Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 71 The Death of the Princes

"Come on, get it for me!"

With Lu Wan's order, Yan Jiashi rushed up and pressed the doctor Zhang Sheng to the ground.

Zhang Sheng struggled, but was severely pressed by the soldiers, his beard rubbed against the ground, panting heavily, "Your Majesty! This minister is loyal! Why did Your Majesty want to kill me?"

Lu Wan and Liu Bang were born in the same year, the same month, and the same day. At this moment, they are no longer young, and their hair is already gray.

In terms of military merit alone, Lu Wan can't actually be compared with such fierce men as Cao Can and Xia Houying. It is too much to say that Chen Xi, who rebelled before, has more military merit than Lu Wan.However, Lu Wan was Liu Bang's best brother in his life.

He was a brother even closer than Liu Bang's own brother.

The two grew up playing together and were tired of being together all day. When Liu Bang could speak, little Lu Wan squatted in front of Liu Bang, listening to the big brother who was born in the same year, the same month and the same day, bragging loudly.

The young Liu Bang told him in a milky voice, "If you do something big, you will be my most trusted brother! I will not treat you badly! I will give you a lot of meat!"

He always followed behind his eldest brother, jumping up and down. Liu Bang took him to steal his orchard, and was chased and beaten by the old lady.

When he got older, Liu Bang began to take him around to fight with people. He followed behind Liu Bang and took a wooden stick. The children in the whole county they beat up did not dare to challenge them. Big brother, while Liu Bang was bragging in front of them, Lu Wan always cheered him up, and the two of you sang me and Liu Bang, which made Liu Bang become the local child king early on.

Later, Liu Bang began to get a lawsuit for breaking the law. He always hid in Lu Wan's house, and when Lu Wan owed money to others, Liu Bang stole things from his own house and used it to offset the debt for him.

When he grew up, Liu Bang had great ambitions. He was going to sneak out of the house and go to join the long-awaited Lord Xinling. It was Lu Wan who collected the money for him to travel. Liu Bang promised Lu Wan that he would wait for him to join the family of Lord Xinling. Open, and take Lu Wan over.

Later, Liu Bang raised an army, and Lu Wan followed Liu Bang. Although he did not have the political ability of Xiao He, and he was not as capable of fighting as Fan Kuai, he was not as daring as Xia Houying, but Liu Bang always took care of him and created something for him. Taking the opportunity of military exploits, he has been appointed as the Taiwei. After the former King Yan rebelled, Liu Bang named his best brother the King of Yan.

Lu Wan looked at his minister angrily, and asked, "Why did you rebel? Why did you collude with the Xiongnu? Collude with the thief Chen?"

"The widow has reported your matter to Your Majesty. Just wait for the whole family to be executed!"

"Your Majesty! Before I die, I only have one sentence, please listen carefully!"

Zhang Sheng shouted, but Lu Wan ignored him, and he said, "For the sake of me following you for many years, let me finish my last words!"

Lu Wan hesitated. He was not a cold-blooded person. He nodded and signaled the soldiers to let go of Zhang Sheng.

Only then did Zhang Sheng say: "Over the years, the King of Chu, the King of Han, the King of Liang, the King of Zhao, and the former King of Yan have been eliminated one by one, which is enough to prove that Your Majesty intends to get rid of all the princes with different surnames, and now, you are the only one left. With the King of Huainan, the King of Huainan will be killed, and the one who will perish next will be you, Your Majesty!”

"shut up!"

Lu Wan scolded angrily: "How can you know about my friendship with Your Majesty? Your Majesty will never treat me like this!"

"Your Majesty, please forgive me for what I said next. Your credit is far inferior to that of the Kings of Chu and Liang, and your original status was not as good as that of the Kings of Zhao and Han. Speaking of closeness, King Zhao is the son-in-law of His Majesty, so what? This minister knows. The king has no intention of rebelling, but did the original princes have the idea of ​​rebelling?"

"Don't your Majesty know about the false accusation of King Liang's servant? Don't the officials who examined him know? Your Majesty still pretended not to know, got rid of his country, and demoted him as a sinner."

"I said that the King of Chu was going to rebel, did the King of Chu rebel? He was still caught in the prison cart and brought back to Chang'an."

"King Zhao's subordinates rebelled. If it wasn't for the empress and princess to intercede, would he survive?"

"Now, Your Majesty has sent another letter, saying that someone has reported that King Huainan was treasonous, so he will lead troops to attack him."

"Sooner or later this kind of thing will fall on you! Who will save you then?"

Zhang Sheng burst into tears and said sadly.

Hearing his words, Lu Wan was a little hesitant. He wanted to refute something, but he couldn't say anything.

"Bold! How dare you... how dare you to divide us? He won't do this to me! No way! I will never rebel!"

Zhang Sheng said seriously: "I know that your Majesty loves His Majesty, and I also know that His Majesty will not rebel. I am not asking you to rebel. I just hope that you can have frequent contacts with the Xiongnu, so that Your Majesty will not dare to attack you, as long as you protect yourself. , this is what the minister thought."

"I have finished what I have to say, please kill me, Your Majesty."

This time, Lu Wan failed to give the order. He lowered his head, frowned, and his face was particularly tangled.

"The widow. The widow will write a letter to His Majesty to save the lives of you and your clan. However, in this case, you will never say that I will not rebel."

"Your Majesty!! The enemy is attacking the capital!!"

"Your Majesty!! The enemy has invaded the capital!!"

"Your Majesty!!"

In the palaces of the six counties, there are corpses everywhere, and there is no place to stand. The blood flows like water, and the strong smell of blood makes people sick and nauseous. The gate, all the way to the inner hall, the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood has long since become a purgatory on earth.

When Liu Bang dispatched the Han envoy, he had already deployed troops around the Huainan Kingdom. As soon as Ying Bu killed the Han envoy, he immediately launched an attack.

In history, after the tragic death of Peng Yue, Ying Bu began to worry that Liu Bang would attack himself, and deployed a strong line of defense on the border in advance. Liu Bang's army was killed by Ying Bu. He started a counter-offensive and killed Liu Jia, the King of Jing, which made Liu Bang tremble and dare not despise him.

But this time, Ying Bu did not plan to rebel in advance, or to protect himself. The day after he killed the Han envoy, the army arranged by Liu Bang began to attack, led by Xia Houying, Fan Kuai and other generals .

Xiahouying took advantage of the fact that Yingbu's army did not gather, and attacked quickly, breaking several cities successively, beheading Yingbu's confidants and generals one by one, and then directly attacked the palace, wanting to take advantage of Yingbu's lack of troops at hand. when they caught him, just like they caught Peng Yue.

Ying Bu's thousands of defenders in the capital could not stop Xia Houying's frantic attack.

Even so, Yingbu's army made Xiahouying pay a huge price.

His soldiers were too ferocious. Each of them was equal to ten, as if he had been filled with chicken blood. Xia Houying, who had always been on a rampage, suffered a big loss. He completely relied on the number of soldiers to fill the gap and break through. urban.

Fortunately, the walls of Yingbu's capital were not very high. After becoming king, Yingbu did not reinforce the city defenses and spent all day hunting.

To be honest, Huainan became quite wealthy because he was such a king, because he didn't initiate corvée, and he didn't mess around. His biggest hobby was to lead people to hunt, and to hunt thieves when there were no beasts.

Inside the palace, the armoured soldiers of the big Han stood in line, raised the spear in their hands, trembling all over, staring at the figure in the distance.

Ying Bu's hair was disheveled, and his body was covered in thick blood, dripping continuously, which was disgusting, and it was impossible to tell whether he was injured. He held a spear in each hand, and in front of him lay countless corpses. , among them his brothers and his enemies.

The corpses were almost piled up into a mountain, but Ying Bu roared like a beast. His eyes were red, and he roared towards the armored soldiers. With a wave of the spear in his hand, he hit the armored soldier in front of him with great strength. , the spears were cracked, the armored soldier flew directly, and after a circle fell to the ground, he took out his sword and rushed directly into the pile of armored soldiers, slashing left and right, completely ignoring the wounds on his body, Constantly attacking, roaring and attacking.

At first glance, it seemed like he was pushing hundreds of soldiers forward.

"How long has he been fighting?"

"It's been more than half an hour. General... Would you like to shoot the general?"

Xia Houying noticed that the right side of the car, who had always been daring, was now pale and trembling all over.

Xia Houying did not scold him. He looked at the unstoppable fierce general in the distance, and shook his head regretfully. Who wouldn't be afraid of such a fierce general?

Xia Houying stood up, sorted out his armor and helmet, wiped the blood on his head, and slowly raised his spear, "Get out of the way!!"

The armored soldiers in front of him heard the order and stepped aside one after another, making way for a bloody road paved with corpses.

Soon, Ying Bu found that there was actually a road in front of him, and the soldiers kept retreating, not daring to look at him.

Ying Bu laughed, loud and harsh.

Xiahou Ying in the distance pointed the spear at him, Ying Bu saw the figure in the distance clearly, with disdain on his face, picked up a broken spear from the ground, and pointed at him proudly.

"drive!!!"

With the roar of the driver, the chariot charged, the chariot stepped on the corpse all the way, shaking violently, but it never rolled over, the speed of the car was getting faster and faster, running over the corpse. The road is getting closer and closer to the enemy!Xia Houying bent down and raised his spear!
"kill!!"

"Ah!!"

Xiahou Ying stabbed out the spear in his hand, and Ying Bu also threw the spear in his hand.

At the moment when the two exchanged, the spear in Ying Bu's hand flew out, flew past Xia Houying's ear, hit his helmet sideways and changed direction. With a cry, Xia Houying's spear pierced Ying Bu's chest at that moment. Under the charge of the chariot, Ying Bu was thrown away, flew a few times, and fell heavily to the ground.

Xia Houying jumped out of the carriage, holding a short sword, rushed to Ying Bu's side, turned him over, and pressed the sword against his throat.

Ying Bu saw blood dripping from Xia Houying's helmet, he gasped for breath, blood blisters on his mouth.

He whispered something, but Xia Houying couldn't hear it at all. He pulled a soldier and asked very loudly, "What is he talking about?!?"

The soldiers said a few words, but Xia Houying still couldn't hear them.

Xia Houying simply took off his helmet. His left ear was seriously injured and dripping with blood. The soldier shouted, "He asked you, if he is not exhausted, is the general his opponent?!"

Xia Houying was stunned for a moment. He looked at Ying Bu and shouted loudly: "If you don't agree! You can wait for me! When the time comes, we will try again!!"

Ying Bu grinned, staring at Xia Houying with disdain, staring at him stubbornly, after a long time, he finally stopped moving.

(End of this chapter)