Twenty-four local thieves in Youzhou began to gather their subordinates and subordinate them to Guan Yu's command.

In fact, in terms of strength, no matter how much the soldiers and horses of the thieves have been trained and tempered in actual combat, they are 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 also those disciples who follow their big clan, in terms of combat power, although the other party has many people, but the ingredients are too mixed, compared with the thief army recruited by Guan Yu, it is still inferior.

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Taking advantage of the fact that the winter had not completely passed, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun gathered a group of the most elite soldiers and horses, with Zhang Chun as the main commander, and took advantage of Xun Yu's incomplete reaction, and used the elite army to kill Wuzhong County.

Although the Zhang family was very confident in taking the Wuzhong mining area, in order to prevent Xun Yu and Gongsun Zan from guarding against their own surprise attack, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun still decided to adopt the method of attacking the east and the west.

Zhang Chun led the men and horses of the brigade and pinned down the main forces of Gongsun Zhan and Huang Zhong in the front, but Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju selected the most elite 7,000 people from each army to sneak attack the mining area of Wuzhong County.

According to their calculations, Xun Yu did not have elite soldiers and horses in his hands who could stop these 7,000 people.

In the eyes of the anti-thieves, these 7,000 people are enough to obey Xun Yuzhi.

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 who had just gathered, plus his 2,000 soldiers and horses of Liaodong, to ambush on the road that Wuzhong County must pass, just waiting for Zhang Chunqian to throw himself into the net.

This battle made Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's reputation go up a step again.

Before Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's soldiers and horses arrived in Wuzhong County, they were ambushed by Guan Yu's pre-arranged arrangement.

Not to mention the quality of the soldiers and horses on both sides, but the quality of the generals on both sides.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's current ability to use troops is indeed not comparable to Zhang Chun.

Moreover, strategically, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also got Xun Yu's reminder and made arrangements in advance, which allowed them to take control of the opportunity.

They knew Zhang Chun's strength very well, but Zhang Chun was not aware of the troops that Guan Yu could mobilize.

Under such circumstances, the outcome of the war can be imagined.

In the case of incorrect intelligence, Zhang Chun's 7,000 elites were completely wiped out by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Of course, this concept of total destruction does not mean total killing.

In this battle, the army led by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei beheaded a total of five hundred levels.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei themselves were beheaded more than 20 levels each.

Among the 7,000 soldiers and horses, because many of them were also local soldiers in Yuyang County in the past, although they followed Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, they were not so firm in terms of believing.

In the final analysis, these people's rebellion is mainly about money, and this obsession with profit is a good reason to rebel, but once it is dealt a strong blow, this reason collapses faster than anyone else.

Under the threat of their lives, many of the rebels who came to attack chose to surrender or surrender unconditionally.

Of course, the biggest blow to the rebels was that Zhang Chun was captured by Zhang Fei in the chaotic battle.

This is something that no one expected.

The sniper battle in Wuzhong County became a turning point in the Youzhou Rebellion.

The victory of this war represents that the officials and troops of the Han court have changed from passive defense to active attack.

The news reached Xun Yu first, but Xun Yu was not surprised by this result.

In fact, the outcome of this war has long been within Xun Yu's calculations, and he has been publicizing the matter of Wuzhong County's minerals with great fanfare at the beginning, that is, because he wants to take this opportunity to lure Zhang Ju to send elites to attack Wuzhong!

Xun Yu had already set 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 of blood.

And just as Xun Yu expected, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun really got hit.

This raid wiped out one of the most elite troops under Zhang Ju's command, causing the opponent to suffer a lot of damage.

Don't look at the Zhang family's rebel soldiers, who claim to be 100,000, but most of them are rabble, it is not so easy to find another 7,000 elite soldiers from these people.

As for Zhang Chun, who was known as the Heavenly King of Stability, he was beaten off his horse by Zhang Feiyi with a spear in this battle.

According to Zhang Fei's personality in the past, he would definitely give Zhang Chun a mending knife and poke a hole in him directly.

It's just that after years of training and learning from Liu Jian, Zhang Fei is no longer the brave husband he was back then.

He deserves to be a general, and he can take on the talent of a general who guards one side alone.

Zhang Fei had no impulse, he captured Zhang Chunsheng alive and brought it back to Guan Yu.

And Guan Yu handed this person over to Xun Yu.

The capture of Zhang Chun, the king of Anding, was a devastating blow to the morale of the rebels, and for a while, the morale of the rebels in the entire Youzhou began to be unstable, and a panic began to spread among the rebels.

Especially those families who did not directly follow Zhang Ju at the beginning, but after seeing the critical situation in Youzhou, they took refuge in Zhang Ju's command, and now their intestines are a little remorseful.

They just hated themselves for being clumsy, and actually pinned their hopes on the Yuyang Zhang family, who had occupied a temporary advantage in Youzhou.

After Xun Yu got Zhang Chun, he immediately set out to do three things.

The first thing is that he will dispose of Zhang Chun's opinion and send someone to Yecheng to ask Liu Jian to decide.

The second thing is that he continues to vigorously carry out the development of endless iron mines, and is determined to reset the chain of interests in Youzhou in the shortest possible time.

The third thing is that he summoned Jian Yong from Zhuo County, and asked Huang Zhong to borrow Tian Yu and Tian Chou.

The reason why he wanted to borrow these three people was because Xun Yu wanted to borrow them to put pressure on Wuhuan Zhuluo.

Qiu Liju, as the leader of the Wuhuan tribes in Liaoxi, is indeed very powerful, but it does not mean that he is respected among the Wuhuan.

Wuhuan Zhuluo is currently distributed with the counties of the Han Dynasty, and in terms of strength, Wuhuan's strength far exceeds that of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun.

This is one thing that worries Xun Yu very much.

If you want to achieve the ideal in Liu Jian's heart, it is not enough to just eradicate Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun.

In this battle in which Qiu Liju supported Erzhang, Xun Yu saw the potential terrifying strength of the Wuhuan people.

Not to mention anything else, just talk about Gongsun Zhan's battles with Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju during this time.

To be honest, on the frontal battlefield, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun could not defeat Gongsun Zhan, although they would indeed cause some trouble to Gongsun Zhan.

However, the combat power of Qiu Liju, who has the Wuhuan Tu Cavalry, is so strong that even Gongsun Zhan, who has already formed the White Horse Yicong, also feels unprecedented pressure.

In the past, after Wuhuan and Han were reconciled, the Han Dynasty selected Wuhuan people from the three counties of Liaoxi, Liaodong and Youbeiping, as well as good war horses from Liaoxi and Liaodong counties in the hinterland of the Horqin grassland, and formed an elite cavalry commando with strong combat effectiveness - Wuhuan Assault Cavalry.

The Wuhuan Turquoise Cavalry was directly led by the state and county, and often served as the vanguard of the Eastern Han Dynasty, charging into battle in large and small battles, and winning the reputation of "the world's famous cavalry".

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, combined the tactics of the Han people and the foreign tribes of the grassland, and gradually became stronger.

The activity area of the Wuhuan people has also expanded to Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, and Liaodong, and the population is probably more than hundreds of thousands.

Compared to the population of the Han Dynasty, this number is nothing, but the problem is that hundreds of thousands of people, most of whom can fight, live all year round, this is not easy to deal with.

In recent decades, the Wuhuan tribe has integrated a large number of different ethnic groups such as Xiongnu, Xianbei, Han, Linhu, and Qian, and the population has increased considerably.

The accumulation of thick and thin hair has made Wuhuan's military strength skyrocket.

In the fierce battle with Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Zhan was besieged by Wuhuan in Liaoxi and almost overturned.

However, the current Wuhuan combat power has not yet reached the level of being able to threaten the Han government.

In order to deal with Gongsun Zan in history, Yuan Shao joined forces with 100,000 Wuhuan soldiers in Liaoxi, Liaodong, and Youbeiping, and Yuan Shao sealed the Wuhuan Lord of the three counties as a single Yu, and gave Yin, Che, Huacani, Yuxuan, Huangwu, and Zuoxu to help the Wuhuan people establish a regular army, so that Wuhuan's military strength reached its peak.

Although Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun, at this point, he was raising tigers and lacked the overall national view.

Fortunately, it was Cao Cao's later expedition to Wuhuan, and Zhang Liao's White Wolf Mountain killed Tatun and collected this aftermath for the northern frontier of the Han Dynasty.

On this point, Xun Yu and Liu Jian reached a consensus.

Resolutely will not support the Wuhuan forces.

Liu Jian and Xun Yu have the same meaning, either destroy their clan or merge with them, that's all, there is no third way out.

(End of chapter)