Wood Stove Rear Flue Exit?

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I will try to explain better.
What I’ve seen most often on rear exit is it going immediately to an elbow, going well up above the stove, then another elbow to head through the thimble and to the T.
What I am asking is if instead you can go straight out the back of the stove and through the thimble just slightly higher than the exit point on the stove, and into the T. Does that make sense? The second way would eliminate the two 90 degree elbows, but the T on the exterior would be just slightly above level with the rear exit point on the stove as opposed to higher up the wall.