"Order all generals to be ready to shoot any rebels who dare to charge outside the city, and not let the rebels have any possibility of landing in the city!" Goshuhan calmly gave a new order. While ordering his generals to stand by to guard against a larger charge by the rebels, he ordered the sergeants to prepare hay and oil, and planned to burn them in a fire when the corpses of the rebels had accumulated to a certain extent in the forbidden ditch.

In fact, burning the corpses in the forbidden ditch with fire is a last resort, and the west edge of the forbidden ditch is attached to the city wall, and if a fire ignites in the forbidden ditch, the damage to the city wall is not small. The fire was too large, and it was likely that it would also cause some damage to the city walls.

The walls were built of earth and stone, and were covered with bricks, not all of which were made of bricks. When the fire is hot, if you pour cold water on it, the wall will definitely crack, and the masonry outside may not be intact, and even the gate tower may be set on fire.

If there had been time to slowly remove the corpses and other accumulations from the forbidden ditch, none of the generals would have chosen to burn them. This method is a double-edged sword, and it should only be used when there is no way to do so. Just like the last battle of Hantong Pass, if it weren't for the fierce attack of the rebels, Pang Zhong and Li Fu would not have repelled the rebels' attacks by burning in front of the city they were holding.

To a certain extent, this can be considered suicidal, and generally the besieging side will use fire to inflict damage on the defenders on the city, rather than the defenders taking this way to defend against the enemy.

But if the forbidden ditch is filled and the moat becomes a thoroughfare, the almost suicidal means of clearing will have to be used again.

Wang Sili is a very experienced general, although in the battle of Lingbao, he led the front army suffered a crushing defeat, but this does not affect Ge Shuhan's trust in it, it can be said that the command affairs of the south gate city are mainly based on him, he acts very decisively and strongly, the marching Sima Tian Liangqiu is relatively cowardly, and when he is in charge of the military affairs on behalf of Ge Shuhan, he can not restrain Wang Sili at all.

In today's battle command, Tian Liangqiu also obeyed Wang Sili.

After receiving Yang Xi's report, Wang Sili immediately understood the rebels' intention to attack, and immediately ordered the bed crossbow to speed up the firing rhythm, striving to shoot more rebels on the east side of the forbidden ditch, and speeding up the density of the sergeant's arrows, striving to give the rebels greater damage and destroy their morale.

He believed that as long as the rebels were given the maximum damage, the rebels would be terrified, the sergeants would be shocked, and the pace of the attack would slow down or even retreat.

With Wang Sili's order, the arrows shot from the city became more dense.

In the rain of arrows, the rebel sergeants who charged almost in vain, and tried by all means to climb to the west edge of the forbidden ditch, fell like straw, stubble after stubble, and many of them were full of arrows.

Under the west edge of the forbidden ditch, the corpses of many rebel sergeants have been piled up, some of the wounded and not dead sergeants were also trampled under the feet of the companions who followed the charge, and lost their lives because of the trampling, and some of the sergeants who charged and were ready to climb the wall of the forbidden ditch were pressed down by the sergeants who climbed halfway up and fell down, and these poor people became the stepping stones of the follow-up charging companions. Because there were a large number of defenders on the head of the city, each batch of shots was about 1,000 people, and the interval between the two rounds of shooting before and after was small, and the arrows appeared to be very dense.

The rebel sergeants, who were forced to charge by the commander-in-chief, became the targets of the defenders of the city, and the damage they did to the defenders of the city was negligible.

Wang Sili was so excited by the large number of casualties of the rebels that he even screamed a few times from time to time to boost the morale of the sergeants.

Of course, Wang Sili still has a kind of revenge mentality, two days ago in Lingbao, the front army he led was ambushed by the rebel Cui Qianyou, more than 50,000 men and horses were almost wiped out, today no matter what, he must take advantage of the steepness of the city pass to give the rebels the greatest damage.

His eyesight is very good, his archery skills are also very good, and his strength is great, and he is not idle when he directs the sergeants in battle, and from time to time he takes a bow and arrows to shoot the rebels who come at him. He didn't shoot ordinary sergeants, but picked out the rebels in the outfits of lieutenants, generals, and lieutenant generals.

He has his arrogance, he is the commander of the army, and he will not kill those nobodies unless he is forced to do so.

A rebel general dressed in heavy bright light armor fell into Wang Sili's eyes, and he immediately aimed his arrows. In today's hot weather, few people will wear such a heavy Mingguang armor, and the Mingguang armor will be hot in the sun, and the body will not be able to stand it if it is stuffy in the heavy armor. The only possibility is that this was a high-ranking rebel commander who rushed to the front to coordinate the frenzied charge of the troops against the city, or to oversee the army.

After roughly estimating, the bottom of the forbidden ditch where the rebel general was standing was about one hundred and seventy steps away from the head of the city, almost outside the range of all bows and arrows, and it seemed that the rebel general had also estimated the distance and stood in a relatively safe position, so as not to be killed by the arrows on the head of the city, and could command the men and horses to attack. That position is the dead end of the crossbow shooting from the bed at the head of the city.

But Wang Sili became interested in it!

Wang Sili used a three-stone bow, which can be said to be the heaviest bow among all the generals used in Tongguan Town, with a maximum range of 200 steps, that is, about 300 meters, and he wanted to shoot this rebel general with his heavy bow.

In the sound of "creaking" and "creaking", Wang Sili drew his bow to the fullest, aiming at the rebel general who was standing on the pile of corpses at the bottom of the forbidden ditch nearly two hundred steps away, brandishing his war knife and directing his soldiers to quickly attack the city.

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Li Qian commanded the outpost to launch a fierce attack in the direction of the south gate of Tongguan City, but the effect of the attack was almost unbearable to witness, and most of the more than 1,000 people who attacked the first batch were killed and wounded. Cui Qianyou, who personally led his troops to the east edge of the forbidden ditch, did not blame Li Qian much after seeing the battle situation, but handed him another 4,000 men and horses, and asked him to attack the head of Tongguan City at any cost.

Li Qian could only let go, and after changing into a Mingguang armor, he rushed to the bottom of the forbidden ditch, stood on the corpses piled up by the sergeants, and commanded the attack.

Several of his own soldiers held shields to shield him from arrows that might fly.

However, this distance is not at such a distance except for the bed crossbow, under normal circumstances, no other arrow can shoot so far, and it is the dead angle of the bed crossbow shooting, Li Qian is not worried about the danger that he may be shot by the arrow.

But no one expected that a heavy arrow flew towards the place where he was standing, and it was not until the arrow was close that he and his guards noticed it, but it was too late to cover it, and the whistling arrow hit him right in the face, piercing into his face.

Li Qian only had time to let out a muffled snort, and then he fell, whimpering for his life.

The death of the commander of the battle caused confusion among the fiercely charged rebels, some of whom turned and ran back in panic, and many fell from the ladder erected on the wall of the ditch in a panic, and the offensive slowed down, causing a burst of cheers from the Tang soldiers at the head of the city.

Cui Qianyou jumped like thunder, and immediately ordered another Zhonglang general to replace Li Qian and command the siege battle!

Not many people paid attention to it, at this time, the sky above Tongguan had changed its face, and it slowly began to accumulate dark clouds, and the sun was covered by clouds at some point.

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