"Lord, the information sent by Luoyang." When Chen Mo received the letter from Li Ru, it had been three days since the Luoyang coup, in fact, with the distance from Luoyang to Guandu, if you hurry up, it could be delivered in one day, but everything needs to be summarized over there.

For example, the matter of Yique Pass was sent to Luoyang in the afternoon of the same day, calculating the gains and losses of Luoyang's battle and other things, and sending it to Chen Mo after the book was completed, three days was already very fast.

Whether it is Chen Mo or Li Ru or Jia Xu, they didn't expect that there would be such an unexpected joy for Zhang Liao to send people to Yique Pass to seize power, Cao Ren died in battle, and Cao Cao's soldiers and horses arranged in the Yingchuan area can be said to have suffered heavy losses so far, Yingchuan and Runan can almost be said to be undefended for today's Nanyang, in this case, Li Ru's suggestion is to let Wei Yan cooperate with Zhang Liao to send troops, and Luoyang will send some more soldiers and horses, and Yingchuan and Runan will be under Chen Mo's control first.

"This Wei Yan is quite bold!" Chen Mo handed the letter about the battle in Yique Pass to Xu Shu and Xun You for circulation, and said with a smile while reading other letters, but he didn't expect that there was a good general in Nanyang.

"According to the convention, discuss with Luoyang first, Yique Pass is only more than seventy miles away from Luoyang, and it is only a day to come and go, so there is time to ventilate with Luoyang, in case of failure, Luoyang can also prepare early." After Xun You handed the letter to Xu Shu, he shook his head and smiled: "This person may be a general, but he is quite selfish and extremely conceited, I am afraid it is not easy to control." ”

"Mediocre people mostly follow the rules, but it is difficult to make a difference, people with ability, conceited is not a big evil, as for selfishness...... Who is selfless? It doesn't hurt to be selfish if you can use it for me. Chen Mo nodded, agreeing with Xun You's evaluation, just judging from Wei Yan's means of doing things, he knew that this was an ambitious person, but ambition was a good thing, as long as he could hold it, then this person would be a sharp sword.

"The lord still needs to use it with caution." Xun You could see that Chen Mo admired this Wei Yan a lot, and he did not dissuade him, he knew that Chen Mo had his own set of employing people, and he didn't need him to teach, as a strategist, what he needed to do was to point out the existing problems, which Wei Yan could use, but how to use it still depends on the means.

"This talent is like a sword, a person who uses it well, he can be invincible, but if he is put in the hands of someone who does not know the sword, he may hurt himself. What about Ma Chao? Gongda rest assured, under my account, the most important thing is this unruly person, I want to see how unruly he is, pass on my order, after capturing Yingchuan, let Wei Yan come here to listen to it. Chen Mo smiled.

"Whoa!"

"Lord, now that the troubles have been removed, Cao Ren died in battle, and Cao's army has collapsed all the way to Yingchuan, and the flanks have been lost, this is a good opportunity to break Cao." Xu Shu looked at Chen Mo and smiled.

"Not bad." Chen Mo nodded and smiled: "It seems that this time, Brother Meng De is bound to lose, Dian Wei, let people send Cao Ren's body to Brother Meng De first, although I am opponents with him, but Cao Ren is the general of the Cao family after all, let him return to his hometown." ”

"My subordinates will do it!" Dian Wei agreed, turned around and left the camp, Li Ru also felt that Cao Ren's corpse was useful to Chen Mo, so this time not only sent a letter, but also sent someone to send Cao Ren's body, at this time just sent over to see Cao Cao's reaction, the soldiers and horses gathered here by the two sides added up to nearly 200,000 people, plus the words of the people, it has seriously affected the farming of the Central Plains this year, even if it is middle-aged, in Chen Mo's estimate, it will take a lot of energy for the imperial court to solve the famine this year, and it will not be good for the world to drag it out like this.

Although Chen Mo estimated that this battle would have to be fought for at least half a year or even a year, if the war could be ended earlier, Chen Mo naturally didn't want to drag it out, and the war was about money and food.

At the same time as sending someone to send Cao Ren's corpse, Chen Mo summoned the generals to discuss the next decisive battle, Cao Cao's southern front collapsed, if it didn't matter, then Zhang Liao could lead the army to attack Suiyang, no matter what, Cao Cao had to fight this battle even if he didn't want to.

On the other side, in the Cao camp.

"What did Bo Dao do when he sent you here?" Cao Cao looked at the messenger in front of him, he was not an acquaintance, and it was obviously not an important matter, but he heard that the other party brought a coffin, which made Cao Cao very unhappy, could it be that Chen Mo even had to use such means in order to force him to send troops?

"General Cao Ren died in Yique Pass, my lord said, although he is now hostile to Cao Gong, but after all, he is also an old friend, and he can't bear to let General Cao die in another country, so he ordered to come down and return General Cao's coffin, which is outside the camp." The messenger bowed.

"What did you say!?" Cao Cao glared, he knew that Yique Pass had failed, but the news of Cao Ren's death had not yet been transmitted, hearing this news, Cao Cao suddenly felt his head explode, and the whole person was a little stunned.

"Take it!" On the side, Xiahoudun's face turned cold, and he shouted loudly, and immediately a personal guard rushed up and held the group down.

"Cao Gong, the two armies are fighting, casualties are inevitable, my lord remembers the old feelings, and sends the body of General Cao, Cao Gong responds like this!?" The messenger hurriedly shouted.

"Stand down!" Guo Jia and Cheng Yu stood up and shook their heads at Xiahoudun, whose eyes were red, although this news could be said to be a bolt from the blue for Cao Jun, but Chen Mo's move could be regarded as benevolent and righteous, at this time, the envoy of the murderer was meaningless, and secondly, it seemed that Cao Cao's strength was small.

"Leave the coffin and thank Bodao for me!" Cao Cao waved his hand, motioned for the guards to step back, and said to the messenger.

"Farewell!" Although the envoy was prepared, he was still frightened when the matter came, and he didn't say much, and after intervening, he turned around and left with the guard.

"Lord......" Cheng Yu looked at Cao Cao with some concern.

"I'll go see Zixiao." Cao Cao stood up and staggered a little towards the outside of the camp, where a coffin had already been placed.

Xu Chu stepped forward, his arms exerted force, the coffin lid was uncovered, the corpse was already a little stinky, Cao Cao came to the coffin, looked at Cao Ren's stitched head, his eyes were dark, suddenly covered his head, and exclaimed bitterly: "Hurt me!" ”

After saying that, he fell to the ground.

"Lord!" A group of people hurriedly stepped forward, and while asking people to summon the military medicine craftsman to come over, they helped Cao Cao back into the tent with all hands and feet.

The military medicine craftsman came over, and after helping Cao Cao get a few stitches, he finally stopped Cao Cao's headache and made Cao Cao sober up.

"Lord, the last general will lead the troops and go to behead that Chen Mo to avenge Zixiao!" Cao Hong looked at Cao Cao and gritted his teeth.

Although Cao Hong and Cao Ren are not brothers, they have fought side by side for many years, and they are both members of the Cao clan, and they have already established a deep friendship.

"Don't come nonsense!" Cao Cao pulled Cao Hong, took a deep breath, stared at Cao Hong's eyes and said: "Zixiao is dead, the pain in my heart is no less than you, but now that Zixiao is dead, Yingchuan is difficult to stop the soldiers and horses of Nanyang, then Zhang Liao can take advantage of the weakness to reach Suiyang, and now if he starts a war with Chen Mo, Zhang Liao will take advantage of the situation to attack Suiyang, and our army will fall into the situation of being attacked by the enemy!" I have even lost my son Xiao, my son and my two brothers, could it be that Zilian will abandon me!? ”

Cao Hong had red eyes, knelt on the ground and said, "But the last general feels uncomfortable!" ”

The veteran of a hundred battles has never shed a single tear when he has been injured and bled countless times, but at this moment he is in tears.

"Patience!"

Cao Cao looked at the crowd: "Chen Mo's move, one is to return the corpse, and the other is also intended to force us to send troops, and we must not fall into his plan, speaking of which, Chen Mo deliberately set up the camp outside our military camp before, I am afraid that he was also aware of the rear movements of our army, but it is a pity that he was only to defeat him at that time, and he failed to detect Chen Mo's calculations, resulting in the loss of one of my generals, which is my fault!" ”

"This is not the fault of the lord, it's just that Chen Mo is too good at figuring out people's hearts." Cheng Yu shook his head and sighed, at that time, they didn't notice it as strategists, who would have thought that Chen Mo and Cao Cao would fight a decisive battle, and their control over the rear was still so strong?

"One thought, the outcome has been decided, do you have a good way to break the enemy?" Cao Cao sighed and didn't continue to say more about this matter, what's the use of regretting it at this time?

"Lord, it's not appropriate to fight again at this time, think about retreating early." Cheng Yu said with a wry smile, in this situation, it can't be fought, and if it continues, Zhang Liao's side can directly bypass them and attack Suiyang, Cao Cao obviously means this, but he can't say it, so he can only say it by Cheng Yu.

"But now that the other party's camp is so close to us, and there are seven cavalry in the rear, how easy is it to retreat?" Xiahou Yuan shook his head and frowned.

Chen Mo set up the big camp so close, obviously to prevent them from withdrawing their troops, and at this time, it was not that they said that they didn't want to fight, so they could not fight.

"So you need to keep the soldiers behind!" Guo Jia sighed.

The generals were silent when they heard this, and at this time, staying and breaking off was almost a certain death.

"My lord, the last general is willing to stay and break the queen!" Le Jin got up and said.

"At least three days!" Cao Cao looked at Le Jin and said in a deep voice, "Are you sure?" ”

Not everyone can break this after this, I don't have enough ability, I'm afraid that Cao Cao's front foot just left, and the back foot was copied by Chen Mo.

"Don't worry, the last general is desperate, and he will delay for three days for the lord." Le Jin said angrily.

"With your 20,000 soldiers and horses, be sure to hold off Chen Mo's army! Remember, Chen Mo will definitely guess that I am going to retire, Wen Qian take care and come back alive. Cao Cao didn't say anything sensational at this time, got up and hugged Le Jin, turned his head to look at everyone: "The rest of the people will immediately go back to the camp to pack up, set off at the third watch tonight, and retreat to Chenliu first!" ”

"Whoa!" All the generals responded to the order, and they all got up to say goodbye, preparing to retire the army.

On the other side, after Chen Mo saw the envoy come back, he looked at the generals gathered in the tent and said: "As soon as Cao Ren dies, Cao Cao will inevitably retreat, and all the generals will return to the camp to prepare, this time you can't let him go so easily!" ”

"The last general commands!"