"Well, what Yang Bingma said is very reasonable, and I agree! Let's join Yang Bingma Envoy to lead the generals to patrol the city. If Yang Bingma Envoy has any suggestions, please tell me if you have them. I will obey Yang Bingma Envoy's arrangement!"

The answer from Brother Shuhan made Yang Xi feel relieved! This old handsome man is really very cooperative with him!

Although he did not fully know the specific reason why Geshuhan made such a change in just half a day, Yang Xi believed that putting the overall situation first is definitely a very important reason. He expressed an openness and proved this with practical actions. It would be too unreasonable if Geshuhan, a defeated general, still held personal grievances and ignored the overall situation at this time.

The speed was also very high. In a short while, all the generals who received the order gathered in front of Geshuhan's handsome tent.

Sometimes, gathering all the generals to set out together instead of gathering on the city wall is to create momentum and create a terrifying momentum!

Seeing that all the generals were here, Yang Xi bowed to Geshu Han and said, "Marson Geshu, in order to boost the morale of the soldiers, the last general accompanied the Marshal to patrol the city and comfort the army!"

Geshuhan replied with a bow and shouted to the generals: "All the generals will follow the commander and Yang Bingma envoy to patrol the city!"

As he said that, he took the lead in walking towards his war horse with inconvenient feet. Several personal soldiers rushed forward and helped Geshuhan get on the horse. Yang Xi also quickly followed, and the generals followed silently according to the level of their positions.

The city patrol starts from the east gate and then extends in the order of southeast, west and north!

After receiving the order, all the soldiers gathered at the city gate and were on standby, ready to accept the inspection by the generals!

It was very hot, and for unnecessary morale loss, all the soldiers lined up near the city gate tower where the sun shone.

It was already noon, and the sun was heading westward, and a large chunk of shade appeared in front of the city gate tower, which also brought some convenience to the defending sergeants. In no case, even the sergeants guarding the city gate tower could hide in a cool position under the city gate tower.

A group of generals rode tall horses and patrolled the city gates in neat rows. They shouted to the soldiers leading the queue, telling them that our army would definitely defend Tongguan and defeat the rebels in this battle. This show-like behavior really boosted morale.

If a soldier is a bear, a general is awesome. The leading generals have such a momentum, and the morale of the soldiers must have been encouraged to a certain extent.

Yang Xi also took the opportunity to familiarize himself with the terrain of each city gate, especially the fire had not yet been burned out, but he also had a further understanding of the situation in the south gate where the bangou natural danger reappeared.

The Forbidden Gou is actually a landform belt like a mountain valley. According to Yang Xi, the depth is about 5 to 30 meters and the width is about 10 to 50 meters. It is lined not far from the southeast of Tongguan City, with a total length of dozens of miles, and the nearest point is close to the south gate.

If there is no suspension bridge connecting with the roads on the outer edge of the forbidden ditch, it will be difficult for even monkeys to climb.

To the west of the Jingou, there are Twelve Liancheng, which are twenty small beacon towers, guarding the Jingou, and the Jingou and the Twelve Liancheng, jointly defending the Tongguan City. Unfortunately, there were too many Tang soldiers who fled back, and they actually filled a section of Jingou, which made the Jingou a pass.

The twelve guards on the city along the twelve sides of the forbidden ditch that had become the main route also fled or were removed by Geshuhan.

The Twelve Liancheng is just twelve small beacon towers, and each city can only arrange about one hundred soldiers. If the Jingou is in danger, more than a hundred soldiers will defend the enemy's attack, and the ability to block the enemy's attack is very strong. However, if the Jingou Sky Guard is filled with corpses, the role of the hundreds of soldiers on the beacon tower will be greatly reduced. Therefore, when Geshuhan fled back to the city and gathered the defeated troops, he retreated most of the sergeants in the Twelve Liancheng.

There were originally many shrubs in the forbidden ditch, and there were no piles of corpses or were not completely blocked. The original forbidden ditch landform could be seen, but the forbidden ditch below the Nanmen City was completely filled with corpses. Ge Shuhan ordered the fuel to burn early in the morning, but so many corpses were piled up, so it was impossible to burn them all. After a long time of fire, only nearly half of the corpses were burned. Those piled up below could no longer burn. Unless someone entered the ditch, removed the ash and charcoal above, burned oil and hay, then it was possible to continue burning.

But it is impossible to send sergeants to clean up now. The temperature is too high and people will be scalded to death.

However, the burned trench still initially restored its natural barrier and had a certain function of defending the enemy. At least the rebels could not attack the city of Tongguan with the bodies in the trench.

"Marson of Geshu, the last general thinks that the 12th Liancheng should not abandon the defense, and should send troops to guard it again. With the 12th Liancheng, the city guards the Jingou natural danger. If the rebels attack the city of Tongguan, they will definitely suffer ten times of casualties!" After carefully observing the terrain in the direction of the South Gate, Yang Xi solemnly said to Geshuhan: "The Jingou natural danger has been cleared out of sufficient depth and has a certain degree of ability to defend the enemy. If the 12th Liancheng gives up like this, it is equivalent to giving up half of the natural danger advantage of Tongguan City!"

In fact, Yang Xi was a little confused. Ge Shuhan gave up such an important defensive facility in Twelve Liancheng, and Hantongguan City, which was connected to Twelve Liancheng, also gave up. What did Ge Shuhan think? If he wants to defend Tongguan City, these places must be defended!

The natural danger of Tongguan does not only refer to the height of the city pass, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but refers to the combination of the city pass and the surrounding terrain to form an extremely strong defensive fortress. The rebels came from the east of Tongguan. If they want to break through Tongguan, they must overcome the disadvantages brought by the steep terrain, capture the defensive positions outside Tongguan, and then capture Tongguan City.

If the troops are arranged in Han Tongguan City and the 12th Liancheng City, if the rebels want to attack Tongguan City, they must first break Han Tongguan City, then draw the 12th Liancheng City, and cross the natural danger of Jingou to attack outside Tongguan City, and have the opportunity to attack the various gates of Tongguan. Han Tongguan City has not many troops to deploy defense, and the same is true for the Twelve Across City, but to break through these key passes, the efforts and costs of the rebels must be very high.

When Yang Xi arrived at Tongguan and made preliminary defenses, he only heard others telling the terrain of Tongguan City and various dangerous places. He had not actually observed these places. It can be said that there was no specific concept. After arranging the task, he only observed the situation in the east gate direction and did not look closely at other directions. This was his mistake, mainly because he was afraid that the rebels would attack the city immediately. When he patrol the city this time, he looked carefully and then he understood the terrain profile of each direction. He also had some deeper ideas about the initial military deployment, that is, the Twelve-Liang City must be sent to garrison again.

If two thousand troops were deployed in Hantongguan City, the rebels would have to use at least ten times the force to attack Hantongguan City. If they wanted to break through Hantongguan City and wipe out the defenders above, they would have to pay at least several times the force.

The 12-in-one passes can only guard more than a hundred soldiers, but to occupy each pass, it will cost more than ten times the price.

These places can not only serve as prominent defensive units in Tongguan City, but also effectively block the rebels and delay the rebels' attack time on Tongguan City, but also effectively kill and injure the rebels.

How can such a cost-effective thing be done to eliminate hundreds or even thousands of rebels at the cost of more than a hundred people?
Chapter completed!