After arranging the westward march and the layout of Hanoi, Liu Xiu immediately freed his hands and personally led the army to continue to clear the local armed forces in Hebei.

Since Hebei is its first base area, it is necessary to intensively cultivate and take good care of it.

He didn't want to talk about it anymore, and planned to quickly settle the remaining places in one go.

Although the largest local armed copper horse in Hebei was subdued and surrendered by Liu Xiu, there are still many similar large and small military forces, dozens of them. thereinto

, some are defeated, scattered, and will recombine with each other, and when they have the opportunity, they will resume and develop.

They are a bit like leeks in spring, they grow after being cut.

This problem cannot be solved by one or two clean-ups, and it is also a problem for Liu Xiu.

Now, he has set up a game against the two main opponents, Gengshi and Red Eyebrow, and wants to turn around and solve this problem once and for all.

He knew that these local forces were difficult to entangle, and he couldn't do it himself if he didn't do it himself, and he couldn't get out of it if he was always trapped in it.

However, it is true that these battles are not easy to fight.

In January 25 AD, Liu Xiu led his army to attack the remnants of the armed forces in Youlai, Dagun, Goman and other places entrenched in the Yuanshi area

Rushed to Youbeiping (now the junction of Hebei and Liaoning), it was another beating (even broken).

At this time, Liu Xiu was already full of ambition!

He proudly believes that the world is in his hands! The first brother is already close at hand! You just need to do a few well-planned movements well!

In the face of the ensuing victories, he couldn't help but be proud, thinking that You Lai and the others were already vulnerable.

The book of soldiers says that arrogant soldiers will be defeated.

There are many examples of this in history.

Of course, Liu Xiu is not unaware of this truth, but he can't always take it as a warning.

When he learned that You Lai and the others were on the north bank of Shunshui (i.e., Xushui, in the south of present-day Xushui County, Hebei), he wanted to take advantage of the great victory and quickly annihilate the enemy.

He commanded the troops to launch another attack on the enemy.

You Lai is really in a hurry!

Liu Xiu, you're in a hurry!

Liu Xiu, you make me cornered!

As the saying goes, a rabbit is in a hurry to bite a person, and a dog is in a hurry to jump over a wall. People are in a hurry, and they will make desperate bets.

You Lai and other troops took advantage of Liu Xiu's troops to advance lightly, and came to a fierce counterattack and defeated Liu Xiu.

(He fought in the north of Shunshui again, and took advantage of the victory to advance lightly, but was defeated.) ）

Liu Xiu hurriedly led the army to retreat, which was actually to escape.

This time, Liu Xiu was very embarrassed.

This time the situation was reversed: he led his team to escape, and You Lai fought in the back.

You Lai and the others chased after them tightly, and Liu Xiu's team was a little unfamiliar with escaping.

In hand-to-hand combat, Liu Xiu's troops suffered numerous casualties.

Liu Xiu was forced to the edge of a cliff on the mountain, and the enemy soldiers swarmed in.

He was anxious!

What to do? My name is over?

In any case, I must not fall into the hands of the enemy!

In desperation, Liu Xiu had no choice but to jump off the cliff.

It just so happened that with the help of heaven, the cliff was not much different, and his own elite cavalry warrior Wang Feng was passing by under the cliff.

Wang Feng dared to be lazy, and hurriedly gave his war horse to Liu Xiu to ride.

(The thief chases urgently, the short soldier picks up, Guangwu throws himself into the high bank, encounters Wang Feng, and dismounts to grant Guangwu.) ）

At this moment, after a bloody battle, Geng Yi also ran over to rescue Liu Xiu.

Geng Yi and Wang Feng protected Liu Xiu and fled for their lives in a hurry.

Liu Xiu stroked Wang Feng's shoulder, jumped on the war horse, turned back to Geng Yi and said:

"I was almost caught by the enemy and let them see my jokes."

(A few for the captive.) ）

Speaking of this, I can't help but think of a great man who, when he was fighting Hu Zongnan in Yan'an in the last century, was pursued by Hu, and the guards persuaded him to flee

, he said, I have to see what Hu Zongnan's commander looks like.

I dare to speculate that it may be that he has the temperament of a great man, and does not take the enemy seriously at all; Second, he also wants to stabilize the morale of the army.

There is always a striking similarity in history!

At this time, the enemy soldiers are surging more and more, and the situation is extremely critical!

Needless to say, whoever catches or kills Liu Xiu will become famous immediately!

Fortunately, Geng Yi was not ordinarily violent, he quickly opened his bow and shot arrows, arrows like locusts, and repelled the enemy again and again.

After tossing for a while, Liu Xiucai ran to safety under the protection of Xiao Geng.

(Shoot but thief, spare.) ）

In this battle, Liu Xiu lost very badly!

His main force was scattered, with thousands of killed, and the rest fled back to Fanyang (southwest of present-day Xincheng, Hebei).

What's worse is that he himself ran away from the large army and lost contact.

At this time, Fan Yang's rumors were flying all over the sky, saying that he had hung up.

For a while, Liu Xiu's mighty army immediately fell into a panic after losing its troops.

(Thousands of soldiers died, and the stragglers returned to protect Fan Yang.) There is no light in the army, or the clouds have died, and the generals do not know what to do. ）

This is another catastrophe suffered by Liu Xiu since he arrived in Hebei for more than one year.

At the critical juncture, Wu Han was very calm.

He solemnly warned everyone:

"Everyone cheer up and work hard, the son of Brother Xiao Wang (Liu Xuan) is in Nanyang, even if it is the worst, we don't have to worry

There is no lord! ”

(Qing Cao works hard, Brother Wang is in Nanyang, why worry about no owner?) ）

Although everyone felt that what he said was reasonable, the panic was still difficult to dispel for a while.

It took a few days for everyone to settle down.

(A few days are fixed.) ）

Yes, in the whole world, who is comparable to Liu Xiu Shenwu?

If he does hang up, what are we going to do?

Soon, Liu Xiu returned to Fanyang, and everyone's spirits were reinvigorated.

What needs to be explained here is that although You Lai and the other troops won the battle, first, their own strength was limited after all, and second, they couldn't figure out the actual state of Liu Xiu's troops

Besides, the third is that he knew that Liu Xiu's use of troops was unpredictable and unpredictable, so he didn't dare to take advantage of the victory to pursue. Instead, they were worried that Liu Xiu would fight back and use the cover of the night

, quietly retreated.

(Although the thief is victorious, but he is intimidated, the guest and the host do not know each other, and the night is led away.) ）

This time, Yurai, who usually likes to go straight, complicates things by himself, so much so that he misses the opportunity for the ages.

In fact, Liu Xiu's army was really defeated, scattered, and very embarrassed, frightened, and at its most vulnerable.

In fact, You Lai and other departments are indeed only at the level of local rogues, and they don't know that no one is perfect, even if they are outstanding like Liu Xiu, they have a lot of weaknesses; They can't

There is no absolute victorious division to dismiss the army, there will be no absolute invincible general, Liu Xiu and his subordinates have suffered defeats in the past, and they can be beaten now and in the future

defeated; They are unable to formulate and implement correct strategies and tactics, to know themselves and their opponents on the battlefield, to strive for victory from defeat when they fail, and to be timely when they win

Take advantage of the victory and pursue.

Of course, if You Lai chases Liu Xiu relentlessly, or chases Fan Yang non-stop, history will definitely be rewritten!

Well, Liu Xiu soon returned to Fanyang, and the soldiers' morale was greatly boosted (Zhongnai Fuzhen).

Liu Xiu will never be discouraged because he has just suffered a defeat, nor will he be the slightest polite to his opponent, and quickly organize a counterattack!

Taking advantage of the fact that Liu Xiu is deploying troops, let's introduce the people who contributed the most to the defeat of Shunshui just now.

One is Wu Han.

In the recent battles organized by Liu Xiu, he replaced Geng Yi, and often led 5,000 elite cavalry to fight the front army, charging into battle and winning great victories.

After the defeat this time, everyone disappeared Liu Xiu again, and they were frightened, and he stood up to stabilize the morale of the army.

You must know that Wu Han is a typical military general, fierce and fierce, brave and brave, and also very resourceful. But he was uneducated, and he often didn't even speak

Reach.

(Han is a hostage and a little literate, and the times cannot be self-defeating.) ）

This time, he stood up to warn and encourage everyone, and when he spoke to the point at a critical time, it was also a relatively smooth speech.

The second is Geng Yi.

His bravery and fierceness can be compared with Wu Han, history called Wu Han "easy to kill", and also gave Xiao Geng a nickname called "Uncle Tu".

After he defected to Liu Xiu, what he often did was to be a pioneer in the war.

In Liu Xiuqing's suppression of bronze horses and green calves, until he fought Youlai in the Yuan clan, he led the elite cavalry as the vanguard and defeated the opponent.

(From Guangwu to break the bronze horse, Gaohu, red eyebrows, and green calves, and chase You Lai, big guns, and five flags to the Yuan clan, Yi Chang will be the fine cavalry as a military front, and break away.) ）

In this battle of Shunshui, his task was to flank Liu Xiu.

When he retreated, he led his people to desperately protect Liu Xiu, and with his superb archery skills, he shot back the swarming enemies (Yi Frequency Shot but Thief).

The third outstanding performance is Ma Wu.

A few days ago, after Liu Xiu cut Xie in Yecheng, Ma Wu immediately rushed to shoot the dog and surrendered to Liu Xiu.

Of course, Liu Xiu was very happy and introduced him to everyone, and often arranged him to sit on the left and right sides during meetings and banquets, so as to show his respect for those who "abandoned the dark and turned to the light".

trust.

Ma Wu is very well-behaved, whenever Liu Xiu sets up a banquet to reward the generals, he always grabs in front of others, raises a toast, and makes the atmosphere very lively.

Liu Xiu likes this very much.

(Sejo thought it was happy)

Once, Liu Xiu wanted Ma Wu to be in charge and took his men to independently garrison Yecheng.

Ma Wu was afraid that Liu Xiu would suspect that his tail would be difficult to reconcile, so he immediately verbally refused, saying that he was willing to swear to follow Liu Xiu's side to the death.

Liu Xiu praised him even more, so he asked him to follow him to clear the remaining local forces in Hebei.

(The more beautiful the ancestor is, because he hits the group of thieves.) ）

Ma Wu has performed well in many battles.

This time Shunshui was defeated, and Ma Wu assumed the role of the queen of the palace. In order to ensure Liu Xiu's safety, he led the crowd to fight hard, and even turned around several times to rush into the enemy formation and follow the enemy

The stalking won valuable time and opportunity for Liu Xiu to escape.

Liu Xiu gets a chance to breathe, and once he succeeds, he will never be polite.

He knew that Youlai and the others were retreating to the northeast (this was a real retreat), and quickly organized a follow-up pursuit.

He led a large army to chase to Anci (present-day Langfang, Hebei), encountered the enemy, and immediately began to fight.

Because Liu Xiu's defeat was caused by a light enemy, it was not inferior in strength and skills; You Lai Shunshui's big victory relied on the fierceness of a three-board axe

In fact, the combat effectiveness is far less than before, and the battle will soon become clear.

That is, it is an asymmetrical battle.

Liu Xiu fought fiercely and led the army to fight fiercely, especially difficult to parry, and lost again and again, and more than 3,000 soldiers were beheaded.

Anji's battle was as fierce as the battle of Shunshui, except that the winners and losers changed positions.

Here we will solemnly introduce to you a fierce man under Liu Xiu, first, to let everyone understand how fierce this battle is, and secondly, let's let

Everyone knows that Liu Xiu is not easy, these three comes, and I also want to tell you that Liu Xiu's strategists and generals are all successful in battle

Long.

This fierce man's name is Chen Jun.

Chen Jun is Liu Xiu's eldest fellow and a native of Xi'e County, Nanyang County (now Nanzhao County, Henan).

He worked in the county office when he was young, and he had some skills.

When the Genshi Dynasty opened, he became a subordinate of Liu Jia of the clan.

Liu Jia was the general of Taichang at the time, and Chen Jun was a long history.

When Liu Xiu came to Hebei to develop, he came to Liu Xiu with Liu Jia's letter of recommendation.

Because Liu Xiu had too many capable people, he only got a position of Andijang.

This position is the same as Liu Xuan's position when he first joined the Green Forest Army, he is a junior officer.

However, he certainly performed well, at least bravely in battle. Due to the lack of battlefield records, and now we can't supplement the investigation, we only know that he is in Liu

After Xiu achieved a great victory in Puyang, he appointed him as a strong crossbow general.

This is, of course, an exceptional promotion.

Now, when Liu Xiu and You Lai and other troops fought Anci, Chen Jun showed his outstanding military concepts and professional skills.

When Liu Xiu commanded the soldiers to fight against You Lai, Chen Jun went crazy!

He simply didn't even ride the war horse, it was too much of a hindrance.

Armed with a short blade, he ran wildly on foot, chasing his enemies and seeing who would take him down.

He chased and killed for more than 20 miles, punched and stabbed, and killed countless enemies, until he destroyed the general who led the other party, and then rushed back.

Seeing that he was invincible and looked like a battlefield bully, Liu Xiu was very impressed and said:

"If all the generals are like him, what am I afraid of?!"

(The generals are like this, how can there be any worries!) ）

You Lai, the fifth school and other departments were beaten by Liu Xiu and were dizzy, so they had to retreat step by step, and retreated into the territory of Yuyang.

Everyone knows that this area supports Liu Xiu.

Without the support of the common people, it was naturally difficult to provide for them, and You Lai and other ministries had no choice but to rely on looting to make a living.

As long as you lose the hearts and minds of the people, defeat is just around the corner!

Liu Xiu is thinking of a plan to break the enemy, and Chen Jun is coming to offer a plan.

Seeing the enemy's weakness, he said:

"The enemy has no food and baggage, so he should send light cavalry to repeatedly harass the enemy in front of him, so that the common people will be fortified and cleared, and their supplies should be cut off and not attacked

It's trapped to death, too. ”

Liu Xiu thought that this was very reasonable, so he immediately arranged for Chen Jun to do a good job of implementation.

Chen Jun did his work very meticulously.

On the one hand, he personally led light cavalry to harass the enemy and make them unsafe; On the one hand, effective measures should be taken to organize the people to clear the wilderness and walls

Let them consolidate their defenses in fortified villages, and confiscate their belongings from those who scatter in the wilderness.

This method of "killing without a fight" is actually to trap the enemy.

Yulai and the others are simply driven crazy!

If they want to fight, they will either lose the battle immediately, or they will not be able to catch the opponent; I was so hungry that I ran out and looted, but of course I got nothing.

They really have no choice, and they will defeat themselves without a fight.

(The thief gained nothing, and was scattered.) ）

In fact, in a sense, fighting a war is to fight logistics and military supplies.

When Chen Jun led the crowd to return to his life, Liu Xiu couldn't suppress the joy in his heart and praised him:

"Trapping these enemies depends on your strategy, general!"

(Trapped in this captive, the general is also strategic.) ）

With such an excellent cadre, Liu Xiu made up his mind to find an opportunity to promote him.

Of course, Liu Xiu is well versed in the truth of "the water dog must also be beaten" and "the poor must also be chased", he garrisoned Jixian County, and quickly plotted with the generals against the enemy

Encirclement and annihilation.

His move this time was fast, steady and ruthless.

He immediately sent 12 generals, including Wu Han, Geng Yi, Cen Peng, Ma Wu, Jing Dan, Geng Chun, and Chen Jun, to lead the main force and continue to pursue Youlai

and other remnants of the army were defeated.

It's a terrifying lineup!

These generals are either strategic, clever, or charged, invincible, and all of them have had a good performance in front of us.

Now, they have completely grasped the initiative on the battlefield, fighting the enemy while fighting, or fighting with each other, and killing countless people.

In this way, in Ludong (now Tongxian East, Beijing) and Pinggu (now Pinggu, Beijing), they fought several battles of annihilation and defeated the remnants of Youlai.

You Lai and the others didn't want to cause trouble anymore, they just wanted to live, so they ran away as if they were dead.

However, Liu Xiu did not order the withdrawal of troops, and the generals pursued them relentlessly.

When the remnants of Youlai ran between Wuzhong (now Jixian County, Hebei) and Tuyin (now Fengrundong, Hebei), they fought a battle of destruction and basically defeated the enemy

People are wiped out.

Only a few people from Youlai and other troops escaped the net and fled north.

Wu Han and Geng Yi still did not give up, and pursued them until Junmi (now north of Zunhua, Hebei), and could not see any enemies, so they returned victoriously.

By the way, the few people who escaped by You Lai and other troops ran to Liaoxi, Liaodong and other places, but they were also intercepted by Wuhuan, or died or surrendered.

Actually, if they don't run, that's how it ends.

At this point, that is, in April 25 AD, Liu Xiu completely leveled the local armed forces in Hebei.

Of course, we must also explain that Liu Xiu personally led his troops to level the last local armed forces in Hebei, which was by no means his own work, or even more so

What the dozen or so generals around him are doing at the moment.

While they were fighting again and again against Yulai and the others, his other subordinates also made great contributions.

Here, the most eye-catching performances are Jia Fu, Kou Sui, Feng Yi and others.

Jia Fu is the most violent, let's talk about him first.

When Liu Xiu personally led the army north to attack Youlai, he sent Jia Fu, the general of the capital guard, to act alone and lead a team of men and horses to attack the Wuxiao Righteous Army.

The reason is very simple, Liu Xiu doesn't want to see the five schools unite with Youlai.

Jia Fu did not disappoint Liu Xiu, and pursued the enemy to Zhending, a fierce battle, and defeated the five schools.

Regarding General Jia's bravery, everyone has seen a little bit in the battle of shooting dogs a few days ago, and he replied to Liu Xiu's words when he asked the soldiers to eat, "Break first."

The enemy army, and then eat", which is recorded by history as "extinguishing this dynasty food", has become an allusion.

What General Jia admires and supports most is not only his bravery, but also in history, especially in troubled times, there has always been no shortage of warriors, and everyone recognizes it the most

He led the way.

To put it bluntly, when he was fighting, what he asked others to do, he did it himself.

The more fierce the battle, the more he rushed to the front.

No matter the difficulties and dangers ahead, no matter the swords, guns and stones in front, he always rushed to the front, and the soldiers followed closely, so that everyone was often invincible.

In all dynasties, in countless political changes and military struggles, "one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither" has become the norm. And General Jia's "has coarseness."

The spirit of "I will do the work first" is indeed a touching bright color.

He has a bad temper, and he offended many people when he first defected to Liu Xiu.

And it was with this spirit of leading by example that he infected his colleagues and conquered the enemy.

Now in Zhending, he led his troops to defeat the five schools, apparently taking the lead again, and he himself was seriously injured and dying (rewound).

When Liu Xiu heard the news, he was extremely surprised and sad, and he was also worried and regretted that he would not be able to stand up again.

Liu Xiu looked left and right and said very emotionally:

"The reason why I didn't let Jia Fu lead the troops alone was because he relied on his own ability and was too light on the enemy. This time he was wounded, and he lost mine

A member of the love general. I have heard that his wife is pregnant, and if she gives birth to a girl, my son will marry her. If a boy is born, my daughter will marry

He. In short, I won't let him worry about his wife and children. ”

(That's why I don't let Jia Fu say goodbye to the generals, and he will underestimate the enemy.) Sure enough, I lost my famous general. I heard that his wife was pregnant, and gave birth to a girl, and my son married her, and gave birth to a male evil, me

If a woman marries her, she will not worry about her wife. ）

Soon, Jia Fu recovered from his injuries and immediately rushed to Jixian County to report to Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw that he was in good health, and immediately set up a banquet to entertain him and the accompanying soldiers.

Kou Xun, he kept in mind Liu Xiu's entrustment, and was determined to work hard to build Hanoi County into a reliable and consolidated base for Liu Xiu.

As soon as he took office, he recruited strong men from all counties under the county, organized them reasonably, trained them in cavalry and archery, and trained them into reserve soldiers who could fight and run; He's serious

Organized the breeding of horses, cut down bamboo and arrows, and collected rents, and accumulated a large amount of military supplies.

In this way, Liu Xiu fought in the front, and he provided a steady stream of logistical support.

According to incomplete statistics, in the dozens of days since Liu Xiu's attack on Youlai and other units, he has sent 4 million pieces of military rations, 2,000 war horses, and more than 100 arrows to the front

10,000 sticks.

Liu Xiu did not replenish the troops from Hanoi, and he was well prepared if needed.

Feng Yi was not idle.

He garrisoned Mengjin, and his main task was to respond to Kou Sui and resist the important members of the Gengshi Dynasty stationed in Luoyang, Zhu Kun and Li Yi.