October 16, the upper reaches of the Laoha River.

Wang Bi and his son Wang De were riding horses on a hillside, watching the slowly moving convoy and people by the river. Wang De was a little anxious, but Wang Bi looked calm and thoughtful.

After a while, Wang De arched his hand and said: "Father, why don't we abandon all baggage and quickly go south, so delayed, once Guangning sends troops, how should our army deal with it?" ”

"Hehe," Wang Bi smiled and turned around: "Now that most of the defenders of Guangning have been transferred to Shanhaiguan, Guo Ying only has thirty or forty thousand people in his hands, what do you think Guo Ying will do?" ”

"Well," Wang De thought for a while and said, "If I were Guo, Uncle Guo, I would definitely send someone to monitor the situation in Guangning City day and night, he should not know about the detour of Wang Ye and Song Guogong to Xuanfu, otherwise he would definitely raise troops to attack." But as soon as we left the city, our strength was immediately exposed, and Uncle Guo would definitely send troops to pursue us. ”

Hearing Wang De call Guo Ying Uncle Guo, Wang Bi was not angry, but continued: "What you think is common sense, then my father asks you, where will Guo Ying be now?" In front of us? Or is it the back? ”

"This," Wang De thought of the map in his mind, and said, "Father, Guangning is closer to Xifengkou, and the child thinks that they will intercept us near Pingquan, so Father should order the front army to be on guard." ”

"De'er, what you said makes sense, but you don't know enough about Guo Ying, your Uncle Guo is a person who is skilled in martial arts and brave and not under his father, but his reputation is not obvious, have you thought about why?"

"......, the child doesn't know."

"Guo Ying is a very cautious person, for so many years, my father has hardly seen him take the initiative to ask for help, he will do whatever the first emperor asks him to do. Therefore, he will not fully believe the words of the scouts, and will definitely go to Daning to see if there are any ambushes in the city before deciding to stop. So he must have stayed in Daning City last night, and I'm afraid he has just left the city now. ”

"Even then, at most tonight, Uncle Guo will catch up with us, although our army has a lot of carts, but it walks more, and the speed is too slow."

Wang Bi looked at the convoy under the mountain, pondered for a while, and said, "De'er, you go and give the order, order to speed up, and wait until you have passed the hillside in front of you before you can rest." In addition, you go and bring Fu Rang over, and have something to say to his father about it. ”

Fu Rang? Wang Dehu looked at his father suspiciously, nodded and went to give the order.

After a while, the speed of the people and horses under the mountain suddenly accelerated. At the same time, a prisoner cart broke away from the brigade and drove towards the hillside, and when it reached the foot of the mountain, the soldiers opened the prisoner cart, and a man came out of it, he was unkempt, with shackles on his hands and feet, and walked hobbled up the mountain, occasionally looking up at Wang Bi, whose eyes contained gnashing hatred.

Wang Bi looked at Fu Rang in front of the horse, sighed, and asked him to open the shackles. Fu Rang moved his hands and feet, and said hatefully: "Wang Lao thief, what's the matter? Are you going to kill me here? ”

Wang De whipped down: "Fu Rang, don't know what to do, if it wasn't for my father to stop me, I would have killed you a long time ago, you are fucking tired and crooked." As he spoke, he raised his hand and wanted to whip again, but was stopped by Wang Bi raising his hand.

Fu Rang squinted and glanced at Wang Bi: "Wang Lao thief, now that you are pretending, why didn't you hesitate when you killed my father?" My father fought all his life, but he died at the hands of your 'friend'! I can't wait to cut you with a thousand knives," said this, and couldn't help gritting his teeth, wanting to rush up to take revenge, but was forced by the guard's long knife and couldn't move.

Wang Bi shook his head and ordered, "Tie him up, and everyone retreats." ”

"Yes!"

Wang Bi ruled the army very strictly, and everyone tied up Fu Rang when they heard the sound, and then retreated together, even Wang De was no exception.

Wang Bi got off the horse, looked at Fu Rang who was glaring angrily, but didn't know where to start, and finally said: "Virtuous nephew, I am friends with your father, how could I kill him for no reason, do you know, he didn't plan to go back alive before he got out of the fortress." ”

"What?"

"Actually, it's not that I want to kill your father, it's that the first emperor wants to kill him, and King Yan conveyed the meaning of the first emperor to let your father die on the battlefield."

"So, when your father was commanding the battle, you deliberately let Arutai come over and seriously injured your father? And then when your father was recovering from his injuries, you killed him? ”

Wang Bi was silent for a while, but suddenly laughed wildly: "Your father is so shrewd, don't you know that I let it go on purpose?" Why did he even let me lead the army? Do you know why he is? ”

"Why?" Fu Rang's face slowly softened, and he was even a little confused.

"Before leaving the fortress, King Yan asked me to kill your father, as long as I do it, he will leave me on the border to protect me from death."

"Then you will kill my father and save your life?"

"I didn't," Wang Bi said sharply: "At that time, I handed over a message to your father, saying that the imperial grandson did not understand military affairs, and that the northern frontier needed King Yan, hoping that he could surrender to King Yan, so that King Yan might be able to protect him, but he did not answer, but said that he would not enter the Great Wall alive in this life." ”

"So, I can't help it, when he's seriously injured, he actually knows everything, so he wants to fight to the death. However, the situation at that time was a great defeat for our army, and if he, as the Duke of Yingguo, was captured or killed by the enemy, the impact would be too great. So everyone decided to take him with them. ”

"I didn't expect that when it was almost time to open, his body gradually improved, maybe he thought he could not die." Speaking of this, Wang Bi actually chuckled when he ate something.

"So, you killed your father, and then killed all of your father's guards in the name of improper guards, covering people's eyes?"

"That's right," Wang Bi raised his head and said in a deep voice: "It's just that I didn't expect that there was still a guard who didn't die, Zhang Lingpo was a guard recruited later, I didn't know, so I missed him during the cleaning." ”

"Yes, Brother Zhang found me in Daning, and my good brother Wang Demi reported to you, you sent someone to kill Brother Zhang and raised troops to rebel."

"Hehe," Wang Bi laughed again, laughing and laughing, but tears flowed out: "Virtuous nephew, you are still too young, I was as innocent as you back then." Do you think that I killed your father and purged your father's personal guards, and King Ning, King Gu, and Li Jinglong didn't know about it? Even Guo Ying knew a little clue, but no one pursued the matter, but reported to the imperial court, your father was seriously injured and died, and this matter passed like this, don't you think it's strange? ”

Although Fu Rang has a tendon, he is not stupid, when Wang Bi's words come to this, he also understands Wang Bi's subtext, who can do this? There is only one person, and that is Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor.

Fu Rang didn't know what to say for a while.

Wang Bi stood up: "Virtuous nephew, your Uncle Wang killed your father, and he also regrets it, but more resentment, we people have fought all our lives and laid down great rivers and mountains for the Zhu family, Zhu Yuanzhang called the lonely widow and ascended the throne as the emperor, but in the end, he couldn't tolerate us heroes, so he had to be killed." But what about his son? One by one, there is no size of merit, but it ranks among the princes, and the rewards are excessive. Child, your Uncle Wang is not convinced, he is not convinced, so your Uncle Wang wants to give it a go, when King Zhou wooed me, I was still hesitating, but your arrival made me make up my mind, against the damn, even if he died, he would be regarded as a master. Over the years under Zhu Yuanzhang, your uncle has really had enough, and he is afraid all day long, afraid that the Jinyi guard will come to the door, drag him out, skin and cramp, or be killed like a dog. Even if I die this time, I, Wang Bi, will die on the battlefield, and it is enough to disgust Zhu Yuanzhang. Wang Bi's tone was very calm, but Fu Rang could hear the thunder and injustice.

For a long time, neither of them spoke.

Wang Bi glanced at Fu Rang and said, "Virtuous nephew, after saying so much, are you willing to do it with your uncle?" Let's poke a hole in the sky of the Ming Dynasty together. ”

"So you want to rebel yourself, not some kind of martyrdom?" Fu Rang suddenly realized.

Wang Bi smiled softly: "The military power is in the hands of Song Guogong, even I have to be at his mercy, what is King Zhou?" ”

"Don't talk about this, nephew, have you thought about it?"

Fu Rang thought about it, looked at the south, thought of his eldest brother Fu Zhong, thought of the young emperor, and finally shook his head: "Even if what you say is true, I will not rebel with you, you kill me." ”

Wang Bi sighed, pulled out the treasure knife, and slashed it down.

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