In the Taishou Mansion in Huaiyin City, Chen Deng looked at a large number of various newspapers on the desk in a daze, and coughed from time to time, there was not much blood on his pale face, and he looked like a terminally ill person.

"Ahem!"

A relative walked in and immediately poured a bowl of warm water from the teapot on the laughing stove next to him and sent it over: "My lord, you better rest for a while, you are coughing again!" ”

Chen Deng has been ill for a long time and can't drink cold water, and this stove is basically a standing object around him.

"Alas!" Chen Deng smiled bitterly: "Rest? Seeing that Zhou Yu's army was about to besiege the city, although this Huaiyin City was strong, it could not withstand repeated onslaughts, although there were still 30,000 county soldiers, but where could they withstand Zhou Yu's attack. Cao Gong is weak, and his energy is focused on the north, and now he is fighting for the state, leaving a Zhang Wenyuan to guard the Jianghuai, but he was also defeated and gave up Yicheng, which is equivalent to giving up most of the Jianghuai to the Wu army, I am afraid that it will be difficult to hold here. ”

Guangling County is the first line bordering Cao Cao and Jiangdong Sun Quan, Chen Deng as the Taishou of Guangling, all kinds of news can naturally be known in the shortest possible time, Zhang Liao was defeated, or he sent someone to pick him up, but unfortunately, 50,000 horses, Zhang Liao only brought out a few hundred. And in the past few days, he naturally knows the news that the corpses have been floating in Huaishui for hundreds of miles, Chen Deng is extremely smart, and naturally thinks that this is Zhou Yu's anger move, in addition to shooting people to salvage the corpse and bury it, he doesn't know how to stop Zhou Yu's army and keep the peace of Guangling County.

The entourage doesn't know how to comfort, although there is a heart, but it is powerless, in the face of a too smart master, sometimes very helpless, can only silently clean up the books on the table.

Chen Deng shook his head and asked, "Chen Hai, do you know how Zhang Liao went out to recruit troops?" ”

The entourage immediately said: "There is a reward, saying that more than 10,000 people have been recruited, and they are going from Huaipu County to Huaipu County yesterday, and they must have arrived today." ”

Chen Deng nodded and said nothing, closed his eyes and recuperated.

"Brother, my father has come to see you!" A warm greeting suddenly came to mind at the door.

Chen Deng immediately opened his eyes, and sure enough, two people came in at the door, one old and one young, the younger one was about thirty-one or twelve years old, it was his third brother Chen Yuan, and the old one was his father Chen Qi, who was now sixty years old.

"Father, why are you here?" When Chen Deng saw his father come in, he was about to get up to pay a visit. Their family is a wealthy family in Xuzhou, a family of poetry and books, and all of them are Confucian people who practice the way of Confucius and Mencius.

Chen Qi naturally knew his son's body, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, you don't have to be like this with your body." ”

Chen Jue was helped by his third son Chen Yuan to sit on a soft collapse, but Chen Deng still got up and saluted his father with the support of his entourage, which made Chen Jue shake his head: "Yuanlong, you are flexible in doing things, why are you still so persistent in etiquette." ”

Chen Deng said seriously: "The teachings of the saints, dare not forget, the father is coming, how can the child not come to worship, this is a great unfilial piety!" ”

Chen Jue shook his head, and didn't say anything, he also knew his son too well.

After the entourage served tea to the three of them, Chen Jue began to ask: "Do you know that Zhou Yu's men and horses are already less than sixty miles away from Huaiyin City?" ”

Chen Deng naturally couldn't help but answer when he saw his father speak, but he finally shook his head and said: "The child is stupid, there is really no good way to retreat from the enemy!" I wonder what a father can teach his children? ”

Chen Jue didn't sleep and spoke directly, but glanced outside the door, Chen Deng understood, and said to the entourage beside him: "Chen Hai, you go out and close the door, stay outside, no one is allowed to come in without me!" ”

"No!" Chen Hai retreated very interestingly.

Chen Qi took a sip of tea and said, "Yuanlong, I want to ask you, which is more important, Cao Gong and the Chen family?" ”

Chen Deng was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer his father's words for a while. After Chen Jue glanced at his son, he continued: "Duke Cao, occupy the imperial court, where the righteousness lies, as a Han minister, I should be loyal!" The Chen family, where the bloodline is, guards the family, and the existence of filial piety, should be guarded, but since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety are difficult to achieve, and one must be chosen from them. ”

Chen Deng was shocked in his heart, he was also an extremely smart person, with his father's reminder, he also had a trace of thought in his heart, but before he could speak, Chen Jue asked again: "What do you think of the general trend today, what are the chances of Cao Gong winning?" ”

Chen Deng shook his head and gave birth to three fingers: "Less than three points!" ”

Chen Jue shook his head and smiled: "Wrong! Up to 20%! ”

As soon as these words came out, Chen Deng and Chen Yuan were shocked. Chen Yuan interjected: "What did my father say? Although Cao Gong has suffered a lot of losses, he now occupies Hebei, and the dispute between the states obviously did not put Han Sui and Ma Teng in his eyes, and the state and Xiliang and Guanzhong will sooner or later be the food in his mouth, and when the time comes, it will be enough to unify the north and Xiliang, is it not enough to dominate the world? ”

Chen Qi glared at this son with great hatred, and the frightened Chen Yuan immediately lowered his head and didn't dare to speak again. Chen Qi said very seriously: "What Yuan Qi said is just whimsical words. Yuanlong, if you are Liu Yong, what are you going to do at this moment? ”

After Chen Deng thought about it for a while following his father's words, his face suddenly turned a little pale again, and the only blood color suddenly disappeared: "Ahem...... Cough, father, this Liu Yong was greatly injured after waiting for a tiger and two wolves in the north to compete for food, and then annihilated in one fell swoop, and took advantage of this time to pacify Jiangdong? ”

Chen Deng's conjecture is also a big surprise to Chen Yuan's imagination, how is this possible, is the Jiangdong Sun family so unbearable, he doesn't dare to think about it.

Chen Jue shook his head and said very seriously: "What you said is basically inferred by your father, but it is only one side. According to his father's knowledge, the Wu family in Shuzhong seems to have been secretly plotting with Sun Quan and Cao Gong, and is ready to follow Liu Junlang's example to occupy Xichuan alone, but Liu Yong at this time is by no means the Ling Emperor of the year, how could he allow such a thing to happen, it seems that Liu Yong has already made a move. Although it seems that he is in Yuzhang, in fact, it is just to paralyze Wu Yi, thinking that something big will happen in the world soon, Guangling is difficult to protect, but this Jiangdong ...... I'm afraid it's going to change hands! ”

What is Chen Jue's strategy, as the eldest son, Chen Deng naturally knows very well, he thought about his father's words back and forth, it is indeed very likely, that is to say, it is very likely that it will be the situation of Liu Yong's family dominance in the future, first here, Chen Deng's face immediately changed again, and hurriedly asked: "Father, what do you mean?" ”