When Chen Mo arrived at the Taishi Mansion, a lot of people had already gathered, including Li Dao, Li Ru, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji and other generals under Dong Zhuo, in addition, Wang Yun, Zheng Tai and others also arrived.

"Taishi!" Chen Mo saluted Dong Zhuo, and after saluting with the generals and ministers one by one, he sat in his position, and now although Chen Mo was a little excluded, he was ranked in Jiuqing, second only to the three dukes, and naturally no one dared to let him sit at the bottom of the seat.

"Guangluxun came just in time." Dong Zhuo nodded at Chen Mo and said, "When the general once guarded Yique Pass, he also listened to your orders with Lu Hun, Dagu, Xuanyuan, and Revolving Gate Passes, and the old man wanted to ask, how did you defend the palace at the beginning?" ”

Chen Mo nodded and said: "At that time, because the Yang people gathered and lost a lot of soldiers and horses, it was not enough to divide the troops to garrison the four passes, so it was to set up beacon towers in the four passes and along the way, and ordered a thousand cavalry troops to be placed at the intersection of Yishui and Luoshui, no matter where the beacon fire was lit, this thousand cavalry was enough to arrive in time, and later General Li Xian brought two thousand soldiers and horses, and left two thousand soldiers and horses outside the city at the same time. ”

"Never." Dong Zhuo sighed and didn't speak, and Li Ru on the side smiled bitterly: "The general's arrangements are extremely good, but after the general left, something went wrong." ”

"Oh?" Chen Mo was curious, Hua Xiong should not change his strategy.

Time has to start after Chen Mo left, after Yuan Shu learned that Chen Mo left, he began to attack Yique Pass with all his might, but Yique Pass was under Chen Mo's design, and the defense was strong, and it was difficult to break through at all.

After that, Yuan Shu used Yang Hong's strategy, gave up Yique Pass, and began to move the main attack direction to Dagu and Lu Hun two passes, although these two passes are also dangerous, but after all, they are not as good as Yique Pass, and the defense of Yique Pass is carefully arranged by Chen Mo, not only the city defense is properly arranged, but there are trebuchets on both cliffs to throw crossbow stones downward, and the siege is extremely expensive.

And Dagu Pass and Luhun Pass naturally did not have the city defense plan designed by Chen Mo himself.

What's even worse is that at this time, Li Xian suggested overthrowing Chen Mo's previous plan of only aiding the four passes, and instead he and Zhao Cen would personally garrison the two passes of Dagu and Lu Hun.

Hua Xiong naturally did not want to, but these two men had 6,000 soldiers and horses, and at this time they did not listen to Hua Xiong at all, Li Xian and Zhao Cen discussed, and divided the two soldiers and horses into two, and each led 3,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Dagu Pass and Lu Hun Pass respectively.

Li Xian is in charge of Dagu Pass.

It stands to reason that 3,000 soldiers and horses are enough to defend, but Li Xian died by himself, wanting to follow Chen Mo's night attack on Yuan Shu's camp, although the robbery camp was successful, but Yuan Shu had an army of 50,000, even if there were not so many, but his camp was not located in one place, after learning that Li Xian stole the camp, Yuan Shu did not immediately go to the rescue, but directly ordered Zhang Xun to take the opportunity to storm Dagu Pass.

Li Xian robbed the camp successfully, but only robbed a battalion, but Yuan Shu waved the army to cut off the way to retreat, under the protection of the soldiers, out of the siege, returned to Yique Pass for help, although Huaxiong immediately sent an army to rescue, but Dagu Pass has no main general, plus half of the manpower was also taken away by Li Xian, and finally before Huaxiong led the troops to arrive, Yuan Shu successfully broke through.

Dagu Pass is only more than 90 miles away from Luoyang, and once Dagu Pass is broken, although it is controlled by Yique Pass, it can cut off Yuan Shu's grain road, but Luoyang is indeed threatened, and it is impossible to ignore it, but in this way, Dong Zhuo's troops are a little stretched.

Now most of Dong Zhuo's troops have been transferred to Guanzhong to start arranging, Luoyang, the total of the checkpoints is only 50,000, and now there are more than 20,000 in Chenggao, Xingyang and Aocang alone, about 10,000 in Yique Guan, and more than 10,000 people here in Luoyang, including Chen Mo who left the forbidden army in the past.

Dagu Pass must be managed, Yuan Shu will be able to arrive in one day from there, but if the only remaining troops in Luoyang are pulled out, then this place will be empty.

This time, Dong Zhuo recruited everyone, and he also asked everyone to come up with a way.

"General Chen is both civil and military, I don't know if the general has a good strategy?" Li Wei looked at Chen Mo with a smile, and he wanted to get closer to the relationship between the two, after all, Chen Mo calculated it, which was equivalent to him taking it away, but when Chen Mo was there, the five levels were unbreakable, and as soon as Chen Mo left, Yuan Shu opened the gap, especially this gap was opened by his nephew, which made Li Mo worry that Chen Mo would chase after this matter.

"For today's plan, only rely on these soldiers and horses in Luoyang, even if the Taishi is willing to transfer out, it may not be able to block Yuan Shu's army, even if Yuan Shu does not mobilize new soldiers from Nanyang, he has at least 30,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and occupies the city, I want to re-attack and take back Dagu Pass, only Luoyang's troops are not enough, the last general suggested, while the princes of Sour Jujube have not arrived, you can first recall Xu Rong and Lu Bu, the two generals, give up Xingyang and Aocang, stick to Chenggao, and then gather heavy troops to recapture Dagu Pass, it is the best policy, of course, this is a silent opinion, not necessarily right." At the end, Chen Mo smiled.

Dong Zhuo was silent when he heard this, the three cities of Chenggao, Xingyang and Aocang are horns with each other, these three cities are in, and the river soldiers are not in winter, and it is difficult for the princes to even cross the river, if Xingyang and Aocang are abandoned, the soldiers of the princes can immediately attack Chenggao, and Chenggao will become the last line of defense in Luoyang.

Once Chenggao is lost, the coalition army will be able to drive straight into Luoyang, and when the time comes, Dong Zhuo will have to flee to Guanzhong.

Although he was ready to give up Luoyang, Dong Zhuo didn't think that he was beaten by the princes and fled to Guanzhong, in his imagination, he was to subdue the princes first, and then give up Luoyang, there is a world of difference between the two.

One is that I don't want it, and I will reward you, and the other is that I was driven back by others, with the character of those scholars, even if he took the initiative to give up Luoyang, those people can render this into a big victory, if they are pushed back to Guanzhong, I don't know what their reputation will be rendered by those people.

Chen Mo's strategy was a bit desperate, and he put the victory or defeat on the battle of Chenggao.

As for Li Xian's problem, Chen Mo didn't say much, after all, he was a descendant of Xiliang, and he was also Li Dao's nephew, so it didn't make sense to say it himself, he had just hated Li Dao, and Dong Zhuo would deal with it himself.

"What do you think?" Dong Zhuo was a little hesitant for a while, he summoned Chen Mo over, in fact, he wanted to see if Chen Mo was willing to go back and continue to fight Yuan Shu, there were still a lot of soldiers and horses on the Yique Pass, with Chen Mo's ability, there might be a chance to recapture Dagu Pass.

But Chen Mo didn't answer this mouth at all, and Dong Zhuo couldn't open this mouth, after all, he was suspicious of Chen Mo at that time, transferred Chen Mo back to Luoyang, and even cut Chen Mo's military power, now that Dagu Pass has been breached, Dong Zhuo hopes that Chen Mo will take the initiative to ask Ying to go, but this time, Chen Mo's performance is a little unsmart.

It's understandable to think about it, being suspicious for no reason, and cutting military power, there will be fire in the hearts of individuals, although Chen Mo is stable on weekdays, he is not muddy, after all, he is a sixteen-year-old boy, and it is inevitable to be angry.

"General Chen knows a lot about the defense around Yique Pass, I don't know if he can be sure if he hands over the power of the army to the general......" Li Ru naturally knew what his father-in-law meant, when Chen Mo was transferred back, Li Ru was against it, but since Dong Zhuo was suspicious, he was not very good at helping Chen Mo say something, and now he ......

"Wen Xiansheng is too high." Chen Mo said helplessly: "If the Dagu Pass is not broken, it will not be difficult to defend it, but now that the Dagu Pass is broken, Yuan Shu occupies the dangerous point, and the advance can be attacked and retreated, and the troops in his hands are even more sufficient, and the last general will not be able to recover." ”

Alas~

Li Ru sighed: "If General Chen is not sure, then General Chen's plan is indeed the most feasible method at the moment." ”

Without Aocang and Xingyang, it is impossible to defeat the Kwantung princes, but Chenggao is Xiongguan, as long as he holds this place, he can at least be undefeated, provided that Yique Pass can drive Yuan Shu out as soon as possible.

It's not that Dong Zhuo doesn't have good generals under his command, Li Dao, Guo Yan, Hua Xiong, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji and others are not bad, but they can't be like Chen Mo, who can not only lead the army, but also make decisions on the spot, strategize, and lead the army to kill the enemy, and Yuan Shu has a lot of civil and military forces around him, and without such ability, it is easy to be targeted by Yuan Shu's strategists.

Pity...... Chen Mo is not from the Xiliang Army, otherwise he would not have been excluded so much.

"If you retreat to Chenggao, there is one more thing you need to pay attention to." Chen Mo looked at the crowd.

"Oh?" Dong Zhuo looked at Chen Mo and reluctantly smiled: "General Chen, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

"Meng Jin!" Chen Mo nodded to the table and said, Mengjin is closer to Luoyang, if it is now, the river is surging, and it is difficult for the enemy army to attack on a large scale, but if it stays until winter, after the river freezes, the enemy army can come from Hanoi on the ice, if Mengjin is lost, Luoyang will not be protected.

From Mengjin to Luoyang, it is only half a day's journey, and once Mengjin is lost, it will be a greater threat than the loss of Dagu Pass now.

"What General Chen said is good." Dong Zhuo nodded, looked at the generals and said, "Who wants to guard Mengjin?" ”

Meng Jin can only be regarded as a small pass, and Li Dao and these generals are naturally reluctant to go, but most of Dong Zhuo's generals have now been sent to Guanzhong, and the rest have basically been sent to the front line.

"If the Taishi is willing to believe me, the last general is willing to guard Mengjin for the Taishi!" Chen Mo saluted Dong Zhuo.

"This ......" Dong Zhuo looked at Li Ru with some hesitation, Chen Mo has always performed well, but with the mustard last time, Dong Zhuo didn't know whether to believe Chen Mo anymore.

"I wonder how many men General Chen needs?" Li Ru did not answer, but asked Chen Modao.

"I have 2,000 men in my headquarters, and it is enough to garrison Mengjin." Chen Mo smiled.

"Is there more?" Li Ru frowned and said, Meng Jin is just a small pass, and eight hundred people are enough to garrison.

"Once the princes set their sights on Mengjin, there will be many people who will come." Chen Mo shook his head: "There are too few troops, and it may be difficult to resist the enemy." ”

Li Ru nodded at Dong Zhuo, and now it seems that only Chen Mo is available.

"Then General Chen will lead the headquarters to garrison Mengjin." Dong Zhuo nodded.

"The last general commands!" Chen Mo got up with a smile and said, next, there is only one last step left!