When he was not the emperor, Liu Cong cared about making meritorious contributions and being promoted to a high official position. After becoming the emperor, Liu Cong cared about the dignity of the king, and the lost face must be saved, otherwise he would be embarrassed to accept everyone's worship.

Just three months after succeeding to the throne, Liu Cong once again sent troops to the south.

There is no royal expedition, and the emperor who needs to coordinate the overall situation does not need to be personally escorted. Or perhaps, Liu Cong felt that it was more comfortable to be a gentle township in the palace, and immediately married a lot of new wives after becoming the emperor, he was really busy! Leading the expedition were his brother Liu Yao, the Duke of Dong Lai Wang Mi, and his son Liu Can, the king of Hanoi (the next emperor).

The failure of the two southern expeditions was not without merit, and Liu Cong used his personal experience to exchange valuable lessons for these generals: first to shield, cut their wings, and then attack bare Luoyang.

As the capital of the Jin Dynasty, once Luoyang is attacked, the army of the Quartet King Qin will inevitably move when he hears the wind, and even the dynasty will come at night. Once it is not defeated, the army will gather, and the possibility that the attacking troops will be eaten by dumplings exists. Liu Cong suffered deeply, he originally made a special trip to Luoyang, but he was always entangled with the reinforcements around Luoyang. Recently, it was only three or four miles away from Luoyang City, but on this three or four miles away, I didn't touch the root of the city wall for more than a month.

The task of this southern expeditionary army: to capture the counties around Luoyang, cut off the supply line of Luoyang, cut off the connection between Luoyang and the surrounding garrisons, and completely isolate Luoyang. Then attack it.

Time has passed, and Luoyang at this time has already fallen into an embattled situation.

As early as the spring of 310, at that time, Liu Yuan was not dead, Liu Cong had just withdrawn his army and returned to China, but the pace of the Xiongnu Han attack did not stop due to failure, and Wang Mi, who had lost the battle on the way to retreat, was still mighty, and his general Cao Wei marched east from Daliang, breaking Dongping (now belonging to Shandong), attacking Langxi (now Linyibei, Shandong); Shi Le crossed the Yellow River south in Baimajin (in the northeast of present-day Huaxian County, Henan), and after joining forces with Wang Mi, he attacked the territory of Xu, Henan, and Yanzhou, first breaking Juancheng (now north of Juancheng, Shandong), and then killing Yuan Fu, the assassin of Yanzhou in Jin, and then crossing the Yellow River to the north and attacking the counties of Jizhou.

At this time, most of the area east of Luoyang was already dilapidated, and all parts of the country were too busy to take care of themselves, although Qingzhou Thorn Shi Gou Xi and Yuzhou Thorn Shi Feng Song had strong strength, but they were at odds with Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea who was in power in Luoyang, and did not dare to move lightly. Moreover, Gou Xi is still facing the increasingly approaching Cao Wei, and it is impossible to send troops to support Luoyang. The reinforcements of the entire east of Luoyang, the Great Jin Dynasty could not count on it, but the enemy army was approaching day and night.

At the same time, in the south of Luoyang, there was a new upheaval.

In the southern area of Luoyang, the Western Jin Dynasty wanted to return to their hometowns in Yongzhou, but the refugees were unwilling to return because of the ruins in Guanzhong, so the government set a deadline to send troops to send them. Contradictions arise from this, the displaced people want to live, but as long as the court is stable and can collect taxes, where does it care about their life or death.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance. This is the principle of iron fighting since ancient times, Jingzhao people Wang Ru, Hou Tuo and Feng Yi and others respectively gathered people to resist, raised troops to attack the town, killed local officials, by the autumn of 310, these armies had tens of thousands of people, swept through the southern area of Luoyang.

By the time the Southern Expeditionary Army joined forces with Shile's army and defeated the Jin general Pei Miao at Mianchi, west of Luoyang, the Jin army had no strong resistance in the west. The southern expeditionary army took the opportunity to enter Luochuan directly, plundered a large area of land between Liang, Chen, Runan, and Yingchuan, and captured more than 100 barriers. The set strategic tasks have been completed.

So far, Luoyang, the capital of the Western Jin Dynasty, has become an isolated city surrounded by war.

If he had fought like this earlier, would Liu Cong have won? I don't think so, peaches have to wait until they're ripe before they fall. The Great Jin Empire must wait until it is completely rotten to the roots before it will be overthrown. In the face of the emerging Xiongnu Han state, the Great Jin Empire was always huge, even after the internal strife of the Eight Kings Rebellion. If the Great Jin Dynasty is stable and united from now on, it will be more than enough to destroy a Xiongnu Han State.

Unfortunately, the wisdom of the Chinese is in internal fighting, and even at the last moment, they will not extend the hand of peace and resist external humiliation. In the intrigue of each other, they sat and watched the great rivers and mountains fall, and sat back and watched the situation erosify and were indifferent.

Then, everyone went to die together.