Saving Cao Cheng under the wind and snow made people unable to open their eyes, Deng Ai felt a little that he was really too sensitive? How could Cao Cao attack Bianjing City in this ghost weather? Although Deng Ai always comforts himself like this, he is always a little uneasy in his heart. The general asked him to tell the Intelligence Academy, but Deng Ai shook his head. The Intelligence School is now cooperating with the Surveying and Mapping School to draw maps of Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and there are fewer people in the first place, but now there are even fewer people. And now that the wind and snow are so heavy, the river is also frozen without hand, and as soon as the river is frozen, Bianjing will not transmit information to Xuzhou Mansion.

After thinking about it, Deng Ai still didn't worry about Bianjing. Now that the north is occupied by Tao Ying, with his investigation of Cao Cao, how can Cao Cao be willing to give up? After some reasoning, Deng Ai still felt that Cao Cao would definitely pull out the nail of Bianjing. So after thinking about it, Deng Ai decided to send someone to pretend to be a businessman, and then go to Cao Cao's control was not so strict, and then go to Bingzhou from there, and tell Zhuge Liang, the prefect of Bingzhou, his analysis.

At the moment, the only person who can persuade Tao Ying is probably his righteous son Zhuge Liang, and when he was in the Nanyang Official Academy, he went to Pengcheng, and he was fortunate to meet Zhuge Liang, I hope Zhuge Liang will not forget his stutter!

After writing the letter, Deng Ai sent people to Fengqiu City, so that the soldiers and horses of Fengqiu were ready to prepare for war at any time. In order to prevent Cao Cao's spies from entering the city, Deng Ai ordered Fengqiu and Cao to close the city gate, and nothing was forbidden to enter or exit. In addition to the two cities, the towns also needed to use the snow and ice to build a wall and fortify their defenses.

After the order was given, there were constant complaints from below. Not only the two cities, but since Deng Ai was the governor of Bianjing, he ordered to block the gates of Bianjing and prepare for defense. When Taishou heard this, he came to reproach Deng Ai again, saying that if the city gate was blocked, how would Bianjing's materials be transported to the land of Sanqin? Although it is winter, there is an endless stream of businessmen, isn't this going to cut off Bianjing's financial route?

Seeing that Taishou was furious again, Deng Ai had to reopen the door of Bianjing. That's right, he is in charge of the army, but he is too conservative in charge of the government, and his duty is to develop the economy and make the people rich, and his duty is to protect them, and now he has indeed cut off his financial route.

However, the spies sent by Deng Ai came with news that Chen Liu had stationed at least 50,000 troops, and Cao Cao was also transporting cannons and other materials to Chen Liu, which strengthened Deng Ai's thoughts.

There was really no way to stop Bianjing from closing the gate, but he was afraid that spies and spies would sneak into the city, which was really tormenting Deng Ai and couldn't stand it. After thinking about it for a long time, there was no way, and just when Deng Ai didn't know what to do, someone suddenly came to report that Jingzhou Ma Tan asked to see him.

Deng Ai recruited Ma Yan, Ma Jian is seventeen years old today, good at talking about military affairs, he studied in the military academy in Nanyang, and was Jia Xu's protégé. This person is talented, and he made friends with Deng Ai when he was studying in Wancheng, and the two are each other's confidants. Now that he has graduated and has been a long history in a county town in Nanyang, Ma Jian doesn't want his talent to be buried, so he analyzes the current situation and feels that Cao Cao will attack Bianjing sooner or later, so in order to display his talent to make himself famous, so that Tao Ying knows, Ma Jian resigned to join his friend Deng Ai.

The two were naturally happy to meet. Deng Ai set up a banquet for Ma Tan, and when he saw Deng Ai sullen at the banquet, Ma Jian asked why? Deng Ai told Ma Jian the news of Cao Cao's heavy army, and Ma Jian was silent for a long time. Sure enough, as Ma Tan expected, Cao Cao was ready to make a move against Bianjing. Deng Ai knew that Ma Jian had a lot of ideas, so he asked him how he could close the door of Bianjing to prevent spies from entering?

Ma Jian thought for a while and offered a plan, and Deng Ai's face became overjoyed when he heard it. After the banquet, Deng Ailiu Ma Jian was saving Cao and appointed him to join the army for Bianjing, and Ma Jian also stayed in Saving Cao Cheng.

In December 206, Tao was the first half year of conscription. In the winter, many poor peasant families let their children join the army to serve the country, and by the way, they also get some military pay to support their families. Especially in the newly recovered Bingzhou, in just half a year, Zhuge Liang recruited nearly 150,000 troops in the Bingzhou. Coupled with the 30,000 soldiers and horses brought by Zhuge Liang and the recovered Gao Gan and Lu Kuang's soldiers and horses, Zhuge Liang now has nearly 200,000 troops in Bingzhou.

With so many soldiers and horses, if it weren't for the fact that he was Tao Ying's righteous son, someone would have told Tao Ying that he had different intentions and beheaded him. After Zhuge Liang finished recruiting troops, he ordered the generals Zhang He and Zhang Liao to train the soldiers every day in the winter, and after nearly a month of training, they selected 50,000 elites from the 200,000 army to form two strong military horses in Bingzhou - the wolf cavalry army and the tiger cavalry army!

Zhuge Liang also asked Xiao to assemble Tao Zhong into an elite team of 1,000 people, named the Zhongyi Battalion, and they were equipped with the best equipment in the state to be responsible for Zhuge Liang's defense. Zhuge Liang trained military horses in the north every day, and kept recruiting troops and horses, reclaiming wasteland, and constantly enriching the strength of the state. When Deng Ai's generals arrived in Bingzhou, Zhuge Liang heard that it was Deng Ai, so he hurriedly received his generals and took him to see the soldiers and horses he had recruited.

The general did not dare to delay Deng Ai's entrustment, and hurriedly handed over Deng Ai's letter to Zhuge Liang. After Zhuge Liang opened the letter, he ordered someone to take the map, and after a careful observation, he said to General Deng Ai: "You go back to Bianjing first, I have a letter, you take it and hand it over to Bianjing Taishou, he will definitely help defend the city!" After Zhuge Liang finished speaking, he wrote a letter, gave Deng Ai's envoy some gold and silver, and sent him back to Bianjing.

After Deng Ai's generals left, Zhuge Liang recruited Erzhang again, and Erzhang commanded the troops for a long time, Zhuge Liang told the two of them the secret found in Bianjing, and the two asked for orders to help defend Bianjing. Zhuge Liang shook his head and said that it was not appropriate, they were officials of the annexed state, and Bianjing was the territory of Yuzhou Prefecture, so they should be reported to Xuzhou. So Zhuge Liang asked people to inform Xuzhou, and on the other hand, he ordered Zhang Liao to lead 20,000 wolf cavalry troops to be stationed in Gaodu City, Shangdang County, on the border with Yanzhou. When the time comes, if Cao Cao attacks Bianjing, and Bingzhou, he will send troops to Yanzhou to attack Xudu!

In January, 207, the wind and snow were much lighter, and the weather was still very cold. It was tense for a winter, which made the people of Bianjing very uncomfortable. The city gate of Bianjing has been closed for a long time, and seeing that the wind and snow are small and the New Year is approaching, many large families are clamoring to go out of the city to enjoy the snow. Hearing that someone was going out of the city again, Taishou came to punish Deng Ai and Ma Jian again.

There was really no way, and Cao Cao stayed in Chenliu all the time, so Deng Ai and Ma Jian couldn't guess what he was thinking, so they could only agree to open the city gate with Taishou's words. After opening the gate of Bianjing City, a few days ago, Deng Ai and others asked the soldiers to strictly check the strangers, and it was still okay for nearly half a month, and the soldiers slacked off a lot.

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