The spring snow melts, everything recovers, and in this sunny spring, the newly built Pengcheng also shows its vitality.

Three city walls, three moats, the Pengcheng outlined, the outer city, the inner city, the city of the city interlocking, the main buildings in the city, also rose from the ground, the people according to the already divided haode area, smoothly moved into the new home, soldiers have also moved into the new barracks.

The only fly in the ointment is that the city is too large, and the population living in Pengcheng is too small, making this newly built city a little deserted.

However, Zhang Yan believes that in the near future, Pengcheng will definitely prosper.

In the spring of March, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and in the blink of an eye, there are less than a few days left before Zhang Yan's wedding.

For this reason, Zhang Yan has also made preparations, let people buy everything for the wedding in advance, and send invitations widely, from Xuzhou Mu Taoqian, down to the people in Pengcheng, are invited, he wants to hold a grand wedding in Pengcheng.

Zhang Yan handed over this series of things to Chen Deng, and he was busy and went to the school to practice.

According to the scout's report, Cao Cao nested in Yanzhou for a winter, has been intensively training, and recently requisitioned grain and grass from various counties, and the army has been mobilized frequently, and has been assembling in Gaoping County, Shanyang County.

Cao Cao was about to move, which made Zhang Yan restless, and he had to speed up the training of the army, in addition, he specially transferred 10,000 soldiers from Xiapi to increase the strength of Pengcheng, and transferred Chen Qun, Chen Ying, Lü Dai, Deng Yi, and Wang Bo to Pengcheng together, and let Zhou Kui take full charge of Xiapi affairs.

But Zhang Yan was not enough, so he wrote a letter to Tao Qian, informing Tao Qian of Cao Cao's actions in Yanzhou, and hoping to mobilize some more troops and horses from Tancheng to prevent Cao Cao's attack.

After Tao Qian learned the news, he was also extremely shocked, he was extremely afraid of Cao Cao, and immediately mobilized 7,000 soldiers and horses, all of which were handed over to Zhang Yan to command, so that the soldiers and horses gathered in the area of Pengcheng just reached 30,000 people, which was enough for Zhang Yan to defend Cao Cao.

Due to the surprise attack of the Cao army years ago, Pengcheng and Yanzhou's adjacent Qi County, Guangqi and Liuxian were seriously damaged, and the population was basically slaughtered, and those who survived also fled to other places.

But just in case, Zhang Yan still sent people to the three places to conduct a search, and if there were still people in the territory, they would all be brought to Pengcheng.

Cao Jun's news brought a trace of invisible pressure to all the people in Pengcheng. For this reason, the army on the school field has also been trained more intensively.

However, out of a force of 30,000 men, there were only 3,000 cavalry, and the rest were all infantry.

Among the 3,000 cavalry, more than 2,000 were Zhang Yan's old troops, the Danyang soldiers given to him by Tao Qian before, and the rest were carefully selected from the army.

Zhang Yan had so many cavalry in his hands, so he regarded these cavalry as particularly important and trained them personally.

As for the training of infantry, Zhang Yan mainly focused on discipline, formation and tacit understanding of mutual cooperation.

According to reliable sources, Cao Cao amassed about 10,000 cavalry in Gaoping County alone.

In ancient times, cavalry was decisive in warfare compared to the tanks of this era. The number of cavalry can show the strength of a legion.

From the number of cavalry alone, it is not difficult to see the superiority of Cao Cao's army.

For this reason, Zhang Yan specially trained 10,000 archers, 10,000 spearmen, and 7,000 school swordsmen in response to this situation.

Needless to say, archers are a must-have for every army, an indispensable part of long-range attacks, and training them is also very simple, just keep practicing archery, and completely delegate these training tasks to Chen Ying.

In order to deal with the cavalry, he specially ordered a batch of spears up to five meters long and distributed all these spears to the spearmen.

When Zhang Yan personally trained these spearmen, he drew on the experience of the Western Macedonian phalanx, taught these spearmen to arrange their troops in formation, and the transition between attack and defense, and handed over all the relevant details to the two soldiers who led this phalanx, Sima Lu Dai and Wang Bo.

The school knife hand is a shield soldier, in addition to a saber in each hand, a round shield will also be issued, and then Zhang Yan personally teaches them how to attack, how to defend, and the arrangement of the queue formation. And inform all the details that need to be paid attention to, Mi Fang and Deng Yi, who are responsible for leading the school knife hand.

The officers and men began training last winter and continued to train for several months until February this year, and it is not difficult to see the efforts of the troops from the initial incoordination to the current tacit cooperation.

After that, Zhang Yan began to train a large corps, gathering all 30,000 soldiers together, what should cavalry, archers, spearmen, and school swordsmen do in this corps, how to defend and attack, and how to counterattack in the face of the enemy's sneak attack and flanking attack, etc.

In short, this winter, Zhang Yan did not work in vain, and the army's training was also impressive, and for this reason, Zhang Yan also conducted simulation training from time to time to demonstrate all the possible situations in the entire war.

Today, when Zhang Yan came to the school field again, the 30,000 troops had already cooperated quite tacitly.

After reading it, Zhang Yan was very satisfied, but whether such a training method can achieve excellent results in the war is still unknown.

He trained the army in this way, but in fact, it was also a helpless move. After all, the physical fitness of the Xuzhou soldiers is completely incomparable with Cao Cao's army, except for those slightly better Danyang soldiers, the rest of the Xuzhou soldiers are recruited from the common people, some have experienced wars, and some have never been on the battlefield, if you want to use them to deal with the Cao army, the only way is to train them to cooperate with each other.

As time passed, Zhang Yan became more and more irritable, not because of the marriage, but because of Cao Cao's movements.

The scouts sent out by Zhang Yan were all the dead soldiers that Xu Sheng rescued from the Futu Temple. With Zhang Yan's full support, Fan A successfully developed an antidote and completely cured the toxins in these dead soldiers, and these people, including Xu Sheng, were grateful to Zhang Yan and swore allegiance.

These dead soldiers are all agile killers, and in normal times, these people are used to being unrestrained, but the way in the army will make them unable to adapt to it.

For this reason, Zhang Yan specially asked Xu Sheng to form a special scout team, whose personnel were all filled by them, and they were directly responsible to Xu Sheng, and Xu Sheng was directly responsible to Zhang Yan.

In this way, Zhang Yan can rest assured that he can send these scouts to various places to inquire about the news.

According to the latest information from the scouts, Cao Cao arrived in Gaoping County, Shanyang County on the third day of the third month of March, and about 60,000 Cao troops had gathered in the Gaoping County alone, and Cao's troops were still pouring into Gaoping County from all over the country.

This latest news made Zhang Yan panic, with the current strength, the Cao army is already twice as strong as him, if the Cao army is still constantly gathering, then according to his estimates, the strength of the Cao army is likely to exceed 100,000 people.

This also proves that Cao Cao is bound to win Xuzhou this time.

Zhang Yan secretly blocked the news, for fear that if the news spread, it would cause panic in Pengcheng. But he himself was worried.

After all, Cao Cao's subordinates are full of talents, with many generals and generals, while Zhang Yan's talents are few. Although Chen Deng, Chen Qun, Chen Ying, Mi Fang, Xu Sheng, Lu Dai, etc. are all heroes of the moment, they are nothing compared to the talents under Cao Cao.

I don't know why, Zhang Yan, who has always been not afraid of the sky and the earth, is vaguely afraid at this moment, because Cao Cao is too powerful.

In history, Cao Cao, who was a traitor in troubled times, defeated many enemies stronger than him, and he was indeed a little insignificant compared to Cao Cao.

All he can do now is to do his best and let go of Cao Cao, even if he is defeated, he will still be honored.

Just when Zhang Yan was restless, Xu Sheng walked in from outside the door, holding a secret letter in his hand, and walked over with a panicked expression.

"Lord, this is news from Yanzhou, please take a look!"

Zhang Yan took the secret letter from Xu Sheng's hand, opened it and hurriedly browsed it, the sorrow on his face disappeared immediately, he suddenly hahadaxiao, and shouted happily: "God help me!" I was blindly immersed in the pressure brought by Cao Cao and couldn't extricate myself, but I forgot that there was still this person in history! ”

Seeing that Zhang Yan was so happy, Xu Sheng hurriedly asked, "Lord, is there any good news from Yanzhou?" ”

Zhang Yan nodded, and said busily: "Wenhou Lu Bu, who was famous in the past, recently led his troops to the south due to discord with Yuan Shao, and there is no place to return for the time being, and he is wandering around......

"Lord, who is Lu Bu?" Xu Sheng asked.

When Zhang Yan heard Xu Sheng ask such a question, he just smiled and told Xu Sheng that Lu Bu was a very powerful person. After all, Xu Sheng has been staying in the Futu Temple, and it is normal for him to be ignorant of the outside world.

Although there is only so much news about this news, it solves Zhang Yan's troubles at once.

Because soon after, Cao Cao's Dongjun Taishou Chen Gong, Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao, Zhonglang Xu Yan, Wang Kai, and Zhang Miao's younger brother Zhang Chao will unite together to jointly support Lu Bu as the main duke and occupy Yanzhou.

At this time, Zhang Yan no longer had the initial worries, and seemed to care about how many troops Cao Cao gathered in Gaoping County, because no matter how many soldiers and horses Cao's army came, sooner or later he would eventually withdraw because of the rebellion in Yanzhou.

However, Zhang Yan did not let up and continued to let the army train, while he officially began to work on his wedding......

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