Chapter 588: Occupy
Under siege, Zhang Liao's desire to win, as well as his confidence in the cavalry, finally burst out......
Originally, Zhang Liao's unique tactical thinking was completely sublimated into a unique combat skill - Fear Seed!
It can make the defeated enemy army infect each other with "fear", and then cause a great rout, and like the "Fierce Bow" and "Heroic Posture", it is a special combat skill that can be applied to the soldiers under his command.
After defeating the opponent, using the opponent's own rout to further impact the formation and cause a greater rout was Zhang Liao's favorite tactic, and the first time Bai Tu saw him use this tactic was when he dug up Weishan Lake and pursued after the victory.
The reason why Zhang Liao formed such combat habits was much earlier, and he began to develop them when he was merging states, and some of them were similar to the tactics of the Qiang cavalry......
Now it is this tactic that has been completely sublimated into a combat skill, which makes Zhang Liao have a strong ability to turn the tables in a melee with fewer enemies!
If you want to talk about "weakness", it is that the coverage is not too large, and generally only two or three thousand people are already the limit, and even when there are about a thousand people, it is the most cost-effective.
In terms of quantity, it is much smaller than Huang Zhong and Sun Ce's combat skills.
Moreover...... As a diffuse ability, the more enemy troops, the better the effect, and the first few times it spread, it didn't increase much, and it was ineffective against elite soldiers.
However, as the number of passes increases, the share of "fear" will also expand, and eventually even the elite will have to collapse in morale!
After having the "Fear Seed", if Zhang Liao leads a thousand cavalry, if the enemy is 3,000 elite cavalry, he is actually very sure that he can defeat Zhang Liao, but if it is 30,000 miscellaneous soldiers and 3,000 elite cavalry, when facing Zhang Liao, it is more likely to completely collapse.
At this time, Zhang Liao's cavalry, although it was one of the few cavalry in the Chu State that formed an independent army, was no longer the configuration of the wolf cavalry of Bingzhou.
It's something like the itchy plate armor that the Chu State was famous for a few years ago and is now hated by other princes!
The other princes gritted their teeth at this, naturally because they thought they had fallen for the evil deeds of the Chu State, and they regarded the useless plate armor in front of the True Qi Bullet Crossbow and artillery as a treasure and bought it back at a great cost......
However, in fact, the effect of plate armor heavy riding is not very bad, after all, there is a certain chance of defense in the face of true qi bullet crossbows, but it is just ...... In comparison, the cost performance is too low!
After the advent of the low-cost True Qi crossbow and artillery that could easily shred the Plate Cavalry, why did the expensive Plate Cavalry still exist?
However, for the Chu State, this problem is not very big, after all, the Chu State is now wealthy, and for the other princes, the plate armor is still very powerful.
It's just that now the plate armor of the cavalry under Zhang Liao has been reduced in thickness and defensive area, not for the sake of "cost performance", but to reduce the weight.
It's more like the initial bulletproof iron vest, because there is also a bulletproof net inside, so the defense is not much worse than the original plate armor, especially against piercing sharp weapons.
In addition, mainly in terms of weapons, the cavalry rifles used more often by the charging cavalry were completely abandoned, and the short true air crossbow and mace were replaced by them......
The short True Qi crossbow has a smaller reloading action, although the range is shorter and the power is less, but it can fire six shots in a row at a time!
That's right, it is a similar configuration to the predecessor of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry......
When fighting, first use the fire gun to get the first move, and then go up to the mace, relying on the armor is hard enough, the mace is heavy enough, and forcibly crush the enemy!
It is also the cavalry that is not afraid of encirclement - even if the charging space is compressed, it can still rely on the hard indicators of attack and defense to crush the infantry.
In the Battle of Nanpi, Zhang Liao also used the characteristics of his elite cavalry and the "Seed of Fear" to break through the encirclement of the forbidden organization in one fell swoop and "smash" it......
It's not just a breakthrough, but a breakout of the encirclement!
As for the other "pseudo-cavalry", they covered the artillery output in it and forcibly boarded the positions of Nanpi......
As a military city, the city wall of Nanpi is not a boxy city with only one layer, but a layered urn city, and the city walls can be isolated from each other, as well as a complex structure of internal passages!
However, even so, when the reinforcements outside collapsed, Li Dian, who sent troops, was also defeated, and the enemy took a city wall as a position, which still greatly reduced the advantage of the military city.
Especially after half a day, when Zhang Liaojun seemed a little weak, Lu Bu's main force had already arrived, and he directly stood on the city wall, and ...... After capturing alive the previous rout, Yu Ban and Li Dian wanted to escape in the opposite direction and get through in confusion!
Although there is still a defense organized by Lejin in the city, how can he be Lu Bu's opponent if he has no defensive advantage and even the troops are not occupied?
Soon Nanpi fell completely, especially in the middle of the battle, Yu Ban was persuaded to surrender - to be precise, he was willing to surrender to the Chu army, persuading the defenders who were still resisting.
Theoretically, Yu Ban is the coach of Bohai County, and Li Dian and Le Jin are both restrained by him.
If Yu Ban was simply captured, because Wei had a military rule of "ignoring hostages", Le Jin could have declared Yu Ban's order invalid.
However, now the fighting spirit of the Wei army is also very weak, and there is a gap in strength, so ...... Without Le Jin's consent, the middle and low-level generals of the Wei army themselves "gladly" carried out Yu Ban's order.
This is precisely the purpose of the ban......
He did not surrender to the state of Chu, but was only willing to recruit this part of the Wei army for the state of Chu to avoid meaningless casualties.
That's why he chose to put this point forward to Lu Bu when he couldn't see the chance of winning and there would only be casualties if he continued to fight.
Although to be more honest, Yu Ban just "admitted defeat" and did not vote for Chu, but Lu Bu naturally had no reason to disagree......
So far, the assault of Lu Bu and Zhang Liao has been a great success, counting from the beginning of the landing, three days and four nights, and they have completely occupied Nanpi!
Not only did the defense line from Nanpi to Yanci not be lost, but soon the navy would respond to Lu Bu and attack Bohai Port again, so that the area from Bohai Port to Nanpi was also completely in the hands of Chu.
From the perspective of land warfare, this is going deep behind enemy lines, but from the perspective of naval warfare, the sea routes between the port of Haji and the Bohai port and the territory of Chu are unimpeded, and there is no need to worry about logistics supply and army support.
That is, the actual control of the western coastal area of Bohai County is similar to the situation in Donglai, Qingzhou, and unlike Donglai, in addition to attacking the Bohai port again, the navy also sent a key person......
On the eighth day of the lunar month, Lu Bu ...... In other words, the State of Chu announced that Marquis An Wei was "going to work" in Nanpi, and urged Wei to give up Marquis Anwei's Yecheng as soon as possible!
At the same time, Cao Pi, the Marquis of Anwei, also declared to the northern scholars that as the "Marquis of Chu'an Wei", he was the real "orthodox", and hoped that the northern scholars would see the form clearly as soon as possible and cooperate with the Marquis of Nanpi Chu'an Wei......