Dong Zunzhi led his troops to set up a wooden ladder and enter the smoke, almost without much fighting, as if he just went in to clean up the battlefield. The dense camp of the Shu army behind the earthen fort suffered numerous casualties, and the rest were defeated. Dong Zunzhi led his troops to chase and kill a mile, and easily captured several defensive fences of the Shu soldiers.

When Guo Shao heard the news, he led an army to reinforce him, and the people behind rushed to build roads and fill trenches.

The smoke was very large, and Guo Shao couldn't see the situation clearly when he passed through the Shu army fortress, and there was no resistance anyway. It's okay if he doesn't look at it, so it's a bit out of order...... However, it is indeed the fastest way, at least to avoid greater casualties among your own army. It is said that Zhuge Liang burned the rattan armor soldiers too cruelly, and he damaged his yang longevity, and he didn't know whether it was true or not.

As we walked west, the smoke gradually thinned out, and when I looked back, the smoke had already reached the surface of the river, and a white smoke was enveloped on the water, as if suddenly a fog had fallen.

The sight on the river surface to the west was very light, Guo Shao walked for a while, and he could already see a horizontal black thing on the river surface from a distance. It's too far away to look down on something, but there have already been detectives who say it's a Suojiang pontoon bridge...... The water defense line of the Shu army. But Guo Shao did not intend to pay attention to the line of defense for the time being: as long as the shore was occupied, the pontoon bridge could not float on the river out of thin air without being washed away by the water.

And there are still many Shu soldiers on the shore, like a long dragon array on the road on the shore. The Shu army really deployed a lot of troops on this line.

They were in a hurry to repair the fortifications in front, perhaps trying to defend the advance of the Zhou army layer by layer. Dong Zunzhi did not rush to attack the formed Shu army, he was there to rectify the chaotic men and horses after the attack...... Victory or defeat, it is not easy to redeploy into a front after the army is in disarray.

"Tell Dong Zunzhi to come over." Guo Shao ordered.

After a while, Dong Zunzhi came over with a black face and said, "Uncle." ”

Guo Shao grabbed the wet towel on his shoulder, wiped his face, and encouraged: "You did a good job." ”

Dong Zunzhi wiped his face clean, his forehead was full, his facial features were upright, and he looked good. He said, "I didn't do anything, so I walked a mile with the people." That** is too powerful, but I always feel unhappy, there are Shu soldiers in front of me who want to resist, and my uncle let me continue to go! ”

"If you go into battle, you will die, and if you can win if you go on a trip, you can win." Guo Shao said, he turned back to look at the first heavy armor commander he brought, "Our troops are enough, we don't have to wait for your people to straighten out the formation, and tell them to go to the back." Take five hundred heavy armor with you. ”

Dong Zunzhi hugged his fists and said, "Obey." ”

Guo Shao observed it and felt that it was useless to have a lot of people in this place. After leaving a gap between the front and back traffic on the riverside road, only ten people on foot can walk side-by-side at the widest point.

With this kind of road, 500 people can form a team of 50 rows in depth, which is already a very thick formation. Even a hundred thousand troops would be of no avail, and the fighting front would be only a few places. The elite is more important here than the numbers.

Guo Shaorang went to the side of the road, found a gentle slope on the mountain wall, and let the first commander of the First Army of the Left Carriage move forward. This command is the most elite infantry, so only a few hundred pairs of plate armor are equipped with them. The members are all young and strong under the age of thirty-five, all of them have broad chests, thin waists, long legs and feet, and this kind of man has the best physical strength, so he is an elite soldier...... If your physical strength is not good, you have to rush to kill and fight with a weapon in a forty or fifty pound armor, and you probably won't be able to walk without being beaten by others.

Zhou Tong stepped forward with people, and the military power was led by Dong Zunyu. A few days ago, the fierce general named Zhang Jiankui, whom Guo Shao knew, did not come, he was injured, although they were all slightly injured, but he could not recover in a few days, and the injury affected the battle.

…… The two groups of people and horses slowly approached between the mountains and rivers, the Shu army did not move, and the Zhou army here was like a moving long dragon, and the square flag embroidered with tigers in front of it shook gently in the wind. The noisy sound has a sense of loneliness at this time, and the mountains on both sides are uninhabited.

The green mountains and green waters, the plate armor on the road reflects the light, and you can see it clearly. Although there are many people, there is no dust and fog on the road; Unlike the northern plains, the road is covered with hard earth and stones washed countless times by the rain flowing from the mountains, and the air in the valley is relatively humid and cannot be dusted.

"Fluttering ......" Several arrows flew from the air and landed on the road ahead, and the Shu army seemed to want to shoot the position. But the soldiers of the Zhou army did not stop at all, and still approached in a neat queue, gradually narrowing the distance.

The heavy armoured soldiers walked slowly, but their momentum was steady, as if nothing could stop them.

In a short time, the forward of the Zhou army entered the farthest range of the bow and arrow, and the arrows flew into the column of the Zhou army from the air, and only the sound of clanging metal was heard, like the sound of hail falling on the tiles. These arrows, thrown at least seventy or eighty paces away, could not hurt them at all, and most of them could only hit the helmets and shoulder armor that fell from above, which were precisely the places where the wrought iron plate armor and chain mail were double-layered, and the arrows were bounced off one after another.

Soon it was within fifty paces, and the Zhou army still did not charge at such a close point, maintaining a steady speed. Heavy footsteps, fine armor glowing with cold light, the momentum is very stressful; It seems that the executioner who was slowly and calmly wiping the blade before the execution gradually put pressure on the soldiers of the Shu army.

The chord sound of "pop pop ......" continued to sound, and the front row of the Shu army had already shot flat with bows and crossbows, but it still couldn't shoot through the cuirass of the Zhou army. The soldiers of the Zhou army did not even have shields, and the first few rows were full of crossbows, and the back were bows and arrows, and they were only equipped with short weapons. But they didn't fight back, and they advanced with the rain of arrows of the Shu army.

Dong Zunzhi in the back rose up, and this sense of strength made him inexplicably excited. Dong Zunzhi had four long sabers tied to his back, a sword at his waist, and a bow in his hand, he looked like he was covered with weapons, but at this time he could only walk, and he couldn't run away where a horse occupied several people; It is equivalent to a stationary large target that can only be a live target, and there is no benefit.

After more than 20 steps, the first row of Zhou sergeants in front of them had arrows inserted in their breastplates, and some people may have been injured, but they could only be killed and injured by the first row of Shu soldier bows and crossbowmen, and the arrows thrown still had nothing to do with them.

The two sides are about 20 steps apart, and they can even see clearly what they look like and what they are doing when dealing with the Shu soldiers. The expression of the Shu soldiers was nervous and panicked, and they looked at the strange heavy armor here with blank eyes, and they had no choice but to continue to shoot with bows and crossbows. The long-term pressure has made the Shu soldiers' camp faintly show signs of instability, but the Zhou army has not fired a single arrow so far.

The people on the opposite side watched as a clear tiger flag fluttered. At this moment, Zhou Tong, the commander of the front battalion, shouted: "Ready." ”

Suddenly, there was a commotion, the first row in front of the Zhou army squatted down, the second row knelt on one knee, and the third row stood, ready with crossbows; The man behind raised his bow and arrow. "Shoot the arrows!" Zhou Tong shouted.

Suddenly, the arrows shot out in a volley like a torrential rain, and the three rows of crossbow arrows had already shot into the Shu soldiers' camp quickly, but the bows and arrows in the air were still flying. "Ahh......h Any army will put some of the well-armored soldiers in front, but the ring lock armor of the Shu army can't stop the violent flat shooting at a distance of more than 20 paces, and the arrows will pierce the armor when they fly, and one shot will be accurate, and the first row in front will be fired by three rows of crossbow volleys, and ten Shu soldiers will be hit by arrows, and they will be killed and wounded.

"Shoot the arrows!" Zhou Tong's voice shouted again. The soldiers calmly pulled the bowstrings.

At this time, the Shu army didn't even have the strength to fight back, and the sound of "pop ......" strings resounded, and the Zhou army's bow and crossbow salvo was very rhythmic, and each time it was launched with intensive attacks.

The front row of the Shu soldiers fell in rows like harvested rice, and the back was constantly killed by thrown bows and arrows.

What army could withstand such casualties, the forward of the Shu soldiers immediately collapsed, turned around and ran back, and the camp in front of them scattered in a hurry.

With a "bang", a soldier took a gong like a copper cap in each hand and slapped it in the middle, and the square tiger flag at the front was lowered in response. The whole operation of the army is full of neat rhythm, orderly as skill.

"Kill!" Dong Zunzhi shouted in the back. The soldiers of the Zhou army had already collected their bows and crossbows, and raised their short weapons and rushed forward. There was a collapsed chaos in front of the Shu army, which was scrambling to squeeze back, where could it still be opposed. The soldiers of the Zhou army came up again, and the scene was very ugly for a while.

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