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"Report to the deputy commander, the Tang army set up a heavy ambush in front of us, and our army suffered heavy losses!" A side general rushed over and loudly reported the battle headquarters in front to Cui Ganyou, who looked anxious.

"I understand, let's find out!" Cui Ganyou, who had a thick eyebrows, waved his hand impatiently.

"Yes! Deputy Commander!" The side general shouted, turned his horse's head and ran away.

Cui Ganyou had already ordered the former soldiers to stop advancing. He had never thought of encountering a larger ambush by the Tang army in this place. To be honest, this place is not suitable for ambush places. Small-scale ones are not suitable, and large-scale ones are even more unsuitable, both in terms of terrain, but the Tang army set up ambush in this place, and blocked the valley with a large amount of hay. Then, rockets ignited hay to seal the valley road, and ignited trees, shrubs and grass on the hills on both sides, isolated nearly a thousand outposts from the subsequent horses. More than a thousand soldiers in the valley were trapped in the sea of ​​fire, and it was impossible to save the situation.

Fortunately, the Tang army did not include it from the side or behind, otherwise their tens of thousands of troops would have been defeated soon.

The mountains and terrain are dangerous and easy to be ambushed, but they are not easy to be surrounded by opponents. God is still favoring them.

At this time, Cui Ganyou could no longer understand that the Tang army's ambush operation was just trying to slow down their attack speed, and to give them a certain degree of heavy damage to their morale with continuous small-scale ambushing; or do you want to numb them with a small team of troops and make them think that this was just a harassment strategy of the Tang army, ignore it, and then arrange heavy troops somewhere and give them a full blow?

Cui Ganyou couldn't quite understand! The main reason was that this fire caused a huge loss to the forwards, which caused a huge victory in the battle of Lingbao, and even Choi Ganyou, who felt a sense of slutty, suffered a blow and lost his judgment!

He had reported the heavy losses of the ambush and the vanguards to An Qingxu behind him, and was waiting for An Qingxu's decision. While standing by, he also ordered the entire army to prepare for combat. If the Tang army dared to attack again, he would annihilate him at any cost.

Cui Ganyou knew very well that the morale of his troops could not withstand such continuous strikes. If he encountered a larger ambush from the Tang army again, the front army might be defeated. Under such a dangerous terrain, he certainly knew how much impact the front army would have on the rear army. The result he thought of was a sweat, which really caused the defeat of the entire army. If the Tang army took advantage of the situation, it would be another battle of spiritual treasures, and the victorious side would be the Tang army, not the "Dayan" army!

At this time, Cui Ganyou had completely believed that the Tang army's reinforcements had arrived in Tongguan, but the scale was relatively small and not enough to counterattack them. Otherwise, more Tang army's troops would definitely rush over and drive them back to Shaanxi County if they were set up several ambushes.

The fire on the mountain showed no sign of decrease, but instead seemed to be getting stronger and stronger. While ordering the sergeants to prepare for the raid, Cui Ganyou also ordered a sergeant to cut out a fire belt as fast as possible to prevent the wildfire from igniting a larger mountain.

If a forest fire in the entire Huashan Mountains would be burned to death, they would not be burned to death!

Just when Cui Ganyou ordered the soldiers to cut out a fire belt, An Qingxu's order came, ordering the army to retreat ten miles and set up camp at the departure point of the vanguard army today, and asked Cui Ganyou to be prepared to prevent the Tang army from attacking the camp at night.

With An Qingxu's order issued, the rebels slowly began to retreat!

The hay thrown by Li Fude's troops ignited wildfires, which many people had never thought of before.

The burning wildfires severely damaged the rebels' vanguards and forced them to retreat with great power. This was even more unexpected. Even Yang Xi, who was looking far away from the city of Tongguan, did not expect such a situation to happen.

Originally, Yang Xi just wanted to use the speed of ambushing the rebels to slow down the attack speed, but he did not expect that while Li Fude was excellent and complete, he also used the method he had figured out to deal with the rebels severely, trapped thousands of rebels in the fire, and captured hundreds of prisoners. It seems that this general from Shu was trusted by his father Yang Guozhong, and he still had certain abilities!

Tongguan is located in the place of Huashan Mountain, and the place where the wildfire is ignited is considered to be the branch of Huashan Mountain. However, the vegetation on Huashan Mountain is not very rich, and a large number of mountain peaks are exposed. The fire caused by this place will definitely not ignite the entire Huashan Mountain.

However, if the entire Huashan Mountain could be ignited, it would probably be possible to burn most of the rebels into human jerky. If this could be done, it would be quite cost-effective.

The rebels began to retreat slowly, and the wildfires continued to burn. Everyone understood that the crisis in Tongguan City was temporarily lifted.

Gao Shi, who was on the city gate tower, looked at everything that happened in the distance, and said to Yang Xi with emotion: "Yang Bingmaster, I really didn't expect that the ambush you sent would play such a big role, severely damaged the rebels' vanguards and stopped the rebels' offensive! As the general, the rebels will not attack Tongguan again in the past two days!"

"I hope the rebels will not come to attack Tongguan City again in the next two days!" Yang Xi said in Gao Shi's words, but shook his head again and said, "But this is just our wishful thinking. The rebels knew that our army suffered heavy losses after the defeat of Lingbao, and it was difficult to defend Tongguan City. From the support of Chang'an, it would not be possible to arrive in Tongguan soon. Even if someone and horse arrive at Tongguan, they were only a small group of people. This can be seen from the fact that our army did not take advantage of the situation to rush to attack Tongguan. If the general expected it was good, as long as the wildfires were extinguished and the road was feasible, they would definitely make a comeback. As early as tonight and tomorrow morning, they would appear in our sight again. A fierce battle is inevitable! General Gao, don't be careless!"

The feeling of preconceived thoughts is very important. In addition, Gao Shi was famous in history. Yang Xi had a good impression of the general who was about 40 or 50 years old. Judging from the contacts, this person gave him a good feeling. He was smart and decisive in his work, which made him feel trust naturally, so he had a little more intimate speech.

Gao Shi also had a good feeling for Yang Xi. If Yang Xi was not Yang Guozhong's son, but other powerful people, he might have a greater likes. After Yang Xi came to Tongguan, his actions were almost impossible to find fault with, and his arrangements also achieved very good results, which was amazing.

Gao Shi was also puzzled again. Who trained Yang Guozhong’s youngest son to perform so well?

At this moment, a soldier from the north gate came to report that a general who called himself Liu Guangting led a team of troops outside the city, saying that he was collecting defeated soldiers outside the city under Yang Xi's order. Yang Xi was a little angry when he heard that Liu Guangting had just arrived in Tongguan now.

I originally thought that Liu Guangting had good work skills and should have completed his mission and entered Tongguan City long ago, but I didn't expect that I had arrived at Tongguan City only now.

Fortunately, Liu Guangting only led a hundred people to collect defeated soldiers, so that it would not affect the combat effectiveness of the people he brought from Chang'an.

"Let General Liu lead his troops into the city immediately, and then tell him that General Liu will go to the east gate to see me!" Yang Xi's order without emotion was conveyed.

The soldiers who came to report ran away and conveyed Yang Xi's orders.
Chapter completed!