First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 370 Wang Xiong's Birthday Is Here

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On the day Fugong Er proclaimed himself emperor, the former Jianghuai army went to look for Wang Xiongdan.

In the past two days, Wang Xiongdan was full of sadness. His foster father, who he respected so much, did not trust him, which made him very heartbroken. For two consecutive days, he only drank alcohol at home to relieve his sorrows, and he was so ignorant and disheartened.

Since the beginning of Du Fuwei's uprising in the ninth year of Daye, Wang Xiongdan followed Du Fuwei around, and later worshiped him as a righteous father. He was loyal and loyal. He defeated Li Zitong, surrendered Wang Hua in Shezhou, and Wenren Suian in Suzhou. Save Du Fuwei from embarrassment.

It can be said that in the Jianghuai Army, Wang Xiongdan is Du Fuwei's most trusted confidant. Even after Du Fuwei entered the court, he handed over the military power to Wang Xiongdan, but Wang Xiongdan couldn't figure it out even if he wanted to break his head. Why did his father suddenly distrust him?

After all, in his opinion, the letter was indeed written by Du Fuwei, and there was nothing unusual about it.

"Little General", a lieutenant of the Jianghuai Military Academy, entered the mansion overnight, "Fugong rebelled, he called himself Emperor Song, changed Yuan Tianming, and formally raised troops. This is extremely unfavorable to King Wu."

This captain is Wang Xiongdan's subordinate, and he is also loyal to Du Fuwei.

"What did you say?" Wang Xiongdan's drunkenness suddenly sobered, his face was horrified, "Mr. Fu rebelled?"

The captain nodded straightly, "After Fugong took control of the military power, he mobilized various ministries, either to attack prefectures and counties, or to garrison dangerous places. The banner of the Great Song Dynasty has been erected on the top of the city."

"What a piece of shit, Song Dynasty", Wang Xiongdan reacted instantly, and flew into a rage, "He is lying to me, I have been tricked".

Then he laughed like a maniac, "It's fake, the letter is fake, he forged it, and my adoptive father still trusts me."

"Little General, the Fugong is rebellious, and the King Wu in Chang'an will definitely be implicated." The captain was very worried, and hurriedly reminded: "After all, the Jianghuai Army is the old army of the King Wu."

Wang Xiongdan immediately became nervous when he heard the words, "Damn it, the adoptive father will definitely suffer suspicion because of this", and then paced around in place, "No, we can't let the adoptive father be wronged, what should we do?"

"Little general, that letter..." the captain reminded.

"Yes, that letter is a forgery, which means that the thief himself rebelled and has nothing to do with the adoptive father." Wang Xiongdan hurriedly returned to the study, took out the letter, "give this fake letter to the imperial court. , can prove the innocence of the adoptive father," Wang Xiongdan said excitedly.

"Little general, let's go quickly," the captain said hurriedly, "Leave the city overnight and go to the capital to expose the assistant thief."

"No, the gate of the city is closed at this time. If we leave the city overnight, the auxiliary thief must be suspicious. When he sends troops to pursue us, we will die." Wang Xiongdan has been fighting for many years, and he did not rely entirely on bravery, but also had a bit of brains.

"When the gates of the city are opened tomorrow morning, I will go out to hunt and relax, and go straight to Chang'an," Wang Xiongdan said bluntly, "Old Wu, if you stay with me, you will only be killed by thieves."

"Follow the order of the little general," Captain Wu promised.

Wang Xiongdan was alone and unmarried, so there was nothing to worry about in his escape this time.

At dawn the next day, with the letter in his arms, Wang Xiongdan took Lieutenant Wu and three or five personal guards, pretending to be hunting, and went straight to the city gate.

Immediately approaching the city gate, Wang Xiongdan was displeased when he saw the captain of the city gate approaching, "Get out of the way".

"Where are you going, little general?" The captain of the city gate has obviously been replaced by a man who assists Gong Er. Seeing Wang Xiongdan exuding hostility, he knows it in his heart. After all, the military power has been taken away and he has become an idler. It's strange to be injustice.

"Go away", Wang Xiongdan reprimanded: "I haven't seen you for a few days, don't you think that a certain family's horizontal knife is not good?"

The captain of Chengmen's face changed, he really didn't dare to provoke Wang Xiongdan under the shadow of a famous tree.

Just at this moment, dozens of riders came running from the street behind, shouting loudly.

"close the door".

"Your Majesty has an order, don't let Wang Xiongdan go."

Wang Xiongdan was startled, he immediately pulled out the horizontal knife and slashed, shouting: "Rush out", behind him Captain Wu and more than a dozen of his own soldiers rushed forward.

"Quickly, stop them," the general on the top of the city shouted loudly when he saw this, and dozens of guards rushed up one after another, with spears in front and short soldiers behind, blocking the city gate.

"Wang Xiongdan is here, who dares to stop me?" Wang Xiongdan roared angrily, borrowing his horsepower, he leaned down and slashed left and right.

After all, he is one of the Jianghuai duo, Wang Xiongdan's three words are deterrent power, and the guards are so shocked that they dare not go forward.

As soon as the city gate guards relieved their strength, Wang Xiongdan rushed out of the city immediately.

The cavalry behind finally rushed to the city gate, and the leader saw Wang Xiongdan rushing out of the city gate, and immediately cursed: "Trash, even a few people can't stop it."

"Quickly report to Your Majesty, the rest of you will follow me," the general scolded, this man is tall and strong, with a long spear in his hand, very mighty, this man is Jianghuai fierce general Chen Dangshi.

"Little General, are you injured?" Shortly after leaving the city, Captain Wu found Wang Xiongdan's clothes soaked in blood, with an arrow sticking out of his waist, and asked in surprise.

"Not in the way," Wang Xiongdan swung his knife to cut off the shaft of the arrow without changing his face.

Because he planned to go out of the city under the pretext of hunting, wearing armor would inevitably arouse suspicion. After all, no one wears armor to hunt and play, so Wang Xiongdan was dressed in casual clothes and had no protection, and the arrows easily pierced his body.

"Go quickly," Wang Xiongsheng shouted, "cross the river to Jingzhou as soon as possible."

When they came to the riverside, Wang Xiongdan's face turned pale, they fled in a panic, just to get rid of the pursuers, they didn't see the road conditions clearly, the riverside they came to was very remote, there were no boats.

Without Wang Xiongdan's instructions, everyone hurried along the river to find a boat.

At this time, the sound of horseshoes sounded, and Wang Xiongdan turned his head to see that Chen Dangshi had led his men to catch up.

There was a big river in front of him, and there were pursuers in the back. Wang Xiongdan felt sad.

"Little general, let's go back with a certain family," Chen Dangshi Henglian shouted when the two sides were dozens of steps away.

"Chen Dangshi, do you want to kill me?" Wang Xiongdan asked with staring eyes.

Chen Dangshi was quite brave, and he had a close relationship with Kan Leng, Wang Xiongdan and others in the Jianghuai Army in the past.

"I have no such intention, little general, as long as you go back, His Majesty will treat you kindly," Chen Dangshi shook his head and said.

"Now that the world is peaceful and the Tang army is unstoppable, why do you have to overestimate your own strength and bring about your own destruction?" Wang Xiongdan asked sadly.

"When did the little general start writing like those scholars? What is unstoppable? We have been fighting across the Yangtze River and Huaihe River for so many years. What can the Tang army do to me?" The master of the future is sent, and the river is still ruled."

"What about King Wu?" Wang Xiongdan asked, "King Wu is in Chang'an, so you don't care about King Wu's safety when you rebel?"

Chen Dangshi was stunned and didn't know how to answer. After all, King Wu had always had the highest prestige in the Jianghuai Army, so he could only yell impatiently and asked, "I will ask you again, will I answer?"

"Wu Wang's great kindness can only be repaid by death. I would rather die than put Wu Wang in danger. Chen Dangshi, today you and I will cut off our robes and judge righteousness."Wang Xiongdan said sadly.

(End of this chapter)