Wang Kuang and others defected, broke away from the Red Eyebrow Army, and surrendered to Zong Guang. After the Red Eyebrow Army learned about this, they were furious, especially Fan Chong, who felt that he had been humiliated by Wang Kuang and others, and wanted to kill these Green Forest Army soldiers.
People were cut into pieces by thousands of swords.
Seeing Fan Chong furious with anger, Mo Yan smiled slightly and said: "General, don't be anxious, it's easy to kill Wang Kuang and others."
Fan Chong shook his head repeatedly and said: "Liu Xiu has always been hypocritical and hypocritical. He can even tolerate Zhu Tuna, let alone Wang Kuang and others?"
Mo Yan said with a smile: "My subordinates have a way to prevent Wang Kuang and others from reaching Luoyang and die on the way!"
"Oh? If so, that would be great." After all, Wang Kuang and others have stayed in the Red Eyebrow Army for so long and know the situation of the Red Eyebrow Army very well. If they arrive in Luoyang and see Liu Xiu, they will tell their side
Considering the situation on the other side, what secrets does our side have for Liu Xiu?
Wang Kuang and others went to join Liu Xiu, which posed a great threat to the Red Eyebrow Army. If there was a way to prevent them from dying on the way without seeing Liu Xiu, it would naturally eliminate a serious problem for the Red Eyebrow Army.
Let's talk about Shangshu Zongguang. He was also very surprised when he saw Wang Kuang, Hu Yin and others coming to surrender. But after the surprise, he became full of anger.
People like the Green Forest Army are simply shameless. If you have breasts, you are a mother. If you don’t have breasts, you will scold your mother.
The reason why the Red Eyebrow Army was able to conquer Chang'an was directly related to the surrender of Wang Kuang and others. First they shamelessly betrayed Liu Xuan, and now the Red Eyebrow Army betrayed them and shamelessly came to join us. If His Majesty really takes them in,
Otherwise, these people will betray you again in the future.
Although Zong Guang hates Wang Kuang and others from the bottom of his heart, and even feels disgusted when he sees them, he can't turn them away. How to deal with people like Wang Kuang, he is a small minister who has no authority
The final decision must be made by His Majesty.
The subordinate officials under Zong Guang suggested to him that he should take advantage of the opportunity to kill Wang Kuang and others. Wang Kuang and others were the chief culprits in the death of His Majesty's eldest brother back then. Kill them now.
, which is equivalent to making a great contribution.
After thinking about it, Zong Guang felt that something was wrong. First of all, he had no right to kill people like Wang Kuang. Secondly, was there a living example in the court, Zhu Tuna!
Your Majesty didn't kill Zhu Tuna at the beginning. Now, can your Majesty kill people like Wang Kuang? If you make a rash decision, not only will you fail to achieve great achievements, but you will be killed.
After careful consideration, Zong Guang did not make things difficult for Wang Kuang and others who came to surrender, and even had a much better attitude towards Wang Kuang and others than the captured Feng.
He only sent a few soldiers to symbolically guard Wang Kuang and his party, and entertained them with delicious food and drinks on the way.
On this day, the team arrived at Anyi, the county town of Hedong. It was not too far from Luoyang, and Zong Guang also wanted to have a good rest.
Hedong County had already been defeated by Deng Yu, and the prefect was Liu Xiu's minister. When he learned that the minister was coming, how could he not treat him warmly?
The prefect held a banquet in the county mansion to entertain Zong Guang and his subordinates. Even Wang Kuang and others who lived in the post station also improved their food, including wine and meat.
They were also prisoners, but their treatment was much better than that of Feng. Wang Kuang and others felt that when they arrived in Luoyang and met Liu Xiu, they would be as reused by Liu Xiu as Zhu Tuna. wavv
While they were eating and drinking, low voices came from the backyard.
At first, they didn't take it to heart, but when the other party was talking, the names of Wang Kuang, Hu Yin and others were mentioned several times, which finally caught their attention.
Wang Kuang motioned to everyone to continue eating, drinking and laughing. He and Hu Yin walked to the back window and listened carefully.
"...His Majesty's secret envoy arrived in Anyi yesterday. When he sees Zong Shangshu today, he will convey His Majesty's oral instructions!"
"Your Majesty really wants to kill Wang Kuang and Hu Yin?"
"Of course! When the envoy and the prefect were talking, I was outside and could hear clearly."
"But Your Majesty didn't kill Zhu Kun, so how could he kill Wang Kuang and Hu Yin? The culprit who murdered Da Situ in the first place was Zhu Kun!"
"That's different! When Zhu Kun surrendered, he brought with him 200,000 Luoyang troops. Now that Wang Kuang and others have surrendered, how many troops have they brought to His Majesty? What's more, Zhu Kun insisted on the ancestral system of the Han family at the beginning and could not persist in it.
Your Majesty appreciates Zhu Tuna very much for accepting the title of king, and he even praised Zhu Tuna several times!"
"So that's it. So, they won't live long?"
"Maybe we'll do it tonight!"
"Oh, the good wine and food on that table were really wasted!"
"Okay, they are all going to die anyway, let's just let them be a starving ghost before they die!" Two young men in servant clothes finished muttering in the backyard, continued talking and walked away.
After they left, Wang Kuang and Hu Yin, who were eavesdropping under the back window, broke into cold sweats. It turned out that Liu Xiu did not intend to let them go, but wanted to kill them! Wang Kuang and Hu Yin told them what they had just heard.
If you arrive, tell the others in a low voice. After hearing this, everyone's expressions will change drastically and they will break into a cold sweat.
Wang Kuang and Hu Yin looked at each other and whispered: "We can't go to Luoyang, and we can't stay in Anyi. We have to escape quickly. If we don't leave, we will have to go to Huangquan Road to keep company."
Got it!"
Everyone had no objection and looked at Wang Kuang one after another and asked: "King Biyang, how can we escape?" Wang Kuang was named King Biyang by Liu Xuan in the Gengshi court.
Wang Kuang rolled his eyes and said: "Let's just walk around in the city and then wait for an opportunity to escape from Anyi!"
Everyone nodded in agreement. Zong Guang did not strictly monitor Wang Kuang and others, nor did he restrict their freedom too much.
Hearing that they wanted to leave the inn and walk around the city, the soldiers guarding them didn't think much about it, let alone stopped them, and followed them out of the inn together.
Wang Kuang and others remained calm and deliberately wandered into a quiet and deserted alley. Before the soldiers behind them could react, they suddenly attacked, seized the weapons of several soldiers, and killed them.
In a small alley.
Then, Wang Kuang and others fled Anyi. The news that Wang Kuang and others killed the guards and escaped Anyi soon spread to the county government.
Hearing this, Zong Guang was furious. Wang Kuang and others came to surrender on their own initiative. No one forced them to surrender. Along the way, he treated them well. Not only did he not strictly guard them, but they were also delicious.
They drank and dressed well, but how did they repay themselves? Killing their own soldiers for no reason and escaping from Anyi was simply too much. Zong Guang ordered the prefect to dispatch the county army to hunt down Wang Kuang
, he himself also led people to chase him out of Anyi City.
Even though Wang Kuang and others ran away first, their current physical strength is far less than when they started the rebellion. Their two legs cannot outrun the four hooves of a war horse.
Zong Guang led the county troops out of the city, and after only chasing for more than half an hour, they caught up with Wang Kuang and his party.
This time, Zong Guang was not polite to Wang Kuang and others at all. Killing people to pay for their lives and debts to pay back their money was completely justified. He ordered that Wang Kuang and his party should be killed without mercy.
Wang Kuang and Hu Yin, the veterans of the Green Forest Army and the leaders of the rebel army at that time, resisted Wang Mang's tyranny and joined forces with the world's heroes to overthrow the Xin Mang court.
As a result, in the end, he ended up like this, with his head missing and his body lying in the wilderness, which makes people feel both sad and deplorable.
Wang Kuang, Hu Yin and others may not know until their death that Liu Xiu sent no secret envoys to Anyi, let alone any secret edict to execute them. The two boys in the backyard of the post station were Mo.
Yan sent people to kill them.
Killing does not necessarily have to be done by oneself. Killing with a borrowed knife without leaving any trace is the truly clever way of killing.
Mo Yan's men took advantage of Wang Kuang and others' insecurity and led them to a dead end with just a few words.
Along the way, Wang Kuang and others felt that, as prisoners, they were treated much better than Feng. However, in the end, they all died in Anyi. After Feng was escorted back to Luoyang, Liu Xiu pardoned his death penalty.
, Feng survived instead.
Although Feng's rebellion was quickly put down by Liu Xiu, it had a great impact on Deng Yu's prestige.
In addition, Deng Yu also made mistakes in tactics. Shangjun, Beidi, Anding and other counties were indeed vast and sparsely populated, but similarly, the food reserves in these three counties were really small, and Deng Yu's army soon fell into a trap.
The dilemma of short grain.
The people who originally came to join Deng Yu chose to leave because they were hungry again. In addition, their Western expedition had been going on for too long. The soldiers were homesick and war-weary, and the morale of Deng Yu's army began to decline rapidly.
It stands to reason that when the battle reached this level, Deng Yu could either choose to fight to the death with the Red Eyebrow Army or withdraw his troops.
In a decisive battle with the Red Eyebrow Army, Deng Yu was not completely sure of victory. Moreover, the morale of the army was low, and it was indeed not suitable for a war.
Deng Yu was really unwilling to withdraw his troops.
In order to support his western expedition, the imperial court spent a lot of manpower, material resources, money and food. All the ministers of the dynasty, including the emperor, were eagerly waiting for his success in Luoyang. It would be unreasonable for him to return without success.
Deng Yu was now riding a tiger and was in a dilemma. He could only drag the Red Eyebrow Army with him to see who could outlast the other.
The battlefield on the Western Front has now reached a temporary stalemate, and Liu Xiu's attention began to shift to the north.
Now in the Taihang area, a large number of red eyebrow army branches have appeared. I don’t know where these red eyebrow army branches came from. They hide in the Taihang Mountains and come out from time to time to harass and plunder surrounding towns, causing great harm to Hanoi.
Big harm.
Taihang Mountain is located in the north of Hanoi, and is the boundary mountain between Hanoi and Shangdang counties. This large mountain range stretches for more than 400 miles horizontally. Tens of thousands of red eyebrow troops are hidden in the mountains, and hundreds of thousands of people are mobilized to search.
It's like finding a needle in a haystack.
Liu Xiu attaches great importance to the Red Eyebrow Army, and he also knows that if he ignores the Red Eyebrow Army and allows it to grow bigger, I am afraid that it will not be long before it can grow to tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.
After discussions with the ministers in the DPRK, Liu Xiu decided to go to Hanoi in person to supervise the quelling of the thieves.
Before Liu Xiu set off, he also specially sent Wang Liang. Wang Liang was demoted from Da Sikong to Zhonglang General. He had nothing to do in Luoyang, so Liu Xiu asked him to guard Jiguan and take charge of the Eight Paths of Taihang.
There are several important passages in the Taihang Mountains. These important passages are like throat fortresses. They are Junduxing, Puyinxing, Feihuxing, Jingxing, Fukouxing, Baixing, Taihangxing and Ziguanxing.
, collectively called the Eight Paths of Taihang.
The Red Eyebrow Army hiding in the Taihang Mountains had to walk one of the Eight Taihang Trails if they wanted to go out. Liu Xiu sent Wang Liang to guard Jiguan in order to block the Eight Taihang Trails so that the rebel army in the mountains could not get out.
, in this way, it will no longer be possible to harass the counties in Hanoi.
Liu Xiu did not go to Jiguan in person, but went to Xiuwu. Some time ago, Zhuolu City, located north of Xiuwu, was attacked. Liu Xiu was worried that if the Red Eyebrow Army took action, it was likely that they would go further and attack southward.
Practice martial arts.
Xiuwu is an important town in Hanoi and can be called the northern gateway of Huai County, the county seat. There is no room for failure.
Because this trip to Hanoi was not for inspection and would probably involve fighting with the rebels, Liu Xiu did not take Yin Lihua with him. Accompanying him to go to Xiuwu were Jia Fu, Li Tong, Fu An, Zong Guang and others.
Jia Fu led 2,000 garrison troops, Li Tong led 1,000 imperial troops, and Fu An led 500 Yulin guards, plus some accompanying chamberlains and servants, totaling nearly 4,000.