A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 273 Liu Xiu proclaimed himself emperor, "The city was empty, and the bones covered the fields."

September 9th, good luck and clear skies
Liu Xiu built a high platform at Qianqiu Pavilion, nine miles south of Handan City, which is the emperor's throne:
"The God of the Emperor and the God of the Later Earth care about the world and send down divination fortunes. They entrust the common people to me. As the parents of the people, Liu Xiushi does not dare to take this responsibility.

And all the officials under his command unanimously said: "Wang Mang usurped the throne, Xiufa angrily raised an army, destroyed Wang Xun and Wang Yi in Kunyang; killed Wang Lang and Bronze Horse in Hebei, pacified the world, and received favor in the sea." Above it is the heart of heaven and earth, below it is the heart-warming support of the people. "

The prophecy says: "The beautiful soldiers will capture the unruly people, and the Liu family who cultivates virtue with gold will become the emperor." 'I still refused firmly, again and again, even three times.

All the subordinates said: "The emperor's great destiny cannot be delayed." 'So how dare Liu Xiu not respect the destiny of heaven? "

Then Liu Xiu Jianyuan and Jianwu. Amnesty was given to the world, and Handan was first used as the temporary capital.

In order to revitalize the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu decided to still use the country name "Han" in the founding of the country.

Liu Shang was granted the title of King of Zhongshan, succeeding Liu Wu, King Hui of Zhongshan. Liu Yang was the king of Zhending, and his brother Liu Zhong was the king of Guangyang.

He also appointed Fan Xianjie as the prefect of Changshan, Geng Kuang as the prefect of Yuyang, and Peng Chong as the prefect of Shanggu.

September 19

Bai Gongguan of the Bai Kingdom declared that Liu Xiu was the orthodox of the Han family, and the Bai Kingdom was willing to surrender the whole country to Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu was overjoyed and granted Bai Gongguan the title of White King, indicating that all the expenses of the Bai Kingdom were equal to those of the princes and kings surnamed Liu, and that the Bai Kingdom would be the only princely country with different surnames in the Han Dynasty in the future. , rest with the country.

Two-thirds of Hanoi County was added to the Bai Kingdom, plus the entire Taihang Mountains, indicating that the Han Dynasty would not interfere with anything in the Bai Kingdom except for setting up an observation envoy.

Then officials were sent to take over counties and counties outside the Bai Kingdom, as well as hundreds of thousands of border guards.

Now that Hebei is one, Liu Xiu's strength increases like a flying sky.

Hundreds of thousands more border guards were recruited, bringing Liu Xiu's strength to 500,000, including 100,000 cavalry alone.

September 23
Liu Xuan sent Duke Kuang of Dingguo to take advantage of the gap in the change of generals in Hedong to attack Hedong County and capture Anyi.

Liu Xiu sent former general Deng Yu with 100,000 troops to attack Prince Kuang of Dingguo.

September

Former general Deng Yu attacked Prince Kuang of Gengshi Dingguo in Anyi, defeated Wang Kuang's army, and killed Wang Kuang's deputy general Liu Jun.

October st

Liu Xiu appointed Bai Lin, the prefect of Zhuojun, as his chief situ, Ye Wangling Wang Liang as his chief sikong, and former general Deng Yu as his chief sima.

The general Jing Dan is the general of Hussar, the general Geng Yan is the general of Jianwei, the general Gai Yan is the general of Huya, the general Zhu You is the general of Jianyi, and the cavalry general Bai He is the general of Yueqi. In the new dynasty, Pinglu Hou Baiwei was the general in Zhenbei, and the backbone general Du Mao was the general. ···

General Xiuwu Baiwei, the general of Zhenbei, opened his mansion and built Ya, specializing in matters related to the northern border.

October rd
Han Emperor Liu Xiu personally commanded an army of 200,000 to support Feng Yijun who was besieging Luoyang. At this time, Liu Xiu's army of 300,000 had already gathered under Luoyang City.

There were only about 50,000 Luoyang defenders, which made the defender Zhu Kun panic. He was also worried that Liu Xiu would not let him go because of the revenge of killing his brother, so he never surrendered.

Liu Xiu knew that Luoyang was difficult to defeat, and he heard that the Qi and Han troops had broken through Wuguan and marched all the way to Guanzhong.

So Liu Xiu sent someone to send a message to Zhu Kun: "Those who do great things should not be afraid of small complaints" and promised that if they surrender, they will never be liquidated, and "the official title can be guaranteed."

Zhu Tuna hesitated again and again, but finally chose to believe in Liu Xiu's kindness, so Kaicheng surrendered. Liu Xiu also fulfilled his promise and named him General Pingdi and Marquis of Fugou.

October 15th

Liu Xiu worshiped heaven in Luoyang and announced that Luoyang would be the capital. Hebei Yiying moved the central government office to Luoyang.

At this time, the Qi and Han armies have entered Guanzhong and are fighting with the Xuanhan army. Each side has hundreds of thousands of troops. The entire Guanzhong is like a big battlefield. Even in the deserted countryside and mountains, there are scouts from both sides fighting.

So Liu Xiu asked Deng Yu to lead 100,000 troops and station them in Hedong to observe the situation in Guanzhong. If there is an opportunity, he could advance to Guanzhong, seize Chang'an, and return the old capital.

He also sent Huya General Gai Yan with 100,000 troops to attack the Liang King Liu Yong who was separatist in Suiyang to the east; General Jianwei Geng Yan with 100,000 troops to attack Zhang Bu who occupied Qingzhou; and Southern Conqueror General Cen Peng led 50,000 troops to the east. Attack the bandits in Jingzhou in the south.

Liu Yong, King of Liang, was the eighth grandson of Liu Wu, King Xiao of Liang in the former Han Dynasty. His family had been King of Liang for generations and occupied the Liang area, so he had always had a great reputation in the Liang area.

Liu Xuan occupied Chang'an and enfeoffed the princes. Liu Yongfu was canonized as King of Liang and took control of the old land.

Now Xuan Han and Qi Han were fighting in Guanzhong and could not take care of Guandong, so Liu Yong took over the country and raised troops. His brother Liu Fang served as the general of the auxiliary country. He recruited Pei people Zhou Jian and other heroes as generals, and captured Qi Yin, Shanin, Twenty-eight cities including Pei, Chu, Huaiyang, and Runan,

He also sent envoys to worship Dong Xian, who occupied Donghai County, as the general of the Yi Han Dynasty, and Zhang Bu, who occupied Qingzhou, as the general of the auxiliary Han Dynasty, and agreed to advance and retreat together.

The second year of Jianwu (the fourth year of Gengshi)
March
The Qi and Han armies reached the outskirts of Chang'an. Due to Liu Xuan's series of operations, the hearts of the Xuan Han army were divided. Coupled with the fierce offensive of the Qi and Han armies, the Xuan Han army and the Qi and Han armies fought repeatedly and were defeated. They retreated all the way to Chang'an.

In addition, Deng Yu, sent by Liu Xiu in the north, crossed the Yellow River at Fenyin, entered Xiayang, and entered Guanzhong. In Zuofengyi County, he defeated the 100,000 troops led by Xuanhan Zhonglang general Zuofu Duweigong Chengshe.

Under the critical situation, some generals of the Xuan Han Dynasty surrendered to the Qi and Han troops in Kaicheng and opened the city gates of Chang'an. Since then, the Xuan Han Dynasty had lost its power, and Liu Xuan had no choice but to abandon the city and flee. However, the rebels were raging everywhere outside the city. Fearing that he would die in the rebels, Liu Xuan surrendered to Fan Chong in Chang'an, and was named the King of Changsha by the Qi Han Dynasty, temporarily saving his life.

Liu Xuan came to Chang'an, thinking that he could save his life, but he didn't want the Qi and Han generals to break their promises and found a reason to execute him.

The Qi Han conquered Chang'an, and Emperor Liu Penzi of the Qi Han Dynasty lived in Changle Palace in Chang'an.

But almost all the power of Qi Han was concentrated in the hands of Fan Chong, the former leader of the Red Eyebrow Army.

In order to increase the military power in his hands, Fan Chong brought all the surrendered Green Forest Army under his command, and recruited soldiers without reservation. At one time, the Qi and Han Army in Guanzhong had more than one million troops.

The consequences of recruiting a large number of troops were that the soldiers were mixed, and the military discipline of the Qi and Han armies was completely ruined. So the Qi and Han armies that entered Chang'an and Guanzhong robbed wantonly. The people of Chang'an and Guanzhong were miserable, and the Qi and Han armies immediately lost the support of the people.

Lu Hu, the son of the leader of the Qi and Han army, reminded Fan Chong, but Fan Chong refused to listen. In the end, he could only try his best to restrain the soldiers under his command, and expelled all the soldiers who did not obey his military orders from the camp. He also drove the army out of Chang'an and settled in Anling west of Chang'an. stationed.

May
The Qi and Han troops who occupied Guanzhong still didn't know how to restrain themselves and still went their own way. Not only that, they also continued to plunder the powerful local Wubao.

The powerful people in Guanzhong couldn't bear it, so they hid food, gathered people to resist, and became enemies of the Qi and Han armies. As a result, there was a severe shortage of food in Chang'an City. However, the leaders of the Qi and Han armies were helpless to deal with the sudden disappearance of food.

Originally, many of the strategies of the Qi and Han armies came from Lu Hu. However, due to military discipline issues, Lu Hu led his own troops to defend Anling and seemed to no longer care about Chang'an affairs, so everyone did not know what to do.

September
Millions of troops gathered near Chang'an. Instead of producing, they burned, killed, and looted, which cut off Chang'an's food supply. Fan Chong and others had to find a way out for the Red Eyebrow Army.

To the east, Liu Xiu sent generals to follow the Qi and Han armies, and took some of the road passes into Guanzhong into his hands.

During the period when the Qi and Han armies occupied Chang'an, Liu Xiu, based on Su Jin's suggestion, sent Cen Peng, Jing Dan and others to advance to the Henan and Jingzhou areas south of Luoyang.

The Huaiyang governor Bao Si, Wan Wang Liu Ci, Deng Wang Chang and others appointed by the Xuan Han surrendered one after another because of the demise of the Xuan Han; many small groups of peasant armed forces in western Henan were also eliminated.

This completed the major strategic deployment of occupying the front line from Hebei area through Luoyang southward to Henan, Jingzhou area and western Henan area.

In addition, Deng Yu had originally been sent to occupy Hedong, which not only blocked the way for the Qi and Han troops to return eastward, but also formed most of Chang'an's encirclement.

Moreover, the Qi and Han troops were completely cut off from all support from Guandong to Guanzhong.

This was also the main reason why the Qi and Han armies could not get food from Guandong.

To the north, Deng Yu, who occupied Yaxian County due to the rebellious behavior of the Qi and Han armies, had strict military discipline. Although it is not said that Qiu did not commit any crimes, compared with the Qi and Han armies, they were simply the king's army, the heavenly army, and the army of benevolence and righteousness.

Therefore, all the people in Guanzhong looked out for the wind and brought their young and old to welcome Deng Yu's army. Thousands of people returned every day, and the crowd was said to be millions. At this time, they had occupied Gaoling in the north of Chang'an, and were only a hundred miles away from the Qi and Han army in Chang'an.

Then there is only one way to go to the west, and there is only one force occupying the west, which is "General Xizhou" Weixiao who established himself as king in Tianshui.

September

The millions of troops of the Qi and Han armies marched westward from Chang'an, passing through Nanshan and Huxian, and then turned to the Anding and Beidi areas in the northwest, hoping to obtain the food and grass from Weixiao.

Wei Xiao, who occupied Tianshui, also received news of the attack by a million-strong Qi and Han army. After secretly cursing bad luck, he had to assemble heavy troops to resist.

October rd
The Qi Han army defeated Yan Chun, the Xuan Han general who stubbornly defended Guanxi, arrived at the Tianshui border, and began to advance into Tianshui County.

After Wei Xiao continued to publicize the atrocities committed by the Qi and Han armies in Guanzhong and Chang'an, the entire Tianshui, from the rich and powerful to the common people, resisted the arrival of the Qi and Han armies.

Therefore, with the help of the local powerful and the common people, Wei Xiao put up a tenacious resistance. Coupled with the cold weather, the combat effectiveness of the Qi and Han army was greatly weakened. However, Wei Xiao led 50,000 soldiers from the frontier army and foreign warriors. Defeated by an elite division.

Fan Chong quickly led the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops eastward and returned to Chang'an again.

At this time, Chang'an had been occupied by Deng Yu's army. However, after Deng Yu occupied Chang'an, he thought that the Qi and Han armies would not come back, so he did not deploy defenses to the west. Instead, he spent a lot of energy repairing the tombs of previous Han emperors, returning the temples of the late emperors and a large number of ceremonial artifacts. , headed to Luoyang.

So the hundreds of thousands of Qi and Han troops defeated Deng Yu's army stationed there and forced them to withdraw from Chang'an. However, at this time, the Qi and Han troops also suffered great attrition.

Due to the lack of food and grass and the continuous battles, the entire Guanzhong Sanfu had already been "empty and the bones covered the fields". The people had no food, let alone the Qi and Han armies. Therefore, the Qi and Han armies continued to starve to death and escape, and the strength of the Qi and Han armies continued to decrease.

Liu Xiu saw that Deng Yu's Western Expeditionary Army was in a disadvantageous situation, so he sent Feng Yi to Guanzhong to replace Deng Yu in commanding the Western Expeditionary Army.

After Feng Yi arrived, he joined forces with Deng Yu to fight the Qi and Han troops again, but was defeated again. Feng Yi finally led a small number of people to abandon their horses and walk back to the camp, while Deng Yu was defeated and fled to Yiyang.

After returning to the camp, Feng Yi had no choice but to gather his scattered men, secure the walls and clear the country, and wait for another fight.

Soon, Feng Yi's army and the Qi and Han armies fought again in Guidi. At this time, the number of the Qi and Han armies had dropped to more than 200,000, and Feng Yi and Deng Yu combined had nearly 200,000. Both sides came out in large numbers, because the Qi and Han armies wanted to Food and grass, so they unleashed great fighting power, and the two sides fought until the sun turned west.

In the end, Lu Hu, who had been secretly persuaded to surrender by Liu Xiu and through the old troops of Lu Mu's army in Xuzhou, defected before the battle. The Qi and Han armies were shocked and defeated, and more than 80,000 people were forced to surrender by Feng Yi. The leader Fan Chong and others died in the rebellion.

Lu Hu was granted the title of Marquis of Haiqu by Liu Xiu for his meritorious service. He was granted a settlement of 2,000 households and appointed as General Red Eyebrow.

The Qi and Han armies were defeated, and the entire Guanzhong fell into Liu Xiu's hands. Smart people could see that Liu Xiu was determined to unify the world.

(End of this chapter)