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The commander of the Great Song Dynasty, Cao Han, was shocked by the huge explosion, and his chest was filled with blood. He forced a mouthful of fishy smell that surged into his throat. He spitted out the soil and looked up at the city wall on the east side of Jinling that had actually exploded with a huge gap. In ecstasy, he turned around and shouted: "You can still change it, come with me!" He stood up, shook his personal soldiers who reacted with shakingly pulled out the wrong golden sword and ran towards the city wall. Behind him, Song Bing, who was shocked by the huge explosion, subconsciously followed closely behind the main general. Many agile elite team surpassed Cao Han in three or two steps, and rushed towards the gap in the city wall that suddenly fell into silence after the huge explosion.

This tunnel blasting battle was not actually perfect. The person who made the plan was Taoist You Fang recommended by King Zhao Guangyi of Jin. He only knew that the power of gunpowder was great, but he did not understand the method of burying explosives and the location of the ambush. This time, the Song army dug out more than a dozen tunnels at the same time, but he knew that the water and soil of Jinling were humid, and the tunnels slightly south near Qinhuai were all flooded by the seeping groundwater, and many soldiers died. Cao Bin was extremely annoyed. If the Taoist was not recommended by King Jin, he would almost have blamed him for a military stick.

The only tunnel that successfully reached the bottom of the city wall was slightly north of the east of the Jinling City Wall. The groundwater level here was slightly higher, so there was no water accumulation in the tunnel. In order to succeed, the Song army collected almost all the saltpeter and sulfur in the two lakes and Huaihe River areas. After the man's recipe was made, the explosion chamber in the tunnel was extremely full, but the tunnel was not filled again. Therefore, after the medicine twist ignited the gunpowder, the huge explosion force erupted upwards. Most of the power of the explosion was released along the tunnel towards the outside of the city, shocking the Song army ambushed outside the city. The hundreds of selected front-end soldiers who were closer to the city wall were either dead or injured. Because the load was extremely full, even a little power of the explosion would lift the tall and majestic city wall like paper. In the end, Cao Han, the vanguard, was required to take the lead in climbing the city.

The originally solid land near the collapsed wall was also extremely soft. When Cao Han brought hundreds of soldiers who had reacted, he reached the gap in the city wall with one foot deep and one foot shallow, there was already rubble here. Occasionally, the soldiers guarding the city had broken their arms, and there was no living person. Seeing that the Tang army on the East City Tower seemed to have reacted, a team of torches was coming to this side, Cao Han narrowed his eyes and pondered for a moment, and he was cruel and divided into three hundred elite soldiers to run to the Jinling Palace City to kill him. The rest were waiting for the mound of soil formed by the collapse of the city wall under the leadership of the Marquis of Yu, Li Hanqiong, and vowed to defend this vital point before the large group of Song troops arrived.

The commander of the East Gate of Jinling was Hu Ze's confidant dentist Song Deming. He knew that the gap in the city wall was important, so he didn't care about rectifying the soldiers running around the city tower. He grabbed the hundreds of soldiers around him and rushed to the rubble piles under Li Hanqiong's troops with torches. Fortunately, the defense was the Song army who was preparing to fight in the city. He did not carry a few crossbows. The Tang army rushed to the Song army without any injuries at night. The huge gap in the city wall was also a wind vent, which made the torches blew. Many soldiers were burned with eyebrows and beards, but they didn't realize it. Hundreds of people shouted and killed the collapsed rubble and chopped each other into a ball with the Song army.

This Song army was a true elite of the imperial guards selected from the bloody battles of the Five Dynasties. They were chosen by Zhou Shizong and Zhao Kuangyin favored them. Even with the Khitan Pishi Army in the Northland, they had the strength to confront them. They could only kill the Tang soldiers who came to intercept them and died everywhere.

The soldiers of the Tang army knew that after the city was destroyed, the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed. The pre-machine of Chuzhou was still there. There was no end to the nest under the collapse of the nest. The wives and children would inevitably be humiliated, and the relatives and villages would inevitably be displaced. Therefore, although they were afraid of the elites of the Song army, they were brave and invincible, but they fought desperately like moths to the fire. Most of the Southern Tang people were deeply exaggerated by literary style and had a deep thought of family and country. Just like the Jiangnan people who would rather die than be the Tartars in hundreds of years. Although they felt weak in their daily lives, they really inspired a bloody courage when they were destroyed. The imperial guards of the Song Dynasty fought south and north for many years. Many of these hundreds of elite soldiers personally experienced the Khitan battles, pacified Western Shu, and destroyed the Southern Han wars. At this moment, they felt that this battle with the Tang army in Jiangnan, which had always been despised, was no less fierce than the hard battles they had experienced before.

This bloody battle further aroused the ferociousness of the fierce soldiers of the Song army. Dai Xing, the deputy commander of Yulongzhi, who was extremely powerful, smashed a big hole in the forehead by a stone that burst out when the city wall collapsed. He tore off half of the clothes and simply wrapped it. He felt that the drooping half of the clothes was not good, so he simply threw off the clothes on his upper body and rolled them around his waist. He cut the Tang army from the left and then chopped them, like a crazy tiger. Soon, his upper body was covered with blood, like a blood gourd, as if a god or demon was in the world. Seeing that all the soldiers in the Southern Tang Dynasty looked fearful, Dai Xing became more and more brave as he killed him. He suddenly felt that his calf was caught, and he was suddenly slashed. He was almost cut by the oncoming Tang army soldiers, and he almost cut his shield. When he looked down, an injured Tang army soldier hugged his thighs desperately.

Dai Xing burst into anger, and his tongue burst into thunder. He cut him into two pieces with one knife. The Tang soldier burst out of his cavity with blood, and his lower body fell to the ground, but his upper body was still holding Dai Xing's legs tightly. After his waist was broken, he even bit Dai Xing's calf hard. He felt a pain in his intuition, Dai Xing kicked his legs hard and threw his upper body far away. The Southern Tang soldier drew an arc in the air and fell heavily to the ground. His eyes were full of resentment and resentment. He stared at Dai Xing fiercely, and then stared at Dai Xing for a few breaths before staring at him. Such blood and blood were so desperate that even Dai Xing, who had fought with the Khitans many times, could not help but be afraid afterwards.

Jing Si, the captain of the Crane Control Army, was hit by a crossbow arrow. He only broke the arrow shaft outside and gritted his teeth to fight bloody battles. Even Li Hanqiong himself took the battle personally, and under the escort of the personal soldiers' sect, he specifically dealt with the elite Tang army who were still in resistance.

Song Deming did not expect that the Song army with hundreds of people was so stalemate. Not only could he not drive them out of the city, but he would almost have been killed or injured. Fortunately, the soldiers who followed him were all veterans of the Tiande Army. Although their combat power was not as good as the Song army, they still gritted their teeth and fought fiercely, which was quite fierce as the last one.

He caught only two or three hundred Tang soldiers, and after fighting with the Song army for a while, he gradually couldn't support it.

Seeing the torches of the Song army in the distance gradually approaching like a tide in Qiantang, with a tremendous momentum, as if the waves were slapped, the bones of the Southern Tang army were about to sweep away gently on the top of the city. Song Deming gradually became desperate and thought to himself: "Mr. Hu, Deming's life is still with you today." Regardless of the situation on the battlefield, the Song army with good martial arts specializes in fighting without delay.

At this critical moment, hundreds of Tang troops emerged from the city wall. Without saying a word, he joined the battle group. However, the guard general of the Water Gate next to the East Gate, Lu Zhonglin, the eldest son of Lu Zhuang, led his personal soldiers to reinforce. Lu Zhonglin was quite brave as his father. The Tang army and the Song army who fought in a mess on the rubble pile were no longer separated at this time. Everyone was incomplete armor and covered in blood. He ordered his soldiers to shoot arrows on the rubble pile first, then roared and took people to kill them. Whether it was Song soldiers or Tang soldiers, they would kill them when they saw them, as if they were killing all the people on the rubble pile.

Many of the Lingbo army of the Lu family were bandits in Huainan. They were born as thieves in the two lakes. They could not control the sky or the earth. They only accepted Lu Jiang's chivalrous spirit. Therefore, when the Northern Army invaded the territory, they did not go anywhere else, but they turned to General Lu, who had also been rogues for robbers and bandits. It is estimated that these people would not be able to form a row in two or three hours. The two armies would definitely fight against each other. But such a life-long battle like a scoundrel on the street was the right person. There was nothing else in the world. There was nothing else in the world. The experience of fighting in chaos among people. This southeastern bloodline inherited the Northern Prefecture of the former dynasty and the elite troops of the Yue family were led by a soldier who was not inferior to the North.

With the joining of the five hundred Lingbo Army elites led by Lu Zhonglin, the Song army, who had been fighting for most of the day, caught the battle on the rubble pile in a stalemate. The long-term life-and-death battle made many soldiers' senses increasingly dull. In order to survive to the end of this flesh-and-blood mill, many people have begun to ignore the enemy and strive to use the sword before the people around them cut themselves.

The indiscriminate killing made the soldiers who had been in trouble feel cold. More and more soldiers were already crazy until the end of the battle, and they didn't distinguish between enemies and us. They just chopped and slashed at the people around them, and even stood up. Those who lost their weapons picked up half of the short sword, spear head, arch back, and even rubble to continue fighting. Even the soldiers who had broken hands and feet on the ground hugged their opponent's legs and feet and bit their flesh with their teeth, as if they were crazy. At this moment, no one dared to hold a torch to recruit people.

At this moment, a golden hook in the sky was like a cold eye looking at the world's tragic killing.

In previous years, early spring nights in Jiangnan were originally filled with the fragrance of soil and new buds, and the biting cold was filled with the unstoppable moonlight. Tonight, under the dark moonlight, the collapsed city wall rubble seemed to turn into a Shura hell.

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When the fierce battle was in full swing at the gap in the city wall, the Song army that had previously broken into the city, led by the pioneer Cao Han, although they were wearing Song army uniforms, they did not show their flag. The Tang army night patrol soldiers along the way dared to come forward to interrogate were quickly resolved. When they rushed to a wide intersection of the road, Cao Han couldn't help but take a breath. He bumped into the Thousand Days of German Army led by Chen De to aid the East City.

Hu Ze was reckless and rude, but after being transferred to Jinling, he was extremely favored by Li Yu. A civil official once ridiculed Hu Ze in front of Li Yu. Li Yu smiled and rescued him: "All the officials think General Hu is vulgar and ridiculous, but they are innocent and loyal, and they have their own charm." After Heiyundu left the city, out of the need to check and balance the army, the Tiande Army recruited new soldiers and selected the best choices from the rebel army. They were tall and even looked tall. The weapons and armor needed were the best rations in the treasury. In addition, Hu Ze has always been known for his selfless training in the army. These thousand elite soldiers are even the Ya Army, so they look extremely scrupulous. Although they lack a murderous aura for the rest of their lives, they are just a few participating in the battle.

In ancient times, military studies had the so-called art of looking at the qi, which was actually to judge the strength of the enemy based on the spirit, equipment, formation, and momentum of the enemy. Cao Han and his 300 soldiers of the Song army were all people who had been fighting for a hundred battles. The Central Plains Imperial Army fought in the world and had many opponents. Although they may not know what the art of looking at the qi, most of them could judge the strength of the enemy in front of them at the first time. When they saw that they were facing the elite enemy, they thought it was difficult to deal with, and the captains were not as good as Cao Han's order and immediately mobilized the soldiers.

The main general formed a defensive round formation behind him, with a spear in front and a knife and axe behind him, and was ready to fight to the death with the Tang army that was rushing over at any time. This is the difference between the army of war and the newly established army. The entire army is like a living thing, and there is no need for the commander to order everything. The main general will maintain this tacit understanding with the intermediate officer and will not blame him for making a decision. The entire army will respond correctly from top to bottom based on experience and confidence at the first time. In the war, the speed and calmness of this quarter of an hour can determine life and death.

Before Chen De saw a small group of Song troops breaking into the palace city, he was even more worried about the situation of the east city wall. He knew that five thousand elite troops in Heiyun City had entered the palace city, and he wanted to eliminate this group of Song troops without any effort. Compared with the palace city where the strong soldiers were guarding, the east city wall obviously needed more troops to block the enemy's support. He made a decision for a moment and ordered: "This group of enemy troops will be left to Heiyun City to clean up, and we will rush to the East City Tower quickly." A thousand Tang troops passed quickly in front of the Song army, leaving behind a stunned Cao Han who felt a cold sweat slowly flowing down his spine. Decades later, when Chen De held great power and gathered thousands of glory all over his body, when he recalled the past, he was still heartbroken for his decision and regretted it. Cao Han privately called this the luckiest moment of his life.

When Chen De arrived at the East City Wall, Song Deming and Lu Zhonglin led his soldiers to fight with the Song soldiers at the gap in the collapsed city wall. The Song army team was urging Cao Bin to grab the city, but the gap was not big. More than a thousand soldiers were unable to move forward. Although the Song army was crowded with people, they still could not move forward. Seeing that the Tang army soldiers were gradually scarce and expected to break the city, the 1,000 De soldiers led by Chen De arrived in time. Seeing that the war was at this point, Chen De immediately sent all the swords and gunmen in his hands to join the meat grinder of the melee, and ordered the three hundred crossbowmen who came with him to grab the city wall that had not yet collapsed on both sides, and kept fifty commanders to shoot arrows at the back of the Song army. He also sent fifty commanders to various military camps in the city to find ways to pull the soldiers in other camps to fill the gap.

After all this was arranged, Chen De also led two personal soldiers to enter the battle group. He was also a person who had been on the battlefield for a long time. He relied on his combat strength with the two personal soldiers, and he would never stay in a certain position in the battlefield for too long. Instead, he wandered around to solve the Song soldiers who were stuck in a stalemate in the battle with the Tang army. This continued to form a situation of local fighting. Most of the Tang soldiers met him when patrolling the city the day before yesterday. They knew that Chen Jiedu came to save his life. After the Song army was killed, the Tang soldiers automatically gathered around him and fought hard. In this way, nearly a hundred Tang soldiers gathered around him. Wherever they went, the Song soldiers collapsed.

After Cao Han entered the city alone, although there were many powerful soldiers who left the defense, their status and prestige in the army were not conquered. The imperial guards and lieutenants were not subordinate to each other, and most of them were newly promoted young generals after Zhao Kuangyin released his military power with a cup of wine. Although the veteran Li Hanqiong was qualified, it was not enough to ask him to fight as bravely as Chen De. So for a moment, there was no way to deal with Chen De's people. The Tang army's battle at the gap actually gained the upper hand, and gradually squeezed the Song army outward. The two armies changed from melee to a short front line with the Tang army inside and the Song army outside.

After the battle stabilized, Chen De escaped from the close contact. Relying on the title of the governor and the reputation accumulated in the army, he arranged for the strong soldiers from various units to form a reserve team after the front line, and replaced the tired Tang army on the front line to rest. The old and weak carried stones and tiles, piled up a fortification on the pile of rubble every second, and then pulled hundreds of strong crossbows from other city walls to guard the camp behind them.

Outside the city, Cao Bin, the camps west of Shengzhou in the Song Dynasty, observed the battle at the gap with a bad expression. Seeing that the wide and tall city wall of Jinling had really been blown up, it seemed that another finger was stretched out, and the solid city was about to bend. However, the Tang army, who came from somewhere, blocked its own death-death attack outside the city. The increasing number of lanterns and torches on the city walls were the launching positions of the Tang crossbow soldiers who came to reinforce. In order to achieve the suddenness of the siege, the Song army ambushed outside the city did not carry too many siege cars, tower cars and other equipment, and was shot to death by crossbow soldiers one by one. It is estimated that the number of casualties has exceeded the total in the past month.

This is a battle that cannot be afforded to lose. Cao Bin cursed in his heart. What is the most powerful general in the army? When the battle is the most intense, Cao Han, where are you?

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