Chapter 18 1. The Battle of Chang'an

Chang'an is now chaotic outside and chaotic inside.The common people in the area under the jurisdiction of Sanfu on the outskirts of Chang'an camped and garrisoned troops, made enemies with Chimei, and vowed to take Liu Xuan back.Unexpectedly, their roars did not rescue Liu Xuan, but killed him instead.So they were very angry, and then they swore that they would not live together with Chimei. The people in the Sanfu area are not used to Chimei, mainly because their internal management is too chaotic.The soldiers of Chimei's army went to Chang'an Avenue, and as long as they were pleasing to the eye, they were their own.It has become Chimei's mantra to not grab white or grab white when going out.It is all nonsense to support the Han royal family and speak for the people's livelihood in the world.

In fact, when the red-browed soldiers started the revolution, they were somewhat ideal.The red-browed leader once used such a slogan: "If you kill someone, you will be killed, and if you hurt someone, you will be compensated." After many years, people's faces changed as soon as they got richer, and those revolutionary slogans were thrown out of the sky long ago. In the last years of Wang Mang, Grand Master Wang Kuang sent troops, and he had to do a lot of looting when he was on the road.At that time, the people of Chang'an sighed as soon as they went out: I would rather meet Chimei than Grand Master Wang Kuang.Many years later, the grand master Wang Kuang left, and they were so unlucky that they really met Chimei, but they never met a benevolent teacher who neither steals nor snatches.

If you walk a lot at night, you will always encounter ghosts. This is something reserved for the unlucky.However, like the common people in Chang'an, there are many ghosts, so they must encounter a god occasionally.That's what they think and what they hope for. So I looked forward to the stars and the moon, and suddenly one day, an earth-shattering news came from the outskirts of Chang'an-Chang'an came to the army that would not take the people's stitches. Soon, they all heard that the army of benevolence and righteousness had marched into North Chang'an City.The common people spread word of mouth, in order to witness the legendary justice army with their own eyes, every family brought the old and the young, and rushed to the side of the road to welcome them.Come, and sure enough, a well-disciplined army came.

The leader of this army is Liu Xiude's chief pusher--Deng Yu. Deng Yu never dreamed that he would be so popular.There are revolutionary fans everywhere on the road, singing and laughing everywhere, and people shouting to join the revolutionary ranks everywhere.It is roughly estimated that thousands of people join the army every day on average. The so-called those who win the hearts of the people win the world.Deng Yu's generals all believed that with the popularity of the people in Chang'an, now is the best time to attack Chang'an, so let's just stab into Chang'an city and forget it.

However, Deng Yu said something unexpected.He said: "No, now is not the best time to attack Chang'an City." Deng Yu made all the generals baffled.He explained: Although our team is huge, our popularity is strong enough.However, fighting is not a group fight, and if there are many people, you will definitely win.In our team, there is a fatal weakness, that is, there are many people, but the number of people who can really fight is very small.This is one of them. We marched westward alone, with no support troops before us, and no food supply afterward.But when Chimei took Chang'an at the beginning, he was full of vigor and abundant food.But these people are still robbers in the final analysis, as long as the food in Chang'an City runs out, they will definitely be in chaos.Wouldn't it be better if we took the opportunity to attack again then?This is the second.

Then, Deng Yu turned his head and said: "However, we can go north and take down the three counties of Shangjun, Beidi, and Anding. These three counties are rich in food, and we can use them as a base to strengthen training. As long as the red eyebrow soldiers weaken , we can attack the city.” In this way, Deng Yu left the fat piece of Chang'an City and went north to establish a revolutionary base.However, after his plan spread to Luoyang, Liu Xiu immediately became popular when he saw it. Liu Xiu sent a letter to Deng Yu, criticizing fiercely: "In the Guanzhong area, in the eyes of the common people, you are like the legendary Yao, and your red eyebrows are like the legendary Jie. The people in Guanzhong are in dire straits. I have longed for you to liberate them, but you have gone north, what exactly do you want to do?"

No one knows what Deng Yu wants to do.Although Deng Yu was severely criticized by Liu Xiu, he still made up his mind, abandoned Chang'an City, and went north to attack Shangjun. He still said before, now is not the best time to attack Chang'an, we have to wait. In fact, Deng Yu's theory is correct.He is like a wolf on the prairie. His sharpest trick is not to attack, but to look at the cattle and sheep on the slope, waiting patiently for the opportunity to strike.Sure enough, while Deng Yu was waiting, the interior of Chang'an City was in chaos. First of all, Wang Kuang, a Xinshi soldier who surrendered, and others felt that Chang'an couldn't stay any longer, and planned to flee.However, before they escaped from Chang'an, they were beheaded one by one by Chimei.Then, on the day of the twelfth lunar month, all the officials in Chang'an worshiped the gods together.Chimei held a grand banquet in Chang'an, but for some reason, all civil and military officials quarreled while drinking.Then there was a big fight, Sven swept the floor, and blood shot everywhere.Wei Wei, who was in charge of patrolling the security of Chang'an City, was not pleasing to the eye, so he immediately dispatched troops to climb over the wall and enter the palace, killing a hundred officials in the chaos.

Perverted in madness, perverted intensified madness.The red-browed army had nothing to do all day long, and went to the streets to grab food without food. One day they finally found out that Chang'an City had been robbed by them, and there was nothing to loot. The leader of Chimei, Fan Chong, decided to abandon Chang'an City and go out of the city to rob along the road.If you want to rob, you need to have a direction. The red-browed man discovered that there are three places you can go to besides Chang'an City. These three places are Shangjun, Beidijun and other places that Deng Yu wanted to take earlier.

After the red eyebrow left the city in a mighty manner, Deng Yu, like a cunning fox, led his army into Chang'an City easily with only two thumps. Yes, he got Chang'an City, but it is almost an empty city.More unexpected things are yet to come.Deng Yu thought that since Chimei led his troops away, the city of Chang'an would never escape again.But unexpectedly, Chi Mei, who had just left, turned around and ran towards Chang'an City. It is said that a good horse never turns back.But Chimei is not a good horse in the first place, and it is normal to turn back and eat grass. What's more, after they left the city, they found that there was no grass to chew on in front of them.

The situation is like this, after hundreds of thousands of troops marched to the north, they encountered other land grabbers, and they started to fight.I am not familiar with the place of life, and I am not a match for others, so I had to run away.This is not the worst. It just happened to be snowing in the north again, and many soldiers froze to death on the road.Ever since, they had no choice but to turn east, trying to withdraw to Chang'an. Chang'an is like a juicy watermelon, even though it was gnawed by the red-browed army until only the skin remained, it was better to have the skin than to have nothing to eat, so we had to make do with it.

The problem is, if they want to come back and continue eating, they first have to ask Deng Yutong if he agrees.Of course Deng Yu disagreed, Xiao Deng didn't even think about it, he transferred the army out of Chang'an, and drove to Yuyi, ready to intercept Chimei. Yuyi, which is today's west of Baoji County, Shaanxi Province.Here, the two sides fought fiercely, and the fight was in full swing.One refused to let him go back to Chang'an, and the other said he wanted to go back to Chang'an.After fighting for a long time, it turned out that the one who wanted to go back to Chang'an won the fight, and the one who was beaten to the ground was Deng Yu. In the end, Deng Yu was defeated and withdrew from Chang'an.Ever since, the Red Eyebrow Army returned to Chang'an City again, and continued to gnaw on the leftover watermelon rinds they had gnawed. Deng Yu fled to Yunyang (now northwest of Chunhua County, Shaanxi Province) in one breath, and looked in the direction of Chang'an very depressed.To be honest, he was angry. After playing with Chimei for so long, the revolutionary base in the north was not built, Chang'an was lost, and he was chased and beaten by others, what a shame. Know your shame and be brave, as long as you continue to fight, there will be a time to stand up.At this time, Deng Yu discovered a huge fighter.This discovery almost made him fly. The situation is like this, after Chimei returned to Chang'an, a group of rebels suddenly rose up in Hanzhong County.The name of the leader of the rebels was Yancen.As a local rebel corps, of course we can't tolerate Chimei going to run amok on his own territory.Ever since, they pulled the army to station outside Chang'an City, preparing to attack the city. The red eyebrow of Chang'an City saw Yancen's posture, and he couldn't wait to fight.Deng Yu thought that if he returned to Chang'an at this time, he would definitely win, so he immediately led his army and rushed to Chang'an. Deng Yu miscalculated again.When he rushed to Chang'an, he suddenly killed an army.Deng Yu saw that it was Xie Lu, the red-browed general who killed Liu Xuan. After a round of beatings, Deng Yu was defeated again and had to retreat again.Danger was like morning fog; it spread over Deng Yu's head.After these defeats, Deng Yu was no longer the general who was surrounded by revolutionary fans when he entered Guanzhong in the minds of the soldiers.On the contrary, many people have quietly slipped away. No one believed that following Deng Yu would have a bright future. Deng Yu had never seen himself so incompetent and useless.He originally thought that the land in Guanzhong was like a bird that couldn't fly out of his palm, but he didn't expect that Chimei didn't run away, and a powerful rebel group like Yancen in Hanzhong County emerged.What's even more frightening is that Yancen fought with Chimei and killed more than 100,000 Chimei troops.This kind of strength, Deng Yu didn't even dare to think about it. what to do?It is impossible to advance or retreat. The leader has written a letter to approve it. Is it necessary to go back and accept the crime now? Just when Deng Yu was at a loss, Liu Xiu sent someone to bring a message.He said, after playing for so long, you are also tired.Come back and take a rest first, I will send someone to attack Chang'an for you. After talking about the first thing, there is the second thing: you must be careful when you return to Luoyang, don't compete with Chimei on the road, they are already starving, Chang'an is not a place for them to stay for a long time, and they must retreat eastward.As long as we withdraw eastward, we will wait to make them look good. The general Liu Xiu sent to replace Deng Yu was Feng Yi.When Feng Yicai drove his troops to Huayin (now Huayin City, Shaanxi Province), he encountered the Red Eyebrow Army.The two sides fought a small battle, and for more than two months, only more than 5,000 people in Chimei surrendered. At this time, Feng Yi finally understood that it wasn't that Deng Yu was incompetent, but that Chimei was too powerful. However, Deng Yu, who was defeated by Chimei, couldn't swallow this breath.If this class teacher returns to Luoyang, it is better to tell him to hit the wall and die.He decided not to go back for the time being, but to stay and play with Chimei to the end. To be honest, after Deng Yu and Chimei played for so long, Chimei was tired, and Xiao Deng's army was also tired.However, Deng Yu was unwilling again.Soon, he led a group of tired soldiers to beat Chimei.As a result, he was defeated again. Now, he almost loses face.If the fight continues like this, in the end, not to mention the loss of old face, whether the little life can be saved is a problem.Looking at the red-browed army like pork rolling in a pot, Deng Yu was so hungry that he wanted to eat, but he couldn't eat any more, so he jumped up and down anxiously.He had no choice but to lower his face and ask Feng Yi for help. Deng Yu sent someone to tell Feng Yi that he would cooperate with his troops to launch a general attack on Chimei.But Feng Yi didn't even think about it, and immediately refused. Feng Yi replied to Deng Yu in this way: "The Red Eyebrow Army is not easy to provoke. I fought with them for more than two months, and only more than 5,000 people came to surrender me. Their team is still quite large. According to our way of fighting, it is simply impossible They can't be dealt with. If you want to deal with them, the best way is to induce surrender. If it doesn't work, you can only start a fight. But if you want to fight, it is definitely not your style of play. Also, the emperor has deployed two troops to the east to intercept The way for Chimei to retreat eastward. As long as Chimei withdraws eastward, we will attack from behind together, attacking from both sides, and the Chimei army will undoubtedly be defeated." Having said all this, Feng Yi believes that Deng Yu should understand his thoughts.However, Deng Yu did not accept this trick.As soon as he heard it, he became angry, mother, if you don't want to cooperate with me, then I will do it myself. Yes, Deng Yu wanted to risk his life. Chi Mei was too generous, to give him so much unbearable shame in such a short period of time.Wherever you fall, you must get up.He had to fight again, there was no way out, only by defeating the prestige of Chimei, could he hold his head up and go to Luoyang to meet Liu Xiu.