Chapter 3 Three, sparks

The place Liu Xiu and Li Yi thought of was Chongling. Chongling was originally located in Ningyuan County, Hunan Province today.At that time, Changsha King Liu Fa made his son Liu Mai the Marquis of Chongling.Later, because the site of Chongling was located in the south, the terrain was low and the climate was humid, it was not an ideal place for human beings to live.Ever since, the central government of the Han Dynasty simply changed the title of the Marquis of Chongling to Baishui Township (south of Zaoyang City, Hubei Province) under Nanyang County, and the name of the country remained unchanged, and it was still called Chongling.By the way, Liu Fa, the king of Changsha, is the seventh ancestor of Liu Xiu.

To rebel, Li Yi and Liu Xiu saw it this way, no matter what, there must be a reliable team.The composition of these teams is first of all family members, followed by fellow villagers.At that time, the great ancestor Liu Bang attacked Pei County and started his business by relying on a group of fathers and folks in his hometown. Of course, in Chongling, it would be very unreliable for Liu Xiu to come forward to recruit troops.The most reliable convener is Liu Xiu's elder brother Liu.Liu has been in the underworld for many years, looking forward to the stars and the moon, and looking forward to the day of rebellion.So looking for him is absolutely right.

In this way, Liu Xiu returned to Chongling and encouraged her eldest brother Liu to call a meeting of the underworld to prepare for rebellion.The meeting immediately passed a resolution.After the meeting was over, the participants went home, called their family members, and at the same time mobilized the young children of Chongling to join the army. However, no one expected that when Liu sent people to the villages to call for help, the gang of young people in Chongling fled one after another, and no one wanted to be a soldier.But not long after, the gang of escaped people came back. They want to run because they are worried about being dragged into the water by Liu, the boss of the underworld. Getting into the water is like a fish in a pot, it is easy to get in and difficult to get out.They ran back again because Liu Xiu was back.Even Liu Xiu, who has always been "cowardly and fearful", dared to fish in the water. Damn, if I don't go down, am I still a man?

In this way, under Liu Xiu's exemplary leadership, Liu finally got a team of his own, with a total of seven to eight thousand people. This year, Liu Xiu was twenty-eight years old. However, at this moment, an unfortunate news came-the secret rebellion was leaked. Everything is difficult at the beginning. There have been many rebellions in ancient times, and the bad thing is that the beginning was not done well.How could Liu Xiu and the others leak the secret of their rebellion?In fact, this is a bit long to say. That's right, before Liu Xiu returned to his hometown, it wasn't Li Yi who first planned the rebellion, but Li Yi's cousin Li Tong.The reason why Li Tong wanted to plan came from a sentence from his father Li Shou.Li Shoushi was Zongqing's teacher, and he was also fascinated by the business of observing astrology and studying prophecies.He told Li Tong that Mrs. Liu should come back and Mrs. Li will be her assistant.

Li Tong thought about it for a long time, the Liu family was going to rise again, and I heard that Liu Xiu was going to be the emperor, isn't there a ready-made Liu Xiu there?Therefore, he sent his cousin Li Yi to recruit Liu Xiu into the gang.Unfortunately, there were too many people talking about it, and the matter was discovered by the government before it even started. When Wang Mang investigated, he immediately found Li Tong.Li Tong escaped, and his father Li Shou and his family of more than 60 people were all executed. Everything has leaked out, and it is impossible for Yu Liqiu to deal with the prefect of Nanyang County and seize his troops to revolt as planned.so what to do now?Human beings are alive, and a solution is conceived.Liu believes that relying on the seven or eight thousand members of the Liu family class alone will not be able to achieve success at all.The most urgent task is to unite.Only by uniting can we gain momentum and have enough strength to dig down the big tree of Wang Mang.

Liu had already made up his mind. He thought of the people he wanted to unite with. One was Xinshi Bing and the other was Ping Lin Bing. If you compare the various rebel teams to stocks, Xinshibing is the one that was listed earlier.In the beginning, there were more than 50,000 people in the rebel group in Lulin (southwest of Suizhou City, Hubei Province), but they suddenly encountered severe plague and half of them died.In order to survive, the Green Forest Brothers had to divide the rebel army into two teams, each seeking a way out. A part of the troops led by Wang Chang and others moved to Nanjun (now Jiangling County, Hubei Province), called "Xiajiang Soldiers".A part of the troops led by Wang Feng and Wang Kuang went north into Nanyang County (now Nanyang City, Henan Province), called "Xinshi Bing".Later, Chen Mu and others from Pinglin (now Pinglin Pass in the northeast of Suizhou City) also gathered more than a thousand people to rebel in response to Xinshi soldiers attacking Sui County, called "Pinglin soldiers".

Liu Xian sent someone to lobby Xinshi Bing leader Wang Fengping and Lin Bing Chen Mu, and they quickly sent word back that there is no problem in forming an alliance. On the anti-Wang Mang stand, we must be highly consistent, grab the meat together, and share together . And so it was settled.The offensive route was also drawn out: the coalition forces assembled in Tangzi Township (north of today's Zaoyang City, Hubei Province), first took Tangzi Township, then broke Huyang and Jiyang, and finally took Nanyang County-Wan County. Liu led his troops to set out from Chongling, and the three armies successfully joined up in Tangzi Township.Soon, they captured Tangzi Township and beheaded Huyang Wei.However, in Huyang County, internal strife broke out among the three armies.

Their main contradiction is the uneven distribution of meat. Liu's army is very good. Xinshi soldiers and Ping Lin soldiers are busy attacking the city, but they are eager to snatch property.In the end, Xinshi Bing and Ping Lin Bing turned around and suddenly found out that they gave a weird cry and agreed to have meat to eat together. Why did Liu Junjun not take out so much meat after grabbing it. Xinshi Bing and Ping Lin Bing all roared, emotionally.They clamored that if Liu didn't share the meat, the two armies were going to beat up Liu's troops first. Just when my family was about to get burned, the fire chief came.No one thought that the captain who put out the fire was actually Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu told Liu: We are doing big things, so there is no need to be greedy for such a small gain.You know, our rebels have just started on the road, and there is Jiyang in front of them, Wan County in front of Jiyang, and Chang'an City in front of Wan County.There is a long way to go, and the revolution is still far away. Comrades must work hard to unite.If you want to resolve the current crisis, you must take out the meat that Liu's family robbed and distribute it to others, otherwise you will just wait to be beaten. Liu Xiu's words pierced Liu's heart like a needle.In the end, Liu agreed to divide the meat, and Liu Xiu distributed all the property looted by Liu's family to Pinglin soldiers and Xinshi soldiers.When everyone saw that there was meat to share, they all dismissed and went to work.

A crisis is finally resolved.Next stop, Thorn Sun City. Jiyang City, which is today's south of Nanyang City, Henan Province.This place is far away from Wan County, the prefecture of Nanyang County.Soon, they captured Thorn Sun City.The coalition forces kept their spirits high and continued to advance.However, Liu didn't know that the prefect of Nanyang County had already dug a big hole in front of him, ready to wait for the rebels to jump into it. According to Li Tong's original plan, he planned to cooperate with the outside world, inspect the militiamen on the day of Liqiu, the prefect of Nanyang County, and kill them to seize the soldiers.Unfortunately, the plan failed.However, after the plan was leaked, two people were suffocated.

One is Zhen Fu, the prefect of Nanyang County, and the other is Liang Qiuci, the commander of the militia in Nanyang County. If they hadn't done a good job in intelligence work, they would have been waiting to die.So, when the insurgents came towards them this time, they squatted in the dark like two big bad wolves, their eyes shining green, quietly waiting for their prey to appear. To put it more clearly, they want to catch them all in one go to vent their hatred of retaliation. The battle started at Little Chang'anju, eighteen kilometers south of Nanyang City.To be precise, Liu was ambushed in Xiaochang'anju.Zhen Fu, the prefect of Nanyang County, and Liang Qiuci, the commander of the militia, launched an attack on the rebels in the early morning. The peasant rebels led by Liu fell down immediately like a landslide. What broke Liu Jinjun's rhythm was not how good the government troops were, but a thick fog. At that time, there was heavy fog, and the rebel army was on other people's territory, like a school of fish hitting a fishing net, or a herd of cattle stuck in a swamp, unable to tell their direction.So the government army chased Liu's troops to fight, just like a pack of wolves chasing a flock of sheep, without hindrance. This shows how important weather forecasts are to warfare. When Liu Bing was defeated, Liu Xiu followed suit.To say that Liu Xiu is a clone of Liu Bang is really not made up.Back then, Gaozu Liu Bang was chased by Xiang Yu's subordinates all the way. He got into the carriage and asked Xia Houying to run with more horsepower.As he was running, he met his two children on the road and pulled into the carriage.But the chasing soldiers were about to catch up, so they kicked the two children out of the carriage in a hurry. Liu Xiu ran fast, but he was not as vicious as Liu Bang.He rode his horse and ran along the road, and when he saw his younger sister Liu Boji, he pulled her on the horse and continued running.Running and running, I met my sister Liu Yuan again, and brought her three daughters with her.Liu Xiu said, sister, come up quickly, our whole family will escape together. However, Liu Yuan refused.It's not that Liu Yuan doesn't want to run, it's obvious that Liu Xiu is riding a horse, not a car.One horse rides three adults and three children, do you think it is Lu Bu's red rabbit horse?Therefore, Liu Yuan told Liu Xiu, take your younger sister and run away, and the one who can escape counts as one, don't rely on it like this, or the whole family will die. Liu Xiu had no choice but to take her younger sister away.Liu Xiu fled in a hurry, and the cavalry of the government army also chased him frantically.Soon, they caught up with Liu Yuan and her three daughters. In this battle, Liu Xiu lost her sister and three nieces, as well as her second brother Liu Zhong.The dead rest in peace, the living are furious.Liu will regroup the disbanded rebels and return to Jiyang to rest for a while, ready to fight again.As everyone knows, Zhen Fu, the prefect of Nanyang County, couldn't wait any longer. Like a famished wolf, he rushed towards Jiyang. This is definitely a devastating blow.Zhen Fu and Liang Qiuci had 100,000 elite soldiers, and the 100,000 government troops were like locusts, overwhelming the Huangchun River in Xinye.What made the insurgents even more frightened was that Zhen Fu destroyed all the bridges on the Huangchun River, cutting off the retreat of the government troops. Zhen Fu must be a fan of Han Xin.His trick is to learn from Han Xin, and its scientific name is - Fight to the Stand. Theoretically speaking, the Peasant Army is barefoot and desperate, and it is not afraid of those fierce men wearing shoes.But now it seems that these people who wear shoes are not only fierce, but also not afraid of death.No one is afraid of death, it depends on who can last till the end. The first to fail was not the government troops wearing shoes, but the barefoot Pinglin soldiers and Xinshi soldiers.Chen Mu, the leader of Pinglin Bing, and Wang Feng, the leader of Xinshi Bing, are both experts in whether the division of meat is fair.However, when they really want to fight the government army with real swords and guns, they have no confidence at all. They believed that Liu would definitely not be able to hold on to this battle.Since they couldn't hold on anymore, they had to get away before they were beaten. At this time, Liu had already smelled the pessimism pervading the army, and was in a hurry.It's useless to be anxious, we must find a way.At this moment, a piece of good news, like spring breeze and rain, brought the nectar of hope to Liu.