Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 599 Occupy
Being surrounded, Zhang Liao's desire to win and his confidence in the cavalry finally burst out...

Zhang Liao's originally unique tactical thinking was completely sublimated into a unique combat skill - Seed of Fear!
It can cause the defeated enemy troops to infect each other with "fear" emotions, leading to a great rout. Like "Fierce Bow" and "Heroic Posture", it is a special combat skill that can affect the soldiers under its command.

After defeating the opponent, using the opponent's own rout to further attack the formation and cause an even greater rout was Zhang Liao's favorite tactic. The first time Bai Tu saw him using this tactic was when he was digging up Weishan Lake. , when pursuing victory.

The reason why Zhang Liao formed such a fighting habit is much earlier. He started to develop it when he merged with the state. It is somewhat similar to Qiang cavalry tactics...

Now it is this tactic that has been completely sublimated into combat skills, giving Zhang Liao a strong comeback ability in a melee with fewer enemies and more enemies!
If we want to talk about a "weakness", it is that the coverage area is not too large. Generally, only 3000 to [-] people is the limit. Even when it is around [-] people, it is the most cost-effective.

In terms of quantity, it is much smaller than Huang Zhong and Sun Ce's combat skills.

And... as a diffusion ability, the more enemies there are, the better the effect. The first few times it spread, there was not much increase, and it was ineffective against elite soldiers.

However, as the number of transmissions increases, the share of "fear" will also increase. Eventually, even the elites will have their morale collapse!

After possessing the "Fear Seed", if Zhang Liao leads a thousand cavalry, if the enemy is [-] fine cavalry, he is actually very confident that he can defeat Zhang Liao. However, if it is [-] miscellaneous soldiers and [-] fine cavalry, he will be able to defeat Zhang Liao. time, a total collapse is more likely.

At this time, although Zhang Liao's cavalry was one of the few independent cavalry in the Chu Kingdom, it was no longer the configuration of the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry.

But something similar to the plate-armored heavy cavalry that was very famous in Chu State a few years ago and is now hated by other princes!

The other princes were gnashing their teeth at this, naturally because they thought of Chu's evil deeds. They regarded the plate armor, which was useless in the face of Qi bullets, crossbows and artillery, as a treasure and bought it back at a huge price...

But in fact, the effect of plate armor heavy cavalry is not very bad. After all, it has a certain chance of defense against infuriating bullets and crossbows, but... the price/performance ratio is too low in comparison!
After the emergence of low-cost infuriating crossbows and artillery that can easily tear apart plate armored cavalry, why do expensive plate armored cavalry still exist?
But for the Chu State, this problem is not a big problem. After all, the Chu State is now rich and powerful, and for other princes, plate armor is still very powerful.

It's just that the plate armor of Zhang Liao's cavalry has been reduced in thickness and defensive area, not for "cost-effectiveness", but to reduce weight.

It is more like an early bulletproof iron vest. Because there is also a bulletproof net inside, the defense is not much worse than the original plate armor, especially against penetrating sharp weapons.

In addition, mainly in terms of weapons, the lances used more often by charge cavalry were completely abandoned, and replaced with short infuriating crossbows and maces...

The reloading action of the short air crossbow is smaller. Although the range is shorter and the power is less, it can fire six shots in a row with one reload!

Yes, it is exactly the same configuration as the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, the predecessor of the Guan Ning Iron Cavalry...

During the battle, first use the fire blunderbuss to gain the upper hand, and then go up and swing the mace. The armor must be strong enough and the mace is heavy enough to crush the enemy!
It is also the cavalry who is most fearless of encirclement-even if the charge space is compressed, it can still crush infantry with hard offensive and defensive indicators.

In the Battle of Nanpi, Zhang Liao also used this characteristic of his elite cavalry and the "seeds of fear" to break through and "smash" the encirclement of the forbidden organization in one fell swoop...

Not only did it break through, but it caused the encircling party to collapse!
As for the other "false cavalry", they covered the output of the artillery and forcibly boarded Nanpi's position...

As a military city, Nanpi's city walls are not square and have only one layer, but are layered on top of each other. There is not only one layer of urn city, but also the walls can be isolated from each other and have a complex structure of internal passages!
However, even so, when the reinforcements outside were defeated, Li Dian who sent troops was also defeated, and a city wall was captured by the enemy as a position, the advantage of the military city was still greatly reduced.

Especially half a day later, when Zhang Liao's army seemed a little weak, Lu Bu's main force had already arrived, and directly took advantage of the situation to stand firm on the city wall, and... had already captured alive those who wanted to escape in the opposite direction and get through in the opposite direction after the defeat of the army. Yu Jin and Li Dian!
Although there is still Le Jin organizing defense in the city, how can he be Lu Bu's opponent when there is no defensive advantage and even military strength is not considered possession?
Soon Nanpi fell completely, especially in the middle of the battle, when Yu Jin was persuaded to surrender - to be precise, he was willing to persuade the still stubborn defenders to surrender for the sake of the Chu army.

Theoretically, Yu Jin is the coach of Bohai County, and Li Dian and Le Jin both control him.

If Yu Jin was simply captured, because Wei had a military code of "ignoring hostages", Le Jin could have declared that Yu Jin's order was invalid.

However, the fighting spirit of the Wei army is also very weak now, and there is a gap in strength, so... without Le Jin's consent, the middle and low-level generals of the Wei army "happily" carried out Yu Jin's order.

This is exactly the purpose of the ban...

He did not surrender to Chu, but was willing to recruit and surrender this part of the Wei army for Chu to avoid meaningless casualties.

That's why he chose to raise this point with Lu Bu when he saw no chance of winning and would only suffer casualties if he continued to fight.

Although to be more serious, Yu Jin just "admitted defeat" and did not surrender to Chu, but Lu Bu naturally had no reason to disagree...

At this point, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao's assault battle was a great success. In three days and four nights starting from the landing, they completely occupied Nanpi!
Not only was the defense line from Nanpi to Yanci not lost, but the navy would soon support Lu Bu and attack Bohai Port again, so that the area from Bohai Port to Nanpi was completely in the hands of Chu.

From the perspective of land warfare, this is deep behind enemy lines. However, from the perspective of naval warfare, Yanci Port and Bohai Port have smooth sea routes with Chu State, so there is no need to worry about logistical supplies and military support.

That is to say, the actual control of the western coastal area of ​​​​Bohai County is similar to the situation in Donglai, Qingzhou. However, the difference from Donglai is that in addition to once again attacking the Bohai Port, the navy also sent a key figure...

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Lu Bu...or the State of Chu announced that Marquis Anwei had "taken office" in Nanpi, and urged the State of Wei to give up Marquis Anwei's Yecheng as soon as possible!
At the same time, Cao Pi, the Marquis of An Wei, also declared to the northern gentry that as the "Marquis of Chu An Wei", he was the real "orthodox". He hoped that the northern gentry would see clearly the formality as soon as possible and cooperate with Nanpi Chu An Wei Marquis...

　Dongdong: I’m so irritated by the heat lately. I’ll get up early to write the next chapter. I’ll update it at noon. T_T
　　
　
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