Despite the constant defeats of the Xunyang regime, they were still dying, and Liu Hu sent Xue Daobiao, the son of Xue Andu and the auxiliary general, to attack Hefei and kill Ruyin Taishou Pei Jizhi. However, Liu Xun's reaction was also very rapid, sending the auxiliary general Yuan Hong to counterattack.
The battle of the trapped beasts of Liu Hu and others could not change anything, and the situation was getting worse and worse for the Xunyang regime. Previously, Ru Nan and Xincai Erjun were too defensive of Zhou Wei, and they raised troops at The Hanging Ou to declare their allegiance to the Jiankang court. Yuan Yan lured Sima Changzhenqi of Zhou Wei into rebellion, captured Zhou Wei alive and beheaded him, and the Xunyang regime appointed Chang Zhenqi to succeed him as Taishou. Now that the war situation has begun to turn around, Uncle Zheng of Huaixi raised his troops to attack Chang Zhenqi in response to Zheng Hei. Liu Yu then appointed Zheng Shuju as the Assassin of Northern Yu Prefecture.
On the other side, Cui Daogu was besieged by the local people and could only close the city gate to defend himself. Liu Yu took the opportunity to send people to comfort and appease, Cui Daogu asked for surrender, and Liu Yu immediately appointed Cui Daogu as the Assassin of Xuzhou. In August of that year (the second year of the First Tai Dynasty, 466 AD, the first year of the Northern Wei Dynasty), Emperor Fu Daolie and others heard of Pang Mengqiu's defeat and also opened the city gates to surrender.
What really put the Xunyang regime in danger of collapse was that after Zhang Xingshi occupied Qianxi, the grain in the Camp of Nonghu began to be scarce. Deng Huan planned to transport a large amount of military supplies to help, but he was afraid that Zhang Xingshi would intercept and did not dare to advance. At this time, Liu Hu led 400 lightly armed ships and advanced from the middle channel of the Quetou River, intending to attack Qianxi.
But in the middle of the way, Liu Hu said to Uncle Changshi Wang Nian: "I have been used to fighting on land since I was a child, and I don't know water warfare. When the infantry fought, I was among tens of thousands of people, but fighting on the water, I could only be on the top of a boat, the boats were traveling alone, they couldn't take care of each other, I was in a boat of only thirty people, this was not a safe solution, I didn't want to do it. So, Push got malaria, stopped the magpie's head, and did not dare to move forward. Only the general Chen Qing was sent to lead three hundred ships to Qianxi, instructed Chen Qing not to engage the enemy, and confessed: "Zhang Xingshi is a man I know very well, and he will automatically escape!" Chen Qing arrived in Qianxi and stationed at Megan.
After this, Liu Hu sent his general Wang Qi to lead more than a hundred ships to attack Zhang Xingshi. Zhang Xingshi counterattacked decisively and defeated Wang Qijun. Liu Hu saw the situation and led the rest of the fleet to withdraw to the lake, saying to Yuan Yan: "Zhang Xingshi's camp has been built, and it is impossible to break through in the short term. Yesterday's small battle, not a loss. Chen Qing had already joined forces with the armies of Nanling and Dalei to strangle Zhang Xingshi's upper reaches, our large camp was here, and the generals of Quetou had cut off his downstream, and he had fallen into our encirclement, so there was no need to worry about it anymore. ”
However, Yuan Yan was very angry at Liu Hu's reluctance to fight personally, and questioned Liu Hu: "The grain transportation route has been cut off, what should we do about this?" Liu Hu said disapprovingly: "They can cross us and go up against the current, so why can't we cross them and go down the river this time?" So he sent Sima Shen Zhongyu of Anbei Province to lead a thousand people on foot to Nanling to meet the army food.
However, contrary to his wishes, after Shen Zhongyu arrived at Nanling, he loaded 300,000 yuan of rice onto the ship, and loaded dozens of boats with military salaries and cloth, and nailed a wall with wooden planks on the ship, intending to break through. However, the fleet reached Guikou and did not dare to advance, so they sent people to cut a path to report to Liu Hu and requested that more heavy troops be sent to meet them. Of course, Zhang Xingshi would not miss such a good opportunity, and Feng Shouzhi, Ren Nongfu and others led three thousand people straight to Guikou to attack Shen Zhongyu. Shen Zhongyu left his weight behind and fled back to Yuan's camp, where all military supplies were taken away. Liu Hu's troops were terrified, and the general Zhang Xi surrendered to the imperial court officials.
Immediately afterward, Liu Liang, a member of the Zhendong Zhongbing army of the Jiankang Imperial Court, led the army forward, directly approaching Liu Hu's military camp, Liu Hu could not resist, and Yuan Yan panicked and said: "The enemy has invaded the middle of the people's liver and spleen, how can they survive!" At this time, Liu Hu was preparing to flee secretly, and on August 24, Liu Hu deceived Yuan Yan and said, "I intend to lead 20,000 infantry and cavalry to retake Qianxi upstream and transport back the surplus grain accumulated in Dalei." "Ask Yuan to choose all the horses for him."
Yuan Yan believed it with tears in his eyes, and as a result, on the same day, Liu Hu left Yuan Yan and went straight to Megan. After arriving at Megan, Liu Hu ordered Xue Changbao to collect ships, and then ordered all the armies in Nanling to set off, set fire to the cities of Dalei and flee. It wasn't until this night that Yuan Yan learned the news, only to see him angrily scolding: "This year, I can be hurt by this boy!" Then he called on his attendants to bring the horse he usually rode, named "Fei Yan", and said to his subordinates, "I will personally pursue Liu Hu!" The reality is that he also took the opportunity to escape.
The next day, Liu Xiuren led his army into the camp where the other side had no commander, accepted 100,000 people to surrender, and sent Shen Youzhi and others to hunt down Yuan Yan. Yuan Yan fled to Quetou, where he joined Xue Bozhen, the commander of the town guard, and led thousands of his troops to retreat westward, intending to go to Xunyang.
At night, when the group was staying in the mountains, Yuan Yan killed Ma And comforted the soldiers, turned back to Xue Bozhen and said, "I am not afraid of death, but I just want to go to Xunyang, ask for guilt in front of the Lord, and then kill myself!" After an impassioned speech, he shouted at the left and right attendants and took the runes given by Liu Zixun, who knew that the left and right attendants ignored him. At dawn, Xue Bozhen asked to talk to him alone, took the opportunity to cut off Yuan Yan's head, and then went to Qianxi to surrender to the military leader Yu Zhanzhi. Who knew that this Yu Zhanzhi immediately beheaded Xue Bozhen and handed it over along with Yuan Yan's head as his own merit. At this point, it is only a matter of time before Liu Zixun's Xunyang regime collapses.