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Li Fude and Pang Zhong originally thought that Geshuhan and Yang Xi had arranged them in Hantongguan City to keep them in the place until the last soldier. Li Fude did not dare to disobey Yang Xi's orders, and Pang Zhong was depressed because he had just experienced the defeat of Lingbao. After seeing Li Fude's several successes, he also wanted to wash away the shame on his body with a brilliant victory, and even save his reputation with the most tragic sacrifice. The two generals with different minds had the idea of ​​becoming a good man, but their degree of determination was different.

When the war was about to begin, they were very surprised after receiving Yang Xi's orders again.

No one expected that Yang Xi's order was like this, asking them to try their best to kill the rebels and minimize casualties on their own, and retreat to the Sui Tongguan City behind at the right time. No matter what the idea Pang Zhong and Li Fude were thinking, they were a little moved after receiving Yang Xi's order. At least they should not let them fight all their strength in Han Tongguan City, and only let them restrain the rebels and play a role in slugging the rebels' speed of marching. If they are not supported, they can retreat to the Sui Tongguan City behind!

They didn't know what the final result would be, but they didn't feel abandoned and were born with Yang Xi's orders.

Pang Zhong and Li Fude had already seen the movement of the rebels, and they immediately ordered the entire army to prepare for combat.

The west gate of Tongguan City in Han did not need defense because it led to Tongguan City in Sui. The north gate faced the Yellow River. The open space on the edge of the city was only more than meter, and even a ladder was not easy to set up. Now it is the flood season of the Yellow River, and the rebels basically would not attack from the north gate. Therefore, the two generals focused their defense on the east gate and the south gate, which was almost a thousand troops each and each guarded one gate.

Pang Zhong was familiar with the situation in this area and led his army to guard the south gate, the rebels' certain main attack direction. Li Fude led 1,000 people to guard the east gate. The remaining hundreds of people were maneuvering, and the casualties were added to the place wherever they were. After the order was issued, all the soldiers quickly ran to the city wall and stood on their orders, with arrows on their bows, waiting for the rebels to enter the range, and with a command, they would shoot the arrows in their hands into the rebel formation.

The large crossbow on the city tower was also equipped with long arrows, ready to strike the rebels coming towards the city tower at a very long distance.

Pang Zhong sighed that Hantongguan City was too dilapidated and they had too few troops. If Hantongguan City had been overhauled and if they had 10,000 troops in their hands, he could pat his chest and promise that he would never let the rebels step onto the city, but now...

Pang Zhong was a little worried!

However, I can only resist to the death. I have to find a way to defend the city until it gets dark, or even longer.

To delay the rebels as much as possible, that is to buy more time for the arrival of our reinforcements.

Although the sun has set in the west, the sky is still very hot. The wall tiles on the city tower are hot with the sun, so it is not easy to eat when you stay on it.

Fortunately, the mountain behind has blocked most of the sun on the city tower, and the wind blows from time to time, and the heat disappears a little.

It's better than in the morning and noon, and it's really hot.

Tongguan is located near the Yellow River and Huashan Mountain. It is very hot at noon when the sun is between the mountains and rivers. If the sun sets, the heat will disappear quickly, and it will be relatively cool if the sun is not exposed to the sun.

The rebels did not attack Tongguan in the morning and noon, which had already given less trouble to the defenders of Tongguan City.

But all this did not make Li Fude happy too much. He knew that the cruelest battle was about to begin.

"General Li, the bandit army is coming so fast!" A captain standing next to Li Fude looked at the rebels slowly coming towards Han Tongguan City in surprise and whispered, "General, we only have such a small amount of troops. Can we defend here?"

"Don't talk nonsense! You have to keep it even if you can't, and you have to keep it even if you can't. If you dare to talk nonsense again, don't blame me for being ruthless and punished me!" Li Fude shouted angrily. Of course, what the little captain said was what he thought, and the rebels invaded again very quickly.

After succeeding in the ambush, he thought that after the rebels suffered heavy damage one after another, they would wait and rest for a while, at least one day, which would allow their troops who had just won the battle to enjoy the joy of victory and also allow the soldiers to rest to a certain extent.

After walking for hundreds of miles day and night, the soldiers did not have a good rest and were overdrawn!

I originally thought I could have a good night's sleep tonight, but I didn't expect it to be just a dream. The rebels started attacking again before the evening.

After tonight, how many of the more than 2,000 people can leave behind to return to the taller, majestic Tongguan City behind?

But this no longer requires too much energy to consider, because the distance between the rebels is getting closer and closer, and even the soldiers riding horses and walking can be distinguished, and the battle will begin immediately.

After the rebels encountered a fire attack, they finally retreated for only about ten miles and rested at a bend of the Yellow River. It may be that An Qingxu or Cui Qianyou finally discovered that the Tang army was just bluffing, and no matter what they did, they just wanted to delay their attack speed. Therefore, before the wildfires were completely extinguished, they ordered the army to continue to set sail and prepare to attack Tongguan City.

The speed of the rebels' attack again was beyond the surprise of all Tang generals, including Yang Xi and others.

However, several small ambushes delayed the rebels' attack by almost one day, which was already a great achievement. Moreover, it also killed thousands of rebels, revitalized the morale of the army, restored some of the Tang army that could not be described in words, and to a certain extent, it hit the morale of the rebels.

This was originally what Yang Xi expected to achieve, but now the goal has been achieved, and it is a little better than originally expected!

Li Fude and Pang Zhong looked back at the Sui Tongguan City about three miles away from their city. On the tall city tower at the east gate of Sui Tongguan City, Yang Xi's tall figure was visible. When Pang Zhong looked back several times, he seemed to see Yang Xi standing proudly at Tongguan City Pass, staring in this direction. This made Pang Zhongting sigh and moved Li Fude very much.

No one knew that Yang Xi, a nearly harsh move to him, gave the soldiers at the city gate a kind of faith support, especially the soldiers in the Hantongguan city. They felt that they were not ignored!

"Tell the whole army to prepare for battle!" Li Fude and Pang Zhong's orders were conveyed again. The arrows in the hands of each soldier were all on the strings, and the sergeants who operated the crossbow had already lifted several thick arrows. Several soldiers pulled the strings to test their feelings. The crossbows at the top of Hantongguan city have claimed countless lives of rebel soldiers in the past few months. Today they will show their power again.

"General, the bandit army has entered the range of the crossbow!" A lookout sergeant ran to Li Fude on the city gate tower and reported loudly.

"Transfer our military orders, and the crossbows will start shooting!" Li Fude calmly gave the order.

With Li Fude's order issued, amid the creepy "cry" sound, several huge crossbows were strangled by the soldiers several times. With the command of the captain who was commanding the crossbow, several long arrows were fired out of the crossbow. With the loud "swish" sound, several beautiful parabolas were drawn across the heads and shot onto the heads of the rebel outposts that had just emerged from the heads of about 300 steps away.

At the same time, in the south gate, Pang Zhong also ordered the large crossbows at the city gate to start shooting.
Chapter completed!