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The Zuodu Censor Li Banghua poked his head out from the city wall and saw the densely packed soldiers gathered under the city. He couldn't tell who was who, and shouted:

"Where is General Sun?"

Sun Chuanting raised his head, saw Li Banghua, and shouted:

"Mr. Li?"

However, seeing that someone finally responded on the Tongguan city wall, everyone begged loudly.

Duke Xu Da of Wei looked at this scene quietly and asked:

"Mr. Li, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, have they become so weak?"

"I thought Sun Chuanting could last for a few more days, but I didn't expect that he would be defeated so soon."

After Xu Da led an army of 50,000 to leave Shuntian Prefecture, he rushed all the way. Who would have thought that they had arrived at Tongguan last night and encountered defeated soldiers today.

Li Banghua smiled awkwardly and said:

"Duke of Wei, the current Ming Dynasty is not during the Hongwu period after all."

After a few dozen seconds, after seeing Sun Chuanting suppressing the defeated soldiers with his prestige, Xu Da ordered the soldiers to throw down a basket and said:

"General Sun, come up and tell me."

Seeing this, Sun Chuanting was confused and had no choice but to sit on the basket and be pulled onto the city wall.

When he saw the defenders on Tongguan, Sun Chuanting's pupils shrank and murmured:

"Is this really the Ming army?"

After walking down the basket, Sun Chuanting looked at Li Banghua and asked in confusion:

"Mr. Li, what's going on?"

"Maybe Your Majesty sent reinforcements again?"

Xu Da looked up and down at Sun Chuanting and asked:

"You just said that the army of the thief Li Zicheng is coming soon? How many people are there?"

Thinking of the causes and consequences of his hastily exited the customs and the heavy rain that had been falling for seven consecutive days, Sun Chuanting said with an ugly expression:

"The thief Li Zicheng now has a million troops, but most of them are desperate refugees."

"As long as we wait to stand by Tongguan, until May is out, the million-strong army of the treacherous Li Zicheng will collapse without fighting."

In fact, before sending troops, Sun Chuanting mentioned this method in the memorial, what should I do?

Duke Xu Da of Wei called a personal guard, looked at Sun Chuanting, and said:

"General Sun, you lead your soldiers to set up camps outside the city. If the thief Li Zicheng attacks, you can guard the camp."

Upon hearing this, Sun Chuanting glanced at the soldiers standing on both sides, looked at the defeated soldiers under the city wall, and said with a wry smile:

"It's good that there are still tens of thousands of defeated soldiers behind us. If the thief takes this opportunity to break through Tongguan, we will be the sinners of the Ming Dynasty."

Afterwards, Xu Da ordered thousands of soldiers to send half of the food they carried on this expedition out of Tongguan and handed it over to Sun Chuanting.

With the food, Sun Chuanting quickly stabilized the morale of the army and arranged for large troops to set up camps and cook fires.

On the city wall.

Li Banghua saw the constant defeated soldiers coming from a distance and asked in confusion:

"Duke of Wei, are you planning to defend Tongguan to the death?"

"Can you defend it with a 50,000 army? Why not let General Sun and the others enter the city?"

Xu Da looked into the distance and explained:

"Mr. Li, if I were Li Zicheng, I would definitely send people to infiltrate the defeated troops, open the city gate, and follow the trend to break through Tongguan."

"This is also the reason why those defeated soldiers are not allowed to enter the city."

While talking, Xu Da was very calm. Even if he was alone in commanding the 50,000 army, the old brothers followed Lan Yu to attack Zhang Xianzhong.

He also has confidence and wins it in battle.

After a moment.

Outside Tongguan City, the food was filled with fragrance. The hungry soldiers finally had a full meal and worked hard to build the camp.

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In the evening.

A defeated soldier of thousands of people came from a distance. Sun Chuanting stood at the gate of the camp and was about to send people to pick up these soldiers.

When he heard the sound of horse hooves behind the soldiers, his face changed drastically and he quickly summoned the army in the camp.
Chapter completed!