"Huh?" Huang Zhong couldn't believe his ears, all the cavalry were nearly 4,000 people, and the 4,000 sets of armor from Liu Cong were about the same to make 4,000 helmets, and the armor was not so easy.

"It's composite leather armor."

"Oh." This time, Huang Zhong understood, originally, armor was not popular among middle and lower-level officers, and it was a big deal to arm 4,000 cavalry at once.

"Brother Cong, General Huang, the cavalry is enough to rest, tomorrow early morning will be the main force to attack the Cao camp, but in order to avoid alarming the enemy, the cavalry must go out of the city at the end, and when you are assembled, you will immediately attack!"

Liu Pan and Huang Zhong were very excited, and with four thousand cavalry, Liu Cong actually prepared four thousand sets of soft armor. With these soft armors, and the fact that most of them had helmets before, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry team will be instantly enhanced.

In fact, this is almost all of Liu Cong's family background, which is still what Zhuge Liang has asked the craftsmen to keep making in the past three years, and it has been popularized to officers above the military marquis level in the past.

Even sent troops to ambush Cao Ren and pursue Xiahoudun, Liu Cong was reluctant to take it out. Good steel is used on the blade, and the 4,000 cavalry led by Liu Pan can be said to be more proficient in the combination of men and horses after several days of training, and with soft armor with iron plates, as the vanguard of the raid on Cao's army, I hope to bring a big gift to Cao Cao.

Later, Liu Cong asked Liu Yin to send an order to Gan Ning, informing the defenders of Fancheng of their actions, asking him to lead half of the naval army to cooperate with the infantry cavalry, and also specially instructed Jiang Qin to participate in the battle.

Speaking of Cao Ying, Cao Cao only came to the conclusion that the entire army was destroyed after nightfall.

Such a news was tightly sealed by Cao Cao, but the soldiers were not fools, Cao Cao had previously made a high-profile announcement in the ban to command the naval army, and now there is no return to the ban, less than three hours, most of the soldiers of the Cao army knew the news of the defeat of the ban.

Cao Cao was also at a loss, so he could only urge Liu Ye to continue to build catapults, in order to quickly destroy the defenses of the walls of Fancheng, and then use the advantage of troops to launch a strong attack on Fancheng.

The next day, the Cao army camp was silent, and when everyone was still asleep, Liu Cong had gathered 25,000 people, including 4,000 fully armed cavalry, and the Cao army camp was only two miles away from Fancheng, so it didn't take long for Liu Cong to lead the troops to appear in front of Cao Ying.

Liu Pan and Huang Zhong took the lead this time. In the past, they led the cavalry to harass, but Liu Cong repeatedly ordered to protect the soldiers. This time there were infantry on either side, and Liu Cong's order was only to kill as many enemies as possible.

Although Liu Cong's dispatch alarmed the Cao army, when thousands of cavalry rushed into the camp, the Cao army did not even gather 4,000 people, and soon more than 20,000 infantry also entered the Cao camp.

More than 20,000 soldiers have been surrounded and attacked by Cao Cao for more than half a month, and they can't hold it anymore, and now they are like tigers out of the cage.

Most of the poor Cao soldiers were still awakened by the screams while they were still asleep, and when they understood that the enemy had attacked the camp, they thought that Liu Pan and Huang Zhong had disappeared a few days ago.

Even Zhang Liao, the former commander of the army, thought that this was another harassment tactic, and while wearing armor, he appealed to all the soldiers not to panic.

But soon they paid the price for their sluggishness.

I trained in Gangneung for three years, but I had a very enjoyable time when I rescued Jiangxia.

Most of today's enemies are in a hurry, and this has given the officers and men a good opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

When Zhang Liao found out that something was wrong, he immediately sent someone to report to Cao Cao.

Zhang Liao's front army headquarters was less than 15,000 people, and it quickly collapsed backwards under the surprise attack of Liu Cong and others, and the troops behind did not know what was happening in front of them.

When Cao Cao received Zhang Liao's report, he didn't even have time to command the crowd before he found that the enemy army had broken through the front army and killed him.

Originally, Cao Cao couldn't hold on, and the soldiers in the army died mysteriously for several days in a row, and the experienced strategists immediately judged the plague. Such a contingent of more than 100,000 people, highly concentrated, would be devastating to the troops once it spread.

Cao Cao once again had the idea of retiring from the army, but he just wanted to make Liu Cong often suffer when the disease broke out.

I didn't expect this kid to decide to be smart, but it was these corpses that made Liu Cong smell the fighter!

At this time, Cao Cao was still in the mood to resist, and his morale had been very low for several months, coupled with the successive failures of Cao Ren, Xiahoudun, Yu Ban and others, the main force did not take advantage of the siege of the city at all. Morale plummeted.

The plague that had begun a few days earlier had caused panic throughout the barracks. At this time, even if you gather people, you are no match for the enemy at all. So Cao Cao's first thought was to cross the White River and return to Xinye as soon as possible! Even if many generals under his command gathered many warriors, Cao Cao's first order was to cross the river, cross the river! It's not that Cao Cao is timid, according to his understanding of Liu Cong, if he is not sure, this kid will never take the initiative.

There were 60,000 water infantry near Xiangyang at the time of the previous intelligence, I don't know how many were brought out this time, if this kid was all on the line, even if the two sides set up to fight Cao Cao, they might not be able to do it, not to mention the outbreak of disease and low morale!

The coach is like this, and his subordinates are even more embarrassed.

Cao Cao is okay, there are guards, and other fierce generals will automatically look for the lord on the battlefield and protect him.

Those middle- and lower-level officials have no control over their subordinates at all.

Liu Cong's troops drove all the way in!

As Liu Cong had predicted, at least one-fifth of the people in Cao's camp were sick and unable to take up arms to resist when they saw the enemy approaching. Those who were physically stronger, barely taking up arms, faced the jackal-like enemy army, and did not last long before fleeing in disarray.

The barracks of more than 100,000 people are like being dropped into a nuclear bomb, and the atmosphere spreads faster than the plague! Some of the quick-reacting ones rushed to the White River at the first time, knowing that only by crossing the White River and returning to Xinye City could they save their lives!

Then they didn't know that Liu Cong's pursuit might not kill them, but Gan Ning, who was stationed in Baihe and had been waiting for a long time, would not be released easily.

Gan Ning was excited from the moment he learned that Liu Cong was going to take the initiative! Gan Ning has an indescribable trust in Liu Cong, and since Liu Cong appeared on the battlefield, it has basically been an overwhelming victory.

Bringing 10,000 people to block the White River is not a difficult task for Gan Ning, and killing as many enemies as possible is the right way!

Cao Cao's prediction was good, this time, Liu Cong even dispatched the navy, in order to defeat Cao Cao in one fell swoop, kill as many Cao troops as possible, only by beating Cao Cao pain, he can have a few years of peace in Jingzhou.

The so-called taking advantage of your illness will kill you!

God-given opportunity, of course Liu Cong refused to let it go.

On the other hand, Cao Jun, the tragic situation can be imagined, after being harassed for dozens of days in a row, these soldiers have not rested well, so as soon as the disease comes, a large number of people will fall. And Liu Cong chose to attack in the early morning, and Cao Jun was woken up one by one.

Those who were shot by stray arrows were a few, those who were trampled by their own people were the majority, and those who were not injured had only one destination in their hearts: Shinno!

The pursuit of 20,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry was already very fatal, and the water army that appeared on the White River made some of the Cao troops not even dare to go down the river and gave up escaping, and the water was already afraid of them.

This massacre continued until most of the remaining Cao army crossed the White River.

Although a small number of Cao soldiers insisted on resisting, most of them chose to flee, and some went to see Guo Jia in their sleep.

Liu Cong roughly estimated that his subordinates killed at least 20,000 Cao soldiers, at least 10,000 were trampled to death by their companions, and nearly 10,000 were intercepted and killed by Gan Ning and others in Baihe. There are countless injuries on the body!

And Liu Cong's side also paid more than 5,000 casualties. Fortunately, some of the wounded soldiers were able to receive good medical treatment after returning to Fancheng.

Looking at Cao Cao and tens of thousands of Cao troops who fled in embarrassment, Liu Cong ordered the troops to be collected and returned to Fancheng.

Once Cao's army entered Xinye City, it was unrealistic to attack the city with 20,000 men.

If you want to summarize this point today, it should be said that Cao Cao was hit hard, but it is far from the point of defeating Cao Cao.

First, Liu Cong does not have so many troops to do this, and second, the north now needs a strong person to control. Therefore, even if Liu Cong and Cao Cao's military forces were reversed, Liu Cong would not get rid of Cao Cao when his strength was not enough to dominate the world.

At this time, if Cao Cao and Liu Bei are erased from history by themselves, not only will the historical trajectory be greatly reduced.

The princes in the north will soon become independent, and even Cao Cao will be torn apart, and it is the common people who will suffer, but Liu Cong will not be able to reap these fruits. It's just about making wedding dresses for others.

And Cao Cao fell, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu must take advantage of the situation!

Whether in terms of strategy or strength, Liu Cong can only hurt Cao Cao, not Cao Cao.

The first thing he did after returning to Fancheng was to repair the city walls to prevent Cao Cao from coming back!