Cai Yu saw Zhou Hou and Huang Wen looking at him with two pairs of beautiful eyes, and felt a pain in his heart for no reason, although he couldn't bear to tell the people of the deep palace the news that the Song people had broken through the city, he couldn't help but whisper: "The Song people have broken through the East City, and the soldiers are already outside the palace. After finishing speaking, my heart suddenly relaxed, as if I had unloaded a big burden.

Zhou Hou cried out with an "ah", then covered his mouth and stood up.

Cai Yu couldn't help crying and said: "The queen is young and young, but she wants to accompany the orphan to bear the pain of this country, that is, it is the loneliness that harms you." ”

Zhou Hou took Cai Yu's hands and said, "The concubine is willing to live and die with Your Majesty." The tone was firm.

Huang Wen bit her lip and was silent, silently thinking in her heart, the Song people broke the city, I don't know how he lives and dies?

Seeing that Zhou Hou, who was a little willful on weekdays, was willing to die with him, Cai Yu was a little moved, his throat choked, he couldn't restrain himself if his wife was so husband-like, and his thoughts of wanting to commit suicide and martyrdom just now faded. After a while, he said: "The soldiers are in danger of chaos, the palace maid around me, please ask the queen to dismiss first, the palace is used to being comfortable, there is a lot of discomfort when you go out, give more gold, silver, pearls and jade." ”

Seeing that Zhou Hou nodded in agreement, Cai Yu looked at Huang Wen, who was silent next to him, and sighed: "The calligraphy and painting books in the Jianye Scholar's Office are the result of Lone's life's painstaking efforts, and Lone can't bear it to fall into the hands of others, and Baoyi can burn it for me." ”

Huang Wen was startled and looked at him with wide eyes, but Cai Yu had no intention of changing his words. He saw the tears on Zhou Hou's face, so he walked to Zhou Hou's side, forced a smile and comforted: "Don't cry, look, the distant mountains and eyebrows painted in the morning, as soon as you cry, it will become a tear makeup." Zhou Hou was amused by him and smiled, but he was secretly sad in his heart.

Cai Yu couldn't see a beautiful woman like this, gently stroked her face, picked up a shell eyebrow stone from Persia, and said with a forced smile: "If you go to Bianliang, I will draw eyebrows for Xiao Wei'er, I'm afraid I won't be able to find such a good stone dai again." After saying that, he carefully helped Zhou Hou draw his eyebrows, thinking about the prospect of the shattering of his family and country, and his eyes moistened.

The husband and wife were weeping opposite each other, and the eunuch outside reported: "Your Majesty, Wu Xiang took Cao Han, the vanguard of the Song army, to ask to see. Cai Yu sighed, gently shook the soft pancreas behind Zhou, and said, "I'll come when I go." “

Zhou Hou tapped his head, stood up and sent him out of the Rouyi Palace, facing the mirror alone, completing the half-painted eyebrows, and suddenly weeping again.

Outside the window, I don't know when, a light rain fell ticking, and then the night wind blew the bronze bells hanging under the eaves to make a crisp sound, and the raindrops on the eaves slipped down, and happened to fall on the banana leaves in the corner of the wall, like a crackling sound like a tambourine accompanied by a neon dress and feather coat, but at this moment it sounded more like the snare drum of the two armies against each other, beating on the hearts of the Southern Tang monarchs.

Volume 4 Capture Hu Ma on foot and ride Chapter 72 Forced Landing

Although Cao Han didn't know what kind of pressure the sudden appearance of this small army he led brought to the four monarchs and ministers who were in charge of the highest power in the Tang Kingdom, although he was born in the country, he belonged to the side branch and his status was not high, not to mention that in the chaotic Central Plains of the Five Dynasties, even the royal family was killed four or five waves, not to mention that he was a military man. Fighting all the way to the current position, the most credible thing is the treasure knife by the side, and I feel that it is rare to fight a few times in life, but I have no scruples. The only thing that I can't forget is not life and death, but fame and wealth, and smiled at the military academy next to me: "My generation was born in troubled times, fought in the south and the north, and fought to become a marquis immediately." Now that the light soldiers have entered directly, even if the blood is splashed in front of the palace, they can't eat Wuding, but they can be regarded as Wuding cooking. ”

Gao Ling, the captain of the Crane Military Academy, was close to Cao Han, and said angrily: "It is better to die in the battle than to be old and decadent and bullied." Captain Long Jie also said: "It is our honor to follow General Cao. "He is the concubine of the party in the northwest, and others vaguely reject him when he is elected to the forbidden army, but it is Cao Han, who is eager for fame and fortune, who values his background and accepts him, so he is very convinced by Cao Han, the northwest man is very bloody, and he doesn't take his life seriously.

At this moment, it has already rained lightly, but for this group of forbidden troops who have been fighting all year round, the cold of the spring rain is not cool The blood aroused by fame and fortune is not cool, and the big guys are standing solemnly in the rain, and they are a little uneasy, and they have gone with the passage of time.

Cao Han sighed with some emotion, nodded slightly, and saw the palace door in front of him slowly open, he couldn't help but clench the blade in his hand, the muscles of his whole body tensed, and said in his heart: "It's finally here." ”

From the tall palace gate, there was no brigade of Tang forbidden troops, but several civil officials dressed in robes and robes, Cao Han frowned, and raised his hand to signal the Song army behind him to be on guard. The civil official walked very strangely, with a duck-like pace, but he thought he was very majestic, so he came to Cao Han so slowly, and he was dressed in a purple court dress first, and the gorgeous patterns and the fish bag around his waist showed his noble identity. The court clothes of the officials of the Southern Tang Kingdom and the Song Kingdom all originated from the early Tang Dynasty, so the person Cao Han recognized at a glance was a first-class member even if he was not the prime minister, and he was scheming, if he really came to persuade him to surrender, it was better to kill him with a knife, and he had to pull the back of an official when he died.

Seeing that the three hundred Song army did not shelter from the wind and rain, standing upright in the rain like three hundred javelins, Xu Xian was shocked, and originally thought that the Song army was waiting at the palace gate, but at this moment, he must have been sleepy and tired, staggering, and even began to loot the houses around the palace gate. The forbiddenness of this order made him firm in his desire to persuade Cai Yu to surrender to the Song Dynasty. Looking down at the peacock blue feather and gold velvet robe that he had just put on, and then seeing that several attachés next to him were wearing lily clothes, Xu Xian's heart moved, and he reached out and untied the lily coat on his body, handed it to the attaché, and then walked towards the Song army standing in the rain.

Xu Xian approached the fierce and vicious Northern Dynasty generals step by step, and the vanguard commanded Cao Han, secretly beating the drum in his heart, no wonder many people of insight said that the north and the south were different in courage and cowardice, just from the evil spirit exuded by the Northern Dynasty generals, the generals of the DPRK and China were unmatched. was apprehensive in his heart, but he smiled twice on his face: "Xu Xian, the criminal minister of Jiangnan, was ordered by the lord of the country to come to ask which general of the Heavenly Dynasty of the Kingdom was leading the army?" Although Cao Han's message has already indicated his identity, but this official ceremony, it is still necessary to confirm it first, Xu Xian thinks that this is the practice of Lao Cheng to seek the country, there will be no mistakes, not like the stunned young man who has just entered the official career, he will come when he opens his mouth, and sometimes, he calls the wrong person at the moment, or enters the wrong door, I am afraid that he will regret it for a lifetime.

Cao Han was stunned, Xu Xian knew that the prime minister of Jiangnan once sent an envoy to Bianliang, full of poetry and books in the Song Dynasty, and was invincible, but in the end he folded in the hands of a silent little official who was gold, and became a joke talked about by Bianliang people. But having said that, since then, when it comes to Xu Xian's knowledge, everyone in the Song Kingdom has been convinced.

Although Cao Han promised himself to be a wise general, he knew that he was far from being the enemy of a person like Xu Xian who was full of economy and had been rolling in officialdom for half his life, so he simply learned the old wisdom of the former Bianliang officials, and stared at Xu Xian coldly with a pair of Danfeng eyes, without saying a word, listening to what he was saying.

Xu Xian was stared at by him and sweated down his spine, so he had to bite the head and say again: "Jiangnan and the Great Song Dynasty have father and son, because of some misunderstanding and disobedience to the Son of Heaven, the explanation is still like a family." Ask the general for his name again?"

Hearing him say this, Cao Han finally understood that this Xu Xian was here to sue for peace, he looked back at the thin three hundred soldiers behind him, and an excitement rushed to the top of his head, and he almost couldn't suppress the urge to raise his head and laugh three times. Fortunately, Shang Nengqiang pressed himself, stared at Xu Xian, and said coldly: "I am the commander of the pioneer camp in the southwest of Shengzhou in the Great Song Dynasty, the training envoy of the Yingzhou regiment, Cao Han." ”