"It's a good plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, so that we can join forces with Zheng Guo and Yu Yue. In addition, two years ago, I made a detour to the seashore and stationed 20,000 soldiers between Zheng Guo and Yu Yue, together we can form an army of 100,000 and turn him upside down in the rear of Chu State. Ju Yuanguang on the side said with a smile.

"Good! In this way, this time we must let Yu Xian drink a good pot, and it is not in vain that we have gone through all the hardships to climb this mountain, and we have lost so many brothers. Yang Yun said loudly.

After formulating a strategy, the army was still stationed in the mountains, Yao Xia took a dozen guards who had been to Zheng Guo and Yu Yue, disguised themselves as merchants, bought good horses in the nearby market, and hurried to Zheng Guo and Yu Yue, their task was to contact Zheng Guo and Yu Yue.

Guyang City in the Chu State is a small county in Haizhou, where the city walls are low and the defense is very lax. At this time, it was already dark, and the guards guarding the city were dozing off on the tower.

There were more than 30,000 people in Guyang City, and they never imagined that one day they would become the target of enemy attacks.

That night, a light rain fell in the sky, and the sky without moon and stars made it so dark that you couldn't see your fingers, and the sound of rain completely covered the sound of the procession moving forward.

The shouts from the city woke up the city walls, and the city guards, who were sleeping in a daze, one of the guards lay on the wall and looked down the city.

I saw some people standing at the city gate, and the guards hurriedly borrowed torches to barely see the people under the city. I saw more than a dozen business-looking people in the city, pushing some carts full of things.

"Who are you? What are you doing at the gates of the city in the middle of the night? "Being woken up by these people's sweet dreams, the guards at the gate were very unhappy.

"Report to the military master, the little ones are businessmen from Qingzhou, who met this rainy day in Guixian on the way, and wanted to rest here for a day, and asked the military master to let us into the city." Someone in the city pleaded.

"Hmph, enter the city, you think of it, since you are a merchant, don't you know the rules that all the cities in my Chu country are not allowed to enter at night?" The guard said angrily.

"Master Jun, you can do it, we have rice and noodles and other things in our car, if it gets wet in the rain, it will be moldy, and we will lose all our money this time! We also know that the military masters are working hard, so buy some wine for the military masters to drink these silver taels to drive away the chill on their bodies! The man below said again.

"Hehe, it seems that you merchants still know the rules, hand over the things first, if the silver is enough, we can make an exception!" The guards said as they hung a basket from the wall.

The people below immediately put a cloth bag into the basket, and shortly after the basket was raised to the city wall, the rope on the gate suspension bridge remembered the "creaking" sound, and then the city gate slowly opened.

The city gate had just been raised, about half a person high, and the more than a dozen people under the city didn't even ask for a cart, so they couldn't wait to rush into the city.

These "merchants" who rushed into the city, after entering the city, did not go into the city, but rushed up to the city walls and attacked the guards defending the city.

There were about fifty or sixty soldiers defending the city, and before they could react, they were cut down and taken over by these men who controlled the ropes of the city gates.

The guards who reacted to the gate vigorously beat the big drum on the city wall to summon the guards in the city, while picking up the swords in their hands and desperately attacking these "merchants".

However, these dozen or so "merchants" were extremely brave, and in the face of the guards who outnumbered them, they were not afraid at all, and they took up the swords in their hands to fight them, and they did not fall behind at all.

At the same time, there was a sudden sound outside the city, and a large group of people rushed towards the city in a black and oppressive manner.

Before the soldiers of the city could reach the city walls, the people from outside the city had already rushed into the city.

These people who rushed into the city were the part of the fiefdom soldiers led by Liu Yuan, they were obviously prepared, and immediately after entering the city, they were divided into several teams, some rushed to the city wall to reinforce the soldiers who advanced to the city first, and some quickly rushed to all parts of the city.

The people in Guyang City heard the sound of shouting and killing in the city, and they quietly opened the windows to look out, but saw some unknown soldiers, chasing and killing the defenders in their own city all over the street.

There has almost never been a war in Guyang City, where have these people seen such a bloody scene, they were so frightened that they hurriedly closed the doors and windows, extinguished the lights in the house, and hid inside and didn't even dare to breathe.

This temporary incident did not last too long, due to the great disparity in strength, the defenders of Guyang City did not hold out for too long, and immediately gave up the battle and surrendered.

After occupying Guyang City, Liu Yuan, who was in charge of the operation, immediately asked people to close the city gates, and blocked the city, not allowing anyone to leave the city.

At the same time, Liu Haini and Zhu Chenan also led their respective units to occupy some surrounding towns as quickly as possible.

After occupying these places, they did not stay here, and the 30,000 soldiers quickly replenished their horses, food and other war materials, and quickly rushed to Qingzhou Pass.

Yang Yun and his generals knew the truth of the speed of soldiers, and after receiving the news that Yao Xia had received the news that Zheng Guo and General Yu Yue had jointly sent troops, they did not hesitate and started the operation as quickly as possible.

The Qingzhou Pass guard will be the son of the nobles of the Zhao State, who has no combat experience, but the family status is prominent, in order to let him earn military merits, he let him take 50,000 people to guard the Qingzhou Pass, which is not much risk.

This guard general never thought that someone would launch an attack on Qingzhou Pass, so he waited for the expiration of his term of office to return to Chuyang City with his military exploits and accept the reward of the King of Chu.

When he heard that someone was attacking the city, this general was throwing off his arms and gambling with his generals. He was unlucky, and scolded the soldier who reported the news, saying that he deliberately entertained himself.

The soldier who reported the news talked for a long time, and finally made the gatekeeper reluctantly believe that someone had come to attack the Qingzhou Pass, and he came to the Taoist temple wall slowly, and saw the dense Zheng Guohe Yuren soldiers under the city, he couldn't help but be stunned.

It took a long time for the guard to react, this Zheng Guo and Yu Yue actually came to Qingzhou Pass, ready to attack the Xiongguan they were guarding.

The guard carefully looked at the coalition forces of several countries under the city, and it was estimated that there were as many as fifty or sixty thousand people here, and these two small countries actually gathered so many people to capture the Qingzhou Pass that they were guarding.

Qingzhou Pass is a very important pass of the Chu State, and the Chu State has spent a lot of manpower and material resources in order to repair this Xiongguan. Therefore, this pass is built with a high wall and thick walls, and under normal circumstances, it is difficult to capture this Xiongguan no matter how many people there are.

However, the defending generals at this pass did not have much experience in commanding operations at all, and he was just here to mix up some credit, and when he saw so many people coming to attack the city, he panicked all of a sudden.

The general defending the city immediately asked his soldiers to guard the wall, and sent people to nearby cities or garrisons, hoping that they would send reinforcements, and at the same time send people to report to the court of Chu.

After these soldiers came to the wall, they did not rush to attack the Qingzhou Pass. They set up all their engineering equipment and set up camp here, seemingly waiting for the time to start fighting.

In this way, this time Zheng Guo and Yu Yue's coalition army,

It was stationed outside the pass for two days, and there was neither a siege nor a withdrawal of troops.

This scene made the generals guarding the wall very puzzled, but since the enemy did not attack the city. They also ended up with ease, but they told their men to keep a close watch and be ready to deal with the enemy's siege operations.

Before dawn on the third day, three fires suddenly ignited a few miles behind Qingzhou Pass, reflecting the sky red.

Seeing this red firelight, the three leading generals of the coalition this time, Duanmuxiong, the general of Zheng Guohussar, Li Wenke, the king of Yuening, and Chen Guang, the general of Xuanwei sent by Dafu, looked at each other and smiled, and immediately organized his soldiers to start attacking the city.

The first wave of the coalition attack was a long-range attack, using crossbows and catapults to launch a powerful attack on the Chu soldiers at the head of the city.

For a while, the strong crossbows and boulders flew towards the city wall of Qingzhou Pass like raindrops, and the Chu soldiers who were guarding the city were so frightened that they immediately hid behind the battlements and did not dare to take their heads. But even then, there have been some unlucky eggs who have been shot with crossbows or hit by boulders.

This round of attacks did not cause too many casualties to the Chu army, but such a result was also expected by the coalition commanders. Under the cover of these stones and crossbows, wooden mantle vehicles carried soldiers and quickly rushed towards the pass.

Soon after, the soldiers reached the bottom of the city walls, immediately carried ladders one after another, set them on the walls, and then rushed to the top of the city as fast as they could.

"They're going to rush up, go up and knock down the ladder that toppled them, and pour all the boiling water they have prepared for me." Seeing that the enemy was about to rush to the city, the commander of the Chu army shouted anxiously.

"General, our city wall is four or five zhang high, and their troops are not much more than ours, they have little effect in attacking the city like this, and we don't need to waste so many materials." Seeing that his commander was so unbearable, an adjutant general next to him softly dissuaded, and there was some disdain in his tone.

"That's good, that's good." Hearing the adjutant general say this, the commander of the Chu army finally breathed a sigh of relief, but he still looked nervously in the direction of the city wall.

The adjutant general was right, the soldiers besieging the city finally climbed the wall, and they were immediately attacked by the Chu army guarding the pass. The soldiers besieging the city used the ladder to lie on the top of the wall and start a big battle with the Chu army guarding the pass, but where were they the opponents of the Chu army who were waiting for work, and they were driven off the city after a while.

But these besieging soldiers seemed to have an iron heart, and after a short rest, they launched the next attack, and the two sides once again fought to the death at the head of the city.

Although the battle seemed to be fierce, it was very beneficial to the Chu army at the head of the city, they occupied the advantage of the terrain, and under the command of the deputy general defending the city, they did not even use the materials for defending the city such as boiling water and oil, so they firmly held the head of the city.

At this time, there was a sudden sound behind Qingzhou Pass, and the generals defending the city immediately stood on a high place and looked to the rear. I saw a group of soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Chu army, rushing towards Qingzhou Pass.

"Great, great, our reinforcements have arrived, quickly let people open the rear and close the door to welcome our reinforcements." The general defending the city immediately shouted with joy.

"That's a coincidence! No sooner had the enemy attacked the city than our reinforcements arrived. The adjutant said to himself.

Although the adjutant was suspicious, these reinforcements came from within the Chu State, and they were wearing the clothes of the soldiers of the Chu army. Therefore, he did not insist, and let the general defending the city order his soldiers to open the gate in the direction of Chu State.

Although the city was well defended at this time, the Chu soldiers defending the city were also very happy when they saw the reinforcements arrive. Everyone immediately shouted and threw themselves into the action of driving the enemy troops who had climbed up to the top of the city with greater enthusiasm.