Chapter 266: Capture the Pass

What all the Chu soldiers who defended the city did not expect was that after these "reinforcements" entered Qingzhou Pass, they did not devote themselves to the battle with the besieging enemy.

The "reinforcements" quickly divided into two parts, one part rushed in the direction of the gate, and the other part picked up the swords and guns in their hands and slashed at the Chu soldiers guarding the pass.

"What are you doing? Are you crazy? How do we attack our own soldiers? When the general at the gate saw this abnormal situation, he immediately shouted and reprimanded.

Who knew that these "reinforcements" didn't seem to hear the words of the generals guarding the pass, and still launched a crazy attack on these guards.

"General! We have been deceived, these are the enemies, let the brethren rush over, and we must stop them from opening the gate. Seeing that the general guarding the pass had not yet reacted, the adjutant general on the side hurriedly reminded.

"Yes, yes, everyone hurry up, kill these sneak attack guys, and take back the closed door." Only then did the general at this point react and immediately shouted loudly.

However, it was already too late at this time, and the new soldiers had already arrived before closing the door, killing all the Chu soldiers guarding near the gate, lifting the huge deadbolt, and slowly opening the gate.

At the same time, because the soldiers of the Chu army guarding the pass were disrupted by this sudden situation, they did not focus all their energy on dealing with the enemy army who had climbed to the top of the city, so that many enemies who had attacked the key points had jumped on the city wall and started a big battle with the Chu soldiers guarding the pass.

The soldiers of the Chu army who went to snatch the gate were also blocked to death, and the gate was opened little by little, and the siege soldiers who had been guarding outside the gate immediately shouted loudly and rushed in quickly.

"Block, block me." The general who was in charge of guarding Qingzhou Pass was completely panicked at this time, and he only thought about obtaining military merits, how could he know how to deal with the current matter.

These "reinforcements" dressed in the uniforms of the Chu army were, of course, the fiefdom soldiers led by Yang Yun, after they occupied some small cities in Haizhou. They did not linger there, nor did they leave soldiers there.

They hurriedly changed into the uniforms of the Chu army, replenished all kinds of supplies, and then destroyed the materials that could not be used, and the excess military rations in the granaries of the Chu State were also burned.

The fiefdom soldiers killed all the officials in charge of the captured city, which delayed the speed at which the Chu people transmitted the news to the imperial court, coupled with the fact that they barely stopped all the way, and finally arrived here before the news reached Qingzhou Pass.

Qingzhou Pass was originally a Xiong Pass, and under normal circumstances, 50,000 Chu soldiers guarding the pass could hold the pass even in the face of an attack by two or three hundred thousand enemies. However, they never imagined that the enemy would come from within the Chu State, so it led to their defeat.

At this time, the fiefdom soldiers on the Qingzhou Pass, plus the coalition army composed of Zheng Guo, Yu Yue and Da Fu, were almost twice as many as the Chu soldiers guarding the pass.

What's more, the Chu soldiers guarding the pass were attacked by surprise, and they were in a hurry for a while, and their morale was also severely damaged, and they were completely at a disadvantage soon after.

The battle did not last for an hour, and after losing a large number of troops, the generals of the Chu army guarding the pass took the surviving Chu soldiers and fled from the Qingzhou Pass in embarrassment, handing over the Xiongguan Pass to the enemy.

"The last general, Chen Guang, has seen His Royal Highness King Wu!" As soon as the battle ended, Chen Guang, the general of Dafu Xuanwei, who led 20,000 Dafu soldiers and stationed between Zheng Guo and Yu Yue to help them resist Chu State, immediately came to Yang Yun and greeted him.

At this time, Zheng Guohussar's general Duanmuxiong and Yu Yuening Wang Li Wenke also came to Yang Yun and greeted him with a smile.

Seeing Duanmu Xiong, Yang Yun looked near him for a long time, wanting to see Duanmu Jiyue's figure, but he never saw it, so he had to sigh softly in his heart.

Only paid a small price, and successfully captured this world-famous Xiongguan, everyone's mood is obviously very good, and they talked happily for a long time.

After capturing Qingzhou Pass, Yang Yun handed over the Xiongguan Pass to Duanmuxiong and Li Wenke, who were jointly guarded by the two countries.

The reason why the two countries were willing to send troops with Yang Yun that day was because after occupying this Qingzhou Pass, they had the support to resist the Chu army. Therefore, the two countries sent almost all the soldiers and horses that could be sent in the country to cooperate with Yang Yun to complete this operation.

After occupying Qingzhou Pass, Yang Yun did not stay here for long, he soon took the 30,000 soldiers of the fiefdom and the 20,000 Dafu generals in Chen Guang's hands. In addition, Duanmuxiong and Li Wenke each assigned him 150,000 soldiers from the two countries to form an army of 80,000 people, and marched towards Luzhou Mansion in a mighty manner.

When they passed through Haizhou again, the news of their arrival in Chu had already spread throughout Chu at this time. However, because most of the troops of the Chu State were concentrated on the Yunzhou front, they could not send troops and horses to stop Yang Yun's army for a while.

Yang Yun deliberately asked everyone to bypass some big cities in Haizhou, so when they passed through Haizhou, they didn't experience too many large-scale battles.

During the march, some small cities with weak defenses were directly captured to replenish various supplies. More small cities that did not have many defensive forces, seeing Yang Yun's army coming, simply abandoned the city and fled to avoid too much loss.

In this way, the 80,000 soldiers led by Yang Yun were engaged in sabotage while marching, and the places they walked along the way were made to jump.

This plan was given to Yang Yun by Yao Xia, leaving a lot of messes for the Chu State, so that the Chu State people would take great pains to clean up the mess, so that they would not have much energy to use troops against Dafu again.

The 80,000 soldiers led by Yang Yun did not encounter any trouble in Haizhou Mansion, so they went all the way and soon arrived at Luzhou Mansion.

The situation of Luzhou Mansion and Haizhou Mansion is different, because Luzhou Mansion is next to Dafu, and the defensive level of all their cities has increased a lot, both in terms of the thickness and height of the city wall, and the number of garrisons are much more.

In this case, when the army led by Yang Yiyun entered the Luzhou Mansion, it encountered a lot of trouble.

On the first day of entering Luzhou Mansion, the soldiers led by Yang Yun encountered three ambushes, although these three ambushes did not cause much damage to the team, but they seriously affected the speed of the march.

The ambush team was the soldiers of Luzhou City, this time Yu Xian brought out 400,000 people to fight Dafu, which made the domestic soldiers seriously scarce, even in a big city like Luzhou City, now there are only 30,000 soldiers and horses.

Of course, this person can't compete head-on with the 80,000 soldiers led by Yang Yun. Therefore, taking advantage of the familiar terrain and adopting the means of sneak attack to harass these 80,000 soldiers is the best choice for the Chu army.

Under such a strategy, the speed of Yang Yun and the others was greatly slowed down, and the city of Luzhou Mansion had enough time to prepare.

Therefore, when Yang Yun led the soldiers into the territory of Luzhou Mansion, the cities of Luzhou City all adopted a posture of closing their gates. Even Luzhou City, which had sent troops to attack Yang Yun and others before, chose not to hold out when Yang Yun's people led troops outside the city.

And some small cities with too weak defense capabilities simply gave up defense, and when Yang Yun's team passed by, the officials here took some important materials in the city and hid far away, and when the army passed, they came back again.

This measure taken by all the officials in Luzhou City brought some trouble to Yang Yun's army supply. Fortunately, when they were in Haizhou Mansion, they obtained a large amount of food and various materials from all levels, and finally did not cause serious material shortage.

Stop and go all the way, the team finally came to the Chu River, as long as the Chu River is successfully crossed, you can reach the rear of Yu Xian's team, and when the time comes, Yang Ming, the victorious king of the front line, will attack the Chu army before and after, which will definitely bring great trouble to Yu Xian.

The last time he returned from Zheng Guo, it was when he crossed the river from here, he was pursued by the pursuers, which made Yang Yun fall into the river, and finally under the pursuit of the Chu people, he had to return to Dafu from Liuyi.

When I came to Luqidu this time, the soldiers of the Chu State who were originally guarding here had already fled without a trace, and even the large and small ships here were hidden.

This situation made Yang Yun a headache for his subordinates, Yao Xia led people to search around the neighborhood, and also caught some locals, interrogated them, and it took a lot of effort to find some hidden ships.

Zhu Chenan, who was familiar with the terrain, took some soldiers who had lived here before, traveled to many nearby towns and villages, and found some boats to cross the river.

In order to raise boats to cross the river, 80,000 soldiers led by Yang Yun were stationed in Luqidu for five or six days before they began to cross the river.

In order to enable the team to cross the river safely, Yang Yun asked people to watch the situation on the other side of the river from a high place every day, and what made Yang Yun happy was that he only found hundreds of Chu State defenders, and there was no sign of a large army stationed on the opposite side.

It seems that Yu Xian, who is fighting with Yang Ming, can't draw out soldiers for a while to block his own team. This situation made Yang Yun and his subordinates very happy, and made them full of confidence in successfully crossing the river and attacking Yu Xian's rear.

Hundreds of ships of different sizes, loaded with energetic soldiers, marched towards the east bank of the Chu River in an extremely spectacular manner, Yang Yun and Ju Yuanguang and others stood on the shore, looking at the calm and unusually calm opposite wharf, and breathed a long sigh of relief.

At this time, the fleet had already reached the center of the river, and it would not take long to successfully reach the east bank of the Chu River.

But at this moment, there was movement from the opposite side, and a pair of cavalry suddenly appeared in everyone's sight, and they rushed towards the river as fast as they could.

The speed of these cavalry was very fast, and it did not take long for them to reach the dock on the bank of the river.

The cavalry were clearly prepared, and when they reached the river, they immediately turned over and dismounted, raised their bows and arrows, and shot at the boats in the river.

This group of cavalry was about 3,000 people, although the number was not very large, but the ships in the river were like targets at this time, and soon many soldiers were shot by bows and arrows and fell into the river.

The soldiers who crossed the river immediately raised their shields that had already been placed in the boat to block the bow shots fired from the river bank, and accelerated the speed of the boat, wanting to rush to the river bank as soon as possible to destroy these sudden enemy cavalry.

But what made everyone desperate was that the enemy army appeared again behind the riverbank, and this time it was the infantry, and the black pressure was overwhelming, and there were forty or fifty thousand people in sight.

"These hateful fellows, they have already come to the other side of the river now, but they hide in the rear and do not show up, just wait for us to cross the river and then attack us." Looking at these Chu troops who were about to arrive on the bank of the river, Zhu Chen'an on the side said indignantly.

"Yes! The leading general of the Chu army seems to be very smart, and it is impossible for us to cross the river successfully, so quickly pass the order and let Liu Yuan in front withdraw with the soldiers. Seeing that soldiers were constantly falling into the river with arrows, Yang Yun was anxious.