Chen Wu received the battle report sent by Liu Du, saying that he had blocked the reinforcements of Lejin and Xiahoudun, and decided to immediately send troops to Nanjun, and asked the generals: "Who wants to be the vanguard and take Nanjun first?" ”

One person came out in response, and it turned out to be Jiang Qin. Chen Wu said: "You are the vanguard, Gongsun Yang and Liu Shao are the deputy generals, allocate 5,000 elite military horses, and cross the river first." I then led my troops to respond. ”

It is said that Cao Ren is in Nanjun, and Cao Hong is assigned to guard the Yi Tomb (that is, Yiling), thinking that it is the trend of horns. People's Daily: "Jiangdong soldiers have crossed the Han River. ”

Cao Ren saw that the reinforcements in Xiangyang were cut off, and only sighed: "Stick to it and don't fight." ”

The general Niu Jin said excitedly: "If the soldiers come to the city and do not fight, Chen Wu will think that our army is cowardly!" Our army has suffered a new defeat, and it is just time to regain its spirit. A certain is willing to borrow 500 elite soldiers to fight to the death. ”

Cao Ren complied with Niu Jin's wishes and ordered Niu Jin to lead 500 troops to battle. Liu Shao came to greet him, and the two made an appointment to fight, Liu Shao was defeated, and Niu Jin led the army to chase into battle.

Jiang Qin commanded all the troops to come forward together to surround Niu Jin, Niu Jince clashed left and right, and could not rush out.

Cao Ren saw Niu Jin trapped in the city, so he put on his armor and mounted his horse, led hundreds of strong men under his command to ride out of the city, and fought hard to swing his sword into the Jiangdong army. Gongsun Yang led his troops to fight hard, but most of the Jiangdong soldiers were infantry and could not resist the elite cavalry of Cao's army.

Cao Ren entered the battle and rescued Niu Jin. When he looked back, there were still dozens of horsemen in the formation, and he couldn't rush out, so he turned over and fought in to rescue the encirclement. was blocked by Jiang Qin, and Cao Ren and Niu Jin struggled to disperse.

Cao Ren's brother Cao Chun also led the tiger and leopard cavalry to respond, and the two armies fought for a while. How could the Jiangdong army resist the elite tiger and leopard cavalry, and left in defeat, Cao Ren returned victorious.

Jiang Qin was defeated and returned to see Chen Wu. Chen Wu was furious and wanted to engage in military law, and the generals pleaded for Jiang Qin to be exempted.

Chen Wu immediately ordered troops to personally fight Cao Ren. Gan Ning said: "General, don't be anxious. Today, Cao Ren ordered Cao Hong to defend the tomb, which was the trend of horns. A certain is willing to take Yiling with 3,000 elite soldiers, and the general can then take Nanjun. ”

According to Gan Ning's proposal, Chen Wu first taught Gan Ning to lead 3,000 soldiers to attack Yiling. Gan Ning led troops to Yiling, and Cao Hong led his troops to fight with Gan Ning. The two fought for more than 20 years, and Cao Hong was defeated. Gan Ning then captured Yiling.

Gan Ning ordered someone to repay Chen Wu, Chen Wu was overjoyed, and said: "Send a battle letter, I want to fight with Cao Ren tomorrow!" ”

Chen Wu's war letter was issued, and Cao Ren discussed with the generals and said: "Chen Wu has the courage of ten thousand people, if I go to war, I will definitely be defeated." Today, Xiangyang reinforcements are blocked, and Yiling is lost again, so what can I do? ”

Cao Chun said: "Brother, don't worry, there are Chun and the two thousand tigers and leopards under his command, why are you afraid of him Chen Wu?" ”

Cao Hong suggested: "In the coming day, Hong fought in Chen Wudou, and Zixiao and the crossbowmen secretly released cold arrows on the city. As soon as Chen Wu dies, the Jiangdong army will be leaderless and will definitely retreat! ”

Cao Ren followed Cao Hong's advice, and the next day Chen Wu led a large army to the city to scold the battle, thinking that Cao Ren would not fight easily, Chen Wu was ready to attack.

Unexpectedly, the gate of Nanjun was wide open, and Cao Hong led a thousand elite horsemen to meet the battle. Chen Wu personally led his troops to charge the battle with the Heavenly Dragon Halberd, and Cao Hong urged the horse to hold the enemy.

Cao Hong swung his hook sickle and slashed straight at Chen Wu, Chen Wu dodged with his head sideways, Cao Hong collected the knife with a hook, and Chen Wu used his strength to swing away Cao Hong's hook and sickle.

After the battle, Cao Hong was defeated and fled, and Chen Wu chased after him until he reached the city. The bows and crossbows in the city were fired together, and Chen Wu hurriedly used his halberd to open the arrows, although many arrows were knocked down, but two stray arrows still shot over, shooting straight into Chen Wu's right thigh ribs.

Chen Wu endured the pain and urged the horse to hurry away. All the generals went up together and rescued Chen Wu back to the camp, and Chen Wu was very seriously injured.

"Unarmour the General." Gan Ning hurriedly commanded.

Lu Meng shouted: "Medical officer, come and draw arrows for the general." ”

The Jiangdong army camped outside the city, and only waited for Chen Wu's injuries to recover before issuing military orders.

"Hahaha! Zixiao, that Chen Wu was really seriously injured, at this time, our army will attack together, and we will definitely be able to break the Jiangdong Army! Cao Hong walked straight in and said to Cao Ren.

Cao Ren patted his thigh and said, "Okay! Zilian, Zihe, quickly assemble the troops, and go to battle with me! ”

Cao Jun poured out of the nest, and the sergeant flew to report to Chen Wu, and Lu Meng hurriedly said: "General, your arrow wound has not healed, why don't you let Meng supervise the battle?" ”

Chen Wu endured the pain, stood up and said, "This little injury is not in the way!" Take my halberd and prepare my horse for battle! ”

The cavalry of the Cao army rushed straight to the Jiangdong military camp, but the arrows and crossbows in the village were fired together, and the vanguard of the Cao army was frustrated. Chen Wu urged the horses to carry halberds and lure Gan Ning, Jiang Qin and other generals to the front of the battle, inspect the battalions, and motivate the soldiers.

Seeing that Chen Wu was fine, the officers and men of the Jiangdong Army personally supervised the battle, and their morale was immediately boosted. Chen Wuyang pointed at Cao Ren and said with a smile: "Cao Ren, the little overlord of Jiangdong is here!" How dare you come and fight me? ”

Cao Ren was shocked when he saw this, and said to Cao Chun and Cao Hong: "Chen Wubing is a lot of generals, and it is useless to defend the southern county today, so you can only retreat!" ”

Cao's army then retreated to Fancheng, Chen Wu led his army into Jiangling City, and Nanjun was occupied by Jiangdong. Chen Wu ordered someone to send the good news to Han Hao, and Han Hao appointed Chen Wu as the Taishou of Nanjun to guard Jiangling.

After Chen Wu occupied Jiangling, he was about to send Gan Ning, Lü Meng, and Jiang Qin to lead their armies into the rest of the counties in Nanjun, when suddenly someone reported that Han Hao had sent people.

Chen Wu asked his subordinates to invite the envoy in, and the envoy said: "General Zhennan surrounded Hexi, tired of fighting and not winning a victory, specially ordered the general to withdraw the army, and sent troops to Heqi to help." ”

Chen Wu had no choice but to return to Chaisang to recuperate, and ordered Jiang Qin to lead the soldiers of the warship to listen to Han Hao's call.

It turned out that when Chen Wu attacked Nanjun, Han Hao led the army to personally attack Hefei, wanting to open up the western and northern fronts. When Hefei Taishou was appointed by Cao Cao to assassinate Liu Fu in Yangzhou, Han Hao surrounded Hefei, and sent Zhang Zhao to attack Dangtu in Jiujiang, but Zhang Zhao's attack failed.

After Cao Cao received the news of Liu Fu's request for help, he sent the general Zhang Xi to lead his troops to relieve the siege. Han Hao stepped up the offensive, but Hefei City was still unable to capture for a long time.

Han Hao learned that Cao Jun's reinforcements had arrived, and wanted to lead the light cavalry to assault in person, at this time Zhang Hongjin admonished: "The husband and the soldier are murder weapons, and the fighters are also in danger." Today, our army is in a strong and strong position, and suddenly there is a violent battle, and the officers and men of the three armies are all chilling. Although it is possible to kill the enemy general, seize the enemy flag, and shock the enemy field, this is the task of the partial general, not the main general. I hope that General Zhennan can restrain the courage of Ben and Yu, and cherish the strategy of the overlord. ”

Han Hao then gave up his plan to assault Cao Cao's reinforcements. After a month or two of attack, the city wall was about to collapse due to continuous rain, so the defenders of the city filled the city wall with grass and palm leaves, and lit a fire to illuminate the outside of the city at night to observe the movement of the Jiangdong army as a precaution.

On the other hand, Zhang Xi's reinforcements had not yet arrived, so he didn't drive Jiang Ji to offer a plan to Liu Fu, the assassin: "You can falsely claim that 40,000 reinforcements have arrived in Yanlou, send the master to pretend to welcome Zhang Xi, and order the three guards to take advantage of the night to bring the letter out of the city, pretending to secretly return to the city......"

On this night, the north gate of Hefei City suddenly opened, and the Jiangdong Army reported to Han Hao after discovering it, and Han Hao taught and waited. When the guards in the city returned, the Jiangdong army killed them together, one of them fought desperately to return to the city, but the other two were captured by the Jiangdong army.

"From then on, a letter was found on the two of them." The searching soldier handed the letter to Han Hao.

Han Hao's face changed greatly after reading the letter, the soldiers and horses sent by Chen Wu had not yet arrived, and there were only 20,000 horses under his command, most of them were still infantry, and they were already tired of attacking the city for days. And Cao's army had 40,000 cavalry to rescue, so Han Hao had no choice but to burn the siege equipment and lead the army to retreat.

So the siege of Hefei was solved. Liu Fu was seriously ill at this time and died soon after. At this time, it was March of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, and Cai Mao had also died of plague before.

Cao Cao returned to his hometown of Qian County, built light boats, and governed the navy. In July, Cao Cao conquered Han Hao, counterattacked Lujiang County, entered Huai from the whirlpool, and exited the river, and the army was first stationed in Hefei.

Chen Wu's injury was not yet fully healed, and he couldn't come to support Han Hao in person. Han Hao learned that Cao Cao personally led a large army to come, and hurriedly discussed with the generals, and Zhang Zhao, Chen Qun and others had no good way to break the enemy.

Hu Buqi sent people to report that Mei Cheng, Mei Gan and others, who were entrenched in the northern counties of Lujiang County, rebelled. Han Hao was overjoyed and ordered: "Ordered Bu Qi to go to see Mei Cheng and ask him to attack Cao Cao together." ”

Unexpectedly, Cao Cao sent troops very quickly, saying that Cao Cao Cao arrived. Before Buqi arrived, Cao Cao's army had already entered Chaohu Lake first and broke through the nest. Cao Cao ordered the leading army Xiahou to supervise the generals to attack Lei Xu, the Huwei general Yu Ban, the Weilu general Zang Ba and others to crusade against Mei Cheng, and the Dangkou general Zhang Liao and the Pingdi general Zhang He to crusade against Mei Qian.

Cao Cao valued Zang Ba very much, so he said to him: "Xuan Gao, Han Hao's generation is not your opponent. I will send you to Anhui City today to conquer Lu Fan, so that Han Hao will not be able to save Mei Qian. Are you sure? ”

I saw Zang Ba bow his hand and say: "The prime minister is relieved, and he will not disgrace his mission!" ”