Chen Deng's words made Gao Ping fall into deep thought.

Chen Deng, who has few opportunities to appear in the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", does not leave a deep impression, but Chen Deng is one of the most unforgettable people for Liu Bei. This person is long-sleeved and good at dancing, observing the gaps in the world, judging the strength of the public, and having a pestle, quite the style of the Warring States. He has both strength and can see the wind and steer the rudder, because he believes that "there is no permanent enemy, no permanent friend, only permanent interests", and he is an extremely powerful generation of heroes.

Liu Bei once unabashedly praised Chen Deng: "If Yuanlong is brave in civil and military affairs, he should ask for it in Guer, and it is difficult to compare with it." ”。 For Chen Deng, Cao Cao's evaluation is also very high. Cao Cao is "sighing every time he is in the river, and he hates to use Chen Yuanlong's plan early, and he orders Feng Feng to raise his minions." Chen Shou in "Three Kingdoms? The evaluation of Chen Deng in the Biography of Lu Bu Zang Hong is: "Chen Deng and Zang Hong have a majestic festival, the year of the climb and the fall of the year, the attempt to make a meritorious deed, Hong is weak and the enemy is strong, and the spirit is not standing, it's a pity!" Obviously, Chen Deng is also full of regret.

And Gao Ping knew that Chen Deng's father and son were the standard Three Kingdoms version of Infernal Affairs, and in the winter of the third year of Jian'an (198), Cao Cao waved his army east and entered Lu Bu. Chen Deng learned the news in advance, set out from Guangling, personally led the elite soldiers as the pioneer of Cao Cao, and surrounded Lü Bu in Xiapi City. Help Cao Cao occupy Xuzhou and eliminate Lü Bu. Chen Deng was awarded the title of General Fubo for his special merits, and he was still the Taishou of Guangling. Chen Deng made full use of the contradictions between different forces in Xuzhou, and constantly used the method of borrowing a knife to kill people to eliminate his enemies. The rulers of Xuzhou have changed one after another, but Chen Deng has always stood tall, and the power of the Xuzhou Mingshi faction represented by Chen Deng has been continuously strengthened. They can find their way between Lu Bu, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others, and at the same time make a wise man like Chen Gong have nothing to do, I have to say that the acting skills of the two are still super strong.

At the same time, Chen Deng's talent in military is also undoubted, and during his tenure as Guangling Taishou, he had a thrilling battle with Sun Ce, the god of war in Jiangdong.

Guangling is connected to the Yangtze River, and is coveted by Sun Ce in Jiangdong. Around the fourth year of Jian'an (199), Sun Ce took the initiative to attack and sent Sun Quan across the river to attack Kuangqi City, which was defended by Chen Deng. The enemy army was ten times larger than Chen Deng's defenders, and Chen Deng was calm and calm, and ordered his soldiers to be on standby. In order to confuse the enemy, Chen Deng ordered the city gate to be closed and the flag to be silenced, showing weakness to the enemy. Chen Deng climbed the city tower, carefully observed the enemy army, thought that he could attack, suddenly opened the city gate, and the soldiers went down the mountain to fight bravely, and rushed to the enemy position. Sun Quan's troops were caught off guard, and were rushed by Chen Deng's army, collapsed, and lost command. Chen Deng personally beat the drums, and the soldiers bravely rushed to kill, and many soldiers of Sun Quan's army could not board the ship, and countless people were killed and drowned, and they returned in defeat. Chen Deng achieved a complete victory. Soon, Sun Quan led a large army to make a comeback and attacked Guangling County again. Chen Deng was anxious to Cao Cao on the one hand, and prepared to respond to the enemy on the other. He secretly ordered people to accumulate firewood and grass in the places where the rescue soldiers must pass, pile them up at intervals of ten steps, row up vertically and horizontally, arrange them neatly, and then light them in the night, and the light is far and near. When Sun Quanjun found out, he mistakenly thought that the salvation army had arrived, and he was very frightened. Seeing that the time had come, Chen Deng personally led a large army to attack, defeated Sun Quan's army in one fell swoop, and won the victory of defending Guangling.

For such a civil and military all-rounder, either go all out to collect it for his own use, or nip it in the bud as soon as possible, but at this time Chen Deng still wholeheartedly assisted Liu Bei, as for the future development of events, according to the historical process, it should be Chen Deng's father and son saw that Liu Bei could not protect Xuzhou, so they chose a more reliable backer Cao Cao.

Xuzhou, East China Sea

After receiving Liu Bei's appointment order, the potter tore it up in public and beat the herald with a stick.

Cao Bao coerced and lured the gentry of the East China Sea to elect the pottery merchant as the Xuzhou pastor in the name of the head of the Cao family, and as Tao Qian's eldest son, he went to the court to lead the Xuzhou pastor, and at the same time the court said that Liu Bei was unkind and unjust, and took Xuzhou by force, and asked the court to issue an order to crusade against Liu Bei, and the pottery merchant was willing to be the vanguard. Cao Bao even expanded his army on a large scale, collecting grain and grass to return to Xuzhou.

Guangling, Tao Ying, who also received Liu Bei's appointment, was shaken in his thinking, and after the failure to fight for Xuzhou, Tao Ying also knew that with his own ability, there was no military support, and no matter how many conspiracies and tricks could not succeed, Tao Ying had already planned to accept his fate to be an autonomous county guard.

However, Guangling is the territory of the Zhao family, after fleeing to Guangling, Zhao Yu revealed his true colors, did not treat Tao Ying as the master at all, and coerced Tao Ying to write a book for help from Yuan Shu and go to the court to lead Xuzhou Mu.

Since then, coupled with Liu Bei's status as a state pastor, the chaos of Xuzhou Sanmu has been formed.

In Juancheng, Cao Cao, the general of Zhendong, gathered a crowd of civil and military affairs overnight, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Xi Zhicai, Cheng Yu and other civil officials were on the left, and Xiahoudun, Xia Houyuan, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Yu Ban and other military generals were on the right.

"I recently heard that Liu Xuande has won Xuzhou, this person has lofty ambitions, and his subordinates Guan Yu and Zhang Fei Yong have won the three armies, and they will be in trouble for a long time, I want to cut them first, what do you think?" Cao Cao held the letter back from the fine work.

Xiahou next to him saw Cao Cao praising Guan and Zhang, and got up angrily and said: "The lord can step on Xuzhou with my team, capture Guan Yu and Zhang Fei alive, and capture Liu Xuande alive."

Cheng Yu waved his hand and stopped: "General Xiahou must not underestimate Liu Bei, Liu Bei, a masterpiece in the world, now there are more masters to help, it is not easy to try."

"Oh" Cao Cao's eyes lit up and said: "Why did Mr. Zhongde say this, I haven't heard that Liu Bei is complemented by famous people?" ”

Cheng Yu gave a deep salute to Cao Cao and said: "Ming Gong didn't know, the day before yesterday, Yu went to Xuzhou and acted according to the plan, but he was all cracked by Liu Bei."

"There is such a thing, Zhong De will say it carefully," Cao Cao said eagerly, and everyone also showed an inquiring look.

So Cheng Yu broke the rumors with Liu Bei, and advanced with retreat, so that Tao Qian's two sons competed, from the middle of the fish, to the palace mutiny, Liu Bei's forty-seven guards had already mixed into Xuzhou in various capacities, and entered the palace with one when ten, and set an ambush outside the city, etc., until the end of the Tao brothers in Xuzhou City military power uprooted, so that everyone present listened to the secret surprise.

Guo Jia said thoughtfully: "This person has a careful plan, and uses Liu Bei as bait to stabilize the Tao brothers, and uses bold and delicate tricks to interlock, which is definitely not done by the existing figures around Liu Bei, there must be a master to help me, I don't know who this is?" ”

"Fengxiao's words are extremely true, the last time my soldiers came to Xuzhou, the three Liu Bei brothers were just a group of brave men, and now they have won people and land, and their wings are gradually plump, so they can't help but try, Zhongde can find out who is planning for Liu Bei?" Cao Cao asked in a deep voice.

"According to Cao Bao and others, Liu Bei recently appointed a Sima surnamed Gao Mingping, the word is clear, is a scholar who has been in the rivers and lakes for many years, the age is weak, Yu privately inquired about his material is quite accurate, and acts unconventionally, the day before yesterday when he attacked Xuzhou, Gao Ping predicted in advance that the lord would retreat after receiving Liu Bei's letter, and then Lu Bu attacked Yanzhou so that the lord had to retreat, although there is a suspicion of coincidence, but it can be seen that his ability to predict the situation in the world is not comparable to ordinary people, I expect that Liu Bei's side planner must be Gao Ping" Cheng Yu said.