Wang Sili's 3,000 men and horses lost more than 100 people, and the rest were all brought back to the city.

After settling down, Wang Sili also immediately ran to the city and reported the battle situation to Yang Xi. Yang Xi had already seen Wang Sili's heroic feats in the city, and rewarded him in person, and said that he would go to the table and submit the heroic deeds of all the generals to the imperial court, and ask the imperial court for rewards, especially the outstanding performance of Wang Sili, Pang Zhong and others, which would be reported to the imperial court and asked for rewards.

Wang Sili, who had always been worried about the defeat of the army and being punished by the imperial court, was naturally overjoyed!

The hay and hot oil on the top of the city are no longer thrown, but the fire in the forbidden ditch is still burning, and there is a tendency to become more and more vigorous, and the bamboo and wooden rafts thrown by the rebels into the forbidden ditch as bridges have been ignited and burned very violently.

Because the bamboo and wooden rafts are made of wet bamboo, a lot of smoke comes out when they burn. The wind blew from west to east, and the billowing smoke all blew into the rebel formation, obscuring the sky and the sun, and the movement in the rebel array could not be seen clearly on the top of the city, and only countless rebels in the billowing smoke could be seen holding their heads there, becoming more and more chaotic.

Wang Sili and Li Chengguang's men and horses had all withdrawn to the city, but the rebels, who did not know the situation, thought that the Tang army was still rushing and killing, and there were occasional fights with each other in the thick smoke.

The rebels' offensive has completely collapsed, and no more sergeants are attacking in the direction of the three gates of Tongguan City, but the Tang army at the head of the city still does not dare to slack off, and the sergeants have not withdrawn to rest, and they are on full alert.

"Marshal, your trick is really poisonous, the rebels have suffered heavy losses, and they will not be able to attack the city again for at least a few days!" Li Fude, who came to report the situation to Yang Xi, said with emotion.

The corners of Yang Xi's mouth showed a little contemptuous smile, and he said lightly: "The rebels only thought that bamboo and wooden rafts could build bridges, but they didn't expect that bamboo and wooden rafts would burn very strongly. But even if they can cross the forbidden ditch, they won't be able to attack Tongguan City!"

Looking at Yang Xi's confident face when he said this, the generals who came over to report the battle sighed with emotion, but they had a common idea in their hearts: Under the leadership of Yang Xi, Tongguan City was defended.

The rebels who have been hit hard in a row may not be able to attack the city, and even if they attack the city again, they still can't break through Tongguan.

Now there are more than 60,000 soldiers in Tongguan City, and follow-up reinforcements are still being replenished. When there were only more than 10,000 remnants of the defeated army in Tongguan City, the rebels could not break through the city, and as long as 60,000 or 70,000 horses defended the fortified city, Tongguan would definitely not be able to break it.

"Report!" A sergeant came quickly from a distance, went up to the city gate tower and rushed to Yang Xi, gasping for breath and reporting: "Marshal, the rebels have retreated!"

This sergeant ran from a beacon tower in the middle of the east gate and the south gate, the south gate is in the direction of a lot of smoke entangled, there is no way to see the enemy in the distance, but the smoke in the other directions is not too heavy, you can see the movement of the rebels in the distance, the sergeant on the beacon saw that the rebel army has retreated in the direction of Hantong Pass, and hurriedly came to report.

Yang Xi stared into the distance, but still couldn't see the movements of the rebels.

At this time, the sergeants on the beacon towers of several other twelve cities also came to report that the rebel rear army had retreated and quickly evacuated in the direction of Hantong Pass, and tens of thousands of rebels near Hantong Pass City were retreating in the direction of the road.

According to reports from various directions, Yang Xi determined that the rebels could not withstand the heavy losses and retreated, but he did not immediately order the sergeants on the city to withdraw to rest, let alone order any generals to go out of the city to pursue, he had to wait for the situation to be clear before making a decision.

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It turned out that Yang Xi was too careful, and after the rebels suffered such a major blow, there was a rout, and Cui Qianyou reported to An Qingxu, and An Qingxu, who was shocked, immediately ordered the whole army to retreat and withdraw to Shaanxi County.

This kind of situation is no one expected, in the development of combat methods, after the assignment of tasks, An Qingxu thought of the fierce battle under the city, his own men and horses in the hard battle to attack the head of Tongguan City, and finally after paying a heavy price, the Tongguan City was broken, but I did not expect that when the army just began to attack the city, it was calculated by the Tang Army.

A sky-high fire, so that countless sergeants turned into charcoal, the array of attacks immediately fell into chaos, squeezing each other to death countless sergeants, the Tang army and their own men and horses fell into chaos, rushed out of the city, took advantage of the fire to rob, many sergeants died under the Tang army's sword, the defense line collapsed in an instant, not to mention the attack, whether it can resist the Tang army's surprise attack is unknown. Fortunately, the Tang army also had scruples and did not counterattack on a large scale, otherwise the consequences would be really unpredictable.

Fortunately, when An Qingxu ordered the siege of the city, he ordered Tian Qianzhen, An Shouzhong, and Li Guiren to lead their troops to respond on both sides and rear flanks, otherwise the Tang army's all-out attack might really be able to defeat or even defeat their hundreds of thousands of people.

When he led the guards around him to quickly escape from Tongguan City, An Qingxu was still afraid, and at the same time he was blaming himself, today's attack decision was too hasty, and he didn't expect that the Tang army would take the form of fire attack to defend.

"This Yang Xi is really not a simple character!" When he angrily fled from Suitong Pass City and passed through the dilapidated Hantong Pass City, An Qingxu sighed with emotion.

However, when he retreated to Hantong Pass, An Qingxu stopped again, he couldn't leave the sergeants he led, no matter what, he had to gather his subordinates to prevent the Tang army from following and attacking. If the Tang army dared to go out of the city to pursue, he would not hesitate to set up ambushes along the way, and when the Tang army's pursuers arrived, he would give the Tang army a fatal blow, just like the battle of Lingbao.

He also immediately ordered his close generals An Shouzhong and generals Li Guiren and Tian Qianzhen to lead their men and horses to set up an ambush on another narrow mountain road west of Lingbao.

After Cui Qianyou packed up the people around him who were not in chaos, he also hurriedly evacuated Tongguan City, preparing to join An Qingxu and retreat to Shaanxi County.

Cui Qianyou personally led 30,000 horses, and these 30,000 horses have not been greatly impacted, and they are still in the system. But there are still tens of thousands of people in a mess behind who have not been gathered, and as for how much they can escape, it depends on the number of days. Cui Qianyou, like An Qingxu, also believed that the Tang army would definitely follow the pursuit, and he was ready to leave the men and horses behind him alone, and set up an ambush somewhere with his own men and horses to counterattack the Tang army.

After Cui Qianyou and An Qingxu met, they immediately discussed countermeasures!

However, just as they were discussing how to set up an ambush, the sergeant came to report that the Tang army in Tongguan City had not gone out of the city to pursue.

"It seems that Yang Xi knows that he can't go out of the city to pursue our army, he just stubbornly waits for help!" An Qingxu, who was extremely angry, threw away the horsewhip in his hand and said angrily.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, what are we going to do?" Cui Qianyou, who was afraid of being blamed for continuous defeat, asked cautiously.

"Retreat to Shaanxi County and report the battle situation of Tongguan to my father!" An Qingxu said, no longer paying attention to Cui Qianyou, turned over on the horse, and galloped east!

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