Wang Mo

Wang Mo, a general under Yuan Shao, is recorded as having surrendered after Cao Cao’s forces burned Yuan Shao’s separate camp.
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History · vol. 17Records of the Three Kingdoms
…復與樂進等將步騎五千,擊紹別營,從延津西南緣河至汲、獲嘉二縣,焚燒保聚三十餘屯,斬首獲生各數千,降紹將何茂、王摩等二十餘人。…
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太祖初征袁紹,紹兵盛,禁原爲先登。太祖壯之,乃遣步卒二千人,使禁將,守延津以拒紹,太祖引軍還官渡。劉備以徐州叛,太祖東征之。紹攻禁,禁堅守,紹不能拔。復與樂進等將步騎五千,擊紹別營,從延津西南緣河至汲、獲嘉二縣,焚燒保聚三十餘屯,斬首獲生各數千,降紹將何茂、王摩等二十餘人。太祖復使禁別將屯原武,擊紹別營於杜氏津,破之。遷裨將軍,後從還官渡。太祖與紹連營,起土山相對。紹射營中,士卒多死傷,軍中懼。禁督守土山,力戰,氣益奮。紹破,遷偏將軍。冀州平。昌豨復叛,遣禁征之。禁急進攻豨;豨與禁有舊,詣禁降。諸將皆以爲豨已降,當送詣太祖,禁曰:「諸君不知公常令乎!圍而後降者不赦。夫奉法行令,事上之節也。豨雖舊友,禁可失節乎!」自臨與豨決,隕涕而斬之。是時太祖軍淳于,聞而嘆曰:「豨降不詣吾而歸禁,豈非命耶!」益重禁。〈臣松之以爲圍而後降,法雖不赦;囚而送之,未爲違命。禁曾不爲舊交希冀萬一,而肆其好殺之心,以戾衆人之議,所以卒爲降虜,死加惡諡,宜哉。〉東海平,拜禁虎威將軍。後與臧霸等攻梅成,張遼、張郃等討陳蘭。禁到,成舉衆三千餘人降。旣降復叛,其衆奔蘭。遼等與蘭相持,軍食少,禁運糧前後相屬,遼遂斬蘭成。增邑二百戸,並前千二百戸。是時,禁與張遼、樂進、張郃、徐晃俱爲名將,太祖每征伐,咸遞行爲軍鋒,還爲後拒;而禁持軍嚴整,得賊財物,無所私入,由是賞賜特重。然以法御下,不甚得士衆心。太祖常恨朱靈,欲奪其營。以禁有威重,遣禁將數十騎,賫令書,徑詣靈營奪其軍,靈及其部衆莫敢動;乃以靈爲禁部下督,衆皆震服,其見憚如此。遷左將軍,假節鉞,分邑五百戸,封一子列侯。
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Wang Mo was a general on Yuan Shao’s side, mentioned in volume 17 of the Records of the Three Kingdoms; he does not appear in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
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As one of Yuan Shao’s subordinates, Wang Mo surrendered to Cao Cao along with He Mao and more than twenty others after Cao Cao’s army burned Yuan Shao’s other camp. (As recorded in the histories)
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