Although the soldiers under their feet kept raising the city wall and digging deep trenches like ants carrying sand, Wu Yingying still felt a little impatient, the strategic position of Shaankou Village is extremely important, and the water flow here is gentle, which is a good place for the team to land. Moreover, as long as Shaankou Village is not lost, the Song army will have to worry about the safety of its rear road. The original garrison of Shaankou Village was 1,000, and the general with the troops was called Wang Renzhen, and the deputy generals Wang Yan and Qian Xing were the old troops of Liu Renzhen, a famous general of the Southern Tang Dynasty who died in battle. When Wu Yingying first arrived in Shaankou Village, not only did there be no scouts here, but even the walls of the village were very simple.

Wu Yingying remembered that the Song army captured Shaankou Village at the end of October in the seventh year of the Song Dynasty, and it was almost early autumn at this time, so he strictly ordered Wang Renzhen to lead the original defenders to add a walled wall on the plateau and dig deep trenches.

Although the construction of the fortifications progressed quickly under the strict orders of Wu Yingying, the Song army came faster, and one evening ten days after the arrival of the Jinfan army, the advance of the Song army also arrived at Shaankou Village.

Due to the extremely long range of the bows and crossbows on the Song army's warships, in order to avoid losses, Wu Yingying withdrew most of the soldiers who were deployed along the river.

"What's going on with the Hukou camp? After the fall of Chuzhou, the emperor cared about Liu Renchan's loyalty and courage in the Zhou army's independent resistance to the Zhou army, and rewarded the surviving soldiers in Chuzhou.

"Are you afraid?" Wu Yingying said lightly, and Xin Gu followed with a sullen "hum".

Wang Renzhen's face sank and said: "The last general should have followed Liu Ye and thrown his life in Chuzhou City, he has lived for so many years in vain, and he has earned it." He looked at the Song army in the distance, and said abruptly: "The current situation seems to be similar to that of Chuzhou back then. ”

"No," Wu Yingying glanced deeply at the general beside him, and said in a deep voice: "It's not Zhou Shizong who came this time, but I met my Jinfan Army." After speaking, regardless of whether Wang Renzhen accepted this statement or not, he ordered: "Later, the Song army will definitely land in front of our village, and see the prestige of our Jinfan army to kill them." General Wang led the Shaankou army to strictly guard the camp. After speaking, he took Xin Gu to arrange the ambush of the Song army.

Wang Renzhen's pro-army beside him said indignantly: "How can this white-faced scholar-like general be so arrogant. Wang Renzhen smiled faintly and said: "Seeing that he arranges various defense matters, there is also a law, although Dazhai may not be able to defend it, but the Song people will lose a lot of lives when they fall into the hands of this person, then I will wait enough." He didn't go about arranging the guarding of the palace, he just wiped his waist knife, adjusted the bowstring, and prepared to slash a few more Song soldiers for a while.

Back in the camp, Wu Yingying's face was immediately clouded, and Xiao Jiu, who was following beside him, also said with a sad face: "The Song army is coming, but there is no news from Heiyundu, do you really regard us as outcasts?"

Chase also continued: "General, the Song army is strong, our army might as well let the city go." Wu Yingying promoted him to his side, originally not only as a personal guard, but to give him the opportunity to counsel the military aircraft, for an ordinary soldier, this is undoubtedly an opportunity to ascend to the sky, and Chase was also touched by this preferential treatment, but this person is very deep, although he is quite grateful in his heart, but his face is still light.

Wu Yingying said: "If you don't leave without a fight, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for our army to gain a foothold in Jiangnan." He vetoed this proposal, but also put forward his bottom line, that is, to at least fight with the Song army, and then he could retreat with the strength of his strength.

The three people present all heard Wu Yingying's words, that is, they were not willing to fight to the death with the Song army here, but it was not easy to retreat with dignity.

Xiao Jiu frowned and said: "The Song army has at least 5,000 if there are not tens of thousands, and the 100,000 troops are following behind, if our army is a little in love, the Song people will inevitably divide their troops and copy the back road of our army, and they will not be able to retreat if they want to." ”

"Yes," Wu Yingying looked at the general flag on the high mast of the Song army's warship outside the window, and muttered: "The art of war is said to be surrounded by ten rules, the Song army only needs to have enough troops to come, and divide a large army to make a situation of copying our army's rear road, if our army has no intention of dying, then it has to retreat." ”

Under the awe-inspiring banner blown by the wind, the Song people were also staring at the enemy's camp, a general with a white face and a long beard, a brocade robe and jade belt, turned back to an official in a Confucian shirt behind him and said: "Secret power, this guard of Shaankou Village not only raised the walled city, but also laid a lot of wooden stakes along the river. ”

The official smiled and said: "The three thousand rabble also dare to resist stubbornly, and the subordinate only waits for General Pan to talk and laugh and break the enemy." It turned out that these two people turned out to be Pan Mei, the commander of the Song army's southern expedition, and Wang Yu, the protector of the right army, both of whom laughed. Since the wooden stakes laid by the Southern Army made it impossible for the Song army's large ships to approach the riverbank, Pan Mei ordered his lieutenant generals to send each team of soldiers to land in small boats.

In the eyes of the defenders of Shaankou Village, the Song army seemed to be very unafraid of death, and when they jumped off the warship, they loudly joked with each other in the official dialect of Kaifeng, and the reflection of the sword and the black iron armor reflected in the sunset were intertwined very eye-catching. But jokes aside, these northern soldiers who originally grew up in the Central Plains were obviously trained in water warfare, and they began to skillfully row the boat, the soldiers at the bow of the boat with strong crossbows, and the soldiers behind with shields, carefully crossing the wooden stakes to approach the river bank.

Ships that land on the shore often become the target of the enemy's heavy weapons, in order to protect the lives of soldiers, modern landing warfare often requires soldiers to jump into the water in advance, disperse wading ashore, obviously the current Song army has not yet this consciousness, although they have been familiar with the water in the south, but still do not want to wet their pants and shoes, anyway, it is such a short voyage, the southern soldiers who are afraid of death have killed a lot, and everyone hopes to end this battle without suspense as soon as possible.

This gave the Jinfan army the opportunity, the range can reach the river bed crossbow has already tightened the tendon, Wu Yingying immediately after arriving here to test the range and accuracy of all bed crossbows, and marked the wooden stakes in the shallow water on the river bank, with the bed crossbow for repeated corrective shooting.

Seeing that most of the Song army's small boats entered the range of the bed crossbow, and a few were about to dock, Xiao Jiu gave an order, and the thick cast iron crossbow arrows were immediately launched, and seven or eight out of ten were fiercely pierced on the Song army's warships, and the huge inertia made all the small boats either capsize immediately, or shook violently, and the Song army, which was close to the river bank, fell into the water.

Most of the Song troops were northerners, and although they were trained to take boats, they could only float on the water or slowly trek to the river bank with heavy armor in tow.

At the most vulnerable moment of the landed soldiers, the Southern Tang army of about 1,000 people immediately ran close to the river bank and shot the Song army struggling in the water, and in a moment the blood stained the entire river red.

And the Song army ship is still some distance away from the river bank at this time, unable to release arrows to drive these Southern Tang troops away, and when the Song army that reacted sent a small boat carrying archers to fight back, the Southern Tang army had already shot almost all the Song troops who fell into the water, and a few small boats that tried to pursue just approached the river bank, and were shot over by the bed crossbow in the Shaankou village, and the soldiers in the boat fell into the water, but the other ships did not dare to approach the rescue, and they actually watched the Southern Tang crossbowmen who went and returned shot these soldiers to death, and then calmly retreated into the village.

Seeing that the selected more than 500 forwards dared to die and threw away like this, Pan Mei's face was pale, and Wang Yu was also quite surprised, although he was noble, he was already used to the battlefield, so he was not afraid that Pan Mei would mind, and said casually: "Such a quiet attitude has frustrated the sharpness of our army, and this Shaankou guard is a person who knows the soldiers." ”