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Because it was a temporary military formation and the military orders above also tried to fight with the Southern Tang army in close combat, there were no obstacles such as resisting horses in front of the Song army formation. The leader Wen Zhenbao stared at the Southern Tang army formation as if it was a huge city-striking hammer, and rushed straight forward regardless of everything. At the same time, the crossbow formation formed by the rear army led by Xiao Jiu also began to continue firing crossbow arrows at the Song army, making the Song army's archers unable to concentrate on aiming.

Wen Zhenbao had participated in a war with the Khitans with Zhou Shizong. In his opinion, the momentum of the five hundred infantrymen on the opposite side was comparable to the momentum of the Khitan cavalry's head-on attack. He spat with regret, and then walked to the front line of the team with his own flag, holding his sword and shield tightly waiting for the enemy's thunder attack. The few who had followed Wen Zhenbao through many battles looked at each other and followed Wen Zhenbao to stand on the front line.

Xin Gu's blood seemed to be burning, and five hundred subordinates followed his steps to run neatly. This feeling was indeed very special. If he was running at this speed in heavy armor, the soldiers of the Yajun Barracks should be out of breath even if they were iron-killed. However, the weight of the modified vine armor was much lighter than that of the iron armor, so they advanced very quickly, and almost rushed under the enemy's nose before the Song army had time to release the second round of arrow feathers.

"Come on!" Xin Gu shouted in his heart, and with both hands pressed against the huge square shield. He was swept by the huge inertia behind him and crashed into the Song army formation. In a blink of an eye, the Song army formation, which was waiting for the battle, was broken into a huge hole. When the Song army soldiers in front of the Southern Tang army formation were either squeezed to both sides or were stabbed through by a five or six-meter-long gun. The huge impact force caused more than two corpses to be stabbed on some large guns.

Feeling that the speed of the impact seemed to be slowed down by the Song army squeezing in front, the big shield that covered him on the side was also knocked by the swords and guns of the Song army beside him, Xin Gu shouted: "Yasu Army Camp, there is advance but no retreat." While holding the big shield and rushing forward, all the soldiers of the Ya Army followed him and shouted: "You are advance but no retreat!" Continue to rush forward with force.

Before the Song army could react, the Ya military camp led by Xin Gu had already passed through the enemy formation and rushed to the bed crossbow, and did not destroy the bed crossbow. The team was divided into two, bypassed the bed crossbow, turned around after reaching the enemy formation, and then rushed to the most concentrated place of the enemy. Such repeated attacks eventually stirred the Song army that established a position on the beach into a pot of porridge, and was defeated like a mountain. The school captain Wen Zhenbao had already lost the control of the opponent's soldiers and was escorted by both heads and pushed onto the small boat in the river. Seeing that the enemy could no longer regroup, Xin Gu led the Ya military camp out of the area full of Song army defeated soldiers. The rear camp led by Xiao Jiu also approached the Song army, and used crossbow arrows to harvest the soldiers running out of all directions. In less than a stick of incense, there was only a mess left on the river bank. The crossbow that had finally been set up was burned by the soldiers sent by Xiao Jiu.

The commander of Shaanxi Village, Wang Ren, looked at the Ya Army camp led by Xin Gu in amazement and almost broke through the Song army's beachfront position in a moment. He could not speak for a long time. It was not until Xin Gu, who was sweating profusely on the village tower and reported to Chen De that he shouted: "Xin Dalang is really brave."

Xin Gu didn't care. At this time, Xiao Jiu, who was in charge of the aftermath, also went to the village building and said with a smile: "Commander Chen is always good at it, but the men are just using their lives."

Wang Renzhen thought to himself that Xiao Jiu seemed to be incompetent and could be the Du Yuhou in Jinfan Camp. It seemed that the main thing was to rely on flattery skills, but he smiled on his face and said, "That's right."

Chen De smiled slightly and said, "The enemy army lost only a thousand people in the first and last battles. The main force was not injured. The war was still behind. At that time, General Wang would need to help him."

Wang Renzhen originally had the intention of dying for his country and repaying the master. Now it seems that the Jinfan Army seems to have great combat power and still have hope of winning this battle. There is no room for approval at the moment.

On the Song army warship, Wen Zhenbao, who had returned from defeat, retreated to rest, Pan Mei's face immediately became gloomy. The Southern Expedition Army, with thunder, actually smashed two consecutive battles in front of the small Shaanxi Village. At this time, he had never expected that, especially the second time, he had already selected elite troops and formed a formation to fight, but the two armies were defeated without any suspense. This shows that the combat power of the Shaanxi Village defenders was amazing. Could it be that the news conveyed by me was wrong? The newly established Jinfan Army stationed in Shaanxi Village was not the newly established Jinfan Army, but the famous elite Heiyun, the famous Southern Army, was not the first elite?

Seeing that Pan Mei was muffled and silent, Wang Mei was anxious and the army was in a state of decline. He was also responsible, so he spoke: "General Pan, the enemy is so brave. According to the officials' opinion, it is better to continue to select elite troops to land and quickly defeat the enemy."

When Pan Mei heard this, she raised her head a little angry, then suppressed her dissatisfaction and said softly: "Minister's words are reasonable, and I will discuss them with the generals."

That night, the Song army began to use the winch on the ship to remove the wooden stakes laid in the river one by one. They did not attack the next day, but continued to pull out the wooden stakes. Seeing that the enemy was fighting steadily and knew that there was no advantage to take, Chen De secretly asked Xiao Jiu to prepare for retreat.

The Song army worked for five days to clear obstacles in the river. No matter how Wang Shi urged him, Pan Mei always said it with since then. It was not until this day that a wide enough path was cleared, and several large ships lined up. The huge heavy crossbows on the tower made the people in Shaanxi Village almost unable to raise their heads. The Song army on the small boat began to land in an orderly manner.

Chen De watched the enemy landing under the shield. He knew that the commander of the Song army had regarded the Jinfan army as a strong enemy, and he was in the camp step by step and fought steadily. He had no chance to take advantage of it, so he asked the officers above the lieutenant to go to his camp to have a meeting. When he was about to explain his retreat plan to the generals, Wang Renzhen, the commander of Shaanxi Village, stumbled and ran in.

"Wang Renzhen, my commander is gathering generals to discuss strategies to fight the enemy. What should you do if you trespass into the military camp?" Xiao Jiu was afraid that Wang Renzhen would find out that Jinfan Army was trying to retreat and come to seek punishment, so he spoke first.

Wang Renzhen didn't care about him, and just said breathlessly: "It's no wonder General Chen. The Song army's banner was discovered in the back of our village just now, with about 5,000 people, probably landing ashore from other places."

Chen De's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. The way of retreat means that he could no longer retreat, so he could only trap Shaanxikou, either fight to the death or surrender. In this moment, Chen De cursed himself in his heart a thousand times. In the past few days, the Song army pulled out wooden stakes in the river to land on the front was confusing himself. The real intention was to attack on both sides, surround and annihilate his army.

There is obviously no way out to guard Shaanxikou. Chen De knew clearly that Jinling’s current policy was to hope that all isolated cities would resist the last moment, but would not send any substantial support.

"The enemy attacked on both sides, and Shaanxikou cannot be defended. Commander, let's go out!" Xiao Jiu took the lead, and the generals of the Jinfan Army also agreed. In this era, when the soldiers were to eat food, they wanted to be a marquis and fight to the end. There was not much market for soldiers in the late Five Dynasties.

Chen De asked Wang Renzhen, "The enemy attacked from front and back, and the total number of more than 40,000 troops has become an encirclement of Shaanxi. General Wang, what do you think?"

Wang Renzhen looked at Chen De and said sadly: "As the garrison of Shaanxi Village, I naturally have to live and die with this city. I have no objection to whether Jinfan Army will go or stay, but," he hesitated for a moment and said: "Our army has been stationed in Shaanxi Village for a long time, and many soldiers have their families in the village. This time our army killed and injured many people from the Song Dynasty. I am afraid that once the city is broken, the massacre of the city will be inevitable. If General Chen intends to break through, can the children of our soldiers be taken away together? In the future, they can be used as a cattle and a horse for the general."

Massacre of cities was very common during the Five Dynasties, so Wang Renzhen's consideration was extremely natural. Chen De hurriedly said, "I will definitely do what General Wang asked me to do." He raised his voice and said, "I will treat them as children of Jinfan Army when I have witnessed them!"

After Wang Renzhen thanked him, he hurriedly left to arrange defense.

After a while, the Song army gathered from the north and south sides had already set up camp in front of Shaanxi Village. After surrounding Shaanxi Village, they did not stop, but immediately set up crossbows and ladders to start attacking the city.

The Shaanxi Village City was small and had many soldiers. After several days of reinforcement, the village walls were much stronger than ordinary castles. Most of the original defenders followed Wang Renzhen to resist the veterans of Zhou Shizong's army in Chuzhou. Therefore, after a day of fierce battle, although the death and injury were killed and injured, the Song army could not break through the city wall. At night, the Song army's offensive continued to stop, and a high bonfire was set off outside the city to attack the city.

As the main general, Wang Renzhen did not have the awareness of the main general at all. He only led his personal soldiers to kill the enemy at the northern gate where the fiercest battle was, and he was covered in blood. Fortunately, his subordinates came from Chuzhou City and were very familiar with such battles to guard the city, so the city walls on all sides were guarded in an orderly manner. Many soldiers' children were led by Jinfan Army to break through. These people knew that the more Song army attracted the more likely they were to survive, so they fought desperately on the city wall. Even many wounded soldiers relied on the wall to transport stones and crossbows. The intensity of the resistance was only seen by the Song army since the southern expedition.

The sound of killing sounds on the city walls was everywhere, but the entire Jinfan army quietly formed the army outside the south gate of Shaanxi Village. Chen De stood on a high platform made of wood and ordered Li Si to lead his war horse, pull out a dagger and stab it into the horse's heart. The horse neighed in pain, twitched a few times and then died. This time he studied with Xin Gu for a long time before he learned it.

All the soldiers looked at their commander in surprise, wondering what Chen De meant?

Chen De looked at the army that was surprised but was still waiting for the lecture in a row, and said, "Sergeants, in the battle two days ago, you killed many enemies. Because the enemy was large and we were few, we now need to break through. No one can fall behind, and those who left behind and those who left without authorization will be killed by the revengeful enemy. However, as your commander, I will definitely be with you and will never escape alone. I hope you remember that the Jinfan Army is a whole, and all officers will not abandon you and escape alone. Let us break the enemy's camp together, just like the Yajun Barracks did a few days ago. Advance is life, retreat is death. Now, each battalion and team, make the final preparations, listen to my orders, advance without retreating!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xin Gu, Xiao Jiu and the lieutenant also led their horses and killed them with a dagger without mercy. He carried his bags and walked silently into the soldiers' formation. The entire army, along with the children of the Shaanxi Army who were covering the formation, were determined to die, waiting for the moment when the city gates opened.

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