The water battle in the East China Sea ended with a complete victory for the Song army, and the Jin army's water village was breached by the Song army, and less than 100 warships escaped, and the rest were either sunk or captured by the Song army. Most of the materials and equipment in the water village were also seized by the Song army. The loss of troops exceeded 10,000 people, and the naval commander Jia Gu Su, Lu Zhongxiong and others were killed on the spot.

Although the beggar tower escaped with his life at that time, the water village was lost, and he was naturally unable to escape his responsibility, so he committed suicide on the way to the Bohai Sea.

After capturing the Jin army's water village, Li Gongzuo immediately led 10,000 horses to land and launched an attack on Donghai County, obviously wanting to completely occupy Donghai Island.

Although Donghai Island is a large county, because there are naval troops stationed here, there are not many defenders in Donghai County, less than 2,000. As soon as he heard that the Song army had beaten away the water army, captured the water village, and now rushed to capture the county seat, Wu Shimin, the magistrate of Donghai County, was also frightened to the soul, and hurriedly called the soldiers and people to defend the city, and immediately sent people to Haizhou to help.

Meng Gonghai, the governor of Haizhou, received the news and was also shocked, if the Song army occupied Donghai Island, it would be equivalent to squatting at the door of his own house, is this worth it? Therefore, he immediately ordered the soldiers and horses of the state to lead the army to rescue Donghai County. He immediately asked for help from Shi Dingyue in Pizhou.

As soon as the men and horses of Haizhou left on their front feet, Cao Xun led the Song army to kill. At this time, most of the garrison of Haizhou went to rescue the East China Sea, and the garrison of Haizhou was very empty, so Cao Xun captured Haizhou City without difficulty, and Meng Gonghai also died in the chaos.

After capturing Haizhou, Cao Xun immediately sent another 5,000 cavalry to chase after the Jin army that came to the aid of the East China Sea. Just when the Jin army was crossing the sea, it was caught up by the Song army, followed by a fierce rush. Half of the Jin army that crossed the sea was lucky and picked up a life. The other half had not yet crossed the sea, and was defeated by the Song army, most of the men and horses were killed and wounded, and most of the rest were captured. The Jin army that crossed the sea had to wait less than half an hour, because Li Gongzuo also sent troops to block the reinforcements, and the Song army was almost wiped out under the two strikes.

After Wu Shimin, the magistrate of Donghai County, learned that Haizhou had been lost, he couldn't help but be moved by the army, and he had no intention of holding on to it anymore. Kaesong had to surrender. When Shi Dingyue led the army to come to the rescue, it was too late, and at this time, the entire Haizhou was occupied by the Song army. And Shi Dingyue brought only 15,000 men and horses, where he could compete with the Song army's land and water people, and he was afraid that the Song army would take advantage of the situation to move westward, so he had to immediately withdraw his troops and retreat to Pizhou.

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After 16 days of intensified construction and overcoming the unfavorable conditions of the Song army's non-stop work, the Jin army finally dug a criss-cross trench outside the city of Haozhou, and erected six earth mountains nearly six zhang high, and at the same time set up bed crossbows and trebuchets on the earth hills, and made all preparations.

It was at this time that Monk Wanyan Chen received the news of the loss of Haizhou and the breach of the East China Sea Village.

But at this time, the Jin army thought that Haozhou was bound to win, that is, to return to the army to save Haizhou, and it must wait until Haozhou was captured. Therefore, Monk Wanyan Chen immediately issued a death order, and the whole army will attack tomorrow and must capture Haozhou.

On the second day of the battle, the entire Jin army went out and launched an attack on Haozhou. However, this time the Jin army's attack was very smooth, and the Song army probably knew that Haozhou was in the general trend, so it only resisted a little and took the initiative to retreat from Haozhou. At the same time, Pu Atong sent troops from Shouzhou and also captured the Anfeng army.

It turned out that Gao Zhen saw that the Jin army's fortifications outside the city were completed, so he knew that he could not defend Haozhou, and heard that Cao Xun had captured Haizhou and repelled the Jin army, so he took the initiative to give up Haozhou and retreated to the Xuyi army and continued to garrison.

Although he finally broke through Haozhou, his own losses were not small, so Monk Wanyan Chen ordered the soldiers to rest for a while, and he was also thinking about the next step of the Jin army, whether to continue to march or return to the army to rescue Haizhou.

Monk Wanyan Chen first rejected the plan to rescue Haizhou. Although the Jin army's naval army suffered a fiasco, somewhat unexpected by Monk Yan Chen, the naval army could not decide the battle situation after all. After Cao Xun captured Haizhou, the number of troops he could use was also limited, as long as Shi Dingyue held the line of Pizhou and Xuzhou, he could ensure that the entire Shandong was worry-free. Therefore, there is no need to give up the current good situation of Jianghuai at this time, and return to the army to rescue Haizhou.

So how does the Jin army march now? Monk Wanyan Chen couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Although now the Jin army has captured Haozhou and Anfeng troops, it can be said that the situation has opened up on the Jianghuai battlefield. But the Song army was far from being defeated. At present, there is still Luzhou blocking the road on the way for the Jin army to continue to advance southward, and Qi Fang is leading 27,000 men and horses to garrison, and they are all Sanya forbidden troops. To the west is Gwangju is the Song Dynasty's imperial garrison division, there are also 30,000 horses garrisoned, and now Yang Yan is stationed in Ezhou is only a river away, in the east of the Xuyi army in the collection of Gao Zhen's Haozhou people, the strength has also increased greatly, no less than 30,000. It can be said that these three sides are hard enemies.

In the final analysis, Monk Wanyan Chen's troops are a little stretched. At present, there are still more than 55,000 men and horses led by Monk Wanyan Chen, and there are 20,000 people in Pu Atong's army, but to contain the Song army, it cannot be easily used. Shi Dingyue brought 15,000 men and horses to guard Pizhou, and the only one who could only transfer about 10,000 men and horses from Suzhou was the only one. And Guangzhou obviously can't be attacked, the Xuyi army and Luzhou are each other's horns, after the two places are combined, the troops are not under the Jin army, and they all have city walls to defend, and it is not easy to attack. So now we have to think of a foolproof solution.

After some careful consideration, Monk Wanyan Chen finally decided to attack the Xuyi army first. Because once the Jin army attacked Luzhou in the south, Gao Zhen was likely to go north to attack Suzhou, which was empty, and then attack Pizhou and Xuzhou with Cao Xun. Coupled with the current superiority of the Song army on the sea, it may be difficult to preserve the entire Shandong. At that time, even if Yang Yan's forces can be attracted, Wanyan Changzhi can successfully capture Xiangyang, but the gains outweigh the losses.

Therefore, it is only the best policy to capture the Xuyi army first. If the Song army of Luzhou went out of the city to rescue the Xuyi army, it would be good, and Monk Wanyan Chen could come to a siege to help. At that time, there is no fear that Yang Yan will not come to the rescue of the Jianghuai battlefield.

After sorting out his thoughts, Monk Wanyan Chen immediately finished Yan Kuang, Wanyan Chong, Gao Linfu, Daduchen, Wulintai, Shao Fangjie and other generals and told them the plan he had thought of. After hearing this, the generals also thought that Monk Wanyan Chen's plan was very thorough and completely feasible, so they all agreed with it. So Wanyan Chen monk ordered, and the men and horses were ready to march out to attack the Xuyi army.

At this moment, there was a sudden emergency from Shandong, the Song army actually captured Mizhou with Jingjing, and now Huai is preparing to continue to attack Weizhou. When Monk Wanyan Chen heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised, because there was still Yizhou and Juzhou between Mizhou and Haizhou, how did the Song army cross over.

It turned out that Cao Xun saw that Shi Dingyue held Pizhou and that the Song army's march route to the west was blocked, so he immediately discussed with Li Gongzuo, pulled out 10,000 Song troops, and set off with Li Gongzuo's fleet, circumnavigating Yizhou and Juzhou, and pedaling near Chenjia Island to attack Mizhou. Because Mizhou was not a border, it was not strictly guarded and unprepared, and it was captured by the Song army at once.

After Monk Yan Chen figured out the truth, he sighed, and then he understood why the Song army abandoned Haozhou and invested considerable troops to capture Haizhou, which did not seem to have great strategic value in the Jin State. Due to the fiasco of the Jin army's naval army and the opening of the sea gate, after taking the East China Sea as a base, the entire Shandong coast was under the control of the Song army, and it was not up to the Song army's fleet to drive there if they wanted to.

Mizhou and Weizhou are all internal areas, far away from the Song-Jin border line, the garrison is very empty, and the only garrison force is only a second- or third-rate army, which cannot be the opponent of the Song army at all, so once the Song army gains a firm foothold in Mizhou, the entire Shandong Peninsula will be dangerous. Moreover, the Song army is complemented by a naval army, not only can the reinforcement line and the backup troops be guaranteed, but also if they can fight, they will flee if they can't fight, which can be said to be foolproof.

After thinking about it all night, and after weighing the gains and losses repeatedly, he finally decided to leave Gao Linfu and Daduchen behind, with 30,000 horses, to hold Haozhou, and to fight with Pu Atong of the Anfeng army. He led 35,000 men and horses to rescue Shandong in person.

Because the closest distance between Shandong and Zhongdu is only more than 600 miles, once it is lost, Zhongdu will naturally bear the brunt, not only that, but at that time, the Song army's naval army can also bypass Dengzhou, enter the Bohai Sea, and directly kick the shore on the seaside east of Zhongdu, at that time the Song army is both land and water attack. In this way, not to mention that the Jin army captured Xiangyang Mansion, even if it captured the entire area north of the Yangtze River, it would not be worth the loss. Therefore, Shandong must not afford to lose, and Monk Wanyan Chen did not dare to be careless, and only by personally leading the army to rescue Shandong could he rest assured.

At the same time, Monk Wanyan Chen wrote a letter to Wanyan Changzhi about the details of the front-line battle in Jianghuai, and asked him to decide the next step of the march. And then he led the troops and set off.

The movements of the Jin army were immediately inquired about by the spies of the Song army and reported to Gao Zhen.

After Gao Zhen learned about it, he was greatly relieved, at least the Jianghuai front line could be calm for a while. At the same time, he immediately sent people to tell Yang Yan and Cao Xun about the movements of the Jin army, so that they could prepare.

The battle on the front line of Jianghuai has finally come to an end temporarily, and then the main battlefield of Song Jin will be moved to the front line of Nanyang in Jingxiang, and Yang Yan and Wanyan Changzhi will face it directly.