Twenty-four local big bandits in Youzhou began to gather their soldiers and joined Guan Yu's command.
In fact, in terms of strength, no matter how well-trained the bandits' soldiers and horses were, they were still inferior to the regular army of the Han Dynasty.
But the good thing now is that although there are many people under Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, most of them are disciples who follow their powerful clans. In terms of combat power, although the opponent has many people, they are too mixed to compete with Guan Yu.
Compared with the thief army recruited, it is still inferior.
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While winter was not yet over, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun gathered a group of the most elite soldiers and horses, with Zhang Chun as the commander. While Xun Yu had not fully recovered, they used their elite troops to attack Wuzhong County.
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Although Zhang was very confident in taking over the Wuzu Mining Area, in order to prevent Xun Yu from joining forces with Gongsun Zan to prepare for their own surprise attack, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun decided to take the approach of attacking in the east and attacking in the west.
Zhang Chun led the troops to contain the main forces of Gongsun Zan and Huang Zhong from the front. However, Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju selected the most elite 7,000 people from each army to attack Wuzhong County.
of mining areas.
According to their calculations, Xun Yu did not have any elite soldiers and horses that could stop these 7,000 men.
In the eyes of the rebels, these seven thousand people were enough to subdue Xun Yu.
But what they didn't know was that at this moment, according to Xun Yu's plan, Guan Yu had already led the 5,000 thieves he had just gathered, plus 2,000 troops from his Liaodong vassal state, to ambush on the only road through Wuzhong County.
, just waiting for Zhang Chunqian to throw himself into the trap.
This battle took the reputations of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to another level.
Before Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's troops arrived at Wuzhong County, they were ambushed by Guan Yu's advance arrangements.
Let’s not talk about the quality of the troops and horses on both sides, let’s just talk about the quality of the generals on both sides.
The current military capabilities of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are indeed not comparable to Zhang Chun's.
Moreover, strategically, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were reminded by Xun Yu and made arrangements in advance, which gave them the upper hand.
They knew Zhang Chun's strength very well, but Zhang Chun had no idea about the troops Guan Yu could mobilize.
Under such circumstances, the outcome of the war can be imagined.
Due to incorrect intelligence, Zhang Chun's seven thousand elite troops were wiped out by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
Of course, this concept of total annihilation does not mean killing everyone.
In this battle, the troops led by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei beheaded a total of five hundred people.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei themselves beheaded more than twenty levels each.
Among the seven thousand soldiers and horses, many of them were local border guards from Yuyang County in the past. Although they followed Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun and rebelled, their beliefs were not so firm.
In the final analysis, these people's rebellion is mainly for money. Although this obsession with interests is a sufficient reason for rebellion, once it receives a strong blow, this reason will collapse faster than anyone else.
Under the threat of their lives, many rebels who came for a sneak attack chose to surrender, or surrender unconditionally.
Of course, the biggest blow to the rebels was when Zhang Chun was captured by Zhang Fei in the chaos.
This is something that no one expected.
The sniper battle in Wuzhong County became the turning point of the Youzhou Rebellion.
The victory of this war represented that the officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty and the imperial court changed from passive defense to active offense.
The news reached Xun Yu first, but Xun Yu was not surprised by the result.
In fact, the outcome of this war was already within Xun Yu's calculations. From the very beginning, he publicized the mineral resources in Wu Zhong County with great fanfare, because he wanted to take this opportunity to lure Zhang Ju to send elites to sneak attack Wu Zhong!
Xun Yu had already made a lure strategy with Guan Yu. As long as Zhang Ju dared to send troops to sneak attack, he would make him pay the price with blood.
And just as Xun Yu expected, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun fell into the trap.
This raid wiped out the most elite troops under Zhang Ju, causing great damage to the opponent's strength.
Even though the Zhang family's rebel soldiers are said to be one hundred thousand, most of them are just a mob. It is not that easy to find another 7,000 elite soldiers among these people.
As for Zhang Chun, who was known as the King of Peace, he was knocked off his horse by Zhang Fei with a spear during this battle.
According to Zhang Fei's past personality, he would definitely give Zhang Chun a finishing blow and directly poke a hole in his body.
But after years of experience and learning from Liu Jian, Zhang Fei is no longer the brave man he was back then.
He is well-deserved and can assume the role of a general guarding one side alone.
Zhang Fei was not impulsive, he captured Zhang Chun alive and brought him back to Guan Yu.
Guan Yu handed this man into Xun Yu's hands.
The capture of the Anding King Zhang Chun was a devastating blow to the morale of the rebels. For a time, the morale of the entire Youzhou rebels began to be unstable, and a panic began to spread among the rebels.
Especially those families who did not directly follow Zhang Ju from the beginning, but took refuge under Zhang Ju after seeing the critical situation in Youzhou, now feel a little regretful.
They just hated themselves for being stupid and actually pinned their hopes on the Zhang family of Yuyang who had gained temporary advantage in Youzhou.
After Xun Yu got Zhang Chun, he immediately started to do three things.
The first thing he did was to send someone to Yecheng to ask Liu Jian to make a decision on how to deal with Zhang Chun.
The second thing is that he continues to vigorously develop the Wuwen Iron Mine and is determined to reset Youzhou's interest chain in the shortest possible time.
The third thing was that he summoned Jian Yong from Zhuo County, and also asked Huang Zhong to borrow Tian Yu and Tian Chou.
The reason why these three men were borrowed was because Xun Yu wanted to use them to put pressure on the Wuhuan tribes.
As the leader of the Wuhuan tribe in western Liaoning, Qiu Liju was indeed very powerful, but it did not mean that he was respected among the Wuhuan tribes.
The Wuhuan tribes are currently distributed like the counties of the Han Dynasty. In terms of strength, Wuhuan's strength far exceeds that of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun.
This is something that worries Xun Yu very much.
To achieve Liu Jian's ideal, simply eradicating Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun was not enough.
In this battle where Qiu Liju supported Er Zhang, Xun Yu saw the potentially terrifying strength of the Wuhuan people.
Don't talk about anything else, just talk about Gongsun Zan's battles with Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju during this period.
To be honest, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun could not defeat Gongsun Zan on the frontal battlefield, although they would indeed cause some trouble to Gongsun Zan.
However, the combat power of Qiu Liju, who had Wuhuan's sudden cavalry, was so strong that even Gongsun Zan, who had formed a white horse Yi Cong, felt unprecedented pressure.
In the past, after Wuhuan and the Han Dynasty reconciled, the Han Dynasty selected the Wuhuan people from Liaoxi, Liaodong, and Youbeiping counties, as well as the best war horses from Liaoxi and Liaodong counties in the hinterland of the Horqin grassland, and organized them into an elite cavalry with extremely strong combat effectiveness.
Commando - Wuhuan Assault Cavalry.
The Wuhuan Tuqi were directly commanded by states and counties. They often served as the vanguard of the Eastern Han Dynasty, charging into battle in large and small battles. They were extremely brave and won the reputation of "the famous cavalry in the world".
They were tantamount to mercenaries of the Han government.
Over the years, this mercenary army has continuously participated in the wars of the Han Dynasty, learned the cavalry tactics of the Han people, and combined the tactics of the Han people and the foreigners from the steppes, and has gradually become stronger.
The Wuhuan people's activity area has also expanded to Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, and Liaodong, and their population is probably more than hundreds of thousands.
Compared with the population of the Han Dynasty, this number is nothing, but the problem is that of the hundreds of thousands of people, more than half of them can fight and live on the road all year round, which is not easy to deal with.
In recent decades, the Wuhuan tribe has integrated into a large number of Xiongnu, Xianbei, Han, Linhu, Jie and other ethnic groups, and its population has increased a lot.
The accumulated accumulation made Wuhuan's military strength rise sharply.
In the fierce battle with Gongsun Zan, Gongsun Zan was besieged by Wuhuan in western Liaoning and almost overturned.
However, Wuhuan's current combat power has not yet reached a level that can threaten the Han government.
In history, in order to deal with Gongsun Zan, Yuan Shao allied with Wuhuan from Liaoxi, Liaodong, and Youbeiping with 100,000 troops. Yuan Shao appointed Wuhuan of the three counties as Chanyu, and granted him seals, chariots, Huagai, Yuyan, Huangwu, and Zuohu.
Helped the Wuhuan people to establish a regular army and brought Wuhuan's military strength to its peak.
Although Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun, on this point, he was just feeding the tiger and lacked the overall view of the nation.
Fortunately, Cao Cao later went on an expedition to Wuhuan, and Zhang Liao killed Tadun at Bailangshan, thus eliminating this trouble for the Han Dynasty in the northern frontier.
On this point, Xun Yu and Liu Jian reached a consensus.
We will definitely not support the Wuhuan forces.
Liu Jian and Xun Yu had the same idea, either to destroy their clan or to integrate their people, that's all, there was no third way out.