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The offensive and defensive battle of Tongguan City, in terms of casualties, whether it is Ge Shuhan or Wang Sili, the casualty ratio they recognize is ten to one, that is, the besieging side pays the price of ten casualties in order to kill a sergeant on the head of the city, and to capture the Sui Tongguan City, which is guarded by more than 10,000 people, theoretically speaking, at least tens of thousands of corpses must be filled in, so that it is possible to occupy this extremely dangerous city.

If there were fifty or sixty thousand horses in Tongguan City, then whether it was Ge Shuhan, Wang Sili, or even Yang Xi, the supreme commander who had not fully grasped the situation in Tongguan, believed that they could easily hold Tongguan City.

But now there are only about 13,000 men and horses in the city, and they are all remnants of the defeated generals, and the reinforcements have not yet arrived, and it is not entirely certain when they will arrive. Whether they could wait until the arrival of a large reinforcement before the sergeants were exhausted, no one dared to be sure.

At the beginning of the rebel siege, it is not surprising that most of the rebels besieging the city will be annihilated with arrows, simmers, rolling stones and other weapons, and the key is how to deal with the rebels' continuous siege and overnight attacks. The rebels can continue to attack with crowd tactics, but the soldiers defending the city do not have enough men to rotate, and they are destined to be exhausted and exhausted by the time they arrive.

If the sergeants at the head of the city were exhausted and reinforcements had not yet arrived, the situation would be extremely critical.

Many of the generals at the head of the city expected that the rebels would retreat from the siege after suffering heavy casualties.

But that shouldn't be realistic!

Under the attack of the sergeants at the head of the city in turn and dense arrows, the rebels attacking the city in the direction of the south gate suffered heavy casualties, and most of the more than 1,500 people that Li Qian first brought to the south gate have died in the forbidden ditch, and a few were shot dead by the Tang army sergeants at the head of the Twelve Liancheng and Tongguan City when they climbed to the west edge of the forbidden ditch. The rebel sergeants who were shot were hit by several arrows, and many of them actually fell a dozen arrows and became "hedgehogs".

Those who were seriously wounded and not dead fell in the forbidden ditch and could not move, and those who were lightly wounded either found a place to hide, or continued to climb west with the few unwounded sergeants and the men and horses who followed the charge. These surviving sergeants who were the first to charge were lucky enough to shoot the fatal blow with the cover of their companions' corpses and some protruding parts of the mountain.

There were still unburned corpses of Tang soldiers in many places in the forbidden ditch, the weather was very hot, rotten, and emitted an unpleasant stench, mixed with the smell of burnt and oil. Before the siege began, the rebel sergeants standing in the forbidden ditch and the Tang sergeants on the head of the city couldn't stand this smell, but after the fierce battle, this smell seemed to fade, whether it was the rebel sergeants besieging the city or the Tang sergeants defending the city, it seemed that they didn't smell the bad smell anymore. This is a distraction, and any sergeant will devote all his energy to the fight, and even if there is a strong smell, they may not be able to smell it.

Four or five rounds of arrows were fired, and more than 10,000 arrows hit the heads of the rebel soldiers besieging the city, inflicting heavy damage on the rebels besieging the city, but the generals such as Ge Shuhan and Wang Sili at the head of the South Gate City did not have any joy. This is just the beginning, the next battle will be even more tragic, today's Tongguan City, is destined to be a place full of killing. The countless rebel sergeants under the city, as well as the Tang army sergeants who rotated in an orderly manner at the head of the city, most of them may not see the sun tomorrow.

Soon, the original Lingbao soldiers in the forbidden ditch fled back after the defeat but the corpse of the Tang army who died in the forbidden ditch was burned, the tragic situation was basically invisible, the layer of ash had been covered with the corpses of the rebels or the bodies of the wounded, and there were continuous follow-up rebels and horses rushed down from the east side of the forbidden ditch, stepped on the corpses of their companions, charged to the west side, and used all means to climb the high ditch wall.

"What if the rebels fill the ditch with corpses?" Ge Shuhan, who was sitting on the south gate tower watching the battle, muttered.

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Yang Xi, who was standing on the tower of the East Gate and commanding the battle, in addition to observing the battle situation at the East Gate very carefully, did not turn his head to pay attention to the battle situation in the direction of the South Gate. Of course, he found that the battle scene outside the south gate was much more intense than outside the east gate.

Although there is no forbidden ditch outside the east gate, the terrain is relatively narrow, the rebels can not open a larger attack formation, the dense arrows on the head of the city are very lethal to the attacking rebels, even if the rebels hold their shields high and charge, there is not much defensive effect, there are always high-speed flying arrows that can cause damage to the rebels, no matter how tightly the shield is covered, a few sergeants will be injured will cause their shield array to leak.

There was a leak, and the killing effect of the arrows shot down from the city head immediately spread, which further damaged the shield defense effect of the rebels under the city head, and more and more soldiers were killed by the arrows. Moreover, if the rebels who rushed to the bottom of the city wall wanted to build a ladder to reach the city, it was impossible to keep their shields against the arrows that came from them, and the sergeants suffered even greater casualties when they set up the ladder and prepared to ascend the city.

The continuous onslaught did not allow many sergeants to rush under the city walls, and the number of ladders that could be erected was only a handful, and they were quickly pushed down by the Tang army sergeants at the head of the city.

It is impossible to climb the city with a light ladder, there must be several sergeants to help each other below, otherwise it will be pushed down, but the number of sergeants who can rush to the city is really small, and even the ladder can not be erected more, not to mention the sergeant cloud pressure and the ladder that is erected.

The rebels who began to charge in the direction of the east gate continued, and at least five or six thousand sergeants had charged in the direction of the east gate, but in the end only a few hundred sergeants were able to rush to the bottom of the city wall, and the rest were either wounded or killed, or were blocked by the wounded and dead, and could not advance.

While dodging arrows, sasswood, and rolling stones at the head of the city, these hundreds of people also had to find a way to set up ladders. But the strength of a few hundred people was too small, the arrows on the city were very dense, and there were a lot of sassal logs and rolling stones, and these hundreds of sergeants eventually became the corpses of Hengchen under the city of Sui Tong Pass, and were trampled by the companions who charged later.

The rebel sergeants who were killed or wounded by the arrows have seriously hindered the follow-up rebel attacks, after all, the roads to the east gate are all stairs, and the dead and wounded are lying there in all directions, which will definitely hinder the follow-up charging men and horses, and Cheng Wei, who commanded the battle, had to order the follow-up sergeants to clean up the dead and wounded and not block the road of the charge. However, the number of dead and wounded rebels was too large to be cleared at once, and the impact of the follow-up sergeants was greatly affected. The arrows of the Tang army at the head of the city continued to shoot intensively, and a large number of the sergeants who charged in the follow-up were still shot down.

A large number of sergeants were killed and wounded, blocking the road, causing the follow-up sergeants to fail to rush forward smoothly, and the attack in the direction of the east gate slowly weakened after a period of time. The rebel sergeants who rushed to the east gate continued to decrease, Yang Xi of course saw it, he was no longer worried that the east gate would be captured by the rebels soon, and his attention was turned to the direction of the south gate.

The battle in the direction of the South Gate is getting more and more intense!