Chapter 102 The fourth quarter soldiers approach the city

Facts have proved that Chang'an does not believe in tears!To defend Chang'an, the only way can only be war. Wang Mang hurriedly paid homage to nine generals, known as "Nine Tigers", and led tens of thousands of elite soldiers from the Northern Army to the east to fight.These tens of thousands of northern troops are the last capital of the empire. If they are wiped out, the empire will be completely over.Wang Mang took Jiuhu's wife and children as hostages in the palace to urge Jiuhu to be loyal to the country on the front line, and rewarded each of the soldiers with 4,000 yuan to boost morale.

What is the concept of four thousand dollars?In terms of the soaring rice price at that time, four thousand yuan was not enough to buy half a stone of rice.Seeing that Wang Mang was so stingy, Wang Yi directly advised: "It's just four thousand dollars, it's better not to reward."Success or failure is in this battle. If you want to fight the soldiers to death, you must also reward them to death. At that time, there were about 800,000 catties of gold in the treasury (a catty of gold was exchanged for about 10,000 renminbi), and there were countless other money, silk, pearls and jade.Wang Mang started his career by buying people's hearts. He has always been generous in his actions, and treats money like dung. At this time of crisis, there is no reason to be stingy and distressed.However, facing Wang Yi's request for a reward, Wang Mang remained silent and did not answer for a long time.

The monarch and his subjects were relatively silent.Wang Yi plucked up his courage and looked at Wang Mang squarely. He could hardly believe his eyes.The Wang Mang in front of him was still the emperor he was familiar with who ruled the world!In Wang Mang's body, there was no vitality, only the dejection of old age. Obviously, he had acquiesced to his failure, and he had given up resistance mentally.He is just an old man now, sitting alone in an empty palace, his heart is desolate, he no longer has any desires, only sadness is left.Wang Yi couldn't bear to look at it anymore, turned his head away, and felt very desolate in his heart.

After a long time, Wang Mang sighed: "The matter has come to this, what can I say!"If they love money more than country, and would rather fight for money than country, then I don't want this country.After speaking, tears fell like rain. Until now, Wang Mang still has not abandoned his illusion of human nature.He threw the question to the soldiers of the Northern Army. A gentleman is a metaphor for righteousness, and a villain is a metaphor for profit. Whether you love money or patriotism, you can decide for yourself! The answer of the soldiers of the Northern Army was very simple. The country is no longer a country, and money will always be money.You, Wang Mang, are too insulting to exchange us for a mere 4,000 yuan.So there were complaints and no fighting spirit.

The Nine Tigers led the northern army to Huixi in Huayin. They did not dare to meet the Han army. They just guarded the pass, starting from the Yellow River in the north and reaching Taihua Mountain in the south, laying down a line of defense tens of miles long.When the Han army saw the officers and soldiers coming, Yu Kuang led thousands of crossbowmen to challenge them.Deng Ye led more than 20,000 people from the south of Yan Township to Zaojie, Zuogu, and went around to the back of Jiuhu.The nine tigers were attacked by the enemy, and they were defeated.Among them, the three tigers Guo Qin, Chen Hui, and Cheng Zhong packed up their scattered soldiers and retreated to Weikou to guard the capital warehouse.The other two tigers, Shi Xiong and Wang Kuang, fled back to Chang'an.The rest of the four tigers (no name in the annals) fled without knowing where to go. As for the wives and children who are still in Wang Mang's palace, we don't care whether you, Wang Mang, want to kill them or not.

Deng Ye's defeat of the Nine Tigers coincided with Shen Tujian and Li Song coming from Wuguan, so they joined forces and attacked the Jingshicang together.Deng Ye took Wang Xian as the school lieutenant and led hundreds of people across the Wei River to the north and entered Zuo Fengyi to attack the city and seize the territory.Li Song sent his general Han Chen to lead the troops westward to test the way of Chang'an. Li Song and Deng Ye couldn't help attacking the capital warehouse for a long time, so they couldn't help being discouraged. The small capital warehouse is so strenuous, let alone Chang'an City!It seemed that we had to wait for the main force of the Han army to come, so we led our troops back to Huayin, rested our troops, and repaired our attacking equipment.

Li Song and Deng Ye's attack was thwarted, but the two little soldiers they released like kites—Wang Xian and Han Chen—were invincible and achieved fruitful results.From Wang Xian to Zuo Fengyi in the north, heroes from all counties have surrendered one after another without using a sword. .Han Chen marched westward to Xinfeng, where he encountered General Boshui (whose name is also unknown in the annals) of the Xin Dynasty. The two armies fought, General Boshui was defeated and fled. Then he chased him to Changmen Palace, less than twenty miles away from Chang'an City. Chang'an City has been surrounded by the Han army, and Wang Mang's last army, the Northern Army, has lost all casualties. Wang Mang had no choice but to pardon the prisoners in Chang'an City, and gave him soldiers from the arsenal.Wang Mang personally labored in the army, killed pigs and drank blood, and swore: "If anyone is not married, the ghosts of the society will remember it!"

Shi Chen led the prisoners out from Luomen, and was about to cross the Wei Bridge, when the prisoners dispersed in a crowd.In a few seconds, Shi Chen, who was a dignified Gengshi general, was reduced to a polished commander.Shi Chen looked left and right, damn it, there was no one left, the escape was really clean.Shi Chen came back disconcerted, alone.Wang Mang was very surprised and asked, "So fast?"Shi Chen nodded and said: Yes!Wang Mang asked again: "Where are the soldiers?"Shi Chen shook his head and said: Humph! Wang Mang closed his eyes and stopped asking.