Let's look at Wang Mang's side first.

After the main force was eaten by Liu Xiu in Kunyang, Wang Mang was like a broken backbone, not to mention taking the initiative to attack, and even organizing a decent defense

Don't get up.

He knew that his days were numbered, but he had to resist it.

How can I say that I am also an emperor, and I can't die too ugly.

Earlier, we introduced Wang Mang's 3 tricks before death: making a show, closing the stall, and throwing a knife, but now they are all used up and have no effect.

He used crying in the southern suburbs as a platform to select more than 5,000 people to join the national civil service, and they were all given the treatment of Lang officials, but these people were originally for

Those who participate in crying only after eating and being an official don't want to do anything except eat and be an official, and they won't do anything.

Because the territory that Wang Mang can control is getting smaller and smaller, these people actually have no work to do at all, and they are crowded in the capital to eat money, which is both a burden and a burden

is a destabilizing factor.

Patchwork together, Wang Mang finally got tens of thousands of soldiers, but the morale was too low.

Everyone knows that their job is just to make Wang Mang die a slower and better death, and if he loses his life because of this, it will be too worthwhile

Come!

Since most of the officers died on the Kunyang battlefield, in order to improve morale, Wang Mang quickly promoted a group of 9 people to be generals, all named after tigers, which is easy to use

to scare people.

(There are nine generals, all of whom are called tigers.) ）

However, everyone still can't lift their spirits: what's the point of working for you anymore?

(The public has heavy grievances, and there is no fighting spirit.) ）

Let's talk about the beginning.

The opponent was so unbearable, Wang Kuang, Li Song, and Shen Tujian were sent to the Jingshi area, and there was no pressure and it was very easy.

They are nominally here to fight, but in fact they are just a trip. As long as they don't lose most of the people in the tour group, they are considered meritorious.

Of course, it is a bit unserious to say that people marching and fighting wars are tourism, but if this is compared with Liu Xiu's battle against Wancheng and Liu Xiu's battle against Kunyang, it is the root

Ben is not excessive.

These two groups of people set off in August, and it only took dozens of days to pack up the surrounding areas of Chang'an.

At this time, the big families in the Jingshi area already knew that Wang Mang was easy to fight, and they came to the first army, and they rose up to respond. They organize armed, since

Called the general of the Han family, killed Wang Mang's military and political cadres, and also announced that he would enter Beijing to kill Wang Mang.

There are many such big families, which fully shows that Wang Mang has lost all his hearts.

For example, in this fashion activity where everyone shouted Wang Mang, Deng Ye and Yu Kuang from Xixian County (now Neixiang County, Henan), and Shen from Liyang (now Lintongbei).

Dang, Yan Chun from Taixian (now Wugong West), Dong Xi from Maoling, Wang Meng from Lantian (now Lantian West), Ru Chen from Huaili (now Xingping), Yangling (

In the territory of present-day Jingyang County), the people of Duling (now southeast of Xi'an) slaughtered few people, etc., and their performance was very eye-catching.

Seeing that Wang Mang had no strength to fight back, everyone wanted to come up and punch and kick him.

You say that everyone conforms to the trend of history and has a high political consciousness, or you say that Wang Mang is a wall that is pushed down by everyone, anyway, the fruits of victory are not far ahead

, everyone wants to run over and get a piece of the pie, which is understandable.

Therefore, the tour group of the first army led by Wang Kuang, Li Song, and Shen Tujian was only able to go all the way with the strong support and full cooperation of the broad masses of the people

Singing.

For example, Wang Mang's Wuguan Lieutenant Zhu Meng looked at the wind and surrendered. He did not "look" at these two tour groups, but surrendered to Deng Ye, Yu Kuang and others.

Deng and Yu opened Wuguan to welcome the arrival of Li Song and Shen Tujian's tour group.

It was at Wuguan that the coalition army and the local rebel army converged, and the spearhead was directed at Chang'an.

The battle is so easy to fight, all the "generals" are rushing to enter Chang'an and cut Wang Mang first, so that they can not only make meritorious contributions, but also grab things first.

Let's think about it, in the case of dominance in all aspects, everyone is still rushing forward, how easy do you say this battle is!

For a time, all kinds of armed forces from all sides surrounded Chang'an, attacking from all sides, shouting indiscriminately, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

If anyone says that Wang Mang is mentally retarded or incompetent, it is obviously not in line with the facts. In that case, it would be impossible for him to succeed in coaxing and robbing the usurper.

His title of hypocrite is there, and his means of playing with people and power are there, which are not something that ordinary people can do.

However, he has always used hypocrisy to fool the world, and as a result, he has lost his ability to distinguish between right and wrong; He fooled himself with benefits, and as a result, he got it

He made his own wisdom faint and went further and further on the wrong path.

For example, as I said just now, Wang Mang promoted the Nine Tigers General in order to boost morale.

In the face of the last sluggish tens of thousands of soldiers, he also wants to give everyone money and engage in material stimulation to refresh everyone.

However, even at this time, it is more difficult to ask him to pay than to ask him to bleed. These people's fat and ointment were all scavenged from the common people by his hard work

come, how can you shoot easily!

In fact, because Wang Mang's "New Deal of Bullying the People" was very easy to use to exploit the common people, many ordinary people starved to death, and his palace was about to be swollen with gold and silver

Broken. At present, there are more than 60 catties of gold in his court, and all kinds of treasures and treasures are countless.

However, he was really reluctant to take it out to reward the soldiers.

In order to make a gesture, Wang Mang symbolically took out a little bit of money to meaning: only give 4,000 yuan to each of the 9 tiger generals (4,000 yuan to the nine tiger soldiers), and the others will forget it.

At this time, prices skyrocketed, and we didn't know how many bowls of noodles we could eat with the 4,000 money.

Not only that, Wang Mang was afraid that these nine cadres would take this money and do nothing, so he asked them to mortgage their wives and children to the authorities before they set out for the war

Quality.

Everyone is very annoyed!

Well, since the authorities are so reluctant to devote themselves to this battle, so disrespectful to others, don't blame us for not being willing to sell our lives.

Of course, it is also possible that these Nine Tiger generals were originally promoted by surprise, and they are not at all the material for leading troops to fight, anyway, they lead this army with low morale

The team has no combat effectiveness at all: as soon as it encounters the first coalition army or the local "Han general", it will run immediately, and whoever wants to run slower will be killed immediately.

For example, the Nine Tigers led Wang Mang's last group of men and horses to the east of the capital and to Huayin (now part of Shaanxi) to defend Huixi in an attempt to stop it

The rebel army fought Chang'an.

However, when Deng Ye and Yu Kuang brought people over, they were vulnerable and collapsed at the first touch.

Of the 9 "tigers", 4 escaped as quickly as possible; There were 3 defeated generals with remnants parrying, retreating, and throwing corpses; still

There were 2 people named Shi Xiong and Wang Kuang, who rushed back to the capital on the grounds of reporting work, and when they saw Wang Mang, they couldn't say why, so they were so frightened that they committed suicide.

Soon, the rebel army surrounded the capital.

Faced with such a dangerous and chaotic situation, Wang Mang could hardly find any available soldiers.

He racked his brains, but there was really nothing he could do, so he made a dangerous move: organize the prisoners in the capital prison to fight!

This dangerous move of his wrote the ugliest stroke in the political and military history of China's feudal society, and also shamelessly challenged the Tao of our Chinese nation

Virtue bottom line.

Wang Mang announced an amnesty for the prisoners, issued them weapons, and drove his young father-in-law, the Marquis of Heping, and the general of Ning Shi out of the city

The rebels fought each other.

In order to do a good job in the ideological and political work of this special force, Wang Mang arranged to kill the pigs, and he made a bloody alliance with the prisoners:

"Whoever wants to rebel against the Xinmang royal family, the land society ghosts will punish him!"

(If there is a disagreement with the new room, the social ghost should be remembered.) ）

These prisoners were originally enemies of the new Mang regime, and they were tortured a few days ago, how could they die for Wang Mang?!

Shi Chen did not hold his current position by virtue and military merits, and today he relied on his daughter to continue Wang Mang's chord.

A large number of facts show that people who have no real talent and real learning, and who climb up only by nepotism, can engage in some crooked ways, corruption and degeneration, and let them

It's not good to do rough work, heavy work, and tiring work.

No, Shi Guozhang had just arrived in Weiqiao with these prisoners, and he hadn't seen the shadow of the rebel army, so everyone dispersed in a hurry, leaving Shi Guozhang alone and one horse to dry

There it is.

Shi Guozhang did not have the courage of a horseman, and immediately slapped his horse and fled back.

At this time, Wang Mang really had no choice but to hide in the palace and wait for death.

Outside Chang'an City, it is very lively. The rebel armies took turns attacking the city.

At the same time, they still have to destroy something, otherwise they really can't vent their bitter hatred for Wang Mang.

In this way, there is a chaos outside Chang'an that no one can control.

These self-styled "Han generals" ran around with their disciples, digging up Wang Mang's ancestral graves and the graves of his wife and children, and burning the coffins inside

Material.

At the same time, they also set fire to the Nine Temples, Ming Hall, Biyong and other luxurious buildings built by Wang Mang with people's fat and people's ointment.

The flames reflected the streets and alleys of Chang'an City, causing extreme panic among the citizens.