Chapter 16: Goshuhan's Support
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Yang Xi's decisive killing of Huoba Guiren and subduing the other plotters not only surprised most of his personal generals, but also shocked Ge Shuhan and Pang Zhong.
Yang Guozhong's youngest son is really decisive and ruthless!
Ge Shuhan and Pang Zhong also understood, Yang Xi's ignorance of Ge Shuhan's words just now was just to distract Huo Tu Guiren, not to put Ge Shuhan to death!
Otherwise, Yang Xi's men would not have shot those soldiers who held Ge Shuhan hostage in the first place and protected him!
After ordering his own soldiers to tie up all those who were kneeling on the ground, Yang Xi immediately ordered Li Defu and Pang Zhong to immediately lead his sergeants to the south gate, "General Li, General Pang, you quickly take your sergeants to the south gate to clear the remnants of the fire and Guiren, and I will order you to control the south gate no matter what the cost, and there will be no loss!" If anyone resists and refuses to obey, there will be no mercy!"
"Ahh This ......" Li Fu was taken aback, at this time Yang Xi would order him to take over the South Gate, if he led the army to leave, Ge Shuhan and Pang Zhong wanted to be unfavorable to Yang Xi, then with the hundreds of personal soldiers around Yang Xi, how could they deal with it?
He looked at Yang Xi and then at Pang Zhong, looking at a loss.
"General Li, General Pang, why don't you go quickly? Do you want to disobey? Yang Xi commanded again majestically.
He wasn't worried that Ge Shuhan and Pang Zhong would do something to him, his act of killing Huo Tu Guiren just now was enough to shock them and not make them make the wrong decision.
He was not worried that the 1,500 men and horses led by Li Fu would not be able to control the south gate, and the main subordinates of Huoba Quy Non would either be killed or captured by him, and at most one or two of the right-hand men who stayed at the south gate would suddenly kill them, and those people would definitely not be able to resist it!
He ordered Pang Zhong to go over, just to test how Ge Shuhan and his subordinates would react to his order, to take the lead and take the lead, and did not expect Pang Zhong to completely obey his orders now.
"You obey the orders of the Yang soldiers and horses, and go to the south gate quickly!" After Yang Xi finished ordering, Ge Shuhan said unexpectedly.
"Yes! Yang soldiers and horses, the last general will obey the order!" Li Fu hesitated for a moment, but still took the order, and led the 1,005 sergeants to gallop in the direction of the south gate, leaving the remaining more than 1,000 sergeants to Yang Xi.
Pang Zhong on the side hesitated for a moment, and saluted Ge Shuhan on the horse: "Marshal Ge Shu, the last general respects the order, go to the south gate immediately, the south gate must not be lost, otherwise the rebels will attack, and Tongguan will be lost!" As he spoke, he didn't wait for Ge Shuhan to respond, and immediately led the army to chase Li Fude.
Watching the long dragon of torches go in the direction of the south gate, and the sound of horses' hooves that shook the sky passed from near to far, Yang Xi breathed a long sigh of relief.
After Li Fu and Pang Zhong led their soldiers to the south gate quickly, Yang Xi returned the long sword in his hand to the sheath, jumped off the horse, walked to Ge Shuhan, and respectfully saluted: "Yang Xi, the new Tongguan soldier and horse envoy of the last general, will visit Marshal Geshu!"
After Ge Shuhan subconsciously replied, Yang Xi said again: "Marshal Ge Shu, the last general will be ordered by His Majesty to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to first aid Tongguan, and Chen Xuanli, the general of Zuo Longwu, will then lead tens of thousands of troops to help, and they will arrive at the earliest this evening!" The military situation is urgent, and the general will not talk about gossip, and he also asks Marshal Geshu to order all leading generals to hold an emergency military meeting and rearrange the defense of Tongguan after the south gate is safe!"
Seeing that Ge Shuhan was shocked, Yang Xi sighed, "Marshal Ge Shu, the last general knows that my father has a holiday with you, but now the situation is critical, even if there is a big holiday, don't think about it for the time being, the most important thing now is to try our best to block the rebels outside Tongguan City, and prevent the rebels from taking advantage of the peak of the army to capture Tongguan!" The last general led his sergeants to rush nearly 300 miles overnight, just for fear that Tongguan would be lost! Otherwise......"
Ge Shuhan is not an ordinary person in the end, he has stepped on the corpses of countless people step by step to climb to the current position, and has been attached to the Tang Dynasty for many years, and has also understood a lot of official skills, seeing Yang Xi's resolute expression, how can he worry about anything more, after a long sigh, he said: "General Yang, you came at the right time, Ben Shuai didn't expect that the imperial court would send people to rescue Tongguan so quickly, and asked General Yang to enter the account with Ben Shuai to discuss the rearrangement of the defense of Tongguan City!" Don't worry about the matter of the South Gate, with the two generals Pang and Li leading the army over, there will definitely be no loss!"
It can be said that Ge Shuhan was shocked by Yang Xi's decisive action just now, and he was also a little shocked by Yang Xi's fierce momentum! He knew that this kind of decisive momentum exuded by Yang Xi could not be revealed without experiencing many life and death!
But what he doesn't understand is that Yang Xi is a very famous gentleman in Chang'an City, although his talent and martial arts are good, he has never enlisted in the army, and he should not have killed anyone, but why does this young man exude such a terrifying momentum?
In Ge Shuhan's doubts, Yang Xi stepped forward and grabbed his hand, and when he helped Ge Shuhan to walk towards his house that was used as a handsome tent, he also whispered: "Marshal Ge Shu, in fact, the last general knows that his father's proposal is wrong, and now what our army needs to do is to defend Tongguan, confront the rebels, consume their strength, and drag them down, and only after the arrival of the army of King Qin from all over the country can we fight a decisive battle with the rebels!" Tongguan must not be lost, otherwise Chang'an is in danger! It's just that the situation is already like this, and no matter how much we investigate it, we can't change the reality, what we have to do now is to try our best to hold Tongguan, and not let the rebels open the door to Chang'an, and talk about the rest after Tongguan is defended!"
Ge Shuhan originally had hundreds of personal soldiers, but when the army was defeated, he lost most of them, and in the end there were only more than 30 left, and these 30 or so personal soldiers were all killed by Huo Bagui Ren just now, and there was no one around him to take care of and support him for the time being, so Yang Xi was of course obliged to help.
Yang Xi did not let others step forward to help Ge Shuhan, but personally supported Ge Shuhan back to the handsome tent, which made Ge Shuhan even more surprised.
Yang Guozhong's son, how could he treat him like this?
There was no word accusing him of defeat, but he said that he had played the imperial court several times before, and it was the best policy to defend Tongguan with all his might!
Is this still Yang Guozhong's son?
Puzzled, Ge Shuhan couldn't help but look sideways at Yang Xi's expression several times, and after not seeing that this young man was cheating him, he breathed a sigh of relief, and no longer cared about anything, and replied to Yang Xi's words: "Yang soldiers and horses, if your father also thinks so, it would be good to suggest that the imperial court go all out to defend Tong Pass, instead of letting Ben Shuai go out to fight, and there will be no situation like today!" Ben Shuai knows that the imperial court has appointed you as the envoy of Tongguan, so you must still have an edict to remove Ben Shuai from all his positions and send him back to Chang'an for disposal! If a certain soldier is defeated, he is willing to accept any disposition of the imperial court, and ask Yang Bingma to give an order, and a certain will hand over the defense of Tongguan City to you!"
The change in Ge Shuhan's self-proclaimed words made Yang Xi feel that the veteran had accepted the arrival of his new soldier and horse envoy, would no longer stumble, and was willing to confess his guilt to the imperial court, which made him breathe a sigh of relief, and immediately said: "Marshal Geshu expected one thing right, that is, the imperial court did issue an edict to remove you from all your positions, but did not order the last general to escort you back to Chang'an to punish the crime, but only ordered you to join the army in vain and atone for your crimes!" However, the last general knows that if you want to defend Tongguan City, Marshal Geshu is indispensable to you no matter what! Although the general will lead the army at the end of today and bring the holy order, you are still the supreme commander in command of the defense of Tongguan, and everything is at your disposal as you want to arrange!"
Seeing Ge Shuhan's puzzled look, Yang Xi smiled bitterly, and said bluntly: "Marshal Ge Shu, I think you also understand, if you don't have you, even if I, the soldier and horse envoy, carry the emperor's edict, I can't command many soldiers and horses in Tongguan City, so Tongguan City will definitely not be able to hold it!" At the moment of the great enemy, no matter what personal grievances there are, they should be put aside and work together to resist the enemy! I hope Marshal Geshu is the same!"
"Yang Bingma, your belly is much bigger than your father's!" Ge Shuhan stopped, looked at Yang Xi with a wry smile and a strange look, and said again: "But a certain hunch, the imperial court ordered a young man like you to lead the army to rescue, and he really chose the right person, if someone else led the army to rescue, the current Tongguan City would be in chaos, and a certain person would also be held hostage out of the city!" Even if you can arrive at this time, you may not dare to get rid of the fire so decisively! Hehe, listen to your advice, put aside all personal grievances, work together to resist the enemy, block the rebels under Tongguan City, and when Tongguan City is defended, you will take XX to Chang'an, and XX will ask for guilt in front of His Majesty!"
Ge Shuhan's mentality changed in a blink of an eye, Yang Xi was very surprised, of course, he was even more overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Marshal Geshu can put state affairs and military affairs first, and put personal grievances and safety at risk, the last general is very moved, after Tongguan is guarded, the last general will personally escort Marshal Geshu back to Chang'an, and explain the war in front of His Majesty, and beg Your Majesty to forgive your sins!" Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and Marshal Geshu was ordered by the imperial court to go out to fight before he failed, and the responsibility cannot be borne by you alone!"
Ge Shuhan understood Yang Xi's words as a kind of flattery, and even didn't care about his "blinding" for the time being, and after laughing twice, he said: "That's a matter later, let's talk about it after Tongguan is guarded!" However, now that the imperial court has removed a certain marshal, then you should no longer call me a marshal, the defense of Tongguan is also respected by you, and a certain will order all the generals to come over to discuss matters, so that they must obey your dispatch! Presumably, these generals will still give this thin noodles! I hope that Yang soldiers and horses can command the men and horses and hold Tongguan!"
In fact, Ge Shuhan himself didn't fully know why he changed his attitude towards Yang Xi in a moment and spoke like this!