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Whining! With the sound of the trumpet. The besieging Khitan army threw down the siege equipment and returned, while the defenders also twisted their waists and sat weakly on the edge of the city wall.

It has been ten days since the Khitan army of 100,000 people gathered under the city of Yuyi Town. Now the yellow rammed earth wall of Dahong City is stained with human blood, and the black flies and mosquitoes are clinging to the black mud-like city wall. In the scorching summer of July, the corpses were exposed to the scorching sun, and the stench filled the city, a scene that the defenders endured every day.

After the first day of the siege, the Khitan barbarians finally realized that the siege was not such an overnight success. The siege plan of Yuliang Road, which cost thousands of lives, was abandoned, and the Khitans honestly switched to using cloud ladders to attack the city, patiently fighting with the defenders to fight casualties. In the next ten days, both Dahong City and Gaoshan Fort were attacked by the Khitans.

The horns between the two cities of Dahong City and Gaoshan Fort were enough to make the mobilization of the besieging forces difficult, and the Khitans' attacks were constantly frustrated. But three days earlier, the Khitans had intensified their assault on Gaoshan Fort. This is almost a desperate way of playing, the dead bodies under the fort are like a hill, and after a full day of fierce attack, more and more Khitan troops climbed to the head of the mountain fort, and finally the city head was almost densely filled. Seeing that it was hopeless to defend the city, the city general Mu Defeng immediately led the remnants of the army that could still move out of the city and broke through in the direction of Dahong City. Li Chongjiu sent Eto to lead 300 cavalry to respond, and took Mur Defeng back to the city. Of the 600 soldiers in Gaoshan Fort, less than 100 people successfully entered Dahong City. The Khitans cheered and poured into the mountain fort, which was then ransacked.

Now from the head of Dahong City, there is a row of heads hanging on the Gaoshan Fort, all of which are more than 200 Xi soldiers who surrendered and were captured after the city was broken, and were tortured and killed by the Khitans. Gaoshan Fort was overcome, now Dahong City is a lonely city, three days, the Khitan people have tried all kinds of methods to attack Dahong City, although the city is still firmly in the hands of the Cangtou army, but the casualties of the two armies are not small.

At present, the Khitan army under the city retreated like a tide, and the wounded tribal soldiers were carried down by the tribesmen on stretchers made of nets, while the less injured ones were directly lying on horseback and dragged away. In the tent under the city, more than a dozen wounded Khitans lay in a row, and the witch doctors of the Khitan department, with black oil on their faces and wearing grass skirts, jumped in front of the door of the wounded, and turned around several times before they grabbed some unknown herbs and smeared them on the wounds of the clansmen. In the eyes of the Han defenders at the head of the city, it is not known whether the other party prays for the deceased, or hopes that the war will be inclined to their side.

After nightfall, the Khitans on all sides of the city lit bonfires and cooked food. In the city, seeing that the Khitan people had no intention of attacking the city overnight, the defenders at the head of the city also retreated with weapons. The soldiers of the night stood together under the city wall, ready to go up to replace them. At this time of the day, the six soldiers in the wounded barracks were busy, not only bandaging the wounds of the soldiers, but also cutting the flesh if the wounds festered, so the screams were endless.

In the era when there were no antibiotics, wound infections were absolutely fatal, and at least half of these wounded soldiers wailing on the sickbed did not survive. Therefore, when cutting meat, those men who did not frown on the battlefield wept like children when they encountered Lang Zhong holding a knife. Death is not terrible for them, but it is often terrible to be tortured again before they die. When Li Chongjiu came to the wounded barracks, a soldier who had followed him to assassinate Shibi Khan cried and shouted begging Li Chongjiu to ask Langzhong not to cut his flesh and give him a happy one.

Li Chongjiu shook his head, he ordered someone to go directly to the dung pit at the city gate, dug up a few large pieces of dung, and then caught all the maggots in the dung, and then ordered someone to put them on the wound of the wounded soldier. Lang Zhong had never heard of Li Chongjiu's handling method, and he couldn't help but be shocked at the moment, not only Lang Zhong but also the soldiers.

So Li Chongjiu patiently explained to Sergeant Lang the truth that maggots can carrion, which he had also heard in later generations, but whether it was really effective still needs to be tried. Seeing Li Chongjiu say this, Sergeant Lang was suspicious and watched as maggots gnawed at the soldier's wounds. Li Chongjiu saw the rough appearance of the servant Langzhong, and secretly made up his mind to introduce the field hospital in the future, if women are allowed to take care of the wounded, then the female soldiers are undoubtedly much more meticulous and more meticulous.

At this time, Eto suddenly entered the wounded barracks and said to Li Chongjiu. "Taishou, the Khitans are more tired today than in the past few days!"

When Li Chongjiu heard this, he and Etuo took out the wounded barracks and went to the city, and at night, looking down from the city, the camps of the Khitans were dotted on all sides, and countless torches and bonfires were shining.

Li Chongjiu looked at it for a while, and said: "Yes, compared with the previous days, there are fewer Khitans patrolling the night, and after ten days of fighting, the Khitan should also be tired, beat the drum and test it!" ”

After the order to go down, the drums on the city sounded, and the Khitans under the city woke up from their rest, and gathered in front of the wooden fence of the camp tent together.

"Taishou, you see that the reaction of the Khitan people after hearing our drums today seems to be much slower."

Ten days ago, the Khitans besieged the city, Li Chongjiu also sounded the drum every night to make a night attack, the result was false and real, five false and one true, in a also attack, Eto led the cavalry to break through a camp of the Khitans, killing two or three hundred people. The second time was the sneak attack the day before yesterday, and this time the Khitans were well prepared, and Eto did not gain anything.

Li Chongjiu stopped his hand and said: "The Khitans are not stupid, I didn't see that tonight's arrangement is much more orderly than a few days ago, and we have dug trenches and set up horse fences in several key places. ”

Li Chongjiu looked at the Khitan camps on all sides, and said: "In the past ten days, although the Khitan people have suffered a lot of casualties under the city, they have also been trained, in the past, they had too little experience in fighting with the Han people, and they did not know how to attack the city. ”

"The Khitan Khan is not stupid, he is obviously using us to train his troops." Li Chongjiu's eyes flashed.

At the same time, in the camp of the Khitans, the Khitan Khan Dahe Duluo said to the patriarchs: "In the past few days, you have also seen that Han'er's ability is nothing more than this, and if you attack for three more days, you will definitely break the city!" ”