In terms of military ability, Huang Zhong really has nothing to say. After all, he once served in the Xianglin Camp, and later followed Liu Jian to conquer the Yellow Turban Army. In terms of commanding troops and mobilizing soldiers, he was no worse than the leading figures in the north.
However, Tunqu in Youzhou is different from that in the south. Although military academies can use troops, the methods of using troops in the two regions are still very different.
When Huang Zhong was in Xianglin camp, his opponents were mainly the Nichinan rebels or the Shanyue rebels. There, there were barren mountains everywhere, the weather was sweltering, and there were many insect and poisonous hazards.
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 would have to hike into the mountains and forests to search for traces of the rebels.
In the mountains and forests, you may be bitten by poisonous insects and snakes if you are not careful, and you have to face hidden beasts. Sometimes the mountains are too rugged, and you have to be careful of falling into mountain streams, being ambushed by enemies, and the huge risk of getting lost.
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Therefore, regardless of the current stage of the Han Dynasty, the soldiers in the north of the Han Dynasty were stronger in combat power than the soldiers in the south, but in fact, the suffering and tolerance suffered by the soldiers in the south in some aspects were really not that of the soldiers in the north.
The soldiers can't match it.
Therefore, as a general from the south, Huang Zhong was relatively adaptable after joining the army in the north.
However, for Huang Zhong, he still has a lame leg.
That means Huang Zhong is not good at cavalry tactics.
Although he has been in the army for many years, in the battle at Xianglin Camp, he accumulated experience in commanding infantry in mountain battles.
Even when he later arrived in Luoyang City and served as Sima of the Yue Cavalry Camp, he did not make much progress.
Although the name of the Yueqi battalion is the Yueqi battalion, the time for practicing cavalry tactics is also limited. Huang Zhong is just a commander in the camp and is not responsible for the training of the entire Yueqi battalion. The soldiers spend most of their time sleeping in the camp.
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There were more than a hundred Sima in the Yueqi camp, and not every Sima had the time to learn the cavalry tactics of the Han Dynasty thoroughly. Moreover, given Huang Zhong's qualifications at the time, he did not have that opportunity in Luoyang.
Therefore, when fighting Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun and others in the north this time, although Huang Zhong used Liu's wealth to recruit some elite assault cavalry, 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 terms of using cavalry.
If the cavalry were to confront the cavalry head-on, Huang Zhong estimated that he had no chance of winning.
In Youzhou, from the south of Yuyang County, to the south of Lulongsai, to the west of Liaoxi and Youbeiping County - there are large areas of plains without mountainous areas. Fighting in these areas is extremely disadvantageous for Huang Zhong.
This was also an important reason why Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun, Qiu Liju and others did not take Huang Zhong into their eyes at first.
However, Huang Zhong had been prepared for this a few years ago.
When he first arrived in Youzhou, he also talked to Jian Yong and Liu Chi. In order to prevent any eventuality, he hoped that Jian Yong and the Liu family of Zhuojun could give him more support and help him recruit and train a surprise army.
Huang Zhong was Liu Jian's military agent in Youzhou, so Jian Yong and Liu Chi naturally would not reject him.
As long as it is a request made by Huang Zhong, they will do their best to satisfy it.
Therefore, with the coordination of Jian Yong, and the support of the Liu family in Zhuojun and the Hebei Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Huang Zhong organized an elite army in Zhuojun mainly composed of bows and crossbows.
The soldiers of this army are all strong men selected from the Liu family of Zhuojun and several wealthy Youzhou families who have had good relations with the Liu family of Zhuojun over the years.
They have been training under Huang Zhong for a long time, and their main subjects are archery and crossbow formations.
Drilling cavalry may not be Huang Zhongzhi's strong point, but training an army of crossbows and using various bow and crossbow formations on different occasions is Huang Zhong's greatest advantage.
Using one's own strengths to combat the other's weaknesses is what a general who is good at assessing the situation should do.
Among the five battalions of the Northern Army, there used to be a battalion of men who were good at bows and crossbows. Its name was "shooting sound". The deeper meaning of its name is that it can search for the sound and shoot.
The 800 crossbowmen that Huang Zhong personally trained in Youzhou were named the Divine Arm Camp.
After reading these three words, the meaning is self-evident.
In the two battles with Qiu Liju, Huang Zhong defeated Qiu Liju's Wuhuan Cavalry precisely with the help of the 800 soldiers of the Divine Arm Battalion.
During the battle with Huang Zhong, Qiu Liju did not investigate Huang Zhong's sergeants in advance. He relied on the strength of Wuhuan's sudden cavalry and never took Huang Zhong into his eyes.
As a result, Qiu Liju was led into Pinggu in the northeast of Ji County by Huang Zhong's arrogant tactics, and was defeated with the Divine Arm Battalion. The Wuhuan Tuqi under his command suffered numerous casualties.
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After suffering a loss at the hands of Huang Zhong, Qiu Liju temporarily stationed his troops and horses in Feiru, and sent people back to the rear to mobilize a large number of Wuhuan soldiers to assist in the battle in Youzhou.
Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun changed their tactics. They sent people to the Gongsun clan in western Liaoning, hoping to win over the Gongsun clan and join them in raising troops to defeat Huang Zhong and share 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 currently not Gongsun Zan.
But even if it wasn't him, in recent years, Liaoxi Gongsun has joined the Hebei Chamber of Commerce and Trade.
As an important local partner of Liu Jian, 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 and lose the hard-earned family interests.
Gongsun flatly rejected Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's proposal. At the same time, they also told Zhang that Gongsun was absolutely loyal to the emperor of the Han Dynasty.
After refuting Zhang's envoy, the Gongsun family also dispatched Gongsun Zan, who was now among the best in the military field of Youzhou in the Han Dynasty and powerful in northern Xinjiang, to represent the Gongsun family in western Liaoning to support the emperor in fighting against Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun.
The naive thing about 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 Liaoxi has long been irreconcilable.
In the past, Zhang Wen recruited the Wuhuan Tuqi to help him conquer Beigong Boyu in Liangzhou. As a native of Youzhou, the Zhang family had a close relationship with the Wuhuan, and he wanted to command the Wuhuan Tuqi on behalf of the powerful locals in Youzhou.
Assist Zhang Wen.
However, Zhang Wen finally chose the Gongsun family in western Liaoning to lead the Wuhuan cavalry, and that person was Gongsun Zan.
Although it is just a simple issue of selecting generals, the political interests involved are extremely complex.
In fact, the two tribes had already begun to compete for the authority to manage the foreign tribes in Youzhou on behalf of the imperial court at that time.
The Wuhuan tribes in various counties in Youzhou were not only available mercenaries for the imperial court, but also a destabilizing factor on the northern border.
Therefore, the imperial court needed to support a representative family that could stabilize Wuhuan for the imperial court in Youzhou at critical moments.
But the number of this family does not need to be large, only one is enough.
The result is obvious. In this matter, the Gongsun family defeated the Zhang family and became the imperial court's agent against Wuhuan in Youzhou.
Perhaps the reason why Zhang, who was defeated, rebelled against the Han was partly because of this incident.
With this incident as the basis, it was simply a daydream for Zhang to win over Gongsun to rebel with them.
This is simply treating the entire Gongsun family as second-rate people.
But it's a pity that the Gongsun family doesn't have any second-rate people.
However, although the Zhang family could not win over the Gongsun family to support them, Zhang's efforts to win over the major families in Yuyang County, Shanggu County, and Youbeiping were still very effective.
The Zhang family constantly sent people to various families to discuss their interests, so that each family could join their rebel army.
The families in the border counties are the same as those in the Central Plains, but they are not exactly the same.
Regarding the rebellion, the Haoyou family in Youzhou was somewhat influenced by some foreign tribes from the border.
In their view, rebellion is not a big deal, especially for some families who have been at war with foreign tribes all year round and are deeply influenced by foreign tribes.
After all, both the Xianbei and the Southern Xiongnu have rebelled and returned, and returned and rebelled over the years.
Therefore, the wealthy families in northern Youzhou will be affected to some extent.
The Zhang family, centered in Yuyang County, has still had influence and penetration in Youzhou over the years, otherwise they would not have rebelled easily. In history, during the rebellion between Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty also fought on the frontal battlefield.
The fight with Gongsun Zan went back and forth, and he even had the upper hand for a time.
The reason is also because there are still many local families in Youzhou who respond to and support them.
Therefore, if you want to truly solve Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, the key is to find a way to win over the attitude of the local wealthy families in Youzhou.