Chapter 887: Attack
However, the cavalry attacking the city must have a lot of losses, which is also the most depressed place for Zhang Fei, in order to form a cavalry team, Liu Bei has paid a lot of price, and now the cavalry has not played a corresponding role on the battlefield, and there is a loss when attacking the city.
This is not a small blow to the morale of the Qingzhou Army.
The role that cavalry can play in a battle cannot be ignored, and it is basically impossible for foot soldiers to win against cavalry.
However, the performance of the Qingzhou cavalry in this offensive determined that it would be too difficult for the Qingzhou cavalry to get out of the war smoothly, and they would even pay a heavy price in the confrontation.
"Retreat!" Zhang Fei immediately ordered, even if he has more persistence on the battlefield, the role he can play is limited.
It is better to retreat directly, as long as the Qingzhou Army still has an advantage in terms of strength, it will still be able to occupy the advantage in future encounters.
Even if the combat effectiveness of the Xuzhou Army is strong, can it be that under such circumstances, it will not dare to go out of the city to fight against the Qingzhou Army.
The numerical superiority of the Qingzhou Army determines that when the Qingzhou Army appears on the battlefield, it will inevitably have a great impact on the Xuzhou Army.
The numerical superiority of the officers and men in the army can often play a great role in the battle against the enemy, especially when the field is in the front, and the number of non-commissioned officers is of great help to the upcoming victory of the army.
Zhang Fei believed that the Xuzhou army would not dare to pursue at such a time, even if the cavalry of the Qingzhou army suffered a lot of losses when attacking the city, as long as most of the Qingzhou army was still there, it would be easy to attack the city, and the Xuzhou army would still suffer the price of defeat at that time.
In this confrontation, the Xuzhou army wants to get the final victory of the war, in Zhang Fei's opinion, it is absolutely impossible, after the alliance of the princes' army, if even Lu Bu's Xuzhou army can not be defeated, it is the most shocking thing.
It is good for Lu Bu to lead the Xuzhou army to have a dazzling performance on the battlefield, but after the army under the command of the princes is united, it is not weak in strength, and it can even bring heavy losses to the enemy army in one confrontation after another.
Even if the Xuzhou Army can hold out from this confrontation, the role it can play on the battlefield in the future will definitely be weak, because the Xuzhou Army will no longer have the strong strength it used to be.
But when fighting against the Xuzhou army, there is still a lot of caution, who can be sure that the Xuzhou army will not have other means in the war.
Xuzhou has a craftsman's workshop, which is a great attraction for the princes, and it is also a great deterrent.
The things produced by the Xuzhou craftsman's workshop are precious to the princes, and at the same time, they are also of great help to the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Xuzhou army.
Not to mention the rest, it is just a hundred refining blades produced by the craftsman's workshop, how much help will be to the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the army, at this point, Zhang Fei has to admit it, but when the princes break through Xuzhou, these secrets that originally belonged to Lu Bu will be self-defeating, and even more princes will know.
In fact, when all the princes have mastered the secret of the hundred refining blades, although it will be of great help to the improvement of the princes' military strength, it is obviously impossible for the princes to occupy a clear advantage in such a process.
Because the soldiers under the command of other princes, after having a hundred refining blades, can also play a big role in the war, the strength of the enemy army is fierce, is their strength not strong enough?
But when such a secret is only in the hands of Lu Bu, the situation is very different, when the soldiers under Lu Bu attack the enemy, the advantage of the blade can make it easier for the Xuzhou army to win, which is the last thing the princes want to see.
It is best that everyone's strength is equal, so that the war will have more room for speculation, if the strength of the Xuzhou army is getting stronger and stronger, and the enemy army can form a crushing posture on the battlefield, what kind of significance will such an engagement have.
At least the princes don't want to see such a situation, and the current princes are uniting to attack Xuzhou in order to get more benefits from Lu Bu's hands, so that Lu Bu will be defeated in such a confrontation, in this way, it is a better thing for all the princes.
Zhang Fei led the cavalry to evacuate, and after entering the city, the Qingzhou cavalry wanted to leave, but it was not so simple, after entering the city, they were already exposed to the attack range of the Xuzhou army archers.
"Attack!" Zang Ba gave an order, and the archers released the arrows in their hands one after another.
For the enemy army that attacked the city, the soldiers of the Xuzhou army did not have the slightest mercy, in this confrontation the Xuzhou army itself was at a disadvantage, but I didn't expect that Zang Ba could have such a response in the war, and could make the enemy's cavalry pay the price, which was of great significance in the eyes of the soldiers of the Xuzhou army.
The cavalry of the Qingzhou Army before was not less than showing off their might outside the city, if these cavalry were killed, the rest of the war would be easier, when the Qingzhou Army did not have the suppression from the cavalry, they still dared to have the rampant in the past when they fought against the Xuzhou Army.
At present, although there is a certain number of cavalry in the county, but these cavalry are not small compared with the Qingzhou army in terms of quantity, if they are encountered on the battlefield, the cavalry of the Qingzhou army has a numerical advantage, for the cavalry of the Xuzhou army, it will be a nightmare.
When fighting against the enemy, more situations must be taken into account, and the Qingzhou cavalry must have a big gap compared to the Xuzhou cavalry in terms of personal combat effectiveness, but after having an advantage in numbers, the situation on the battlefield may have changed.
As the main general in the army, Zang Ba must be more cautious, and when facing the enemy, try to preserve his own strength to the greatest extent, so that the future confrontation will be smoother.
The previous battle is a good illustration that the Qingzhou Army has a big gap compared to the Xuzhou Army in the war, and Zang Ba can become a general under Lu Bu, and there is naturally no need to say much about his skills, otherwise, even if Zang Ba has a prestige in the land of Lang Evil, it is impossible to get a higher status in the Xuzhou Army.