Chapter 27 Considerations
"Come on!" Xin Gu secretly screamed in his heart, and his hands pressed against the huge square shield together, and he was enveloped by the huge inertia behind him, and crashed headlong into the Song army formation. In an instant, the Song army formation that was waiting for it was rushed through a huge opening, and when the Song soldiers in front of the Southern Tang Army formation were either squeezed to the sides, or were stabbed through by five or six meters long big guns, the huge impact force made some big guns even have more than two corpses tied to them.
Feeling the speed of the impact, it seemed to be slowed down by the Song army who was crowded in front, and the big shield covering himself on the side was also knocked out by the Song army's knives and guns next to him, and Xin Gu shouted: "The tooth barracks, there is no advance or retreat." While resisting the big shield and rushing forward, all the soldiers of the Tooth Army followed him and shouted: "There is no advance or retreat!" and continued to rush forward.
Before the Song army could react, the tooth camp led by Xin Gu had already passed through the enemy formation, rushed to the bed crossbow, and did not destroy the bed crossbow, the team split into two, bypassed the bed crossbow, turned around after reaching the enemy formation, and then rushed towards the place where the enemy was most concentrated again. Such repeated attacks finally stirred up the Song army, which had established a position on the beachhead, into a pot of gruel, and the defeat was like a mountain, and the captain Wen Zhenbao had already lost control of his subordinate soldiers, and was escorted by two heads and pushed onto a boat in the middle of the river. Seeing that the enemy could no longer regroup, Xin Gu led the Ya military camp to withdraw from the area full of Song army routs, and the rear military camp led by Xiao Jiu also approached the Song army, harvesting the scattered soldiers with crossbow arrows. In less than a stick of incense, there was only a mess left on the riverbank, and the bed crossbow that had been erected with great difficulty was also burned by the soldiers sent by Xiao Jiu.
Wang Renzhen, the guard of Shaankou Village, watched in amazement as the Ya military camp led by Xin Gu broke through the beachhead of the Song army almost in an instant, and he couldn't speak for a long time, until Xin Gu, who was sweating profusely, climbed the walled tower to return to Wu Yingying, and then shouted: "Xin Dalang is really brave." ”
Xin Guman didn't care, and at this time, Xiao Jiu, who was in charge of the aftermath, also went up to the walled building, and said with a smile: "Commander Wu has made the adults have a good leadership, and the sons and daughters are just using their lives." ”
Wang Ren said in shock, this Xiao Jiu doesn't seem to have much ability, and he can play the role of Du Yu in the Jinfan Camp, it seems that he mainly relies on sycophant kung fu, but he said with a smile on his face: "That's right." ”
Wu Yingying smiled slightly and said: "In the two battles before and after, the enemy army only lost a thousand people, the main force was not injured, the big battle is still to come, and General Wang will need to help at that time." ”
Wang Renzhen originally had the heart of martyrdom, but now it seems that this Jinfan Army seems to be quite powerful, and there is still hope of winning this battle, so he has no way to agree at the moment.
On the Song army's warship, after arranging for Wen Zhenbao, who had returned from defeat, to retire and rest, Pan Mei's face was gloomy, and the southern expeditionary army was thunderous, and actually suffered two defeats in front of the small Shaankou Village, at this time he did not expect it at all, especially the second time, it was already the selection of elites, and the two armies lined up to fight, and the result was still defeated without suspense, which shows that the combat power of the defenders of Shaankou Village is amazing. Could it be that the news passed on by Xizuo was wrong, and it was not the newly established Jinfan Army stationed in the Shaankou Village, but the famous Black Cloud, the first elite of the Southern Army?
Seeing that Pan Mei was silent in thought, Wang Yu was anxious, and the army was stagnant, he was also responsible, so he spoke: "General Pan, the enemy army is so brave, according to the lower officer, it is advisable to continue to select elite troops to land and break the enemy army as soon as possible." ”
When Pan Mei heard this, she raised her head a little annoyed, and then pressed the dissatisfaction in her heart, and said warmly: "The secret power is reasonable, and I will discuss it with the generals." ”
That night, the Song army began to use the lantern to pull out the wooden stakes laid in the river one by one with the winch on the big ship, and did not attack the next day, but continued to pull out the wooden stakes.
The Song army had been working to clear the obstacles in the river for five days, and no matter how Wang Shu urged, Pan Mei always spoke gently. It was not until this day that a sufficiently wide passage was cleared, several large ships were lined up, and the huge heavy crossbows on the building ships shot so that the people on the Shaankou village could hardly raise their heads, and the Song army in small boats began to land in an orderly manner.
Wu Yingying inspected the enemy's landing under the cover of the shield, and knew that the commander of the Song army had regarded the Jinfan Army as a strong enemy, step by step, steady and steady, and his own side had no chance to take advantage, so he called the officers above the rank of lieutenant to his own camp for a meeting, and when he was waiting to explain the retreat plan to the generals, Wang Renzhen, the guard of the Shaankou village, stumbled in.
"Wang Renzhen, my family's commander is gathering generals to discuss strategies to defend against the enemy, what crime should you be guilty of trespassing in the military camp?" Xiao Jiu was afraid that Wang Renzhen would find out that the Jinfan Army was trying to retreat and come to Xingshi to ask for the guilt, so he preemptively opened his mouth and reprimanded.
Wang Renzhen didn't care about him, he just panted and said: "General Wu, it's no wonder, just now I found the banner of the Song army in the rear of my village, about 5,000 people, probably landed ashore from other places. ”
Wu Yingying sighed in his heart when he heard this, the back road was copied means that he can no longer retreat, he can only be trapped in Shaankou, either fight to the death, or surrender, in this moment, Wu Yingying scolded himself in his heart a thousand times, these days the Song army pulled out a stake in the river and planned to land head-on is to confuse himself, the real intention is to attack from both sides, encircle and annihilate his own army.
Trapped in Shaankou is obviously no way out, Wu Yingying clearly knows that Jinling's current policy is to hope that all isolated cities will resist the last moment, but will not send any substantial support.
"The enemy is flanked on both sides, the mouth of Shaanxi cannot be defended, the commander, let's stand out!" Xiao Jiu took the lead, and the generals of the Jinfan Army also echoed it, in this era, when the soldiers eat food, they have to fight for a marquis immediately, and fight to the end of the consciousness, there is not much market for the soldiers at the end of the five generations.
Wu Yingying asked Wang Renzhen: "The enemy army is flanking from the front and back, and the total of more than 40,000 troops has become an encirclement of Shaanxi, General Wang, what do you think?"
Wang Renzhen looked at Wu Yingying, and said gloomily: "As the general of Shaankou Village, I naturally want to live and die with this city, whether the Jinfan Army goes or stays, I have no objection, but," he hesitated slightly, and said: "Our army has been stationed in Shaanxi for a long time, many sergeants have families living in the village, this time our army killed and injured a lot of Song people, I am afraid that once the city is broken, the slaughter of the city is inevitable, if General Wu plans to break through, can the children of our soldiers be taken away, in the future they can be cattle and horses for the general." ”
It was very common to slaughter cities in the Five Dynasties, so Wang Renzhen's consideration was also extremely natural, and Wu Yingying hurriedly said: "I will definitely do what General Wang entrusts." He raised his voice again: "The people present will witness, and I will treat them as if they were the children of the Jinfan Army!"
After Wang Renzhen thanked him, he hurriedly left to arrange the defense.
After a short time, the Song army, which had gathered from the north and south, had already set up camp in front of Shaankou Village, and did not stop after surrounding Shaankou Village, but immediately set up bed crossbows and cloud ladders and began to attack the city.
The walled city of Shaanxi is small and has many soldiers, and after days of reinforcement, the walled wall is much stronger than the general castle, most of the original defenders are veterans who followed Wang Renzhen to resist Zhou Shizong's army in Chuzhou, so after a fierce battle, although the dead and wounded, the Song army also failed to break through the city wall. At night, the Song army's offensive did not stop, and a high bonfire was burned outside the city to continuously attack the city.
Wang Renzhen is the main general but has no consciousness of the main general at all, just led his own soldiers to kill the enemy at the north gate where the battle was most intense, until he was covered in blood, fortunately, several captains and heads under his command were from Chuzhou City, and they were very familiar with such a siege and defense battle, so the four walls were well guarded. There are also many children of soldiers who are led by the Jinfan army to break through, these people know that the more Song troops are attracted to the city wall, the greater the possibility of their own survival, so they are desperately fighting on the city wall, even many wounded soldiers are relying on the wall to carry stones and crossbows, the intensity of resistance is only seen since the Song army's southern expedition.