In the spring and March of the fifth year of the emperor (24 AD), the two armies gathered under the city of Chang'an, and a battle to determine who belonged to the world was about to break out. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The New Han Army VS the First Army.

In fact, according to the normal historical trend, there is no emperor for five years. It was the emergence of the New Han Army that changed history and saved Xinmang.

When Chang'an fell into a rebellion frenzy, an army that had moved history, the Kui Huan Army, appeared in Tianshui County. It was the emergence of this army of 100,000 that became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

After Kui Huan raised troops, he first captured Yongzhou and killed Yongzhou Mu Chen Qing. Next, prepare to attack and settle down. Anding Da Yin Wang Xiang is the son of Wang Mang's cousin Ping Ahou Wang Tan. Kui Huan wrote a letter to Wang Xiang, telling him with the mandate of heaven and persuading him to surrender. If Wang Xiang was just an ordinary courtier, he might have really surrendered, but as an important figure in the Wang clan, the centripetal force of his clan far exceeded the centripetal force of the monarch and ministers, so Wang Xiang never obeyed.

Seeing that the persuasion was ineffective, Kui Huan immediately attacked with his army. If all goes according to plan, Wang Xiang will be captured and beheaded. However, just as Gaoping (Anding County) was in danger, thousands of cavalry suddenly slaughtered from the flank and rear (west) of the Kui Huan army.

The well-equipped, swift impact of the horses, strange tactics, and ferocity of battle were unprecedented. With just one blow, the so-called 100,000 troops of Kui Huan were divided and crushed, and the whole army collapsed.

In this battle, 31 generals in the Kuihuan Alliance Army were beheaded and 16 generals were captured. These include his brother Kui Yi, one of the initiators Yang Guang, and Fang Wang, the so-called "national teacher" of the Kui Huan Army.

If he wasn't familiar with the terrain and got rid of the pursuers by drilling into the mountains and valleys, he wouldn't have become a prisoner. In this battle, the Kui Huan army suffered heavy losses and lost all its baggage, and finally collected less than 20,000 men and horses.

This battle had a strong impact on the rebel armies in Guanzhong, and many rebel leaders who had been swaying began to die down and sway and watch.

In the first month, three thousand Xinhan cavalry led by Wang Xiang appeared in Zuo Fengyi. The first army, Hongnong Peng Wang Xian, led a combined army of 20,000 counties to try to stop it, but this improvised combined army was crushed by a storm of arrows and arrows of thousands of archers as soon as the battle began. This was followed by a thousand lancers, like a giant scythe. In just half an hour, Zuo Fengyi changed color, and Chang'an's terrifying Wang Xian Department was completely wiped out. Wang Xian jumped into the water only to be spared.

It was a service, the name of the new Han Dynasty strong cavalry and the cavalry general Gongsun Yangqi, the three auxiliary shocks, and quickly spread to the world.

It was the timely appearance of the advance cavalry of the New Han Army that made the collapsed Xin Mang regime have been able to survive, if it were not for this, Wang Mang's head would have been rumored to the world half a year earlier.

At this time, the ratio of the strength of the enemy and us in Si Li'an was: 3,000 elite cavalry of the New Han Army, 30,000 of the New Army, and 50,000 of the First Army. And those who have an unreliable position and an ambiguous wait-and-see army, about 30,000 or 40,000, are not counted.

In history, the original army led by Deng Ye and Li Song entered Chang'an, not because of how good they were, but because the new army was too scum - look at the composition of this new army, you can know that except for the two or three thousand periods of the gate and the Yulin elite Shangkan battle, the rest of the composition is prisoners, "recklessly send messengers to pardon all the prisoners in the city, and they all give troops". However, the result of the battle of the prisoners as soldiers was that "the first general, Shi Chen, and the general Du Weiqiao, all dispersed".

It's not about being stronger than whom, it's about being more scum than whom.

Therefore, when the real strong army appeared, even if there was a huge difference in strength, Deng Ye and Li Song wisely chose to stay still and wait for the first army to come to join the battle.

At the beginning of March, the army finally arrived at Wuguan. At the same time, 13,000 infantry, the main force of the New Han Army, also marched into Chang'an. At the end of the month, Wang Kuangbu (Xinshi Bing), the first army that had captured Luoyang, also began to move towards Chang'an. Due to Wang Kuang's capture of the important town of Luoyang, a large number of the original Xinmang army, coupled with the defectors, its strength reached 110,000, and the threat to Chang'an was particularly serious.

Generals of the First Army: Left Route Army: Wu Xinhou, General Xing Da Sima Shi Zhi Liu Xiu, Right Great Sima Zhao Meng (Uncle of Liu Xuan, the First Emperor of the Han Dynasty), Deng Ye, the Left General of the Auxiliary Han Dynasty, Li Song, the Prime Minister Sizhi, Shen Tujian, the General of Xiping, Shi Chen, and Wang Xian, the Captain of the Left Military Academy. There are also several subordinates of Liu Xiu's Chunling Army: Feng Yi, the main book, Sima Cho Period, Gong Cao Lingshi Wangba, and the military market order. The total number of troops is more than 90,000.

Right Route Army: Dingguo Shanggong Wang Kuang, Shui Heng General Cheng Dan, Wei Wei Zhang Wei, and General Liu Jun. The total number of troops is 110,000.

The generals of the New Han Army: the prince of the Han Dynasty, the commander Zhang Chun, the cavalry general Gongsun Yanghua, the artillery general Gan Chengzu, and the gun general Chen Yu. There were 3,000 cavalry, 1,000 artillerymen, 5,000 musketeers, 5,000 sword-and-shield spearmen, 2,000 generals' guards, 2,000 baggage soldiers, and 2,000 boat-bridge soldiers. A total of 20,000 horses.

Compared with the Battle of Kunyang, this time, not only the attack and defense were mutually exchanged, but also the men and horses on both sides fell - 20,000 New Han Army VS 200,000 First Army. There is a huge disparity in strength, who wins or loses?

Subsequently, the attacker built a camp, the defender dug a trench and set up a fence, and the enemy wiped the gap between the horses and soldiers, and reconnaissance and espionage flew all over the field.

Everything about the New Han Army, from generals to soldiers, to equipment to tactics, was completely unfamiliar to the first military. They only collected a few such as the cavalry was very strong, the cavalry was fierce, and the cavalry also had a short gun in his hand, which could make a loud noise...... If you want to get more information, it's gone.

On the contrary, on the side of the first army, like a sieve, any kind of information and intelligence can be found out - this is probably Wang Mang's most useful contribution in this battle.

The biggest problem and contradiction of the first army is in the commander Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu, who made the first contribution in the Battle of Kunyang, went south non-stop after the war to conquer the city. At this time, there was bad news, Liu Xiu's eldest brother Sima Liu Yan was afraid of the first emperor and killed him for some reason. The killing of his brother for no reason is undoubtedly a huge blow to Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu showed no sadness in public, but often cried when she lived alone. In order not to be suspicious of the first emperor, he hurriedly returned to Wancheng (the temporary capital of the first emperor) to apologize to the first emperor Liu Xuan, and did not dare to contact his eldest brother Liu Yan's subordinates in private.

Liu Xiu not only did not express Kunyang's merits, but also said that his brother made a mistake and he was also at fault. Seeing that Liu Xiu was so humble, the first emperor was not easy to start for a while, but he was a little ashamed, after all, Liu Xiu's two brothers had made great contributions. Therefore, Liu Xiu was not only not convicted, but was awarded the title of Marquis of Wuxin.

At this time, the news of the obstruction of the attack on Chang'an came, and the great Sima Zhu Kun and Wuwei Zhonglang Li Yi, who had murdered Liu Yan, proposed to Liu Xuan that Liu Xiu lead his Chunling army north to confront the New Han army. Liu Xuan gladly accepted, and led the army to the expedition with Liu Xiuxing's great affairs.

In Liu Xiu's army, Zhao Meng was the first emperor to spy on him, and Shen Tujian was the first emperor's confidant and one of the accomplices in the murder of Liu Yan that day. The left army is like this, and the right army Wang Kuangbu is not much better. Although Wang Kuang's new city army did not contain as many elbows as Liu Xiu's side, his army also had a lot of mountains and mountains. In particular, nearly half of them were newly surrendered Xinmang troops, and after being reorganized, they only went through a short period of rest and recuperation, and they were far from being separated. It's okay to fight a good fight, but you can't count on a tough battle.

Although he had never fought with the New Han Army, Wang Kuang still heard of the prestige of the Han Army's strong cavalry and was deeply wary. Therefore, he entered the customs at the order of the first emperor this time, not so much to join forces and fight, but to snatch the picks - Wang Mang's head everyone wants, as well as the jade seal of the country......

A more original army, the top and bottom are not united, the generals are even more incompatible, and even have hatred, which can be described as full of contradictions. The other army of the first army secretly beat Xiao Jiujiu, did not contribute to the work, and just wanted to pick up the cheap. In such a joint battle, fifty percent of them will be defeated before they fight!

After Zhang Chun read and repeatedly checked all the information of the First Army, he pushed the case and shot cold lightning: "Everything is over, start the war!" ”