How did Liu Xiu level Hebei and lay the foundation of the Eastern Han Dynasty?

Liu started with his brother. When he and his brother Ada started fighting in Nanyang, he never thought that he would one day ascend to the throne of the emperor.

No one would have thought that this child trapped by fate had become an emperor.

God seems to be abnormally partial to Liu Xiu, destined to let this young man counterattack.

In the last years of Wang Mang, Red Eyebrow Army in Shandong and outlaw heroes in Hubei broke out one after another. With the rapid development of the rebel army, Wang Mang's new dynasty is facing a huge crisis.

In 23 AD, May.

Wang Mang ordered the army to go south and besiege the outlaw hero, a little south of Nanyang. Does the outside world know that the number of troops sent this time is 420 thousand? Millions of troops? The grand ceremony held in Luoyang was unprecedented, and people went out to watch it.

At that time, Ada and Liu Xiu were fighting in Nanyang, but their influence was limited. More often, they can only choose to become attached to The Hero in the Woodland. Wang Mang's army went south from Luoyang, and Liu Xiu and others who arrived in Yingchuan with a great army immediately withdrew south and returned to Kunyang.

Wang Yi, Wang Xun, Xin Mang Army and 420,000 troops arrived in Kunyang. Seeing that the situation was critical, Liu Xiu assembled reinforcements in Dingling and Lingxian counties in the east when the Xinmang army had not completely surrounded Kunyang.

Kunyang City has been besieged for more than 20 days, and the biggest good news is that the Liu Xiu brothers finally broke through Wancheng, which has held on for three months.

In 23 AD, the first day of June.

Liu Xiu finally came.

However, Liu Xiu only led more than 10,000 people at this time. It is precisely because of the scarcity of people that Liu Xiucai became famous in Kunyang City, destroying this so-called million-dollar army and becoming famous all over the world.

However, the Liu brothers in Wancheng and Kunyang made great contributions one after another, and the outlaw advised Qingxin Emperor to get rid of them.

After all, at that time, Ada was the leader of Nanyang Haozu, and keeping him was a great threat to the control of the outlaw hero over the original emperor, or because of the great achievements of the Liu brothers, the restart of the political power supported by the outlaw hero was also invisibly influenced by the Liu brothers.

Soon, Ada was killed and Chiang Kai-shek ordered him to move north to Luoyang. At the same time, Liu Xiu was asked to cross the Yellow River to help Hebei.

At that time, Liu Xiu was very forbearing because his eldest brother was killed. Too many young people are aware of the cruelty of political struggle for the first time.

However, compared with his experience in Hebei, the death of eldest brother is only a superficial phenomenon at best, because after entering Hebei, Liu Xiu found that the crisis he faced was even more terrible.

In 23 AD, October.

Liu Xiu entered Hebei with a festival. At this time, Liu Xiu almost broke into Hebei alone with his bare hands. However, Liu Xiu was lucky enough in his life. The news that he was sent to Hebei by the new emperor spread, and Yuntai 28 will appear one after another.

Deng Yu immediately came to Liu Xiu's side and tried his best to help Liu Xiu establish himself in Hebei.

Liu Xiu became famous because of Kunyang World War I, and people who were entrenched in all parts of Hebei extended olive branches to him, hoping to pull Liu Xiu into his own camp, or take Liu Xiu as the Han family and establish an independent regime in Hebei.

At this time, Liu Xiu didn't have so much infidelity. Judging from his performance, his heart was still willing to support the former emperor, and he didn't want to stand on his own feet in Hebei, not only because he didn't have power, but more importantly, Liu Xiu didn't have much ambition at this time, and he didn't intend to separate one side. He really intends to appease Hebei.

After Liu Xiujin arrived in Hebei, Liu Ling, the son of former Zhao Wang, came to talk about it, indicating that he was willing to support Liu Xiu in establishing a political power independent of the emperor in Hebei from the beginning, and at the same time wanted to drown the Red Eyed Army entrenched in Shandong according to the Yellow River levee.

Liu Xiu a listen to, this guy's heart is too hard, maybe in the use of yourself, just ignore Liu Ling, continue to move north.

Sure enough, when Liu Xiu left for Lunu, Liu Ling and Li Yu, a rich family in Hebei, made Wang Lang, a fortune teller, emperor and established a separatist regime in Hebei.

Liu Ling this boy, really is not a thing.

After Liu Lin supported Wang Lang to establish a pseudo-Han regime in Hebei, Youzhou and Jizhou almost responded, leaving only Xindu, he cheng, Shanggu and Yuyang counties without response.

These four counties became the biggest support of Liu Xiu's army in Hebei.

Liu Xiu went straight to Jixian from Lunu, and Wang Lang led his troops to chase him. He fled all the way south, crossed Raoyang and Hutuo River, and reached Xindu smoothly.

This short escape life can be described as shocking everywhere. Hebei is a tough place, and the operation of Poseidon by Liu Ling and Wang Lang scared Liu Xiu.

In 24 AD, in March.

Liu Xiu of Hebei took Xindu, he cheng, Shanggu and Yuyang as the counterattack strongholds, which not only swept the whole country, but also married his niece, the true king of Hebei, and won the favorable support of more than 100,000 military forces.

In this attack, many strongholds were demolished, but Liu Xiu's army was finally blocked outside Julu City.

In April, Liu Xiu followed Geng Chun's advice, leaving some troops to continue to besiege Julu, and personally led the army to raid Handan. Wang Lang didn't expect Liu Xiu's army to be so fast that he finally surrendered.

In May, Liu Xiu led troops to attack bandits entrenched in Hebei.

First of all, the bronze horse army was besieged by Liu Xiu between Fuyang River and Qinghe River. After a long time, the bronze horse army lost all its food and grass. When it broke through, it was defeated by Liu Xiu at one stroke and received 100,000 bronze horses.

Bronze Ma Jun was defeated, Liu Xiuyou sent his troops to Hanoi, defeated the bandits in Shequan and Yang Shan, and journey to the south pursued them, completely eliminating the bandit forces in Hebei, and Hebei was determined.

The real reason why Liu Xiu leveled Hebei is that he won the support of some noble families in Hebei. In troubled times, these heroes not only have certain armed separatist forces, but also have a lot of money to supply the war. Their participation undoubtedly laid a solid foundation for Liu Xiu's successful foothold in Hebei.