Sour jujube, the camp of the princes' coalition army.

Cao Cao's army was defeated and returned, but he saw that the princes were drinking all day long, not thinking of enterprising, and some could not see it, and found Yuan Shao on this day: "At the beginning, now our army is in full swing, and it is time to capture the key pass, divide the troops to attack and disturb the pass, making it difficult for Dong Zhuo to take care of himself, and now he is huddled here, drinking and having fun all day long, when can he attack Luoyang?" ”

"Meng De doesn't know, although the princes respect me, but now you look at these princes, which one is really coming to fight? We must first obey their hearts, and then we can conspire with them to achieve great things. Yuan Shao sighed and said to Cao Cao: "Although I am famous now, I am only a Bohai Sea guard, and the grain and grass are all raised by Han Fu, how can I support them?" ”

When Cao Cao heard this, he was a little upset, where did he not know, Yuan Shao obviously didn't want to send his own troops, and hoped that others would send troops, but the sour jujube gathered so many princes, which one was not this mind? They all want to preserve their strength and let others fight with the enemy, if it goes on like this, when will it be the head?

It stands to reason that Yuan Shao, as the actual leader of the alliance, should have taken the lead by him, but the nominal leader of the Kwantung Coalition Army is Zang Hong, and although Zang Hong is famous, he is just Guangling Gongcao, and the real leader of the troops is Zhang Chao, what do you let Zang Hong attack?

"After this battle, the people of the Cao Department have been completely damaged, and I plan to return to my hometown first and then recruit some soldiers and horses to come back." Cao Cao said depressedly.

"I'll ask Han Fu to give you some grain and grass to recruit troops." Yuan Shao also felt a little guilty and nodded.

Cao Cao wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, instead of wasting food and grass on these people drinking and having fun all day long, why didn't he have to do business? nodded immediately and said, "It's okay, thank you Alliance Leader!" ”

He bit the word alliance leader very hard, but Yuan Shao just didn't understand, just nodded and asked Cao Cao to go quickly.

Cao Cao returned to the camp helplessly to gather his troops.

"Why is the lord so worried?" A scribe smiled when he saw Cao Cao come in with a gloomy face.

"Didn't you knowingly ask, sir?" Cao Cao said with a smile: "I fought to the death, I wanted the princes to give up those calculations in their hearts, work together, attack Luoyang as soon as possible, and return the world to peace, but now it seems that I think too much, my little virtuous brother is right, these people can't do anything!" I should have listened to him in the first place, didn't this also get mixed up with Jiuqing? ”

Cao Cao said that the little virtuous brother is naturally Chen Mo, Chen Mo told him that it is difficult for the princes to succeed, especially with the Yuan brothers, and now it seems that what Chen Mo said at the beginning has come true.

"What Guangluxun said is certainly reasonable, but his path, the lord can't go." The scribe laughed.

"Well, he can't recruit so many soldiers himself." Cao Cao laughed.

"Not only that, although Chen Mo has been recognized by the Chen family, he can be regarded as a member of the scholar clan, but the foundation is too shallow after all, if he really leaves the court like the lord, I am afraid it will be difficult to have today's situation, but since he wants to rely on the court, he will have to bear Dong Zhuo's notoriety." The scribe laughed.

"There are so many ministers in the DPRK, why is he the only one who carries it?" Cao Cao asked with a sigh.

"First, he was the first to take refuge in Dong Zhuo, and both Yuan Benchu and Yuan Highway deliberately blamed him for Dong Zhuo's success." The scribe sighed and said, "Isn't this two, doesn't the lord think that this son has been promoted too quickly in the past two years?" He is indeed talented and learned, and today's status is all obtained by his ability, but because of this, it will seem that others are too incompetent, and this son is too smart to calculate, and it is inevitable to be isolated. ”

"Zhicai is right, don't talk about other people, I sometimes want to beat him, but I'm afraid I can't beat him, haha~" Thinking that when Chen Mo said that he could recite a 10,000-word book after reading the book two or three times, that face was taken for granted, it should be like this, even if the two were close, Cao Cao would have a moment when he felt that this little brother was hateful, self-righteous, had no one in his eyes, and was unwilling to slash him.

"However, this person is highly talented and pragmatic, looking at this person's behavior in the past two years, if the lord wants to invite him to his command, I am afraid he can't." The scribe smiled.

Why is that? Even though he said that, I guess he and I are kindred spirits. Cao Cao was puzzled.

"If it was two years ago, the lord had his current status, it was not difficult to recruit him into his command, when this son first entered the official career, he did have a sincere heart, but time has passed, and now although he has stepped down as the Taishou of Hedong, but Hedong is probably still under the control of this son, that Gao Shun, Wuyi and others should be his henchmen, this son already has his own way in his heart, especially after Yuan Benchu, I am afraid that he will no longer trust anyone." The scribe sighed.

Cao Cao was a little regretful when he heard this, but he also understood that during the period from He Jin to Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing, Chen Mo offered advice to Yuan Shao more than once, but Yuan Shao did not adopt it.

"It doesn't matter, it's rare to get a confidant in life, even if he is an enemy every day, it's not bad to have such an opponent." After a moment of silence, Cao Cao suddenly laughed aloud.

The scribe nodded slightly, he could afford to put it down, this is the courage that a master should have, although the reputation of Cao Cao's power is far less than that of Yuan Shao, but he believes that as long as Cao Cao is given time, he will be able to catch up with Yuan Shao.

"What now?" Cao Cao sat down and asked, Yuan Shao refused to send troops, saying that everything was false.

"The lord just has to recruit troops, and he will have his own way to force Yuan Shao to send troops in the next time." The scribe smiled.

"Zhicai has never disappointed me, it's okay, I took Yuan Rang to recruit soldiers and horses, Zhicai is here, and on the day I return, I will see Zhicai's ability." Cao Cao laughed.

The scribe smiled and coughed lightly, and nodded, "I wish the lord a speedy return." ”

……

On the other side, Yingchuan, Yangzhai.

The winter cold had not yet fully dissipated, and most people were huddled at home and did not want to wake up early, and a few soldiers yawned and opened the city gates to welcome the new day.

"Look, what's that!?" The city gate had just been halfway opened, and a county guard suddenly saw something on the other side of the moat, and he couldn't see it clearly through the morning light.

"Let's take a look!" A county guard asked people to lower the drawbridge and cross the moat to check, but saw two corpses neatly placed on the bank of the moat, one of which was separated and his head was about to roll to the shore.

Dead people are not uncommon in this era, but the clothes worn by the two are clearly two generals, and a group of county guards don't recognize Sun Jian and Huang Gai, but this armor is obviously not an ordinary soldier, so they hurriedly sent someone to report.

After a while, Taishou hurried out of the city with the county lieutenant and the county lieutenant.

"It's a general under Duke Yuan." Taishou looked at the clothes.

"Envoy, there is still a wooden plaque left here." A county guard came over with a wooden sign.

"Good word!" Taishou was a little surprised to see the handwriting that was engraved: "It is difficult to leave the charm of the general lettering, this person can still retain the afterglow after carving, although it is a few points worse, but it is rare, tsk......t"

"Envoy, this person is Sun Jian, the general under the command of Duke Yuan, who is the one who went to hunt down and kill Chen Mo a few days ago." The county lieutenant was a little speechless when he heard this, when did it happen, you went to evaluate other people's words?

"Sun Wentai?" Tai Shou was taken aback when he heard this, so he read it seriously.

Chen Moliu's message is very simple, he can't bear to expose Sun Jian I bravely to expose the corpse to the wilderness, so he specially sends his corpse back.

"I remember, there was only one team with Chen Mo by his side!" Tai Shou turned his head in disbelief to look at the county lieutenant who had the most contact with Chen Mo.

"Not bad."

"How many men did General Wentai bring?" Taishou said in shock.

"I didn't look at it in detail at the time, but there is also a school." The county lieutenant said uncertainly, the concept of a school is very large, it can make 800 people, or at most 2,000 people, and a school of people is within this range, so it is not wrong to say how much.

"Then Chen Mo is just a few dozen people, but he can break General Sun's school?" Taishou said with a look of astonishment.

"Rest assured, although Chen Mo is good at fighting, General Sun is also a fierce general, if you want to break it with dozens of people, there must be an army nearby!" The county lieutenant bowed.

"Not bad!" Taishou nodded and said: "Quick, collect the bodies of the two generals, order someone to go to Luyang to inform Yuan Gong, and the rest of the people will return to the city as soon as possible, block the four gates, don't let the thieves take advantage of it!" ”

This time Chen Mo came over, Yang Zhai didn't have many soldiers and horses, so he secretly told Yuan Shu that Chen Mo originally thought that Chen Mo was a turtle in the urn, but now it seems that Chen Mo may have had bad intentions and wanted to plot against Yang Zhai.

Fortunately, I was prepared!

As soon as he thought that Chen Mo might be unfavorable to him, he broke out in a cold sweat.

"Whoa!" Everyone agreed, and dragged the bodies of Sun Jian and Huang Gai back to the city, and the county lieutenant arranged for people to inform Yuan Shu that Tai Code had already returned to the city, and after everyone returned, he ordered the four gates to be blocked and not allowed to enter or exit.

At this time, Chen Mo had already rushed to Dagu Pass overnight with his people, and after revealing his identity, he passed through the checkpoint, and then slowed down and went to Luoyang.

"Lord, if I behead that Sun Jian this time, will there be a reward from the court?" Dian Wei glanced back at the distant Dagu Pass and asked casually.

"Naturally, there will be, this credit is enough for you to be promoted to the position of captain." Chen Mo smiled.

"What's the use of raising me? I can't lead troops? Dian Wei said unconcernedly.

"I can give it to you." Chen Mo looked at Dian Wei who said this kind of thing with a proud face, and said with a headache: "If you don't understand, you can learn, no one is born to understand, what does you mean by the proud look on your face?" ”

"The lord doesn't know, I want to sleep when I read a book on weekdays, you let the old dian kill, the old man will naturally not be ambiguous, but if you want the old classic to read...... You might as well kill me. Dian Wei said bitterly when he heard this.

"If you don't study, you've been like this all your life, and if you have a son in the future, how can you seal your wife and son?" Chen Mo glared.

"That's easy." Dian Wei thought for a while and said: "I will give birth to a few more sons and let them go to study, and if they don't read, I will beat them." ”

Xu Shu on the side couldn't help laughing when he heard it.

"Laugh at the fart." Dian Wei glared at Xu Shu dissatisfiedly and said: "Say that you are a ranger, you can be caught by a few county guards, say that you are a scribe, you read a book, you are not good at literature, and you are not good at martial arts, why do you have the face to laugh at me?" ”

Xu Shu's face suddenly turned pale.

I really want to cut this foolish thing!