When the battle on the eastern city wall was in full swing, Cao Han, who was startled by Wu Yingying, broke out in a cold sweat, led three hundred elite soldiers to carefully walk along the streets of Jinling, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and the current capital of the Tang Kingdom. On both sides of the road, the Zhumen Marquis Mansion is lined up, and the courtyard walls of the neighborhood appear particularly tall and gloomy at night, as if there are strong crossbows and strong armor in ambush in every house, and there will be a large number of Tang troops pouring out at every street intersection.

Such a lonely army went deep, and it didn't take long to walk, although he didn't encounter other enemies again, Cao Han only felt that his vest was about to be soaked in cold sweat. The accompanying soldiers walked and cared, but there was no sign of reinforcements at all. There have been several Tang armies across the street south of Hongqiao to the east, but in the direction of Dongcheng, the Song army rushed to meet without a single soldier, it is conceivable that the gap in the city wall has been sealed by the Tang army, and their three hundred athletes have become lonely.

Cao Han could even feel that there were countless pairs of frightened and resentful eyes staring at his small group of lonely soldiers behind the heavy door panels of those high-ranking families, once the situation was clear, not to mention the Tang army that turned around, even these Jiangnan people who hated the northern army so much, I am afraid that they would also tear their three hundred people apart. At this moment, there was silence on the street, and occasionally one or two children's cries stopped abruptly as if they were strangled by their necks, as if the whole of Jinling was quietly watching these three hundred abominable soldiers.

Looking up at the cold white moon in the sky, Cao Han let out a long breath of white air, raised his hand and ordered the army to stop advancing, and called a few captains.

"Pioneer envoy, it is not advantageous for me to go deep into the lone army, so retreat. It was also the first achievement to attack our army on both sides and capture the city wall with our army outside the gap. Tang Jinyan, the captain with a gloomy face, and several other captains also showed fear.

Cao Han glanced at everyone coldly, looked at the hundred-foot building that seemed to be faintly visible in the distance, and said in a deep voice: "This retreat, not to mention the success or failure, whether it can return safely is also a question." You can know the story of the frightened bird, the sound of the strings and the fall. Our army has been going south for a long time, and now the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Kingdom are the birds, although we only have three hundred people, as long as the queue appears in front of the palace gate, it will inevitably make it fearful. Seize his country and kidnap his king, such an immortal feat, how can the kings let him escape from his fingers in vain. ”

He looked up and saw that the captains were also a little eager to try on their faces, and sighed slightly in their hearts, he was just fighting to survive. Immediately, he said: "Don't take a big risk, you can get a great credit." If you want to seal the Hou Yinzi, tonight my generation will take a bold fight, and the merit is enough to fight for ten years in the northern Xinjiang, such a cheap thing is already in front of you, why don't you do it! What do you think?"

The lieutenants were moved by what he said, and nodded one after another: "But by the commanding order." Although Cao Han only convened the lieutenant to discuss, he did not deliberately lower his voice, so the three hundred sergeants present heard the words of several officers clearly, such a soldier is no better than the useless forbidden army in later generations, most of them are brave people who forget their lives for the sake of profit, and they are reasonable to hear Cao Han, and there is no greed for life and fear of death.

Cao Han nodded with some relief, and said with a smile: "The courage of the gentlemen did not disappoint me, my three hundred athletes fought together, whether it was success or failure, Han and you are honored." He was known for his courage in the army, and he easily disobeyed others, and his words of praise at this moment also made the faces of many soldiers look excited.

Cao Han said again: "Since you want to deter the Tang Kingdom, then do enough tricks, who carries the snare drum?" He said that it was a waist drum commonly used in the Northland Army, in ancient battles, the most important thing was to keep the battle line to meet the enemy, and the pace was the same, if not, it would be equivalent to selling his vest and flanks to the enemy. At this time, it is important to pay attention to the drums and advance, although there are swords, mountains and fires and do not avoid, and when they hear gold, they retreat, although they have money and jade silk, they do not care, so the army carries large and small snare drums and gongs for the purpose of commanding.

The selection of the siege came from all the forbidden armies, and a few soldiers took out the waist drum in the baggage and hung it around their necks, Cao Han nodded with satisfaction: "Beat the flag, march in formation, the drummer walks in front, and everyone walks on the idea." It is necessary to deter the southeast rats. ”

There is also a saying that the forbidden army is paraded, and because the two dynasties of Zhou Shizong and Song Taizu are extremely important to the parade, so although these elite forbidden troops led by Cao Han do not belong to the same army, they also march in the sound of drums and score extraordinarily neatly.

The sound of drums and the marching footsteps that almost stomped their feet, as if the drumsticks were beating on the hearts of the people of Jinling along the way, many Southern Tang Dynasty officials who peeked through the cracks in the door saw this scene, and their hearts couldn't help but sink.

Of course, there are also many people who have been overwhelmed by the war for a long time, and they are also slightly relieved to see that the Song army is in good shape, not like a chaotic army, and even has a sense of relief, similar to the feeling of some residents of Nanjing City in another time and space nearly a thousand years later.

In this way, Cao Han led the three hundred Song troops to march all the way to the north of Hongqiao, in front of the palace city. This is the throat in front of the palace city to be low, when the emperor Fu Jixun made a rebellion, it was Wu Yingying led the pro-army and Jinling beacon fire to make the yamen officials block here, failed to break into the palace city, and finally failed. However, this is also the heart of the Jinling City Ring Protection, if it is said that the Song army broke into other places in the city, it is possible to kill out of the city, but it is impossible to turn back here.

Having said that, if it weren't for Cao Han's march as a whole team, the momentum of marching on the drums shocked the Tang divisions everywhere in the city, and the really elite troops who dared to fight were all taken by Wu Yingying and Hu Ze to the eastern city wall to confront Cao Bin's army, with Cao Han's 300 people, how could they march here, even if they gathered the house slaves of the courtiers and cut them with kitchen knives, they would also be chopped into meat sauce.

Once the Tang army completely stabilized the city defense and mobilized an army at will, he didn't know that his three hundred people would be able to hold out for a stick of incense. If you lead the troops yourself, when you encounter this kind of lonely army, you can simply surround it with a spear, and only use the crossbow soldiers to shoot back and forth, you can be completely annihilated, Cao Han silently thought in his heart, the husband can't eat five tripods in life, and he should cook five tripods when he dies.

Looking up at the dark palace gate and the tall city wall, the vanguard of the Great Song Dynasty commanded the envoys, Cao Han took a deep breath of cold night air, and without looking back, he led the three hundred strong men to drive across the Hongqiao, and stepped into the range of the huge bed crossbow in the city, and then ordered a soldier to come forward to inform that the officials and troops of the Southern Song Dynasty had decided that the whole city had been decided, and the Southern Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers were ordered to open the palace gate before dawn to surrender, otherwise the city would be slaughtered for 30 days, and the chickens and dogs would not be left.

Heiyundu commanded the envoy Yu Yan to look at the three hundred Song troops gathered in a group of hedgehogs under the city, and blew his beard anxiously and glared. It was strictly ordered that the black clouds in the palace were not allowed to open the gate of the palace without authorization, and it was impossible to take the initiative to attack the Song army, so they actually let the three hundred people stay in front of the palace city safely and securely. Although he is a fierce general and has a fierce temper, he has served as the commander of the emperor's army all the year round, and he has a style of being virtuous in everything, for fear that others will regard Heiyun as the first-class divine strategy army that coerced the Son of Heaven in the previous dynasty. Therefore, although he hated the three hundred Song troops with hatred, since Cao Han sent an envoy to deliver the message, he could only pass this message to the palace, and before the palace replied, he could not send troops to attack.