As Yang Yan expected, just one day after the Song army entered De'an Mansion, spies came to report that all the men and horses of the Jin army were moving towards Suizhou, obviously to deal with reinforcements first.

In fact, Wanyan Changzhi did this, and there was also unspeakable sorrow. Now the Jin army has two choices, one is to continue to storm Xiangyang, leaving only a few men and horses to block the Song army, and capture Xiangyang before the Song army breaks through the blockade, and the other is to leave only a few men and horses to contain Xiangyang, concentrate superior forces, and defeat the Song army's reinforcements first, and then attack Xiangyang.

Although after Yan Changzhi's enlightenment, the main generals of the Jin Army have initially put out their fear of artillery, but it is not known how much effect this effect can be applied to the soldiers, after all, the soldiers' thinking is different from that of the generals, in their opinion, anyway, it is not those generals who rush to the front on the battlefield to be artillery, but themselves, and they will naturally find some irrelevant words to say.

Even if the whole army can accept its own point of view, but the fear of artillery, it is impossible to completely eliminate it at once, and after all, artillery is a new type of weapon that is much more powerful than any previous weapon, after the artillery in Xiangyang City, the strength of the defense has undoubtedly been greatly enhanced, and it is difficult to work in the siege method of piling up dirt mountains outside the city, so if you want to capture Xiangyang, it is not possible to do it in a short time.

It is impossible to choose the first point, Wanyan Changzhi can almost conclude that before he breaks through Xiangyang, the Song army will definitely break through the Jin army's resistance. Therefore, there is only the second option. And from the perspective of the art of war, besieging the city to send reinforcements is also a very reasonable tactic, after all, if the reinforcements can be successfully defeated, it can cause a sense of despair trapped in the city defenders, and achieve the goal of surrendering the army without a fight.

And from the beginning of the southern expedition, Wanyan Changzhi's primary target of attack is Xiangyang, and then based on Xiangyang, take the land north of the river, although the battle situation changes, it is not completely according to Wanyan Changzhi's expectations, but from the results of the view, the Jin army captured Fancheng with the scriptures, which is equivalent to getting half of Xiangyang, and is still the right to achieve its strategic goal step by step. If Yang Yan's army can be completely defeated this time, not only can Xiangyang be taken, but even the goal of taking the land of Jiangbei is not far away.

Therefore, after some careful consideration, Yan Changzhi finally decided to slow down the attack on Xiangyang and send reinforcements first. First of all, he ordered 60,000 horses and horses from Huaixi to stay in Suizhou, and he transferred 50,000 horses from the men and horses who attacked Xiangyang, together with the generals of Fusan Zhongyi, Pucha Dingzhu, Wen Gusun, Gu Lijia, Shulu, Tang Guorui, Shang Jingliang and other generals to Suizhou to resist the enemy Yang Yan. There were only about 35,000 people left in Xiangyang, led by Shi Mo Yanshan and Shi Zhan. Because at this time, the number of troops in Xiangyang City was less than 20,000, even if the Jingmen army was added, it was only 30,000, and the remaining troops should be enough.

Suizhou originally had 20,000 horses led by Pu Chading, and Wanyan Changzhi gathered a total of 130,000 troops here to deal with Yang Yan's reinforcements. Obviously, he wanted to defeat Yang Yan in one fell swoop and achieve a decisive victory in this southern expedition.

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De'an Mansion is located at the junction of Jinghu North Road and Huainan West Road, and the name of the administrative office is Anlu to the east of the lower reaches of the Hanshui tributary, while Suizhou is just west of De'an Mansion and east of the upper reaches of the Zhuanshui, just blocking the route to rescue Xiangyang.

After the restoration of the Great Song Dynasty, the Imperial Front Garrison Division was set up in De'an Mansion, with a strength of 30,000, and Liu Renxian took away 20,000 when he was stationed in Suizhou, and only 10,000 Imperial Front Garrison remained in De'an Mansion at this time. When Yang Yan rescued Jianghuai, he brought 70,000 troops, and this time he returned to Xiangyang to help them, not only brought them all back, but also added Liu Fuwu, who was under the control of Liu Fuwu in front of the imperial garrison of Gwangju, and 20,000 horses, and the total strength of the Song army was about 100,000.

Both sides were obviously preparing to use this as a battlefield for the main game, so at the beginning, neither rushed to march, but waited for all their men and horses to gather. In this way, four or five days have passed, and both sides are frequently deploying troops and accumulating strength. At the same time, they are also looking for opportunities to attack.

The offense is still up. Because although in this local battlefield, the Jin army's strength is superior, but here it penetrates deep into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Song army may get reinforcements at any time, which is not good for the Jin army. Therefore, after the Jin army's forces were gathered, Wanyan Changzhi immediately ordered Pu Cha to lead 20,000 horses and horses to attack Yingshan to test the reaction of the Song army.

Yingshan is a county seat, located about fifty miles north of the city of De'an, it should be said to be a relatively important position, but Pu Cha settled the men and horses, and took Yingshan very easily, and the Song army did not seem to have any intention of clashing with the Jin army in Yingshan.

After this time, Yan Changzhi couldn't help but be a little confused, what the hell is Yang Yan fighting now, is he waiting for the Jin army to attack the city of De'anfu, or is still waiting for reinforcements to be mobilized. After waiting for another two days, the Song army still did not have any movement, but now the Jin army really can't afford to wait, so Wan Yan Chang ordered the men and horses to advance along the Zhuanshui River, and camp under the city of De'an Mansion, and then send troops to the front of the city to challenge the Song army. At the same time, he also made up his mind that if Yang Yan did not go to war, then he would divide his troops to take Fuzhou and see how Yang Yan responded.

However, this time did not disappoint Wan Yan Changzhi, as soon as the Jin army arrived at the city, the Song army immediately opened the city gate and went out of the city to face the battle.

In fact, Wan Yan Changzhi has always had a kind of heart in his heart, and he is not Wan Yan Chang alone, almost all the generals have this kind of worry, did Yang Yan bring artillery this time? After all, Yan Changzhi is also pure, Yang Yan brought artillery with him when he went to rescue Huaixi, and now he has brought it back? And Yang Yan has been standing still, is he just waiting for the artillery to arrive? Or to lead the Jin army to the front of the city of De'anfu, just to put artillery on the head of the city to bombard the Jin army.

Although Wan Yan Changzhi has carefully distinguished the characteristics of artillery, after all, he has seen it once, and he still doesn't know the bottom in his heart, if the Song army really has artillery, then can he still win this battle?

But you can't be scared by Song Jun just because of this, if you are so scared that you don't dare to do anything now, then what will you do in the future? After all, after the Song army has this thing, it will often encounter it on the battlefield in the future, and it can hide from the first day of junior high school, but it can't hide from the fifteenth. Therefore, this time to march, Wan Yan Changzhi also came a little hard.

Of course, Wan Yan Changzhi still made full preparations for this, first separated the men and horses, and the men and horses besieging Xiangyang were stationed alone, so as not to exaggerate the situation of the artillery and mislead the other Jin troops. As for the 60,000 horses and horses who rushed from Jianghuai, and the 20,000 horses stationed in the entourage, they have not really seen the power of artillery, and they must also be prepared in advance, so as not to be frightened and panicked when they see artillery. However, try to tell them in calm language that the Song army has such a new weapon, which has a long range and a very loud voice, but it is not much different from the thunder and thunderbolts, and after seeing it, you must not be afraid, but should speed up the speed of progress and strive to make contact with the Song army as soon as possible, so that the effect of this weapon will not be great.

And also worried that the psychological shadow of the siege of Xiangyang was too great, so this time in the battle, only 70,000 horses were dispatched, except for a few troops that could be moved to withstand, the rest of the use was all new troops who had never seen artillery, and at the same time, Wanyan Changzhi also emphasized again that those who are good at retreating on the battlefield will be killed. He also set up a team of 600 overseers, and those who retreated without any order were immediately killed on the spot.

After making this series of preparations, Wan Yan Changzhi was a little relieved, at least this time the Jin army would not be immediately defeated as soon as they heard the artillery.

When the Jin army was more than 700 steps away from De'an Mansion, Wan Yan Changzhi gave the order to let the horses stop, and the Jin soldiers and the middle and lower Jin generals were a little puzzled, this is also too far away, right?

At this time, the Song army also set up an array in front of the city of De'an Mansion. Wan Yan Changzhi looked from a distance, and there seemed to be no artillery in the array of the Song army, and then climbed on the bucket truck and looked at the city wall of De'an Mansion, but there didn't seem to be. Yan Changzhi was a lot more relieved at this time, but maybe the Song army hid the artillery and waited for the Jin army to enter the firing range before taking it out, which is also possible.

But now there is no way to retreat, so Wanyan Changzhi finally gave the order, and the whole army continued to advance. However, the whole army was divided into two teams, with 30,000 horses as the front team and the remaining 50,000 horses as the rear team, and the two teams were about 100 paces apart, and then they moved forward one after the other. And Wan Yan Changzhi himself followed the first team.

When he walked to a distance of about six hundred steps, Wan Yan Changzhi couldn't help but feel nervous in his heart, as if the huge roar might sound at any time. But after continuing to advance after this road, he calmed down, anyway, now that Yijing has entered the range of artillery, it is useless to worry, once the Song army shells, he immediately gives the order that the whole army will assault forward and engage the Song army's array earlier.

However, when the two teams of Jin troops approached the array of the Song army one after another, the two sides faced each other at a distance of about 300 paces, and there was still no artillery fire. It seems that the Song army really has no artillery.

Thinking like this, Wan Yan Changzhi couldn't help but perk up, and then carefully observed the formation of the Song army. Seeing that the Song army went out of the city and lined up about 40,000 to 50,000 people, but this is not surprising, because the side that backs the city does not have to worry about being attacked by the enemy behind them, and it is better to leave the excess troops in the city, and it can make the enemy unpredictable.

The array of the Song army has not changed billion, and the heavy armored infantry army is still listed in the middle, and the cavalry army is divided into two wings, the difference is that behind the heavy armored infantry in the middle road, there is actually a row of elephant troops. Obviously, the Song army also dispatched all the main forces to fight with the Jin army.

Wanyan Changzhi was basically completely relieved at this time, he was still confident, and immediately ordered, beat the drums, and prepared to attack.