The Khitan people's first offensive retreated like a tide. The Han army on the city wall adhered to the mentality of hitting the enemy hard when retreating, and worked hard to install heavy crossbows, artillery, and gunpowder catapults for free.
The troops poured out. The retreating Khitans left thousands more corpses before retreating to a safe area. However, there was no trace of joy of surviving the disaster on the face of every returning soldier.
Many young Khitan warriors who went to the battlefield for the first time kept vomiting as they walked. The tragic scenes on the battlefield shocked their nerves again and again. The smell of blood mixed with feces and urine made it difficult for them to adapt, and those
The gutted and broken corpses made them truly feel what hell is. War is not a child's play. If you go to war with the intention of watching a drama, you will only be slapped hard by reality, and your front teeth and teeth will be knocked out on the ground.
A mouthful of bitterness.
Now, they finally understand that going south is not as simple as hunting as they imagined. When the prey is powerful enough to kill all hunters, the roles of hunter and prey have quietly changed.
The first defeat brought them not only the test of life and death and the experience of how to survive. It also brought them a clear and clear understanding of the true nature of war. Faced with death, the lucky people had a chance to encounter death.
Passing by, the unfortunate person's soul's throat was cut by the sickle of death and dragged into hell, where he may never be reincarnated.
Looting can bring wealth, land and women, but at the same time, there is a price to pay. When a powerful nation gradually awakens and shows a strong body, the identities of the plunderers and the plundered may also quietly change
The Khitans have been plunderers for decades and want to keep plundering. The Han people, under the leadership of Liu Ling, tasted the sweetness of plunder and began to show a stronger desire to plunder than the Khitans. Moreover, the Han people plundered
His methods are obviously more sinister and vicious.
There are countless grains, baggage, wealth and women in Taiyuan City.
This is a big cake that Liu Ling drew for the Khitan people. It exudes an alluring fragrance and looks and smells so mouth-watering.
On the surface, defending Taiyuan City is a very passive thing, but in fact the initiative has always been in Liu Ling's hands. Sometimes the means of plundering is not simply to break into other people's homes to grab things, but also to expose others
Lure others into your home with your breasts and thighs and then beat him to death with a sap. Take off his clothes and search everything on his body, then chop the naked body into pieces and feed it to the dogs to maximize the benefits.
As Liu Ling said, there is no more thorough and direct method than robbing human lives.
It is also what bandits do to lure hundreds of thousands of people who think they are bandits and then kill them. In terms of killing people without batting an eye, the Han people are not inferior to any other nation. On the contrary, the Han people are more proficient in things like conspiracy and conspiracy.
Some. After all, there are so many years of historical accumulation of intrigues, and when intrigues and murderous knives are maintained at a balance point, this nation will be extremely powerful.
According to the unwritten rules on the battlefield, soldiers from both sides would not fight each other when they were cleaning the battlefield and transporting back the body of the dead Paoze. So when two thousand-man teams of the Khitans appeared under the Taiyuan city wall again, the city wall
The defenders did not shoot the arrows on their bows. The lonely-looking Khitan warriors loaded the corpses one by one on the carriage and sent them to the camp. They tried their best not to harm the Han corpses. It was not in their hearts.
With good intentions, they could feel the killing intent emanating from the cold arrow clusters on the city wall.
Not far from the Khitan people, Han soldiers who were sitting on sliding baskets from the city wall were transporting the body of their own Paoze back to the city wall. They also tried their best to gently lift the Khitan body that was pressed on Paoze and put it away.
On the side, do not disturb the soul of the deceased who may still be sealed in the body.
Soldiers from both sides, who had fought sworn blood all over the ground not long ago, passed each other indifferently. Although neither side carried weapons, the scimitars lying around could split the other's head open with just one picked up.
However, no one did this at this time. Although there was hatred in each other's eyes that was difficult and unnecessary to conceal, and although their deliberately pretended indifference was followed by boiling murderous intent, they silently abided by the rule that the dead are the most important.
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Not many corpses of the Han army fell under the city wall, and many of them had been broken into pieces. The Han soldiers carefully picked up each piece of the body that belonged to the big man, and then put the pieces of meat into pieces with tears.
The city wall was pulled up in a sliding basket. They cried because they felt guilty and blamed themselves. They couldn't put Paoze's body back together, or even tell who this hand belonged to and who this foot belonged to.
After cleaning the battlefield, the soldiers on both sides separated with hostile looks in their eyes.
The Khitan people were still transporting corpses back to the main camp, and the Han soldiers who had searched every corner under the city wall returned to the city wall in bloody sliding baskets. Soldiers from both sides passed each other without any interaction.
, it seems that they are just passers-by in each other's lives.
It took two hours for two thousand-strong Khitan soldiers to load the seven thousand corpses into horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts and transport them back to the camp. Then, under the auspices of the great shaman, the piled-up corpses were placed on firewood in batches and burned.
The great shaman was performing a blessing dance while begging Changshengtian to accept the souls of these children of the wolf god. When the ceremony ended, the sky had quietly darkened. It was as if there was a huge one that no one could see.
Hands pull down the curtain, and the day ends after the night falls.
Although Liu Ling was in the city tower watching the Khitans attack the city, he did not appear on the city wall to command. According to the intelligence obtained by the Khitans, Liu Ling, the king of Han, should still be on his way to Taiyuan City from the south. Moreover,
There is no need for him to personally command such a battle. After six years of life-and-death campaigns, the Han army has emerged with a large number of mature generals. For example, Xu Xuan, the 21-year-old Ying Yanglang general, has participated in at least three battles.
Ten large-scale wars or more.
The seemingly fierce attack of the Khitans actually did not put too much pressure on the Han army. They made full preparations early and knew that the victorious side would not be the enemy after all.
After counting the casualties and reporting the numbers, Liu Ling's expression did not change at all. It seemed that it was really just a cold number that had nothing to do with life.
Eight hundred elite Han soldiers were killed in battle. Although the number was only one-tenth of the number lost by the Khitans, there is no doubt that in the eyes of the Han people, these 800 soldiers were much more important than the 7,000 Khitan soldiers.
Seven hundred thousand is important. It has always been like this. If your family suffers a little loss, no one will sympathize with the enemy even if the price paid by the other party is ten times that of your own. If possible, everyone would want to be on their side.
If one person does not die, the enemy's entire family will die. The key point is that this is impossible.
Years of fighting have made the Han soldiers despise life and death. To them, Paoze's departure may be another beginning of life.
Like the Khitans, more than 800 corpses were burned and then buried in Taiyuan City. Whether there is a custom of cremation or not, this is what must be done. If the corpses are not burned, no one can guarantee whether there will be a
The plague will wreak havoc and take away more lives.
On the first night after the fierce battle, the moon was bright, the sky was clear, and even the howling north wind had stopped, as if it was a conscience not to disturb the dreams of the tired soldiers.
Liu Ling was not worried that the Khitans would launch a second attack at night and lost almost all long-range weapons and siege towers. The Khitans also had no advantage at night. If the Khitans who consider themselves wolves think that night is the
They are totally wrong. Yelu Deguang has many years of combat experience. He should understand that the defense level of Etaiyuan City is nothing more than sending a few more people to die.
Han soldiers who were used to sleeping with the smell of blood did not have their rest affected by the fierce fighting during the day, but the Khitan people were different. Too many recruits could not adapt to the depressing feeling of death and suffered from insomnia. In order to prevent mutiny, Yelv Deguang
The celebratory wine was brought out in advance for the soldiers to drink, and the soldiers relied on the anesthesia of alcohol to take a nap to regain their energy. It is not known how many people were drunk, although they did not drink much wine.
Maybe if they vomit, their depression will be relieved.
The sun had not risen the next day, and the moon and stars were still sparse in the first half of the night. In the second half of the night, a thick layer of black clouds came from a distance to block the moon, and also blocked people's view of the moon.
It seems that the first snow of the year will fall soon, which is definitely not good news for the Khitan people.
If the snow falls very hard, I don't know if people and horses can survive it.
There is still enough fodder, and the grain and the cattle and sheep brought are enough for the soldiers to eat for a month. But if a heavy snow falls, no one knows how many of those cattle and sheep can survive. If the cattle and sheep die in large numbers, maybe
The 200,000 Liao troops coming from Datong would be without food if they could not hold out until the arrival of Yelu Xiongji's army.
Yelu Deguang looked at the thick clouds and felt extremely depressed.
"Send a team of 30,000 people to cut down as many trees as you can and build sheds for the animals! The sooner, the better!"
There was helplessness and anger in his voice.
He is beginning to hate Changshengtian now. Why does it have to send snow at this time? Does Changsheng innocently no longer favor the descendants of the Wolf God? If it snows, the Han army in the city will not worry. Taiyuan
There is plenty of food in the city, they have houses to keep warm, they can drink wine and watch the Khitan jokes on the city wall, and even blow some loud slogans.
Yelu Deguang's brows gradually tightened: "Give me the order to continue the attack after breakfast!"
He raised his head and looked at the sky, and prayed silently in the most sincere voice: "Changshengtian, please take back your anger. If the heavy snow falls, your descendants will freeze to death and starve to death and will never be able to return to the grassland.
Go up. As long as you give me another month, no! In half a month, I can take Taiyuan! Definitely! Definitely!"
However, maybe even he didn't realize that even when he was praying, he had no confidence that he could win this battle.
Maybe it was wrong from the beginning. Yelu Deguang suddenly remembered an idiom of the Han people, which had always been used as a joke... It’s hard to get off the tiger. (To be continued)
