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The sky is getting hotter and hotter, there is no wind, and the trees on the mountain are not moving, as if the whole Huashan is in motion.

Perhaps the mountain god was also shocked by the ongoing mass killing.

Two-thirds of the city was surrounded by mountains, and it was very hot without wind, and the clouds were thick, and many sergeants collapsed from heat stroke because of the hot weather and high mental stress. The loss of combat strength due to heat stroke occurred in both sides, and the proportion was about the same.

There are tens of thousands of horses on the battlefield, and not a single one is not sweating, and those sergeants who have devoted themselves to the battle can be said to have been soaked with sweat. On the city walls, the sweat dripping from the sergeants had already wet the city walls.

The speed of sweat dripping down the city has exceeded the speed of evaporation.

In the fierce defensive battle at the head of the city, Li Fu and Pang Zhong, who were originally arranged to rest and recuperate to replenish yesterday's physical exertion, have also appeared in the city, and they joined the defensive battle in the direction of the south gate according to Yang Xi's arrangement.

In this way, the defensive force at the head of the south gate has been strengthened to a certain extent, and the number of troops has also increased to about 8,000.

The number of sergeants fired at the enemy was increased to 2,000, and the number of arrows fired at each round became more dense.

"General, the rebels can't attack the head of Tongguan City!" After a lieutenant general shot all the arrows in the quiver on his body, he couldn't help but shout to Wang Sili, who was commanding the battle.

Although Wang Sili also felt this way in his heart, he did not show his joy, but ordered expressionlessly: "General Wu, the siege of the rebels has just begun, and they are attacking at the expense of their lives just to capture the Tongguan City team in one fell swoop, and Jin'er will occupy the entire city, we can't have any careless negligence, and we can't let the rebels have a chance to climb to the top of the city, otherwise the city will be ruined!"

"Yes! General!" The adjutant general surnamed Wu straightened up and answered the order loudly, and immediately ran away.

Wang Sili, who had already shot a pot of arrows and killed almost ten or so rebel officers, temporarily stopped shooting, and as the commander of the city, he had to make arrangements according to the situation on the battlefield. Originally, he was about the same level as Pang Zhong, but today Pang Zhong is also temporarily under his command, this is Yang Xi's order, and Pang Zhong does not dare to disobey during the extraordinary period. But he knew that Pang Zhong would not obey him, if he did not command the battle effectively, resulting in too many casualties on his own side and a very difficult defense, then Yang Xi would probably remove his command of the city head and hand it over to Pang Zhong or Tian Liangqiu.

He may be punished by military law for this, and if this happens, Ge Shuhan will not be able to protect him, after all, this is an extraordinary time, everything must be prioritized on the battlefield situation, and those who are ineffective in combat will definitely be punished. All he could do was to do his best to defend himself and try his best to break up the rebel offensive, even if the rebels began to ascend the city and some soldiers attacked the city, he would drive them down or destroy them all.

Now Wang Sili's arrangement is like this, with 2,000 people as a team, a total of four teams of sergeants, taking turns to shoot at the rebels.

Such intensive and high-frequency shooting can almost exert the maximum lethality, the arrows are dense enough, and the sergeant will not be too physically exhausted, and he can recover a certain amount of physical strength in between rounds of shooting.

Pang Zhong and Li Fude added to the direction of the south gate, this move made Wang Sili's feelings about Yang Xi change a little, Yang Xi did not put this man and horse to his side, put it in the direction of the east gate, but put it at the south gate, and said that if the pressure at the south gate was too great, he would personally lead a group of men and horses to come to help. After all, the enemy is at present, everyone is in danger, there are more troops around him, and there is more sense of security, Yang Xi did not put more troops around him because of personal considerations, but put them where they are most needed, which is very admirable.

"The general ordered that the rebels must be stopped under the city wall at all costs, and the reinforcements can arrive after dark, as long as we hold out until dark, the rebels will not be able to do anything about Tongguan City!" Wang Sili brandished his war knife and viciously shouted orders to the sergeants around him, "If someone is cowardly or escapes from the battle, he will not be spared!"

Wang Sili's voice was loud enough, and the sergeants on the side were shocked, and those sergeants who felt a little exhausted seemed to have increased their strength a little bit when they were frightened, and their bows were even more open.

The arrows fired into the attack on the rebel formation are still very dense, and there is no sign of weakening, and the rebels' charging formation is also maintained as dense and frequent as before, when the arrows fall, more and more sergeants are shot to the ground, and the forbidden ditch has been filled in one layer, especially the west edge of the ditch, because the most fallen sergeants are about the height of a person's body higher than other places, which also makes the sergeants who climb the west edge need to spend less physical strength, but because the arrows fired from the beacon tower of the twelve cities on the head of the city and nearby are not reduced, Almost all the sergeants who were lucky enough to climb the western edge of the forbidden ditch were also shot.

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At last the wind came, and it was very strong at once, and it brought a whistling as it blew over the pass, and the sergeants on the top of the city swayed, and the arrows they shot were blown off the target, and the strength was blown away from the point.

However, most of the arrows still fell on the rebels who continued to charge, but the lethality was much lower.

Some of the rebel sergeants who climbed the west wall of the forbidden ditch and climbed the ladder were blown up by the strong wind, fell off the cliff wall or ladder, and pressed down on their companions below, causing a series of panicked screams.

However, such a strong wind blew to make all the Tang generals in the city complain, their most effective weapon to kill the enemy was arrows, condescending shooting made the rebels' attacks pay a heavy price, but the continuous wind weakened the power of the arrows.

If the rebels can't be inflicted enough damage with arrows, there will be more and more rebels who can rush to the west edge of the forbidden ditch, and more ladders will be erected, and the situation will immediately develop in favor of the rebels.

Yang Xi also complained bitterly, he didn't expect God to go against him!

"Click......" An earth-shattering thunder sounded between everyone's defenselessness, startling Yang Xi, who was secretly sighing, and immediately looked up at the sky. Only then did he realize that although the sun was still shining in the distance in front of him, half of the sky above his head had been obscured by dark clouds.

Most of my attention was attracted by the situation on the battlefield just now, and I didn't pay attention to the changes in the sky, but now I found that the sky over Huashan has changed, and a common summer thunderstorm is coming. The wind is blowing harder, "It's going to rain heavily!" But the reinforcements haven't arrived yet, what should we do later? Yang Xi, who looked up at the sky, muttered to himself.

"It's going to rain heavily," Cui Qianyou, who was located on the east side of the forbidden ditch, although he was staggered by the strong wind, he couldn't help but be surprised, and after saying something similar to Yang Xi, he shouted happily to the guards and deputy generals on his side: "God really help me!"