Xu Wenhao did not take any action, but there was a lot of commotion in other places.

The following month, Lu Zhi of Luoyang led his deputy general Zong Yuan and five officers of the Northern Army to take charge of the northern front and deal with Zhang Jue's main force.

Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun each led an army, controlling the Five Schools, the Three Rivers Knights and the newly recruited elite warriors, totaling more than 40,000 soldiers, to attack the Yellow Turban Army in the Yingchuan area.

Zhu Jun also submitted a petition to recruit Sun Jian from Xia Pi as the assistant military commander. He brought young men from his hometown, as well as merchants and elite soldiers from the Huai and Si rivers, a total of more than a thousand people, to join forces with Zhu Jun's army.

On the Gengzi day, Zhang Mancheng attacked and killed Chu Gong, the prefect of Nanyang County, in response to Zhang Jue.

The Han army did not gain any advantage in the first battle. In April, Zhu Jun's army was defeated by Bo Cai of the Yellow Turban Army and retreated. Huangfu Song had no choice but to join him in stationing in Changsha to defend the city. The city was besieged by Bo Cai's large army. The Han army was small in number and its morale was low.

The Yellow Turban Army of Runan defeated the prefect Zhao Qian in Shaoling, and the Yellow Turban Army of Guangyang killed the Youzhou Governor Guo Xun and the prefect Liu Wei. The Yellow Turban Army showed no signs of retreat due to the actions of the Han Dynasty.

Zhang Jiao became arrogant after this victory. He directly deployed 10 troops near the border between Julu and Bingzhou, intending to test Xu Wenhao's strength.

After all, fighting foreign enemies is not a big deal. Those foreign enemies have no record of victories. Zhang Jue also hopes to take Bingzhou and threaten Sili, so it is normal to take a risk.

Although it is said to be 10, in fact, there may be less than 2 who can fight. The rest are all the elderly, the weak, women and children. The main reason is that Yizhou cannot support so many people, so naturally they are used to attack other places to disperse the pressure.

Zhu Jun was also besieged because he had too few troops, and now Zhang Jue also wanted to attack in this way.

"Zhang Liao, you come with me to deal with this group of Yellow Turban bandits. As for Gao Shun, he will continue to be responsible for guarding the interior of the pass."

Xu Wenhao also explained Gao Shun.

He was not clear about the specific strength of Zhang Jue's Yellow Turban bandits, but he knew that a cavalry charge on such a road would be very terrifying, so he led 5000 soldiers and let Zhang Liao lead 2000 cavalry to lead the rear.

Well, Xu Wenhao wanted to become famous this time and make plans for the future hegemony, otherwise he could just arrange Zhang Liao to lead a few thousand cavalry and the matter would be settled.

Are you kidding? Zhang Liao with only 800 elite soldiers was able to make 10 soldiers of Jiangdong look like rats. Couldn’t he even deal with 10 Yellow Turban bandits?

"As ordered!"

Zhang Liao had previously only succumbed to Xu Wenhao's military force, but after his last battle, Xu Wenhao's various strategic tactics had convinced Zhang Liao, so naturally he would not say anything about just letting him go.

Anyway, he had 2000 cavalrymen leading the rear, so it would be easy to rescue Xu Wenhao if there was any problem.

The main reason why the Yellow Turban bandits attacked from Julu was because they were blocked by Jinyang.

On the contrary, if they attack from this side, they can send troops to support from Youzhou and Yecheng. As long as Xu Wenhao is delayed, they can use this as a gap to enter Bingzhou, so there is nothing wrong with it.

The only drawback is that this place is very far away from Bingzhou, but the journey through Hengshan and Jiuyuan is just as long, and it is not possible to attack from three directions at the same time, so we finally chose to attack here.

After Xu Wenhao arrived at the border of Bingzhou with 3000 Bingzhou Wolf Riders, he soon saw the huge number of Yellow Turban bandits approaching Bingzhou in an endless stream.

"Array up!"

With Xu Wenhao's order, his 3000 cavalrymen quickly formed their battle formation.

Xu Wenhao is the arrowhead, charging in the form of an arrow shot from a bow, and the subsequent cavalry will gradually disperse and finally form a star-like cavalry formation.

The armor of his cavalrymen are all made of fine iron and cannot be broken by ordinary weapons.

As for the weapons of the Yellow Turban bandits, which were wooden spears with iron plates on them, the most they could do when they pierced armor was to leave a red mark, and naturally it was difficult to cause any damage.

"Charge with me!"

After seeing the formation ready, Xu Wenhao also launched a charge directly. He was not afraid at all because the number of Yellow Turban bandits on the opposite side exceeded 10.

The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry under his command had experienced several great battles on the grassland and had seen bloodshed, so they were naturally excited.

You should know that the reward he offered was very generous. After taking it this time, everyone would have several months' food and wages. In this age when no one had enough to eat, who wouldn't want to fight for a future?

The leader of the Yellow Turban bandits this time was General Zhang Bao. When he saw that Xu Wenhao dared to charge with only 3000 cavalrymen, he lost his mind for a moment and signaled the entire army to attack, and then he rushed towards Xu Wenhao.

"Lu Bu, take my attack."

Zhang Bao was also stupid. He just wanted to capture Xu Wenhao and then enter Bingzhou smoothly, but he forgot what made him famous.

"Puff! My life is over!"

Xu Wenhao didn't hear much of what Zhang Bao said, mainly because the noise was too chaotic after he led his troops to charge. When he saw someone rushing towards him, he simply swung his Fang Tian Hua Ji, and the huge force knocked several people in front of him away.

Well, among them is Zhang Bao.

If his death were to go by the records of later generations, it should be that the Flying General Lu Bu was invincible and killed Zhang Bao and several of his followers in one blow.

This charge of 3000 cavalrymen actually only killed a few thousand people in front of them, but the impact it brought was still great.

Some of them hadn't even arrived yet, but Xu Wenhao led the cavalry and rushed behind the crowd. When they turned around, they found that everyone was gone.

This feeling of fear is the most terrifying, and it is also the reason why there were so many battles in ancient times where the outnumbered side won.

It was nothing more than the army's morale being lost, and the deaths caused by the fleeing army's attack and the trampling of the rear troops.

"Surround them, surround the ones who run faster first."

Xu Wenhao also explained.

The main reason is that he is short of people. These people can be used as labor in the future, so of course he cannot let them go.

Why were they caught and ran away so quickly? The main reason was that at that time, among the 10 Yellow Turban bandits, more than half were elderly, weak, women and children.

The ones that run fast are naturally more capable of doing the work, but he has no interest in the ones that run slowly because he has to keep them.

These people had long lost their will to fight, and naturally surrendered after being surrounded.

Others didn't dare to bet on what Xu Wenhao was going to do with the captured people. If they could run back to Yizhou, they would naturally go back to Yizhou. Therefore, Xu Wenhao only captured more than 1 able-bodied men, but it was not a small number.

At least 1 people were trampled, injured or killed in the previous wave of attack, and tens of thousands escaped. Adding these 10 people, he said that he defeated Yellow Turban bandits, and no one dared to say that he was unconvinced.

"Let's go, Zhang Liao. You stay behind and don't let anyone escape."

Xu Wenhao also waved his hand and called out Zhang Liao who was hiding in the forest, which frightened more than 1 able-bodied men.

So you have an ambush? 3000 people defeated us. With so many soldiers and horses, but no one is leading us, I'd better be a laborer.

Well, Xu Wenhao told these people that he didn’t intend to kill them or put them in jail, but to use them as hard labor and would also provide food, so they naturally didn’t intend to struggle.

On the way back, Xu Wenhao also sent a battle report to Luoyang about the victory of 3000 cavalrymen over 10 Yellow Turban bandits.

It took less than a day to travel thousands of miles in an urgent manner, and the name of General Xu Wenhao shocked all the officials in Luoyang.

You have to know that this is not the time for local rebel forces to rise up, and so far the only one who has won the battle against the Yellow Turban bandits is Xu Wenhao.

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