In September 26 AD, Red Mei entered Chang'an again and set up the nest in the Gui Palace north of Weiyang Palace.

At this time, the red eyebrows have long lost the majesty they had when they left at the beginning of the year, they are hungry, tired, embarrassed, angry, anxious, and crazy!

Fuck, what do we eat?!

Fuck, I'm tired!

Fuck, hundreds of thousands of brothers say no, it's gone!

……。

Red Eyebrows are indeed exhausted.

For more than half a year, a large group of buddies have been running around, and it is not easy.

Although everyone can come nonsense, indulge, and bully people, they have braved the cold and the scorching heat to fight for thousands of miles, some starve to death, and some freeze to death.

Some were tired to death, and some were beaten to death by the enemy, so it can't be said that they can draw it.

One million people went out, only a small half came back, no matter how you say it!

What's even worse is that everyone went around in a circle, and in addition to losing the lives of hundreds of thousands of brothers, they didn't raise any food!

Also, the remaining hundreds of thousands of buddies returned to Chang'an, there was no food, and the people had been bullied many times, but no one came to fight them, and they were hungry

Starve to death too!

Chang'an has long been ruined by everyone, no matter how dark the hearts of the brothers are, there are not many dramas to sing!

Annoying, really annoying!

The red-eyebrow fanatics entered Chang'an this time, and on the surface, it seemed that they had defeated Deng Yu and achieved victory, but in fact, they had gotten into a dead cage.

Speaking of which, I can't help but think of a classic sentence from a hit TV series, which is:

"There is a kind of victory called retreat, and there is a kind of defeat called occupation."

I can't say that Deng Yu's retreat was a victory, because he was indeed defeated by Red Mei and had to abandon Chang'an.

However, the reoccupation of Chang'an by the red eyebrows this time must have been a failure, because they were desperate to get into this dead cage.

Let's take a look at the situation around Chang'an.

On the east, north and west sides of Chang'an City, Deng Yu's troops occupied key points.

It must be noted that although Deng Yu is currently defeated by Chimei, this is due to Deng Yu's strategic thinking and tactical arrangement

Liu Xiu has been proclaimed emperor, so he said, and it will not be explained in the future) The combat effectiveness is still very strong.

There is also a thing that can happen at any time that once Liu Xiu is replaced with a more vigorous coach, or Deng Yu is as vigorous as before, this Han army is actually

It's scary.

Deng Yu has been in a bad state recently, and we don't know why.

You may still remember that before Deng Yu went on this trip, we helped him analyze that because the situation he faced was very complicated, the two opponents in front of him were red

If he wants to live up to his mission, he must win the hearts and minds of the people, and second, he must use his troops to live.

At present, it seems that he has done a good job of winning the hearts and minds of the people, but he is too restrained when he starts fighting.

As for the south of Chang'an, the military situation is very sinister, and the political mystery is even more treacherous, which is far beyond the imagination of the bare eyebrows.

Since we have said this, we have to explain it carefully, first, this complex situation is very important, and several celebrities are confused

Tu, if we don't go into details, everyone may be confused.

At this time, there were three forces in the south of Chang'an: Liu Xiu's cousin and Liu Jia, the king of Hanzhong, Yan Cen, a military self-employed entrepreneur in Hanzhong, and the Marquis of Zhugong and the general Li at the beginning

Treasure.

Liu Jia is an acquaintance, he has been an orphan since he was a child, he was adopted by Liu Xiu's father as an adopted son and raised as an adult, and once studied in Chang'an Taixue with Liu Xiu.

When the Liu clan of Chungling pulled the flag against Mang, he actively participated and did a lot of useful work to unite all parties to bury Wang Mang's regime, so he was also an old comrade

Chi up. When the first dynasty opened, he was made a marquis and a general, until the king of Hanzhong and the general of Fuwei. He set up the capital in Nanzheng (now northeast of Zheng, southwest Shaanxi),

With hundreds of thousands of troops, it is a typical local powerful faction.

Liu Jia and Liu Xiu are brothers. When Liu Xiu was developing in Hebei, he always wanted to help, and at present, Liu Xiu's right-hand men Jia Fu and Chen Jun were

He recommended to go.

Yancen is a native of Nanzheng, Wang Mang took advantage of the chaos to raise troops in the last years, and once occupied the Hanzhong area. In the year of the opening of the First Dynasty, Liu Jia led the army in the championship (now Henan

Deng Xianbei) defeated Yancen and surrendered him.

Therefore, he is still Liu Jia's subordinate.

Yan Cen was originally a green forest rogue who wanted to gamble his youth in troubled times.

But his virtue and talent are far inferior to Liu Xiu, Deng Yu, Feng Yi and others, and he is not as ferocious as the red-eyed generals. History said that he and his men galloped and looted like thieves, but

is a little more disciplined than the red eyebrows, of course, it is not comparable to Liu Xiu's benevolent and righteous teacher.

In other words, Lao Yan, as a military self-employed person, is ambitious, but in this passionate year, he does not have much self-control in governing the army

His own characteristics, he does not have much personality of his own, so he is not much noticed, and he does not have much fame in history.

Li Bao is a former department, emotionally and relationally closer to Liu Jia, supports the army, wants to find a war to fight, and is a political army that wants to develop big projects

Speculators.

Yancen is not honest.

Just as Deng Yu was moving around Chang'an, he raised troops to attack his superior, Liu Jia, and soon occupied Nanzheng and controlled Hanzhong, and Liu Jia was forced to be defeated.

Lao Yan didn't stop doing anything, stood on his heels a little, and immediately marched into Wudu (now west and south of Gansu).

However, here he was attacked by Li Bao, who rushed to support Liu Jia, and was defeated by Li Bao.

So, he fled to Tianshui.

(Cen Suiding Hanzhong, marching into the military capital, was broken by Li Bao, the Marquis of the first pillar.) ）

When they were fighting here, Gongsun Shu, who had seized Chengdu, wanted to fish in troubled waters and expand his power, and immediately sent the general Hou Dan to send troops to conquer Nanzheng.

Liu Jia's nest was served, and he was very unwilling, so he cleaned up the remnants, and there were tens of thousands of people.

He hired Li Bao as the prime minister, and with Wudu as the base, he sent troops to recover Nanzheng.

Li Bao and Gongsun Shu have an old enmity.

In 24 A.D., the first dynasty had not yet dispersed, and when he saw Gongsun Shu sitting in Chengdu, he sent Li Bao and Zhang Zhong, the assassin of Yizhou, to lead the army to crusade.

In Mianzhu, Li Bao was blocked by Gongsun Shu's younger brother Gongsun Hui and returned in a crushing defeat.

In the battle of Mianzhu, the first dynasty and Li Baoyan were lost, but Gongsun Shu's prestige was shocked.

Of course, this also greatly stimulated Gongsun Shu's political desires. As a result, Gongsun Shu immediately called Wang Jiandu.

However, this time, Liu Jia and Li Bao were unfavorable and lost to Hou Dan.

There was no way, Liu Jia and Li Bao had to retreat to Hechi (now northwest of Hui County, Gansu) and Xia Tan (now northwest of Chengxian County, Gansu).

Liu Jia was full of anger: he couldn't take back the nest, and he was disgraced.

So, he immediately turned around and started fighting with Yan Cen again.

Lao Yan couldn't beat his superiors, so he could only run. Liu Jia chased after him and beat Lao Yan again in Chencang (now Baojidong, Shaanxi). Lao Yan is very

Embarrassed, he retreated east to Duling (now northeast of Xi'an, Shaanxi).

Speaking of which, everyone may understand that at this time, the surroundings of Chang'an were already full of war clouds, mysteries, and chaos.

Hiding in the city and having no food to eat, the outside of the city is actually an encirclement, and the red eyebrows are very depressed.

In order to avoid being killed in Chang'an, Red Mei felt that he had to break through.

Therefore, they sent Zuo Da Sima Xiao'an to lead more than 100,000 troops out of the city to tear up the encirclement, and the breakthrough point was selected in Yancen, which was located in Duling.

Although Deng Yu was defeated, the team was still very neat, and Liu Jia was also the king of Hanzhong, so he had to take Yancen first.

Yan Cen is not only not famous, but also not strong, and now he is being beaten by Liu Jia, and it is the best time to bully.

By the way, Liu Jia was out anyway at this time, and the battle was very violent. It's not that Red Eyebrows don't want to do anything to him, but they're just afraid

I did it, but I couldn't take advantage of it.

When Liu Jia was in the Chencang area, Chimei thought that he should take advantage of the danger of others, so he sent Liao Zhan, the general and the original king of Deng who had surrendered, to lead 18

Wan Dajun attacked Liu Jia.

Although everyone was a colleague in the past, the world was too chaotic at this time and at that time, and everyone had their own ways to do it.

Liu Jia is currently in good shape, although the number of troops in his hand is significantly less than that of Liao traitor, he is not afraid and bravely meets the enemy.

At Gukou (present-day Chunhua South, Shaanxi), fierce fighting ensued between the two sides.

Liu Jia took the lead and killed Liao's traitor with his own hands and won a complete victory.

After the victory, Liu Jia led his army north to the Yunyang area, resting and recuperating while raising grain and grass.

It was here that he came into contact with Deng Yu.

Liu Jia saw Deng Yu as if he saw Liu Xiu, and he wanted to cooperate, no, judging from the current situation, it should be surrendered to be precise.

However, Prime Minister Li Bao advised him not to worry, and to observe the situation for a while.

(Advise Jia and watch success or failure.) ）

In this way, Deng Yu and Liu Jia are not easy to beat, and if they pinch the persimmon and pick up the soft one first, they can only beat Yancen.

Right! Hit Yancen!

There are opponents all around, only Lao Yan is a soft persimmon, so he pinched him!

Speaking of which, I would like to remind you of two words spoken by a great man, the first of which is who is our friend and who is our enemy,

This question is the first question of the revolution; The second sentence is that we will oppose whatever the enemy supports, and we will support whatever the enemy opposes.

Both of these sentences say that we must distinguish friend from foe, the former talking about importance, and the latter talking about method.

The first sentence proved to be completely correct, and wherever there is a struggle, there must be enemies and friends, and it is extremely important to see the direction clearly and distinguish between friend and foe.

The second sentence of explaining the method is too absolute and unscientific, and many facts prove that it is not good.

Now, Red Eyebrows obviously did not have the opportunity to learn the quotations of this great man, only knowing that eating is important, but not knowing that it is equally important to distinguish friend from foe, especially in war

When.

What's even worse is that Red Mei not only doesn't know how to distinguish friend from foe among the enemies around the city, but also unites friends to the greatest extent and strengthens the united war

line, while maximizing isolation and striking at the real enemy, they also naively believe that the enemy is also about the same level as themselves.

Countless facts have proved that whoever wants to know neither himself nor the other should come out and mix as soon as possible.

Red eyebrows think, what enemies and friends, what united front, that's too professional, we only know fists, we only know to eat!

Let's fight!

Xiao An took the people who went on a business trip, and they were all the best guys with red eyebrows. And in Chang'an City, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled.

Deng Yu felt that his opportunity had come.

He felt that the defense in Chang'an City was empty, so he led the army to sneak attack, and he once succeeded and entered the city.

However, unfortunately, before he had time to celebrate, he caught up with the arrival of the rescue soldiers of Sima Xie Lu, the right big man of the red eyebrows. What else to say, let's fight! anyway

Everyone has already torn their faces and broken their heads.

After a fierce battle, Deng Yu was defeated and was beaten out of Chang'an again.

At this time, Deng Yu was very embarrassed, lost the battle, and lacked supplies, so the troops had to feed on wild vegetables and wild fruits.

(Sergeants and hungry people eat jujubes.) ）

Although Red Mei beat Deng Yu away in Chang'an, Xiao An, who was away on a business trip, was beaten by Li Bao and Yan Cen together.

When Xiao An led a heavy army out of Chang'an, Yan Cen and Li Bao shook hands and said goodbye.

It's still the same sentence, this world is too chaotic, for the sake of flattening people and avoiding being flattened, let's be realistic, change at any time according to the situation in front of you, and turn it over

If you turn your face, you should be a buddy.

Now, Lao Yan and Li Bao have joined forces to fight against Xiao'an.

At Duling, fierce battles ensued between the two sides.

Yan and Li had a total of tens of thousands of troops, and more than 100,000 in Lu.

As a result, Xiao'an won a complete victory, not only destroying more than 10,000 troops of Yan and Li Lian, but also surrendering Li Bao and defeating Lao Yan.

(Cen and the others were defeated, more than 10,000 people died, Bao Sui surrendered, and Yan Cen collected and dispersed.) ）

However, at this time, Xiao An made the habitual mistake of red eyebrows, that is, he was simple-minded, and he could not and did not see the essence through the phenomenon.

He didn't take into account that if Li Bao was a person who surrendered in a battle, how could Liu Jia reuse him as prime minister?!

Soon, Xiao An paid for his simplicity.

He defeated Yan Cen and Li Bao, and defeated the former and surrendered the latter, which was also a big victory.

However, he, like other bare-eyed high-ranking cadres, did not understand that the temporary occupation and retreat did not mean anything at all, and he was very happy and carried away.

Of course, Lao Yan was very sad. For a while, he was always defeated, and he was defeated by everyone, and he really couldn't be happy.

Just as he was cleaning up the remnants of the defeated army and was busy fleeing for his life, someone suddenly ran to deliver a letter: it turned out to be sent by Li Bao.

Li Bao is respected as Liu Jia's prime minister, and he can still send someone to deliver a letter when he is trapped in the enemy camp, which shows that he is not only dedicated, but also very capable.

The person who came said to Lao Cen:

"Please don't be discouraged, continue to fight with Xiao An, if you fight back, I will respond from the inside, and I will definitely defeat the enemy."

(The son works hard to fight, I should be the opposite inside, the inside is combined, but it can be broken.) ）

Lao Yan's spirit was lifted when he heard this, this is great! So, he immediately sorted out his team, turned around and went to call for a battle to Xiao'an.

Xiao An's brain was hot, and he didn't think much about it, and immediately led his subordinates to set out to destroy Lao Yan.

You don't want to fuck Yancen anymore, haven't had enough yet? Are you a defeated general under me, and you dare to come back to die?

Xiao An was desperate to kill Lao Yan in one fell swoop.

(Cen immediately challenged, and An waited for the air battalion to attack it.) ）

Of course, Xiao An is simple-minded, even if he has a simple dream, he doesn't know that he is not facing Lao Yan alone.

With Li Bao's words, Lao Yan naturally knew it, so he desperately duel with him.

On the one hand, he was arrogant and wanted to destroy his defeated generals, and on the other hand, he was confident that he wanted to take revenge, and the two sides put on a posture and did a big job.

The two sides fought until it was dark, and when he was tired, he beckoned his men to return to the camp to rest.

Who knows, when they looked back, everyone found that at some point, the flags in their barracks had all turned white!

Everyone was already exhausted, and they were shocked to see this scene: fuck, what's wrong?!

This is Li Bao's masterpiece. He took advantage of Anguang's knowledge to fight against Lao Yan, and quietly pulled out all the red eyebrow flags in the back and replaced them with white flags.

This is a banner that calls for everyone to surrender.

The army of more than 100,000 people in Xiao'an panicked: Fuck, we are surrounded!

In front is a red-eyed opponent, and in the back is a strong opponent with full spirit, what should I do? Run!

What follows is an extremely rare masterpiece in the military history of ancient and modern China and foreign countries:

The more than 100,000 Red Mei soldiers in Xiao'an were terrified and fled for their lives, and most of them jumped off steep cliffs or rushing rivers in a panic and died.

Xiao An himself was also extremely embarrassed, and ran back to Chang'an with only a few thousand people.

The Book of the Later Han Dynasty records this scene as follows:

"An waited for the war to return to the camp, saw that the flags were all white, walked in a panic, threw himself into the Sichuan Valley, more than 100,000 dead, and thousands of people returned to Chang'an."

This scene is really a bit like hot soup dousing an ant's nest.

What is the most war? What is the most brilliant war?

Sun Tzu said it well: a soldier who surrenders without a fight. That is, it doesn't take much to clean up people.

Li Bao is like that here.

Therefore, no matter how you look at it, this fight should be a rare miracle in the history of Chinese warfare.

Unfortunately, since several protagonists are not well-known, the fight is overshadowed by the noisy and impetuous smoke of history.

However, if anyone is willing to explore the historical truth, it is not difficult to draw conclusions.