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Mo Yan said happily: "When Xu Xiang pretends to be defeated and retreats, he can leave the grain cart behind, and the enemy army will definitely grab the grain when he sees the grain cart, and at this time, it is the best time for Xu Xiang to lead the army to fight back." ”

Xu Xuan stared at Mo Yan, thought about it seriously, and after a while, he said with a solemn face: "However, our army doesn't have so much food now. "Return the grain cart? The grain carts have long been emptied.

Mo Yan smiled and asked, "But who knows?" ”

"Huh?"

"If you put dirt and stones in the grain cart and camouflage it, how will the enemy know if there is grain inside?"

When Xu Xuan heard this, his eyes lit up, and he nodded slowly while pondering, feeling that Mo Yan's idea was really good. After thinking for a while, Xu Xuan looked at Mo Yan strangely and asked, "Why do you want to help me?" ”

Mo Yan smiled and said meaningfully: "Xu Xiang, our current enemy is not ourselves, but Liu Xiu. ”

After a pause, he said: "As long as Xu Xiang can defeat the enemy army and advance all the way east, I can also help Xu Xiang conquer Hongnong County in one fell swoop and take Hongnong County!" ”

Xu Xuan's face immediately showed a look of joy, and he asked, "Does Mr. Mo have a way to conquer Hongnong County?" ”

Mo Yan Chengzhu said with a smile in his chest: "It's as easy as a hand." ”

Xu Xuan adopted Mo Yan's tactics, first letting the soldiers under his command pretend to be invincible and retreat. Seeing this, Deng Hong and other Han troops on the opposite side were full of morale and took advantage of the situation to pursue.

With the defeat and retreat of the Red Mei Army, the grain trucks that were originally left behind the Red Mei Army's camp were all exposed.

As Mo Yan said, now that Deng Hongbu has run out of food, seeing the grain cart of the Red Mei Army and the grain piled up on the car, people are like crazy, climbing into the carriage and grabbing the grain in the car.

But there is only a thin layer of grain in the grain cart, and when you remove the layer of grain on top, and then look down, it is all stone and soil.

Just when the Han army ignored it, and the whole army was in chaos, the Red Eyebrow Army suddenly killed a horse pistol.

The Han army, which had been fighting with the Red Eyebrow Army for three days, could not resist the offensive of the Red Eyebrow Army at this time and was defeated. Deng Hong led out 30,000 soldiers, and in the end, the Han army that followed Deng Hong's defeat and retreated was only 3,000 people.

Even though they had won a big victory, the Red Eyebrow Army still did not give up, and chased and killed the remnants of Deng Hong. Deng Hong's remnants fled all the way to the east, and on the way, they happened to meet Deng Yu and Feng Yi who came to the rescue.

Deng Yu and Feng Yi's soldiers and horses have converged together, a total of more than 100,000 people, seeing that the main force of the Han army has arrived, and there are many people, Xu Xuan ordered to stop the pursuit, and the whole army retreated.

In this battle, Deng Hong was completely defeated, even if he collected some remnants later, but of the 30,000 soldiers, there were only 6 or 7,000 left, and more than 20,000 soldiers were defeated.

In fact, since Deng Yu led the troops to the west, although he has also suffered defeats, he has never been defeated so badly and suffered such large casualties.

In this battle, Deng Hong, who led the troops to fight privately, could not escape the blame, but Deng Yu, as the chief general of the whole army, was also to blame.

Deng Yu proposed to Feng Yi that he should now take advantage of the victory to pursue and fight to the death with the Red Mei Army.

Feng Yi didn't agree, his opinion was that either he would be stationed in Huxian and Yiyang, and let the Red Mei Army enter between Huxian and Yiyang, and then he would attack again; Or, they retreat to Yiyang together, and fight to the death with Red Mei in Yiyang.

His subordinates had just suffered such a big loss, Deng Yu was really unwilling to give up, and insisted on pursuing the retreating Xu Xuanbu.

Feng Yi's face was full of helplessness, and he repeatedly dissuaded Deng Yu, and he chased after him, but Deng Yu didn't listen and insisted on pursuing the Red Eyebrow Army.

At the insistence of Deng Yu, the Han army pursued the Red Mei Army led by Xu Xuan, but in the process of pursuit, the main force of the Red Mei Army arrived in time and joined Xu Xuan's army.

Then, the Red Eyebrow Army launched another counterattack against the pursuing Han army.

The pursuing Han army was caught off guard by the counterattack of the Red Mei Army, and rushed to meet the battle, but was defeated by the Red Mei Army that counterattacked, and was defeated and defeated.

Deng Yu led the remnants of his command and fled all the way to Yiyang. Feng Yi fled to Huixi (west of Yiyang).

In this battle, the Han army lost a mess. Not only was the main force of Deng Yu's army gone, but even the main force of Feng Yi's army was also wiped out. The two western expeditionary armies, only this one battle, greatly damaged their vitality.

The battle of Huxian was caused by Deng Hong's private battle, which caused Deng Yu and Feng Yi to lead their troops to come to the rescue.

After seeing Deng Hong's fiasco, Deng Yu was eager to make up for his mistakes and insisted on pursuing the Red Mei Army, resulting in the Han Army being defeated by the Red Mei Army's counterattack.

After this battle, Deng Yu, who was defeated and retreated to Yiyang, submitted his resignation to Luoyang.

Because of his relationship, he caused his own side to lose 100,000 soldiers, which is really unreasonable, even if Liu Xiu does not punish him, he himself is embarrassed to continue to sit in the position of Da Situ.

Speaking of which, Feng Yi was quite unlucky. Liu Xiu sent him to the west, with the intention of replacing Deng Yu and taking over the post of the chief general of the Western Expeditionary Army, but as a result, Feng Yi was taken into the ditch by Deng Yu instead.

Feng Yi, who retreated to Huixi, ordered his soldiers to build high barriers and defend themselves.

At the same time, Feng Yi actively contacted the Shi clan lords around Huixi and asked them to contribute money to help him. At first, the local scholars responded coldly to Feng Yi, but soon, they became positive.

The direct consequence of the defeat of Deng Yu and Feng Yi was to directly expose Hongnong County to the noses of the Red Mei Army.

Xu Xuanbu, who had fought even more victories, had high morale and launched a strong attack on Hongnong County.

At present, stationed in Hongnong County is Taishou Jingdan, he led more than 10,000 Hongnong County Army, desperately resisted the siege of the Red Mei Army, and repelled several strong attacks of the Red Mei Army.

For Hongnong City, which could not be captured for a long time, Xu Xuan was also anxious, questioned Mo Yan beside him, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Mo, didn't you say that it is easy to take Hongnong City?" ”

Mo Yan Chengzhu was in his chest, and said happily: "What is Xu Xiang anxious about? Hongnong is now in the bag of our army! ”

More than 10,000 Hongnong army troops resisted the large-scale attack of the Red Mei Army, which was extremely difficult, and the Red Mei Army outside the city was not the main army. Jing Dan was in the city, recruited strong men, and called on the people in the city to participate in the city defense.

Jing Dan's condition was not completely cured, this time he was ordered to Hongnong, hard work, and the condition that had been relieved has now begun to rebound.

The people in Hongnong City still love Jingdan very much, and many strong men are involved in the city defense. Jing Dan resisted the Red Mei Army for three days in a row, and on the fourth day, the Red Mei Army began to attack the city early in the morning again.

Jing Dan personally went into battle with illness and commanded the county army and strong men at the head of the city to resist the enemy outside the city.

When the fierce battle was in full swing, no one thought that in the midst of their own county army, a cold arrow suddenly shot out and went straight to Jing Dan's neck. Jing Dan realized that it was not good and tried his best to dodge, but he was still a little slower, and he was shot in the shoulder by an arrow.

The strong man who took advantage of the chaos to shoot cold arrows didn't even hesitate afterwards, and jumped directly from the city wall. This assassin who was mixed with the strong men, although he was led to pieces, but Jing Dan was not good either.

The arrows of the Assassin's crossbow arrows were quenched, and they were also highly poisonous.

When Jing Dan was carried off the city wall to rescue, he was already on the verge of dying. He intermittently explained to the generals around him, escorted the people in the city, and hurried out of the city from the east city, how many people could run.

After explaining such a sentence, Jing Dan died.

The soldiers of the whole army, including the people who participated in the defense of the city, all cried. As soon as Jing Dan died, Hongnong City was completely unable to hold it, and according to Jing Dan's instructions, the soldiers of the county army took the people in the city and evacuated to the direction of Dongcheng, where there was no Red Mei Army.

However, Hongnong City is a county town, and there are tens of thousands of people in the city, so they can withdraw if they want to. In the process of the people fleeing from the city, the west city has been breached, and the Red Eyebrow army has invaded the city like a tide.

The Red Eyebrow Army that entered Hongnong, adhering to their set in Sanfu, robbed whatever they saw, grabbed food, women, gold, silver and jewelry, and killed them all if they resisted.

In the end, the soldiers of the county army only managed to escape with more than 10,000 people, and even with them, Jing Dan's body was also carried out of the city by the soldiers, and finally did not fall into the hands of the Red Mei Army.

Hongnong City was sacked by the Red Mei Army, mourning all over the field, and countless dead and wounded.

Those local scholars who were reluctant to influence Feng Yi's call at the beginning, after seeing the tragic situation in Hongnong City, their attitude immediately changed, and they sent money and food to Feng Yi, and they also sent strong men.

After receiving the strong support of the local landlord class, Feng Yi's army began to increase rapidly, and in just a few months, Feng Yi was in Huixi, and incredibly re-established an army of 80,000 people.

I have to say that Feng Yi's ability is really strong, he was affected by Deng Yu and lost tens of thousands of people, and in a short period of time, he re-recruited tens of thousands of people, and his strength recovered as before.

Of course, in this matter, the Red Eyebrow Army also played the effect of divine assistance.

Deng Yu and Feng Yi were defeated in Hongnong, Jing Dan was assassinated, and the Red Eyebrow Army was like a broken bamboo, advancing all the way east, unstoppable, and now approaching Yiyang. The bad news came to Luoyang one after another, and the government and the opposition were shocked.

Luoyang is located in Henan County, Yiyang is located in Hongnong County, Henan, Hongnong, the two counties border, Henan is in the east, Hongnong is in the west, while Luoyang is located in the west of Henan County, and Yiyang is located in the east of Hongnong County.

So don't look at Luoyang and Yiyang are divided into two counties, in fact, the distance between the two places is very close, and it only takes two days to travel on horseback.

It can be said that Yiyang is the western gateway of Luoyang, and once Yiyang is broken, the Red Eyebrow Army can take Luoyang directly.

Now that the Red Eyebrow Army is approaching Yiyang, Yiyang is in danger, and even with it, Luoyang is also in danger. At this point, it seems that the Jianwu Imperial Court established by Liu Xiu is about to repeat the mistakes of Liu Xuan's first imperial court. The defeat of Deng Yu and Feng Yi was not a big blow to Liu Xiu, victory or defeat is a common thing for soldiers, Liu Xiu also saw this very openly, he himself was born as a general in the army, and he did not dare to say that he could win a hundred battles, and he also had defeats

Wait.

What really hit Liu Xiu was the death of Jing Dan that made him heartbroken.

If Jing Dan died in front of the two armies and died in the hands of the enemy in a dignified manner, it would also be a vigorous death, singing and crying, but Jing Dan was assassinated by the assassins who mixed into his own defenders, and his death was aggrieved and painful.

Liu Xiu decreed that Jing Dan died of illness, not assassination. Liu Xiu's will is to help Jing Dan correct his name, a dignified generation of famous generals, and his ultimate belonging should not be under the assassin's secret arrow.

In addition, Jing Dan has been ill, which everyone knows, and it is true that Jing Dan died of illness.

Liu Xiu's will was tantamount to sealing up, and Jing Dan's assassination was changed to death. After that, Liu Xiu appointed Jing Dan's eldest son Jing Shang to inherit Jing Dan's marquis title and continue to be the Marquis of Liyang.

After sealing Jing Dan's death, Liu Xiu issued a national conscription order.

This is the first time that a conscription order has been issued since Liu Xiu became emperor, but it is not mandatory.

Many veterans who followed Liu Xiu to fight in Hebei have now been discharged, and the conscription order issued by Liu Xiu is mainly to call on these veterans to rejoin the army and follow him to the imperial drive to conquer Chimei. At this time, Liu Xiu had been completely beaten out by the Red Eyebrow Army, and he was determined to fight to the death with the Red Eyebrow Army.