Seeing that the Liangshan defenders who were about to attack Liu Song, they changed the situation because of the sudden appearance of Yuan Huzhi. Zang Qian, who was not angry, then asked Liu Yixuan to let him attack Dongcheng. This is a good idea in the case of superior troop strength.
However, at this time, Liu Yixuan and his henchmen had long distrusted Zang Qian, and Liu Yixuan's subordinates consulted Yan Lezhi to join the army and advised Liu Yixuan: "If Zang Yixuan once again conquers Dongcheng, I am afraid that all the great battle achievements will be attributed to him alone." You'd better send your own soldiers. Liu Yixuan sent Liu Chenzhi and Zang Zhi to attack Dongcheng together.
In the first year of Xiao Jian's reign (454 CE, the third year of The Northern Wei Dynasty), on the 18th day of May, Liu Yixuan reached Liangshan and set up camp on the west bank of Liangshan, and Zang And Liu Zhanzhi launched an attack on Dongcheng. Wang Xuanmu commanded all the large armies to come out to meet the battle, and Xue Andu led the assault horse to first rush into the camp of Zang Qian and the others in the southeast, attacked there, and cut off Liu Chenzhi's head. Liu Jizhi and Zong Yue attacked the rebels' northwestern positions, and Zang's army was defeated.
Subsequently, Yuan Huzhi set fire to the ships on the Yangtze River, and the fire on the river was raging, and the flames covered the river and spread to the fortress camp on the west bank, and the camp of Liu Yixuan's army was almost reduced to ashes. Then the various armies of the Liu Song court took advantage of the victory to advance, and the large army led by Liu Yixuan was suddenly defeated. Liu Yixuan escaped alone in a small boat, he closed the doors and windows of the boat tightly, hid inside and cried incessantly, and followed him with more than a hundred Jingzhou soldiers.
As for Zang, he did not know that Liu Yixuan had fled, and he planned to go to see Liu Yixuan to discuss the war, but when he knew that Liu Yixuan had escaped, he did not know what to do with himself, and he had no choice but to flee, and his subordinates also surrendered or fled.
In June, Zang fled to Xunyang, set fire to Xunyang's state capital buildings, and continued to flee west with his wives and concubines. He sent his most trusted man, He Wenjing, to lead the remaining soldiers to open the way ahead and reach Xiyang. Xiyang Taishou Lu Fangping deceived He Wenjing and said: "The emperor's edict says that only the culprits will be arrested, and the rest of the people will not be prosecuted, so you might as well flee by yourself." After Hearing this, He Wenjing immediately abandoned the army he led and fled alone.
Desperate, Zang Zhi prepared to go to Wuchang to join his brother-in-law, Taishou Yangchong of Wuchang County. Who knew that Yang Chong had been killed by Juncheng Hu Pizhi, and Zang Qian could not find a place to live, so he had to flee to the South Lake again, and when he was hungry, he would pick the lotus seeds in the lake to fill his hunger. When the pursuing soldiers arrived, Zang Qian covered his head with lotus leaves and sank his entire body into the lake, only revealing his nose to gasp.
Despite all kinds of concealment, on the day of June (the third day of the first year), his whereabouts were discovered by the military master Zheng Ju'er, who raised an arrow and shot at Zang Qian, right in the heart, and the soldiers and soldiers slashed at each other, and Zang Qian's intestines and stomach all flowed out, entangled with the water and grass in the lake. The pursuers cut off his head and sent him to Jiankang. Zang's descendants were also beheaded and displayed in public, and his henchmen were also killed.
On the other hand, Liu Yixuan initially asked Lu Xiu to go on a crusade against Zhu Xiuzhi, who expected Zhu Xiuzhi to cut off the traffic at Ma'anshan and hold his position by relying on the dangerous position he occupied. Lu Xiu launched an offensive against Zhu Xiuzhi, but failed to conquer it, but was repeatedly defeated by Zhu Xiuzhi, so he returned to Jiangling. Zhu Xiuzhi led his army to pursue, and some people advised Zhu Xiuzhi to speed up the pursuit, but Zhu Xiuzhi believed: "Lu Xiu is a brave soldier. When the beast is cornered, it will desperately grab and bite people, and we cannot chase them urgently."
At this time, Liu Yixuan fled to Jiangxia, heard that Baling had the army of the imperial court, and fled back to Jiangling in fear, and almost all the soldiers who followed him fled. Liu Yixuan had to follow him about a dozen people on foot, his feet hurt so much that he could not continue walking, rented a vehicle without a canopy from the local people, and hurried to continue walking, begging for food along the road to fill the hunger.
Arriving at the outskirts of Jiangling, he sent people to inform Zuo Sima Zhu Chaomin, who remained in Jiangling, and Zhu Chaomin immediately sent a magnificent honor guard to meet Liu Yixuan. At this time, in the Area of Jingzhou, Liu Yixuan still had more than 10,000 armed soldiers, and Zhai Lingbao, the attendant on the left and right, persuaded Liu Yixuan to come out and comfort his subordinates, telling his subordinates: "Zang Qian violated the battle order, so that we were defeated. From now on, we will re-improve our weapons and train soldiers to further lay the foundation for our future plans. In the past, Han Gaozu's ancestor Liu Bang failed a hundred times and finally achieved a great cause. ”
Who expected that when Liu Yixuan was treating the soldiers, he forgot what Zhai Lingbao said to him, and even mispronounced it as "Xiang Yu failed a thousand times", which caused all the soldiers under him to cover their mouths and snicker. Lu Xiu, Zhu Chaomin, and others also planned to pack up the remnants of the soldiers and once again fight a decisive battle, but Liu Yixuan was frustrated and unambitious, always unable to keep his soul, and after entering the back house, he hid and no longer came out to see people, and the people on the left and right gradually betrayed and left, and Lu Xiu fled north.
Without Lu Xiu, Liu Yixuan could not be independent on his own, and planned to escape with Lu Xiu, so he took his son Liu and his five favorite concubines and ordered them to change into men's clothes and flee with Lu Xiu. At this time, Zhu Xiuzhi's army had begun to approach Jiangling, and the city was in chaos, and Liu Yixuan, fearful, fell from his horse and switched to advancing on foot. Zhu Chaomin sent the group outside the city, changed a horse for Liu Yixuan to ride, and then returned to the city to hold on.
Liu Yixuan tried to find Lu Xiu, but he did not find him, and the left and right attendants all abandoned him. Late at night, Liu Yixuan was cornered and had to return to the empty Taishou Mansion in Nan County. The next morning, the desperate Zhu Chaomin sent someone to arrest him and send him to prison. Liu Yixuan constantly accused Zang In prison, and when he saw that the five concubines were soon escorted out, Liu Yixuan couldn't help but cry out in sorrow and said to the prison guard: "Usually life is not bitter, and today is really bitter to be separated from them!" ”
At this time, Lu Xiu's soldiers were also scattered, and he could no longer advance north, so he had to return to Gangneung, and the defenders of Gangneung City all fired arrows at Lu Xiu. Desperate, Lu Xiu committed suicide by throwing himself into the water, and the defenders of Gangneung cut off his head.
How to deal with Liu Yixuan? Liu Jun was ready to give his uncle a decent way to die, so he wrote to Zhu Xiuzhi and asked Liu Yixuan to cut himself. Who expected that the letter had not yet arrived, Zhu Xiuzhi had already entered Jiangling and killed Liu Yixuan, and at the same time killed Liu Yixuan's sixteen sons, as well as Liu Yixuan's fellow party members Zhu Chaomin, Cai Chao, who was engaged in zhonglang, and Yan Lezhi, who consulted and joined the army.
At this point, Liu Yixuan's rebellion was completely over.