And Wu Yingying, Hu Ze, Lu Jiang and other soldiers who occasionally sent people to report the military situation to the palace were also blocked by the Song army outside the palace gate and could not enter.

Seeing that the Song army of the squad had blocked the gate of the palace for a long time, and did not see the reinforcements of the brigade coming, the captain Ma Chengyan said: "General, I see that the Song people are bluffing, it must be that the three sections of Wu Hulu have stabilized the city defense, and this team of Song troops has become a lone army. ”

Yan Yan but his face sank like water, as if he did not hear Ma Chengyan's plea, looking back at the deep palace, the Guangzheng Palace was brightly lit, tonight coincided with Cai Yu convened Wu Qiao, Xu Xian, Zhang Xun three important ministers to discuss, learned that the Song army blew up the city wall, the vanguard general Cao Han entered the palace gate with the whole army, the four monarchs and ministers were a little at a loss, Xu Xian and Zhang Xun strongly closed the palace gate, summoned the Song army general Cao Han to pacify first, and then make a plan. Before the monarch and the prime ministers have discussed and decided on a policy, it is strictly forbidden to open the palace gate or send troops to provoke the Song army.

If it was only Cai Yu's order, Yu Yan could have sent hundreds of horsemen to crush these lice who dared to be stationed in front of the palace gate on the grounds that the king's order was not affected, but with the holy decree signed by the three phases, it was different. At this time, the Tang State had the signs of being a martial artist in later generations, and if he went to war without authorization, no matter whether he succeeded or failed, even if he could save his life, the head of the general who went to the war would inevitably not be guaranteed. What's more, Lin Zhaoren was still a lesson from the previous car, and the more heavily armed the generals are, the more cautious they are here. Yu Yan, who has been on the side of the king for a long time, knows very well the sinister battle formation of the court, and he especially knows that any mistake can be made, and the political red line must not be stepped on.

Cao Han and the other three hundred Song troops were also trembling at the palace gate as if they were on the edge of the abyss. As the saying goes, heroes are short of breath and children are long, and the courage of the army inspired by Cao Han's general rhetoric has long been exhausted in waiting, and the idea of sealing Hou Yinzi has long been thrown into the country of Jawa, and many people have begun to miss their wives and hot kang heads in Kaifeng City, and they regret it in their hearts. However, after five generations of killing, these people really didn't regard their lives as heavy as later generations, and like Cao Han, since they had already gambled with their lives to cast dice, even if the two warring hearts played gongs, these three hundred Song troops were all full of support, one by one, as if there were not 300 people outside the gate of the Tang Palace, but 30,000 people.

Compared with ordinary soldiers, Cao Han, the general of the unified army, was a thousand times more anxious in his heart, and he kept thinking about how successful this strategy was, and his mind was suddenly hot, hot and cold, guessing how the monarchs and ministers of the Tang State would deal with this dangerous move.

According to his knowledge, this Jiangnan lord was born in the hands of a woman, grew up in the deep palace, must be a person with no opinions, if Wu Yingying, Hu Ze and other fierce generals happen to be in the palace at this moment to assist the Tang lord, he will definitely die. If it is the will of heaven for me, it happens to be the group of ministers who are not involved with the Song army, and my great credit is in the bag. Although he was tormented by ice and fire in his heart, the expression on his face was extremely calm, and in the eyes of the captains and soldiers next to him, he had the demeanor of a general, no wonder he could be the prestige of the first fierce general in the newly promoted forbidden army. Looking at his calm and seemingly idle expression, and there seemed to be a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, many captains and soldiers were secretly ashamed, and their nervous mood relaxed a lot.

Just when the atmosphere above and below the city was as tense as a tense bowstring, there was a sudden "boom", and the bowstring clip of a bed crossbow that had already been pulled on the head of the city suddenly loosened, and a thick three-branch iron crossbow arrow that had already been aimed at the Song army shot into the Song army's formation with a huge whistling sound, passed through the bodies of the two soldiers, and plunged into the ground fiercely.

One of the two soldiers died on the spot, and was cut into two pieces by a wide crossbow arrow on the spot, and his internal organs were sprinkled all over the ground, and several people next to him were splashed with blood all over his body, but the other person was not yet angry, and he couldn't stop wailing on the spot, and for a while the Song army was afraid, and the originally strict formation was also loosened.

Cao Han frowned, looked at the soldier who couldn't stop screaming in pain, turned his head and said to the captain Chi Zhong: "At a critical time, don't mess up the morale of the army, you give him a ride." "Wei Chi Chong is the old department that has followed Cao Han many times to destroy the city and pull out the village, and he has also woken up to the situation at this moment, since his own strength is far from enough to compete with the Tang army in the forbidden city, he can only use deterrence. The three hundred Song Jun and the Tang monarch and the ministers were like two people staring at each other, whoever blinked first would lose their lives, and the military heart was particularly important.

He acted so ruthlessly, not only moved the Tang army at the head of the city, but also the Song army comrades on the side also showed fear.

Cao Han nodded with satisfaction, the so-called mercy is not in charge of the army, this action is the best commentary. He ignored the hateful gazes that many people in the Song army shot at him, and said in a deep voice: "The whole army is twenty steps forward, I want to see if the Tang army has eaten the gall of the leopard and dares to touch the tiger whiskers of my Great Song Forbidden Army." After a pause, he pointed to the head of the tall palace city and said: "After the surrender of the Tang Kingdom, I will definitely avenge these two comrades with the lives of all the Nanban in this city tower." ”

After speaking, regardless of everyone's reaction, he shouted loudly: "Beat the drum, move forward!" When he took twenty steps forward, several soldiers carrying the snare drum looked at each other, intimidated by his might, and subconsciously beat the snare drum, and the Song army formation of three hundred people took twenty steps forward neatly, clinging closely to Cao Han's back, and walked more neatly than during the annual school parade.

In this deathly silence, I heard more drums in the palace.

It was the year of Yihai, 975 AD, the eighth year of Kaibao of the Great Song Dynasty, Cao Han, together with his three hundred Song army chests against the dense bed crossbow at the head of Jinling Palace, the Great Song army flag was raised high, hunting in the night wind. Their courage will always be admired by future generations.

P.S. Although from a modern point of view, the Song State's crusade against the Southern Tang Dynasty was a civil war, but for the Southern Tang Dynasty, which had been independent for nearly a hundred years, the war was no less cruel than the foreign war, as evidenced by the two massacres that can be found in the official history. Therefore, the scene of the people in the south of the Yangtze River eating and sandwiching the road to welcome the king does not exist. Fighting a war is not a dinner party. The military discipline of the Song army in any era is extremely poor, and the Yue family army is a super exception, so it was cut. Perhaps this is a deliberate attempt by the royal family to corrupt the morals of the army in order to prevent them from making trouble, guess.

To say that they are civil wars, not because of now, but because of then. It is not because now the compatriots in the north and south of the Huai River are living within the same borders and under the rule of one government. It is because the Song and Tang dynasties at that time had a common maternal inheritance and mainstream culture, and they were all of the same bloodline, the division of the Tang Dynasty before the Anshi Rebellion. That is, because they belong to the same matrix, it is a civil war. I cannot agree with the argument that no matter whether or not they were the same culture and mother at that time, as long as they became a country in the future, all the wars fought before would be considered civil wars, and the national heroes of the time would also become war criminals in the civil war. As a deference, according to this statement, all mankind will eventually realize communism, so won't all wars from the past to the present be civil wars? Maybe in the future, if we form a federation with the alien Zerg, then the war with the Zerg will also become a civil war, and according to this statement, the two concepts of civil war and foreign war will be completely nihilized.