In Cao Cao's big tent, looking at the letter sent by Chen Mo, Cao Cao's eyes were a little complicated, and he reached out to throw the letter into the brazier, but saw Xun Yu coming in from outside.

"My lord." Xun Yu saluted.

"Wen is weak." Cao Cao hesitated, did not burn the letter, and asked Xun Yu to sit down.

"My lord, the army has stabilized, but the soldiers are quite war-weary, and if they continue to fight, I am afraid there will be no results." Xun Yu knelt down under Cao Cao and sighed.

"If I retire at this moment, Chen Mo will definitely not want to, are you credible?" Cao Cao looked at Xun Yu and sighed.

Both sides are tired of fighting, judging from the battle situation, the two sides have been fighting for more than a year, and neither can help the other party, but in the long run, Chen Mo continues to drag on, as long as this period of time passes, it will become stronger and stronger, on the other hand, Cao Cao is getting weaker and weaker, and in the end he will be consumed alive by Chen Mo here.

This can be seen from Chen Mo's current posture, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault, just consuming with Cao Cao, as long as it is consumed, Cao Cao's defeat will be a matter of time.

"This is Bo Dao's letter to me, Wen Ruo look at it." Cao Cao handed Chen Mo's letter of persuasion to Cao Cao.

Xun Yu took it and looked at it twice, looked up at Cao Cao and said, "What are the plans of the lord?" ”

"When Feng Xiao left, he had already asserted that Qingzhou could not be defended." Cao Cao frowned and said, "Do you know, where did Feng Xiao persuade me to go?" ”

"For example, today, the places that can still fight against Chen Mo are nothing more than Jiangdong, Jingzhou, and Shu, although the Jiangdong Sun clan is now experiencing turmoil, they can be allies, but they can't take it, Jingzhou Liu Bei is not an easy person, and there is only Shudi."

"If you go to Shudi, now this huge foundation needs to be given up." Cao Cao nodded, this is also the reason why he hesitated, if he wants to take out all these foundations in Qingzhou, it is impossible, it has to penetrate the entire Chen Mo's territory to pass, this is unrealistic, so Guo Jia means that Cao Cao will take his confidants to Shuzhong to join Liu Zhang, waiting for the opportunity to seize the foundation of Bashu, this point, you can ask Sun's help, take a boat to Jiangdong, and then go to Shu from Jiangdong, but in this way, there are not many people who can take away.

"Yu is willing to go with the lord." Xun Yu said solemnly, he already understood what Cao Cao meant.

"Even if you want to leave, it won't be now, the Jiangdong envoy has not left, and even if you can get to Jiangdong, whether the Sun family is willing to release people is still in two words." Cao Cao said helplessly.

Stick to Qingzhou, it won't last long, but if they leave, now they can't leave if they want to, even if they bypass Chen Mo's territory, is Jiangdong willing to let go? It may not be for nothing that he was detained by Jiangdong halfway, after all, even if Cao Cao lost his territory, soldiers and horses, the strategists and generals he brought with him were also very attractive to Jiangdong.

Instead of being a prisoner of Jiangdong, it is better to surrender Chen Mo directly.

"Why don't the lord ask Jiangdong for help first, and be willing to rely on Jiangdong to relax his defense, and wait for the opportunity to go to Bashu when he arrives in Jiangdong." Xun Yu smiled.

Again, it's difficult, but at least there's a direction.

Cao Cao smiled, looked at Xun Yu and sighed: "Those who know me, Wen Ruoye, but this matter is not in a hurry, even if it is to be defeated, it will not be defeated too quickly, but let the Jiangdong envoy go back to deliver the letter first, and see what Sun Quan means." ”

"Yu, I'll arrange it." Xun Yu nodded and got up.

Next, the war between Chen Mo and Cao Cao did not stop because of Guo Jia's death, and even Yu Sheng in the Taishan area and Wuyi in Qinghe also began to attack Qingzhou, it seems that they are preparing to take Qingzhou completely.

The situation in Qingzhou is becoming more and more unstable, and Chen Mo is preparing to use the general trend to completely crush Cao Cao to death step by step.

But Cao Cao's reaction made Chen Mo a little confused, without the slightest panic, just seeing the move, quite stable, of course, this is not a problem in itself, and if you change to Chen Mo, you may not be able to do better than Cao Cao.

Brother Mengde!

After sending away the generals who came to deliver the letter, Chen Mo stood in the tent, looking at the information in his hand, his brows finally furrowed, Cao Cao has not replied to the letter in the past few days, Chen Mo is not in a hurry, but the moment he really received the reply, Chen Mo felt a little gloomy in his heart.

Would you really rather perish than descend on me!?

"Lord......" Xun You looked at Chen Mo's expression, hesitated for a moment and said, "Will there be a way out?" ”

"If you talk about a way out, there is, the sea is a place that is difficult for us to take care of, although Qingzhou is still holding on now, it is difficult to capture for a while, but it is only a matter of time before Jiangdong is defeated, if Jiangdong picks him up by ship before this, this is indeed a way out, but I don't understand, why would I rather take refuge in Jiangdong than surrender to me?" Chen Mo frowned.

"I might know a little bit below." Xun You smiled bitterly.

"Oh?" When Chen Mo heard this, he looked at Xun You and said, "Why? ”

"Perhaps, it is precisely because of the deep relationship with the lord that he is unwilling to surrender to the lord." Xun You said with a smile.

Chen Mo frowned when he heard this, what kind of truth is this?

"The lord has always had a very accurate grasp of people's hearts, but this time he is a little concerned and chaotic, with all due respect, if the lord and Cao Cao change places, the lord is willing to surrender to Cao?" Xun You asked rhetorically.

"Naturally, ......," Chen Mo said half a sentence, and suddenly couldn't continue.

Would you like to?

Definitely unwilling, if you go to Jiangdong, you can still have a plan to make a comeback, but if you go to Cao Cao's command, then defeat is defeat, and you can only accept your fate, that is to say, now Cao Cao is not completely willing, and is still looking for a way back for himself.

Scold~

Although Chen Mo felt that this kind of thing was somewhat vindictive, he also had to admit that if he were himself, most of them would choose this path, and it would be impossible for him to admit defeat until the last moment.

"Then let's see how far he can go!" Chen Mo sat down again and said, "Is there any information in Qingzhou?" ”

"There has not been in the past few days, Cao Cao has also blocked various intersections, and even all cities have been under martial law, the last time there was intelligence in Qingzhou, it was a month ago, but with the scale of the war today, I am afraid that the people in Qingzhou are also unstable." Xun You said with a smile.

"With such a situation, it would be strange if it could still stabilize people's hearts." Chen Mo shook his head, he helped Cao Cao calculate a few accounts, not to mention the grain and grass that the army of all parties needs to consume, just the people who carry the grain and grass, with the population of Qingzhou, I am afraid that half of the strong men have to be used to carry the grain and grass.

If there is hope for this battle, it is okay, but now that Chen Mo has been dragging it out, Cao Cao has to fight, in this case, if Cao Cao can still stabilize the hearts of the internal people, it will be a god.

"Pass on my military order, and order Pang De, Hua Rong, and Xu Kai to lead the cavalry to make a detour to Yu Sheng, and choose a road from Mount Tai to Qingzhou to attack and harass, remember...... Try not to offend the people. Chen Mo took out three arrows, handed them to the heralds, and asked them to send the arrows to Pang De, Hua Rong, and Xu Kai, as for the last sentence, Chen Mo also knew that in this case, it was impossible to say that it would not hurt the people at all, and try to avoid the loss of the people of Qingzhou.

"Gongda, in this Qingzhou, there are many former family teachers and friends, trying to contact and persuade them to support our army to enter Qingzhou." After ordering someone to go to pass the order, Chen Mo looked at Xun Yu again, Qingzhou is also half of Chen Mo's hometown, there are now many Qingzhou scholars under his command, who studied in Qingzhou for four years in the same year, and now he returns to Qingzhou, which is also considered to have some foundation, and now that he occupies the general situation, Qingzhou scholars know that Cao Cao will be defeated, and they will definitely support themselves.

As for whether it will be discovered by Cao Cao and cause trouble to his family, it is not a matter for Chen Mo to consider, it is inevitable that there will be casualties in the war.

"Whoa!" Xun You nodded and got up to do this.

"Order the two generals Zhang He and Xu Huang to increase the offensive against Cao's army, and it is best to snatch Langya back for me!" Chen Mo said as he took out another arrow.

"Whoa!"

Chen Mo's side began to gradually increase the offensive, and Cao Cao naturally noticed it.

"My lord, a few days ago, the Li clan in Beihai gathered to make trouble, and now the situation is getting more and more out of control." In Cao Cao's camp, Mao Jue hurriedly came in and bowed to Cao Cao.

"How many have been sent away by the families of the soldiers?" Cao Cao didn't care about this, during this time, he had reached an agreement with Jiangdong, Jiangdong sent people over, the first step to send the families and wealth of some important generals to Jiangdong, Sun Quan naturally welcomed Cao Cao's refuge, which not only consolidated Sun Quan's status and prestige, but more importantly, Cao Cao's commanded these ministers and fierce generals, if they can join Jiangdong, for Jiangdong, it is an opportunity to greatly improve their combat power.

You know, the Jiangdong Navy can be said to be unparalleled in the world, but the level of land warfare has always been criticized, not to mention compared with Chen Mo's Guanzhong Army and Cao Cao's division of a hundred battles, it is with Liu Bei, and it is difficult to take advantage of it on land, although there is a relationship between Jiangdong's soldiers themselves who are not accustomed to pure land combat, but fundamentally Jiangdong lacks real land generals, if these battle-hardened generals under Cao Cao can join, for Jiangdong, land warfare will no longer be Jiangdong's shortcomings.

Of course, it would be better if Cao Cao could not come and bring so many generals to himself, Sun Quan knew very well that even if Cao Cao was attached, it would be an unstable factor, and once he entered Jiangdong, he must be optimistic.

But this is not realistic, if there is no Cao Cao, wouldn't it be better for those Cao army generals to surrender to Chen Mo directly? Why come all the way to Jiangdong?

"Most of them have been sent away, this time it is Zhou Yu, the governor of the Jiangdong Naval Army, who personally led the warships to respond, there are dozens of large ships, which can transport away three hundred people each time, and so on, all the families have now been transported away, only I am left." Xun Yu smiled.

"Then let them wait, Qingzhou can't just leave it to Chen Mo so easily!" Cao Cao nodded helplessly.

"Lord, it's not good!" At this moment, a general suddenly rushed in and bowed to Cao Cao.

"What's the alarm?" Cao Cao frowned.

"Back to the lord, news came from the plain, Zang Ba led his generals to surrender to Wuyi, and now the plain has been broken by Wuyi, at this moment Wuyi has led the army to cross the river, enter the territory of Donglai, and go straight to Jiaodong!"

"What!"