After the generals in the army heard Cao Cao's confident words, they also talked a lot, when they fought with Zhou Yu, Cao Jun did suffer a lot of losses, but as long as Xiling was broken, it was Zhou Yu's burial place, no matter how elite the Jiangdong Army was, when they met Cao Jun on the frontal battlefield, there was only defeat, and the enemy commander was injured, and there was nothing more exciting than this news.

Especially when attacking the city, the generals in the army have some clear feelings, although the enemy's defense is tenacious, but there are not too many rules, in the face of the attack of their own army, often by virtue of the numerical advantage to win, so that if it continues, Xiling will inevitably be breached, as long as their own soldiers can gain a firm foothold on the city wall, it is extremely simple to defeat the Jiangdong army, such confidence, the generals in the Cao army still have.

Some strategists even began to congratulate Cao Cao in advance, after capturing Jingzhou, Cao Cao's strength will be greatly improved, and he will have a greater foundation when he fights against Lu Bu.

Cao Cao's advisers and generals still have confidence in Cao Cao's army to win victory when he competes with Lu Bu, especially the generals who have followed Cao Cao for many years, and they have witnessed Cao Cao's journey all the way, no matter how difficult things he faced, Cao Cao always had some open-mindedness, which alone is not something that ordinary monarchs can have.

Cao Cao was very happy after receiving the compliment, and discussed with the generals of the army the specific matters of attacking Xiling, and his own army had a thunderbolt as a cover when attacking, which could avoid the death and injury of the soldiers in the army during the siege to a greater extent.

At the time of the second watch, Cao's military camp had quieted down, and after the news that Zhou Yu would die soon after his injury spread in the army, the excitement of the officers and men in the army could be imagined.

Zhou Tai led a thousand cavalry to quietly open the city gate and walked out, the horse's hooves were wrapped with cotton cloth, so that the war horse would not alarm the enemy when walking, and after the thousand cavalry, it was two thousand heavy armor soldiers led by Cheng Pu, that is, the famous Jiefu army in the Jiangdong Army.

The Liberation Army was established by Sun Ce in order to fight against the elite team of the princes in the future war, known as invincible, able to solve difficulties, and was the most elite infantry force in the Jiangdong Army.

This was the first time that the Jiangdong Army had resisted on the battlefield since the Cao army attacked Xiling.

Raid the enemy, do not need too many soldiers, like Zhuge Liang in the raid on the Chang'an army, the reason why so many troops were used, is because of the lack of elite in the Yizhou army at that time, the surprise attack is about surprise, the more people, the easier it is to be exposed on the battlefield, and the sudden attack in the middle of the night, the enemy is defenseless, can cause the greatest chaos to the enemy, the enemy is chaotic, is the opportunity to raid one side.

There was a team of assassins in the Cao army, and there was also such a team in the Jiangdong army, which was also inspired by Lu Bu on the battlefield of Huguan, Sun Ce naturally would not fall behind in this matter, and now this force was in Xiling City to help Zhou Yu fight against the Cao army.

In terms of the elite level of assassins, the most powerful is the assassins under Lu Bu, which the princes admit, but in the face of the assassins under Lu Bu, if the princes do not have the ability to defend themselves, they will be in a more passive position, and it is still necessary to train an assassin belonging to them.

Before the army was dispatched, the Assassin team in the Jiangdong Army had already been dispatched, and their main task was to cut off the enemy sentries on the battlefield and make more preparations for the surprise attack on the enemy army.

Cao Jun gained advantages on the battlefield one after another, and the commander of the Jiangdong Army, Zhou Yu, was injured, so that the soldiers in the army were inevitably a little lax, since entering the battlefield in Jingzhou, the soldiers in the army have always been nervous, no one wants to lose their lives on such a battlefield, and the defense of the army is required to be strict, not to give the enemy a chance to take advantage of.

Looking at the yawning soldiers above the camp, the assassins in the night cleared the obstacles outside the camp at great speed.

Zhou Tai ordered his cavalry to remove the cotton cloth from the horse's hooves to prevent the cavalry from causing unnecessary damage when charging, which was only five hundred steps away from Cao's camp, and Cao's camp in the dark was like a behemoth.

Zhou Tainai is a famous general in the Jiangdong army, naturally he will not be afraid of the Cao army, he has great expectations for this raid, this is the first time the Jiangdong army has shot for this period of time, he wants to give the Cao army a hard lesson, he has not forgotten his mission, after rushing into the Cao army camp, as much as possible to cause chaos in the Cao army camp, burn the enemy's thunderbolts, so that the Cao army's offensive can be weakened, at this time the moat has been filled, if Cao Cao delays the time and wait for the army to build enough thunderbolts, it will definitely affect the siege, The daily consumption of grain and grass by an army of 100,000 is not a small amount.

If the enemy army is chaotic, it can ensure the safety of its own cavalry to a greater extent, and in such a late night, if there is sudden chaos among the enemy army, it will have a great impact, and it is normal for the officers and men in the army to do some unbelievable things in panic.

The success of the surprise attack is of great significance to the current Jiangdong Army, the Cao army is only defending the Jiangdong Army, and the army cannot do more on the battlefield, so that the officers and men in the army have no greater expectations for this battle, and victory can make the morale of the soldiers in the army high.

After getting the news, Zhou Tai waved the long knife in his hand, and thousands of cavalry rushed towards Cao's camp.

The momentum of the cavalry charging alarmed the Cao soldiers above the camp, but when they saw the shadowy figure of the cavalry through the firelight, they just rang the gong in their hands, and what was ushered in was the dense arrows of the Jiangdong cavalry.

After the Cao soldiers above the camp were shot, the assassins of the Jiangdong Army rushed forward to open the gate of the wall, and then Zhou Tai led the cavalry into the Cao army.

This raid exceeded Cao Jun's expectations, the news of Zhou Yu's injury had just spread in the army, who would have thought that the Jiangdong Army would choose to raid at such a time, and the changes in the situation on the battlefield made it a little difficult for the Cao army officers and soldiers to accept, and the Jiangdong Army was about to fail.

The surprise attack plunged the Cao army camp into chaos, and the torches set fire to the Cao army's camp tent, and under the firelight, the cavalry of the Jiangdong Army was even more terrible in the hearts of the Cao soldiers.

(End of chapter)