At the right time, the captain behind him offered a plan: "General Pan, the village of Shaankou is small, and the enemy army that can accommodate only 4,000 is better, it is better to divide a large army to land elsewhere and copy its back road, the enemy army will be defeated, or let the sergeants uproot the wooden stakes buried by the enemy on the river bank one by one, and our big ships can get close to the river bank and shoot at the enemy with the heavy crossbows on the boats. ”

Pan Meizheng frowned and thought about it, and before she could say anything, Wang Yu beside her took the lead and said: "Captain Wen's plan seems to be safe, but in fact, it is very inappropriate. He saw that the generals beside him all turned around to listen to him, smiled slightly, and continued: "The generals don't know that this time, our country has devoted the whole country to the south, and the grain and grass alone have been accumulated for three years, but once the army is outside, the grain, grass, and money accumulated in those three years will flow out like flowing water. Jiangnan saw this point and formulated the strategy of strengthening the wall with the old king's division, and his intentions could not be described as poisonous. Because of this, our army should fight more quickly. ”

He paused, pointed to the Shaankou village not far away, and said: "If you take Captain Wen's plan, I'm afraid it will take more than ten days to break through this village." There are many passes up and down the Yangtze River, if you always delay time in such a small walled city, I am afraid that if you fail to capture Jinling, the grain and grass in the court will be exhausted. After saying that, he did not forget to bow his hand to the north, as if he was showing loyalty to the emperor in the distance.

His words made Pan Mei, who was a little hesitant in his heart, unable to delay the march any longer, and immediately pulled out the arrow team and handed it to the general surnamed Wen and said: "Zhenbao, you choose another thousand elites, bring a bed crossbow to grab the beach tomorrow, and after arriving at the beachhead, you can't go deep without authorization, just set up a bed crossbow and shoot at the enemy in the wall, if the enemy comes to destroy the bed crossbow, then fight them in close quarters." ”

He said to another general: "Qu Wei, you lead a thousand sergeants with excellent archery skills, find a way to put crossbows on small boats and shoot at the enemy, and cover the landing of Captain Wen and his army." ”

These two lieutenants just saw how the sergeants who grabbed the beach were shot and killed by the Southern Tang Army, and to force a landing under such circumstances was tantamount to filling in with flesh and blood, but the military order was like a mountain and could not be argued, so they had to take the order to go down and select the sergeants.

In the early morning of the next day, the small boats of the Song army of the brigade were released again, and they headed towards the river bank in a dense manner, this time they were extra careful, and stopped some small boats in the place where the bed crossbow in Shaankou Village was not easy to shoot, set up bed crossbows and aimed them at the beachhead, and then sent a group of small boats close to the river bank full of wooden piles, and firmly tied the boats to the wooden stakes to form a relatively stable shooting platform, and then set up the bed crossbows to aim at Shaankou Village.

When these boats approached, the bed crossbow with a long range in the village kept firing crossbow arrows, almost every arrow hit the small boat of the Song army, but this time the Song army was obviously the elite of the army, ignoring the thick crossbow arrows that were swishing and shooting, just fixed the boat and set up the bed crossbow, and then used a shield to cover the bed crossbow, slowly, even approached the river bank little by little, and gradually the Song army bed crossbow erected on the boat could shoot on the walled city, but the Song army sergeant who was killed and wounded in the river was stained red by blood.

Under such layers of alternate cover, the Song army began to send clippers through the wooden stakes to grab the riverbank, looking at the floating corpses covered with the riverside and the Song army that methodically set up bed crossbows and shot at the Tang army, the Southern Tang army on the walled city couldn't help but be a little afraid, Wu Yingying sighed: "I don't want the Song army to be so brave, there is no legendary weakness." ”

Xiao Jiu looked at Wu Yingying strangely and said: "Since the Great Zhou Chai Tianzi rectified the forbidden army, all the elite soldiers in the world have returned to Kaifeng, if these forbidden troops honed in the sea of corpses and blood are still weak, then the soldiers of Shu and Jiangnan are simply children who have no power to carry a knife." ”

Wu Yingying didn't explain, and turned around and said: "Don't let the enemy set up bed crossbows on the beachhead, the Ya military camp will drive them into the river, and the former military camp will shoot the Song army on the small boat in the river. ”

Xin Gu nodded yes, and after a while, the Ya military camp, which was dressed in armor and holding a spear, lined up out of the walled gate, and the former military camp followed behind the Ya military camp under the leadership of the captain.

The Song army, who was setting up the bed crossbow, was afraid of the powerful bow and crossbow in the wall, but it had enough psychological advantage in hand-to-hand combat.

Xingu walked on the far right side of the first row of soldiers in the square formation of the Ya military camp, and stopped at a stone's throw away from the Song army formation, he made a gesture, and the whole phalanx stood at the same time, the first row of soldiers, and the captain of each team held a square shield in his right hand, and stood up with a short spear in his left hand, and the deputy captain of each team in the back row put a 5-meter spear on the shoulder of the first row of soldiers, with the tip of the spear facing down, the third row of soldiers put a 6-meter spear on the shoulders of the second row of soldiers, and the soldiers in the fourth to tenth rows also had 6-meter spears on the shoulders of the soldiers in front of them, and a thousand soldiers in the rear camp followed behind the Ya military camp, and also lined up two crossbow formations。

All the Song soldiers and soldiers watched curiously as the Southern Tang army was just outside the range of their bow and crossbow to prepare for the charge, and the bed crossbow erected on the small boat could have shot into the Southern Tang army formation, but still only shot all the crossbow arrows in the direction of the wall of the Shaankou wall.

The whole team in front of the enemy was a little faster than the usual training, Xin Gu grinned with satisfaction, the scars on his face looked particularly hideous, his left hand raised a short spear, pointed to the direction of the Song army's moon formation, and began to run gently, at first it was very slow, almost not fast, the first platoon leader of the entire tooth camp phalanx ran forward with the pace of Xin Gu, so because it was a temporary military formation, and the military order above was also to strive for hand-to-hand combat with the Southern Tang army, so there was no obstacle such as rejecting horses in front of the Song army's military formation, and the leading captain Wen Zhenbao was stunned and looked at the Southern Tang army formation like a huge ram, desperately rushing straight over。 At the same time, the crossbow array formed by the rear army led by Xiao Jiu also began to continuously fire crossbow arrows at the Song army, making it impossible for the Song army's archers to concentrate on aiming.

Wen Zhenbao once followed Zhou Shizong to participate in the war with the Khitans, in his opinion, the momentum of the five hundred foot soldiers on the opposite side charging together has been comparable to the momentum of the Khitan cavalry's frontal impact, he spat with some remorse, and then took his own banner, walked to the front line of the team, clenched the sword and shield and waited for the enemy's thunderous blow. Several leaders and personal soldiers who had followed Wen Zhenbao through a hundred battles glanced at each other, and they also followed Wen Zhenbao to the front line.

Xin Gu's blood seemed to be burning, and five hundred subordinates followed his footsteps and ran neatly, this feeling was indeed very special. If they were running at this speed in heavy armor, the soldiers of the Ya military camp would be out of breath even if they were beaten with iron, but the weight of the improved rattan armor was much lighter than that of the iron armor, so they advanced very fast, and almost rushed under the enemy's nose before the Song army had time to release the second round of arrow feathers. The soldiers with their spears on their shoulders in the front row all followed the captain's pace, and the entire army formation rushed forward in a torrent, and the pace of progress became faster and faster, until Xin Gu found that he himself could not stop his faster and faster pace, and everyone was engulfed by a huge inertia, as if they wanted to smash all the obstacles in front of them and rush into the heart of the river.