Life is long and fleeting, some people see dust, some people see stars
China has been up and down for five thousand years, more than 400 emperors, if you say who really deserves to be called an emperor for thousands of years? It is estimated that there will still be some controversy, but if which emperor has the best luck, everyone will definitely say that Liu Xiu, the Emperor of Han Guangwu, has many titles such as "Son of the Face", "Great Magic Master" and so on. But I believe most people are hearsay, right? Have you really understood Liu Xiu's life? Next, the painter will come to see how Liu Xiu went from the son of The County Ling to the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Liu Xiu was the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, of course, because of the implementation of the Tuien Order (that is, the most powerful Yang Scheme in the world that everyone knows), the descendants of Han Gaozu were demoted layer by layer, and when it came to Liu Xiu and his father, there was only one county order. Originally, as the son of the county order, at least it was okay to live, but unfortunately Liu Xiu's father died early, Liu Xiu became an orphan at the age of 9, and was finally adopted by his uncle, so Liu Xiu completely became a commoner.
Liu Xiu has always been diligent in farming, and his brother Liu Xiu
Good Chivalrous Keeper,
Therefore, Liu Xiu often ridiculed Liu Xiu for saying that he had no lofty ambitions, and even compared himself to Liu Bang, comparing Liu Xiu to Liu Bang's brother Liu Xi. Later, Liu Xiu went to Chang'an City to study, and followed the capital
Mingru met when he was studying
Deng Yu
、
Zhu You
And others, these two people were later included in the "Yuntai Twenty-Eight Generals", which can be said to be Liu Xiu's entrepreneurial team. Liu Xiu, who was in the capital at the time, saw it on the street
Holding Kingo
Walking by, seeing that the scene was very spectacular and generous, he was greatly sighed and wrote a rather ideal article: "The eunuch is regarded as a jinwu, and the wife deserves it."
Yin Lihua
”。 This phrase was widely circulated, and later became a famous saying throughout the ages, which triggered many "
The Tyrant of The Chaos
"Resonance.
On the other hand, our "crosser" Wang Mang finally couldn't help it after changing two emperors in a row.
In the first year of the first year, Wang Mang abolished the baby (
Baby Liu
As the Duke of Ding'an, he was officially proclaimed emperor of the Han Dynasty and established
New Dynasty
, Jianyuan"
Founding of the Nation
The Western Han Dynasty finally perished after 214 years of rule. Wang Mang's series of new policies that were ahead of him were simply unrealistic, violating the interests of the powerful and the powerful, but also failing to protect the interests of the common people; coupled with the continuous natural disasters such as water and drought, the vast central plains were thousands of miles away.
Mourning is everywhere
。 Finally, peasant armies revolted one after another, and suddenly Kyushu fell apart and the world was in chaos.
In Nanyang, Liu Xiu, together with his brother Liu Xiu, officially put out the slogan of "Restoring the Cause of the Ancestors of Gao, Fixing the Autumn of The World" and declared an uprising; because it was there
Namyang County
The history refers to liu xiu's brothers' soldiers and horses as the lingling army, and the main force of the lingling army is the Liu clan of Nanyang and Haojie of this county. Of course, at the beginning of the business, it was inevitable that it would be difficult, Liu Xiu was once riding a bull to fight, and after several battles, Liu Xiu had his own war horse.
When Liu Xiu led a group of men and horses to attack XiaoChang'an, he was defeated by the new army, probably due to luck, Liu Xiu rode away alone, and saved his sister and sister on the way; but
At this time, the Lingling Army had no longer the strength to fight and was basically facing disintegration. At this time, Liu Xiu took his brother Liu Xiu to visit the greenland army in the surrounding new city and Pinglin, the strength of the greenland army in these two places was far stronger than Liu Xiu, but it could not hold up the protagonist aura of the son of the face, and the green forest army of the two places finally assisted Liu Xiu and Liu Xiu to defeat the new army.
More than the first year,
Liu Xuan
He was proclaimed emperor by the main generals of the Green Forest Army, Jianyuan"
Reform
", for the more first emperor. Of course, the two brothers of Liu Xiu were extremely dissatisfied, but now everyone was already a coalition army, and at this time, the Green Forest Army was the most powerful, and they could only obey the arrangement. The establishment of the regime from the beginning, this move shook the new dynasty, you know that in ancient times you may be able to revolt and maybe you can still recruit security, but when you establish a regime, it is basically immortal, after all, a mountain does not allow two tigers,
Wang Mang followed
Dispatched
Great Sikong Wangyi
Great Situ Wang Xun
A total of 420,000 elite troops from various prefectures and counties pounced on Kunyanghe
Wancheng
On the front line, they are trying to extinguish the nascent regime in one fell swoop.
Wang Yi and Wang Xun led their army west out of Luoyang and besieged the Han army at Kunyang City, at this time the Han army was only more than 9,000 people facing hundreds of thousands of new troops, all of whom wanted to abandon the city and flee. Liu Xiu stood up and said that "the combined forces can still win, and it is difficult to save the dispersion" as an excuse, and persuaded the generals to stick to Kunyang. He led 13 cavalrymen to rush out of the encirclement and blockade of the new army of 400,000 troops, and went to mobilize reinforcements, otherwise it was the protagonist, Liu Xiu and 13 cavalry, after breaking through the encirclement, did not lose a single person, and returned with 17,000 elite soldiers to support Kunyang.
Wang Yi and Wang Xun claimed to be a million troops to the outside world, and did not pay attention to Kunyang City at all, and the Kunyang defenders, because they had no way to retreat, insisted on holding the dangerous city, and finally insisted until Liu Xiu led the army to help. Liu Xiu, unlike other generals, strategized in the military tent, but directly led more than a thousand elites as the forward, repeatedly charged, and killed dozens of people in the new army, the Han army saw that Liu Xiu was so brave and fierce, morale was greatly boosted, all the troops took advantage of the victory to attack the new army, beheaded hundreds of thousands of ranks, and directly repelled Wang Yi's army with more than a thousand people. Do you think this is where Liu Xiu is most powerful?
No, and then he didn't know where Liu Xiu's courage came from, so he personally led 3,000 elite soldiers to detour behind the enemy and directly launched a fierce attack on Wang Yi's base camp. Are they all said to be because Wang Yi is a light enemy? You say that if you are a general in command of an army of 400,000 people, in the face of 3,000 people and horses raiding your base camp, you will not take the enemy lightly... Wang Yi ordered the battalions to hold their positions, and then led tens of thousands of horses and horses with Wang Xun to fight (if you say that tens of thousands of horses against 3,000 is also a light enemy, then I did not say), Wang Yi thought that this was a matter of hand to hand, and as a result, Liu Xiu's men and horses were extremely heroic, and only 3,000 people beat Wang Yi's tens of thousands of horses and horses to the point of collapse, and Wang Xun was directly killed in battle, and Wang Yi's men were suppressed and did not dare to support for a while. The Kunyang defenders saw that Liu Xiu had won, and also took advantage of the situation to attack, and the new army was in chaos, but even if the total number of Han troops was less than 30,000, the new army still had hundreds of thousands of people at this time. If you put it on someone else, it's hitting a pebble with a pebble! However, when the Han army attacked, suddenly meteorites fell from the sky on the camp of the new army, and then the wind was fierce, the rain was pouring, the water soared, and more than 10,000 people of the new army were drowned, and the water did not flow, and the new army was completely defeated. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty records:
"There will be great thunder and wind, the roof tiles will fly, the rain will fall like a note, the rivers will overflow, the tigers and leopards will fight, the soldiers will fight, the drowned will be tens of thousands, and the water will not flow." Wang Yi, Yan You, and Chen Mao lightly rode the dead man across the water and fled. He has obtained all the treasures of his army and armor, and he has no chance of winning, and he will not be able to burn the rest for months. ”
That's why everyone says that Liu Xiu is the Great Magic Master! Some things are not easy to explain, meteorites, thunderstorms, torrential rain, beasts, all of which seem to be the spells summoned by Liu Xiu, the key is that these things basically did not cause losses to Liu Xiu's subordinates, but chased the new army all the way, and finally cut off the water, so that Liu Xiu could chase the new army, do you say that this is really a coincidence?
The new dynasty claimed that the main force of the million army was destroyed under the city of Kunyang,
Three auxiliaries
shake
New Mang
The regime collapsed.
In the first year (23 years), the Green Forest Army invaded Chang'an, and the "Crosser"
Wang Mang finally
Died in the melee, the new dynasty collapsed.
On the one hand, Liu Xiu continued to attack the city with the prestige of the Battle of Kunyang, and on the other hand, Liu Xiu's eldest brother
Liu Ji was killed by Emperor Gengshi for no reason. After hearing the news, Liu Xiu, in order not to be jealous, returned directly to Wancheng, never mentioning the merits of the Battle of Kunyang, nor serving the funeral for his eldest brother, but instead saying that Liu Xiu's fault was liu Xiu's fault; more importantly, the first emperor was originally deliberately killed because Liu Xiu disobeyed the imperial authority, and seeing that Liu Xiu was so humble, he was a little ashamed. Therefore, Liu Xiu was not only not convicted, but was worshipped as a great general and marquis of Wuxin. Here Liu Xiu fulfilled his wish when he was young and married Xinye, whom he had longed for many years
The giants are rich
——
Yin Lihua.
Although the genger regime overthrew Wang Mang's new dynasty, there were still many separatist forces at that time, including the Chimei Army in Shandong and the "Three Kings" forces in Hebei. Emperor Gengshi eventually decided to send Liu Xiu to subdue the Hebei forces, but did not intend to give him any army. In this way, Liu Xiu went to Hebei alone, seeing that he had just arrived in Hebei.
Liu Lin, the son of King Miao of Zhao, embraced a name
Wang Lang
people are in
Handan
He was proclaimed emperor, and Liu Jie, the son of king of Guangyang, also raised an army corresponding to Liu Lin. Liu Xiu is alone at this time, the situation is difficult, but don't be afraid, at this time our protagonist aura came again, Hebei Shanggu, Yuyang two counties expressed their full support for you Liu Xiu, our people are your people, this liu Xiu finally gained a foothold in Hebei, but also really have their own power. Then, in order to promote an alliance with Liu Yang, the King of Zhending, Liu Xiu personally went to the palace of Zhending and married Liu Yang's niece with solemn etiquette.
Guo Shengtong
(Digression: At this time, it was less than a year before Liu Xiu married Yin Lihua in Wancheng). After that, Liu Xiubing sent it to Handan and obtained it
Battle of Nanluan
Victory, killed Wang Lang and others. At this time, Hebei was basically controlled by Liu Xiu.
After that, Liu Xiu personally led the army to fight with the Tongma Peasant Army, and the result was that there were no rounds.
Hundreds of thousands of Copper Horse peasant troops directly expressed their willingness to surrender, after the absorption of the Copper Horse Army, Liu Xiu's strength increased greatly, and even once was called "Copper Horse Emperor", at the same time, the More Shi Emperor sent people to Hebei to demand that Liu Xiu surrender his military power, and returned to Wancheng with the army, Liu Xiu killed the emissaries of the More First Emperor and officially broke with the More First Regime. With the increase of Liu Xiu's power, more and more famous people in Guanzhong came to the rescue, and finally Liu Xiu, under the repeated urging of his courtiers, took the throne as emperor and Jianyuan at the Qianqiu Pavilion in Yancheng
Jianwu, after Which Liu Xiu led an army into Luoyang, set the capital here.
After the Green Forest Army and the Chimei Army fought in Chang'an, the final Green Forest was defeated, and the First Emperor was killed by Chimei, and Liu Xiu, who heard the news, immediately sent two troops to attack Chimei in the west; as a result, both troops were defeated by Chimei. Until Liu Xiu personally led the troops to battle, the Chimei army was defeated all the way, and finally more than 100,000 people of chimei actually surrendered to Liu Xiu in Yiyang, and offered the imperial jade seal representing orthodoxy, and Liu Xiu's throne was even more justified, and the Chimei army that had been traversing Shandong for more than ten years walked off the stage of history.
After that, Liu Xiu was even more out of control, sweeping away Guanzhong, collecting Guandong, pacifying Longxi, attacking Sichuan and Shu, marching all the way and soon dominating the world.
Many emperors are simple to start a business and difficult to keep their jobs, but Liu Xiu not only dominates the world, but what is even more rare is that
After Liu Xiu established the Eastern Han Dynasty, he treated all the founding heroes kindly, and at the same time made great efforts to govern, develop the economy, improve people's livelihood, and finally realized the "Guangwu Zhongxing".
In fact, Liu Xiu was indeed lucky at first glance, but in fact, Liu Xiu was the emperor who directly participated in and commanded the most wars in Chinese history.
His opponents who claimed the title of emperor alone were Wang Mang, Wang Lang, Liu Xuan, Liu Penzi, Zhang Bu, Liu Yong, Li Xian, Peng Peng, Lu Fang, and Gongsun Shu, not to mention the rest of the separatist forces. In fact, Liu Xiu also had endless suffering in the process of establishing such a brilliant battle record, and the Zizhi Tongjian once recorded that the Guangwu Emperor returned to the east and wrote to Cen Peng: "If the two cities fall, they can attack shu in the south." Man is not satisfied with his suffering, but he is peaceful and looks back at Shu. The head of every soldier must be white." The phrase "Every soldier has a white head" also reflects the hardships behind Liu Xiu's unification of the world.
Of course, it is undeniable that Liu Xiu's luck is really good,
It is precisely because of his anti-heavenly luck and his own unremitting struggle that he was finally able to establish the Eastern Han Dynasty, which has been passed down through the ages. The real "son of the plane", Liu Xiu, is actually a saint and sage.