Chapter 53 falling apart

It turned out that when the Wu Chu army was in full swing, Liu Bi led his army across the Huai River and joined forces with King Liu Wu of Chu to capture the spine wall (in the southwest of Yongcheng, Shandong).Liu Wu, the king of Liang, saw how fierce the enemy was, so he quickly sent six teams to the front line to defend against the enemy. As a result, two generals and their soldiers retreated quickly and fled back to Suiyang City. Under Wu Chujun's soldiers, Liang Jun couldn't resist at all. Liu Wu saw that he couldn't hold on, so he asked Zhou Yafu who was stationed in Changyi for help.Zhou Yafu was like a bright mirror in his heart, knowing that at this time he had to rely on Liang Jun and Wu Chujun, and he must not attract Wu Chujun's attention to himself, so Zhou Yafu pretended to be soy sauce and ignored Liu Wu at all.Liu Wu was very angry, and sent a letter to the court to report Zhou Yafu's black case. Liu Qi was also very unhappy when he saw it, and ordered Zhou Yafu to send troops.But Zhou Yafu didn't even listen to Liu Qi's words. Fortunately, he won the battle in the end. Fortunately, Liang Guo was not captured in the end. Otherwise, Zhou Yafu would have been killed when he returned.

Seeing that Zhou Yafu ignored him at all, Liu Wu began to think of ways to save himself.He found Zhang Yu, the younger brother of Zhang Shang, the prime minister of Chu State, and Han Anguo, the capable minister, who advised Chu Wang Liu Wu when he raised his troops. With these two in the front line, Liang Jun was able to win battles occasionally. Liang Guo was the biggest obstacle for Wu and Chu's army to advance westward. Liu Bi did not dare to cross Liang Guo and go straight to Chang'an.Liu Bi probably wanted the soldiers to change their tastes and increase their morale, so he turned around and went north to fight Zhou Yafu's troops. As a result, he met Zhou Yafu's troops in Xiayi (now Dangshan, Anhui).But no matter how Wu Jun challenged him, Zhou Yafu would always stick to his camp and never attack. He would rather bear the infamy of "a turtle with a shrunken head" than let his vital strength be consumed by the arrogant Wu Chujun.

In order to break the deadlock, the Wu army, whose food and grass had been cut off by the Han army, had to come up with a surprise attack.They pretended to attack the northeast corner of the Han army's barracks at night, but Zhou Yafu had already seen through their strategy and deployed a heavy defense in the northwest corner.Sure enough, Wu Jun's main attack direction was in the northwest corner, and the final result was naturally Wu Jun's failure again. From then on, the Wu army lost all vigor, and more and more soldiers fled. Liu Bi was unable to return to heaven, and finally led more than a thousand soldiers under his command to cross the Huai River and join the troops of the King of Dongyue in February. .As soon as Liu Bi fled, all the soldiers under his command dispersed and surrendered to Liu Wu and Zhou Yafu one after another. Liu Wu, the king of Chu, was also defeated and committed suicide later.Counting from the day when Liu Bi started his army, Wu Chu's army was defeated in less than two months.

Liu Bi, who was living under the King of Dongyue, did not end well in the end. Liu Bi wanted to gather the remnants of the King of Dongyue and use the 10,000 people of the King of Dongyue to fight the Han army again, but the court had already paid a lot of money to buy the King of Dongyue.The king of Dongyue lied to Liu Bi and told him to come out to comfort the soldiers, but when he arrived at the place, he killed Liu Bi with a single knife. Liu Bi has two sons under his knees, one is Zihua and the other is Ziju.Later, these two people were determined to avenge their father, so they fled to Minyue Kingdom and urged the King of Minyue to attack Dongyue Kingdom all day long.Of course, it failed in the end, and the power of the Wu state was gone. These two down-and-out princes could only complain occasionally, and it was hopeless to avenge his father.

The army of Wu and Chu was destroyed, but the rebels of Qi and Zhao were still running around. The situation in Qidi is more complicated because there are more forces here.King Jiaoxi, King Suichuan, and King Jiaodong were still surrounding Linzi, the capital of Qi State, where they were spending money with Qi King Liu Jianglu!Liu Jianglu couldn't hold on, so he sent his men to the court to ask Liu Qi for help. At this time, Luan Bu, Cao Yu and others had already led troops on the road.The people sent by Liu Jianglu ran back to report the news, but they were caught by the rebels under the city of Linzi. Jiaoxi King Liu Ang and others asked the messenger to go back and tell Liu Jianglu: Wu Chu's army has defeated the imperial army. Impossible to come, Liu Jianglu can only surrender obediently, otherwise, when Liu Ang and others break through Linzi, the people of Linzi may be massacred.

Who knew that this messenger was strong and strong, and when he arrived at the city, he shouted to Liu Jianglu: "Your Majesty, the imperial court has sent millions of troops to rescue us, and Taiwei Zhou Yafu has also defeated Wu Chu's army and is rushing to us. You must persist for a few days, and don't surrender." Liu Jianglu straightened his back when he heard this, thinking that the court was covering him, and King Jiaoxi and others could do nothing to him, so he refused to surrender. Liu Qi had indeed sent Zhou Yafu to Qi for reinforcements after the war in Liang State. At this moment, Liu Qi was triumphant, and he didn't know who had put on a face of bitterness and hatred all day long, and was discouraged every day. .

Luan Bu and Cao Yu had arrived with their troops, and the three groups of King Jiaoxi, Jiaodong, and Suichuan scattered like birds and beasts, and went back to their respective kingdoms.It turned out that King Jiaoxi was the leader of the three. He had a relatively serious crime and a heavy psychological burden. When he returned home, barefoot and shoulders exposed, he knelt on the straw mat and confessed to his mother. He only drank water and did not eat every day. The attitude looks very candid.But when you think about it carefully, Liu Ang is really a coward. When the imperial court didn’t send troops, he acted bravely, and when the court’s soldiers overwhelmed him, he immediately confessed. He didn’t know that his previous crimes were already serious enough. In short, surrendering is death. If you don’t surrender, you might not die , he now chooses to admit his mistakes and surrender. He clearly wants to die, and he still thinks he can be forgiven, which is really ridiculous.

At that time, his son Liu De persuaded him: "The imperial army came from thousands of miles away, and the troops were exhausted. You give me an army and let me try to fight them. If we win, we have to continue. If we can't win If we run away again, there will be time anyway." At this time, Liu Ang was discouraged and gave up on himself. He didn't take his son's remonstrance seriously at all, and evaded it by saying "the army has disbanded, and there is no army to find".At this time, Gonggaohou Han Tuidang, the general of the imperial army, sent a letter to Liu Ang.Han Tiaodang was the son of Han Wangxin who had defected to the Huns, and later fled back to the Han Dynasty. He was probably quite experienced in persuading surrender. He said in the letter: "I follow the emperor's order. Come to crusade against the rebels. Anyone who voluntarily surrenders will be exonerated and retain his title; anyone who resists will be obediently waited to die. King Jiaoxi can decide for himself."

When Liu Ang saw the letter, he rushed into Han Tuidang's barracks shirtless and went to the organization to explain his mistakes. What they said was that they were frank and lenient!As soon as Liu Ang entered, he knelt down on the ground and said, "I was too impulsive in the past, and I didn't abide by the laws and regulations of the country. It scared the common people and made you travel all the way to our poor place. It is a sin, and I beg you to chop me into a pulp." When Han Tui saw that Liu Ang was so easy to fool, he immediately felt at ease. He asked the soldiers to hold golden drums, which meant that Liu Ang was not allowed to bargain. Want to rebel?"

Liu Ang rubbed his feet on the ground, lying at Han Tuidang's feet and said, "I originally rebelled because Chao Cuo caused chaos in the court and harmed us. I raised troops to let the court kill Chao Cuo. Now Chao Cuo is dead. Naturally I will strike." Liu Ang didn't understand until now that he was already a lamb at the mercy of others, and no reason could save him from being killed, only a suitable excuse could be found for the person who killed him. When Han Tui heard what he had said, he immediately took out Liu Qi's imperial edict, which clearly stated that Liu Ang had only one way to die. After hearing this, Liu Ang was disheartened, and committed suicide after saying, "We really deserve death." up.His mother and son also committed suicide one after another after hearing the news. King Jiaodong, Suichuan, and Jinan, like Liu Ang, failed to escape the fate of suicide under heavy pressure from the court and the fact that they were at a dead end.

There is also Qi Datou Liu Jianglu, the king of Qi. At first, when Liu Ang and others approached the city for many days, he planned to surrender. It was only later that he knew that the imperial reinforcements were coming, so he made up his mind to stick to the city; but later he heard that Luan Bu and the others had already arrived in Qi State, fearing that Luan Bu and the others would learn of their original plan to surrender and be convicted, so they were so frightened that they committed suicide early on.From this, we can also see that in an autocratic society, even thinking about surrendering can lead to a crime. This kind of crime can give people such a great mental pressure. How terrible the autocratic era would be. Liu Qi also felt that Liu Jianglu was a little wronged. After all, if he hadn't been there to restrain Liu Ang and the others, the battle might have been decided differently, so he appointed Liu Jianglu's prince Liu Shou as King of Qi. Zhao Wangsui originally hooked up with the Huns, but the Huns later repented. Of course, Li Ji was not a dry man. In addition, Luan Bu and others later went north to support Li Ji, and Zhao Wang Liu Sui finally committed suicide in defeat. For Wu State and Chu State, Liu Qi made the son of Liu Jiao, the king of Chu Yuan, that is, Yuan Ang's classmate-Liu Li as the new King of Chu. Liu Qi originally wanted to make Liu Tong, Liu Bi's nephew, the king of Wu. But Empress Dowager Dou said: "The king of Wu is the most senior among the princes and kings. He doesn't know how to set an example for the young people. Instead, he raised troops and disrupted the whole country. How can we give him a queen?" So Wu was directly expelled from the country.Now this old woman speaks arrogantly and arrogantly, and she is completely different from the empress dowager Dou who was cowardly and fearful when the country just fell into war, and apologized to her nephew Dou Ying. At this point, the largest civil strife in Emperor Jing's reign - the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu came to an end. The big winner was Liu Qi, who was full of ambition and triumphant; the biggest victim was Chao Cuo, who was betrayed by his most trusted person; In the end, Mr. Liu Bi failed to win that tone, and died unjustly.Thinking about it carefully, this turmoil was a catharsis of the internal contradictions of the ruling class of the Han Empire. The old aristocratic forces represented by Liu Bi were eliminated by the new aristocratic forces represented by Liu Qi, and the history of the Han Dynasty turned a new page.Although the price of this change was a bit too high, Liu Qi's era was finally kicked off with great vigor.