Luoyang, General's Mansion.

"Lord, Jingzhou is urgent!" Dian Wei hurriedly entered the hall with a roll of bamboo slips and bowed to Chen Mo.

"Could it be that Jingzhou sent troops to Nanyang at this time?" Xun You frowned and said, this is also something they have been worried about before, if Liu Biao and Cao Cao join forces, Nanyang may be in danger.

Chen Mo took the bamboo slip, his eyes quickly swept over the bamboo slip, his original solemn expression gradually eased, shook his head, and handed the bamboo slip to Xun You: "Nanyang is worry-free!" ”

Xun You was a little surprised when he heard this, and took the bamboo slip to look at it.

Liu Biao is seriously ill and has not seen anyone for more than a month, almost all the orders in the palace of the king of Chu are issued by the Cai family, but the main content of the intelligence is that Cai Mao was defeated by Sun Ce in Xiakou, and now the Jiangdong naval army has occupied Jiangxia, and Cai Mao is suspected of surrendering.

In this way, in order to guard against Sun Ce, Jingzhou really has no strength to provoke Nanyang again.

"My lord, if Sun Ce is allowed to win Jingzhou, for our army, I am afraid that the threat will not be lower than Cao Cao." Xun Yu said solemnly.

Chen Mo nodded, once Jiangdong annexed Jingzhou, then with the benefit of Jiangdong's naval army, he would be able to go up the river and reach Shuzhong, if Sun Ce let Jiangdong and Bashu land in his hands, it may not be as good as Chen Mo, but with the danger of Shuzhong and the moat of the Yangtze River, it is quite difficult for Chen Mo to completely sweep the world.

Moreover, even if Chen Mo wins this battle and takes the Central Plains, it will take a lot of time to sort out, and Sun Ce must not be allowed to succeed.

"Order people to pay close attention to Jiangdong's moves." Chen Mo looked at Li Ru, who was sitting on his left hand, and said solemnly.

"Whoa!" Li Ru bowed down to receive the order.

Now Chen Mo, even if he knows that the other party is threatening, but now the main focus is on Cao Cao's side, the battle of Jingzhou, now Chen Mo has no time and no power to intervene, and the battle of Jingzhou has just begun, what will be the final result, it is too early to make a judgment, let it go first, and after defeating Cao Cao and establishing the status of the overlord of the Central Plains, the next step is Jingzhou!

"Let's talk about Cao Cao!" Chen Mo shook his head, stood up and looked at the huge map hanging on the wall and said, "What do you think?" ”

Li Ru got up, came to the map and pointed to the map and said: "Although it is fighting everywhere now, but judging from the information coming from all over the country during this period of time, there have been several battles in the direction of Zhongmu, our army has won more and lost less, and the Cao army is a little tired, if it were not for General Yu Sheng's caution, our army could even expand the results to Chenliu, and our previous calculation seems to be wrong, but in the direction of Yecheng, the Cao army is quite fierce, General Wuyi and General Xu Huang have suffered a lot of losses, and almost lost Qinghe. ”

Previously, Chen Mo speculated that the main direction of Cao's attack this time should be based on the land of Heluo, once Luoyang is captured, it will be equivalent to a nail in Chen Mo's throat, and Chen Mo's strength cannot be concentrated.

In order to avoid being calculated, Chen Mo not only added troops to Yu Sheng's side, but even sent Xu Shu over to assist Yu Sheng.

But now the battle situation on Chen Mo's side is that the Cao army is attacking quite fiercely in the direction of Jizhou, and the defense line built by Wuyi and Xu Huang almost collapsed several times, and the Nanyang side is not angry, and Heluo's side, except for the surprise attack on Guandu at the beginning, which makes people feel bright, did not make the defenders feel the pressure.

The current battle situation made Li Ru waver in the strategy set at the beginning, and according to the current situation, it seems that the soldiers and horses stationed near Luoyang should be transferred to Jizhou.

Chen Mo nodded, Li Ru spoke in terms of the battle situation, the current battle situation is indeed the case, and it is not excluded that Cao Cao expected that Chen Mo would speculate their direction, and chose to take the sword to the side, first take Jizhou, and then take Heluo.

But in this way, even if Cao Cao takes Jizhou, he will not be able to advance again, and the most important thing is that unless Cao Cao gives up Suiyang and prepares to set another capital, otherwise, if the middle lane is really empty, Chen Mo can directly push the battle line to Suiyang City as long as he presses the border with a strong army at this time, and when the time comes, this war can end in advance.

Even if Cao Cao's current power is not as good as himself, it will not be too bad, there is no need to take this extreme path, and from the perspective of the entire battle situation, Cao Cao wants to subvert the current strength and weakness, the best way is to take Heluo, this is too important for Chen Mo, if Heluo loses and he has to retreat to Chang'an, then the contact with Jizhou will become weak, Cao Cao can take advantage of the situation to seize Jizhou and Youzhou, it seems to be about the same, but in fact it is very far away, if you take Jizhou first, Not to mention that Chen Mo can directly threaten Cao Cao's rear, just with Chen Mo's troops and horses stationed in Youzhou now www.biquku.biz, if Cao Cao really captures Jizhou, Chen Mo can also gather troops to recapture Jizhou in a very short time.

You must know that Tai Shici and Zhao Yun, who are stationed in Youzhou, are two strong armies.

So even if the current battle situation is unfavorable in Jizhou, Chen Mo still hasn't sent troops to support, but right now, Qinghe is about to die, and if he doesn't support it, not long after the battle starts, he will lose Cao Cao first.

Moreover, this one is not the key, the key is that Cao Cao will take the lead, so the next ...... I am afraid that I will be brought into Cao Cao's rhythm, and on the battlefield, once the rhythm is controlled by the other party, that is the beginning of the real disaster.

"Gongda?" Chen Mo turned his head and looked at Xun Yu on the side and said, "What do you think?" ”

Xun You thought for a moment and said: "The lord's original speculation is not wrong, the art of war has clouds, can be shown to be can't, can't be shown to be able, between the virtual and the real, is the art of war, maybe Cao Cao's purpose is still the land of Heluo, but if Qinghe is lost, I think that the other party may not be able to turn the virtual into reality." ”

This is also something that Chen Mo is worried about, he can be sure that Cao Cao's ultimate goal is still Heluo, but if his side has not done anything, let Cao Cao's Qingzhou army attack and Jizhou will fall, which will also be a great loss for Chen Mo, which is equivalent to breaking Chen Mo's arm, and the strength and weakness between him and Cao Cao will be reversed.

Xun You said with a smile: "For today's plan, you can send a general to lead the army to Jizhou to support, and you can also make a light cavalry go straight to Suiyang, test the reality of the Cao army, if the Cao army really focuses on Jizhou, our army can turn the virtual into real and seize Suiyang!" ”

"Pass my military orders." Chen Mo pondered for a moment and said, "Ordered Gao Lan to lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to gallop to the aid of Wuyi. ”

As for the idea of scheming and luring the enemy, Chen Mo just thought that if Cao Cao was so easy to be fooled, he would not be worthy of being ranked as the two heroes of the Central Plains with Chen Mo.

Princes disputes, in the early days, relying on the family background, who is strong, who has more advantages, the earliest times, the world is almost the situation of two Yuan competition, but the princes are fighting until now, the big waves are sweeping the sand, even Yuan Shao and other princes of the family have been destroyed, left, the family background is not the most important, and now the princes who can still stand in the world are not mediocre, at this time if you want to plan the plan, it is not only to look down on the opponent, but also to look down on yourself.

"Also, let Ma Chao come to see me!" Chen Mo looked at the map, and after thinking for a long time, he added.

Now that Cao Cao has already made a move, if he doesn't give him a response, he will still be really helpless.

Soon, Ma Chao walked in quickly, and saluted Chen Mo: "Lord, are you looking for me?" ”

"Hmm." Chen Mo turned his head, looked at Ma Chao and said, "Order you to lead a light ride of 10,000, and go out of Chenggao to take Suiyang." ”

"The last general commands!" Ma Chao was overjoyed when he heard this, seeing the start of the war, but he stayed in Luoyang and failed to participate in the war, for Ma Chao, this is extremely uncomfortable, and now he can go out, Ma Chao is naturally happy, as for where to fight? It doesn't matter.

"Wait!" Seeing that Ma Chao was about to leave, Chen Mo hurriedly stopped him, and he hadn't finished saying this yet.

"What else does the lord command?" Ma Chao stopped and looked at Chen Mo suspiciously.

"You sent troops this time to test the truth and reality, go deep alone, remember to be cautious, once you find something wrong, withdraw immediately, don't fall in love with the war." Chen Mo said in a deep voice, this light cavalry is 10,000, but it doesn't mean that it is all cavalry, in fact, the cavalry only has the 2,000 cavalry of Ma Chao's headquarters, and the rest are infantry, but they won't bring too much baggage, this little bit of people and horses, if the lone army is deep enough to meet Cao Cao's main force, it is likely to be surrounded by Cao Cao's main force, so Chen Mo reminded him: "Remember, there are no reinforcements, after testing the reality of Cao Cao's army, it must not be wrong to withdraw immediately!" ”

"Whoa!" Ma Chao bowed solemnly when he heard this, and bowed to retire.

After Ma Chao left, Chen Mo was a little uneasy, Ma Chao had the ability to command the troops, but he was too belligerent and irritable, after thinking about it, Chen Mo ordered someone to send an order to Pang De and Zhang Xiu, ordering him to lead the cavalry out of the customs, and he didn't have to go with Ma Chao, but when Ma Chao was in danger, he was responsible for responding to Ma Chao.

said that there was no support, but it also made Ma Chao more restrained, but after all, it was his own favorite general, and it was really broken, Chen Mo was definitely reluctant, so he sent Pang De and Zhang Xiu to be responsible for responding.

"Nanyang War ......" After arranging this side of the matter, Chen Mo turned his head, looked at the map and frowned and pondered, at the moment, the whole battle situation, the Nanyang battle situation is the most inconspicuous, the battle between Zhang Liao and Cao Ren is not fierce, and Zhang Liao still has to guard against Jingzhou, Cao Ren looks at his attitude, and has no intention of capturing Nanyang, but Chen Mo now has a lot of troops in his hands, he thinks about whether he can calculate that Cao Ren and take the opportunity to occupy Yingchuan, so that his forces can be completely spread out and force Cao Cao to fight with him.

The battle situation in the Central Plains, whether it is Chen Mo or Cao Cao, does not want to last too long, if it continues like this, it will be a devastating blow to the people's livelihood in the Central Plains, but such a big war cannot be rushed, so Chen Mo has been thinking about how to expand his advantages during this time, and it is best to force Cao Cao to come out and fight with him, if he wins Yingchuan.

"Lord, don't be in a hurry!" As soon as Li Ru heard this, he knew what Chen Mo had in mind, and hurriedly persuaded him that this kind of war is the most taboo to be impatient.

"I know." Chen Mo nodded, but in his heart he was calculating the feasibility of this matter.