Juyongguan connects the Taihang Mountains and the Yanshan Mountains, and the terrain is dangerous, and the strategic significance is very important.

At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the northern Xinjiang was hit by a military disaster, the Han government moved the residents of Shanggu County and Dai County to Juyong Guandong to avoid trouble.

Guo Peng led the army to advance in the direction of Juyong Pass, and at the same time quickly reported to Shanggu Taishou Gaoyan, asking him to immediately send county soldiers to seize the fortification of Juyong Pass, so as to prevent the rebels from breaking Juyong Pass and slaughtering Shanggu County.

A few days ago, Shanggu Taishou Gaoyan received an urgent report from the sect members, and in a panic, he immediately recruited 500 county soldiers to seize the fortification of Juyong Pass, and then recruited soldiers on the spot.

In a few days, Gao Yan forcibly recruited 1,000 county soldiers to prepare for defense, and when he felt that there were few soldiers and horses and asked Guo Peng for help, Guo Peng warned him that the fast horse that seized the fortification of Juyong Pass also came, Gao Yan made up his mind and immediately mobilized all the resources in his hands to prepare to defend the pass.

From Juyong Pass to Jixian County, an extremely weak defense line for the Han army was thus constituted, and for the rebels, taking Juyong Pass could not only prevent Guo Peng from moving south and join the sect, but also completely wipe out Guo Peng's cavalry.

They believed that the most combat-effective unit in the entire Youzhou was the Karasuma battalion under Guo Peng's command.

So the rebels marched in two directions, while the Han army resisted under the leadership of Zongyuan and Guo Peng, and a major battle was about to break out.

In this great battle, the Han army was extremely inferior from the beginning.

Zhang Ju Zhang Chun opened the arsenals of various places and gave the weapons and equipment of the Han army to the Karasuma cavalry of the Wuyan Division, not only that, but also gave armor, bows and crossbows and siege equipment.

So this Karasuma cavalry not only had the mobility, but also had the ability to siege the city, and broke through several unprepared cities along the way, got more military supplies, and greatly increased its strength, so they dared to attack Juyong Pass and drove directly to Shanggu County to find trouble with Guo Peng.

Zhang Chun led an absolutely superior force of more than 50,000 people to attack Jixian County, and the more than 10,000 people who were hurriedly prepared by the sect members were shocked.

When his soldiers and horses had not yet arrived in Jixian County to attack, there were deserters under the command of the sect members, fleeing in the direction of Zhuojun and Jizhou, but fortunately, the cavalry led by Nanlou arrived in time and stabilized the situation.

And Qiu Liju and Zhang Ju also joined together, and the two sides held an alliance and signed an alliance treaty, with Feiru as a base, and the prestige was even greater.

Zhang Ju saw that the situation was very good, and the initial panic disappeared into invisibility, and he was complacent, and immediately began to prepare for the enthronement as the emperor.

He decided to be the Son of Heaven himself, named Zhang Chun the king of stability, the general of the heavens, and officially broke with the Han court and confronted him.

At that time, it was the first day of the fifth month of the fourth year of Zhongping.

On this day, Guo Peng led 10,000 soldiers and horses to Fuyang County and met Shanggu Taishou Gaoyan.

Gao Yan was relieved to see Guo Peng leading his soldiers and horses to support, and immediately handed over the military command, and returned to Fuyang County to mobilize materials for Guo Peng to ensure logistics.

Guo Peng took over the command of more than 1,500 county soldiers, climbed the Juyong Pass to inspect the defense, and observed the terrain around the Juyong Pass, and determined that this battle would be dominated by infantry confrontation, and the Karasuma people would definitely push the siege equipment to dismount and fight on foot to take Juyong Pass.

On the second day of the fifth month, the Karasuma Pioneer arrived at a place more than ten miles east of Juyong Pass, and advanced several miles, choosing to set up camp at a place five miles away from Juyong Pass.

Immediately after that, a large number of Karasuma people arrived, and just like Guo Pengchai, they pushed siege equipment, held the weapons of the Han army, and wore the armor of the Han army, completely like a fierce Han army.

"The Karasuma people are holding the weapons of our Han and are coming to capture the Juyong Pass, the other side has many people and we have few people, they must think that they have an advantage, but we have the advantage of the Juyong Pass, we can first frustrate the enemy's spirit, and then wait for the opportunity to counterattack."

Guo Peng summoned all the generals to discuss tactical strategies, first decided to defend the city, observe how strong the combat effectiveness of this Karasuma people was, and then look for opportunities to break the enemy in one fell swoop.

Guo Peng didn't provoke the Karasuma people to rebel in advance without being prepared at all, he also had a lot of preparations, such as preparing a lot of earth-shattering thunder.

The last time he used the earth-shaking thunder to break the enemy, he found that the earth-shaking thunder was indeed very useful, and it was more efficient to deal with the uncivilized Hu people.

The development and application of new weapons is always something that a country and a nation must do.

It's just a pity that he can only go so far now.

On the evening of the second day of the first month of May, Uyan led the main force of the rebels to the camp and began to rest.

Early in the morning of the third day of the fifth month, Wuyan ordered the rebels to prepare for battle, wearing the big shield of the Han army, wearing the armor of the Han army, holding the weapons of the Han army, and began to attack Juyong Pass in the way of the Han army.

Wu Yan had unprecedented self-confidence, and when he learned that Guo Peng led his army to defend Juyong Pass, he felt that he would definitely be able to defeat Guo Peng, who had greatly shocked them, at Juyong Pass, kill him, and completely cut off his threat.

Of course, he is very feared by ordinary Karasuma people, but for these Karasuma adults, Guo Peng is also an extremely terrifying deterrent.

The Han people's captain Gokarsuma is so strong, which is not a good thing for the high-ranking nobles of Karasuma.

Guo Peng ordered the army to take turns to defend the city and exercise its combat effectiveness.

The first group to go up to defend the city were Cao Ren and Cao Hong, the second wave was Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun, the third wave would order Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to go up, and the fourth wave was himself, bringing Guo Lie and Zhao Yun.

Bows and arrows were fired at each other, rolling wood and stones struck, and Cao Ren and Cao Hong commanded the army and the rebels to engage in a fierce offensive and defensive battle on the city.

There were also Han officers in the rebels, and they wanted to build an arrow tower outside the city to suppress the Han army, so Cao Hong immediately went down to the city to reorganize his troops and horses and kill them outside the city, destroyed several earth cities of the rebels, and frustrated their spirit.

The rebels increased their troops several times in a row, and Guo Peng also changed people to defend the city several times in a row, maintaining the army's strong combat effectiveness and physical strength, so that Wuyan could not occupy any advantage for two consecutive days, and even the city wall of Guancheng could not be approached, but lost more than 2,000 soldiers.

At this time, to the east of the first line of Juyongguan and Jixian County, the rebels were raging wildly, sweeping through Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaodong and Liaoxi counties.

Because they didn't have time to prepare in advance, wherever they went, the Han army was either defeated or surrendered in Kaecheng, and Zhang Ju and Qiu Liju plundered and plundered, causing great harm to the people of Youzhou.

Guo Peng and his Zongyuan fought to contain the rebels, and the army marched further west and south to Bingzhou and Jizhou, and even further south to Qingzhou.

It didn't take long for Guo Peng and the sect members to learn that Zhang Ju claimed to be the Son of Heaven, announced his break with the Han Court, and asked Emperor Ling to abdicate and make way for Xian.

The sect member was shocked, and immediately informed the imperial court of the matter, asking the imperial court to send troops to rescue him immediately.

Guo Peng secretly sneered, feeling that the more such people, the better, and the more such people, the more they could hit the prestige of the Han family, and the weaker the prestige of the Han family, the more people in the world would have different intentions.

In the troubled times, the first to make trouble under the banner was to open the way for the real dragon, and the first to make trouble often failed to succeed, so later Zhu Yuanzhang adopted the strategic idea of "building a high wall, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king".

And this will also become Guo Peng's strategic guiding ideology on the road to self-reliance.