After joining up with Xie's army, Liu Xiu immediately feasted his soldiers, waved his army to the east, and surrounded Julu.

(Guangwu died because of the feast, and then surrounded the giant deer in the east.) ）

However, the city defense of Julu was very strong, and Wang Lang's defender Wang Rao resisted desperately.

Liu Xiu commanded the army to fight for a month, but he failed to take it (more than a month).

Wang Lang was afraid that Julu would be lost, so he sent tens of thousands of people led by generals Ni Hong and Liu Feng to reinforce him.

Of course, Liu Xiu would not allow Wang Lang's support army to connect with the Julu defenders, and hurriedly led his troops to intercept the enemy in Nanqi (now Ju, Hebei

Lubei) county launched a big war.

It's a tough battle.

Facing the menacing Ni Hong and Liu Feng, Liu Xiu's side appeared successively Liu Boji, Cen Peng, Cho Period, Jing Dan, etc.

While everyone hasn't started yet, it is necessary for us to briefly explain the lineup on Liu Xiu's side.

Bo Ji's husband, Li Tong, also gave up his position as the Taishou of Jingzhou at this time, and came to Hebei to reunite with his husband and wife, and followed Liu Xiu's march to fight together.

The fierce Cen Peng took a detour and finally returned to Liu Xiu. Since his performance was really eye-catching, we couldn't miss it.

Regarding Cen Peng's performance in Wancheng as the magistrate of Wang Mang, everyone may not have forgotten it. He was surrendered by Liu Xuan, and after Liu Xuan was killed, he became again

At that time, he was the captain of Sima Zhu Kun.

It is said that working as an errand under the Minister of Defense (Da Sima) is also a good job.

When Minister Zhu attacked Wang Mang's Yangzhou Mu Li Sheng, Captain Cen's performance was still very eye-catching. He beheaded Li Sheng and pacified Huaiyang (present-day Huaiyang, Henan)

City.

Zhu Kun was very satisfied with Cen Peng's performance and recommended him to the Genshi Dynasty as the governor of Huaiyang County. This is, of course, a reuse.

However, Cen Peng's official luck was not good.

At this time, the Genshi Dynasty was rapidly entering the late stage. The elites have torn their faces in order to compete for power and profit, and they have been rough with each other, forming a mess.

The first emperor Liu Xuan saw that Zhu Kun and Cen Peng had won a victory in Huaiyang, but he didn't know what considerations he had, not only did he not adopt Zhu Xuan's suggestion, but instead

In addition, Zhang Wei, the king of Liwei, and the general Xi Wei were sent to lead the army to guard Huaiyang.

The funny thing is that Zhang Wei and Xi Wei just arrived in Huaiyang, and they didn't do anything else, so they fought first.

We suspect that the two must be fighting over something.

This ugly infighting was provoked by Zi Wei, who committed the next offense and drove Zhang Wei away.

(Wei anti, shoot away.) ）

You may still remember that Zhang Wei was an activist when the "bad money" of the uprising coalition army dug a pit to harm Liu Xuan, and he hit the ground with a sword and shouted Liu Xuanwei

The guy who was so decided.

Zhang Wei was originally a madman, and if Wei Wei was able to drive him away, it can be seen that he is not ordinary ferocious.

However, Cen Peng is not a vegetarian either.

He saw that the fruits of his victory had been taken away for no reason, that his hard work had not been recognized, and that now whoever was a scoundrel and who was fierce had the upper hand

, you're welcome.

He immediately led his troops to attack Wei Wei, and divided five by two, and beat Wei to the ground.

Seeing that Cen Peng was even more scoundrel and fierce than Zhang Wei and Zi Wei at this time, the First Dynasty quickly decided to promote him and reuse him: appoint him as Yingchuan

Guntaishou.

(Peng led troops to attack Wei, broke it, and moved Yingchuan to defend it.) ）

Cen Peng's official luck at the beginning of the change was not smooth.

As soon as his appointment came down, Liu Mao, a native of Chungling, raised troops and captured Yingchuan, so his promotion could not be implemented.

There was no way, so he had to come to Hanoi with hundreds of subordinates and temporarily live here in the county Taishou and fellow villager Han Xin.

Han Xin didn't find any stains on his morality, but he didn't have any ability, nor did he have any vision and eyes, even among the first cadres

level.

Liu Xiu has never fought for the sake of fighting. While attacking Wang Lang step by step, he either appointed his cronies or personally went out to patrol the county

county, expanding the sphere of influence.

As he marched to Hanoi, Han Xin deployed resistance.

At this time, Cen Peng already had the intention of returning to Liu Xiu, and tried his best to dissuade Han Xin, but Han didn't listen.

Liu Xiu sent an envoy named Wei Wen to persuade Han Xin, but Han still did not listen.

Okay, if you don't eat the toast, if you have to eat the penalty wine, I can't be polite!

Liu Xiu led his troops to approach Zhihuaicheng (now Hawuzhi), Hanoi County, and Han Xin immediately surrendered as soon as he saw the troops pressing the border.

(Even if the light is strong, Xin is in a hurry to surrender.) ）

Cen Peng then surrendered to Liu Xiu.

Cen Peng's performance, Liu Xiu has always appreciated. In addition, he is the old department of the eldest brother, and Liu Xiu is also very kind to him.

Therefore, Liu Xiu is very happy and welcome to his arrival.

However, he further gained Liu Xiu's trust in dealing with Han Xin's problem.

It turned out that after Liu Xiu surrendered to Han Xin, he investigated and found that he had seriously planned and deployed resistance to Liu Xiu a few days ago, and he was very annoyed and ordered to be beheaded

Him!

Liu Xiu's subordinates immediately took down Han Xin, put it next to the snare drum, and just waited for Liu Xiu's words to move the knife immediately.

At this time, Cen Peng begged to see Liu Xiu, not only to show his loyalty, but also to intercede for Han Xin.

After being summoned, Cen Peng said earnestly to Liu Xiu:

"Now that the Red Eyebrow Army has entered the Hangu Pass, the First Dynasty is in danger. The original ministers did whatever they wanted, were rampant and domineering, and could not implement justice at all

Accurate guidelines and policies. Righteous armies swarmed in all directions, and the common people had nothing to rely on. I heard that you are here to pacify Hebei and open up hegemony.

It is really God's blessing of the Han family, and it is also a blessing for people of insight in the world. I once received the life of Situ Gong (referring to Liu Xuan, who was the Great Situ of the First Change).

Great grace, before I have time to repay, he was unfortunately killed, which is an eternal regret in my heart. Now that I meet you, my lord, I am willing to sacrifice my life! ”

It should be said that Cen Peng's remarks are extremely appropriate in his thorough analysis of the current situation, sincerity in his feelings, and sincerity in his attitude.

Liu Xiu listened to it, praised him very much, and trusted him.

(Guangwu deeply accepts it.) ）

Next, Cen Peng interceded for Han Xin again, saying that he was a righteous gentleman in Nanyang and could be used by me.

Liu Xiu immediately ordered Han Xin to be pardoned and let him serve as a military advisor under Deng Yu.

(Nai Zhenxin, thought that Deng Yu was a military teacher.) ）

Okay, we will only introduce the lineup of Liu Xiu's side here, in addition to Liu Boji, Cen Peng, and Li Tong who are working in front, Cho Qi and Jing Dan are also biased

Participating as a general is an old acquaintance of ours.

Liu Xiu and Deng Yu came up with ideas in the back.

Bo Ji was brave and belligerent, and took the initiative to ask Ying to fight before he met Wang Lang's soldiers.

The first battle was Bo Ji against Liu Feng.

Wang Lang's team is huge, and Liu Feng can be a general, which shows that he is somewhat capable.

Berge fought with him for a long time, but could not tell the winner.

But Bo Ji's heroic righteousness and superb martial arts did not let Xu Mei's heroic righteousness and exquisite martial arts once again impress the soldiers on both sides.

In fact, when he was marching with his third brother Liu Xiu, whenever he went into battle to kill the enemy, Bo Ji always took the initiative to ask to go first, and then complete it creatively

Task.

Liu Xiu was afraid that she would make a mistake, and generally didn't want her to go out.

And she asked again and again until she got the task.

A few days after the first battle, Liu Xiu led the crowd to fight Ni Hong and Liu Feng again.

Liu Xiu's side is still Cen Peng as a former enemy general.

Bo Ji did not win the first battle, and he was very unwilling to fight again.

Liu Xiu disagreed at first, after all, this war is a rough job, heavy work, and dirty work, and in the era of cold weapons, it is more suitable for men to do it.

couldn't bear Bo Ji's repeated requests, Deng Yu also helped Bo Ji speak, and Liu Xiu, for the sake of insurance, allocated 10,000 elite soldiers and asked Bo Ji and Cen Peng to bring each

5000 to challenge the enemy together.

The matchups for this match are:

generals against generals, soldiers against soldiers; Bo Ji to Ni Hong, Cen Peng vs. Liu Feng; Then the soldiers picked up the nearest ones according to the situation.

Bo Ji fought bravely, and within a few rounds, he easily completed the task, solved Ni Hong, and cut off his head.

Over there, Cen Peng took a little trouble with Liu Feng, and the two of them killed for a long time, and they didn't tell the winner.

Bo Ji was anxious, put Ni Hong's head away, and stepped forward to help Cen Peng and fight Liu Feng together.

Liu Feng was difficult to defeat the two, and after a while, he was easily killed by Bo Ji.

In this battle, of course, Berge made the first contribution.

However, the hero is not Berge.

The partial general Choshi period also performed well, attracting the attention of many people.

As we said, the biggest characteristic of Liu Xiu's use of troops is that there are no characteristics, there are no certain rules, and the combination movements used are impermanent.

This time is the same, while he sent Bo Ji and Cen Peng, he also made arrangements for Cho Period and Jing Dan.

In order to cooperate with Bo Ji and Cen Peng, Choshi did not find the other party's general to make a move, but picked up small soldiers to fight according to Liu Xiu's arrangement.

He was tall and powerful, like a god; The halberd rushed into the enemy formation, like chopping melons and vegetables, and killed more than 50 enemies with his own hands in a while.

Suddenly, he was in the middle of a kill, and his forehead was wounded.

But he didn't care, hastily wrapped the wound with a turban, and then fought again.

His men were encouraged to take the lead and slaughter the enemy to the point where they were overwhelmed.

(He first landed in the battle and killed more than 50 people.) was hit in the middle, and the regents resumed the battle, and then it was broken. ）

In this battle, the performance was also very eye-catching, and the partial general Jing Dan was also very eye-catching.

Liu Xiu arranged for Jing Dan to lead the assault cavalry from Shanggu and Yuyang to participate in the second half of the battle.

When Ni Hong and Liu Feng were dead, and Wang Lang's soldiers retreated, Jing Dan led the crowd to suddenly chase after him, and the effect was very good.

He led the crowd to chase and kill the enemy, chased for more than 10 miles, killed the enemy's corpses all over the field, and won a complete victory.

(Dan and other vertical assault cavalry, big break, dead and wounded.) ）

After the battle, Jing Dan came back to report to Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu happily praised him and said:

"I've long heard that the Northern Assault Cavalry is the best soldier in the world, and today I saw the style of combat with my own eyes, isn't it worthy of its name?!"

(I heard that the elite soldiers of the world are riding suddenly, and now I see their battles, and I am happy to say evil?) ）

However, although the battle was victorious, Julu City was still under Wang Rao's insistence, and the Wang army could not overcome it.

At this time, Geng Chun suggested to Liu Xiu:

"Wang Rao and they have been defending the giant deer for a long time, and sooner or later the soldiers will be tired, and sooner or later there will be loopholes in the defense. We might as well mobilize the main elite forces to attack Hand

Dan, if Wang Lang is destroyed, the giant deer will surrender without a fight. ”

Liu Xiu thought that Geng Chun's words were reasonable, so he adopted his suggestion, leaving the general Deng Man to continue to besiege Julu, and personally led the main army to storm Handan.

(Guangwu is good at his plan, but to leave the general Deng Manchu to guard the giant deer, and march to Handan, Tunqi Guo North Gate.) ）

There are always striking parallels in history.

You may still remember that on the eve of the bloody battle in Kunyang, Wang Yi faced Kunyang, just as Liu Xiu is facing Julu at present.

However, Liu Xiu is far less stupid and conceited than Wang Yi.

Wang Yi did not listen to Yan You's suggestion to besiege Kunyang and go south to capture Wancheng, so that he was defeated by Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu was as good as a stream, and decisively adopted Geng Chun's suggestion.

Liu Xiu commanded the troops to win successive battles and soon took control of Handan's periphery.

Wang Lang didn't want to sit back, but he arranged to block Liu Xiu's troops, but they were either annihilated by Liu Xiu or sent back to Handan City.

Liu Xiu, you are amazing!

It seems that I was right to try desperately to arrest you the other day.

Now I can't hold you, but you want to take me, and I'm helpless.

It's not that the brothers are incompetent, it's that the enemy is too powerful!

Forget it, I can't fight you, let's reconcile.

As long as you give me a staircase, I can do anything.

In the face of Liu Xiu's soldiers and the situation that he would be defeated, in desperation, Wang Lang had no choice but to bite the bullet and send his counselor Du Wei to arrive

Liu Xiu begged to surrender in the barracks.

Don't bargain for a defeated general, just like a weak country has no diplomacy.

When receiving Liu Xiu, Dewey first repeatedly explained that Wang Lang was indeed the son of Emperor Cheng.

This is the bloodline, ideological foundation, and political bottom line of Wang Lang's Handan regime, and Wang Lang and his followers use this to fool everyone.

But this has always been Liu Xiu's extreme disgust and taboo.

Your Wang Lang used this to sit on the flat ground, to call on his subordinates to desperately chase me down, and to use this to force me into a desperate situation again and again!

Now that Handan is at my fingertips in front of my horse, does it make sense for you to bargain with me again?!

Even if anything can be discussed, it is not negotiable if I want you Wang Lang to die.

Eliminating Wang Lang and pacifying Hebei are my core interests and established policies.

Core interests are non-negotiable, and established policies cannot be discussed!

The reason why Liu Xiu received Dewey was entirely out of the habit and etiquette of "the two armies exchanged troops and did not cut them off", and now he was very impatient to listen to his chatter.

He said unceremoniously:

"Now that Emperor Cheng is resurrected, it is impossible for the world to be his, let alone the fake Liu Ziyu!"

(If Emperor Cheng is resurrected, the world will not be able to obtain it, and the swindler will not be able to do so!) ）

Dewey was worthy of being a loyal supporter of Wang Lang, and instead asked Liu Xiu to make Wang Lang Wanhu Marquis.

Liu Xiu said resolutely:

"If he can save his life, it's a good ending."

Dewey was annoyed when he heard this, and said:

"Although Handan is weak, if the soldiers work together to hold on, it will not be able to be defeated in ten days and a half months, and it will not be just a life-saving monarch and minister."

With that, Dewey shook his hand and left.

Dewey was too deeply influenced by Wang Lang, and he didn't necessarily have any vision. He didn't understand what we just said, "Don't bargain if you lose." He is even less so

Understand where Liu Xiu's "core interests" lie.

Of course, in Liu Xiu's view, it no longer makes sense for Dewey and his master Wang Langsheng to be angry or not.

As soon as Dewey left, Liu Xiu immediately urged the soldiers to hurry up and attack the city.

After more than 20 days of onslaught, some people within the Wang Lang Group couldn't hold on.

One day in May 24 AD, Li Li, the young master of the Wang Lang group, opened the city gate to welcome Liu Xiu's soldiers and horses, and Liu Xiu immediately took control of Handan.

Wang Lang saw that the general trend had gone, and escaped from Handan overnight.

Liu Xiu's general, Wang Ba, immediately led the light cavalry in pursuit, and did not run far, captured Wang Lang, and beheaded him on the spot.

Wang Ba returned to Handan City and presented Wang Lang's head and the so-called Son of Heaven ribbon he wore to Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu was very happy, and now he was crowned Wang Ba as the marquis of the king.

(Ba chased and beheaded Wang Lang, and got his seal.) Named the prince of the country. ）

In this way, Wang Lang, who was in Hebei for a while, completely ended his dream of competing for the world.

Due to the collapse of the legal representative, the Yige Development Co., Ltd. initiated by Wang Lang and Liu Lin and others quickly disintegrated.

If Wang Lang is not too angry, he will continue to make a living by fortune-telling, and there will be no problem with food and clothing

Small fortune.

The facts of the past show that he is very good at fooling. But he didn't feel at ease with the fortune telling, so he had to compete for the position of the first brother, which was beyond his ability

Range.

Coupled with the fact that his competitor Liu Xiu is too good, he can only blame himself for being born at the wrong time.

From the temptation to be the emperor, to the head cut off by the king, it took only half a year to be full.

The move of his head marked the fall of Liu Xiu's biggest political enemy in Hebei.

There's something here that we also want to mention in passing, because it says a lot.

Liu Xiu was stationed in Handan and seized a large number of Wang Lang's archival documents.

When sorting out these files, Liu Xiu unexpectedly found that some of his subordinates had colluded with Wang Lang in private, slandered and slandered his own correspondence materials

Thousands of copies.

(Thousands of chapters on the slanderers of the officials and the lang.) ）

These, of course, are ironclad evidence of collaboratorship.

After seizing these letters, some of Liu Xiu's subordinates were indeed panicked, and if they wanted to follow the vine, they would definitely be able to pursue many people.

It is no wonder that in the past six months or so, too much has happened and the situation has changed too quickly.

Liu Xiu is in a dangerous political and military environment, and a large number of fans have come one after another, including many hardcores like Geng Yi and Geng Chun, and there must be people

Secretly and quietly prepare a way back for yourself.

In this regard, Liu Xiu had expected and prepared for a long time.

He once arranged for Feng Yi, Choshi and others to secretly investigate and understand the political tendencies and ideological conditions of the cadres around him and even in the relevant counties and counties in Hebei

He attached great importance to clandestine work.

Now, with ironclad evidence in hand, and just a big victory, many people think that he wants to clean up the portal.

However, Liu Xiu did not do this.

In front of the generals, Liu Xiu ordered the sergeant to bring those letters, and without reading them, they burned them with fire!

In doing so, he explained, is "reassuring those who are uneasy."

(Let the reverse side be at ease.) ）

Understanding people, respecting people, putting oneself in the shoes of friends, and generally not entangled in historical accounts and grievances, this is the charm of Liu Xiu's life

Location.

The handling of this matter fully reflects his profound political vision and broad humanistic mind.

In this way, Liu Xiu achieved a complete victory against Wang Lang after half a year.

Cleaning up Wang Lang is the second glorious milestone on his way to the world, and it is another highlight of his work after the victory in Kunyang.

Since then, he has a real entrepreneurial base of his own, a relatively stable political and military hinterland and a strategic rear; At the same time, his hands

He now has an armed force of tens of thousands that has been tested and tempered in actual combat, and it has become the most important thing for him to balance the ranks and unify China in the future

Tool; Equally important, he and his colleagues have further strengthened their determination and confidence to compete in the world, that is, they are not afraid of opponents who will fool again

, no matter how strong the opponent is, he can be flattened!

In particular, after such a toss, a group of cadres with both ability and political integrity, both civil and military, and loyal to him were formed around Liu Xiu

, becoming a core member of his great cause of nation-building.

Later, most of the brothers who were ranked among the 28 generals of Yuntai were already under Liu Xiu's command at this time.

It's just that due to the different characteristics of their work, their different personalities and temperaments, and different opportunities, their performance has its own characteristics, and some are powerful.

Others are calm and introverted.

They followed Liu Xiu in their own way and made contributions, and Liu Xiu also provided them with a platform to further develop their talents.

Liu Xiu and these buddies established an unbreakable revolutionary friendship in the bloody storm, composing a rare good in the history of the relationship between monarchs and ministers in China's feudal society

words, but also for us to interpret one wonderful story after another.