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"Report to the deputy marshal, the defense of the Tang army is very tenacious, and our army has suffered heavy losses!" A lieutenant quickly ran to Cui Qianyou, who was still standing on the hillside watching the battle, and loudly reported the situation of the battle.

Cui Qianyou silently waved his hand to let the little lieutenant step back, indicating that he understood.

He saw the progress of the battle, he was fully aware that he had almost paid the price of more than 2,000 horses, but still not a single soldier attacked Tongguan City, a limited number of ladders had just been erected at the head of Tongguan City, and they were immediately pushed down, and those sergeants who were ready to climb the ladders finally ended up with a tragic death or serious injury.

The six waves of attacks were fruitless, although he also saw that such an attack had exhausted the physical strength of the defenders on the head of the city, and there were countless arrows shot under the city, but it was still early when the Tang army was exhausted and the arrows were exhausted.

If he had made so many sacrifices before Lingbao's victory, but still hadn't made any progress, he could only order to stop the attack.

But now everyone knows that the defenders in Tongguan City are seriously insufficient, only 10,000 or 20,000 horses at most, and there are nearly 150,000 men and horses besieging the city.

This is what he Cui Qianyou, as well as An Qingxu and An Lushan in Luoyang, do not want to see.

Before the battle of Lingbao, the situation was very unfavorable to them, and Cui Qianyou also knew this, and An Lushan had plans to retreat to Fanyang's hometown. Most of the troops were pinned down in front of Tongguan City, and the troops and horses led by Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Yan Zhenqing, Cheng Qianli, Li Siye and other Tang army generals attacked desperately in the rear, and gained an advantage, An Lushan and his generals, including Cui Qianyou, were worried that the passage between Luoyang and Fanyang would be cut off, and all the horses would be divided by the Tang army and annihilated one by one, so they wanted to retreat to Fanyang, their nest.

But after the victory of Lingbao, Ge Shuhan's 200,000 horses were almost wiped out, and Tongguan was almost to the point of no defense, if such an opportunity was not grasped, and Tongguan City was not taken to open the door to Chang'an, then there would be no chance to get involved in Chang'an.

After receiving the news of Lingbao's victory, An Lushan also gave a death order, he must take the opportunity to capture Tongguan, and he himself led his support to the direction of Tongguan quickly. Both An Qingxu and Cui Qianyou understand that now they can only capture Tongguan at any cost, and even if the corpses pile up to the height of Tongguan City, they will not retreat and give up. In order to capture the entire Tongguan Pass and open the gateway to Chang'an, the Hantong Pass in front of it must be captured, otherwise there will be no chance to Chen Bing Sui Tongguan City.

Cui Qianyou also ordered again to continue to adopt the tactics just now, and launched attacks on Hantong Pass City one after another.

With Cui Qianyou's order, the rebels, under the command of generals at all levels, continued to attack, and the scale of the attack increased slightly, the shields in the hands of the sergeants were more tightly covered, and they formed a large cover with shields, and quickly advanced to the city of Tongguan.

It was impossible for the cavalry to attack Tongguan City, and the cavalry could not exert their power at this time, so they could only use the infantry army, or order the cavalry to dismount and use it as infantry. They are good at the offensive and defensive battles of the city, and they know that in this case, if they can cover their bodies more tightly, the chance of being injured will be less, and the chance of saving their lives will be greater.

However, the terrain in front of Tongguan City is uneven, the height is very undulating, and the shield in the hands of the siege sergeant is raised high, and it is impossible to cover the body all the time, as long as the slightest negligence, the deadly arrow will hit their body, and then the fate of injury or death awaits them.

However, the arrows shot from the head of Tongguan City were still very dense, and the attacking rebel sergeants fell under the city one after another.

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"Another round of attacks has been repulsed!" On the tower of the east gate of Suitong Pass, Yang Xi, who was watching the battle, saw that the rebels launched another wave of attacks, but still suffered heavy casualties, and the remnants of the soldiers reluctantly retreated, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion. At this time, he ignored the corpses left by the rebels even more, and just hoped that Pang Zhong and Li Fude on the city tower could still support them and prevent the rebels from having a chance to enter the city.

Even if the rebels had a chance to climb the city, they must be killed before they reach the top of the city, so that not a single soldier can climb the tower.

According to his observations, the rebels had lost at least two or three thousand men and horses under the city, and the defenders at the head of the city had suffered no more than a few dozen casualties, and the rebels' subsequent attacks were almost on the corpses of their comrades.

The biggest reason for such a huge disparity in casualties is the terrain around Tongguan, if it were not for the treacherous terrain outside the southeast gate of Hantong Pass, the ups and downs, unable to deploy large-scale troops, and because of the topography, the rebels besieging the city could not gather the sergeants to launch organized arrow shooting at the defenders on the city.

This situation also caused such a disparity in the proportion of casualties, and the soldiers killed and wounded on the city were only injured by the limited arrows that were fired at the city, and did not cause great losses to the Tang army defending the city.

Just when Yang Xi sighed, Gao Shi quickly ran to the city gate tower and loudly asked him to lead the army to first aid Tongguan City in front.

The defenders of the Sui Tong Pass City almost all saw the fierce battle in the Hantong Pass City, this kind of scene has been seen often in the past few months, but today's taste is completely different, the Han Tong Pass City only has more than 2,000 troops, it is difficult to resist the continuous attacks of the rebels, the intensity and frequency of the rebels' attacks today are far greater than in the past, the most such a situation, the two thousand defenders do not know how long they can last.

Gao Shi, who had already seen the blood surging up, couldn't hold back, and asked Yang Xi again to let him lead the army to reinforce Hantong Guancheng.

Because he received Ge Shuhan's order to return to Beijing and asked the emperor not to go out to fight, Gao Shi missed the opportunity to go out to fight with Ge Shuhan, which also allowed him to avoid experiencing the fiasco of Lingbao, and there was not too much shadow in his heart, and he was more enthusiastic than other generals.

However, his request was again rejected by Yang Xi.

Yang Xi told him that unless follow-up reinforcements arrived, it would be impossible to send troops to support the Hantong Pass that was about to be abandoned, and now the soldiers had to do their best to hold the Sui Tong Pass and prevent this gateway to Chang'an from falling into the hands of the rebels.

Even if the Hantong Pass City falls into the hands of the rebels, as long as the Sui Tong Pass City is still in the hands of our army, it doesn't matter much. Our army is guarding the Suitong Pass, and the rebels occupy the Hantong Pass, only a few miles away, which is also acceptable, Yang Xi is not afraid of any confrontation!

After listening to Yang Xi's explanation, Gao Shi had no choice but to accept the order and prepare to pick up Pang Zhong and Li Fu's department after dark!

Yang Xi also ordered again to send an urgent military report requesting reinforcements to Chang'an through the fast horses at the post station, asking Emperor Li Longji to send reinforcements as soon as possible. While continuing to stand and watch the battle, Yang Xi was also wondering when the follow-up reinforcements would arrive at the earliest!