Liu Xiu's Battle of Kunyang was an example of a battle with fewer victories and more victories, and in 23 AD, Emperor Liu Xuan sent Wang Feng and Wang Chang, liu Xiu attacked Kunyang, and they soon occupied Kunyang, and then laid down the neighboring city and Dingling.
After Liu Xuan became emperor, Wang Mang was restless, and when he heard that Kunyang and other cities had been captured, he was naturally very angry, so he decided to concentrate all his forces. Deliver a fatal blow to the rebels,
Wang Mang gathered an army of 430,000 and falsely claimed to be a million troops. Situ Wang Xun and Wang Yi of the Great Sikong were sent as commanders to capture the city of Kunyang.
His idea was to save the defeat with more victories and less use of the tactics of the sea of people, and Wang Mang sent jubu to fight this jububa, who was very tall and took four horses to pull in the car. There is also a special ability to drive the tiger and leopard bear.
The army stationed in Kunyang was only eight or nine thousand people, and they saw Wang Mang's army rushing like a tide to surround the small city of Kunyang on the third and outer three layers, and in the face of such a disparity in strength, the generals of the Han army wanted to surrender. Some people also said that thirty-six plans should be taken as the best policy.
But some people firmly stated that although Wang Mang's army was large, it was all pieced together. These people have been defeated repeatedly like birds of fright, and although Kunyang City is a small city, it is very strong. Although our army is small, but it is full of vigor, as long as we wait for reinforcements, then we can eliminate all of Wang Mang's strength at once.
Although it is said that there is a main battle faction, most people still say that the enemy is strong and weak, irresistible, or scattered and fleeing for their lives, and only by dodging the sharp edge can they make a comeback.
At this time, Liu Xiu tried his best to exclude the public opinion, saying that although there were few people in our army, we still had the strength of nearly 10,000 people. Scattered breakthroughs can only be surrounded and annihilated, and he proposed a battle plan, Wang Feng and Wang Chang defending the city. He took his own soldiers to ask for help. If we can attract reinforcements, we should cooperate inside and outside, and attack inside and outside, then it will not be difficult to kill Wang Mang's army.
Everyone agreed to Liu Xiu's plan. Wang Xun and Wang Yi believed that their strength was very strong, and they did not pay attention to the rebel army of ten thousand people at all, so they committed the problem of arrogance.
They did not divide their forces to attack the rebel armies in other areas, nor did they encircle the nearby cities of Gaocheng and Dingling. Instead, it concentrated all its forces under Kunyang City.
It was precisely because of their mistakes that Liu Xiu's battle plan could be successful, Liu Xiu sneaked out in the evening and asked for help separately, at first the two places were also very scared, they had no interest in hitting the stone with pebbles, but under Liu Xiu's hard bubble, they finally sent troops to rescue the siege of Kunyang.
Wang Xun and Wang Yi brought new weapons and equipment, and also sent soldiers to dig tunnels from underground to attack the city. However, the rebel army struggled to hold on, and did not let the new army succeed for more than a month.
At this time, Liu Xiu's reinforcements came to them and camped four or five miles away from the New Dynasty army, and then attacked the New Dynasty army from behind.
When Wang Xun and Wang Yi heard that Liu Xiu had only brought them, a few thousand of them said that there were too few Han troops who had been sent to their deaths, so they also sent thousands of people to confront Liu Xiu, so that the mistake of light enemies was repeated.
Although Liu Xiu had changed to a small number of people, he knew that the New Dynasty Army was a patchwork, so he specifically selected the weak parts of the New Army to attack, after several victories. The momentum of the Forces nouvelles is gone.
He also used a strategy to leave the positions of the Forces nouvelles with so-called important information. In this so-called intelligence, he wrote that Wancheng had been captured by the Han army of the Han Dynasty, and at this time a large number of Han troops could come to the aid of Kunyang, and Wang Xun saw the letter and knew that he did not seem to be able to do it, so he said. Kunyang had not fought for more than a month, if it did not retreat. Then the Han army will only have one way to die when it arrives.
At this time, Liu Xiu took three thousand death squads and attacked Wang Xun's base camp. Wang Xun and Wang Yi were awakened in their sleep, because they were caught off guard, they were defeated, Wang Xun was killed in the melee, and the army that Wang Mang had put together was even more chaotic.
At the critical moment, the army in Kunyang City also came out to help the battle, and the two sides were caught in the attack. The new Dynasty army seemed to have only the killer skill of Ju Wuba, but unfortunately, the beasts he released had no actual combat experience at all. The forces of the New Army suffered numerous casualties.
And interestingly, this time the weather changed. It rained heavily, and the Beast Gang squeezed the Giant Bully into the water without choosing a way. This legendary figure died like this,
And the great defeat of the new dynasty army, the fall into the water and the killing, as well as being trampled to death by their own people, all kinds of tricks to die.
Their corpses blocked the water to a halt, and Wang Yi fled back to Luoyang, and only a few thousand people were left to flee to the death.
In the Battle of Kunyang, the Han army eliminated the main force of the new dynasty army at once, and finally the rebel army directly attacked Chang'an, the Kunyang War, which became the most famous example in history of winning more with less, and Liu Xiu, because of his great merits in the Battle of Kunyang, said that his reputation became higher and higher, and finally expanded his power to become emperor and established the Eastern Han Dynasty.