Woo! As the horn sounded, the Khitan troops who were sieging the city left behind the siege equipment and returned one after another, and the defenders twisted their waists and sat weakly on the edge of the city wall.

It has been ten days since Khitan's 100,000 troops gathered at the city of 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 city wall like black mud. Only when the Khitan army climbed the city, these ant insects just thundered and spread all over the place. In the hot summer of July, the bodies were exposed to the sun on the cool day, and the whole city was filled with stench. The defenders were enduring such a scene every day.

After the first day of siege, the Khitan barbarians finally realized that the siege was not achieved overnight. The Yuliangdao siege plan built for thousands of lives was abandoned. The Khitans honestly switched to the cloud ladder to attack the city, and patiently competed with the defenders for casualties. In the next ten days, both Dahong City and Gaoshan Fort were attacked by the Khitans.

The two cities of Gaoshan Fort in Dahong City were horns, which was enough to prevent the troops from siege, and the Khitans' attacks were constantly frustrated. However, three days ago, the Khitans strengthened their attack on Gaoshan Fort. This was an almost desperate way to attack. The dead bodies against the fort were like a hill. After a day of attack, more and more Khitan troops climbed to the top of Gaoshan Fort, and finally, they were almost crowded with dense crowds of crowds. Seeing that there was no hope of defending the city, Shi Defeng led the remaining troops who could still move out of the city and broke out in the direction of Dahong City. Li Chongjiu sent Etu to lead 300 cavalry to support Shi Defeng and returned to the city. Six hundred Xi soldiers in Gaoshan Fort successfully entered Dahong City. The Khitans rushed into Gaoshan Fort with cheers, and then ransacked the fort.

Now from the head of Dahong City, there are rows of heads hanging on the Gaoshan Fort, all surrendered and captured after the city was broken. The more than 200 Xi soldiers who were tortured by the Khitans were now hung high and protested towards Dahong City. Gaoshan Fort was defeated, and Dahong City is now an isolated city. In the past three days, the Khitans have tried all kinds of ways to attack Dahong City. Although the city is still firmly in the hands of the Cangtou Army, both armies have suffered heavy casualties.

At the moment, the Khitan army under the city retreated like a tide. The injured tribe soldiers were carried down by the clans' stretcher used by the net. The lesser injured ones were directly lying on the back of the horse and dragged away by the people. In the tent under the city, more than a dozen injured Khitans lay in a row, and the witch doctors of the Khitan tribe, with black oil on their faces and wearing grass skirts, jumped in front of the injured doors. After several rounds, they caught some unknown herbs and applied them to the wounds. Under the blue cow and white horse flag, the Khitan Khan and the leaders of each tribe performed some primitive rituals in the east. In the eyes of the Han defenders on the city, they did not know whether the other party was praying for the deceased or wishing that the war could be inclined to their side.

After nightfall, the Khitans all lit bonfires and cooked food. In the city, they saw that the Khitans had no intention of attacking the city overnight, and the defenders on the city also retreated with weapons. The soldiers guarding the night stood under the city wall and prepared to go up to replace them. At this time every day, the six soldiers in the wounded camp were busy, not only to bandage the wounds for the soldiers, but also to cut their flesh if the wounds were festering, so they screamed endlessly.

In an era without antibiotics, the infection of wounds is absolutely fatal. At least half of these wounded soldiers who wail on the sickbed cannot survive. Therefore, when cutting the flesh, those men who did not frown on the battlefield cried like children when they met the doctor holding a knife. Death was not terrible to them, but it was often terrible that they would suffer such a torture before death. When Li Chongjiu came to the wounded barracks, a soldier who followed him to assassinate Shibi Khan, cried and begged Li Chongjiu to ask the doctor not to cut his flesh and give him a pleasure.

Li Chongjiu shook his head, and ordered people to go directly to the cesspool pit in the city gate, dig several large pieces of feces, then grabbed all the maggots in the feces, 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 was shocked at the moment, not only the doctor and even the soldiers.

So Li Chongjiu patiently explained to the doctor and his soldiers that maggots could remove rotten meat. This was something he had heard of later generations, but it still needs to be tried whether it was really effective. Seeing Li Chongjiu say this, the doctor and his soldiers were skeptical and watched the maggots eat the soldier's wound. When Li Chongjiu saw the servant's thick hands and feet, he secretly made up his mind to introduce the battlefield hospital in later generations. If women were asked to take care of the wounded, the female soldiers would undoubtedly be much more meticulous and meticulous.

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

When Li Chongjiu heard this, he immediately held out the wounded barracks and went up to the top of the city. At night, the Khitan camps on all sides were dotted, and countless torches and bonfires were shining.

Li Chongjiu looked for a while and said, "Yes, there are fewer Khitans patrolling the night than the previous few days. After ten days of fighting, the Khitans should be exhausted. Beat the drum to test it!"

After giving the order, the sound of drums sounded from the top of the city, and the Khitans under the city woke up from the rest, and they picked up their weapons and surrounded them in front of the wooden fence of the camp. After that, they found that the city soldiers had no intention of leaving the city, and they couldn't help but curse.

"Prince, look at the reaction of the Khitans after hearing our drums today, it seems that they have been much slower."

Ten days ago, the Khitans besieged the city, and Li Chongjiu also made night attacks every night. As a result, the Khitans were in real and real, five false and one true. In one attack, Etu led the cavalry to break through a Khitan camp and killed two or three hundred people. The second time was the sneak attack the day before yesterday. At this time, the Khitans were well prepared, and Etuans did not get anything.

Li Chongjiu stopped his hand and said, "The Khitans are not fools. I didn't see that their arrangements tonight were much more orderly than in the previous few days. Several key places learned to dig trenches and set up horse-defying barriers. You should know that in the past few days, they knew almost nothing about camping and preparing for night attacks."

Li Chongjiu looked at the Khitan camp on all sides and said, "In the past ten days, although the Khitans have suffered many casualties and wounded under the city, they have also been trained. In the past, they had too little experience in fighting with the Han people and did not know how to attack the city. Now their skills in siege are stronger every day, and it is impossible to kill thousands of people on the other side as they did on the first day."

"Khitan Khan is not stupid. He obviously used us to train troops." Li Chongjiu's eyes flashed.
Chapter completed!