put cannons and those gunpowder projectiles on it, there will not be much room for more soldiers, so the cannons cannot be placed on the front city wall, but must be placed on both sides, and fifty guns will be placed on one side to bombard the crowd of the Liao army charging from the side.

It's the details, and you have to think about it in advance.

How to use the mighty army? 20,000 are put on the front defense, 40,000 are on the horse, and they can attack at any time. At the time of the decisive battle, there is no need to think about whether you can come back if you go out, only victory or defeat, you can naturally come back if you win, and there is no point in not coming back if you lose. Both flanks of the enemy must be attacked, and they must also charge into the enemy's center to disrupt the enemy's deployment and command.

Dead or alive, charging is to see death as home.

What else?

What else?

Gan Qi kept pacing to himself, frowning. For fear of missing a single detail.

"Big brother, if you really can't sleep, do you want me to pick up that little girl? There is a person who strokes the piano, maybe it can calm the nerves and help sleep. Gan Ba said softly, he didn't have so much anxiety and worry, he just felt sorry for Gan Qi.

"It's midnight, she's a girl from a good family, it's quite inconvenient, it's just that." Gan Qi replied.

Gan Ba nodded, and asked again, "What about ...... Then how many people should I invite to the Qinglou? ”

"It's fine." Gan Qi replied casually, still pacing, his mind full of self-questions.

What else?

Yes, the enemy may charge the city with cavalry, and be prepared to resist the horses, this is the old tactic. As long as the enemy really beats the drum and gathers troops and is ready for a decisive battle, he must swing the horse under the ramp. The role of rejecting horses is great, and when defending, it can be used as a line of defense.

What else?

Gan Qi tapped his head and looked up at the moon, his steps getting faster and faster.

What else didn't you expect?

……

Gan Qi couldn't notice that time was passing quickly, but Gan Ba had already returned, bringing back a girl, Gan Qi looked at it, it was still Fan Moyan, Gan Qi asked: "Duba, why did you bring her in the middle of the night?" ”

"Big brother, I passed by, so I asked, she was willing to come." Gan Ba replied.

The little girl also replied, "Well, I would like to come." ”

That's it, Gan Qi waved his hand, and Gan Ba had already prepared his seat and piano.

The sound of the piano starts immediately, soothing and warm.

What else?

By the way, we have to send those 2,000 gunners to the city, these are forbidden troops from Tokyo, they have never seen the battle array, if they don't let them take a look at the tragic situation first, then they will lose their strength in the battle, and they will be stunned one by one, then something will happen.

In the past few days, these gunners have to take a look at the city and get used to it in advance. Such details will definitely determine the direction of success or failure.

"Dumb, bring pen and paper." Ganchi had to write down the things that came to mind one by one, so that nothing else would be missed. After remembering, you have to continue to think, this is what it means to think deeply, you have to think about everything, you can't think about it yourself, you have to brainstorm, at the military meeting, you have to ask many generals to let them think along.

The night passed like this, and in the midst of worry and anxiety, it was already dawn, and Gan Qi commanded: "Send Miss Fan back." ”

Gan Ba arranged it himself.

Ganchi didn't have time to rest either, and what he came up with last night, he had to do it this morning, ordering the horses to be built, and the gunners to go up the city and haul the artillery and gunpowder projectiles.

I have to go to the city to see the progress of the enemy's fortification, and then estimate the time of the decisive battle.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Gan Qi has to personally survey the situation of the entire battlefield, estimate the distance between the enemy and me, which side is best to take the fastest, and determine the route of the attack.

If a person wants to succeed, he must do so.

It's hard to strategize, that's the reality.

Gan Qi did these things every day, slowly perfecting all the details, and even the details were so detailed that several stairs were built behind the ram section of the city wall, just to facilitate the army to quickly enter the city, and also to rush down quickly in large quantities, and also had to carry a horse rejection. If you still come up from the side of the city tower and go down this way, it is easy to waste time and effort and delay the fighter.

The smell of decomposing corpses became stronger and stronger, and the army at the head of the city had to be rotated once in half a day, and it was much more convenient to have a few more steps.

Now the camp of the Liao people is not very peaceful, from time to time in the middle of the night can hear the sound of drums, after the drum beating, shouting to kill, but there is no enemy coming to Datong.

This is good news, obviously there are also rebellions in the Liao army, and the rebels must be people from all parts of the grassland, there are always some people who don't want to die so meaninglessly thinking about running away and other things, taking advantage of the night, sneaking, dozens of hundreds, or even hundreds of people, and then being chased and intercepted by the Liao people, killing all the people.

The head was also hung on the flagpole to show the public, which was also an example.

But no matter how much you set an example, at night, the camp of the Liao army will never be able to live in peace, and there will still be drums and shouts of killing from time to time.

The steppe people are also going to collapse......

That's a good thing.

Gan Qi can even intuitively feel the changes, that is, the progress of the project is getting slower and slower, and the grassland people still come and go like that, but the progress of the project is not fast.

It wasn't until twenty-four or five days later, when the weather was getting hotter and hotter, that the ramp really began to approach the battlement. The Song army on the battlement also prepared many long wooden poles, and used these long wooden poles to sabotage the Liao people's projects.

In the past few days, Gan Qi has not even gone back to sleep in the yamen at night, as long as the sky is already bright, Gan Qi will go to the city, listening to the horns and drums of the Liao army, once the camp is full of drums and trumpets, it is bound to gather troops, that is, the time of the decisive battle.

In less than a month, Gan Qi seemed to be a different person, his face was full of stubble, and he looked tired, as if he had aged ten years.

No matter how much time drags on, it is just to let the steppe people die more, the decisive battle will come after all, the last point of height, can be filled in at one time, only a small ramp is missing, as long as the large-scale cavalry swarms with earth and stones, it does not take an hour to complete the last person to high.

When the decisive battle came, more than 100,000 black armor of the Liao army gathered, and there were still 70,000 or 80,000 grassland people left, but they did not stand in front of the battle, but after disarming, they were tied together with ropes.

These steppe people have fulfilled their mission, and what to do with it has become a problem. If these steppe people are used as strikers, they will be useless, and they are afraid that they will pick up weapons and fight back. If it was at the beginning, there would be no need to be so prepared that these people would defect in person, but after more than 20 days, it would have to be guarded against.

Kill them all, and I can't bear it, so many slaves, as long as Datong City is really defeated, there is still a time when it can be used, such as fighting Yanjing City.

So the best thing to do is to tie them all up and tie them up in the big camp.

The forward cavalry of the Liao people, each carrying a bag of sand, was ready to be used to fill in the last section of the ramp at one time.

After that, it was still cavalry, which was used to go directly to the city and break through the Song army on the city wall.

Then there were the foot soldiers, swords, shields, and spears, which were used to fight for the city wall, and then there were cavalry, just waiting for the city wall to fight, rushing down and opening the city gate, and then they could swarm in, and the battle was decided.

Today's Yelu Hongji has once again ascended to a high platform, and at first glance, it seems that he has also aged countless times, even his beard is a large piece of white, and the top of his eyelids is blue and black. It seems that he, like Ganqi, hasn't had a good night's sleep in a long time.

Ganqi on the head of the city, straight into the highest part of the city tower, twenty or thirty meters, overlooking the battlefield. There are hundreds of soldiers on standby.

The drums outside the city were shirking, and the drums began to drumble inside the city.

Gan Qi began the first military order of the day: "They still have to fill in the last paragraph, all the wood rolling stones and fire oil, all used up!" The troops to go down to the city are all ready, and when they see the yellow flag, as soon as the yellow flag falls, they all rush out, without the slightest delay. ”

"Order!" The commander gave up his hand, took a command flag, and flew away.

No matter how urgent the drums were, just after dawn and before the sun rose, the first cavalry of the Liao people had already begun to beat their horses and gallop, and the bags of sand and gravel came.

Di Yong was in Xicheng, with 20,000 cavalry of the mighty army, and his task today was to rush out and penetrate directly into the enemy's middle army. He needs to see the cyan flag on the back of the tower, as soon as the big flag falls, he immediately opens the city and attacks, moving forward, whether he lives or dies.

In Dongcheng, Shi Honglei took another 20,000 cavalry of the mighty army, just waiting for the black flag to fall, and the task was to attack the flanks.

There were also 20,000 mighty troops, and the yellow banner ordered them to rush down the ramp to block the enemy who was going up the wall.

The 80,000 victorious army is divided into eight divisions, four of which are on the four city walls to prevent the sound from attacking the east and the west, and the remaining four are reserves.

There is also one, the artillery battalion, a big red flag, which is their order to open fire. The muzzle of the gun was only aimed at one or two hundred steps in front of the ramp, and the more people gathered, the more dense they gathered.

When Gan Qi arrived, he kept looking at a booklet in his hand, which was a plan that he had revised repeatedly, and it was written in great detail, and he read it over and over again, not daring to make any mistakes.