In the spring of 196 A.D., after Liu Tong elaborated on his intentions, he was supported by Tian Yu, who led 20,000 cavalry cavalry and 20,000 infantry troops to Luoyang with Gao Shun as the cavalry commander, Zhao Zhao as the infantry commander, and Chen Gong as the military division.

Li Dao is the No. 1 Liangzhou henchman under Dong Zhuo, and the commander of the elite unit of the Western Liang Army, the "Flying Bear Army". Li Wei first fought with Zhu Jun, broke Zhu Jun, and then plundered Chenliu, Yingchuan and other places. After Dong Zhuo and Niu Fu were killed, Li Daogui had nowhere to go, and used Jia Xu's strategy to join forces with Guo Yan, Zhang Ji, Fan Chou and other former Dong Zhuo troops to capture Chang'an, defeat Lu Bu, kill Wang Yun, occupy Chang'an, and control the power of the imperial court.

In March 194, Ma Teng and Han Sui joined forces with some scholars and doctors in Guanzhong to attack Li Dao, and Li Dao sent Guo Yan, Fan Chou and his nephew Li Li to fight with Ma Teng and Han Sui in Changping, Ma Teng and Han Sui were defeated, losing more than 10,000 people and not daring to commit it again. After the generals disagreed, Li Dao killed Fan Chou at the meeting, and then hijacked Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and the ministers with Guo Yan respectively, fought with each other, Zhang Ji rushed to reconcile, so the two of them dismissed, Li Dao out of Tunchiyang Huangbai City, in 196 Guo Yan, Zhang Ji and others returned to Hongnong with Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. Guo Yan led the army to plunder Hongnong, and Dong Cheng and Yang Feng escorted Emperor Han Xian to northern Shaanxi.

Liu Tong led the troops across the east of the river, to Hongnong to come, one day, the scout came to report, there was a group of thieves in front, the clothes were messy, the banner was written "Han", "Li", "Hu" and other words, there were more than 30,000 people, Liu Tong was puzzled. Chen Gong said: "This must be the Hedong White Wave thieves Han Xian, Li Le, and Hu Cai!" ”

Liu Tong was reminded and suddenly remembered that after Emperor Han Xian arrived in Hongnong, he was chased by the repentant Li Dao and Guo Yan, and Emperor Han Xian specially sent a secret edict to Han Xian, Li Le, and Hu Cai to save them, and pardoned them for the crime of rebellion.

Chen Gong said: "Childe, the rabble of white wave thieves has not been prepared, my cavalry sneak attack, but it can be defeated with one blow." ”

Liu Tong said with a smile: "Defeating this group of thieves is easy to turn around, and the public platform can know why it is going south?" ”

Chen Gong hesitated and replied, "Is it to hijack the holy car?" ”

Liu Tong shook his head, "This is to save the driver, the white wave thieves will have a battle with Li Dao and Guo Yan, our army can slow down and camp north of the Yellow River." ”

Seeing that Liu Tong was so sure, Chen Gong stopped arguing, and the whole army set up camp. But it was said that Han Xian, Li Le and others were thieves who gathered in the mountains and forests, and they heard that the emperor wanted to pardon their sins and give officials, why didn't they come? The three of them joined Dong Cheng and prepared to capture Hongnong. After Liu Xie left, Li Yu and Guo Yan regretted chasing after him. Everywhere Li Dao and Guo Yan went, they plundered the people, killed the old and weak, enriched the army with the young and strong, and drove the people in front of the enemy when they encountered them, known as the "army of daring to die".

After Han Xian, Li Le, and Hu Cai arrived, they fought with them in Weiyang, Guo Yan ordered the sergeants to abandon the clothes and objects in the road, Li Le and other soldiers saw that the clothes were all over the ground, and they fought for it, and the team was chaotic and was defeated by Li Dao and Guo Yan. Hu Cai was killed, in the chaos, Yang Feng, Dong Cheng, Li Le found a small boat, hung with white silk to hang Emperor Han Xian into the boat, the queen's brother Fude carried the queen on the boat, the emperor and the empress crossed the river, only to take some people on the other side of the river.

There were only more than ten ministers and entourages left around the emperor, and Yang Feng found an ox cart and drove Emperor Han Xian to Dayang, without eating or drinking, and sleeping in a tiled house. Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was forced to appoint Li Le as the general of the expedition to the north and Han Xian as the general of the expedition to the east, and Li Le and Han Xian also protected more than 200 disciples, subordinates, witch doctors, and pawns, all of whom were captains and imperial historians, and had no dignity.

Dong Cheng and other courtiers saw the ambition of Li Le and others, so they said goodbye to them and took Emperor Han Xian to Luoyang. After Li Le and Han Xian informed Li Dao and Guo Yan, they came to chase after him and besieged Emperor Han Xian and others, pretending to be Li Dao and Guo Yan. At this moment, I saw the overwhelming cavalry surrounded by the mountains, and Emperor Han Xian thought that it was another Xiliang war horse, and he was shocked, and everyone trembled.

At this moment, Taiwei Yang Biao ran a few feet away, and returned to Emperor Han Xian, excited, pointed to the military flag fluttering in the distance, choked and shouted: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the Tiger of the Liu Family, the Tiger of the Liu Family is here!" ”

Liu Xie took a few steps forward, saw the red banner of the dragon fluttering in the wind in the distance, tears ran like rain, regardless of the danger, rushed towards Liu Tong's army. Li Le saw that he was besieged by tens of thousands of cavalry, and he stepped forward to hold Liu Xie hostage, but was beheaded by Yang Feng's subordinate Xu Huang under the horse.

Li Le's subordinates did not dare to move forward. Liu Tong had already ordered the whole army to charge, Han Xian was split in half by Gao Shun's sword, Han Xian and Li Le's subordinates fled, and were divided and pursued by the cavalry.

Liu Xie stumbled and rushed forward, "Where is Liu Kuan?" Uncle Huang, where is Uncle Huang? "Affection is sincere, like a baby crying out to its parents.

Liu Tong saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy with fair skin, but he was thin and weak, and his clothes were messy and rushed to him, and he was very angry.

Chen Gong had already raised his hand, ready to signal Liu Tong's guards to shoot Liu Xie and the others, creating the illusion that they had been killed by the rebels.

Liu Tong's heart was soft and sad, stopped Chen Gong, jumped off the horse, quickly greeted Liu Xie, hugged him, and cried: "Brother Huang, I am Liu Tong!" ”

Liu Xie hugged Liu Tong tightly, and "Brother Tong......" buried his head and cried.

Liu Tong is a person of temperament, who has been imperceptibly influenced by Liu Yu for many years, and seeing the brothers in the clan like this, he has already thrown the heart of dominating the world out of the clouds, and forgot Chen Gong's plan cleanly, and Chen Gong was so angry that his beard trembled on the horse.

Liu Tong saw that Liu Xie's mood gradually calmed down, and quickly knelt down and saluted. Liu Xie took Liu Tong to greet Empress Fu, the imperial lieutenant Yang Biao, the imperial servant Han Rong and others. Liu Tong saw that Zhao Zhao and Gao Shun were still chasing Bai Bo's rout, so he asked Wu Ji to organize people to set up camp and set up pots and stoves to arrange food and lodging. Liu Xie and the others were displaced, hungry for a long time, and finally able to settle down and have a good meal.

In the evening of the same day, because of the interception of the recruiting troops marching behind, the recruiting and Gao Shun completely annihilated the remnants of the white wave thieves.

That night, Liu Tong ordered the whole army to camp on the spot. At the invitation of Liu Xie, Liu Tong attended the family banquet. In addition to the Empress Fu and her brother Fu De, there is also a woman in costume, Liu Xie introduced this as Concubine Tang, and Liu Tongdi visited his sister-in-law. But I heard Liu Xie say that Concubine Tang was not Liu Xie's concubine, but the concubine of the young emperor Liu Bian.

It turned out that Tang Ji, the concubine of the young emperor of the Han Dynasty, returned to live in Yingchuan, his mother's home, since the young emperor was poisoned by Li Ru, Li Ji sent troops to capture the Kanto region after breaking through Chang'an, and captured Tang Ji, Li Ji wanted to marry Tang Ji as his wife, Tang Ji resolutely refused to agree, and never said that she was the wife of the young emperor, and later Shangshu Jia Xu knew about it and told Emperor Han Xian, Liu Xie was very sad, and issued an edict to take back Tang Ji, let him live in the garden of the young emperor, and named Tang Ji as the princess of Hongnong. This escape was brought out together.

Liu Tong suddenly remembered that in history, Cai Wenji may have been the one who led the Southern Hun cavalry to loot and was plundered by the Huns from Chenliu.

Liu Tong heard that Liu Xie attached so much importance to love and righteousness, and took care of the orphans of the young emperor, and his good impression of Liu Xie doubled. Liu Xie did not talk about the abuse he had suffered, but described to Liu Tong the famine of the common people in Luoyang, Chang'an and other places, and the tragic situation of people cannibalism.

Speaking of the situation that the armies of Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou and others plundered the people, causing a more serious famine, and millions of people in Guanzhong starved to death and fled, and moved south to the territories of Liu Biao, Liu Zhang, Zhang Lu and others, and even fled thousands of miles to Youzhou, Liu Xie burst into tears.

After Liu Tong listened, he felt that Liu Xie was a person who was sympathetic to the people, and after Fu De told about Liu Xie's disaster relief, Liu Tong's perception of Liu Xie changed greatly, Liu Tong always thought that Liu Xie was a weak and incompetent, and did not know the suffering of the people.

In fact, the dedication of the emperor is the meaning of knowing the quality of the sacred, and history still has a high evaluation of the Han Emperor as a person, saying that he knows how to govern the country.

But said that Emperor Han Xian saw countless victims in Chang'an, so he gave porridge, and the porridge released every day was very much, but there were still many people starving to death every day, Emperor Han Xian suspected that someone was filling his own pocket, so he took out five buckets of rice and put it in front of the civil and military officials to cook, cooked two large pots of porridge, and asked the people he sent to say, you can cook so much porridge with five buckets of rice, which means that I send out so much rice every day, enough for everyone to drink two or three bowls a day, why are so many people starving to death.

So Liu Xie hit this person fifty boards. It can be seen that Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty has the talent to govern the country, but he lives in such a troubled world, so young, it is good to be able to live, and he really has no ability to stop anything.

That night, Liu Xie and Liu Tong fell asleep together and chatted until midnight.