Yang Yan had long wanted to reorganize the army, but he had never had time before, and he had not spared his efforts until now, so Yang Yan returned to Longxing Mansion and would first reorganize the army.

After the reorganization, the whole army was divided into 15 corps, and the five armies of the infantry division were all retained, and the establishment of each army was 7,000 men, with a total of 35,000 men. The four armies of the Horse Army Division were also all retained, and the number was 5,000 of the selected front army, which was the establishment of a full cavalry, of which 2,000 were armored cavalry, with a total of 5,870 war horses; The Chinese army was 10,000 men, and the left army and the right army were 7,500 each, making a total of 30,000 people. The front division of the palace urged the front army to be retained, and the number was 5,000 people. The original command of each army was also retained.

Yang Yan's personal guard army expanded to 16,000 people, divided into four battalions, front and back, left and right, and commanded by Ling Xiang, Wei Jiao, Qi Dazhu, and Zhao Cao. The front battalion of 4,000 people is composed of the children of the servants of Guangxi, and the rear battalion is composed of 2,000 people, which is a full cavalry establishment, of which 1,000 are armored cavalry, and the left and right battalions are mixed infantry and cavalry, each with 5,000 people. These eleven armies totaled 86,000 men and horses, forming the main force of the Song army in Longxing Province.

The rest of the men and horses were organized into four armies, Youyi, Tabai, Shengjie, and Wufeng, with 5,000 to 6,000 men each, and were respectively commanded by Liu Tianbiao, Cai Wenhu, Guo Shixiong, and Ma Biao. It will be used as a reserve army.

In this way, the number of divisions was reduced, and the number was unified, and there was a use of the transfer of protrusion. After the reorganization of the army was completed, Yang Yan officially set up his army and attacked Xinzhou.

Xinzhou is located in the east of Longxing Mansion, just blocking the direction of Longxing Mansion eastward, and can directly threaten the flank of Raozhou, the geographical location is very important, if Xinzhou is captured, then Chizhou, Raozhou, and Xinzhou will be able to connect in a line, echoing each other to resist the attack of the Jin army.

Therefore, Yang Yan sent troops this time, and he was determined to win, and used a total of two armies in front and behind the infantry division, four armies in the Ma military division, the front division of the palace to urge the front army and the Beiwei army, and the two armies of Youyi and Tabai, totaling more than 85,000 people. Bi Zaiyu, who was stationed in Raozhou, also led 10,000 horses and horses to participate in the battle against Shinshu. Meng Zongzheng, who was stationed in Chizhou, also sent troops to attack Huizhou, pinning down the Jin army in Huizhou and preventing them from supporting Xinzhou.

The Jin Guoshou of Shinshu was Wan Yan Changzhi's subordinate general Shi Mo Yanshan, and the four deputy generals were Shuhu Thorn Han, Hu Leming, U Ting Tuochi, and Shao Fangjie. There are more than 30,000 men under his command. Seeing that the Song army was attacking Xinzhou in a big way, Shi Mo Yanshan immediately ordered to abandon Geyang, Lead Mountain, Hengfeng, Guixi and other places around Xinzhou City, and concentrate all his strength to defend Xinzhou City.

When the Song army arrived at the city of Shinshu, they immediately launched a fierce attack on Shinshu. Attacking Xinzhou, the Song army mainly attacked the west gate of Xinzhou, and sent the infantry army division to the front army and the rear army at the south gate and the north gate to contain the strength of the Jin army, leaving the east gate not to attack, which is also the reason that "the siege must be lacking". At the West Gate, where the Song army was the main attack, the first battle was fought by the left and right battalions of the Beiwei Army led by Qi Dazhu and Zhao Cao.

Since Qi Dazhu joined the army, he has followed Yang Yan for two years, fought in the east and west, performed very bravely on the battlefield, accumulated a lot of merits and combat experience, and gradually grew from an ordinary soldier to a qualified middle-level general. His two brothers-in-law, Ji Chengjiang and Ji Chenghe, as well as Wang Qi, Zhang Xin, Hong Liang, You Hai, Lei Tonggang and others of the original Guangxi Army, have now been reorganized and transferred to the left battalion of the Beiwei Army.

And Zhao Cao followed the Song army to break through Ganzhou and killed Zhong Zhenxian and others. After Zhao Cao witnessed the complete extinction of Manichaeism, he was also disheartened, and planned to say goodbye to Yang Yan, and from then on live in seclusion in the mountains, living incognito. But after repeated persuasion by Yang Yan and Lai Wenzheng, Zhao Cao finally changed his mind and agreed to join the Song army and listen to orders under Yang Yan. And Suzaku and other remnants of Manichaeism have always been the only ones who follow Zhao Cao, and they have all joined the Song army with Zhao Cao. Yang Yanke knew that Zhao Cao was a rare fierce general, so this time he reorganized the people and appointed Zhao Cao as the commander of the right battalion of the Beiwei Army. And the remnants of Manichaeism, such as Suzaku, were also incorporated into the right battalion of the Beiwei Army.

This time, the left and right battalions of the Beiwei army were responsible for the siege, and Qi Dazhu and Zhao Cao both went into battle in person and commanded the siege in the phalanx.

Shinshu was the state city of the Great Song Dynasty, so the city walls were not tall, only more than two zhang high, and there was no moat. However, in order to strengthen the guard, Shimo Yanshan was divided into two rows on the city wall, the gold soldiers in the front row each held swords and guns, guarding the battlement, and the second row was three or four steps behind the battlement, but it was four feet higher than the battlement, and there were two thousand archers, so that even if the Song army attacked the battlement and fought fiercely with the gold soldiers defending the city, it would not affect the archers to shoot arrows.

As the four phalanxes of the Song army got closer and closer to the city wall, the tall tower carts were like approaching giants, and the oppression brought to the Jin army was also expanding. When the phalanx of the Song army was only more than a hundred steps away from the city wall, Shi Mo Yanshan shouted: "Release the arrows." With his order, the walls of Shinshu Castle opened their bows and arrows. For a while, arrows flew towards the Song army's phalanx like raindrops. Among them, 500 archers were specially aimed at the tower carts and fired rockets.

But the Song army was also prepared, as soon as they saw that the Jin army began to release arrows, the Song army in the front row raised a one-person high tower shield to block in front of them, and the Song army in the back row raised a round shield diagonally upwards to block the rain of arrows in the sky. Although from time to time, Song soldiers would fall with arrows, but it would not affect the neatness of the entire phalanx and the pace of advancement, and the speed of the Song army's advance did not slow down at all.

The front, left and right sides of the tower car have baffles, which can also block arrows, and each tower car is coated with fireproof drugs, and the rocket does not have much effect on the tower car. The soldiers were hiding in the tower cart and were very safe. There is also a small hole in the baffle, and the Song soldiers can fire back with arrows from the tower cart to the city. At the same time, the archers of the Song army on the bucket cart also shot arrows into the city to return fire, although the density was far less than that of the Jin army, but the Song army was by no means powerless.

As soon as Shi Mo Yanshan saw that the bow and arrow did not work, he immediately ordered: "The trebuchet is ready to be launched." ”

The twenty trebuchets placed on the city wall were immediately launched together, throwing stones weighing dozens of catties into the air, and with the sound of whistling wind, they smashed down on the head of the Song army.

The phalanx of the Song army could not dodge the stones that fell from the sky, and the shields were useless. As the stones fell one after another, as long as the Song army was hit, all of them were smashed to the point of flesh and blood, seeing that the neat phalanx of the Song army was constantly smashed open one by one, and even the neatly arranged phalanx began to loosen.