Chapter 293 This is too bad
"This battle is the Battle of Kunyang. At the right time, Liu Xiu was in a low position and had less than 20,000 troops. Many soldiers were not convinced by him. Faced with Wang Yi and Wang Xun's so-called 'millions' army, It can be said that there is almost no chance of winning.”
"The difference in military strength is too great. Even if Wang Yi and Wang Xun cannot attack Kunyang City, they can still surround the people in the city with so many people. Besides, they also have siege equipment. It is only a matter of time before the city is broken. ”
"Some generals in the city wanted to surrender, but Wang Yi and Wang Xun felt that Kunyang would be captured and did not accept surrender."
"The two of them think that Kunyang City must be destroyed. The credit will be obtained soon. If you surrender, where will I get the credit?"
"Not only was he not allowed to surrender, Wang Yi also threatened: 'The millions of troops who have passed must be destroyed. Now we will slaughter this city, march in with blood, dance before and after, don't worry about it!'"
As a general, Meng Tian snorted coldly and commented: "We haven't won yet, but we are already thinking about what will happen after the victory. Who doesn't know that the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly? Before the battle is over, the victory and defeat have not yet been decided, so we are taking credit for it and do not allow the enemy to do so." How can he be invincible if he is so arrogant and arrogant?”
In fact, what Wang Yi and Wang Xun thought was reasonable.
With hundreds of thousands of people fighting against 20,000 defenders in a city, I have the advantage and it is almost impossible to lose. The people in the city are about to take credit for their achievements, and of course they are not willing to accept the surrender of these people.
They certainly didn't expect that Kunyang would be in trouble and would become their downfall.
At this time, it is spring and summer. The scene of vitality and all things competing is around you. The credit is right in front of you. How can you not take it?
Li Nian smiled and said: "Actually, based on the analysis of the conditions of both parties, it makes sense for Wang Yi and Wang Xun to think that they will win this battle."
"It is said that their army has as many as 420,000 people. Even if there is still water in it, compared with the defenders in Kunyang City, the advantage is greater than 800,000 to 600,000. The advantage is indeed theirs!"
This kid deliberately said 800,000 vs. 600,000, which must have happened in the history of later generations, and then the side with an army of 800,000 also lost!
"But they were not facing ordinary people, they were the Great Magister Liu Xiu. When Wang Yi and Wang Xunfa wanted to capture Kunyang City, meteors fell to the ground that night. Fortunately, they managed to rush towards Wang Yi and Wang Xun's army camp. Gone.”
"Meteors fly from the sky, and the destructive power caused by falling at high speed is extremely terrifying. Even a meteor as small as a shuttlecock can make a crater in the ground. If it is larger, it can destroy the city, Wang Yi and Wang Xun's army The meteors encountered were obviously not small, otherwise they would not have been seen and recorded.”
"Wang Yi and Wang Xun never thought that they would be hit by a meteor, and they were not prepared at all. The meteors that night caused heavy losses to Wang Yi and Wang Xun's army. It is estimated that many people were killed or injured."
"But the key thing is not the casualties. Even if the meteor really killed and injured many people, the number of soldiers who survived would be more than the defenders in Kunyang City."
Meng Tian said: "The meteor falling into the camp will greatly affect morale and make Wang Mang's army think that the gods are helping the Kunyang defenders."
Li Nian nodded and said with a smile: "That's not all. Wang Yi and Wang Xun's army, which had survived the meteor attack, encountered a cloud ring like a mountain again during the day. Mountain-like clouds fell straight from the sky above the camp. It collapsed about a foot above the ground."
The First Emperor and the other three couldn't hold back. Wang Mang was really unlucky. His army was hit by meteors at night and frightened by cloud mountains during the day. You can imagine with your toes how morale will be reduced.
It’s not that our army is weak, it’s just that there are meteors on the opposite side and we can’t hold them back!
"Wang Mang's army only encountered meteors falling into the camp at night, and encountered this wonderful phenomenon of clouds and mountains during the day. People at that time were confused, not to mention those soldiers with low background and little knowledge. They only thought it was heaven. In helping the enemy, they stand opposite to heaven.”
"If they continue to fight the enemy, they will no longer be fighting the enemy, but will be fighting against God. Naturally, the soldiers of Wang Mang's army do not want to be enemies with God and have no intention of fighting."
Speaking of this, Li Niandao said: "If the soldiers of Wang Mang's army could know what meteors are, why they fall to the earth, and why the cloud mountains are formed, their morale would not be so low."
"But the morale of the army is low and there is no fighting spirit. Wang Yi and Wang Xun are still there, but the soldiers don't want to fight, so how can they win?"
"Then he was defeated by Liu Xiu one after another. Seeing that Liu Xiu was so brave and the enemy was so vulnerable, other rebel generals also became brave and won consecutive battles."
"Finally, after Liu Xiu led 3,000 dead men to disrupt Wang Xun and Wang Yi's formation, Wang Mang's army completely collapsed and began to flee."
"Just when Wang Mang's army was fleeing, there was a loud thunder and a strong wind, which blew away all the tiles on the house. There was a heavy rain, and the water in the Nishui River surged to overflowing. Such a celestial phenomenon scared tigers, leopards and other beasts to tremble and flee. The soldiers rushed to cross the Nishui River, and tens of thousands of people drowned, and the river was cut off. "
The First Emperor and the other three didn't know what to say. Wang Mang was also unlucky. His army of hundreds of thousands was defeated just like that. Li Nian didn't need to tell the story that followed. They also understood that Wang Mang had no way to save his life.
The loss of hundreds of thousands of main troops cannot be made up in a short while.
Wang Mang's situation is over, and it is only a matter of time before his complete defeat.
How could anyone be so unlucky as this?
There are meteors again, clouds and mountains again, thunderstorms again...
It was as if God was deliberately trying to destroy Wang Mang!
In sharp contrast to Wang Mang is Liu Xiu. How could someone be so lucky?
A battle that was almost impossible to win was actually won with the blessing of various changes in the world, as if God was helping him win.
However, the ability to summon meteors, summon clouds and mountains, and set off storms really fits Liu Xiu's title of "Great Mage". Against such a person, Wang Mang's defeat was not unjust.
Li Nian smiled and said: "Liu Xiu's luck in this battle can be called God's help, so he was also nicknamed the 'Son of the Plane' in later generations, that is, the Son of Heaven. He descended specifically to destroy Wang Mang and bring history back on track. "
When the First Emperor heard this, he frowned and asked a special question: "If Wang Mang was the variable in the late Western Han Dynasty, then you are the variable in the Qin Dynasty. What you do is also changing history. Will God also send someone to kill you?" Remove?”
This question makes sense. Li Nian thought for a moment and replied: "I don't think so. Wang Mang is just unlucky. His experience can actually be explained scientifically."
"Meteors are actually not uncommon. Meteors fly from the universe every moment, but most of them have been destroyed in the atmosphere."
"The atmosphere is made up of the invisible air around us. It is like the city wall of this world. Meteors that can fall to the ground generally do not pose a serious threat, and the chance of killing people is extremely small."
"Wang Mang's army was really unlucky. The camp they chose happened to be on the path of a powerful meteor. Rather than the meteor hitting them, it's better to say that they found their own position and waited for the meteor to hit them. ”
"There is also an explanation for the Yunshan that the army encountered during the day. It may be that the meteor at night affected the atmosphere in the Kunyang area, or it may be purely due to weather changes."
"It was late May and early June, and it was normal for the weather to change violently. The same was true for the storm that Wang Mang's army encountered when they fled."
Although he traveled through time, Li Nian is still a knower and will not attribute things he does not understand to God and gods. But after listening to Li Nian's explanation, the First Emperor didn't think so. He decided in his mind that he should add more security to this kid so that he would be prepared and avoid danger. He couldn't wait for something to jump out and kill this kid before doing anything. Then it's too late.
This boy is now not only the center of a series of reforms in Da Qin, many things depend on him, but he is also his future son-in-law, and this boy is quite interesting.
It's a pity that he is only a son-in-law, not a biological son. I don't know what his sons are doing in the local area.
In a certain county on the border of Chu Land, the anonymous Fusu was tugging at his beard and trying to suppress the annoyance in his heart.
Now he is no longer the son of the First Emperor, the noble son Fusu, but just a Qin soldier who was sent to the local area by the Qin Dynasty to serve as a minor official.
Before coming, he was full of ambition and vowed to make some achievements here, so that his aloof father could see that only benevolent government and moral governance can govern the world well, make the country healthy and peaceful, and enable the people to live and work in peace and contentment.
This matter is related to the dispute between him and his father's philosophy of governing the country. He does not want to lose, he only wants to win, and vows to prove that the philosophy of governing the country he upholds is correct!
However, after losing his status as a prince and becoming an ordinary Qin soldier, Fusu found that the problem was not that simple.
This place is too difficult to manage. A bunch of unruly people have no sense of reason or morality at all. He is helpless in doing anything here.
Especially because the place is close to the Xiqiang people, the folk customs here are quite tough, and they pay attention to convincing people with physics, but not with benevolence.
When he first came here, the locals were still a little in awe of him because he had assumed the identity of a Qin soldier. However, as time went by, they found that this annoying county official who spoke a lot of truth was just that, and many people didn't like him. If he ignored him again, if it weren't for the help of other Qin soldiers who came to this county, he would have been beaten long ago.
But other Qin soldiers gradually couldn't stand him, because Fusu often blamed other Qin soldiers, blaming them for being too barbaric and vulgar at times:
You are soldiers of the Qin Dynasty. The locals are just barbaric and tough. How can you be so barbaric? Doesn’t that mean fighting violence with violence?
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You must reason with them and educate them with kindness. Only those who cannot be educated can use violence.
Then, other Qin soldiers who were transferred to the local officials couldn't stand him: For the sake of everyone being old Qin people, we are so kind to help you, but you don't appreciate it and don't tell us, who do you think you are, the emperor? Your Majesty, or gentlemen?
The Qin soldiers even doubted his identity. This guy really came from the army like them. From his age, appearance to personality, he didn't look like an old soldier in the army.
Some Qin soldiers reported Fusu's abnormality, thinking that he was probably not from the old Qin, at least he had never been a Qin soldier.
However, after the above verification, it was confirmed that Fusu's identity was correct, but he was not a Qin soldier who had been on the battlefield. He had done clerical work in the army in the past, which dispelled the suspicion of the local Qin soldiers.
In fact, the anomaly report was sent to the First Emperor, who found a way to add multiple patches to Fusu's identity to make it look reasonable and legitimate.
But after that, Fusu became a person who was disliked by the locals and disliked by his colleagues. It was naturally difficult for him to do things here, and he failed to accomplish anything he wanted to do.
Fusu has now gradually realized that he was able to achieve certain things in the past not because of his strong ability or good methods, but because of his status as a prince.
He had to change his mentality and methods in order to accomplish things here. But wouldn't that mean he admitted that his father's philosophy of governing the country was correct?
Fusu didn't want to change himself. He had his own pride and persistence. He spent every day thinking about how to get things done in this poor place and implement his ideas on governing the country.
But the more anxious he was to get things done and achieve results, the less he could do them. Fusu felt extremely upset, but his stubborn temper passed down from the First Emperor made him not want to admit defeat.
He knew that this county was deliberately selected and arranged for him by the First Emperor, and it would definitely be difficult to govern, so he had to make some achievements.
Not to mention how Fusu was angry and depressed in the border county, in Zhangtai Palace, after listening to Li Nian's words, Meng Tian and Meng Yi also had some ideas:
In the future, when leading the army in battle, we must pay close attention to the local weather and not make the same mistakes as Wang Mang's army. Meteors cannot be avoided, but clouds, mountains and storms still have a chance to escape.
Li Nian continued: "After this battle, Liu Xiu became famous all over the world and was known to the world, while Wang Mang's strength plummeted and he was unable to recover."
"In the fourth year of Emperor Di Huang's reign, the Green Forest Army invaded Chang'an. Wang Mang was killed by Du Wu, a soldier of the Green Forest Army. After his death, the school captain Gong Bin beheaded his head and hung it in Wan City. Dozens of soldiers rushed to kill Wang Mang. Wang Mang’s body split apart.”
"But when the people heard that Wang Mang's head was in Wan City, they all attacked him or cut off his tongue."
"At this point, Wang Mang died, and the new dynasty he established after usurping the Han Dynasty was destroyed."
"Wang Mang's head was collected by successive royal families until the time of Emperor Hui of Jin Dynasty, when the Luoyang arsenal was hit by fire and burned along with many other items."
After hearing Wang Mang's ending, the three emperors also felt sad in their hearts.
Although Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty and was regarded as a traitor and traitor, after establishing the new dynasty, he tried to find ways to solve the problems left over from the Western Han Dynasty.
It's just that there were problems with his solution, the opposition was too strong, and he was unlucky, so he perished.
"Although Wang Mang and his new dynasty died, they played a role in taking the blame for the Western Han Dynasty and making people think about the good things of the Western Han Dynasty. Little did they know that their problems were actually accumulated from the Western Han Dynasty."
"Due to the favor of the Western Han Dynasty, the descendants of Pei Gong spread all over the world, and Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu was one of them."
"This is probably one of the benefits of having more children and grandchildren. The larger the number of children and grandchildren, the more likely they will be successful, especially for the royal family. They may one day be able to re-establish the country for future generations."
"In that troubled time, many descendants of Pei Gong participated. Even if this troubled time is not ended by Liu Xiu, there is a high probability that it will be ended by other descendants of Pei Gong."
Li Niandao: "One of the important reasons why Liu Xiu was able to end the troubled times and quickly establish the Eastern Han Dynasty was his tyranny."
"After the First World War in Kunyang, Liu Xiu became famous all over the world. Many people thought that this person could achieve great things, so they placed bets on Liu Xiu."
"Liu Xiu first married Yin Lihua and got the support of the Yin family. Later, when he was sent to Hebei by Gengshi Emperor Liu Xuan, he married Guo Shengtong, the niece of Zhending King Liu Yang, and got the support of Hebei's powerful people."
The First Emperor asked curiously: "Rising with the power of a powerful man, after Liu Xiu wins the throne, won't he worry about laying an unstable foundation for his world?"
The First Emperor now basically understood what tyranny was. It might be progressive in the moment, but in the long run, it would sooner or later become a disaster.
(End of chapter)