Chapter 324

And the moment those words were spoken, they directly terrified Tell Meng Wu into a stupor, and he hurriedly cried out, "Impossible!"

"On that day at the battle Outside Xianyanggong, tens of thousands of garrison soldiers shot arrows at him yet failed to kill him!"

"Now, although we are numerous in number, we still cannot kill him!"

"Then what should be done?"

"Shall we keep the city gates tightly shut and not let him enter?"

Prince Prince Fusu continued to inquire!

Tell Meng Wu's head throbbed!

He was still pondering, yet, just at this moment, suddenly, another soldier reported, "General Wang Ben is ordering the city gates to be opened!"

"What?"

The words had barely left his lips before Tell Meng Wu was stunned into numbness and directly roared, "Stop him!"

"Do not open the gates!"

"Yes! Do not open the gates!"

"Li Yuanba is a person of boundless terror; in the past beneath the Taiyuan city walls, he alone fought thirty thousand Xiongnu soldiers, slaughtering them until there was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood; to this day, the blood of those people still stains the ground outside Taiyuan City; we absolutely cannot let him enter!"

"Once he enters, he will surely carry out a massacre!"

Prince Prince Fusu shouted, and he followed Tell Meng Wu, moving outside immediately.

Meanwhile, General Meng Tian's eyebrows knitted tightly; he admitted that what Tell Meng Wu and Prince Prince Fusu both said was correct!

But... had they not considered whether these city gates could even stop Li Yuanba?

Li Yuanba!

It is rumored that when Facing Ying Su and he rebelled and attacked Outside Xianyanggong, he smashed the city gates of Outside Xianyanggong with just three hammer strikes!

The city gates of Yan Sect Pass are indeed very sturdy, but... no matter how sturdy, can they be sturdier than the city gates of Outside Xianyanggong?

He smashed the city gates of Outside Xianyanggong with merely three strikes; how many strikes would it take to smash the city gates of Yan Sect Pass?

General Meng Tian's head throbbed immensely, but... simply opening the city gates and letting Li Yuanba enter like that also seemed impossible!

What if he had come carrying Facing Ying Su's execution order, intending to capture the three of them and bring them before Facing Ying Su? What then?

He hesitated, unable to decide; in the end, he could only follow them over.

No matter what, first stop General Wang Ben from opening the city gates!

Very quickly, they arrived at Chengmenkou!

General Wang Ben was ordering soldiers to remove the door bolts and pull away the door props, and he was further ordering soldiers to prepare oxen and Ma Pi to pull the city gates open!

But just at this moment, suddenly, Tell Meng Wu shouted loudly, "Wait!"

"Hmm?"

General Wang Ben looked toward Tell Meng Wu!

Tell Meng Wu said, "The city gates cannot be opened!"

Cold light flashed in General Wang Ben's eyes:

"Why cannot they be opened?"

Tell Meng Wu said, "Whether this person is friend or foe is yet unknown; how can you open the city gates? If enemy troops attack, can you, General Wang Ben, bear the responsibility?"

General Wang Ben flew into a rage: "This is Li Yuanba, the person closest to Your Majesty; how can he be an attacking enemy force?"

Tell Meng Wu said, "Your Majesty? Which Your Majesty? Under this vast sky, I, Tell Meng Wu, recognize only my Great Qin Qin Shi Huang, Ying Zheng; apart from him, anyone calling themselves Emperor is rebellion!"

"Could it be that you, General Wang, are also a rebel?"

General Wang Ben clenched both fists: "Qin Ershi, Ying Su, is the Emperor who personally received the edict of abdication and succession from Your Majesty; could it be... you do not recognize him?"

"If you do not recognize him, do you not even recognize the edict of Qin Shi Huang?"

"Who exactly is rebelling here?"

Tell Meng Wu's eyebrows knitted tightly, and at this very moment, his fists clenched tightly!

But General Wang Ben ignored him and simply roared, "Open the city gates and let General Li Yuanba enter!"

Tell Meng Wu drew his sword and rose: "Who dares!"

With his shout, instantly, a large group of soldiers ran toward General Wang Ben, directly surrounding him!

General Wang Ben flew into a rage and likewise drew his sword: "Open the city gates immediately; whoever disobeys my order shall be killed!"

Tell Meng Wu roared, "General Wang Ben, do not forget, of these five hundred and fifty thousand great soldiers, who is the supreme commander!"

General Wang Ben roared, "It is true that you, Tell Meng Wu, are the supreme commander, but... as the deputy commander of the army, I also hold the Tiger Tally and military authority of Qin Shi Huang; today, I, General Wang Ben, wish to open the city gates; who can stop me?"

He shouted and directly moved forward to open the gates!

"Bold General Wang Ben, have you turned traitor?"

"This Young Master commands you not to open the city gates; today, if you try to open the city gates even once?"

Suddenly, Prince Prince Fusu arrived!

He let out a furious roar at General Wang Ben!

General Wang Ben gripped the sword in his hand tightly; at this very moment, his anger surged, and though he was furious, at this moment, he still bowed before Prince Prince Fusu: "General Wang Ben greets the Eldest Young Master!"

Prince Prince Fusu roared, "This Young Master has an order: the city gates must not be opened; whoever dares to open them recklessly shall be executed without mercy!"

He shouted.

General Wang Ben inhaled deeply, bowed before Prince Prince Fusu, and said, "Li Yuanba is the person closest to Your Majesty and is also the absolute hero of the campaign against the Xiongnu; if even he cannot enter Yan Sect Pass, then who else can enter?"

"No matter how great the Young Master is, he cannot defeat the Emperor!"

"An imperial edict from the Emperor; who can block it?"

"Young Master! General Wang Ben has offended!"

He shouted, drove his sword deeply into the ground, and went himself toward the city gates!

This scene directly terrified Meng Wu, Meng Tian, and everyone else!

Meng Wu let out a roar: "Wang Ben! Stop immediately!"

In his panic, he drew his sword and thrust it at Wang Ben!

In a panic, Meng Tian rushed over to block him: "Father, no! No! He is Wang Ben! He is the Tongwu Hou personally enfeoffed by the First Emperor!"

"Killing him is equivalent to rebellion!"

"It is rebellion in the truest sense!"

Meng Tian trembled.

Upon hearing these words, Meng Wu couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and even Prince Prince Fusu couldn't help but swallow his saliva!

The Tongwu Hou!

That is the Tongwu Hou!

After Great Qin unified the six states, how many Hou did the Emperor enfeoff in total?

Two!

Who were they?

One was Wang Jian, the Wucheng Hou!

One was Wang Ben, the Tongwu Hou!

That's right!

During the reign of the First Emperor, the only two Hou were both from the Wang family!

And these two Hou, even when viewed across the entire history of the Qin State, possessed immense prestige!

After all, from Duke Xiao to the present, the Qin State had only seven Hou in total!

And each of these seven Hou was an utterly formidable figure!

The first was Lord Shang, Shang Yang!

The second was Rang Hou, Wei Ran, the younger brother of Mi Yue!

The third was Ying Hou, Fan Ju, the Qin State Chancellor who proposed the grand strategy of befriending distant states while attacking nearby ones!

The fourth was Wenxin Hou, Lu Buwei; the greatness of this man requires no further words!

The fifth was Changxin Hou, Lao Ai; the greatness of this man similarly requires no further words!

And among these seven Hou, the father and son pair Wang Jian and Wang Ben occupied two spots!

When Qin Mie the six states, the father and son pair Wang Jian and Wang Ben destroyed five of them!

Looking across the entire Great Qin, no one's merit surpassed that of their Wang family!

A single Wang Ben truly had merit that overshadowed the entire court and the common people!

At this moment, even Meng Wu and Prince Prince Fusu couldn't help but feel a bit intimidated!