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Hearing Yang Xi say this, Gao Shi was also gloomy, and left with a long sigh.

What Yang Xi said is quite reasonable, and finally giving up the Hantong Pass City and retreating to the Sui Tong Pass City, which is ten times more dangerous than the Hantong Pass City, is indeed something that must be done with the current troops. Under such an offensive by the rebels, the Hantong Pass City will undoubtedly be broken, and it is only a matter of time before the city is broken, even if all the people in the Tongguan City are poured over. More than 10,000 men and horses who experienced the defeat of Lingbao could not withstand the attack of the rebels with Hantong Pass alone.

In the past few months, the Hantong Pass has experienced countless battles, whether it is the pass or other protective facilities, it has been seriously damaged, there is no time to repair, the defense capability is greatly reduced, no matter who leads the army, it is impossible to use it as the last defensive fortress, and defend it with all its might.

If the Hantong Pass has been effectively repaired, there is still a theoretical possibility.

If you want to defend the natural danger of Tongguan, you can only rely on the natural danger of the forbidden ditch, the protection of twelve consecutive cities, and the Sui Tong Guancheng, which is more dangerous than the Hantong Guancheng and the mountainous arch guard. As long as there are enough troops and weapons in the Sui Tong Pass City, even if the rebels attack hundreds of thousands of people in turn, they will not be able to capture the Sui Tong Pass City.

Sui Tong Pass City is the last defensive place of their more than 10,000 remnants of the defeated generals, and it is also the most reliable defensive position, which can only hold on to wait for reinforcements and make the final desperate fight, unless the follow-up reinforcements continue to arrive, so that more important passes can be used to block the attack of the rebels, and even kill and injure the rebels on a large scale.

When Gao Shi was arranging in Geshuhan, he had raised opposing opinions, opposing the removal of the men and horses on the Hantong Pass City and the Twelve Lian Cities, but in the end his opinion was not adopted. However, he finally agreed with Ge Shuhan's decision to abandon Hantong Pass City and defend Sui Tong Pass with all his might, but he still disagreed with the decision to give up the Twelve Liancheng.

Now there are about 120 sergeants on the twelve super-large beacon towers in the Twelve Liancheng, and these sergeants will work together with the sergeants at the head of Tongguan City to resist the rebels who must cross the forbidden ditch to launch an attack on Tongguan City, and try their best to inflict maximum damage on the rebels. The natural danger of the forbidden ditch is not possessed by the Hantong Guancheng, and the defense capability of this ditch alone can be compared with tens of thousands of soldiers, but it is a pity that there are still many corpses in the ditch that cannot be burned, and the defense ability has been discounted a little.

Gao Shi hopes that God will favor them!

Looking at the background of Gao Shi's departure, Yang Xi also sighed heavily, and at this time, he also truly understood the taste of fish and bear's paws.

Hantong Pass is indeed an excellent pass to defend against the rebels' attacks, even if it is dilapidated, but he now has too few troops in his hands, and he is a remnant of the defeated generals, he really does not dare to divide the troops, that is, he is afraid that if the troops go out, they will be eaten by the rebels, and they will no longer be able to defend the Sui Tong Pass. If the troops were sent to Hantong Pass again, and Hantong Pass City was captured by the rebels, the morale blow to the remaining sergeants could not be described. He can't afford to gamble that he doesn't know when the follow-up reinforcements will arrive!

Not only has this concern, because the section from Suitong Pass City to Hantong Pass City is a mountain road, which is not easy to walk, and the speed cannot be raised, Yang Xi has also been worried about whether the people and horses of Hantong Pass City can be safely withdrawn.

If the rebels were spotted by the rebels when they were retreating, it would be very difficult to let the men and horses into the city and keep the rebels out of the city. Only let more than 2,000 men and horses into the city, with the help of the soldiers on the twelve companies of the city to block the attack, and send men and horses to respond, it should be possible, if there are more men and horses, then the difficulty will be multiplied, unless part of it is abandoned.

Yang Xi fully understood the reason why Ge Shuhan abandoned Hantong Pass City after the defeat and concentrated his forces to retreat to Sui Tong Pass.

When will reinforcements arrive?

The hateful Ge Shuhan, when he was fighting out of Tongguan, he drained all the troops near Tongguan, and it would be nice if he left some.

If it weren't for the several small-scale ambushes he urgently arranged, and then let Li Fu and Pang Zhong use Hantong Pass as a stopping point to delay the rebels' attack speed, then the rebels would have been under Suitong Pass by now, desperately attacking the city. He didn't know how long the rebels could hold on to the defeated Sui Tong Pass where he was now standing, and whether they could hold on until the reinforcements arrived!

Just as Yang Xi sighed, the rebels attacked again, and the scale was obviously larger than the last time.

Yang Xi carefully observed the situation of each attack of the rebels, and he found that the number of rebels attacking the city was slowly increasing, from a few hundred people at the beginning, to more than 1,000 people now, and the follow-up people continued, and the latter group of people followed the more than 1,000 people in front.

Everyone knows that before and after dark are completely two different concepts, and the besieging side is definitely not willing to attack the city in the face of huge darkness after dark. It is impossible to attack Hantong Pass before dark, so it can only wait until tomorrow after dawn to attack. Of course, it is still possible to attack the city after dark, but the offensive and defensive battles after dark are more unfavorable to the besieging side, after all, the terrain around Tongguan is dangerous, and it is difficult to see the situation clearly, and the casualties paid will be greater if you want to attack forcibly, both the offensive and defensive sides know this, and in the past few months, the rebels have only attacked once or twice at night at the beginning, and then they gave up. The head of Tongguan City is extremely difficult to climb, and it is impossible to secretly send elite soldiers into the city to attack at night.

Looking at the sun that had already half sunset in the mountains, Yang Xi understood that this should be the last wave of attack of the rebels today, if it was prevented, it would be successful, at least it would buy him another night.

On this night, the rescued people and horses can travel at least dozens of miles, or even hundreds of miles, right?

Yang Xi also immediately sent an order, asking Li Fu and Pang Zhong to withstand the rebels' attacks no matter what, as long as they withstood the rebels' attacks, the rebels' attacks would stop after dark. The rebel offensive stopped, and that was when they could find a way to retreat.

Just as the people sent by Yang Xi to give the order rushed in the direction of the Hantong Pass, the siege of the rebels with the same suicidal nature had already begun.

In the direction of the south gate and the east gate, at least 2,000 or so sergeants each rushed towards the city wall, and the rebel sergeants with shields looked after each other, trying to return the ladder to the top of the city. As the rebels rushed towards the city walls, the arrows from the city began to fly again, and with countless screams, many of the rebel soldiers were wounded or killed by the arrows falling from the city.

But the rebels did not slow down in their attacks, and the sergeants, under the orders of their commanders, rushed forward in the direction of the city walls, and some of them took advantage of the favorable terrain to draw their bows and shoot at the defenders at the head of the city!

The fierce battle was fought in a bloody sunset, without a single bit of humanity!