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

So General Luo Shi simply asked his soldiers to rush towards the Shu army, and directly got 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 upgraded to a higher level.

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

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

The weight of the armor has been reduced to this level, which greatly reduces the burden on the human body. At the same time, compared with the Shu army You Yijun basically has no armor, and 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 be dead if they were overtaken.

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 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, it was a little late because he had to withdraw the people who were besieging Wukou Pass, so 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 personally go into battle.

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 early morning to early 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 have been at least 8,000.

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

Only Er Zhujing is indeed a partial master.

But now that the partial army 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 Lu'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 a younger brother of Gao Yunquan, the former military commander 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."

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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 commander of the Wuding Army in Yuanzhou, and on the next day he began to attack the Zhou army on Paoma Liang.

At the same time, Er Zhujing went back and mobilized 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 fought to the death.

On Paoma Liang, only about 200 of Gao Lv'er's 500 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 it.

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.

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

He 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.

Alas! 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.

Recently, the work unit is doing the year-end summary, and the number of dinner parties has begun to increase, and I can't fish anymore. Although I haven't finished the supplementary chapter, I still have to say that it may not be updated tomorrow (don't slap me). But since I have already

I owe too many debts, so I try not to take time off.
Chapter completed!