I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 335 God Arm Battalion

In terms of military ability, Huang Zhong really has nothing to say. After all, he also served in Xianglinying in the past, and later followed Liu Jian to conquer the Yellow Turban Army. In commanding troops and mobilizing soldiers, he is no worse than the leaders in the north.

However, Tunqu in Youzhou is different from the south after all. Although military academies can use soldiers, the methods of using soldiers in the two regions are still very different.

When Huang Zhong was in Xianglinying, his opponents were mainly Nichinan rebels, or Shanyue rebels. There, there were barren hills everywhere, the weather was sultry, and there were many poisonous insects.

In those years, Huang Zhong and his soldiers had indeed endured many years of hard work. Once there was a war, the soldiers of the three armies had to go into the mountains on foot to search for traces of the bandits.

In the mountains and forests, if you are not careful, you will be bitten by poisonous insects and snakes, and you have to face hidden beasts. Sometimes the mountains are too rugged, and you have to be careful of falling into the mountain stream, being ambushed by the enemy, and the huge risk of getting lost. .

So, regardless of the current stage, the soldiers in the north of the Han Dynasty are more powerful than those in the south, but in fact, the suffering and endurance of the soldiers in the south are really not the same as those in the north. The soldiers can be compared.

Therefore, as a general from the south, Huang Zhong was relatively adaptable to the army in the north.

However, for Huang Zhong at present, he still has a lame leg.

That is Huang Zhong is not good at cavalry tactics.

Although he has been in the army for many years, but in the battle of Xianglinying, all he accumulated is the experience of commanding infantry in mountain warfare.

Even after he arrived in Luoyang City as Sima of Yueqiying, he didn't make much progress.

Although the Yueqi Camp is called the Yueqi Camp, the time to practice cavalry tactics is limited, and Huang Zhong is only a Sima in the camp, and is not in charge of the training of the entire Yueqi Camp. Wei Jingji, listen to the propaganda.

There were more than 100 Sima in the Yueqi Battalion, not any Sima had the time to learn the cavalry tactics of the Han Dynasty thoroughly, and Huang Zhong had no such opportunity in Luoyang in terms of his qualifications at the time.

Therefore, this time when fighting against Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun and others in the north, although Huang Zhong recruited some elite cavalry with the help of Liu's wealth, he rarely used them.

Regardless of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, Qiu Liju, as the leader of Wuhuan in western Liaoning, is not comparable to ordinary people in the use of cavalry.

If the cavalry confronted the cavalry head-on, Huang Zhong estimated that he had no chance of winning at all.

In Youzhou, the south of Yuyang County, the south of Lulongsai, the west of Liaoxi and the west of Youbeiping County—there are large tracts of plains without mountains. Fighting in these areas is extremely unfavorable for Huang Zhong.

This is also an important reason why Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun, Qiu Liju and others did not take Huang Zhong seriously in the beginning.

However, for this point, Huang Zhong had already made preparations in the early years.

When he first arrived in Youzhou, he also talked to Jian Yong and Liu Chi. As a precaution, he hoped that Jian Yong and the Liu family of Zhuojun could give him more support and help him recruit and train a team of surprise soldiers.

Huang Zhong is Liu Jian's military agent in Youzhou, and Jian Yong and Liu Chi will naturally not reject him.

As long as it is Huang Zhong's request, they will fully meet it.

Therefore, under the coordination of Jian Yong, and with the support of the Liu family in Zhuojun and the Hebei Chamber of Commerce and Trade, Huang Zhong organized an elite army in Zhuojun with bows and crossbows as the mainstay.

The soldiers of this army are all strong and strong men selected from the Liu family of Zhuo County and the several Youzhou clans who have been friends with the Liu family of Zhuo County over the years.

For a long time, they have been trained under Huang Zhong's hands. The main project is archery and crossbow battle formation.

Drilling cavalry may not be Huang Zhongzhi's forte, but training the army of bows and crossbows, and at the same time using various bows and crossbows on different occasions, is Huang Zhong's greatest advantage.

Using one's own strengths to fight against the opponent's weaknesses, this is what a general who is good at judging the situation should do.

Among the five battalions of the Northern Army, there used to be a battalion that was good at bows and crossbows. Its name was "Shesheng".

The [-] crossbowmen that Huang Zhong personally practiced in Youzhou were named the Shenarm Battalion.

Read these three characters, the meaning is self-evident.

In the two battles with Qiu Liju, Huang Zhong defeated Qiu Liju's Wuhuan Tuqi with the help of eight hundred soldiers.

During the battle with Huang Zhong, Qiu Liju didn't investigate Huang Zhong's soldiers beforehand, and because of the strength of Wuhuan Tuqi, he never put Huang Zhong in his eyes.

As a result, Qiu Liju was led into Pinggu in the northeast of Jixian County by Huang Zhong's arrogant strategy, and he was smashed with the magic arm battalion, causing countless deaths and injuries to the Wuhuan Tuqi under him.

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After suffering losses at the hands of Huang Zhong, Qiu Liju temporarily garrisoned his soldiers and horses in Feiru, and sent a large number of Wuhuan soldiers to the territory of Youzhou to help in the battle.

However, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun changed their tactics. They sent people to the Gongsun clan in the west of Liaoxi, hoping to win over the Gongsun clan to join them in defeating Huang Zhong and sharing the land of Youzhou.

But in fact, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun were a little naive.

The father-in-law of the Gongsun family in western Liaoning is not Gongsun Zan at present.

But even if it wasn't him, in recent years, the Gongsun family in western Liaoning has joined the Hebei Chamber of Commerce and Industry,

As Liu Jian's important partner in the local area, the Gongsun family has gained a lot of benefits over the years. It is impossible for them to conspire with Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun to rebel during this period of time, and lose the family benefits they have hard-won.

The Gongsun family categorically rejected Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's proposal. At the same time, they also expressed to the Zhang family that the Gongsun family was absolutely loyal to the emperor of the Han family.

After refuting Zhang's envoys, Gongsun's side also dispatched Gongsun Zan, who was now at the top of the military field in Youzhou in the Han Dynasty and had a great impact on northern Xinjiang, to represent the Gongsun in western Liaoning to support the emperor and Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun to fight against the rebels.

The naivety of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun is that they thought that their family and the Gongsun family in western Liaoning belonged to a community of interests.

But in fact, the conflict between them and the Gongsun family in western Liaoning has long been irreconcilable.

In the past, Zhang Wen recruited Wuhuan Tuqi to help him attack Beigong Boyu in Liangzhou. As a native of Youzhou, the Zhang family, who had a close relationship with Wuhuan, wanted to lead the Wuhuan Tuqi on behalf of the local tycoons in Youzhou. Assist Zhang Wen.

However, Zhang Wen finally chose the Gongsun family in western Liaoning to lead the Wuhuan Tuqi, and that person was Gongsun Zan.

Although it is only a simple matter of selecting generals, the political interests involved are extremely complicated.

In fact, the two clans had already started to compete for the agency right to manage the foreign races in Youzhou for the imperial court at that time.

For the imperial court, the Wuhuan villages in the counties of Youzhou were not only available mercenaries, but also an unstable factor on the border of northern Xinjiang.

Therefore, the imperial court needs to support a representative family that can stabilize Wuhuan for the imperial court in Youzhou at the critical moment.

But the number of this family does not need to be many, only one is enough.

It turned out that the Gongsun clan defeated the Zhang clan in this matter, and became the imperial court's proxy clan for Wuhuan in Youzhou.

The reason why the unsuccessful Zhang family rebelled against the Han may be more or less because of this incident.

With this incident as a basis, Zhang's desire to win Gongsun to rebel with them is simply a daydream.

This is purely treating the entire Gongsun family as a bastard.

But it's a pity that the Gongsun clan has no second-hand goods.

However, although the Zhang family did not have the Gongsun family to support them, but for the major families in Yuyang County, Shanggu County, and Youbeiping, Zhang's wooing was still very effective.

The Zhang family continued to send people to each family to talk about their interests, so that each family could join their rebel army.

The family in Bianjun is the same as in Central Plains, but not exactly the same.

In the matter of the rebellion, the Haoyou family in Youzhou was somewhat influenced by some foreign nationalities on the border.

In their view, rebellion is not a big deal, especially for some families who have been at war with foreigners all year round and are deeply influenced by them.

After all, whether it is the Xianbei or the Southern Huns, they have rebelled and returned, and returned and rebelled for many years.

Therefore, the wealthy families in the north of Youzhou will be affected to some extent.

The Zhang family is centered in Yuyang County, and they still have some influence and penetration in Youzhou in recent years, otherwise they would not rebel easily. In the history of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's rebellion, the Han Dynasty court had also been on the frontal battlefield. He fought back and forth with Gongsun Zan, and even gained the upper hand for a time.

The reason is that in Youzhou, there are still many local families who responded and supported them.

Therefore, if you want to really solve Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, the key is to find a way to win the attitude of the local wealthy families in Youzhou.

And on this point, Liu Jian is already confident.

(End of this chapter)