"Gong Chen, now that Gao Cheng's troops are in the city, I wonder if you have a plan to help me retreat from the enemy?" Zhao Yu shifted his gaze to the old man beside him and asked respectfully.

Chen Jue's expression did not change in the slightest, and he said lightly: "More than 200,000 Ding Zhuang have been forcibly recruited in Guangling City, plus the original county soldiers, it is enough to defend the city!

When Chen Jue said more than 200,000 Ding Zhuang, there was a slight irony in his tone, but Zhao Yu didn't hear it, but felt that what the other party said was good. I couldn't help but nod.

With more than 200,000 Ding Zhuang, plus the original 50,000 county soldiers and 300,000 horses defending the city wall, even if the soldiers and horses under Gao Cheng's command are elite, they will not want to break through in a short time.

"Chen Gong is right! It seems that this is the only way!" Zhao Yu said with a sigh of relief. Then he recruited several generals under his command. Strictly ordered a few people to guard the city walls, and never go out of the city to meet the enemy.

After dividing the defense of the city, he couldn't help but turn his head again, glanced at the Yangzhou soldiers and horses in the distance, and said secretly in his heart: "When he was in Xiapi, Gao Cheng was just a county lieutenant, I really didn't expect that the world is impermanent, and a young man in his twenties can sweep through the six counties and unify Yangzhou! I knew that today, I should have persuaded the state pastor to suppress this person and not give him a chance to make a name for himself!"

"Let's go down to the city wall first! Yangzhou soldiers and horses have just arrived, and the boats and vehicles are tired, and the soldiers are tired, so they shouldn't attack the city!" Chen Deng said suddenly.

Chen Jue's eyes flashed, he glanced at his son, and then said goodbye to Zhao Yu,

The three people on the city wall are observing the soldiers and horses of Yangzhou. In turn, Gao Cheng was also observing the movement on the city wall. His eyes flashed, his eyes trembled slightly, and he activated Erwa's clairvoyance to follow the wind, and the conversation of the three people on the city wall was all in his ears.

"Are you going to defend the walls?"

Gao Cheng snorted coldly in his heart, and when the soldiers finished resting, he let the three soul refining cultivators see that the fall of Guangling City in front of him could block his attack for a few days.

......

In Guangling City, Chen's mansion.

Chen Qi and Chen Deng came to the quiet room one after the other. Chen Deng carefully used his spiritual power to look around, and found nothing abnormal, so he turned around and knelt on the soft collapse.

"Father, the army of soldiers and horses in Yangzhou is overwhelmed, what should our Chen clan do? Gao Cheng has had some dirty encounters with our Chen clan before, if Gao Cheng breaks through the city, our Chen clan will definitely be suppressed by the other party!"

Chen Deng's voice was a little hurried, he didn't say anything on the city wall just now, and now he showed the pressure in his heart. After all, in recent years, the reputation of Yangzhou's soldiers and horses has spread all over the south, and they have not tasted defeat. It's really reassuring.

Chen Qi narrowed his eyes and said lightly: "Our Chen family is a famous family in Guangling, and if Gao Cheng wants to get a stable Guangling County, he must rely on our strength." Don't worry too much! Maybe in this war, the Chen clan will be able to go to the next level and completely control the power of Guangling. ”

"Go to the next level, grasp the power of Guangling, does your father want to let the Chen family take refuge in Gao Cheng?" Chen Deng was very smart, and when he heard his father's words, his body was shocked, and he asked subconsciously.

Since the Chen family came to Guangling, he has always been a famous family in the state and county, and he has never been dependent on others, even if it is the state pastor Tao Qian, Chen Qi and Chen Deng are a little ignorant of him.

If they take refuge in one side of the force, the Chen clan will be more or less restrained and will not be able to develop their power freely.

Gao Cheng is just a branch of the Bohai Gao family, especially the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren who came to Guangling to gain a foothold, and is not a local family in Xuzhou. Even if he becomes a Yangzhou pastor, he is also a nouveau riche in the eyes of those famous families in states and counties. Unless the world is completely chaotic, or to the point of necessity, not many families will take the initiative to take refuge in him.

If the Guangling Chen family took refuge in Gao Cheng, wouldn't it become a laughing stock in the eyes of other families?

Chen Qi nodded slightly, and said unhurriedly: "Yuanlong, if there is chaos today, the troubled times have their own rules, and then hold the face of the family, you can't survive in the troubled times!"

"What are the rules of troubled times? That is, good birds choose trees to perch on, and gentlemen do not stand under dangerous walls! Only in this way can we, the Guangling Chen family, protect our family business, and even carry it forward. ”

"Gao Cheng is already the pastor and right general of Yangzhou, with more than one million soldiers and horses under his command, and if all Ding Zhuang in Yangzhou is organized into an army, he can even have three million, or even five million troops! ”

Now that Gao Cheng's troops are in the city, and he has also left 100,000 sailors in the Huai River, Tao Qian's reinforcements can't cross the Huai River by half a step. Guangling has no reinforcements, and sooner or later it will be captured by the other party!"

Speaking of this, Chen Qi took a breath for a while, Chen Deng lowered his head and carefully savored his father's words, after all, he had not experienced too much tempering, and he had not yet experienced the sophistication and determination to repel Sun Ce twice in a row in the future, which was far less thorough than Chen Qi's vision.

"Yuanlong, you said that if we help Zhao Yu defend the city, what will happen to the Chen clan after the city is broken in the future?" Chen Qi asked lightly.

When Chen Deng heard this, he finally sighed and said, "What my father said is very true, but we have nothing to do with Gao Cheng, and there is no way to take refuge in him at this time!"

Chen Qi smiled and said: "Before the soldiers and horses of Yangzhou came to the city, my father had already sent a general, and left Guangling with the letter for my father, and now he should have sent the letter to Gao Cheng......"

Chen Deng was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that his father had actually written a letter to Gao Cheng, and he didn't know about it until now.

......

The big tent in the army outside the city. Gao Cheng sat at the top, and on the lower sides stood Xi Zhicai, Bu Qi, Jiang Qin and Dong Xi. In the middle of the big tent, a middle-aged man in ordinary clothes bowed his head slightly, stood with his hands down and did not speak.

"Chen Qi, an old fox, actually took the initiative to lose his sincerity to me!"

Gao Cheng put down the letter in his hand, feeling a little embarrassed, if he accepted Chen Qi's surrender, Guangling City would be broken with a snap of his fingers. But that wasn't what he wanted.

He doesn't need a Guangling County controlled by a powerful family, not only Guangling, but also the four surnames of Wu County in the future, and they will also be suppressed by him.

In the land of Hebei in the Central Plains, in addition to the eight great families in the world, there are many top wealthy families. It's hard to get a foothold here. And Yangzhou, Xuzhou and Jingzhou, the power of the wealthy family is not too strong, here Gao Cheng can enjoy the development of power, continue to farm, and accumulate a thick and incomparable heritage. This is the foundation of his future sweep of the world.

Gao Cheng's eyes flickered slightly, and he suddenly smiled coldly, and his right hand slapped on the wooden case in front of him, and with a snap, the sound spread throughout the big tent.

"How can this be reasonable! Chen Qi, an old horseman, actually made a condition with me, so that after I captured Guangling, I would appoint Chen Deng as the Taishou of Guangling! My Yangzhou army has come thousands of miles away, do you want to make a wedding dress for the Chen family?"

As soon as he said this, everyone was shocked.

The middle-aged man standing in the middle of the big tent changed his face and hurriedly shouted: "I have misunderstood!

Before he finished speaking, Gao Cheng pointed with his right hand, and with a click, thunder flashed, instantly making the middle-aged man's face full of black smoke speechless. Covered in char and limp to the ground.