Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 277 Quiet
From this point of view, although Gong Chengshu doesn't know how to fight, he has a very high mind, especially when he has a good grasp of people's hearts.

The entire capital of the Southern Han Dynasty did not wake up with the rising sun. Hundreds of thousands of people stayed at home in fear, or hid in cellars, listening to the movement outside. All the yamen are empty and silent.

Because of the precedent of the war against Houshu, Zhao Kuangyin issued a strict order to the three commanders Pan Mei, Zhao Zan and Ye Chen before the army went south, not to slaughter and harass the people, so before entering the city, the Song army was organized from bottom to bottom. This has already been emphasized.In addition, the imperial city has not yet been breached, and the battle has not yet been fought, so the Song army has shown a high degree of discipline, and almost no one harassed the people, let alone entered the people's homes.

However, it was so quiet and deserted that it made people feel that the day just now seemed to be an endless night.The whole of Kyoto has become an isolated city, a dead city.

Looking down from the imperial city, it can be seen that dozens of clusters of smoke and dust appeared in different places on the outer city wall of Kyoto at this time, and the sound of hooves was like thunder.They are coming from the gate of the city, along the avenues extending in all directions in Kyoto, towards the direction of the imperial city!
Most of the roads in Kyoto in the Southern Han Dynasty were not paved with stone slabs, and the loess was crushed and crushed by the galloping horseshoes.Get kicked up again.Become a cloud of dust and smoke.Gradually rise.It became a piece of yellow smoke.It blocked the light projected by the rising sun that initially rose above the horizon, making the whole city inside and outside a bit dark.

The cavalry of the three-way army is in front, with five cavalry in a row.at a steady pace.Drive to the imperial city.The infantry followed, looking murderous and excited.The victory is imminent, and the Song army is not unhappy.

But everything seemed so silent and fast.The smoke and dust brought up by the horseshoes was rushed by these horses.Scrape towards the city gate.It looks like a yellow dragon with no head or tail, struggling to enter the capital of Nanhan.Intended to devour those poor defenders of the Southern Han Imperial City.

In the loess all over the sky, a large army flag is waving in the wind.A big Pan character is painted on the brown-red flag.I don't know who wrote the word 'Pan'. It is majestic and majestic, and it seems to give people an indestructible force.Even in the sky full of smoke and dust.Still murderous.

Pan Mei, the leader of the Great Song Army who is not considered to be older than Gao Huaide's generation, who is second only to Cao Bin, is watching her army calmly under this banner.He came before the imperial city with an irresistible momentum.

Pan Meili was eager to make the first contribution, and was finally the first to lead the army to the imperial city.

He squinted his eyes, but didn't cover his mouth and nose to avoid inhaling the loess. He just watched all this calmly, full of desire to break through the imperial city immediately, but after he learned that the black cavalry was missing, he sent out many spies While searching in the city, he was also vigilant.

Since the founding of the Southern Han Dynasty, the enemy has never been invaded by the enemy in this short-lived Kyoto.

However today.The city gate of the capital was finally captured, but it was not he who captured it, but Ye Chen, whom he had always looked down upon in the field of war.Even if it is captured from the inside by tricks, that is Ye Chen's ability.If he wanted to overwhelm Ye Chen, it would be counted as his first achievement by the emperor of Song Dynasty. He had to break through the imperial city, capture Emperor Han alive and destroy Tianyi by the way.

Today, there are still about 3 troops from the three groups of the Song Dynasty, while the total defensive force in the Southern Han Imperial City is less than [-].The most important thing is that the combat power of the Song army far exceeds that of the Han army.

For Pan Mei, with the strength of the Song army, it was still a two-to-one force.It is really not difficult to fight this battle, the only thing that needs to be vigilant is the disappearing black cavalry.Otherwise, in his opinion, once his army arrived at the Southern Han imperial city, if the people in the imperial city did not want to die, they would surrender.

His pupils flashed a galloping horse, a soldier... and then a person's name flashed. For Pan Mei, he was not so worried about the defenders in the Imperial City of the Southern Han Dynasty at the moment, but worried that Ye Chen would Get ahead of yourself and rush to the imperial city.Fortunately, I heard that Ye Chen's whole army went to the camp of the Black Cavalry Legion in the south of the city first, so although they entered the city first, this delay may not necessarily lead to the imperial city first.

Thinking of the name Ye Chen, Pan Mei let out a sigh of relief. If Ye Chen hadn't shared his labors in this campaign against the Southern Han Dynasty, after he returned to Kaifeng and entered the two mansions, the position of a privy deputy envoy would be indispensable, but Not necessarily anymore.

So he had to beat down the imperial city before Ye Chen.

The sound of horseshoes sounded like thunder on the avenue leading directly from Zhengyangmen to the palace.With Pan Mei's order, the cavalry of the army under his command took out their weapons and became vigilant.However, their speed did not decrease at all.Passed by like a gust of wind.

A dozen or so galloping cavalry suddenly broke away from the brigade.Accelerate forward, piercing the quiet street like lightning.Wipe the low eaves of the houses.Started to carry out reconnaissance reports for the army to move forward, to prevent the black cavalry from suddenly appearing to attack.

As usual, the dozen or so cavalry galloped into the streets, made another turn, spread out like arrows, and began to march deep.

All of this happened extremely quickly and naturally, which fully demonstrated Song Jun's training level and Pan Mei's leadership level.

The same scene is happening simultaneously in the other two directions.

Pan Mei was the first to reach the imperial city, but she was not much ahead of Zhao Zan and Ye Chen. At least his army did not frighten the defenders in the Southern Song imperial city to open the door and surrender.

Pan Mei saw that the Song army from the other two directions was also coming, and began to prepare the army to attack the city.

The [-] Song Army has been assembled.They formed a formation and slowly approached the imperial city.The ground is so dark that it is like dark clouds overwhelming the city.It was heart-palpitating to watch.

The Song army, like a black cloud, stopped two arrows away from the imperial city, surrounded by crowds.One person from each of the three armies of the Song Army drove out slowly.It was the commanders of the three armies - Pan Mei, Ye Chen and Zhao Zan.

Gong Chengshu squinted at this scene in the imperial city, took a deep breath, finally fixed his eyes on Ye Chen, and looked deeply at it for a long time.It was not very clear from a distance, but he didn't feel anything special about Ye Chen.The most important thing is that he saw Ye Chen's expression as usual, and there was no sign of swallowing the heart control pill at all.He couldn't help but thumped in his heart, he suddenly felt that the protector who told him and Tianshi that Ye Chen had swallowed the control pill could escape, maybe it was a trap in itself, and the purpose was to prevent Tianshi and him from escaping in advance.

He turned around and glanced at the highest Jade Emperor Hall in the middle of the palace. He believed that the Celestial Master had already discovered this problem.After looking at it, he turned his head, but then turned back and glanced at a guard who was walking down the city wall.

Gong Chengshu quickly looked away, thinking that the celestial master had already arrived.Immediately afterwards, he heard the sound transmission of the Celestial Master in his ears, and he was certain in his heart, his mind was running extremely fast, thinking about how to cooperate with the temporary plan made by the Celestial Master.

Hu Sanguang did not expect that the more than 100 Huaxia Guards led by him would have been exposed before the battle, and now they were surrounded by densely packed Southern Han Palace guards. Fortunately, Guo Chongyue had arranged them at the gate of the city early.If he desperately opens the city gate now, there may still be a glimmer of hope.However, looking at the indifferent and resolute looks of these palace guards, I am afraid that the strength is far beyond that of ordinary Han soldiers, especially the commander of the guards, which gave Hu Sanguang an extremely dangerous feeling, so can he be killed after everyone dies? The chances of opening the gates of the Southern Han Imperial City before were too slim.

In addition, as a show to Gong Chengshu before, the inside of the imperial city gate was blocked up with rockery and other things, which cannot be cleared without a stick of incense, let alone opening the city gate.Originally, Hu Sanguang wanted to wait until the battle on the city wall was hot, and then take advantage of people not paying attention, and move them a little bit, but unexpectedly, their identities were exposed before they started.

The fight had just begun, and it was over in less than four or five breaths, because suddenly a guard of the Southern Han Palace stood out and circled the crowd like a light smoke, and then all the Huaxia guards, including Hu Sanguang, stood out. It was as if he had been hit by a freeze spell, and he remained motionless.

The commander of the guard, Han Yishan, was taken aback for a moment, and then knelt down to the guard in a very respectful manner.

The guard said something to Han Yishan, and Han Yishan walked away with the other guards who were still in a daze, and climbed up the city wall.

This guard is naturally Chen Jingyuan.

After hearing the Celestial Master's plan just now, Gong Chengshu had no fear in his heart, while the Han Emperor Liu Yan next to him had trembling legs and a pale face, so frightened that he was about to pee his pants.

Pan Mei glanced left and right at Zhao Zan and Ye Chen, then galloped her horse forward a few steps, protruding herself a bit, showing that she was the commander in chief of the three armies.His not-so-old face contained the murderous aura accumulated over ten years on the battlefield.Today, his eyes are like eagles staring at Gong Chengshu and Liu Yu who are surrounded by guards in the imperial city.

Ye Chen and Zhao Zan acquiesced to Pan Mei's core position in the Song army. Satisfied, Pan Mei slowly opened her mouth and said to the Han army above the imperial city: "You are a small country sergeant who has not obeyed God's will and put down his weapons. The imperial city gate surrendered, how dare you help Gong Chengshu, a monster, and Liu Yan, a foolish king, resist our Great Song Heavenly Army..."

As soon as Pan Mei opened her mouth, the sound spread so far that even the air in the square above the entire imperial city buzzed!

Gong Chengshu's pupils shrank, and he realized that Pan Mei, the commander of the Song Army, was actually a first-class master with profound internal strength.

Zhan Xiong Wu, Ye Chen and others in the Great Song Army also discovered this, and they were also very surprised. They deeply felt that there were indeed crouching tigers, hidden dragons in the Great Song Army, and there might be more than one or two masters in the army like Pan Mei.

Ye Chen thought of some of Pan Mei's past deeds, and thought that under the fame, there is nothing worthless!In the past years, Pan Mei had few defeats in leading troops, and she was able to take the lead at critical moments. Although she has not yet joined the Privy Council because of her seniority, she is actually the second person in the Great Song Army after Cao Bin in terms of prestige. No wonder Zhao Kuangyin gave him the main direction of attacking the Southern Han Dynasty.Now it seems that it really makes sense.

(End of this chapter)