Chapter 671 The Difference Between Famous Generals and Famous Generals

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The so-called rolling armor means rolling the armor stomach into a ball and then carrying it on the body and marching quickly.

Of course, in ancient times, even in the early and mid-Qing Dynasty, soldiers were a very important backbone.

Therefore, there are not many opportunities for soldiers to roll up their armor on the battlefield. Most of the time, the auxiliary soldiers are responsible for carrying the soldiers' rolled armor.

Jiao Jixun looked at the eight hundred warriors following him. He knew that he had to show his true strength. These people would work tirelessly with him and not be afraid of life and death.

Human beings, as the leader of all spirits, can often create miracles once the fierceness in their bones is mobilized.

For example, Su Dingfang's assault of 800 miles in heavy snow, Suvorov's crossing of the Alps, and the even more powerful Red Army's crossing of snowy mountains and grasslands.

The 200-mile rocky road of Wenchuan Road that Jiao Jixun had to walk was certainly not comparable to the above examples, but it was still quite difficult.

If the warriors under his command are not allowed to know the significance of this battle, they may not be able to complete the two hundred miles if they do not risk their lives.

Because these proud soldiers not only had to roll up their armor and walk, they could only eat half full, and they had to fight a bloody battle before leaving the valley mouth.

It is true that they are warriors, but just because they are warriors, they are treated well and their morale is naturally high. There are some things that must be said clearly.

Jiao Jixun did not speak great truth, because that was the power of Emperor Zhang Shengren.

In the world, he is the only one who can give these warriors a big pie, not only because Zhang Shengren can do what he says, but also because even a compliment from him can make a warrior feel like he is on the nine heavens, and can even replace the reward of money. .

But Jiao Jixun couldn't do it, so he stood next to a huge stone.

This was a large stone that was washed away by the river and looked a little pale. Jiao Jixun, carrying dozens of kilograms of cotton armor on his back, jumped on it in one step.

He is about to reach the age where he knows his destiny, he weighs thirty or forty pounds, and his jumping ability is so good, which provokes cheers from the warriors around him.

There is no need for anything else in the army. The first is fairness and the second is skill. As long as these two are in place and you can lead hundreds of soldiers, there won't be a big problem.

"Before setting off, a certain family went to Xin's house and sold 400 acres of paddy fields in Xiangyang Prefecture, and the money they got was no less than 1,000 guan.

With this thousand guan, I am going to take my son and son to Chengdu Mansion to have a good time.

Let’s eat the best Sichuan delicacies, including the Fei Sheep Head that Meng Chang’s children love to eat. We want one plate per person.

Yang Taizhen had eaten lychees from Shuzhong, and he wanted a big basket for each person.

Regardless of the chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, it’s really exciting!

Let’s have one of the best prostitutes and maids in Chengdu Prefecture!

Life is short, but as long as this battle is over, a certain old thieves slave is not ready to live his life anymore, so he will just enjoy it with his brothers. "

Jiao Jixun still said that he was being conservative. The best paddy field in Xiangyang Prefecture was only 40 tons per acre, so he would definitely not be able to win it.

The lychees Yang Taizhen ate in Shuzhong back then have long been depleted due to climate change.

But the soldiers below love to hear this.

A majestic fat man stabbed a half-cooked fish with a sword. Hearing Jiao Jixun describe the delicacies of Sichuan, his mouth watered.

There are those who like women, their eyes flash with golden light and their lower bodies are ready to move.

"Jiao Laozi, if you keep your word and deceive a certain family, we will come to you with a knife!"

Some people were so excited by Jiao Jixun's description that they wished that the war would be over now and that they could go to Chengdu Mansion to relax.

After the number of people around him decreased, the distance between Jiao Jixun and them suddenly became very close, so much so that the warriors around him dared to call him Laozi Jiao, which is almost the same as Old Man Jiao.

"Fuck you! I keep my word. If you don't want to part with those three or five dollars, you can come to a certain house and cut up that thing on your crotch and serve it to you."

Jiao Jixun, who has always presented himself as a Confucian general, has become extremely rude at this moment, but the more he behaves like this, the more he can win the hearts of his subordinates.

The crowd burst into laughter again, and then Jiao Jixun pressed his hands down to signal everyone to be quiet.

"Among the countries in the world, Nanping and Nanchu have returned to the country, and the Southern Tang has long been defeated. Qian Yue has always been respectful.

Only Meng Shu and the Han Kingdom in Lingnan have not yet surrendered. Among them, Meng Shu is the strongest, so we will deal with him today.

But have you ever thought about it, after defeating Meng and Shu, what other battles in the world are worthy of heroes like us fighting?

there is none left! Sometimes there are too many monks but not enough rice, and it is not always possible to get on the wheel.

Therefore, this expedition to Shu is the last chance for a good man to make a contribution!

Following the army to attack Wuxiuguan, I don't know when it will be captured. After the victory, there were tens of thousands of people. If everyone got a share of the credit, it wouldn't be much.

But for us, as long as our legs and feet are fast enough, we can be the first to rush into the Xingyuan Mansion of Shu Kingdom, even rush through the Jiange, and be the first to go to Shuzhong. What a great achievement! My sons, children, and grandchildren will never be able to finish it in ten lifetimes.

Gentlemen! Do you dare to follow a certain Jiao Jixun and give it a try? Give it a try! "

"Dare! Dare! Dare!"

The sound shook everyone, and the atmosphere was completely aroused. Then Jiao Jixun took the lead, shouldering his armor and stomach and starting to stride forward.

From him onwards, all officers carry their own armor, bows and arrows.

This is a real rocky road. Although there are few cliffs, the feet are basically covered with scattered rocks washed away by the river. It is normal for your feet and calves to be scratched by the rocks when you climb up and down. things.

Since each person only brought two kilograms of dry rice and a small amount of suet, the animals suffered a lot along the way.

Small fish and shrimps in the river, wild boars and muntjacs in the mountains, and even birds have all become targets.

Hundreds of people drank fish and shrimp soup with a strong smell, and gnawed on half-cooked various animal meats, trying to fill their stomachs as much as possible.

Jiao Jixun ran at the front covered in dust, begging in his heart that it must not rain. If it rained and turned the ground into mud, it would be impossible to march.

Yuanzhou, Wukou Pass.

As Sun Hanshao expected, the Zhou army did not stop at all after breaking through Raofeng Pass. They went all the way up the Han River, chasing the defeated troops of Wuding Army in Yuanzhou, and came directly to Wukou Pass.

Er Zhujing's face flushed with excitement. Back then, he, Liu Zaisheng and Zhao Cunyi returned eastwards as generals of the three thousand Han'er army that King Li Shengtian of the Jin Kingdom gave to Zhang Gao.

After that, the experiences of the three people were different.

Needless to say, Liu Zaisheng was the general who had been by his side since the beginning of Emperor Shaoming. After arriving in the Central Plains, he had made many military exploits and was now an indispensable commander for everyone.

Zhao Cunyi was a little unlucky. He injured his leg when he entered the Guanzhong battle for the first time. He was able to ride a horse, but he was always a little lame when walking.

Now, being able to supervise and supervise the army of a government is all the result of the emperor's care.

As for Er Zhujing, he had made many military exploits, but they were not numerous or big enough.

Although he has achieved the positions of governor of Xiangyang Prefecture, supervisor of soldiers and horses, commander of the guard army, and commander-in-chief of Feng'an Town, which are similar to the governor of Shannan East Road.

But he only had one earl title and failed to become a top minister.

He has always regarded this as a deep regret, and now, the opportunity has finally come!

As a general who has been fighting for a long time, Er Zhujing was keenly aware of the weaknesses of the entire Shannan West Road Shu army.

They paid too much attention to the defenses from Qishan Road to the west and Baoxie Road to the north, but somewhat neglected the defense of Jinzhou (Shaanxi Ankang) to the east.

This can be felt from the quality of the Wuding Army soldiers who fought with him, so Er Zhujing keenly seized this opportunity.

Although his status is not high, Feng'an Town is also lagging behind in the Forbidden Army, but because of this, his combination of weak generals and weak soldiers can take a deep breath to prove to the world that Feng'an Town is not Belly in the Forbidden Army.

However, soon, reality gave Er Zhujing a blow in the head.

He commanded his soldiers to start attacking without waiting for them to leave the stronghold, but You Yijun came to report that 3,000 reinforcements had arrived from the direction of Yuanzhou.

Er Zhujing looked bitterly at the panicked Shu army at Wukou Pass that he had beaten. They were still one last breath away from attacking Wukou Pass. If these reinforcements arrived two hours later, he would have attacked Wukou Pass. hateful!

"The right guards, with 1,500 men, were left to guard the area, and civilian husbands and Yicong warriors were ordered to leave the stronghold immediately. Marquis Yu from the capital of Zhao was responsible for commanding the naval warships to block the mouth of the river.

The men of Feng'an Town went with me to test the quality of these Shu troops. "

After thinking quickly for a while, Er Zhujing made a safe arrangement. He still had to go to the stronghold first. If he could not defeat the three thousand reinforcements quickly, he would be too passive if he did not have a stronghold by then.

Northwest of Wukou Pass, there is a mountain ridge called Paoma Liang, which is the most critical mountain ridge from Yuanzhou to Wukou Pass.

You Yijun of the Shu Wu Ding Army had reached the foot of Paoma Liang Mountain long before the army arrived.

However, before the Shu army, You Yijun, had all turned their heads to observe the terrain, dozens of arrows suddenly shot out from halfway up the mountain, and four or five of the Shu army were immediately shot down.

In order to reduce weight, You Yijun usually did not wear much armor when doing exploration and search, so anyone who was shot immediately screamed loudly.

Of course, those who can serve as Youyi troops are generally elites in the army. After this group of thirty-odd Shu soldiers were shot down by four or five people, the rest of the soldiers immediately ran to hide behind rocks or trees.

A few slightly thin Shu soldiers were like macaques, using the thick trunks to cover themselves and quickly climbed up the trees.

Then they roared loudly and kept reporting the location of the Zhou army ambushed in the distance to their colleagues.

General Luo Shi of the Youyi Army in Feng'an Town frowned, showing a vigilant look for the first time.

Feng'an Town is mostly composed of soldiers from Ningxia Province. General Luo Shi is from the Luo Li tribe in Dangxiang, and the infantry under his command are basically Hengshan Qiang.

Even among the pro-army and forbidden troops of the Zhou Kingdom, the Hengshan Qiang were very famous as mountain infantry.

But after arriving at Xingyuan Mansion, the mountains here were very different from Hengshan. The trees were taller and the shrubs were denser. The humidity and heat made their mobility in the mountains much worse.

But the Shu army on the opposite side didn't have so many worries. They were just like a duck in water.

As the soldiers under General Luo Shi were found one by one by Shu Zhong in the tree, their ambush advantage was quickly exhausted.

So General Luo Shi simply asked his soldiers to rush towards the Shu army and get close to engage in hand-to-hand combat.

Although they can't take advantage in the mountains and forests, the advantages in equipment are huge.

Zhou Jun has now developed two new types of cotton armor, one of which only adds iron plates to key parts such as the chest.

This can reduce the weight of the cotton armor to about fifteen to eighteen kilograms, greatly improving mobility, but it can also avoid some key injuries, which is especially suitable for pursuit battles in mountains and deserts.

The other is to use the quality advantage of the latest refined steel developed by Tiangong Institute to polish the steel sheet even thinner.

The total weight of the cotton armor produced in this way was reduced from about thirty-five to forty kilograms to about twenty-two kilograms.

Compared with the previous cotton armor that only protected key parts, this thin cotton armor's overall defense has been improved to a higher level.

But what is lost is the protection against weapons such as spears and axes. Although it can resist the loss of ordinary swords and arrows, it is somewhat powerless against heavy weapons.

And General Luo Shi and others were wearing the former type of cotton armor, which weighed only a dozen kilograms.

The weight of the armor and stomach has been reduced to this level, which greatly reduces the burden on the human body. At the same time, it has basically no armor compared to the Youyi Army of the Shu Army, which has a huge advantage.

So as soon as the battle came close, the situation began to become one-sided. As long as the Shu army was not overtaken, they would die if they were.

At least General Luo Shi was stabbed in the chest three or four times, but nothing happened to him. On the contrary, the Shu army on the opposite side basically went to see the King of Hell as long as he was stabbed in the vital part.

Soon, You Yijun, who had arrived early from the Shu army, was driven off Paoma Liang.

Wang Huan, the military governor of the Wuding Army in Yuanzhou, had no choice but to personally supervise and lead his last three thousand Wuding Army tooth soldiers to attack desperately.

On Er Zhujing's side, he was a little late because he had to withdraw the people who were besieging Wukou Pass. He could only rely on General Luo Shi and others to delay the Shu army's attack.

General Luo Shi also became ruthless. Dozens of people blocked several key roads and blocked the Wuding Army of Shu to the point where Wang Huan, the military commander, was needed to go into battle in person.

Paoma Liang is a mountain ridge in the shape of a few letters. The hills and ravines are next to each other. There are many differences and there are very few flat areas. The two sides started a fierce battle on this mountain land.

The Shu army is stronger because of its familiarity with geography and the bonus of movement in the mountains, while the Zhou army is stronger because it is braver and better equipped.

The battle lasted from midnight in the morning to early in the afternoon. The two sides fought for one hilltop after another, and finally reached the point where almost all the personal guards around Er Zhujing were sent out.

Finally, after dozens of battles, the Shu army was left with more than 300 corpses, and almost all of them were driven out of Paoma Liang.

However, before Er Zhujing could take a breath, reinforcements from the Shu Army arrived under the banner of Wu Yi Army.

Er Zhujing frowned. The reinforcements from the Shu army came too quickly.

But he was immediately overjoyed.

Because the Shu army's strength in Shannan West Road is limited, there are only more than 20,000 people in total.

If we include the 3,000 people he defeated at Raofeng Pass, and even if there were duplicate soldiers among them, the number of troops sent by the Shu Army to Wukou Pass would be at least 8,000.

In the four-pronged attack against Shu, whether they were taking the Baoxie Road, those taking the Yangtze River upstream, or even Gao Huaide and others on the Qishan Road, they could actually be regarded as the main force.

Only Er Zhujing's path is indeed a partial one.

But now that the partial division has attracted 40% of the troops on the south west road of Shu's mountain, it will be easier to break through the natural dangers in central Shu in the remaining places.

In view of the difficulty of transporting supplies to Paoma Liang, Er Zhujing decisively left 500 of Feng'an Town's most elite troops to guard the two critical points, while the army retreated to attack Wukou Pass.

"Gao Lv'er, a certain family will leave you 200 sets of cotton armor and 20,000 arrows. You must guard Paoma Liang for two days, and a certain family will break through Wukou Pass within two days."

Gao Lv'er was Zhang Shengren's younger uncle and the younger brother of Gao Yunquan, the former military governor of Yanzhou Zhangwu Army. Hearing this, he immediately crossed his arms.

"As long as Gao Lv'er doesn't die, the Shu army will not be able to cross Paoma Liang."

. . . .

The reinforcements that the Shu army arrived were naturally the 4,000 men of Li Jin, the horse infantry envoy of Jieduyanei, Shannan West Road.

After he arrived, he immediately joined forces with Wang Huan, the military envoy of Wuding Army in Yuanzhou, and began to attack the Zhou army on Paoma Liang the next day.

At the same time, Er Zhujing went back to mobilize an army to attack Wukou Pass. Even the civilians issued swords and sent them to the front line. The two sides competed for time.

On April 10th, after two and a half days of bloody battle, Er Zhujing finally captured Wukou Pass.

The Shu army in the pass was also the elite of Wuding's army. After breaking through the pass, they also carried out street fighting to resist. More than 700 people were killed by the formation, and as many as 500 were killed. It can be said that they will fight to the death.

On Paoma Liang, only about 200 of Gao Lv'er's five hundred people were left. On the two key hillsides near Paoma Liang, blood stained the entire hillside purple.

Gao Lv'er relied on two simple fortifications to block more than 6,000 Shu troops at the foot of the hillside.

Once Wukou Pass was lost, the Shu army lost the need to continue attacking Erzhujing.

At this time, there are still two roads to go from Wukou Pass, the exit of Ziwu Road, to Xingyuan Mansion (Hanzhong).

One goes to Xixiang County in the south, which was the seat of Yangzhou Prefecture in the Tang Dynasty, and the other goes to Yuanzhou.

Wang Huan could only divide a thousand troops to cross the mountains and ridges to defend Xixiang County, and the rest of the army returned to Yuanzhou with Li Jin to defend.

When all this happened, Li Cunhui had just arrived at Wuxiuguan, and Jiao Jixun was still hesitating whether to risk his life on Wenchuan Road.

It can be said that Er Zhujing only used 8,000 people from Feng'an Town and Xiangyang's left, middle and right guards to create extremely favorable conditions for the army to enter Xingyuan Prefecture under the extremely difficult situation of going upstream.

. . . .

Shannan West Road, Xingyuan Prefecture, Sun Hanshao learned that the Zhou army had captured Wukou Pass again, and Wang Huan and Li Jin could only retreat to Yuanzhou.

He was finally 'confirmed' that the Zhou army wanted to capture Xingyuan Mansion first and then move towards Shu.

So three batches of eight hundred-mile envoys were sent to Chengdu Prefecture, asking Meng Chang to send troops to reinforce Xingyuan Prefecture.

well! Although Sun Hanshao is already one of the most famous generals in Shu, his own abilities are not even comparable to those of Yan Jin, Murong Nobunaga, Ma Zhaoyuan, Fu Yanqing, and Guo Wei.

Even compared to Li Cunhui, Guo Congyi, Zhang Zhaojiu, An Shenqi and others, they may be slightly inferior.

Although he knew that there was a gap between the Shu army and the Zhou army, he still failed to clearly understand how big the gap was. If all the Shu army entered Xingyuan Mansion, Shu would be empty.