Li He also sent the scouts out to look for Deng Ai's traces, all the way to Nanxiang recklessly, he knew that Deng Ai was in Nanxiang, and he defeated Xiahou Yuan, got Huo Yi's military order, and rushed to Nanxiang in a hurry, and was halfway through, but he saw that the scouts he sent were walking back.

The scout saw Li He and reported: "The enemy army is besieging the city, and in a dense forest outside the east city, he accidentally found a large number of men and horses ambushed by the Cao army, and the direction of the north city is the sound of killing all day long. If General Deng is defenseless, he will suffer a big loss! ”

Li He raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Our brothers haven't made a move for several days in the past few days, but it has made Deng Ai's Dire famous, the general has spent so much effort on the head of our cavalry camp, but he has never given us a resounding name, this name is to be earned by himself, what do the brothers think?" ”

Li He's side of several generals are all people who have followed Li He for a long time, they have seen a lot with Huo Yi's large and small battle formations, some of them are Huo Yi's personal guards, and they are arrogant and tight, and they have always been a little hot for the name of Dire, and they have also shot Dire one after another, and won great achievements, Li He also said to Huo Yi that he wanted a mighty number of cavalry battalions, but Huo Yi smiled: "If you don't have any military merits, you will come to ask for a number, it's not good, and when you get another battle merit, you can block the mouths of the generals of each battalion, and then talk about it." ”

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart. Since that time, Li He has always remembered Huo Yi's words, he knows that this Dire is the elite selected by Huo Yi from various departments, and his ability is not small, many of them are still from the cavalry battalion, and put them in other battalions, they are all characters who can be the chief of the army, and as soon as the Dire shot, he broke the battle situation in Hanzhong, and at this time, he first defeated Wenpin, and then forced Xiahou Yuan to die, such military exploits. Li He was inexplicably under some pressure, you must know that in the battalions, there is no one who is so violent.

Li He listened to the scout's words. Where don't you know that the trouble of the Dire is coming, as long as the crisis of the Dire can be solved, then he Li He will also have real courage, counting the previous military exploits, how can he change the number to a loud number, you listen to the people Deng Ai's team, Dire, listening to it makes people sweat coldly.

Although Li He said that he was sincere for his meritorious service, he also knew that he knew himself and his opponent, and said slowly: "Can you see how many people don't?" ”

The scout's face turned red: "It's a shame to humiliate the scout camp." The trees in the forest are dense, and the thief army is well guarded, I really don't know how many people there are, but judging from the general situation on the periphery, it has to be 8,000 or more! ”

Li He's face tightened. Eight thousand people up, maybe more, is already beyond the upper limit of seven thousand cavalry he led, although the cavalry has an advantage over the infantry, but these people are in the dense forest, the cavalry is sharp, and the forest goes to find the infantry to fight. Isn't it death?

Li He frowned and muttered, "How is this good?" ”

A polite young general beside Li He said, "The general is earnest, confused, right?" ”

Li He kicked him: "What are you kid doing?" How do you talk to your head? You have a lot of ideas for reading! Not to mention! Li He has been following Huo Yi for a long time, and he always has some Huo Yi's spoken words in his words.

The young general is called Liu He, who is a junior in Liu Min's clan, and he can use marksmanship all the way. He is quite proficient in horsemanship, relying on his brains, leading his dozen or so brothers to accumulate military merits all the way and be promoted to a general.

Liu He said slowly: "General, we are cavalry. Naturally, we can't get off our horses and fight on foot, that's not our strength, the enemy soldiers and horses are in the dense forest, and they want to go out to attack the city after all, what our army has to do is to wait quietly for them to move, at that time, our army only needs a charge from the whole army, and they will not collapse in an instant? Why go into the woods at this time to fight them? ”

Li He smiled: "Hehe, it's true that I've been marching too much recently, and my brain is dizzy on the horse." Order, all the armies rest on the spot, let the scouts disperse, don't let Cao Jun know that we are behind them, the big guy will raise horsepower, don't give me a kick when the time comes! Whether our cavalry battalion can compete for a name depends on this battle! ”

Deng Ai fought extremely hard, he didn't know that several reinforcements sent by Huo Yi were coming to Nanxiang, and the fight was stale, and even a little desperate, after all, without foreign aid, it was a matter of time before the city was breached.

Han Ping replaced Deng Ai on the night shift, Cao soldiers and horses, but they attacked the city day and night, without stopping, but it was the soldiers of the north gate, Deng Ai took turns to mobilize the soldiers of each gate to defend the city, and rested in batches, so that he could hold the north city, but the north city gate was also full of corpses, the fire baked the city wall black, and the Dire soldiers on the city head were also exhausted.

The silver moon hung high, a sneak attack by Cao Jun was repulsed, and the soldiers who had a gap did not care that this was the head of the city, leaving enough vigilance force, and most of the soldiers fell asleep on the spot, some of them may have been resting for a hundred days, but they were gulping down water and eating dry food sent from the city to replenish their strength.

Le Jin looked at the not-so-tall city wall in the distance, nearly 20,000 of his 30,000 military horses had been attacking here for nearly five days, leaving a corpse on the ground, losing nearly 3,000 people, and he didn't even climb the city, which made him admire the willpower of this character who defended the city, and he never mobilized the defenders of the eastern city.

But he believes that the mobilization of the defenders on the other three city walls is what Deng Ai will inevitably do, his men and horses have suffered heavy losses, and Deng Ai's defenders have lost a lot, and it is estimated that the north gate has lost the lives of more than 800 defenders, and if the battle continues, with his non-stop attack, the north gate will sooner or later be insufficient.

And the situation is indeed much worse than Lejin estimated, at this moment in the north city, there is already a shortage of arrows is extremely bad, the crossbowmen in the city have only less than ten arrows per person, this is the arrows of more than 8,000 people in the whole army are concentrated in the north city, plus the arrows of the arsenal in the city, the garrison of the north gate because of the different division of labor, Deng Ai picked out the best shot of the thousand people as crossbowmen, and the arrows of the whole army, except for the necessary arrows left in the other three gates, are all concentrated in the hands of these thousand people, and at this moment each person is not even ten rounds.

Deng Ai's eyes looked at the dense arrows on the mountains of corpses under the city, as long as these arrows were picked up, they could still be used, but he couldn't pick them up, the Cao army outside the city was not an ornament, if there was no suppression of arrows, Deng Ai let out a sigh of relief, and slowly looked at the dense military tent in the distance outside the city.

What should he do to stop these 30,000 Cao troops!