Chapter 51 The madness at the end of the third quarter

In the first month of the twenty-sixth year of AD, the Red Eyebrow Army left Chang'an on the front foot, and Deng Yu followed up on the back foot, and successfully regained Chang'an without a single soldier.However, Chang'an at this time was already ruined and devastated. Seeing that it was no longer possible to stay in the city, Deng Yu had to garrison troops in Kunming Lake outside the city. Chang'an was restored, the old capital was restored, and Deng Yu's reputation reached the peak of his life.However, the sun will move, and the full moon will lose money.After Deng Yu's peak, he began to have bad luck, and there was only a slope to go.

To talk about the source of Deng Yu's misfortune, we have to start with Liu Jia, the king of Hanzhong. Hanzhong was originally the territory of Yancen, a local hero. After Liu Jia was named the king of Hanzhong by Liu Xuan, he took over Hanzhong and surrendered Yancen. With Nanzheng as his capital, there were hundreds of thousands of people.In February of the twenty-sixth year of AD, Yancen led the crowd to rebel, counterattacked Liu Jia, surrounded Nanzheng, and Liu Jia was defeated. Yancen took advantage of the victory and marched into Wudu, intending to pacify Hanzhong in one fell swoop.Occupying Wudu is a remnant of Gengshi Emperor Liu Xuan's remnant armed forces—Zhu Gonghou Li Bao.Li Bao defeated Yancen, and Yancen was defeated. He led his troops north to Sanguan, entered Guanzhong, and stationed troops in Chencang.

After Liu Jia was defeated and fled, he collected tens of thousands of soldiers and joined forces with Li Bao, taking Li Bao as his prime minister.Regardless of the safety and dangers of Hanzhong, Liu Jia wanted to find Yancen for revenge. He mobilized all his troops and pursued Yancen, all the way into Guanzhong, and finally defeated Yancen in Chencang. Both Liu Jia and Yan Cen entered Guanzhong, and Hanzhong was empty and empty. Shu Emperor Gongsun Shu took the opportunity to send general Hou Dan to conquer Nanzheng and annex the entire territory of Hanzhong. Seeing that the Hanzhong base was lost, Liu Jia quickly returned to the army, fought against Hou Dan, and was defeated.After Liu Jia lost Hanzhong, he had no choice but to return to Guanzhong.

So far, in Guanzhong, where wars are frequent, two more powerful wandering armed forces have squeezed in-Liu Jia and Yancen. After Yancen was defeated by Liu Jia, he led his people to move eastward and stationed in Lantian, only a hundred miles away from Chang'an.Deng Yu was overjoyed, thinking it was a soft persimmon delivered to his door, he didn't pinch it for nothing, and sent a large army to Lantian to fight against Yancen. However, Deng Yu far underestimated Yancen's combat effectiveness.The two armies fought, and Deng Yu was defeated and retreated to Chang'an.Yancen did not pursue and fight fiercely, but marched into Duling, not mentioning the recuperation soldiers.

Deng Yu's nightmare had just begun.Then there was a comeback of the Red Eyebrow Army. After the Red Eyebrow Army left Chang'an, they ran rampant all the way, invincible.However, once it entered Tianshui in the west, it encountered the warlord Kai Xiao who ruled the northwest.Kaixiao has been operating in the Northwest for a long time, with strong troops and strong horses, he was worried that there would be no battle to fight. Facing the Red Eyebrow Army, which is said to be invincible in all battles, he was not afraid at all, and personally led the army to fight.The Red Eyebrow Army was defeated and fled in despair.Unyielding, Kai Xiao pursued wildly all the way, winning consecutive battles, and pursued all the way to Wushi and Jingyang, and then retreated and returned.

The battle with Kai Xiao was the first defeat of the Red Eyebrow Army in Guanzhong, and they were chased and killed by Kai Xiao again and again, their mentality has become frightened.Even though Kai Xiao had withdrawn his troops, the Red Eyebrow Army still panicked and continued to flee wildly.Fleeing to Yangcheng, heavy snow fell from the sky, and the deep pits and huge valleys were all filled with heavy snow.The red-browed soldiers usually only know how to grab gold, silver and jewels, but they forgot to grab more clothes. Nearly half of the soldiers froze to death, but they didn't care about burying them and abandoned their bodies where they were. The rest continued to flee desperately to Chang'an.

To the west and north of Chang'an are the mausoleums of the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty, including the Changling Mausoleum where Liu Bang and Empress Lu were buried together, the Anling Mausoleum of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, the Yang Mausoleum of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, the Mao Mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the Ping Mausoleum of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty ,etc. The red-browed army returned to Chang'an, passed by the above mausoleum, had just escaped from death, and immediately became greedy again, and began to dig the imperial tomb and steal treasures.

After Deng Yu was defeated by Yancen, his soldiers became weary of war, coupled with the lack of food, their morale became more and more low.Deng Yu rested his troops in Chang'an to support his soldiers, and he no longer dared to take the initiative to attack, he just wanted to defend Chang'an.However, the Red Eyebrow Army excavated the imperial tomb of the Western Han Dynasty, but Deng Yu had to save it.All the ancestors of Liu Xiu were buried in the imperial tombs. If Deng Yu sat back and watched the red eyebrow army dig up these imperial tombs, he would not be able to explain to Liu Xiu in the future. The army went to war.

Although the Red Eyebrow Army was seriously injured, Deng Yu's soldiers were also hungry and exhausted. The army food was cut off, and each person could only eat a small handful of jujube vegetables every day.The two armies fought, and Deng Yu was defeated again. Chang'an was already an empty city, and it was meaningless to flee back to Chang'an. As soon as Deng Yu left, the Red Eyebrow Army had no obstacles in excavating the imperial tomb, and they could dig as much as they wanted. Thick burials were prevalent in the Western Han Dynasty, and the amount of treasures in the emperor's mausoleum was even more appalling.Take the Maoling Mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty as an example. Emperor Wu of the Han used one-third of the world’s tribute every year to build the mausoleum. It took 53 years to build the mausoleum. , the huge mausoleum with a height of fourteen feet and a square of one hundred and forty feet has long been filled with rare and rare treasures, and there is nothing left.

The red-browed army digging mausoleums and stealing treasures is already a great crime, and then there is another beast, which is especially heinous. According to the funeral rites of the Western Han Dynasty, all emperors and empresses were buried in golden jade clothes.According to the superstitious concept of the ancients, it is believed that the golden jade garment has a magical power, which can keep the body immortal.After the red-browed soldiers dug up the tombs, they actually witnessed this miracle with their own eyes. All the corpses wrapped in golden jade clothes were lifelike. Except for their eyes being closed, they were almost living people.

The emperors are men, useless, light a fire, burn to ashes and pull down.As for the buried empresses and concubines, including the famous Empress Lu, they still retain their beauty from their lifetimes, which aroused the soldiers of the Red Eyebrow Army with animal desires, and took turns to rape the corpses and vent their insults. The emperors, queens and noble concubines in these tombs were so noble during their lifetime. They were above all living beings. A woman commits adultery to vent her desire.Reading history so far, can be a long sigh. Our nation is a state of etiquette, which has always been advertised as filial piety, cautious in the end, chasing the distant future, respecting the ancestors, the so-called death is like life.But the problem lies in this filial piety. All filial piety is only for one's own ancestors.Our own ancestors, of course, have to be worshiped at the four seasons. As for other people's ancestors, it has nothing to do with us. We can dig and burn if we want. Alas, the red-browed army, rather than saying that they are insane, it is better to say that they no longer have the heart of awe.They don't even care about their own lives, so how can they expect to maintain a minimum of compassion for the living and respect for the dead?