In terms of the ability to use troops, Huang Zhong really has nothing to say, after all, he also served in the Xianglin Battalion in the past, and later followed Liu Jian to conquer the Yellow Turban Army, commanding soldiers and horses to mobilize soldiers, he is no worse than the leading figures in the north.

However, after all, the tunqu in the land of Youzhou is different from that in the south, although military schools can use soldiers, but the methods of using soldiers in the two regions are still very different.

When Huang Zhong was in the Xianglin camp, his opponents were mainly the rebels of Ninan or the rebels of Shanyue, where there were barren mountains everywhere, the weather was hot and sultry, and there were many insects and poisonous obstacles.

In those years, Huang Zhong and his soldiers did endure many years of hard work, once there was a war, the soldiers of the three armies had to go into the mountains and forests on foot, searching everywhere for traces of the thief army.

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

Therefore, don't look at the current stage, the soldiers in the north of the Han Dynasty are stronger than the soldiers in the south in terms of combat strength, but in fact, the suffering and tolerance of the soldiers in the south in some aspects are really not comparable to the soldiers in the north.

Therefore, as a general from the south, Huang Zhong was relatively suitable after he arrived in the army in the north.

It's just that for Huang Zhong at present, he still has a lameness.

That is, Huang Zhong is not good at cavalry tactics.

Don't look at him in the army for many years, but in the battles of the Xianglin Battalion, he has accumulated experience in commanding infantry mountain battles.

Even when he later arrived in Luoyang City, he served as Sima of the Yue Cavalry Battalion, and he did not make much progress.

Although the Yue cavalry battalion is called the Yue cavalry battalion, the time for practicing cavalry tactics is also limited, and Huang Zhong is only a Sima in the battalion, and is not responsible for the training of the entire Yue cavalry battalion.

There were more than 100 Simas in the Yue Cavalry Battalion, and not all of them had time to learn the cavalry tactics of the Han Dynasty well, and with Huang Zhong's qualifications at that time, he did not have that opportunity in Luoyang.

Therefore, this time in the north to fight against Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun and others, although Huang Zhong used Liu's wealth to recruit some elite cavalry, he used them very rarely.

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

If it was a cavalry head-on confrontation with cavalry, Huang Zhong estimated that he had no chance of winning at all.

In Youzhou, south of Yuyang County, south of Lulongsai, west of Liaoxi and Youbeiping County, all of them were large plains with no mountainous areas, and fighting on these boundaries was extremely unfavorable for Huang Zhong.

This is also an important reason why Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun, Qiu Liju and others did not put Huang Zhong in their eyes at the beginning.

However, in response to this, Huang Zhong had been prepared for this in the early years.

When he first arrived in Youzhou, he also talked to Jian Yong and Liu Ya, and in order to prevent accidents, he hoped that Jian Yong and the Liu clan of Zhuojun could give him more support and assist him in recruiting and training a strange army.

Huang Zhong was a military agent arranged by Liu Jian in Youzhou, and Jian Yong and Liu Ya naturally would not refuse him.

As long as it is Huang Zhong's request, they will do their best to meet it.

So, with the coordination of Jian Yong and the support of the Liu clan of Zhuo County and the Hebei Commerce and Trade Association, Huang Zhong organized an elite army based on bows and crossbows in Zhuo County.

The soldiers of this army are all selected from the Liu clan of Zhuo County, as well as several Youzhou clans who have befriended the Liu clan of Zhuo County over the years.

For a long time, they were trained under Huang Zhong's hands, and their main focus was archery and crossbow warfare.

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

With his own strengths and the shortcomings of the other, this is what a general who is good at judging the situation should do.

Among the five battalions of the Northern Army, there was a battalion in the past, all of which were long in the bow and crossbow, and their names were called "shooting sounds", and the deep meaning of their names was that they could find the sound and shoot.

The 800 crossbowmen that Huang Zhong personally trained in Youzhou were named the Divine Arm Battalion.

Reading these three words, the meaning is self-evident.

In the two battles with Qiu Liju, Huang Zhong broke Qiu Liju's Wuhuan Turquoise Cavalry, and it was with the soldiers of the Eight Hundred Divine Arm Battalion.

In the battle with Huang Zhong, Qiu Liju did not investigate Huang Zhong's sergeants in advance, and he did not take Huang Zhong seriously with the strength of the Wuhuan Turf Cavalry.

As a result, Qiu Liju was introduced into Pinggu in the northeast of Jixian County by Huang Zhong with his arrogant tactics, and broke it with the Divine Arm Battalion, and his Wuhuan Tuqi suffered countless casualties.

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After suffering a loss at the hands of Huang Zhong, Qiu Liju temporarily stationed his soldiers and horses in Feiru, and sent people to the rear to dispatch a large number of Wuhuan soldiers to help in the battle in Youzhou.

Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, on the other hand, changed their tactics, they sent people to the Gongsun clan in western Liaoxi, wanting to win over the Gongsun clan to join them in raising troops to defeat Huang Zhong and share the land of Youzhou.

But in fact, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun are really a little naïve.

The father-in-law of the Gongsun clan in Liaoxi is not currently Gongsun Zhan.

But even if it is not him, but in recent years, the Gongsun clan of Liaoxi has joined the Hebei Business Association.

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

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

After refuting Zhang's envoy, the Gongsun clan also sent Gongsun Zhan, who is now among the best in the military field of Youzhou in the Han Dynasty and shocked the northern Xinjiang, to support the Son of Heaven on behalf of the Gongsun clan in western Liaoxi to fight against Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun.

The naivety of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun is that they think that their family and the Gongsun clan of Liaoxi belong to a community of interests.

But in fact, the contradictions between them and the Gongsun clan of Liaoxi have long been irreconcilable.

In the past, Zhang Wen recruited Wuhuan Raiders to help fight against Beigong Boyu in Liangzhou, and Zhang, who was a local man with a close relationship with Wuhuan in Youzhou, once wanted to lead this Wuhuan Raid to assist Zhang Wen on behalf of the local heroes of Youzhou.

However, Zhang Wen finally chose the Liaoxi Gongsun clan to lead this Wuhuan cavalry, and that person was Gongsun Zhan.

Although it is only a simple question of selecting generals, the political interests involved in this are extremely complex.

In fact, the two clans had already begun to compete for the agency right to manage the alien races in Youzhou for the imperial court.

The Wuhuan tribes in the counties of Youzhou were not only usable mercenaries for the imperial court, but also a destabilizing factor on the northern border.

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

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

As a result, it is obvious that in this matter, the Gongsun clan won the Zhang clan and became the imperial court's agent of Wuhuan in Youzhou.

And the reason why the unsuccessful Zhang family rebelled against Han may be somewhat because of this incident.

With this incident as a basis, it was a pipe dream for the Zhang clan to win over the Gongsun clan to rebel with them.

This is purely playing the whole Gongsun clan as a second goods.

But it's a pity that the Gongsun family doesn't have two goods.

However, although the Zhang family did not win over the Donggong Sun family to support them, for the major families in Yuyang County, Shanggu County, and Youbeiping, the Zhang family's co-optation was still very effective.

The Zhang clan constantly sent people to various families to talk about the benefits and harms, so that each family could join their rebel army.

The family of the border county is the same as that of the Central Plains, but it is not exactly the same.

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

In their opinion, rebellion is not a big deal, especially for some families who have been at war with foreigners for many years and have been deeply influenced by foreigners.

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

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

The Zhang clan is centered on Yuyang County, and there is still power and penetration in Youzhou over the years, otherwise they will not rebel easily, in the history of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's rebellion, the Han court also had dealings with Gongsun Zan on the frontal battlefield, and even once had the upper hand.

The reason for this is also because in Youzhou, there are still many local families who respond to and support 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 at this point, Liu Jian is already confident.

(End of chapter)