Chapter 34 The third quarter revenge

Compared with the raging internal strife in Chang'an, the western capital, the situation in Luoyang, the eastern capital, was unusually calm and unaffected by Chang'an at all. Luoyang, as the gateway to defend Chang'an, was guarded by 300,000 elite soldiers led by Wuyin King Li Yi and Da Sima Zhu Tuan. Li Yi is a typical opportunist. When Liu Xiu's elder brother Liu Yan rebelled, Li Yi flattered Liu Yan and was named a deputy general by Liu Yan. Later, seeing that the Green Forest Army was more powerful, he turned to Taking refuge in the Green Forest Army and betraying Liu Yan for favor, Liu Yan was forced to commit suicide directly.

The housekeeping skill of speculators is that they are extremely sensitive to changes in the situation.When the Red Eyebrow Army first entered Jingzhou, Li Yi saw that there was bound to be a battle between the Red Eyebrow and the imperial court.Soon, the red-browed army invaded Chang'an through Luhun Pass, which was less than 50 miles away from Luoyang, but Li Yi sat and watched the red-browed army pass by without any obstruction at all.Li Yi's calculations are very precise: first, the goal of the Red Eyebrow Army is Chang'an, there is no need to force Chang'an to take the lead, and thus get burned; second, there is no chance of winning against the Red Eyebrow Army, and it will damage their own strength for nothing; third , Waiting for the Red Eyebrow Army and Chang'an to lose both sides in the fight, and then decide who to help, with the least effort and the most profit.

After the red-browed army entered Guanzhong, they won consecutive battles, and Chang'an's defeat was a foregone conclusion. Li Yi made up his mind to stand by and stand by, supporting his own self-respect.Liu Xuan urged him to send troops to serve the king, but he ignored it, and his younger brother Li Song asked him for help, but he still pretended not to see it. In Hanoi County, which is across the river from Luoyang, General Mengjin Feng Yizheng mobilized his troops and took Luoyang as an imaginary enemy.Feng Yi saw that Li Yi remained on the sidelines, and knew that Li Yi was going to wait and see for speculation, so he seized on Li Yi's psychology and wrote a letter to Li Yi to persuade him to surrender.

The founding heroes of the Western Han Dynasty were mostly civilians, and they were known as the Bureau of Generals and Prime Ministers in history.Most of the founding heroes of the Eastern Han Dynasty were Confucian generals, and Feng Yi was one of them.The book says: When Li Yi got the book, his heart was shaken.Liu Xuan will collapse sooner or later, he will either surrender to the Red Eyebrow Army or Liu Xiu, the two must be one of them.Between the Red Eyebrow Army and Liu Xiu, he would rather choose Liu Xiu. First, Liu Xiu was old with him, and the two were once as close as brothers; second, compared with the Red Eyebrow Army, Liu Xiu had more hope of winning the final victory.

However, if he really wanted to surrender to Liu Xiu, Li Yi couldn't help worrying. He killed Liu Xiu's elder brother Liu Yan. Could Liu Xiu forgive him?In Li Yi's view, he is fully qualified to be forgiven, not because he is innocent, but because he holds Luoyang in his hands and has 300,000 soldiers and horses. As long as Liu Xiu is not stupid, he will be forgiven. Li Yi wrote back, implying that surrender was not negotiable, and hoped that Feng Yi could convey his meaning to Liu Xiu.The book says: After Li Yi wrote back the book, he began to put all his eggs in one basket, waiting wholeheartedly for Liu Xiu's reply, and stopped competing with Feng Yi.

Feng Yi seized this opportunity wisely, mobilized front-line soldiers and horses, went north to attack Tianjingguan, took up the two cities of Shangdang, and cleared Hanoi's worries, and then returned to the south to cross the Yellow River (this was the first time Liu Xiu's forces Set foot in the south of the Yellow River), entered Henan County, conquered thirteen counties east of Chenggao, and surrendered more than 100,000 people.Wu Bo, the prefect of Henan Province, led more than ten thousand people to rescue, and fought against Feng Yi in the countryside.Feng Yi defeated Wu Bo's army, killed Wu Bo, and beheaded more than 5,000 ranks, thus gaining a firm foothold on the south bank of the Yellow River and possessing a large beachhead to attack the Central Plains from Hebei.

The battle happened right in front of Li Yi's Luoyang home, but Li Yi refused to save Wu Bo.Seeing that Li Yi really wanted to surrender, Feng Yi played Li Yi's book to Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu wrote back to Feng Yi and said: "Li Yi is so deceitful, people can't get the gist of it, so don't trust it." He deliberately spread Li Yi's book to Luoyang City.When Zhu Yu learned that Li Yi had secretly communicated with Liu Xiu, he was furious and ordered someone to assassinate Li Yi and take his soldiers and horses as his own. Hearing that Li Yi was dead, all the generals under Liu Xiu's command sighed in unison, thinking that Liu Xiu was too emotional and missed a good opportunity.As soon as Li Yi surrendered, Luoyang could be defeated without a single soldier. Now that Zhu Yu is guarding Luoyang, it will be even more difficult to conquer Luoyang.

Liu Xiu's explanation for this is: "To kill Liu Yanzhe, Zhu Tuan and Li Yi are also. I can forgive Zhu Tuan, but I will never forgive Li Yi. Because Zhu Tuan is just an enemy, but Li Yi is a traitor!" " As soon as Zhu Yu took over Luoyang, he immediately launched an attack on Liu Xiu. He ordered Su Mao and Jia Qiang to lead 30,000 troops to cross the river to attack Wencheng in Hanoi, and he himself led tens of thousands of troops to Pingyin to attack Feng Yi. Facing the attack of Zhu tuna, Feng Yi made a decisive decision: first cross the river and return to Hanoi to rescue Wencheng.Kou Xun, the prefect of Hanoi, sent soldiers from the county to guard Wencheng. He was overjoyed to see Feng Yi's reinforcements coming, so he ordered his soldiers to take advantage of the city to make noise and falsely proclaimed: "The soldiers of King Xiao are here!"

Su Mao and Jia Qiang's army heard that Liu Xiu personally led an army to help them, but they couldn't tell the truth from the fake, and they were in chaos.Feng Yi and Kou Xun rushed in two directions, defeated the enemy army, beheaded Jia Qiang, Su Mao led the remnant people across the river and fled, and more than half of them drowned. After breaking the siege of Wencheng, Feng Yi crossed the Yellow River without stopping, fought back at Pingyin, and fought Zhu Tuo.Zhu tuna was defeated and returned to Luoyang.Feng Yi chased him all the way to the city of Luoyang.Zhu Tuan closed the gate of the city tightly, and even though Feng Yi insulted his ancestors and ancestors under the city, he still refused to fight.Feng Yi knew that it was not yet time to storm Luoyang, so he marched around Luoyang city with a show of force, and finally withdrew his troops in victory and returned to Hanoi.

After this battle, Luoyang was terrified, and the gates of the city could not be closed during the day, and it became a lonely city.