I don't know how long it took to fight, but the soldiers of the Abu clan finally retreated a little distance. www.biquge.info Deng Ai didn't bother to examine the wounds on his body, so he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to throw the corpses on the wall to a relatively empty place under the gate, and at the same time let some soldiers with more strength use long bamboo and wood poles to lower the corpse ladder as much as possible on the wall. Deng Ai knew very well that this slight retreat of the brute soldiers was just a short rest, and the next wave of attacks would come up soon. And what I can do now is to prepare as much as possible and recover some defensive advantages against the wall.

After the order was issued, Deng Ai finally had a little free time, so he found a random place to sit down and rest and take a breath. Looking at this pile of earth and rocks, the pass with a total height of no more than ten meters, Deng Ai shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's a pity that there was not enough manpower at that time!" Otherwise, it would be nice to build this pass about a foot higher. ”

"Shizai!"

Seeing that the battle had stopped for a while, Shui Ling came to Deng Ai's side with a basin of clear water and said, "There are many wounds on your body, there is blood everywhere, I will help you wash and wash it, and then bandage it a little." ”

Deng Aiwei said with some snort: "The Abu clan may be captured at any time, you go down quickly!" ”

Shui Ling stood there with some grievances, looking at a few of Deng Ai's pro-soldiers with a pleading eye, but several pro-soldiers shook their heads silently. Now is not the usual time to joke, the Abu clan will attack at any time, and Shui Ling will definitely be distracted when Deng Ai closes it, and then it will be a big trouble. A pro-soldier was more clever, stepped forward to take the basin of Shui Ling, and said, "Miss Shui Ling, leave it to me." ”

And when he took the basin, the soldier whispered to Shui Ling: "Shui Ling girl, it's not a child's play in wartime, please go down." We will protect Deng Zhonglang. ”

Shui Ling reluctantly handed over the basin and turned around step by step. The basin was put in front of Deng Ai, and Deng Ai didn't need anyone to help, he wiped a few handfuls indiscriminately and asked his own soldiers: "Is the craftsman team back?" ”

"Half of them are already back, and the other half may be back in an hour."

Deng Ai nodded and said, "Listen, no matter what, we have to block it until tonight, and the Abu clan will collect its troops and rest." After the craftsmen have set it up, I want three of you to come down and set fire to it, and then take advantage of the chaos to escape back to the cottage, which of you dares to stay and use the trick? ”

"Me!" "Me!" ……

After picking out the three pro-soldiers, Deng Ai asked the three people to go to the lock down to rest first, so that they could have the spirit to do things at night.

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After a day of fierce fighting, seeing that the sun had turned west, the patriarch of the Abu clan considered that it would be inconvenient to attack the problem when it was dark, and ordered the clan soldiers to return to rest. As for what to sneak attack at night, the patriarch of the Abu clan has also tried it in the past few days, but in the face of Deng Ai's strict defense, it is just to send some more corpses.

It has been nine days since the strong attack on the pass, and Ah Bu also realized that Deng Ai's side was running out of strength, and maybe he could break through the pass by attacking it for another day tomorrow. In addition to self-confidence, Abu was also a little afraid of the combat strength of Deng Ai and his soldiers.

In nine days, Deng Ai used 400 elite soldiers, hundreds of craftsmen, and then the hundreds of barbarian soldiers left by Meng Shu to Deng Ai, adding up to a mixed formation of less than 2,000 people, and he blocked 20,000 barbarian soldiers at this pass for nine days, and all kinds of tactics emerged one after another.

In particular, the 400 elite soldiers in Yizhou, their brave, tenacious and calm fighting style, made Abu almost nothing but throw down a large number of corpses. You must know that Meng Shu has only blocked the first two passes for three days each.

Originally, when he heard about Lu Ren's strength, Ah Bu thought that Lu Ren was nothing more than a lot of soldiers and enough food, but after the actual fight, Ah Bu completely gave up this idea, and felt that Lu Ren was definitely a figure that he couldn't provoke, and he also had the intention of sending someone to send a large amount of money and property to make friends with Lu Ren immediately after this battle. Everyone is not a fool, although it is said that there was a conflict between Lu Ren and Deng Ai because of a little girl, but they are masters and apprentices for many years, what if Lu Ren heard that Deng Ai died at the hands of Abu's family, and Abu's didn't say anything, Lu Ren turned his face in anger?

While he was in the tent, the vigilant clan soldiers entered the account and reported urgently: "Patriarch, there is a fire at the pass!" The fire was about to spread to the middle pass, and the leader of the middle pass saw that the fire was too big, and had already led the clan soldiers back to the head pass. ”

"What!?"

The patriarch of the Abu clan hurriedly went out of the tent to watch, only to see the fire at the two passes in the distance, which made people feel frightened. The patriarch of the Abu clan was shocked: "What is Deng Ai doing here?" ”

Do? It's just a matter of delaying the time! After nine days of fierce fighting, he always had to deal with the wheel warfare method, and the soldiers in Deng Ai's hands were already exhausted, and it would definitely be a dead end if he continued to fight like this. Deng Ai had no choice but to order the hundreds of craftsmen who stayed to help cut down a large amount of firewood and grass in these days, and all of them were concentrated in the pass during the day, and only after dark, Abu's offensive retreated, then set fire to the pass, and at the same time opened the gate, and set fire to the second pass after lighting more than 20 ox carts carrying firewood and grass. In the past, when Lu Ren taught Deng Ai, he once talked about the fire ox array, that is, the ox will run forward desperately after encountering fire, Deng Ai thought that this was a tactic and memorized it by heart, and now it really comes in handy.

Although the fire in the third level was due to early preparation, the fire in the second level was caused by the three personal soldiers sent by Deng Ai to take advantage of the chaos when the oxen rushed to the second level with the burning vehicle, and then secretly picked those wooden buildings. It was very surprising that these three pro-soldiers found a batch of grain and grass that the barbarians put in the pass for easy food, so they naturally would not be polite, and they would burn it. After the deed was completed, these three pro-soldiers took advantage of the chaos when the barbarian soldiers retreated, and then took advantage of the moonlight as a cover to escape, the goal was to rush to Guangzhou from the trail, hoping to meet the rescuers sent by Lu Ren on the way, urging the rescuers to speed up the march and rush to the rescue.

The fire in the two levels was together, and Abu's couldn't put out it at night, so naturally he could only watch the fire stare at night, and Deng Ai also had time to rectify the army and safely withdraw to the cottage to continue to hold on. Now Deng Ai is hoping that this fire can burn for a longer time, and it will drag on for one more day. One more day, the soldiers in his hands can also rest for one more day and recover a little more strength to prepare for the future battle of the garrison.

It's a pity that it backfired, there was no forest between the two passes that could not cause a bigger fire, and the firewood and grass prepared by Deng Ai alone could not burn for that long. By the middle of the next day, the fire in the two passes was getting smaller, and Abu also hurriedly sent troops to extinguish the remaining fires and open the way. After hearing the news, Deng Ai urgently gathered the sergeants and craftsmen of the village and began to make final defensive preparations. Roughly calculating the time, this is already the tenth day, and the few days that Meng Shu failed to keep for more than three days have already made up for three days. As long as Deng Ai holds out for another two to three days, Lu Ren's reinforcements should be able to arrive.

All the soldiers and craftsmen were carefully guarding, but they didn't expect a little accident. Of course, this accident was not here in Deng Ai, but in the Abu clan who occupied Meng Huo's cottage.

It turned out that when Meng Huo led his clan to flee urgently, he naturally did not have a lot of money, food, and property that he could take away, and there were still many ripe crops in the fields around the cottage that had not been harvested. As barbarian soldiers, the soldiers of the Abu clan are certainly brave when fighting...... It should be said that it is violent, but the corresponding military discipline is not very strict, and in a difficult phrase, it is a rabble.

Such a rabble, before seeing any money, food, and property, may still be like that, but when they see a large amount of money, food, and property at their fingertips, they are all red-eyed, and even cause chaos and very fights and robbing.

As mentioned earlier, the patriarch of the Abu clan adopted the advice of the elders of the clan and forcibly demanded that some other small tribes also send troops to join. And these small tribes themselves were not very reluctant to participate in the war, and they were forced to send troops because of the obscenity of the Abu clan. Now that I see so many good things, the soldiers of the small tribe are not desperately grabbing them? Where there is looting, there will be fighting, and small tribes that cannot be defeated or grabbed also abound, and dissatisfaction will naturally add chaos everywhere.

Deng Ai saw all this on the watchtower, but he was also relieved, and said with a smile: "It's really up to people to make things happen, and it's up to heaven to make things happen!" I thought that it would take a few more days to fight a tough battle, but now it seems that it will take at least two days for a hard battle to be fought...... Master, your soldiers and horses are almost there, right? ”

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Three days passed, and the Abu clan, who had been chaotic for three days, finally took control of the situation and reorganized the army to surround Deng Ai's cottages. It's just that by this time, the strength of the Abu clan had dropped to less than fifteen thousand. After more than ten days of fierce fighting and chaos, Abu actually lost a quarter of its troops, and most of them died under the three passes.

After losing so many people, and the Meng Huo tribe fled without a trace, can the Ah Bu clan not be angry in his heart? In addition to resentment, Ah Bushi pointed the finger at Deng Ai. Things have developed so far, it seems that everything is caused by Deng Ai, a Han Chinese...... In fact, it can also be said that it was, so Ah Bu's family was ruthless and would never give up if he didn't get rid of Deng Ai.

It's just that although Deng Ai's cottage has been surrounded, Abu doesn't know how to start at the moment.

Compared to the three passes, which were somewhat rushed, this cottage that Deng Ai had been building for several months was much more thorough. In addition to the main road to the west, if there are no good siege equipment on the other three sides, it can be said that they will not be able to attack at all.

Take the east side as an example, the foot of the walled wall is more than five meters away from the ladder-like slope, and the wall itself is more than five meters high, which is more than ten meters, which is equivalent to the height of the three-story building of the same generation.

This is not counting, the slope below the wall is about 70 degrees if calculated by the horizontal line, it is not easy to climb, and what is even worse is that Deng Ai actually buried sharp bamboo thorns on this slope!

In addition, Ah Bu didn't know that on the seemingly flat ground below the slope, Deng Ai didn't know how many defensive traps he had dug for defense. Of course, Abu soon knew, because when they sent people to investigate the surrounding area, many people died in the traps. Let's put it this way, the current Abu people are powerful, although they look like a vicious lion, but Deng Ai, a small cottage, is like a hedgehog with thorns all over his body, so that the lion can't get his mouth down...... (To be continued.) )