As Deng Ai said, it was too late to prepare for falling rocks on the cliffs on both sides of the main road. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn addition, there is another question that has to be considered, that is, whether Deng Ai has enough arrows and arrows at hand.

Yes, Lu Ren sent a lot of arrows to Deng Ai before, and there was originally a certain margin, but Meng Shu delayed for several days in the first two passes, which meant that the arrows on Deng Ai's hand had to last for several more days, which made Deng Ai have a headache.

You must know that the crossbows and arrows in the hands of the Yizhou soldiers were all standard, and they could basically be defined as special at that time. If you use other arrows to fill up the number indiscriminately, it is easy to cause the arrow box to be stuck in the magazine...... Well, this cassette somewhat resembles the jamming or chambering of modern firearms.

Although this problem was considered at the beginning of the design of the crossbow, so if necessary, the barrel structure was removed, and the crossbow could also use ordinary arrows, but in that case, the semi-automatic burst fire ability of the crossbow would be lost. And Deng Ai only has about 400 people in his hands, once he loses the ability of the crossbow to shoot continuously, then the fire suppression of the arrow rain is nonsense.

Now even if the craftsmen of the army are ordered to make crossbow arrows, it is simply too late, not to mention that the tools that can quickly make crossbow arrows have not been brought to the Nanban at all, and even if the craftsmen want to rush to make them, they are powerless. Therefore, once the Abu clan is frightened and the regrouped attackers come up, Deng Ai is likely to choose to defend in hand-to-hand combat. Originally, there was also a defensive weapon throwing frame, but with the narrow type of the pass, it was not easy to arrange at all, and it could be said that there was not enough time to arrange it.

Deng Ai now has the worst plan in his heart, that is, when he feels that the pass is about to be unguarded, he immediately asks Meng Shu to lead his people to flee from the main road in the south, and after Meng Shu escapes from here, he will retreat to the cottage. Compared with these three passes, the cottage has been built for several months, and there are more surrounding defense facilities, and it may be able to top it for a while.

In case he really can't resist the enemy, Deng Ai will consider leading his troops to forcibly break through, and then put a big fire. And the worst and worst result is that if he really dies in battle, with the precious time he dragged along the Abu clan, Meng Shu will definitely be able to escape to Guangzhou, and then Lu Ren can justifiably send troops to the Southern Barbarians on the grounds of avenging Deng Ai, and at the same time support Meng Shu to become the king of the Southern Barbarians in the future.

"Alas, master, the disciple still miscalculated in the end. The only hope is that you can lead the troops to the ...... before I can support it."

After silently reciting this sentence, Deng Ai looked at the main road in front of him that was full of corpses and messy heads, and he couldn't help shaking his head. The Abu clan has more than 20,000 people, and although it is said that the first few formations have been lost, its overwhelming superiority in strength has not changed. And with the violent combat style of the southern barbarian tribes, I am afraid that when the time comes, the corpses will be piled up to attack the pass, so that the clan soldiers will step on the corpses and attack it, and Deng Ai's original pass advantage will be gone.

After pondering for a long time, Deng Ai instructed his own soldiers: "Go and tell the people on the cliffs on both sides immediately that the rocks have fallen to the end, so find more dry trees and firewood to prepare." Tomorrow, when the arrows are heard, they will light the firewood and throw it down. ”

The soldiers led the order to go, but Deng Ai couldn't stop shaking his head. There were more than 400 people at the pass, and when Meng Xu went to pack up his things according to Deng Ai's wishes, he still left a few hundred people for Deng Ai, and Deng Ai let these hundreds of barbarians go to be rockfall soldiers on both sides. It's just that now that you've become so virtuous, how many fire attack materials can you collect in one night? At best, scheming is just scaring and scaring people. But it's all in the current situation, and it's okay to delay it a little longer. If it can be successfully delayed for a few days, maybe Lu Ren's reinforcements will be able to arrive to relieve the siege.

At night, Deng Ai still sat at the pass, carefully guarding against a possible sneak attack, and he also sent a small number of soldiers to secretly go out of the pass to recover some arrows...... It's all for a drag.

Leaning on the flagpole, Deng Ai closed his eyes slightly and wanted to nourish some spirits. Footsteps sounded softly, and a pair of small hands held his hand. Deng Ai opened his eyes and saw that it was Shui Ling who knelt down beside him.

Deng Ai exclaimed, "What are you doing here?" Go back to the village and prepare to escape from here with the patriarch! ”

Shui Ling shook his head vigorously and said, "I'm not leaving." In fact, it is because of me that you are doing this today. If it weren't for me, you might not have angered your master at all, and this battle of strength and weakness might not have been fought at all. Now that it's come to this point, Sister told me again that you are ready to fight to the death here, and I can't leave you and go by yourself. Even if I die, I will die by your side. The two of us died together, okay? ”

Deng Ai was really a little crying and laughing at the moment, and he couldn't bear to say that this was a strategy he had made with Lu Ren. Silently, Deng Ai stretched out his hand to take Shui Ling into his arms, and his heart was also full of mixed feelings. In this way, the two sat in each other's arms until dawn......

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Bloody battle! Absolute bloodbath!!

When the battle of the third level reached the seventh day, Deng Ai's crossbow arrows, falling stones, firewood and grass, which could use the tactics of dragging along the time, had all been consumed, and the corpses piled up under the wall were densely packed, and a "corpse ladder" was really created for the Abu clan. The current soldiers of the Abu clan can use longer weapons to stab Deng Ai's soldiers on the wall as long as they step on the corpse, and Deng Ai's situation can be imagined to what extent.

Despite this, Deng Ai still led the soldiers to maintain a strict military formation. The pikemen lined up on the wall, and as soon as an Abu clan soldier forced his way onto the wall, he would be assassinated by spears in the corresponding position, and then the knife hand responsible for protecting the lankers would kick him down the wall.

With strict rectification and chaos, and Deng Ai's pass has a geographical advantage after all, the Abu clan has never been able to bargain, and there are more and more corpses thrown under the wall. Meng Shu hadn't left at the moment, and he was a little frightened when he saw this kind of killing and poking battle array of Deng Ai's soldiers. Recalling his conservative playing style in the first two levels, Meng Shu felt a little powerless in his heart, and secretly sighed: "There is really no way to compare with these Han people!" ”

Deng Ai calmly commanded the battle situation, and Shui Ling was always waiting by his side. Until today's offensive was repulsed, Deng Ai sighed heavily after taking a closer look at the "corpse ladder" under the wall, and said to Meng Shu: "Patriarch Meng, I think we may not be able to hold this third pass. The stairs under the wall are almost as high as the wall, and the wall will be useless for another day. Without further ado, you will escape with your people through the southern crossing tonight, and it will be too late to do so. ”

Meng Shu was speechless, turned around and went straight to the cottage. Deng Ai looked at Shui Ling, and suddenly shouted to the sergeant Guan: "Sergeants, we have never been afraid of any opponent, have we?" ”

"Yes!"

"In this battle, we have more than 1,000 men and horses against the enemy's army twenty times our size, and we can't make them advance half a step in a few days, can we?"

"Yes!!"

"From tomorrow, this wall has lost its usefulness, and our army will really have a bloody battle with the Abu clan, do you have any fear?"

"Don't be afraid—!!"

Deng Ai nodded and shouted: "Raise my great Han national prestige, all in this battle!" Victory can be happy, and death is still glorious! All the sergeants will definitely fight the prestige of my Han family, don't teach the Southern Barbarian foreign tribes to take my Han man lightly! ”

Stir, absolutely stir! When Deng Ai was silent, he suddenly remembered what Lu Ren had said to him: "A good man, he can only be considered a real man when he has had a real baptism of blood and fire." ”

He was silent, and the water spirit on the side looked at him with affectionate eyes, and the hand he held became tighter and tighter......

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The dawn was barely dawning on the horizon, and the battle at the pass had already begun.

"Kill!"

Deng Ai narrowly avoided a brute's head, and the steel sword in his hand stabbed into the barbarian's lower abdomen, and before the sword could be pulled out, he kicked it directly, kicking the barbarian's body off the wall. Before the person could stand firmly, there was another brute knife with the sound of the wind, Deng Ai hurriedly rolled to the side to avoid standing up, and when he raised the sword again, the brute had been assassinated by the pro-soldier who had withdrawn from it, and kicked off the wall. The waiter didn't have time to catch his breath, and he had to face the other brutes who had attacked the wall, and there was hardly a moment of free time for flesh and blood fighting.

Looking at the perimeter of the pass, there are scenes of desperate fighting everywhere, and almost every moment someone will fall down in blood and light, both the barbarians who stormed the wall of the pass, and the soldiers under Deng Ai. The original medium-sized spearmen defensive battle formation on the wall has now been transformed into a small battle formation of several people, and several small battle formations resist for a while and then reluctantly retreat, plugging the gap by other battle formations behind, so as to gain a little time to rest and replenish personnel. It can be imagined that Deng Ai, as the commander-in-chief of more than 1,000 people, joined the battle with his own soldiers, so how tense this battle has become.

By the end of the seventh day of the battle, several corpse ladders piled up by the corpses of the barbarians had been piled up at the foot of the thirty-meter-wide wall, and the barbarians had stepped on this corpse ladder to attack directly. As a last resort, Deng Ai increased the density of guards in several corpse ladders, and he had to block the guards no matter what.

Seven days of fierce fighting, this was originally the limit of Deng Ai's own calculations, but in fact, Deng Ai did it. But now Deng Ai has to continue to defend this pass.

Meng Shu had already withdrawn from the main road to the south with all his clansmen two days ago, according to Deng Ai's plan, he originally wanted to find an opportunity to withdraw to his cottage and continue to hold on to it with the fortifications in the village, but the Abu clan sacrificed the wheel tactics again, and the attacks of the barbarians almost never stopped, and Deng Ai now didn't even have time to let the soldiers regroup and return to the cottage safely.

As soon as he recklessly abandoned the pass and retreated to the cottage, and the barbarians took advantage of the situation to chase after him, Deng Ai's already small forces would definitely be scattered and divided until the whole army was annihilated. Therefore, Deng Ai made up his mind to hold on to the death, at least until he completely repelled the attack of the barbarians tonight, and then he had the opportunity to use a strategy and retreat to the cottage with the remaining soldiers...... (To be continued.) )