Chapter 742 The troops are divided into two, the northern expedition and the western expedition
After half a seat, everyone was drinking happily. (_--)
Suddenly, Du Fuwei shouted loudly, pulled open the robe on his body to reveal the pure gold soft armor inside, and took a short sword from his legs. Du Fuwei jumped in front of him, and killed Wang Zhihui with one blow when everyone was not aware of it. Then, he walked down calmly with his head.
In the hall, Wang Bao, Wang Yan and other generals and schoolmen of Wang family were also people who had experienced the battle on the battlefield. They lived a life of licking blood from the knife, but they were also shocked by this sudden incident. They were at a loss and seemed to be stupid.
At this moment, there was a cry of killing outside. It turned out that the confidant arranged by Fu Gongyu had led the brigade of soldiers to come to pick him up!
Seeing that the time was ripe, Du Fuwei said loudly: "Wang Zhihui is stupid and old, and there is only one way to die with him. Now the King of Wu is wise and powerful. As long as everyone follows him, why worry about not being rich in the future?"
When everyone saw this posture, they knew that it was irreversible, so they had to sit there silently.
Du Fuwei saw that everyone was sitting in control and grasping the situation, and felt inexplicably relaxed. He walked to Fu Gongyu a few steps and threw the head of the man who was still dripping blood in front of him. The man's skull rolled around the mat, breaking several cups and bowls on the table, and the wine and dishes on the mat were all sprinkled all over the floor, red, white, yellow, and sticking many on the head. Wang Zhihui, who was still talking and laughing just now, even the head was beyond recognition, and he could no longer see any original appearance.
Fu Gongyou was already extremely surprised when Du Fuwei started to kill people just now. The moment Du Fuwei jumped up and plucked the knife, he thought Du Fuwei was going to kill him. According to his plan with the King of Wu, he took advantage of Wang Zhihui's banquet and sent his confidants to surround the mansion in one fell swoop, and then killed all Wang Zhihui who attended the banquet and the generals who refused to obey his orders.
Even in their plan, if Du Fuwei refuses to surrender, he will be killed together. After all, Du Fuwei is Wang Zhihui's adopted son, and they have a close relationship.
The plan was all arranged, and no one expected that there would be such a thing in the end. At this time, he still didn't understand why Du Fuwei wanted to kill Wang Zhihui? Did he hear some rumors and kill Wang Zhihui to protect himself? Or is there any other mystery?
Looking at Fu Gongyou who was shocked by the head, Du Fuwei smiled and stepped forward and patted his shoulder heavily. The blood of Wang Zhihui in his hand was all slapped on Fu Gongyou's purple robe.
"I know you were worried about my father-son relationship with Wang Zhihui before, so I hid it from me. (_--) I also understand that you are for my own good and don't want to see me showdown with Wang Zhihui. I don't want me to bear the reputation of killing my father. But our brotherhood for more than ten years is not comparable to that of Wang Zhihui. Gongyou, I know that all you do is for my own good. I am very grateful, but I have to do it myself. I know that Wang Zhihui deliberately sowed the friendship between us. I couldn't explain it completely before, but now, I use this head to prove to you that our brotherhood is something that no one can alienate. Good brother. Lifetime!"
"Good brother, lifelong." Fu Gongyou was extremely uneasy in his heart, his eyes wandered, and he was so guilty that he did not dare to look directly at Du Fuwei's gaze. At this moment, he suddenly felt a little regretful. He regretted that he should not betray Du Fuwei, and he regretted his previous behavior. But instead, he secretly thanked in his heart that Du Fuwei knew nothing. Fortunately, Wang Zhihui is dead now, and everything has become a thing of the past.
Maybe Du Fuwei will never discover everything he has done. Maybe he can still be brothers with Du Fuwei like in the past.
The two hugged each other heavily, hugged each other tightly, slapped each other's back heavily, and showed the brotherhood between them to the people in the hall.
Wang Zhihui is dead, and Chen Faxing, the manipulator behind the scenes, did not let the Wang family go.
Under the dark night, a bloody purge began.
The first ones to fall under the knife were Wang Bao, Wang Yan, Wang Mao and other generals of the Huainan Army. One by one, without any trial, the senior generals who had been planted in the Huainan Army for many years fell one by one.
It was not enough to kill a few generals of the highest level. Du Fuwei immediately ordered all the Wang family members of the lieutenant-level Wang family and the lieutenant-level officers who were loyal to the Wang family in the past to be arrested. Without interrogation, they did not accept surrender. One by one, hundreds of middle-level officers fell down.
Du Fuwei's butcher knife was put away, but the others were not willing to end it. Under Shen Faxing's instruction, Fu Gongyu took action again and captured all the people involved in the Wang family in the entire 300,000 army at night. Regardless of the official position, these people included both generals and ordinary soldiers, and even many civilians, ship workers, and kids. No matter what their identities were, they would kill anyone who had a relationship with the Wang family.
For a moment, the banks of the Caishui River became a huge slaughterhouse. One head after another was cut off, and one corpse after another was pushed down the river. The murderers had no time to dig pits and buried them, so they threw them directly into the river. The entire Caishui River became a bright red river.
From night until dawn, and finally until afternoon, the massacre finally stopped.
The Huainan Army was the most killed. The Huainan Army, which originally had 110,000 people left, was only 90,000 people left. In more than half a day, as many as 20,000 people were killed, which even reached the number of troops that Du Fuwei lost in the Yingchuan battle.
In addition to the Wang family's private army, a large number of people were killed in other units and logistics units, with thousands or tens of thousands.
This was originally a massacre that should not have been present, and it was even said that it could not have been such a large scale. However, under the promotion of Fu Gongyou, Chen Faxing and even Du Fuwei and others to eliminate dissidents, the massacre was infinitely expanded. When the killing ended, everyone was in danger of being killed.
When Shen Luoyan, who had been busy for several days, woke up from a fever and heard the news, everything was over. Thirty thousand heads piled up into a mountain on the banks of the Caishui River, and 30,000 headless corpses stuffed the entire Caishui.
When Chen Luoyan heard this news, he couldn't believe it. Although there would be a cleaning operation in the plan, there were only a few hundred people at most. She never thought that she would kill 30,000 people in the end. This was even more astonishing than the number of soldiers killed in a war, and these 30,000 soldiers did not die on the battlefield or at the hands of the enemy. They all died under the swords of their own people.
She stood by the Caishui River wearing a long cloak, looking at the river surface that You Zi was still stained with blood and the headless corpse floating in the river, and the falling geese bit her jade lips. Apart from being shocked, all she had left was lament. Apart from beating these dead soldiers, she was also lamenting the executioners.
"It's ridiculous that intrigue and internal struggle are so funny. I'm actually hoping that these people can really rebuild a Jiangnan dynasty in this chaotic world. It's ridiculous, lamentable, and pathetic!"
After killing so many people, no one from the Southern Chen army was willing to stay in this place full of death. Early the next morning, no one objected, and the remaining 250,000 troops continued to head north.
Before leaving, Chen Faxing also held a grand oath ceremony. At the end of the ceremony, Chen Faxing accepted Du Fuwei as his adopted son, and appointed Du Fuwei as the Marshal of the Eastern Road of the Northern Expedition Army, Duke of Jin Yue, and was appointed Situ and Right Pushe of the Shangshu Province. In this civil strife, the most dedicated Fu Gongyu was appointed as the Marquis of Wanqiu, the Chief of the West Road Army, and the Minister of the Huangmen of the Menxia Province.
Du Fuwei was promoted, was appointed as the official, and he led the 90,000 Huainan Army alone to fight against Yingchuan. The 90,000 Huainan Army completely became Du Fuwei's army alone. Although Chen Faxing was named Du Fuwei's adoptive father, he did not have the same control as Wang Zhihui had in the past. Du Fuwei became a real hero in Jiangnan.
As Chen Luoyan said before, he was just a small chess piece used by Shen Faxing to force Du Fuwei to fight against Wang Zhihui. When the use of the chess piece was completed, he had no value. Although he was granted a few generous positions and a marquis, he was promoted and surrendered openly and secretly, leaving the Huainan army and being transferred to the large army of Nanchen.
Originally, Chen Faxing was preparing to reuse Fu Gongyou, and wanted to use him to restrain Du Fuwei and indirectly control the Huainan army through Fu Gongyou. However, this idea was dissuaded by Chen Luoyan, and the reason for Chen Luoyan was very simple. The task undertaken by the Huainan army this time was very important. If Fu Gongyou stayed in the Huainan army, the Huainan army would inevitably have civil strife again. In this way, the Huainan army would not have the energy to deal with the situation in Henan at all. As for Chen Faxing's concern that Du Fuwei's tail was in trouble, Chen Luoyan's reason was very simple. As long as he won the battle and captured Jianghan, Du Fuwei would be able to jump out of control at that time.
The 250,000 troops were divided into two groups. Du Fuwei led all the remaining 90,000 Huainan troops to Yingchuan north to be responsible for picking up Li Mi and eating the 20,000 cavalrymen of Guo Xiaoke and Lu Shishen.
Chen Faxing and Shen Luoyan, their daughter, took the remaining 160,000 soldiers and turned to the west. They passed Runan and Huainan, and finally went straight to Nanyang County, then turned from Nanyang to south and rushed straight to Xiangyang. After capturing Xiangyang, the army followed the Hanzi and seized the land of Jingxiang and Jianghan while Yang Ming was still far away in Hanzhong.
The steps were rumbling, the iron hooves were thundering, and the two armies were parted ways, one north and one west.
The long marching line was like a big snake, spreading across the land of the Central Plains. Flags were waving and smoke and dust were rising.
Chen Faxing and his daughter Chen Luoyan rode a horse, standing on the high slope beside the road under the guards, watching the army advance. Chen Faxing stroked his long beard, and what he couldn't hide was pride and happiness. As soon as Wang Zhihui died, the world of Southern Chen was the world of Chen Faxing. If this Western Expedition could achieve victory as his daughter said, then Chen Chao would be the largest force in the south, and even compete with Chen Kefu again across the river. Perhaps, after taking down Jianghan, he should consider driving Chen Shen off the palace platform and replace him. What is his national name? Is it Wu or Chu? Thinking of these beautiful things, Chen Faxing's thoughts drifted farther and farther away! To be continued...
Chapter completed!