Three Kingdoms: At the beginning, Lu Bu was mistaken for his father-in-law

Chapter 161 Lin Mo Was Mine
In the city of Xuchang, on the golden hall of the imperial palace, Cao Cao, wearing court uniform and holding a sword at his waist, stood at the head of all officials.

There is no way, it is Cao Cao's privilege to walk on the sword and go up to the temple, and to praise and not to be famous.

Liu Xie, who was on the dragon chair, looked at Cao Cao after accepting the worship of all the officials, "Cao Aiqing, I heard that Yuan Shao sent [-] troops to attack Baima City unexpectedly. There are only [-] defenders in the city. What should I do?"

He was very sad, at least he looked very sad, but in his heart he was very happy.

Yuan Shao's ancestors were four generations and three princes, and the Yuan family was full of Han Lu, so they were naturally loyal. He wished that the Northern Army would go to Xuchang tomorrow and kill Cao Cao.

When Liu Xie said this, there was a burst of whispering in the Golden Palace.

Originally, they were not optimistic about this battle, but the ministers who were forced to compromise because of Cao Cao's power were very panicked, while the imperial faction headed by Dong Cheng remained calm, and everyone was watching Cao Cao's jokes in their hearts.

They are all willing to believe that, except for Cao Cao, they are all loyal ministers of the great man.

Therefore, people who can't help Cao Cao on the bright side like to see him deflated very much.

Cao Cao didn't speak a word, his face sank like water, he listened quietly to the ministers whispering, and didn't even answer Liu Xie's question.

He was waiting, waiting for the scouts to show up around the same time.

"White Horse City, six hundred miles, hurry up!" A shout outside the Golden Palace attracted everyone's attention, except Guo Jia and Cao Cao, because they had already read the battle report last night.

After the scout ran in, Liu Xie, who had always been autistic, moved his buttocks and looked at him expectantly, hoping to hear the news he wanted.

"Your Majesty, Yuan Shao's [-] vanguards have been routed, the chief general Yan Liang has been captured alive, [-] horses, [-] stones of grain and grass have been seized, and all the prisoners have been murdered on the spot. Our army has won a complete victory!"

After the scout finished speaking, a needle could be heard in the Golden Palace.

Dong Cheng and the others felt their hearts twisted. How could this happen? Yan Liang's [-] army was completely defeated by [-] soldiers, and they knew how to fight?

Of course, more courtiers breathed a sigh of relief and applauded.

After all, they have invested too much in Cao Cao, and they still hope that he can win.

Liu Xie's nails were almost pierced into the flesh, showing a white face, but his face showed excitement like most courtiers. After all, he has been a puppet for many years, and his acting skills are still online.

He looked at Cao Cao, who was calm in Gujing, and quickly guessed that he should have known about the news, so he asked with a smile, "How did Cao Aiqing win more with less?"

Cao Cao shook his clothes and went to the middle of the golden hall, paid homage to Liu Xie, and said in a clear voice, "It's very simple. A month ago, my minister ordered Polu General Cao Ren to bring Xu Chu and Dian Wei to the White Horse. city."

hiss~
Everyone couldn't help being startled, it turned out that Sikong had already prepared, no wonder he looked calm just now, Yuan Shao was tricked.

I don't know how Cao Sikong was so predictable that he was able to arrange a month in advance, which is unimaginable.

According to the normal procedure, someone would soon ask Cao Cao how he did it. Obviously, Cao Cao did not intend to give them such an opportunity. Guo Jia stepped forward and asked, "Since Cao Sikong has already made arrangements, why didn't he inform them earlier? Let me wait at ease."

"Because there are people in the court who secretly communicated with Yuan Shao, if I had told him earlier, would I still have won such a big victory?" Cao Cao turned around and looked around at all the officials.

Just one glance made half of the people bow their heads, each of them felt that Cao Cao should be talking about himself, if it weren't for the cultivation of qi that has been infiltrated by the court for many years, they might not be able to restrain their trembling.

"I don't know who Cao Sikong is talking about?" Dong Cheng sneered and glanced sideways at Cao Cao.

He figured it out, there was no such thing as a crisis in Baima City, Cao Cao knew all of this a long time ago, and he was playing tricks on me on purpose today.

Cao Cao raised his right hand, put his index finger and middle finger together, and pointed around the court hall, and finally landed directly on Liu Xie's body, scaring him very much.

After all, he put down his right hand and said with a smug smile: "After all, I am a minister. I will not bring up the past. As long as I do my best to serve His Majesty in the future, I will treat it as if it never happened."

Liu Xie breathed a sigh of relief, and forced a smile, "Cao Aiqing is indeed loyal to the emperor, and she is indeed a model for all officials."

The emperor said so, and all the officials immediately followed, and they praised it all. What about sweeping up the world, helping the emperor and assisting the country, and picking good ones, all have the illusion of surviving after a catastrophe.

"Your Majesty, I have to ask for the crime of deceiving the king first."

"Why did Aiqing say that?" He clearly knew that Cao Cao was talking nonsense, so Liu Xie could only do his best to cooperate with him in the performance.

"Your Majesty, because I have an ingenious plan to defeat the enemy, defeating Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops is like smashing into powder, but right now I dare not tell the whole story. I hope that defeating Yuan Zhixun will make the meritorious deeds worthless."

What Cao Cao said was very sincere, Liu Xie could only nod his head, and forced himself to cheer up and said, "Okay, I forgive you for your innocence, Ai Qing can let go and do it."

He didn't know if what Cao Cao said was true or not, but he hoped that Cao Cao would lose in his heart.

When he heard that Yuan Shao had an army of 70, he was so happy that he didn't fall asleep for several days and nights, just waiting to see Cao Cao's dog's head hanging on the city wall of Xuchang.

With the big victory in Baima City and the rhetoric now, Liu Xie's confidence has been shaken a little.

Even if the emperor is like this, let alone the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, all the small thoughts of trying to please Yuan Shao have been restrained, and he regrets not advocating war at the beginning.

It's okay, it's still time to regret it now, he said he won't settle accounts after the fall.

Seeing that his goal was achieved, Cao Cao no longer entangled in this topic, and began to throw out his unspeakable secrets. It was nothing more than that I would definitely defeat Yuan Shao this time, but it would be great if I could add a little more food, ordnance, and troops.

Those who can stand in this hall are all human beings, and they immediately understood Cao Cao's meaning, so they were waiting here.

It would have been great if they hadn't objected before, since direct support is impossible, who would be willing to waste water.

But after the incident just now, no one knew what Cao Cao was holding back. He still wanted to make up some bets to be safer, and they all expressed their intentions to go back to their hometown to raise food and grass for the court and supervise the handling of armaments.

"Your Majesty, if all the officials are so united, why worry about Yuan Shao's undefeated?" Cao Cao felt relieved for a moment. This is really much better than ten victories and ten defeats.

"This is all due to loving Qing." Liu Xie said weakly.

No no no, Your Majesty is wrong, this is the merit of Yunwen.Cao Cao hasn't been so happy for a long time. After dealing with it for a few words, he waited to retreat.

After the meeting, Cheng Yu, Xun You, Xun Yu, Zhong Yao and others all surrounded Cao Cao one after another, trying to get to the bottom of it, why Cao Cao was able to predict the danger of Baima City a month ago.

What can Cao Cao do?He took out Lin Mo's letter and said, here, look, did Lu Bu's son-in-law teach me?

It's okay to have a good face.

Only Guo Jia knew about this, and it was enough for him to know about it alone.

In the end, he could only put all the credit on Guo Jia.

Cao Ying's counselors didn't seem surprised that Guo Jia was able to predict the enemy ahead of him, but he still couldn't imagine how Guo Jia could judge that the other side would attack Baima City, which bordered a border of no less than 800 miles.

Guo Jia, who was surrounded by the crowd, seemed a little anxious. He was already in a bad mood, because he didn't think about it.

Although Baima City can be close to Xuchang by entering Guandu, there is definitely more than one choice for the same position.

Because of Cao Cao's face, this matter can't be explained. We can only excuse that because Yan Liang has been stationed in Liyang, he appeared in Liyang as the general of the Northern Kingdom, and Baima City was naturally the first to bear the brunt.

This statement barely convinced everyone, and the group left contentedly, leaving only Guo Jia in a mess.

Cao Cao, who had returned to Sikong Mansion, sat under the gazebo in a daze, looking at the turbulent lake surface in a daze, and kept kneading the sachet returned by Lin Mo in his hand.

He knew that it was for the balance of the overall situation that Lin Mo sent letters to help the war, but he still couldn't help thinking, how nice it would be for this kid to be with me.

Yan Liang, that's Yan Liang, Yuan Shao's general, the Great Banner of the Northern Kingdom, he was captured alive, Cao Cao knew too well how much impact this would have on the Northern Kingdom Army, it would definitely be a turmoil for the three armies.

Just a little shot helped me defeat Yuan Shao. With this big victory, there should be few people in Xuchang who secretly communicated with Yuan Shao, plus the food, grass, weapons and government soldiers provided by all parties
Just a simple calculation of the harvest this time, Cao Cao felt so excited, it's amazing, winning this one person is better than a hundred thousand soldiers.

But the more extraordinary Lin Mo behaved, the more uneasy Cao Cao was, because the alliance would end one day. Such a person, as an enemy, was a little more terrifying.

He, Lin Mo, is mine in the first place, the hateful Zhang Wang, if I lose because of this, even ten Sima families will not be able to keep you!
Cao Cao still hopes that one day he can recruit Lin Mo to his subordinates again. Although such a chance is very slim, it is not impossible. The battle of Xiao Guan is the best example.

Looking back and thinking about it, I was still too stupid at the beginning, I would rather give up Xiao Guan and find him Lin Yunwen.

His head hurt, and Cao Cao couldn't help but knead his temples when he thought about it.

On the other side of Pengcheng, Gao Shun and Zhao Yun led an army of [-] to go north to Linqu.

Lu Bu led more than 5 people and finally started to move. It was reported that Yuan Tan's 20 troops were divided into three divisions and began to station in Guang County. The war was imminent.

This time, Zhang Liao, Yu Jin, and Xu Sheng were still staying in Guangling. The difference was that Zang Ba and Sun Guan were transferred to Lujiang to take over the defense that originally belonged to Wei Xu, Hou Cheng, and Song Xian.

Among the eight generals under Lu Bu's command, apart from Zhang Liao, who was in charge alone, and Hao Meng, who had already been killed, the other six had all participated in the front line.

This point was deliberately requested by Lu Bu. Firstly, he wanted to give them a chance to make military achievements, and secondly, it was also for the stability of this army.

After the self-appointed vanguard and lieutenant general, this group of veterans has been quite critical of Lin Mo. Lu Bu is a little helpless. The prestige and appeal of these people in the army are not weak. .

Therefore, such a choice can be regarded as a compromise to a certain extent.

Lin Mo didn't mind either. After all, an army of 7 to [-] people needed generals. The only requirement was that what happened in the council hall last time was not allowed to happen again.

In fact, among this group of people, it was Wei Xu who was the most jumpy. After all, he was a relative of Lu Bu, and Lin Mo had to call him uncle, which meant a little bit of relying on the old to sell the old.

Especially in the last few days, when I heard that Cao Cao had captured Yan Liang alive, four thousand and twenty thousand dozen of them were looking for teeth all over the place, good guys, everyone clamored to take the initiative to trouble Yuan Tan.

Because in their view, Cao Cao's elite can be defeated by their own people and they can't find the North, but the Northern Army is defeated by Cao Jun, so the gap is not too big.

It's really a big show on the Wangxiang stage, a group of ghosts who don't know how to live or die.

"You don't need to deal with Wei Xu's head. If he dares to take the lead again, I will come down and deal with him personally!"

The old father-in-law spoke convincingly, and before Lin Mo could say yes, he added with a sneer: "But in this way, you have to mobilize them more in this war. Didn't you always say that the army needs to be covered with rain and dew? Really let them It's inappropriate to eat idle food."

"I agree with this point, but it depends on military affairs. If you are too young, you will dislike it, but if you are too big, you will not be able to afford it."

Lin Mo shook his head helplessly, but it seemed that the old father-in-law was also very embarrassed about this. As a son-in-law, he didn't want to get entangled anymore, and comforted him: "Don't worry, my father-in-law, I will try my best to arrange it properly."

Arranging for these people is really not easy. You can't do it well by robbing the camp and charging and smashing the enemy army;

Looking back, we must rectify this group of talents.

After seven days of traveling, the army finally arrived at the front line of Linqu.

Fortunately, the front line was very peaceful during these days. According to Gao Shun, Yuan Jun had always sent people to watch them from a distance, but he did not take any further actions. Useful.

"It seems that Yuan Tan is smarter than we thought." Lin Mo thought it was quite interesting. With a 20-strong army, the forward army had at least 3 people, yet he was indifferent to 1 people setting up a camp in the wilderness.

"There are many heroes in Beiguo. Jushou, Tian Feng and others are all very resourceful and difficult to deal with. Yuan Tan must have expert advice behind him." Jia Xu also has some understanding of Beiguo.

Lin Mo smiled, but did not answer the conversation. Yuan Tan could listen to other people's opinions, and this alone proved that he was very smart.

This battle may be more difficult than imagined.

Once it comes, it will be safe, Lin Mo walked into the camp, and the Chinese military tent has prepared a terrain sand table and sheepskin drawings.

The camp that can accommodate 7 people is very large, about the size of a small county town, which means that the fortifications along the border will be weaker. In many places, there is only one piece of wood as a guardrail, and the antlers are only set near the four gates. There is no way to cover a large area.

However, after the army is stationed and the situation is fully prepared, these can be gradually improved.

It is worth mentioning that this is the location of the village that Lin Mo, Chen Gong and Jia Xu selected after several discussions. The main consideration was the terrain.

The camp stands in the wilderness, facing the continuous mountains in the west, Qishan Mountain; facing Juyangshui in the east; Qishan and Juyangshui are separated by ten miles, and there is only one passage in the middle. It is impossible for Yuan Tan to send 20 troops at once. Yes, there is no way for the army to spread out.

The disadvantage is that it is too far away from Linqu City, and the food and grass can only be stored along the Qishan Mountain.

But the land where the grain is stored is a valley mouth, and there is only one way in and out, so the safety is relatively high.

On the sand table of the Chinese army tent, Gao Shun has thoughtfully marked Yuan Jun's camp, which is similar to what he predicted earlier. Thirty miles away from his own camp, there is an open land, suitable for a large army to spread out and give full play to its strength.

A total of 20 troops have built three large villages, only about three miles apart, so they can support each other very well.

However, the terrain belongs to the terrain, and what should be seen is to see it with your own eyes. Lin Mo called his old father-in-law, Zhao Yun and Gan Ning to go to Mount Qi to overlook Yuan Tan's army village from a high position.

With the three of them here, there is no need to worry about safety.

(End of this chapter)