On the wall of Bianjing City, it seems to be a performance, the students are sitting neatly on the city wall with stools and reading the Four Books and Five Classics with Mr., and some are in the art of governing the country, and there is a row of students and a teacher talking about things at intervals on the city wall. The soldiers were curious at first, but it didn't take long for them to join in one by one, and sure enough, few soldiers paid attention to Cao Bing, who was scolding outside the city.

Deng Aiden City pointed to Cao Bing outside the city and shouted: "You are country village husbands, and you are extremely vulgar, do you also want your children and grandchildren to be vulgar like you for generations?" ”

After Deng Ai finished scolding, Cao Bing outside the city really stopped scolding, and Deng Ai shouted again: "In our land of Xuzhou, whether it is rich or poor, their children can study!" Our money in Xuzhou did not fall into the hands of the family, nor did it fall into the hands of the generals, our money was finally returned to us, what did the emperor who has protected you for generations give you? Do your children have books to read? Do you have food to eat when you are hungry? Didn't you even eat in the disaster year and still pay your taxes? We don't have it in Xuzhou! ”

The soldiers shouted Deng Ai's words with the student, and the voice spread far and wide, and Cao Bing, who was lying in the distance, became even quieter. That's right, they came to serve as soldiers, and many of the purposes of coming to serve the army were not to serve the motherland, but to eat a mouthful. Their children have been herding cattle for the landlord for generations at home, and they don't know what books are, so how can they read?

Cao Cao saw that Deng Ai was demagogic again, and hurriedly ordered the siege of the city, the soldiers did not want to move, Cao Cao beheaded several people in a row, and the soldiers came to Bianjing City. Deng Ai ordered the students to go down to the city tower, but the teachers and students were reluctant to go down, they picked up bows and crossbows and big knives and stood on the city wall!

Guo Jia saw that Bianjing City regarded death as home, and hurriedly persuaded Cao Cao to withdraw his troops. Cao Cao saw that the morale of the soldiers was completely low, so he had to temporarily withdraw his troops, and as soon as Cao Cao withdrew his troops, Deng Ai led his troops to kill, and chased Cao Cao for nearly ten miles, killing nearly 500 Cao soldiers before returning. When Deng Ai returned to Bianjing, he suddenly killed a force of nearly 3,000 soldiers and horses from the west of Bianjing, and these soldiers and horses came to block Deng Ai's way and startled Deng Ai.

"Cao Cao is really cunning and cunning, and he actually set up an ambush here, fortunately I didn't chase far, otherwise I would have fallen for his plan to divert the tiger from the mountain!" After Deng Ai finished speaking, he ordered his subordinates to fight!

When the two armies were less than a mile apart, the opposing army stopped, and a general rushed to see Deng Ai. Seeing that he didn't want to hit himself, Deng Ai was also a little surprised. Deng Ai went to see General Cao surrounded by generals, and when he saw Deng Ai pointing a knife at Deng Ai and asked, "Is it true that the people of Xuzhou, whether rich or poor, in the city, have a book?" ”

Seeing the other side asking this, Deng Ai said proudly: "Of course really, what did I lie to you about?" My family is a poor family, I have been herding cattle for others since I was a child, since General Zhang Xiu took Nanyang to Xuzhou, Xuzhou has set up a university hall in Nanyang, I am the Nanyang official school graduated from Bianjing to do the official! ”

The bearded general on the opposite side was a little unconvinced, and a person next to him hurriedly said: "General, Nanyang heard that this is the case, I have a younger brother in Nanyang, and he is also studying in Nanyang." I heard that the Taishou of Bianjing is also a graduate of the official school, don't hesitate, general, if you take our fathers and fellow villagers to Xuzhou, then our children and grandchildren will definitely be the same as them! ”

After the general persuaded him, Deng Ai knew that the big man in front of him had actually come to surrender! And looking at his soldiers and horses, you know that although he is not Cao Cao's strong army, he must be a talent who can be brought out by Cao Cao to fight, so Deng Ai hurriedly asked: "I don't know the general's surname!" ”

Seeing that Deng Ai was polite, he knew at a glance that he had read books, and the ancients were all inferior, only reading was high, so they all respected people very much. So the head of the general also returned: "Chen Liumaoyu!" ”

After Mao Jue replied, Deng Ai understood why he asked this question. His family is in Chenliu, presumably the more than 3,000 horses behind him are also Chenliu's hometowns, Chenliu is the closest Yanzhou city to Bianjing, so he wants to take refuge in Deng Ai.

Mao Jue thought for a while and asked, "If Chen stays and surrenders, will he be as rich as Bianjing?" Deng Ai looked at the man who loved his hometown in front of him and nodded and replied: "If the general is really willing to surrender, when I repel the national thief Cao Cao, I will definitely lead the troops to recover Chenliu, and then everyone in Chenliu will have a book, every family will have food to eat, and the people will live and work in peace and contentment!" ”

After Deng Ai finished speaking, Mao Jue hurriedly dismounted and begged to surrender, so Deng Ai hurriedly collected Mao Jue's military horse. After the two entered the city, Deng Ai assigned the defensive territory to Mao Jue's military horses, and also allocated them military grain and grass, but the generals all objected. Mao Jue went to the city to garrison, and the general said: "General, I'm afraid it's Cao Cao's plan!" When Cao Cao comes to attack the city, we will repeat the mistake of saving Cao Cheng! ”

Deng Ai patted the general on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, he is not a spy, whether he is a spy or not, you can see it from his eyes!" The general had to go to defend the city, Deng Ai was afraid that he was really a spy, and sent someone to monitor Mao Jue at all times, Mao Jue saw that Deng Ai was still not at ease in his heart, so he asked to go to war, and he wanted to fight with Cao Cao to show his determination, but Deng Ai refused. After Deng Ai refused Mao Jue's expedition, he sent people to evacuate the people who were monitoring him, and Mao Jue really sold his life for Bianjing.

Cao Cao attacked Bianjing for two months, and Guo Jia planned to capture the three cities of Bianjing in half a month, but now he has been fighting for more than two months, from winter to spring, which makes Guo Jia impatient. Cheng Yu saw that the people of Bianjing were united, and Cao Cao's army and horses were stationed outside the city in the past two months, and nearly 5,000 people had already run to take refuge in Deng Ai, so it was better to take Fengqiu first to boost the morale of the army!

So Cao Cao went to attack Fengqiu again, Ma Tan didn't know how powerful Cao Cao was, and the arrogant Ma Tan hurriedly ordered the soldiers to go out of the city to face the battle, wanting to give him a headache. Unexpectedly, Ma Tan met Cao Cao's general Cao Ren as soon as he left the city, and Cao Ren led the troops to defeat Ma Jian very easily, and Ma Tan hurriedly retreated to Fengqiu and did not dare to fight. Cao Cao's soldiers surrounded the mound, Deng Ai was busy leading the troops to attack his back, Cao Cao couldn't take care of both ends, suffered a few defeats, and won a few battles, and the two sides consumed each other like this.

In March 207, spring came, the ground began to thaw, and when I walked on the road, I couldn't pull it out when I stepped into the dirt, so Zhang Liao's wolf cavalry who came to support Bianjing was stuck in the muddy Jizhou and would not be able to catch up with Bianjing for a while. But fortunately, after holding out for so long, the news of the siege of Bianjing finally reached Xuzhou, and Xuzhou Tao Ying was furious when he learned the news, and hurriedly convened a meeting of the military department.

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