Cao Cao left, taking most of the sergeants and minfu with him, leaving Cao Pi with 10,000 sergeants, as well as a song of 500 tigers and leopards led by Cao Xiu, and 20,000 minfu. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Cao Ren and Gao Ran stayed, and Cao Pi asked them to be his left and right lieutenants, each leading 5,000 sergeants, and Cao Xiu continued to ride with his tiger and leopard.

Gao Shun, Lu Lingqi, Lu Lingqi, Xiahou Ba, and Cao Zhen all stayed, plus Jia Xu, Cao Pi's subordinates are considered to be strong and strong. In addition, Cao Cao also left behind 300 bows and tens of thousands of well-made arrows, which are sharp weapons for defending the city, which shows that Cao Cao still loves Cao Pi very much.

Niu Jin also stayed as Cao Pi's personal guard, while Xu Huang left with Cao Cao's army. Now Niu Jin is obsessed with reading military books, and if he doesn't understand something, he will ask Cao Pi to solve his doubts, Cao Pi has the memory of Cao Pi's erudition and knowledge before and his own understanding of the doctoral director, and he can be regarded as the head of the way to explain the military book, which is very clear. Several times after Gao Shun heard it, he sighed that Cao Pi was talented and had the talent of a famous general.

Cao Pi obeyed Cao Cao's orders in Liyang, only defended and did not attack, so he only did three things: the first was to let Gao Ran take the people to dig a moat, and introduce the water of the Wei River to form a natural barrier, and the second thing was to let Cao Ren go out and requisition the nearby residents to expand Liyang City, and most of the residents in this vicinity were cut off by Cao Jun by the wheat in the field, and they were originally the fate of death in the heavy snow and cold wind in winter. Therefore, when Cao Ren went to recruit the people, it was very smooth, and soon gathered 40,000 people to contribute to Liyang.

In fact, as long as Cao Pi is willing, he can also recruit more people, but now Cao Pi's grain and grass are limited, first of all, Cao Cao took away a part, followed by his own sergeants to eat, in addition, there are people in Liyang City to sell grain to eat, now the wheat has been collected by Cao Cao, the grain shop in the city is not enough for others to spend the winter, so the people in the city can only buy food like Cao Pi's army, and now Cao Pi's food to the people in the city and the food bought and sold with the people is actually the wheat that Cao Pi snatched from the Jizhong Plain, as for the food of his army, But I don't understand it at all, this is also the wool from the sheep.

Two months later, Liyang City expanded out of five miles, the city wall has also increased more than one zhang high, plus the existing city wall, has been as high as six zhang, unless there are ladders, catapults, rushing vehicles and other heavy siege equipment, otherwise Liyang is already difficult to capture.

After the people finished building the city, Cao Pi decided to let them stay in Liyang City and renovate the houses and streets of Liyang City, after all, he still had to live here for a while, and it was essential to have a good relationship with the local people. At this time, it was already October, the weather was getting colder and colder, the people had bought enough food and rarely went out, the streets of the city were much deserted, and the people retreated to the newly built camps, and there was no longer the scene of people coming and going.

At this time, Cao Pi rode his horse and walked with Cao Ren on the newly renovated street, and when he passed by a well next to the road, Cao Ren glanced inside and said with a smile: "Now that the water in this well has not frozen, it seems that there will be no shortage of water in Liyang this year." ”

In ancient times, there was no machine that thought about water, and the water that could be drunk was well water, mountain springs, and the water of rivers and lakes, and the well was very important for a city, after all, not every city would have a river passing through, and later generations liked it and said that the market was pasted together, because in the eyes of the ancient people, the city and the well were inseparable.

The north is cold, often in winter the well water freezes, it takes a lot of effort to get the ice out, into water citation, some wells are too deep, after the freeze can not take water, so there is often a shortage of water, if a city is short of water, it is more terrible than a lack of food, no food can be easy to eat, no water will be finished, so a city without a water source can never become a strong city, no matter how high his walls are, how many soldiers.

Cao Pi tightened the fur on his body, sighed and said, "Winter is coming, it seems that Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang are not planning to attack Liyang, even if there is food they urgently need. ”

Cao Ren said with a smile: "From the moment the moat was dug up, they lost the best opportunity to attack Liyang, in the battle of Guandu, all the siege equipment in Yuan Shao's army did not have time to be withdrawn, and it has been collected or destroyed by Sikong, that is all the family funds of the four states in the north, and now Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan are impossible even if they want to build siege equipment." If there is no equipment to attack the current Liyang, that is to find death. ”

Cao Pi still wanted to speak, but he heard the sound of horses' hooves, and saw a person and a horse galloping towards the two of them in the direction of the city gate. "This kid is thirteen years old this year, but he has grown into an adult body, fifteen-year-old Cao Pi's height is close to 175, and this kid is also similar to his height, I have to say that Hu Ren's physique is indeed relatively strong.

Now he was incorporated into the army by Cao Pi, and he needed to patrol the night and guard the city like ordinary soldiers, and today it was his turn to guard the north gate.

The horse came to the two of them, pulled the reins of the horse, and stopped the horse in an instant, without any inertia, Cao Pi had to admit that this person's riding skills were really talented, and even Cao Ren couldn't help but praise: "Good riding skills." ”

I only listened to the report: "General, there are a large number of displaced people in the open space at the north gate. ”

Cao Pi said: "North Gate? It's from Yuan Tan's side. ”

He said: "I just shouted at the head of the city to ask, and the other party said that he came from Nanpi. ”

Cao Ren said: "After Sikong withdrew his troops, Yuan Tan led his troops to leave Yecheng and return to Nanpi to station. ”

"Nanpi is the seat of Bohai County, and it still belongs to Jizhou, it seems that Yuan Tan has no intention of wanting Qingzhou anymore." Cao Pi said with a smile.

Cao Ren said with a smile: "Qingzhou is in the north of the big river, only Pingyuan County can garrison troops, but from Jizhou to this Pingyuan County, you must pass through Liyang, how dare Yuan Tan borrow here?" ”

"There are no displaced people from the west yet, but they are coming from the north, presumably driven out by Yuan Tan, and there is no movement on Yuan Shang's side, it seems that Yuan Tan's lack of food is even worse than Yuan Shang's." Cao Pi said. Then he asked, "How many homeless people are there?" ”

He shook his head and said, "I don't know, but the wilderness beyond the north gate is already full, and there are many of them, and they are all on their knees begging for food. ”

Cao Ren frowned and said: "Our army still needs grain and grass, and there are already more than 100,000 people in the city, plus 40,000 people, how can we still give food to others?" And this is just the first wave of displaced people. ”

Cao Pi sighed and said, "Go and see!" ”

Cao Ren suddenly said solemnly: "There is a saying in the army of Zhijinwu, which is called Ci Bu in charge of the army. Don't be a woman and put yourself in a dilemma. ”

Cao Pi glanced at Cao Ren, being able to say such heavy words at this time is enough to show that Cao Ren is actually good to himself, and rashly handing out food is a very dangerous behavior, especially when defending the city. Cao Pi nodded, indicating that he knew, and rode his horse with him, and Cao Ren also followed.

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