After learning that Yan Changzhi's army was moving towards the Jianghuai line. Yang Yan naturally couldn't continue to stand still. Because now that Haozhou and Anfeng's army were captured by the Jin army, the Song army was very passive on the Jianghuai front, and if the 100,000 horses of Wanyan Changzhi were added, maybe the entire Jianghuai defense line would be completely defeated. Then the entire north bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River would be under the control of the Jin army.

Therefore, Yang Yan could no longer sit idly by, and immediately ordered to send troops from Ezhou to reinforce the Jianghuai front.

Now Yang Yan has more than 54,000 troops stationed in Ezhou, and he is afraid that the troops of Wanyan Changzhi will be insufficient, so he transferred 15,000 men and horses from Chen Min, who was stationed in the Jingmen army, and gathered a total of nearly 70,000 troops, and then divided the troops into two routes, one along the Yangtze River to the east, arrived in Luzhou, and gathered with Qi Fang's men and horses, and the other road marched to the northeast, passing through Xinyang, bypassing Dabie Mountain, arriving in Guangzhou, and joining Liu Fuwu's garrison.

After arriving in Guangzhou, Yang Yan immediately got the latest movements of the Jin army, not only did Wanyan Changzhi arrive in Suzhou, but also Wanyan Chen and Shang had returned to the Jianghuai line from Shandong and joined Wanyan Changzhi in Suzhou. And the entire war in Shandong was handed over to Shi Dingyue to be responsible.

It turned out that after the monk Wanyan Chen led the army to Shandong, Cao Xun did not engage him at all, and as soon as he saw that the Jin army was killed, he immediately got on the ship and sailed away, and then the warship looked for another landing place on the coast of Shandong to attack the weak link of the Jin army's defense. Wanyan Chen monk pounced several times in a row, but he didn't catch Song Jun.

However, Cao Xun deliberately teased him, and the warship did not drive far, just looking around in a place that could be seen on the shore, although he was so angry that Monk Yan Chen beat his chest, but there was no way to take the Song army. Moreover, the troops in his hand were not enough to defend the entire Shandong coast, and he was afraid that the Song army would go ashore in another place, so he had to lead the army to follow the Song army's warships, wanting to wait for the Song army to come ashore so that he could attack immediately.

It's just that although the speed of the warship is not fast, it is advanced by the wind, and it can be kept day and night, the Jin army chased the warship, walked for two days, and was exhausted from exhaustion, and before the Song army came ashore, he was too tired to die. Monk Wanyan Chen also knew that this was not the way to go, so he had to give up this plan. After leading the army to rest for a day, he immediately joined Shi Dingyue, who was guarding Pizhou, and came directly to attack Haizhou.

If this trick is effective, as soon as the Song army learns that Haizhou is under attack, they immediately return to rescue Haizhou, and the coast of Shandong can get a few days of peace.

The combined army of Wanyan Chen Monk and Shi Dingyue was only more than 40,000 people, and after the Song army returned to Haizhou, there were 25,000 men and horses led by Cao Xun alone, and there was also a naval army to cover, so the Jin army did not dare to launch an attack on Haizhou, and the two sides faced each other in Haizhou. At this time, Wanyan Changzhi had come to Suzhou, so Wanyan Chen handed over the military affairs in Haizhou to Shi Dingyue, and rushed back to Suzhou to meet Wanyan Changzhi to discuss the next offensive plan.

After learning of these circumstances, Yang Yan also nodded, it seemed that he had arrived in a good time, and then immediately ordered the Song army to attack in an all-round way, ordering Gao Zhen, who was stationed in Xuyi's army, to attack Suzhou and Luzhou's Qi Fang to attack Haozhou, and he and the imperial garrison in Gwangzhou all commanded Liu Fuwu to join forces and launch an attack on the Anfeng army.

An Fengjun is Shouchun, located on the south bank of the upper reaches of Huaishui, between Gwangju and Haoju. After capturing the Anfeng army, the Song army could form a three-sided attack on Haozhou, which greatly reduced the pressure on the Jianghuai front, and also created good conditions for the final decisive battle with Wanyan Changzhi. Therefore, among the three armies of the Song army, the Luzhou and Xuyi armies were all feints, just to contain the strength of the Jin army, only after Yang Yan and Liu Fuwu joined forces, there were as many as 75,000 men and horses, and attacking the Anfeng army was the real main goal.

Yang Yan knew that Wanyan Changzhi had arrived in Suzhou, for fear that Wanyan Changzhi would perceive his intention to advance, and he did not dare to slack off.

The Song army set out from Gwangju and marched all the way east, the Jin army was really not unprepared, the Song army's troops arrived, and captured Gaotang, Huoqiu, Xiebu, Anfeng and other counties along the road.

Pu Atong, the defender of the Anfeng Army, had 20,000 gold troops under his command. Although the Anfeng army did not set up the imperial garrison division, it was also the border city of the Song and Jin dynasties, so the city fortifications were relatively neat, and since the Jin army captured the Anfeng army, Pu Atong guarded against the Song army to recapture the Anfeng army. Although the Jin army lacked long-range weapons, it had been strengthening the city defenses, preparing materials to defend the city, and also following the example of the Song army, two slapping poles were erected on the head of the city to prevent the Song army from ramming the city gate with a rushing vehicle. Therefore, the Song army attacked the city of Anfeng army, and Pu Atong did not panic at all, and immediately organized the whole army, stuck to the city, and waited for rescue.

And Yang Yan was also worried that Wanyan Changzhi would send rescue troops, so he couldn't delay much time here, and he had to capture the Anfeng army as soon as possible and form a siege on Haozhou. It's just that although the number of the Song army was large, because of the fast speed of men and horses, the large siege equipment and materials were left in Gwangju, and only more than 80 ladders were brought. There were a few rushing cars to the city, but Yang Yan saw that there was a slapping rod set up on the head of Anfeng Juncheng, and he knew that the Jin army had already prepared for this, and the role of the rushing car would not be very great.

But Yang Yan immediately issued an order to attack the city, and issued a death order, within three days, the Anfeng army must be captured. The reason is that Yang Yan brought the latest weapon of the Song army - artillery.

The Great Song Dynasty cast a total of fifty cannons, of which twenty were handed over to the navy for use, ten were left in the city of Jiankang Mansion, and the other twenty were handed over to Yang Yan for use. Yang Yan left ten artillery pieces in Ezhou and ten guns in the Jingmen army. Because the artillery was very heavy, Yang Yan came to Jianghuai's aid this time, and all ten artillery pieces from Ezhou were brought, but the army attacking Anfeng Army only carried four guns and 500 gunpowder, and the other six guns and gunpowder were left behind with the baggage. But that's enough.

Early in the morning of the second day of the second day, the Jin army reported to Pu Atong that the Song army was arrayed outside the western city, and it seemed that it was preparing to attack the city. Pu Atong immediately rushed to Xicheng, only to see that the Song army had lined up in a formation four hundred paces away, with a total of about 30,000 or 40,000 men and horses, and it seemed that he intended to take Xicheng as the main direction of attack.

However, one point is in Pu Atong's expectation, the Jin army's guard focus is also placed in Xicheng, the only five bed crossbows and two trebuchets in the whole army are placed in Xicheng, and now the Jin army can be said to be ready to prepare, just waiting for the Song army to attack the city.

The horn sounded in the Song military city, and I saw a team of people and horses, pushing four strange-shaped carts, approaching Anfeng military city. Although Pu Atong didn't know what it was, he also ordered the bed crossbow to be prepared, and as soon as the Song army entered the firing range, he immediately took the lead in giving the Song army a head-on blow.

But the Song army stopped when it was still more than three hundred steps away from the city wall, which was the limit of the range of the bed crossbow. And Pu Atong also saw that the four strange-shaped carts pushed out by the Song army turned out to be filled with a large iron cylinder, so they were too far away, and Pu Atong couldn't judge the size when he was unified, and it looked like it was not a foot thick but eight inches.

"What is this, isn't it another new weapon of the Song Army?" Although Pu Atong knew the news of the Jin army's disastrous defeat at sea, he did not know the details of the process, so he did not know about this new weapon that caused the navy to suffer a great loss. However, with his many years of experience in fighting with the Song army, and his understanding of the technical strength of the Great Song Dynasty, if this is really a new weapon of the Song army, then it must be a place with special power functions. Judging from the place where the Song army is placed now, Pu Atong is estimated to be a long-range weapon such as a bed crossbow, which may fight farther than the bed crossbow. However, judging by the number of only four, I believe that it will not cause much damage to the Jin Army.

Just when Pu Atong was thinking wildly, he only heard two loud noises, "boom, boom", although he was more than 300 steps away, he still felt a shock in his heart, only to see a flash of fire in two large iron cylinders, and then a large amount of smoke erupted. And almost at the same time, there were two loud noises on the city wall, "boom, boom", which shook Pu Atong's ears and filled the air with the smell of sulfur, and the earth seemed to tremble, shaking violently.

Not to mention the Jin army, even the soldiers in the Song army who had not seen artillery bombardment were taken aback. More than half of the horses neighed in surprise and raised their hooves. The knights kept tugging at the reins, trying to keep their mounts under control.

Pu Atong choked and walked several steps in a row before he could stabilize his body, and only then did he see that more than half of the Jin soldiers around him had fallen to the ground, and many people covered their ears and coughed violently.

"Is this caused by that kind of weapon?" Pu Atong's mind turned, but he was not allowed to think about it, only to hear two loud noises of "boom, boom", and the city wall shook violently again, and many golden soldiers who had just stood up fell to the ground again.

At this time, Pu Atong no longer doubted that the loud roar and strong tremor just now were caused by that kind of weapon. Although the golden soldiers on the city wall were not hurt much at this time, it was enough to make them feel an inexplicable sense of fear.

Pu Atong was calm, until now, he still didn't understand what kind of weapon the big iron cylinder used by the Song army was, and why it could cause such a big movement, but he was a person who had experienced a hundred battles, and he knew that he must not let the Song army fight like this, so he immediately ordered to fire a bed crossbow at the Song army.

The only five bed crossbows in the Anfeng military city started together and fired at the artillery positions of the Song army. It is a pity that the place where the artillery of the Song army was erected was carefully selected, just outside the range of the bed crossbow, so all the ballista fell twenty or thirty paces in front of the artillery, and the farthest shot was six or seven paces. Although it also scared Song Jun out of a cold sweat, there was no danger.