When Liu Cong heard that Gan Ning had defeated more than 5,000 Cao Cao's naval army on the Han River and captured him alive, he almost burst out laughing.

It turned out that Cao Cao changed his attack strategy during the day and began to throw a large number of *** at the city wall of Fancheng, which made the soldiers stationed in Fancheng busy for a while. Hundreds of people were injured by the fire, more than 20 people have died, while most of the wooden sheds on the city walls have been destroyed, more than 20 of the 50 bed crossbows that have not been transferred have been ignited, and more than 10 have lost their combat effectiveness if they have not been able to extinguish the fire in time.

Of course, the Cao army also paid a heavy price, the four catapults on the city wall of Liu Cong successfully destroyed a Cao army catapult, and the results of the catapults in the urn city were even more brilliant, and the stones thrown smashed a Cao army catapult, and thousands of casualties. and successfully curbed Cao Cao's possible close-range wall battles.

Judging from the tactics of Cao's army, Cao Cao urgently needed a victory to boost morale, and if he could destroy the city tower, or break through even a small section of the city wall, it would be of no small use.

This is also what Liu Cong is worried about, the reason for the stalemate in the current situation, in addition to the defensive deployment of his own side, the low morale of Cao's army is also a major reason, in this case, Cao Cao did not dare to rashly launch a large-scale battle against the wall. If you don't succeed in one blow, it can lead to a collapse situation.

And the only thing that can cause trouble for Liu Cong at the moment is the catapult.

Although it does not have the direct lethality of stones, it cannot directly damage the castle walls, but it can destroy the facilities on the castle walls.

"Well done Xingba! Well done! Liu Cong is not stingy with his praise at all.

The generals stationed in Fancheng were also sincerely happy, such a blow might be fatal to Cao's army.

The results of the battle between the two armies ruthlessly told Cao Cao that his so-called naval army was a little doll playing with marbles in front of the Jingzhou naval army, and he didn't expect to break through from the waterway!

Of course, Cao Cao didn't know the fate of Yu Ban yet, so the land attack still did not stop.

On the second day of Gan Ning's capture of the ban, Liu Cong was sitting upright in the county government and meditating on how to quickly repel Cao Cao. After all, now Cai Mao's move is undecided, and he sent an envoy to ask Zhou Yu to send troops to Xiakou.

If he and Cao Cao continue to consume like this, he can't guarantee what actions Cai Mao and Zhou Yu will make, and with the increase of Cao Cao's catapults, the urn city wall of Fancheng will be destroyed sooner or later. Although Cao's morale was low, the soldiers were still confident in their own safety, especially the mid-level generals and above, who knew the difficulties they faced.

But most people still choose to believe in Cao Cao, compared to the battle of Guandu, today's difficulties are nothing at all, but the unnatural deaths in the barracks these days are like mountains that overwhelm the officers and soldiers of the whole army.

"Lord, lord......"

"Jade, what's the matter?" Seeing that Liu Yin was out of breath, Liu Cong's brows tightened. This captain of his own guard, who has been following him for more than two years, has gradually learned Liu Cong's style of shaking An Rushan, and yesterday this Gangshui army won a big victory, right?

"Lord, it's not good!"

"Speak slowly!"

"Cao Jun...... Cao Jun threw many dead people onto the city walls, and some even entered the urn city! ”

"What?"

Liu Cong immediately stood up from his position, Cao Cao can be described as a military expert, using the corpses of his soldiers as cannonballs? But no general knowledgeable general can do it, unless ......

Conspiracy! It must be a conspiracy!!

"Jade, quickly order the soldiers stationed to stay away from those corpses, no! Quickly send someone to ask Zhang Changsha to check, no one is allowed to approach the corpse before Zhang Changsha arrives! ”

Seeing that Liu Cong was as serious as he had never been, Liu Yin immediately knew the seriousness of the situation.

Liu Cong didn't care about Liu Yin, and immediately rode to the city gate, along the way Liu Cong kept thinking about the same question, could it be that the epidemic that defeated Cao Cao broke out in the legend? If that were the case, Cao Cao's numerical advantage would be a burden in a matter of days, and the more concentrated the population, the easier it would be for the disease to spread.

Moreover, Cao Jun is sleeping in the open, and the conditions are much worse than those of Fancheng, and the resistance of the soldiers will definitely be weak!

When Liu Cong came to the city gate, some soldiers were pointing around the corpses, and when he saw this, Liu Cong immediately shouted: "Everyone stay away from those corpses!" Those who have been in close contact with the corpse will gather immediately! ”

The soldiers didn't know what was going on, and some bold people wanted to come forward to check, but they were stunned on the spot when Liu Cong shouted like this.

Liu Cong immediately turned over, dismounted, and ran towards the city tower.

"Lord...... Since this morning, corpses have been thrown in, and there are more outside the walls! Wen Ping greeted him and said.

"This is Cao Cao's conspiracy! Wei Yan, lead people to take people who have been in contact with the corpse to the city for quarantine immediately, and no one is allowed to touch the corpse until the medical officer arrives! ”

"Yes!" Wei Yan hadn't heard Liu Cong call his name for many years, which shows how serious the situation is.

Seeing Liu Cong's order, the soldiers began to realize that this might really be the enemy's conspiracy, and they didn't understand what the conspiracy was.

Soon Zhang Zhongjing and many medical officers came to the inner city gate under the leadership of Liu Yin.

Soon a medical officer carried several corpses to the city gates.

Zhang Zhongjing looked around the corpse for a long time, and then looked at several other corpses, and sighed vigorously.

The medical officers next to him immediately had serious faces.

When Liu Cong saw this scene, he immediately understood that his guess was right, and immediately said to Wen Ping: "You continue to command the battle, and I will deal with this!" ”

Then he ran down the city wall and came to Zhang Zhongjing and asked, "Sir, but the plague?" ”

Zhang Zhongjing nodded vigorously.

"Damn!" Liu Cong clasped his hands tightly, scolded the eighteenth generation of Cao Cao's ancestors in his heart, and then asked, "Sir, is there a way to control it?" ”

"There should be no problem, but if anyone in the army has symptoms, they need to be isolated immediately!"

"Thank you, sir, I will immediately send more people to cooperate with you."

Zhang Zhongjing had not seen this kind of disease for a long time since he opened a medical center with Liu Cong in Jiangling, and this time he was invited to the front line in Fancheng, but Zhang Zhongjing had hundreds of medical officers under him, so he basically didn't need to do it.

But after seeing these corpses, he also felt the seriousness of the matter: "General Liu, I will prescribe a recipe for the soldiers to boil soup and drink it to prevent it." ”

"Well, I have ordered the soldiers who have come into contact with the corpses today to be brought to the city, and you will have to bother to observe them for a few days in the next few days."

"It should be, it should be! These corpses should be burned as soon as possible, or else ......"

Without waiting for Zhang Zhongjing to finish speaking, Liu Cong immediately beckoned and asked Liu Yin to pass the order and prepare a fire frame to burn the corpse in a centralized manner.

When Zhang Zhongjing and the others left, Wen Ping and other generals understood what the conspiracy Liu Cong was talking about, it turned out that Cao Jun wanted to spread the disease to the soldiers and people of Fancheng. When they learned that Zhang Zhongjing was able to control the spread of the disease, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Liu Cong thought of another question, since Cao Cao made this decision, it means that the disease in Cao Jun's military camp has reached an uncontrollable level, otherwise it is impossible to throw the corpse over, which is definitely good news for the defenders of Fancheng.

If it goes on, Cao Cao is definitely no better than Liu Cong, even if the same speed of transmission, Liu Cong has good medical and accommodation conditions in the city, it is much easier to treat the sick and control the spread of the disease than Cao Jun who sleeps in the wild.

After dinner, Liu Cong immediately gathered all the generals.

"Tomorrow morning, the third watch will make dinner, and all the four watches will be assembled, and follow me out of the city to fight the enemy!"

As soon as the order was issued, the generals were in an uproar! Although they all wanted to lead their troops to kill, they were all persuaded by Liu Cong, who repeatedly warned them that Cao's army was strong and the Jingzhou soldiers could not afford to be injured.

But now, Liu Cong actually wants to personally lead the troops to kill?

"My lord...... the walls of Fancheng are still strong, why should I rush to fight a decisive battle with Cao Jun?" Wei Yan asked on the side, before the war, he was the most impulsive, and he couldn't wait to lead everyone to fight to the death with Cao Cao in the suburbs of Xinye, after a few days of observation, he gradually understood the reason for not being able to hold on.

At present, the consumption of Cao's army is significantly higher than that of the defenders of Fancheng, and Liu Cong proposed to go out of the city to fight at this time, and many generals expressed puzzlement.

Liu Cong didn't explain them one by one, but just told the generals to keep this secret until they left the city.

Liu Pan and Huang Zhong also received orders, and they and the cavalry, who had stopped harassing tactics, finally got a rare opportunity to rest. Now that Liu Cong wants to go out of the city to fight, he naturally can't leave them behind.

"Old General Huang, you go to the treasury later to get the armor and distribute it to everyone."