Liu Xiuxiang
Liu Xiu, the Emperor of Han Guangwu, was called the Son of the Face, meaning the Son of Heavenly Choice.
Liu Xiu's life is simply a life of opening and hanging, as early as Liu Xiu was not yet born, he opened the first hanging of his life, that is, to let others die instead of him.
After Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, he received a prophecy that a man named Liu Xiu would replace him in the future, so Wang Mang ordered his cronies to secretly search for people named Liu Xiu throughout the country.
There was a Liu clan member named Liu Xin who was proficient in Zhou Yi's gossip in the capital, and he also got this gua by chance.
Of course, he didn't know that Wang Mang was also looking for this person, he thought about it, and simply named himself Liu Xiu.
But unexpectedly, the next day he was brought to Wang Mang by Wang Mang's people, and Wang Mang was even more shocked and convinced that it was his old friend, so Liu Xin immediately stopped searching for Liu Xiu.
When Liu Xiu grew up, he followed his brother Liu Yan to raise an army in Nanyang, but was counterattacked by the New Dynasty army.
On the outskirts of Nanyang City, because the army was too small, several battles Liu Xiu's army was quickly dispersed, Liu Xiu led dozens of soldiers to flee to the mountains, followed by nearly a thousand pursuing soldiers, just when this was about to be caught up, Liu Xiu opened another hang, Liu Xiu just crossed the river, a flash flood broke out to block the way of the pursuing army, so Liu Xiu successfully escaped.
Wang Mang was furious when he learned of this, and he suddenly realized that Liu Xiu, who had replaced the new dynasty, was this person!
Therefore, in order to eliminate the powerful troops gathered by Liu Xiu, Wang Mang specially appointed Wang Yi and Situ Wang Xun as commanders, and recruited people who were so-called proficient in 63 martial arts at that time to serve as officials in the army who resembled staff officers.
He also appointed the elder Ju Wuba as a fortress lieutenant, who was specifically responsible for building a camp and breeding ferocious beasts such as tigers, leopards, rhinos, and elephants into the army, so that they could be released during combat and shock the enemy.
Each prefecture and county selected elite troops, led by the county and the pastoral guard personally, to concentrate near Luoyang within a time limit, and the strength of the troops from all over the country to Luoyang reached more than 420,000 people, known as a million troops, and after these troops were concentrated, they began to march towards Yingchuan.
At Yingchuan, they met Yan You and Chen Mao's troops, and then attacked in the direction of Kunyang, thinking that since you opened and hung up, I would play with you well, these thousands of warriors and hundreds of thousands of troops and rhinoceros, tigers, leopards and other beasts, you Liu Xiu is not more than 20,000 troops, can I not destroy you?
As a result, Liu Xiu immediately opened a huge hanging, that is, summoning meteorites!
According to the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty, the First Chronicle of the Guangwu Emperor": One night before the war, a meteor fell into the camp, and there were clouds like bad mountains during the day, and when the camp fell, it was scattered before the ground, the officials were tired of lying down, and the new army was in chaos, which meant that it actually rained meteor showers that night.
This meteor shower was also smashing into the camp of Wang Mang's new army, and many soldiers were frightened by the overwhelming meteorites.
At the same time, Liu Xiu led thousands of elite warriors to directly take Wang Mang's army generals Wang Yi and Wang Xun and beheaded Wang Xun, and Wang Mang's hundreds of thousands of troops were in chaos in an instant and fled one after another.
It happened that there were strong winds and thunderstorms, the roof tiles were blown away by the strong winds, the heavy rain poured down and the water soared, and the tigers and leopards that Wang Yijun and his team accompanied were all frightened and trembled, and they walked randomly and were washed away.
In this battle, the Han army captured all the military supplies of the new army, and all kinds of things were piled up, and they had not been moved for more than a month, and Wang Yi could only lead more than a thousand remnants of soldiers to flee to Luoyang in one go.
When Wang Mang learned the news of Kunyang's fiasco, he was extremely shocked, and the entire Xinmang court was also terrified.
Shortly after the Great Victory at Kunyang, the Han army invaded Chang'an, Wang Mang was killed, the new dynasty collapsed, and at the same time, the contradictions between the generals within the Han army intensified.
Liu Xuan, with the support of the peasant generals Li Yi and Zhu Kun, and others, put Liu Yan, who was the greatest threat to him, and his subordinates Liu Ji to death.
In fact, originally Liu Xuan still wanted to execute Liu Xiu, but Liu Xiu was seriously ill at this time, and Liu Xuan thought that Liu Xiu, who was seriously ill, was not a threat to himself, so he let him go.
Liu Xiu did nothing on the surface, but secretly spied on the timing, accumulated strength, and restored the Han Dynasty in 25 AD, with the capital at Luoyang, known in history as the Eastern Han Dynasty, creating the era of "Guangwu Zhongxing" in Chinese history, which was "the most weathered and the most prosperous Confucianism".