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Yang Guozhong's request may sound too much to others, but Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan did not make any fuss about it, because Yang Guozhong has been doing this all these years, and Li Longji has also given him such trust.

Yang Guozhong said such a thing, which was understood by Li Longji as a kind of thoughtfulness and care for him!

"Well, Guozhong, then you have to bother, Tongguan affairs, you can care more for me, I really want to sleep well!" Li Longji said and yawned faintly, and then asked Yang Guozhong: "Guozhong, you also have to pay attention to rest, I know that you haven't been back to the house for several days, and you have been handling affairs in the palace day and night, hard work!" By the way, does your wife know about Shiro leading the army to rescue Tongguan? ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is not hard, now that the country is in trouble, the minister, as a minister entrusted by His Majesty with important affairs, should be diligent in government affairs and dare not slack off!" After Yang Guozhong straightened his chest and said a word, he whispered back to the question behind Li Longji: "Your Majesty, the minister didn't dare to tell the insiders about Shilang leading the army to rescue Tongguan, if she knew, maybe she would run to the palace and cry for Your Majesty......"

Yang Guozhong looked embarrassed, he knew best how much his wife loved this little son, and he also strictly ordered the people in the house not to tell his wife Pei Rou the news that Yang Xi led the army to aid Tongguan, otherwise Pei Rou would not know how he would call the sky and grab the earth, maybe he would use a knife to coerce him and ask him to call his son back; It is also possible to run to the palace and complain to the emperor and ask for Yang Xi to be called back!

What he told Pei Rou was that Yang Xi went to live in Zhuangzi outside the city for a few days to recuperate, and it was too hot in the city! However, Pei Rou still didn't believe all this, because Yang Xi didn't come to tell her before leaving, this was very abnormal, but she was still weak and didn't have the energy to investigate this matter. Yang Guozhong could only say that Yang Xi was ordered by the emperor to recuperate, and it was too late to say goodbye to her, and she was sleeping when she left, and she couldn't bear to wake her up.

But Yang Guozhong also knew that this matter would eventually be known by Pei Rou, and he could hide it for as long as he could, as long as Yang Xi returned safely in the end, everything would not be a problem.

"Well, don't let her know!" Li Longji said, a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, then slowly closed his eyes, waved his hand to Yang Guozhong, and said: "Guozhong, you go and get busy, if there is anything you can solve on my behalf, go into the palace and talk to me about the difficult things!" If there is big news from Tongguan, come in and tell me! I really can't rest assured about the situation ahead, Tongguan has too few troops now!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, there is news in Tongguan, and the minister will definitely report it as soon as possible! Your Majesty, don't worry, Tongguan will definitely be fine! Your Majesty should rest for a good life, the courtiers will take care of your Majesty, Your Majesty will rest for a few days, and then talk about it! The minister retired first!" Yang Guozhong said, glanced at Yang Yuhuan's alluring physical scenery beside Li Longji, and then retreated and left Li Longji's bedroom.

He also immediately wrote a letter and asked people to send it to Yang Xi in Tongguan with a post station horse, instructing some things to pay attention to.

Yang Xi had already seen the letter sent by Yang Xi after killing Bian Lingcheng, and he had no grudge against Yang Xi for killing Bian Lingcheng, and praised Yang Xi for doing a beautiful job and gaining the support of his generals. He also comforted Yang Xi in the letter, let go of things, and try his best to grasp the military power, if there is anything difficult to solve, write to him immediately, and tell him that he will ask in front of the emperor!

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Yang Xi, who had been watching the battle at the head of Tongguan City, didn't know that the situation in Chang'an was so complicated, and he didn't know that his "traitorous" father had already obtained a very sacred-sounding and respectable position for him in Li Longji, and he didn't know that Chen Xuanli was here to take advantage of the fisherman, and his attention was now all on the fierce battle in front of the Hantong Pass.

The rebels' eighth desperate attack was repulsed again, but the next attack began to be organized immediately, and at this time, the defenders on the head of the city had already consumed a lot of strength, and many sergeants could not even draw their bows, let alone pull them full, and the speed and scale of the rebels' attack were obviously magnified compared to the last time, and he knew that the situation was more difficult, and the battle would be more cruel!

Soon it was dark, the sun had lost its brilliance and was about to set on the other side of the mountain, and he hoped that Li Fu and Pang Zhong would hold on until dark!

Gao Shi, who had been watching the battle at the head of the city, couldn't help it, ran to Yang Xi again, and expressed his thoughts: "Yang soldiers and horses, General Li and General Pang fought too well in Hantong Pass, the rebels have nothing to take advantage of, and the last general feels that if he divides another part of the army, he will definitely be able to hold the Hantong Pass City and not let the rebels capture it!" The last general is willing to lead 2,000 horsemen to Zhiying, please ask Yang soldiers and horses to give permission!"

Gao Shi was full of passion and blood when he said this, and the fierce battle in front of the Hantong Pass City was bound to ignite all the men in his heart. Not only him, but also those other soldiers, including those who had experienced the defeat of Lingbao, were also excited again, ready to try! Gao Shi was the most enthusiastic, and he ran to Yang Xi again to ask for his life.

"General Gao, your invitation to fight still can't be agreed!" Yang Xi still rejected Gao Shi's request, "If there are 10,000 more horses, I will not hesitate to order you to lead the army to aid Hantong Pass, and try your best to hold Hantong Pass, so as not to let the rebels move forward!" But now we have too few troops in our hands, to hold the Tongguan City where we are standing now, the troops are stretched, if we divide the troops again, the Tongguan City we are standing on now will have fewer troops to defend! Don't you see that Marshal Geshu not only withdrew the defenders of Hantong Pass, but even the men and horses of the twelve cities were withdrawn, because he was worried that the troops on the city were too small to resist the large-scale siege of the rebels! Not only will this general not agree to anyone leading an army to support Hantong Guancheng, but he will also withdraw the thousands of men and horses there and defend this Suitong Guancheng under our feet together with our men and horses here!"

Although Yang Xi said very firmly, he was also very helpless, he had too few troops in his hands, he was afraid that he would send more men and horses to Hantong Pass, and if he could not withdraw and be severely damaged or annihilated by the rebels, he would not have the strength to hold the Suitong Pass where he was standing now.

Sui Tong Pass is the last gateway to defend Chang'an, once lost, the rebels can go straight to Chang'an, Tongguan to Chang'an is not dangerous to defend.

If he had enough troops, he would not have any hesitation at all to send more men and horses to defend the Hantong Pass, even if all of them were killed, it didn't matter, as long as he could hold the Hantong Pass. But not now, he has already made up his mind to defend Suitong Pass with all his might, taking advantage of the more dangerous terrain of Sui Tong Pass City to keep the rebels in front of the pass.

Yang Xiduo hoped that the reinforcements would arrive immediately, before the Hantong Pass City was abandoned, so that he would not order the more than 2,000 men and horses of the Hantong Pass City to retreat, but would send men and horses to support!

How helpless!

Yang Xi was very indignant at the sluggishness of the follow-up action!

But he also knew that it was likely that before dark tomorrow, the follow-up army for help would not be able to arrive, and only a rescue army of thousands of people like him could arrive, which could not fundamentally solve the problem.

Of course, Yang Xi had a little other thoughts in his heart, but he didn't tell Gao Shi!