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The rebels took advantage of the cover of the poor sight and the Tang army on the head of the city to see the situation clearly, so that the sergeant climbed to the cloud ladder in advance, and then jumped directly when the cloud ladder was close to the city wall. The corpses were thrown into the city as weapons.

However, the rebels leaned on more and more ladders, and while the sergeants on the rebel heads used the crosswood to push out the ladders that had been erected, a large number of rolling stones and sassholes were thrown down from the city by the sergeants and smashed on the heads of the rebel sergeants who climbed the city.

The arrows, which were still dense, also fell on the heads of the rebels.

Because the situation in the distance was not clear, and I did not know what the attack method and formation of the rebels were, the arrows shot by the Tang army at the head of the city were aimless, just shooting into the rain curtain at a certain distance, and that direction must have been the rebels who were charging intensively. But the effect of such a blow was certainly not good, and a large number of rebels arrived under the city walls, ready to use the ladder to ascend the city. In this case, the archers' first task is to destroy the rebels under the city first, and the first target of each rotating team of sergeants is the rebels gathered under the city walls.

When the rebels began to attack the city, almost all the sergeants were assigned to the archer sequence, taking turns shooting at the enemy, but it rained heavily and the shooting effect was not good, and one sergeant abandoned the bow and arrow, picked up the sword, and used it as an axeman.

These sergeants were originally infantry troops, and their strength was not bows and arrows, but swords. However, when the rebels are charging intensively, the level of the bow and arrow is no longer important, as long as the bow can be drawn and the arrow can be shot, it can effectively kill and injure the rebels. But now that the rebels had begun to ascend the city, the sergeants with their swords abandoned their bows and arrows and stopped the rebels with their swords.

The archers wanted to shoot at the city, and the sergeants of the original infantry army also abandoned their bows and arrows and picked up their swords, and the density of bows and arrows fired at a distance was greatly reduced, and the rebels who were densely charged were also killed and wounded a lot, and more rebel sergeants used various methods to climb the western edge of the forbidden ditch, ready to climb the city, and had the opportunity to shoot the arrows of revenge.

However, the lethality of the arrows shot from the city to the city is pitiful, the arrow shot in a hurry cannot be very powerful, and the Tongguan city wall is very high, to overcome the effect of potential energy, but also to be reduced by the dense rain, when it falls on the city, it can be said that it has become the end of the strong crossbow, and there is no lethality. The number of Tang Army sergeants injured by the arrows fired by the rebels on the city was very small, and some were only a few unlucky ones.

At this time, the sergeants on the Twelfth Company played a great role, and the arrows they shot could effectively hit the rebel sergeants climbing in the forbidden ditch, and they could also transmit the observed rebel attacks back to the city for the city guards to know.

Pang Zhong joined forces with Li Fu to inflict heavy losses on the attacking rebels at the Hantong Pass, and successfully delayed the rebels' attack on the Suitong Pass until the afternoon. Lingbao was defeated, and the shadow caused by the almost annihilation of the 100,000 army led by him was also mostly eliminated, and he was no longer depressed and complaining, but a regeneration of pride.

After resting for half a night and a morning, when Yang Xi ordered him to support the south gate with his Li Fu department, he was full of killing the enemy, and when he saw the rebels falling wave after wave under the arrows shot by the Tang army on the head of the city, he felt that Tongguan City could be completely defended.

But he didn't expect that the sudden strong wind and heavy rain greatly reduced the power of his own arrows, and the rebels had the opportunity to rush to the city, which made him immediately worried, knowing that the next battle would be very difficult, as long as the rain did not stop, the advantage would slowly shift to the rebels.

He very much hoped that the heavy rain would stop sooner, or that it would be lighter sooner, so that the lethality of the crossbows and arrows on the head of the city would be restored, at least not as it was now, and the rebels would be allowed to rush under the city walls in large numbers, erect a large number of ladders and start to ascend the city. Fortunately, the head of Tongguan City is high enough, and it will take a lot of time for the rebels to climb the ladder to the top of the city, which is enough time for them to take a lot of countermeasures.

However, as the number of rebels arrived under the city wall, more ladders were erected, and from time to time, a few sergeants climbed on the ladder in advance, and the rebel sergeants jumped over the ladder, Pang Zhong obviously felt that the pressure was increasing rapidly.

A ladder was erected under Pang Zhong's nose, and a sergeant who had already gone up to the top of the ladder took advantage of the ladder to come over, and pounced directly at Pang Zhong, Pang Zhong shouted, did not swing the knife, but stretched out his foot and kicked vigorously at the rebel sergeant who jumped over. The rebel sergeant who wanted to succeed in one blow was kicked by Pang Zhong, and after screaming, he flew directly out of the city before he landed on the city.

Pang Zhong couldn't see exactly where the rebel sergeant who was "lucky" to be kicked by him fell, but he could guess that he was kicked so vigorously and fell into the forbidden ditch nearly ten zhang high, and he was seriously injured if he didn't die.

However, as more ladders were erected, more and more rebel sergeants emerged from the rain and fog, and more and more rebel sergeants appeared in the sight of the defenders at the head of the city.

At this time, the Tang army sergeants on the city head of the physical strength was still very good, the rebel sergeants who came up were either killed by arrows, or were smashed down by rolling stones and sasswoods, or were cut down, none of the rebel sergeants could fully climb the city, and those flying rebel sergeants lived on the city head for a few minutes at most, and they were hacked to death with random knives.

However, whether it is Pang Zhong, Li Fude, or Wang Sili, they all know that the rebels' attacks are becoming more and more fierce, more and more ladders will be erected, and more and more sergeants will climb to the top of the city, and the pressure on them will also increase.

The rain suddenly lightened, the sky seemed to be a little brighter, and the fog was blown away by a gust of wind, and Wang Sili at the head of the city saw that the dense rebel sergeants were climbing over the west edge of the forbidden ditch and coming towards the city wall.

The section of the western edge of the forbidden ditch has been almost filled with all kinds of corpses, and the water caused by the heavy rain has washed some scattered corpses over, increasing the height of the pile, so that the rebels can climb to the western edge of the forbidden ditch with their bare hands without the help of ladders.

The forbidden ditch has become a thoroughfare!

Seeing this, Wang Sili was shocked, but at this time, it was raining heavily, and the hay and hot oil were useless, and the fire could not be lit, so there was no way to eliminate the danger. "Immediately report the situation at the South Gate to Marshal Geshu and Marshal Yang!" Wang Sili can only report this situation.