But even so, the situation at Yanmen Pass has not improved.
Because Tan Shihuai summoned Bu Dugen and others and commanded 60,000 reinforcements to come to support, the total number of Xianbei army suddenly reached 160,000, while the Yanmen Pass defenders were only more than 20,000.
At this moment, the situation at Yanmen Pass can be said to be critical.
However, even though the enemy was outnumbered, Wang Chong still relied on the steepness of Yanmen Pass and the characteristics of being easy to defend and difficult to attack. In ten days, he killed 40,000 enemy troops. From the original 160,000 troops,
Now there are 120,000 troops.
Forty thousand troops were a quarter of the Xianbei army in Guanxia. Even Tan Shihuai, who had 400,000 troops under his command, felt extremely pained by this.
After all, these 40,000 people were all good men from Xianbei, but within half a month, their bones were buried under Yanmen Pass.
But at this time, Tan Shihuai was no longer allowed to retreat. After all, the casualties of the Xianbei army were too great. Only by taking Yanmen Pass in front of us can we wash away the shame!
It has to be said that Tan Shihuai grasped the timing of this large-scale attack very poorly. The weather, location, people and people were not taken advantage of!
From the perspective of heaven and earth, although the current Han Dynasty is not the same as before, it still has a certain degree of residual power. The destiny of the Han Dynasty is with the Han people, and the people's will is what they want!
In terms of geographical advantages, Yanmen Pass has a dangerous terrain and is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Moreover, for the siege forces, no matter how strong and capable the commander is, the power he exerts will be greatly reduced!
After all, siege is not a field battle, and the troops expended cannot be equated.
As for people and people, the current Yanmen Governor Guo Yun and Yanmen Sima Wang Chong have high prestige in Yanmen County.
Moreover, Guo Jian's own ability and sense of justice cannot be ignored. After the Xianbei army sent troops to Yanmen Pass, he wanted to hand over the command of Yanmen Pass to Wang Chong, the Sima of Yanmen who was good at attacking and defending!
However, because of the sensitivity of his identity at that time, and because there were not many Xianbei troops outside Yanmen Pass at that time, Wang Chong did not accept Guo Mian's suggestion. He only provided advice and served as a military advisor and deputy general.
On the third day, Wang Chong was keenly aware of the abnormality of the Xianbei army, so he decisively proposed to Guo Jian that he should take over the command of the Yanmenguan army and send troops from Yanmen counties.
Guo Mian naturally agreed to Wang Chong's request. After all, this was his old profession.
It is precisely because of Guo Mian's full cooperation these days and his willingness to be under Wang Chong that Yanmen Pass was not destroyed due to the indiscriminate military and political divisions.
From then on, Wang Chong sent people to the Yinguan Prefecture to summon county soldiers from each county, and sent his son Wang Hua to train as the last surprise force.
Wang Chong has been the prefect of Yanmen County for five consecutive years. He is naturally familiar with the county soldiers in various places in Yanmen. If they are gathered together in an emergency and some are temporarily recruited, the brave rangers are strong enough to gather more than 8,000 soldiers.
People!
Eight thousand people, in ancient times, in an emergency, it would take 80,000 people to draw one out of ten to do it.
You know, even if Wang Chong ruled Yanmen County for five years, he would only bring a population of about 100,000 to Yanmen County!
When Wang Chonggang became the prefect of Yanmen, the population of Yanmen County at that time was approximately 293,454.
Just the year before last, before Wang Chong left office, the number of people in Yanmen County had exceeded 400,000, reaching more than 410,000.
It is precisely because of this and its strong population base that Yanmen County can maintain a standing garrison of 20,000.
Wang Chong still trusts Wang Hua's ability. A mere eight thousand people can form an army in half a month, not to mention that most of these people are warriors and some trained county soldiers!
Now, the Xianbei army has retreated due to heavy casualties, and they finally have a chance to breathe!
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"Ming Gong, in this life-and-death battle that lasted for half a month, what are the losses of our army now?" Wang Chong looked at Guo Yao who was standing aside and asked.
These days, he has been busy with the military planning for Yanmen Pass and guarded the city. He has no time to look at these matters carefully. He can only leave it to Guo Yan, who is a prefect and has certain military capabilities.
"Brother Jingyun, in this half-month period, our army faced a crazy attack that was eight times stronger than the enemy. We killed a total of 40,000 enemies and lost 12,000 ourselves. Now there are 8,000 people left, but these eight
Thousands of people, almost everyone is injured!"
"In addition, a large number of militiamen were lost or killed by the Xianbei people who attacked. Generally speaking, our army has suffered a lot of damage."
Guo Jian reported to Wang Chong, but he turned to say: "However, although this battle was extremely tragic, it also showed the majesty of my Han family. The general faced eight times the enemy and could still inflict casualties of one to five.
Even famous generals from ancient times cannot compare!"
When Guo Mian said this, his eyes were full of respect for Wang Chong. If he hadn't been stationed at Yanmen Pass, Yanmen Pass at this time would have been completely destroyed by the iron heel of more than 100,000 Xianbei troops!
"Brother Gongyu, thank you very much. Such a result in this battle is not due to Chong alone. It is all due to the bravery of all the soldiers who were not afraid of death and fought to the death. The people in Yanmen Pass also paid a heavy price for this." Wang Chong
Having said this, I bowed and bowed to the dead soldiers!
Seeing this, all the generals saluted the dead soldiers and civilians one after another!
Looking at the Yanmen soldiers and civilians who suffered heavy losses, even Wang Chong, who had experienced many battles, felt a little confused about the future of Yanmen Pass.
In this half-month-long tug-of-war of life and death, although the Yanmen Army achieved the result of killing 40,000 enemies by virtue of its fearlessness and the spirit of unity between the army and the people, its own losses cannot be ignored.
In particular, after the reinforcements from Ke Bineng and others arrived, the Xianbei army changed its original steady and steady offensive and adopted a desperate offensive posture regardless of any cost!
In this case, the casualties of the Xianbei army were naturally higher than usual, but correspondingly, the 20,000 Yanmen defenders were not much better. It is precisely because the Xianbei army did not pay attention to casualties at all, and the Yanmen Pass defenders The situation has become increasingly difficult.
After all, people get tired easily. After more than ten days of continuous high-intensity fighting, even an iron man cannot bear it. Moreover, the leading generals of the Xianbei Army are Murong Hao and others. They are not easy-going people!< /p>
Especially Murong Jun, although his commanding ability is not as good as that of his father Murong Huang, his ferocity is far superior, and he will attack the city at all costs!
It is precisely because of this that the defensive battle at Yanmen Pass was so difficult. There were originally only 20,000 standing defenders, but under Murong Jun's constant wear and tear, only 8,000 were left!