Deng Ai has always been meticulous in doing things, although at the beginning he did not fully understand Liu Feng's intention of sending him to do so, but he was still very serious and personally walked and marked almost all the mountains, rivers and mountains and forests in Nanyang County that could ambush soldiers and horses.

Because there are fast horses and some sergeants for Deng Ai to drive, so Deng Ai patrols and draws these terrain very fast, these ten days, it has been Wancheng as the center to the north of Nanyang County expanded dozens of miles, today this mountain forest, is already far away from the boundary of Wei, Deng Ai knows the risk of leading a small number of men and horses here, so he deliberately chose to come here on a dark and windy night to detect.

There was silence around, only the sound of birdsong, obviously there was no large group of people nearby, Deng Ai saw this situation, this beckoned everyone to move in the direction of the mountains and forests, Deng Ai has a very good habit, that is, everywhere, he will definitely step into it in person, in order to be able to record whether there is strategic significance here, if there is, how many soldiers can be hidden, are in his records.

But when he approached this mountain forest, Deng Ai's eyebrows, which were already full of solemnity, suddenly twisted into a ball, and he stretched out his hand to stop the forward momentum of the sergeants behind him.

Deng Ai, who was very familiar with all kinds of geographical environments, took a look at the mountains and forests that were still some distance away from him through the rather dim moonlight, his heartbeat quickly accelerated, and he made a silent gesture to these sergeants under his command for the first time.

What he saw was a small area where he wanted to enter the forest, and several of the dwarf trees had been broken off from their roots, and they were half-lying there at this time, which undoubtedly aroused Deng Ai's vigilance.

Of course, such a change is likely to be caused by the beasts living in this forest fighting or hunting, but if this is not the case, there is only one possibility left, and if this possibility does become a reality, it will have a great impact on the guards of Nanyang.

After stopping the actions of the soldiers under his command, Deng Ai bit a bamboo pipe tightly in his mouth to avoid making any noise, and then lowered his body to a minimum, and slowly moved towards the suspicious place step by step against the edge of the forest.

More than a dozen sergeants behind Deng Ai were all staring at Deng Ai's figure tightly at this time, and they didn't dare to come out, they knew that Deng Ai had left the most dangerous thing to himself, after the overwhelmed trees, of course, there might be nothing, but it was also possible that a large group of enemy troops would emerge all at once, the reason why Deng Ai didn't let them move was naturally that once they were killed by the enemy soldiers who rushed out, those sergeants might also escape back and inform Zhao Yun and Ma Chao of the news.

From the place of departure to the place where the trees were overwhelmed, it was only a few dozen steps away, but when he got closer, Deng Ai's forehead was already covered with beads of sweat, and the bamboo pole he was biting in his mouth had also been bitten out of a deep tooth mark, in the previous twenty years, where did Deng Ai really face to face with the enemy, and at this time, he knew that since he was a general under Liu Feng, then he had to take on the responsibility he had to bear, he was an extremely stubborn person, and he would always do it himself.

After approaching the area, Deng Ai did not rush forward to investigate, but stayed for a moment, listening carefully to the movement in the forest, until he confirmed that there was no sound inside, and then stepped to the broken tree.

After leaning over to investigate, Deng Ai's face became more solemn than before, because with the experience gained from drawing maps outside Yingchuan for many years, Deng Ai concluded that the breaking of these branches was not caused by a fight between trees and beasts, but by a team of men and horses accidentally breaking when passing here, and at the break of a branch, he also found a small piece of black cloth, although he had not fought face-to-face with the Wei army, but Deng Ai, who had lived in Yingchuan for a long time, had still seen the conspicuous black armor on the Wei soldiers.

These are enough to show that this place was passed by the Wei army not long ago, and after Deng Ai judged this situation, he was not in a hurry to leave, but lay on the ground and carefully looked at the ground that was likely to be trampled by the Wei army.

In the end, he left the two slightly thinner sergeants here to observe, and then he led the rest of the people back to Wancheng directly, such a major news, needless to say, must be known to Zhao Yun and Ma Chao first.

"Do you dare to conclude that there must be Wei soldiers and horses passing by there, can you judge the number of people passing by?"

As soon as Zhao Yun heard the news, he immediately stood up from his handsome chair, stared at Deng Ai with blazing eyes, and asked word by word. After all, this discovery is not child's play, if there is really a Wei army passing by here and leaving traces, then it is very likely to be able to judge where this Wei army wants to go, which is too important for Liu Feng, who does not want Sima Yi to take the lead.

"There must be a group of Wei soldiers and horses passing by, although they have tried their best to cover up the traces they have left, but they still ignore the few trees on the edge of the mountain forest, and after observation, I can also determine that the team of Wei troops is going to the east through the mountains and forests on the border of Nanyang, as for the number of people, we have to visit the forest again, because there are really few people under my command, for fear of exposure, so I will inform the two generals of this matter first, and then make a decision!"

Deng Ai's handling of this matter, so that Zhao Yun in his heart everyone appreciated, at this time Ma Chao and then led the cavalry to investigate and did not return, Zhao Yun heard about the incident and immediately decided, while sending people to Xiangyang to inform Liu Feng of the matter, while transferring a thousand cavalry to Deng Ai, teaching him to return to the mountain forest immediately, be sure to explore the situation in the forest clearly, and get the information about the movements of the Wei army to the greatest extent.

Zhao Yun's trust made Deng Ai's heart ignite a flame, he believed that he would definitely be able to turn this discovery into a breakthrough for Liu Feng to resist Sima Yi's attack, he believed that those traces would definitely bring him more things, so he didn't even take off his armor, he directly bid farewell to Zhao Yun, and took the thousand cavalry temporarily assigned to him by Zhao Yun, and quickly rushed towards the direction of the mountain forest......