Yuan Shu put down his weapons on a gentle slope and supported his body, so that his subordinates from far and near could see him. He shed a lot of blood and his face was pale. A personal guard was bandaging him. The doctor who followed the army was scattered in that part of the troops at this time and could not be found for a while, so the golden halberd was not pulled out until now.
Yuan Shu wanted to scold people, but at this time he lost too much blood and had no strength. Secondly, he also saw the unstable morale caused by his accidental injury. If the general forced the army to turn back and advance, not only would there be no good results, but it would also be used by Cao's army to take the opportunity to break through his army, resulting in a complete defeat.
So Yuan Shu regained his anger and decided to take the military spirit at the moment and rest as the top priority. Cao Zhi's family was taken back, so what's the point? Cao's army also suffered losses in this round of melee. Yuan Shu only had to accumulate his subordinates and then sent troops to attack him. I wonder Cao Zhi could not resist. After all, he had more troops than Cao Zhi. Without Cao Cao's strong shield, Yuan Shu undoubtedly had an advantage over Cao Zhi.
In the following day, neither side sent troops to fight, and there were no more swearing troops to provoke each other. In the vacant area between the two sides, there were corpses and 10,000 people. This melee did bring losses to both sides. But in general, the Cao army took advantage. The Cao army regained their lord's family, and although they failed to rescue them all without any damage, some of the seven aunts and eight aunts were killed, but the main members were all there. This was a great victory. In addition, the Cao army took the lead in launching an attack, which took a great advantage, so two-thirds of the bodies lying in the middle of the two armies were Yuan soldiers.
Cao Zhi was also unintentionally trying to expand the results of the battle at this time. He was now in the military tent, busy holding his father's hands in joy and said, "Dad, dad, dad, my child is unfilial, and you will always suffer..." At this point, his mind was in aroused, and he couldn't help but shed tears and fell to the ground.
Cao Song was reborn after the disaster and was trembling and crying. He was already speechless. At this moment, he was lying on Cao Zhi's bed, and he could only breathe in a hurry and barely say, "Okay, okay, okay..."
"Let your father rest, he is so tired!" Er Niang supported Cao Zhi at this time and reminded.
Seeing that Cao Song was indeed exhausted, Cao Zhi asked Erniang to sit in front of the table on the other side, kneel down on the ground, and said loudly that he would never let Erniang suffer again in the future, and asked Erniang to return to Wanling to live and not return to Qiao County before the world is peaceful.
Xu had not escaped from death yet. He seemed to meet Cao Zhi and his mother again in another lifetime. He didn't know where to start many words. After hearing Cao Zhi's filial words, he just replied: "Okay, okay, I'll follow your words!"
After Cao Zhi settled down his parents, he was in a very good mood at this time and went into another tent, in a hurry to see his concubine and son.
Cai Wenji has always been like in a dream. She still doesn't believe that she is really back to her husband alive. The rumbling sound of horse hooves, the war is shining with each other, and the shocking shouts and killing, and the wandering all the way is still in front of her. But she tried hard to make herself forget all this as soon as possible, because all of this is over, and she returns to her husband who loves her.
Cao Zhi's youngest son was still sleeping sweetly. The baptism of war, the neighing of the horse, and the screams did not stop the child, who was only one month old, from sleeping heavily. He even thought that the bumps on the horse's back were a very interesting play.
Cai Wenji, who had no tears in front of others, no longer cared about her holy image when Cao Zhi entered the tent. She immediately grabbed Cao Zhi and threw herself into his arms, asking Cao Zhi to hug her tightly and never let go.
On the second day, both sides had a tacit understanding of the battle-free signs, each began to rest and retreated five miles to set up camp. Because Cao Song's physical condition was not to be bumpy, Cao Zhi could only temporarily place him and a group of family members who had escaped from death in the nearby city of Hefei to recuperate.
In yesterday's battle, Zhang He and other illegal generals had merits and demerits, and some private controversies and discussions arose within the Cao army. After Cao Zhi learned about it, he immediately promoted Zhang He to the Central Army General of his general's shogunate. Taishi Ci and other meritorious generals were promoted to one level, and used actions to affirm the correct behavior of Zhang He and others and stopped rumors in time. The only Jia Xu who had not been promoted was that he tried his best to stop Cao Zhi. He was most afraid that he would stand at the forefront, so he threatened to retire and return home, and resolutely Cao Zhi represented him as the chief minister.
In the next three days, the strangest thing is Cai Wenji's son, Cao Zhi's current youngest son. Because he has been used to the noisy sounds in the barracks for a long time during these days, he couldn't fall asleep in the quiet and pleasant courtyard of Hefei Cheng County. He had to make a noise on the first day of his stay. Later, Cai Wenji had to follow Cao Zhi back to the barracks. Listening to the noise in the barracks, he could finally fall asleep peacefully.
So Cao Zhi decided to name the youngest son Cao Huo, meaning that this kid is very young and has a hot personality and likes the noise of the military camp. This time Cao Zhi's name was immediately denied by Cai Wenji, who is more educated than Cao Zhi. How could his son be called "Huo, violent"? Cai Wenji finally named her and Cao Zhi's first love crystal, Cao Zhang. The meaning expressed his mother's hope for him, and he could be upright and upright in his future, and be as beautiful as his grandfather in literary talent.
Cai Wenji's expectation was the normal wish of being a very talented mother, but she never thought that helping her son get this name did not make his son have any amazing literary actions. On the contrary, if he was born, he was in ordinary contact with the barracks. Cao Zhang spent almost all his life in the barracks, and he indeed became an open and honest general in the army and battlefield.
The battlefield outside Hefei City was clamoring for a short period of three days of peace. This time, Cao Zhi no longer insisted on the battle of the plains. He left the left and right cavalry outside Hefei City, looking for opportunities to attack Yuan's army in time, while the remaining large troops retreated to Hefei City and defended the city, waiting for the arrival of subsequent reinforcements and other heavy weapons.
Two days later, the naval army led by Jiang Qin drove into the Hefei waterway and launched an attack on the Yuan army from the waterway. Yuan Shu did not bring the naval army at first, and only some of his supply ships were in the Hefei waterway. After the Cao army's naval army arrived, Yuan Shu suddenly lost control of the water and land entering and leaving Hefei, so he urgently transferred the naval army from Shouchun to join the war.
Then the Yuan army's battle against the Hefei area was lifted away on the plane, and the battle was no longer limited to the merit defense of Hefei's city. In the waters where Hefei converged north and south, battles, ambushings, and fighting can be seen everywhere in the waters, plains, valleys, villages, and hills.
For a time, there were wars in almost the entire Hefei area. Especially after the Cao army's catapult was transported to Hefei, the battle situation was temporarily beneficial to the Cao army, and Yuan army was bombarded to death. But Yuan Shu would not sit idly by like this, Cao Zhi threw the stone bullet into his camp at will. He sent surprise troops and finally intercepted a catapult loaded on a warship in a waterway, moved it back, and asked his subordinates to work with skilled craftsmen. After development, they also copied several. However, the quality was not as good as Cao army. Sometimes they would fall apart when they fired a shot, but finally they had the ability to counterattack the Cao army.
With the limited increase in Cao's army, Yuan Shu actively transferred troops from the rear to Hefei to participate in the war, posing a threat to Cao's army several times. Cao Zhi finally had to use his last killer weapon to bring out the remaining explosives and bombard Yuan's army with a burst of shock, which shocked Yuan Shu and his subordinates for a while.
Given the powerful weapons of Cao's army, Yuan Shu had to slow down his offensive pace and only attacked Cao's army with a harassment.
For a time, inside and outside Hefei City was very lively, and the roar of catapults was going on day and night. In the end, both sides thought it was good, and they did not send troops to attack, but threw stones. The battle of Hefei officially entered a stalemate stage, that is, neither Cao Zhi nor Yuan Shu could deal with each other, and neither could eat each other. In this way, the war between the two sides continued from winter to spring, and lasted for four months.
During this period, Yuan Shu wanted to use the same tricks and frequently sent scouts and tricks to hijack Cao's transportation troops and warehouses, trying to find one or two explosives, go back to study and imitate them. But this time Yuan Shu was not so lucky and could not find any trace of the secret weapon like Cao's army. Of course, he had not found it for a long time, because Cao Zhi was gone, and the last little inventory was used to scare Yuan Shu, so he still came.
Now Ni Heng and others are in Yuzhang and the newly occupied areas of Cao's army, actively looking for raw materials for explosives, hoping to resume production and supply to the army as soon as possible.
Although Cao Zhi used up the explosives and the last threat to Yuan Jun disappeared, he soon did not worry about Yuan Shu's military force being stronger than him, because he soon received reinforcements. Cao Cao learned about the war in Hefei and his father's robbery. In anger, he could not leave the war in Yanzhou, so he sent Le Jin to lead his troops to 20,000 yuan to help Cao Zhi.
When Cao Zhi saw Le Jin, he was shocked and asked him anxiously why he left Anyi and returned to Yanzhou.
Le Jin said that some time ago, when Cao Cao went to various places in Yanzhou and conquered the counties and counties, he wanted to prevent Lu Bu from counterattacking and to divide his troops to fight in various places. So when the troops were very nervous, he temporarily transferred him and some of the garrisons left by his left-behind Anyi to participate in the Yanzhou war. In fact, as Cao Cao expanded his Warring States Period in Yanzhou, his demand for troops had reached a point of desire. He originally had 400,000 or 500,000 troops, but after the rebellion in Yanzhou, half of his left-behind counties and counties followed Lu Bu, Zhang Miao, and Chen Gong betrayed him, which meant that Cao Cao lost half of his property, and this heartache and anger were beyond replenishment. Moreover, in the subsequent pacification process, Cao Cao was mostly fighting with his former subordinates.