Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Five Chang'an Changes
After Liu Xiu proclaimed himself emperor in Gaoyi, Feng Yi returned to Hanoi. He did not immediately make the letters between him and Li Yi public according to Liu Xiu's wishes, but continued to maintain correspondence with Li Yi.
Feng Yi really hoped that Liu Xiu would accept Li Yi, and in his letters to Li Yi, he also revealed his true feelings from time to time. This gave Li Yi the illusion that Liu Xiu had accepted him.
It is easy to understand that Li Yi would have such an illusion. Liu Xiu has now proclaimed himself emperor and is the emperor, while Feng Yi is just a minister. How could a minister be so bold and dare to communicate frequently with enemy generals without telling the emperor?
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Therefore, Feng Yi's move to correspond with him must have been approved by Liu Xiu, so the meaning expressed by Feng Yi in the letter represented exactly what Liu Xiu meant.
Mistakenly thinking that Liu Xiu would accept him, Li Yi seemed to have taken a reassurance and turned a blind eye to the actions of the Han army in Hanoi.
Feng Yi took this opportunity to lead the Hanoi Army and the Wei County Army across the Yellow River and entered Henan. Feng Yi's troops were not large. The total number of troops from the two counties was less than 30,000, but Feng Yi arrived too suddenly.
All the counties in Henan Province were unprepared and were caught off guard by Feng Yi.
After entering Henan, the troops and horses led by Feng Yi were like wind and clouds. In just ten days, they captured Juan County, Yangwu County and Yuanwu County. They were overwhelming and unstoppable.
Wu Bo, the governor of Henan, was shocked when he heard the news. He immediately sent a message to Luoyang, asking Zhu Tuna and Li Yi to send troops.
Zhu Jun didn't even see Wu Bo's letter sent to Luoyang. When it arrived at Li Yi's place, he was detained by him. Then he did whatever he had to do as if nothing happened, and did not take Feng Yi's army into Henan seriously at all.
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Luoyang held a large army and stood still, while Wu Bo, who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, was anxious and had no soldiers to use.
Under such circumstances, Feng Yi in Henan unexpectedly went all the way to thirteen counties. Yu Shiwanzhong surrendered to Feng Yi. Basically, the eastern part of Henan fell into Feng Yi's hands.
At this time, Wu Bo also saw that Luoyang could no longer count on him and had no choice but to do it himself.
He led the Henan County Army, together with the temporarily recruited strong men, to gather more than 30,000 people from all over the country, and went to Shixiang, hoping to defeat Feng Yi's army that continued to advance westward.
As a result, in the battle of Shixiang, Wu Bo's tribe was severely defeated. More than 30,000 people were almost wiped out. Even Wu Bo, the governor of Henan, died tragically among the rebels.
It was only then that Feng Yicai disclosed the letters exchanged between him and Li Yi. For a time, Henan was shocked and Luoyang was shocked.
Zhu Tuna, who had been kept in the dark until now, found out that Li Yi and Liu Xiu had been having an affair for a long time.
Zhu Kun hated Li Yi so much that he broke his teeth in his mouth. But he had some concerns about killing Li Yi. Li Yi had a high prestige in the army and had many cronies in the army. If he was to be executed openly and justly
He will be opposed by the generals.
After thinking about it, Zhu Kun came up with an idea to assassinate him. He paid a lot of money to hire a swordsman with strong martial arts skills and secretly sneaked into Li Yi's mansion. When Li Yi was still sleeping, he stabbed Li Yi to death on the bed with a sword.
At that time, there were very few people in the world who could be called swordsmen. Anyone who was a swordsman must be a leader in martial arts. Some swordsman-level masters even came and went without a trace, killing people everywhere.
Invisible point.
Li Yi, the first veteran who followed the two brothers Liu and Liu Xiu in the Chongling rebellion, suddenly turned against the Green Forest Army with the merger of the Chongling Army and the Green Forest Army, assisted Liu Xuan and the Green Forest Army, and successfully killed them.
After killing Liu Xiu, he also wanted to kill Liu Xiu and avoid future troubles forever.
But the traitor Li Yi, who made Liu Xiu hate him so much, did not die in a grand manner. He could even be said to be a coward. He was assassinated by the Jianghu swordsman hired by Zhu Jun with money, and he died in a daze in his sleep.
After Li Yi's death, all the military power of the Luoyang army fell into the hands of Zhu Tuna. When he was preparing to counterattack Feng Yi's army, the main Han army, headed by Grand Sima Wu Han Wu Ziyan, arrived in Luoyang and marched to the city.
This time when he sent troops to Luoyang, Liu Xiu was determined to attack Luoyang in one fell swoop. Under Wu Han, there were Geng, Zhu, Yaoqi, Ma Wu, Wang Liang and other generals, and the entire army, numbering 300,000 men, took Luoyang City.
The crowd was filled with water.
Zhu Tuna hurriedly issued an order. Without his order, no one in the city, including officers and soldiers, could leave the city to fight with the enemy. In fact, his order was completely redundant. Even if he didn't say it, no one would dare to go out of the city to die in the current situation.
The leader of the enemy army is Wu Han. Who is Wu Han? He is a god of death who kills people without blinking an eye. If he fights Wu Han, isn't he going to die?
The 200,000 Luoyang army led by Zhu Tun held the city tightly and stayed behind closed doors. However, with 300,000 soldiers and horses on Wu Han's side, it was not easy to storm the Luoyang city where 200,000 people were garrisoned.
After continuously attacking the city for more than ten days with no results, Wu Han ordered the siege to be stopped and promptly changed his tactics from attacking the city to besieging the city.
Your city of Luoyang is well-defended, but there are 200,000 to 300,000 civilians in the city of Luoyang, and more than 200,000 soldiers guarding the city. These people always need to eat and drink every day. Even if there is sufficient food and grass in the city of Luoyang, the lives of so many people
Consumption, can you survive a month, two months, or a year and a half? Sooner or later, you will run out of food. If you don't go out to fight in the city, you will starve to death in the city.
While Wu Han led his army to besiege Luoyang, another earth-shaking change occurred in Chang'an.
After Liu Xuan was beaten away by Zhang and others, he fled to Xinfeng where Zhao Meng was stationed. Liu Xuan immediately sent an edict to Wang Kuang, Chen Mu, and Cheng Dan, asking the three of them to come to Xinfeng.
The actions of Zhang, Liao Zhan, Hu Yin and others were not discussed with Wang Kuang and others. They were entirely their own actions.
Now the Red Eyebrow Army and Deng Yu's Army are constantly advancing westward. At this time when the enemy is at hand, Chang'an is in such a state that even the emperor has been driven away by Zhang, Liao Zhan, Hu Yin and others. Wang Kuang, Chen Mu,
Cheng Dan was also very anxious.
After receiving Liu Xuan's edict, Wang Kuang, Chen Mu, and Cheng Dan rushed to Xinfeng one after another. Wang Kuang was a little slower, and Chen Mu and Cheng Dan arrived first. As a result, the two unlucky guys who arrived first were directly killed.
Liu Xuan ordered him to be executed.
In Liu Xuan's view, the rebellion by Zhang, Liao Zhan, Hu Yin and others could not have been their own actions. They must have been discussed with Wang Kuang, Wang Feng, Chen Mu, Cheng Dan and others in advance.
Because of his indecisiveness, he failed to kill first, which is why he ended up where he is today. Now, he must no longer be merciful.
The Green Forest Army consists of three main armies, the Xinshi Army, the Pinglin Army and the Xiajiang Army.
Chen Mu, the leader of the Pinglin Army, and Cheng Dan, the deputy leader of the Xiajiang Army, these two veterans and backbones of the Green Forest Army, were the founding heroes who single-handedly helped Liu Xuan become emperor, but in the end they died in Liu Xuan's hands.
When you sow a cause, you get a cause, and when you sow, you get a result. Back then, they supported the puppet Liu Xuan for their own selfish interests. Now, they themselves have finally tasted the bitter fruit and been bitten by this puppet.
Now Liu Xuan is almost in a state of madness. Everyone seems to have evil intentions and everyone wants to stab him. Even Zhao Meng, who usually behaves erratically and unscrupulously, has become much more honest now.
When he learned that Liu Xuan had killed Chen Mu and Cheng Dan, Wang Kuang was shocked. He dared to go to Xinfeng. He hurriedly changed his route to Chang'an and joined Zhang and others. Liu Xuan took Zhao Meng, Li Song and other close associates with him.
, counterattack Chang'an.
The two sides fought hard for a month. In the end, Wang Kuang, Zhang and others were defeated and led their troops to escape from Chang'an and fled.
During this time, many people from the Green Forest Department were messing around in Chang'an City, bullying men and women, and robbing everything they saw, which caused a lot of complaints in Chang'an City.
After Wang Kuang, Zhang and others were defeated and fled, Liu Xuan returned to Chang'an and took control of Chang'an again.
However, Liu Xuan never dreamed that Wang Kuang and others who had escaped would surrender directly to the Red Eyebrow Army and serve as a guide for the Red Eyebrow Army, leading the Red Eyebrow Army to Chang'an.
Compared with Liu Xuan, who is now seriously injured, and the Red Eyebrow Army, whose morale is at its peak, the strength of the two sides is hugely different. wavv
Li Song was worthy of Liu Xuan's favor and was loyal to Liu Xuan. Even though he knew he was outmatched, he still led his army out of the city to fight and resisted the Red Eyebrow Army to the death.
However, there was a huge gap between the two sides in terms of military strength, morale, and even fighting. In the end, Li Song was defeated and captured alive by the Red Eyebrow Army.
Li Song's younger brother Li Fan served as the city gate captain. The Red Eyebrow Army took the captured Li Song and threatened Li Fan to open the city gate, otherwise they would cut Li Song into pieces in front of him.
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In order to save his brother, Li Fan had no choice but to open the city gate. At this moment, the Red Eyebrow Army swarmed in and invaded Chang'an City.
When he learned that the city of Chang'an had been destroyed, Liu Xuan was so frightened that he fled and ran out of Chang'an again.
He fled for the first time because he was forced to rebel by Zhang and others. Although he fled, he was relatively calm. At least he took the queen and concubines with him, and he also brought a lot of gold, silver and jewelry. Just the carriage.
There are hundreds of them.
But this time Liu Xuan's escape was much more tragic. He took no one with him and only a few attendants followed him, and he ran out of Chang'an in a hurry.
Many people in Chang'an saw Liu Xuan fleeing. No one shed tears for the emperor. Instead, people chased after the horse, shouting loudly as they ran: "Your Majesty, please ride to the city immediately!"
Liu Xuan heard the people's call, reined in his horse, looked around, then turned over and dismounted, facing the direction of Chang'an City, knelt down and kowtowed. At the same time, he couldn't help crying loudly.
The people stood around and watched with cold eyes. Since Liu Xuan came to Chang'an, he has done few good things to benefit the people. The lives of the people are not even as good as those during Wang Mang's period. How can people give birth to Liu Xuan, the emperor?
Sympathy.
Liu Xuan had no soldiers available in Chang'an, and even if he paid to recruit strong men in the city, he could not recruit them. This shows how resentful the people of Chang'an were towards him.
After Xie Cheng, Liu Xuan lonelyly mounted his horse again and fled towards Gaoling in Fufeng County.
The people of Chang'an thought that with Liu Xuan gone and red eyebrows welcomed, they could finally live a good life in peace and prosperity. However, they all thought wrong, and they were completely wrong. The real suffering of the people of Chang'an had just begun.
