Most of the Lingbo army had already set up a water village on the bank of the Qinhuai River, and when he heard that the Song army actually slaughtered Heiyun and surrendered, the commander Lu Jiang immediately ordered that the whole army would anchor and raise its sails, and attack the lower water gate along the Qinhuai River, preparing to break through from there. There are many organs in the Water Gate, and the Song Army, who has only taken over the Water Gate for a long time, is not familiar with the operation for a while, and was caught off guard by the Ling Bo Army.

Most of the Tiande army was stationed in Stone City, and the commander Hu Ze heard about the Song army's massacre and surrender, and when the Song army who was about to take over Stone City was expelled, and then closed the city gate, claiming that if the Song army camp did not give an explanation of this matter, the Tiande army would swear to defend the city to the death.

Countless fires suddenly broke out in the city at some point, accompanied by many Tang troops scattered in the surrounding military camps after breaking through the surveillance of the Song army and scurrying around the city, and there was a weapon fight with the Song army on the street.

Cao Han never imagined that his slaughter of the Tang soldiers guarding the palace was like lighting a match in a powder keg, detonating the resistance of the Tang army in the south of the city. And Pan Mei, who was in charge of guarding the city wall, was even more shocked, and hurriedly mobilized all the Song troops in the city, in addition to strictly guarding the four gates, to enter the city to clear the Southern Tang rebels. He personally led more than 30,000 elites to Stone Town to confront Hu Ze.

Most of the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty were under Hu Ze and Lu Jiang, and they lived in Stone Town and Qinhuai Water Village, and the number of Tang soldiers in various parts of the city was not very large, but the Song army regarded entering the city to quell the rebellion as the most oily task. Some generals who were not under the direct jurisdiction of Pan and Cao Er took this opportunity to lead the troops under their jurisdiction into the city to get a piece of the pie, and the situation in Jinling City suddenly got out of control.

The Song army, which entered the city to quell the rebellion, did not rush to find the main force of the Tang army, but wantonly looted along the streets and alleys until they were killed. Many of the wealthy merchant families of the Southern Tang Dynasty officials and gentry were killed by the whole family because they failed to meet the needs of the Song soldiers in time. Because the Southern Tang people devoutly believed in Buddhism, many good men and women took refuge in Buddhist temples, but the Song soldiers ignored it and went directly into the temple to rob money and select women. The Song soldiers also set fire to the Shengyuan Temple Pavilion, which was built more than ten zhang high during the Liang Dynasty, and thousands of men and women hiding in the pavilion died in the earth-shattering cry.

Although Wang Quanbin has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, he is not strict in governing the army, and he is greedy for killing. After conquering Hou Shu, he "drank and feasted day and night, did not care about military affairs, and plundered his children's property and goods under his subordinates, and the Shu people suffered." Its sergeants were drunk and robbed merchants along the street with knives, and soon provoked the Shu people to mutiny, and the army descended to elect the original Shu general Quanshi Xiong as the leader, known as the "Xingguo Army". Wang Quanbin's improper measures further intensified the contradictions. The whole division led the army to conquer Pengzhou, killed the capital eunuch Cai Derong, and all parties in Shu responded with troops. Wang Quanbin slaughtered 20,000 troops in Chengdu, which aroused even greater disgust, and mutinies in the sixteen states of Xichuan occurred one after another. Wang Quanbin and others were repeatedly defeated and begged for help from Beijing. Later, Zhao Guangyi and Cao Bin attacked the whole division, and when the chaotic people saw this, they abandoned their weapons and surrendered. The whole division rushed to Pi County, suffered many wounds on his body, and died in battle. The rebellion was not put down until two years later. In the fifth year of Qiande (967), Wang Quanbin was accused of "robbing his children of jade silk and unauthorized treasury and concealing property when he broke Shu";

In the ninth year of Kaibao (976), Song Taizu destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty. In April, Song Taizu summoned Wang Quanbin: "Lianqing is not peaceful with Jiangzuo, and the generals of the south are not disciplined, so they suppress Qing for several years and legislate for me." Now it has been Jinling, and it is also a festival. He was awarded the Wuning Military Festival, and in June of the same year, Quan Bin died. (Editor's note: It doesn't seem that he was punished for respecting life??)

Volume 4 Capture Hu Ma on foot and ride Chapter 79 Burning the City

Wu Yingying led fifty guards to advance through the muddy alleys with blood that almost drowsed to their ankles. Jiedu made a gloomy face, they would sometimes encounter a small group of Song troops, the trained guards would quickly resolve the battle before the other side issued a siren, if they encountered too many Song troops, these Jinling beacon fire made the former officials of the Yamen use their familiarity with the terrain to bypass the brigade.

I don't know when it will rain in Jinling City, but the tears in the sky have not stopped the tragedy that is happening now. The Song army, which had already been able to kill, could no longer control it, except for the main force of the Tiande army in Stone Town, and the army that confronted the main force of the Lingbo army at the Shuixi Gate, the other Song troops were absorbed by the huge Jinling City like water poured in the mud, and they tirelessly searched the streets and alleys for gold and silver, jade and white jade, silk and satin, and, of course, women. The whole Jinling seems to have been overturned into a beehive on the ground, and the greedy bear kisses out his tongue to lick the last drop of honey inside, which cares about the life and death of the bees.

Along the way, he encountered a lot of Tang soldiers, but there were no Wu Yingying who could see them, and the sloppy and incompetent soldiers could only become a burden to his elite team, and they might also attract the encirclement of the Song army. Suddenly, there was an earth-shattering sound of killing in front of him, as well as the sound of horses' hooves, Wu Yingying's eyes flashed, and he waved his hand to lead the guards through an alley full of blood and water.

In the big scene, more than 1,000 cavalrymen dressed in black armor, helmets and white linen wrapped around their left arms were driving a large group of Song soldiers along the royal street. Heiyun has been fighting in the south for a long time, and he is very familiar with the cavalry fighting of the expulsion infantry in the city, and he has an iron lance on his horse, and a large number of Song soldiers crying and shouting for his mother are swept away, and when he is close, he draws out a horizontal knife and slashes the head of the foot soldier. The horizontal knife equipped by the Black Cloud Capital is heavier than that used by ordinary foot soldiers, almost like a short stick that opens the edge, even if the foot soldier is wearing a helmet, it must be a concussion to knock this heavy thing. More than 1,000 cavalry formed a circular cavalry group on the wide royal street, and the blockers were invincible.

However, Wu Yingying soon saw that something was wrong, although the Song army seemed to be embarrassed, it was very orderly between advancing and retreating. The foot soldiers avoided a head-on confrontation with the cavalry, but kept in contact with the cavalry, expending their horsepower. Some Song archers had already begun to enter the houses on both sides of the royal street, and through the windows, they raised their crossbows and aimed them at the huge Black Cloud Capital cavalry.

Although Heiyundu rushed left and right, in essence, he did not kill many Song soldiers, but was killed and injured by the arrows shot by the cold man, and once the cavalry fell to the ground, it was the end of being cut into meat sauce by the Song soldiers who swarmed up.

Wu Yingying observed the situation on this battlefield, made a gesture behind his back, and he and his fifty guards secretly entered the house close to him, and went door to door to deal with the archers of the Song army. Perhaps it was after fighting for so long, there was no formed Tang army infantry and cavalry to cooperate in the battle, these Song troops hiding in the houses were extremely relaxed, often five or six archers did not have a sword and shield hand to protect, of course, it was greatly convenient for Wu Yingying and others to start, and it didn't take long to kill more than 100 crossbowmen in three strokes and five divisions, but the Song army was numerous, and there were still more and more arrows shot out of the houses on both sides of the royal street, and there were more and more black cloud cavalry who fell off their horses.

Seeing this scene, Wu Yingying frowned slightly, pondered for a while, turned around and ordered the guards to be divided into ten teams, first change into the clothes of the Song people's foot soldiers, set fire to all the houses on both sides of the royal street in this area, drive out those Song army bowmen and crossbowmen, and then meet here. The guards took the order and left. The people on both sides of the house originally stored daily lamp oil, cooking oil and firewood and other things, how dare ordinary people stop the fierce and vicious military master from setting fire at this time, it just so happened that there was an industry of the Divine Guard Army nearby, and the large amount of charcoal and fire oil accumulated earlier just came in handy.

Not long after, the flames were raging, the crossbowmen of the Song army were difficult to gain a foothold in the burning houses, and they all dodged out, and some of the captains who led the troops scolded loudly while running, and they didn't know where to open their eyes. After scolding, I didn't forget to grope in my arms, and the dozen taels of silver I had just snatched by the way were still there, and they were covered hot.

At this moment, the east wind rises, this fire is not more than the fire scattered elsewhere, the end is unstoppable, the tongue of fire will be more than wooden buildings on both sides of the royal street rolled in, after the Shengzhou west camp reported to Bianliang, this fire will burn two-thirds of the Jinling houses to the ground, even the forbidden palace has not been spared, the people of the city survived only two or three out of ten. However, what is the truth in it, how many natural disasters and some man-made disasters, the parties have their own explanations, and it has become a mystery for the ages. The Changde Palace, where the Cai family in Jiangnan has been gathered for decades, is known as a mountain of money and jade silk, and the Bianliang Zhao family originally expected to surrender Jiangnan to the Jinling Mansion that could be taken as their own, but who knew that in the end it was burned to nothing.

Although the fire disrupted the formation of the Song soldiers, but the cavalry crotch horses were even more afraid of fire, these Southern Tang Dynasty for many years from the Tubo, Xishu purchased a lot of money from the plateau horses, one after another, one after another, turned around, refused to follow the master's wishes, rushed into the fire to chase the defeated Song soldiers. At this moment, Wu Yingying appeared on the side of the street and shouted: "Wu Yingying of the Divine Guard Army is here, which general of the Black Cloud Capital is in front of him?"

When the other soldiers were pacifying the horses, the two horses ran in front of Wu Yingying in three or two steps, the original god horse was also sweat mixed with mud and blood, exhausted, unable to contain the horse's hooves, the white gas from the horse's nose almost reached Wu Yingying's face, the first knight had no less than seven or eight arrows inserted in his body, and there were also a few broken arrows on the horse's thighs where there was no horse armor to cover.

I saw that he was sweating profusely, his expression was a little gloomy, and he hugged his fist to Wu Yingying and said: "This fire was put by General Wu's subordinates, and the black clouds are all full of enthusiasm!"