"Legionnaire, the latest stats are out." In the Chinese army tent, Tang Mingzhe, the commander of the city guard corps with a worried face, got the report sent by his own soldiers.

After a cursory glance, his gaze paused for a moment on a few shocking figures, and then he threw the report on the table, and his mood became worse and worse.

With the addition of a large number of super stone throwers of the Yanyun Legion, the damage to each section of the Tongshan Pass defense line rose in a straight line, and the losses of the City Guard Corps were also much greater.

In just one week, the elite of two brigades has suffered heavy losses and had to retreat to the back to rest and reorganize, waiting for replenishment and reorganization.

In addition to manpower, there is not much food for arrows and spare weapons.

The arrows in the entire Tongshan Pass were only enough to support another two weeks at most, or to resist a full-scale attack by the Yan Yun army.

Although the official document asking for help has already been typed, and His Majesty Qianminghao in Zhongzhou must be working hard to raise it, the distant water may not be able to quench the thirst of the near.

Although he knew that the losses of the Yanyun Army would inevitably be greater than those on his side, if the shape continued to develop like this, the initiative of the Middle Route Army would really fall into the hands of the other party.

This was not good news for Qian Minghao, who was in desperate need of victory to consolidate his prestige and rule.

Is there anything that can be done to change the current situation?

After recruiting a few henchmen, Tang Mingzhe discussed this issue with them while deploying the defense for the next week.

However, Tang Mingzhe didn't think of any good way in a short period of time, but waited for the bad news that the Yanyun Army and the Songjiang Army had launched a general offensive - after such a stalemate under the Tongshan Pass, Qianmingde's side was also under tremendous pressure.

At his urging, Song Wuji, the commander of the army, threw in five of the most well-organized divisions at hand, supplemented by a division of the Songjiang Army, and launched an offensive on the whole front.

Including counterweight stone throwers, there were hundreds of stone throwers of all kinds, a large number of bed crossbows, and tens of thousands of troops rushed to the crumbling defense line.

The shouting of killing shook the sky!

Under the persistent blow of the counterweight stone thrower, more than one part of the defense line of Tongshan Pass has been collapsed.

And the city guards also fought-for-tat, either building an urn city behind them, or setting up obstacles and blockades of one kind or another.

And most of the places where the two armies fought were also dominated by these gaps.

Compared with the ladders lined up in a line for ordinary sieges, such an attack is undoubtedly more tragic and has more casualties.

On the first day alone, the total number of soldiers killed on both sides combined exceeded 3,000, and countless were wounded.

Many soldiers even went into battle with minor injuries, but the original wounds had not healed, and then new wounds were added!

Such casualties made Song Wuqian feel distressed, and at the same time, it gradually prompted Tang Mingzhe to make up his mind.

Under the action of the brand-new super-large stone throwing machine, the role of Tongshan Pass was greatly reduced.

Although the stalemate can continue at the moment, with the attitude of the Yanyun Legion not breaking through the Tongshan Pass and vowing not to give up, even if it can barely hold it in the end, the city guards who have been established for more than 300 years are afraid that they will be completely finished.

Most of the hundreds of thousands of men who followed him will all be lost here.

If there was no variable of the Songjiang Army, perhaps losing both would be a reluctantly acceptable situation.

But with the Songjiang army that did not contribute to the work, the city guard army and the Yanyun army were both defeated, and it became the other party's benefit.

This result is what Tang Mingzhe does not want in any case.

He hoped that the combined forces of the Yanyun Army and the Songjiang Army could be solved in a way that was less costly.

If Tang Mingzhe hadn't made up his mind before the Yanyun Legion's aggressive general offensive was launched, then after today's day of fierce fighting, he felt that he could take the initiative to abandon this dilapidated and important checkpoint before the Yanyun Legion broke through the Tongshan Pass, and retreated from the border between Yuanshan County and Anqing County in great strides, and took the initiative to shrink his strength.

It was undoubtedly a very difficult decision.

You must know that most of Anqing County is plain, and only the junction with Yuanshan County has such a continuous Tongshan Mountain Range.

Once this place is conquered, there is no danger for hundreds of miles to defend.

Ordinary cities are also impossible to stop Yan Yunjun.

The City Guard Corps had to retreat all the way to Xudu, the county town of Anqing County, in order to find a second important city that could be defended.

However, doing so means giving up half of Anqing County to Yanyun's Qian Mingde!

What will Zhongzhou think?

Although the richness of Anqing County is not comparable to that of the world-famous prefectures and counties such as Songjiang and Wuhu, it is by no means comparable to the likes of Yuanshan County and Hetao County.

What's more, Xu Du is a thousand-year-old city that has existed since the Qianyuan Empire and the first three dynasties, with countless famous families, and the influence on the political level is beyond imagination.

Once Yan Yun's soldiers come to the city, just the shocks and turmoil in the court are enough for any general of the unified army to drink a pot.

If he could, Tang Mingzhe didn't want to commit this taboo.

But the problem is that there are so many benefits of actively retreating and contracting power!

Everyone knows that only by retracting and then hitting the fist can it have the strongest power.

Not to mention anything else, these hundreds of miles of battle alone are enough to affect the battle situation.

The city guards retreated to Xudu, and there was a battle line of hundreds of miles at once, and Xudu was rich, and the human and financial resources and the strength of the nobles of various families could be mobilized on the spot, which was several times stronger than the superiority of Tongshan Pass.

On the contrary, if the Yanyun Legion wanted to attack the city, it had to stretch the battle line forward for hundreds of miles.

Under the trade-off, the balance of power has not changed a little.

Those bulky and hard-to-carry counterweight stone throwers will turn from the original siege weapon into a huge burden.

In addition, the Yanyun army pushed the battle line forward, and the elongation of the logistics line would give the city guards a vast space to attack and attack!

Now, although the city guards have also sent a lot of small groups of cavalry to attack the logistics line, they must go around to the Yuanshan County controlled by Qianming De.

Coupled with the fact that the Songjiang Army is in charge of this, the results are not too significant.

But once you cross the Tongshan Pass, it will be the territory of the city guards.

On the plains of hundreds of miles, the cavalry of the city guards can gallop freely and attack Yanyun's logistics from anywhere!

Even, the city guards can also be defeated when retreating, set up a situation to lure the Yanyun army to attack, and kill a group of people.

This kind of battle is much stronger than fighting the enemy under the Tongshan Pass.

"What ......"

Tang Mingzhe sighed, he knew that the biggest problem in front of him at the moment was that there was no time.

If you have enough time, you can send the plan to Zhongzhou in detail, and let His Majesty communicate with several important ministers.

If the court can reach an agreement in advance, then the pressure on itself will be much less.

The problem is that he only finalized this plan of voluntary shrinkage and retreat after the Yan Yun Army launched a general attack.

And with the distance between him and Zhongzhou now, even if it takes 600 miles to rush the news, counting the time for the court to discuss the resolution, it will take at least six or seven days to receive a reply.

Even if His Majesty finally agreed, it would be too late to act by then.

This is doomed, he must make his own decision, and fully assume the responsibility of abandoning Tongshan Pass.

His Royal Highness Qian Minghao, will you be considerate of your intentions?

Tang Mingzhe still has confidence in the successor of the old emperor, but he is a little suspicious, the other party may be able to understand the intention of doing so, but he may not be able to bear the short-term impact of the loss of Tongshan Pass, and let himself be punished under the pressure of the courtiers and the people of the world.

If that can make His Majesty win, Tang Mingzhe will admit it.

But he had commanded the city guard for many years, and he thought that no one knew better than he could command this army.

Changing generals on the spot, I am afraid that not only will it not have a good effect, but it may allow Yan Yunjun to seize the opportunity, which will be really bad.

However, he seemed to have no choice but to pin his hopes on Qian Minghao - even if it was just to make the soldiers under his command live a few thousand more.

"That's it."

Until late at night that day, Tang Mingzhe, who had not slept for a long time, finally formulated a full set of plans and plans, and immediately began to implement them.

The division commanders of the master regiments summoned him and held a meeting on the initiative to abandon Tongshan Pass.

It was not that there were no generals who expressed fierce dissent or even opposition to this, however, Tang Mingzhe suppressed all dissent with just one sentence - this is an order, not a discussion!

The military order was like a mountain, and all the city guard generals present immediately expressed their obedience.

As a result, except for some of the soldiers who were used to resist the next attack of the Yanyun Army, the soldiers of the other departments all took action.

First, pack up and transfer the wounded soldiers one step ahead, prepare for destruction, and be prepared to take away the supplies.

Subsequently, two urgent documents were sent to the west almost simultaneously, one was sent to Xudu, the county seat of Anqing County, before nightfall that day, and the other continued westward, and will eventually be sent to Zhongzhou!

At the same time, the selection and defeat of the palace troops induced Yan Yunjun to pursue and ambush the preparations, and also began comprehensive preparations.

The entire Tongshan Pass has suddenly become active from the backwater state that was originally scattered in various sections.

In this case, the city guard army is undoubtedly the strongest army in the world.

If other ordinary troops retreat under the condition that the battle situation is unfavorable and the troops suffer heavy casualties, the morale of the troops will most likely be very low, and there will often be rumors of one kind or another in the army, but the city guards will not.

Under the arrangement of officers at all levels, the Qiē program was carried out in an orderly manner.

The soldiers did not have too much emotional fluctuations because of the abandonment of Tongshan Pass, and they were not jealous because a group of wounded soldiers evacuated first, but calmly obeyed the arrangements of the officers.

Such an excellent performance allowed Tang Mingzhe's plan to advance at an unimaginable speed.

Only a day and a half later, a group of more than 4,000 seriously wounded people withdrew from Tongshan Pass.

After another day, the necessary packing is basically packed.

At Tang Mingzhe's request, except for the necessary weapons and equipment and food for the march, everything else had to be left behind.

First, it can be re-obtained in Xudu, and secondly, it can also paralyze the soldiers of the Yanyun Army, so that they can be convinced that the city guards really abandoned their armor and fled!

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