How did Liu Xiu gain a foothold in Hebei and defeat the fake emperor Wang Lang?

Shortly after Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the Greenwood Red Eyebrow Uprising was surging. In 23 AD, Liu Xuan was proclaimed emperor by outlaws, with the title of "Start over" and was called "Emperor Geng Shi".

The charlatan called himself the emperor, bluffing and helping him call himself the emperor.

Wang Mang was exhausted by the rebels. At this time, someone in Chang 'an claimed to be Liu Ziyu, the son of Emperor Han Cheng. This is clear. Do you want to die? Follwed also you're welcome, arrested and killed. Na Cheng Xiang Liu Ziyu quickly resurrected and proclaimed himself emperor. What happened? Is there really a way to come back to life? In fact, this Liu Ziyu is not another Liu Ziyu.

Later, the man who called himself Liu Ziyu was originally named Wang Chang. Wang Lang? World-famous. He is a fortune teller and knows astrology. He is closely related to Liu Ling, who is the grandson of Hanjing VIII and the son of Zhao Miaowang. Wang Lang is good at observing astronomical phenomena, and thinks that Hebei has the spirit of emperors, so he should make contributions here and be called the emperor. But he had no appeal. In order to be afraid that others would not accept him, he pretended to be a descendant of the royal family and made up a story: his mother was actually a geisha of the first emperor Han Chengdi. Once she fell down and fainted when she went down to the temple, and then a yellow gas fell from the sky and enveloped the geisha. It took a long time to disperse and then she became pregnant.

At that time, Empress Zhao had no children and was jealous that geisha wanted to kill their mother and son. During dystocia, geisha beg maids? Civet cats for princes? Send the baby out of the palace so that he can save the prince. This prince is Wang Lang and has been living among the people ever since. At the age of twelve, a fortune teller took him to Shu. When he was seventeen, he came to Danyang. At the age of twenty, he returned to Chang 'an. After traveling between Yan and Zhao, I never stopped thinking about rejuvenating China.

Wang Lang's stories need to be endorsed by powerful people, otherwise no one will believe him. As it happens, Liu Ling, a pure royal descendant, is curious about numbers and smells like Wang Lang. In addition, Liu Ling thinks that Liu Ziyu (Wang Lang), as the son of Emperor Han Cheng, is closer in blood than his son Zhao Haoqi Miao. So he planned to stand with Li Yu, Zhang Shen and others, the great strongmen in Handan, Hebei Province, while the world was in chaos. Liu Zixuan? For a great cause.

Since December 23rd of the first year of the new year, Liu Ling and others led hundreds of chariots into Handan City, helped Wang Lang to the throne and made him the son of heaven. Wang Lang was named Prime Minister, Li Yu was named Fu, General, and Handan was named as the capital. Wang Lang recruited soldiers and his son Liu Jiwei. Liu Yang, the real king with more than ten people, also began to be loyal to Wang Lang, because there were so many royal descendants that many cremation people believed that Wang Lang was real? Liu Zixuan? .

Wang Lang sent troops to capture Youzhou and Jizhou successively, and in the name of authentic imperialists, he sent letters to all counties to expand his power. He also took advantage of the prestige of Zhai Yi, the former governor of East County who was killed in the anti-Mang battle, and lied that Zhai Yi was not dead, and got the help of a letter. At that time, both northern Zhao and western Liaodong welcomed him to join, and a large number of territories were pocketed by Wang Lang.

Liu Xiuchu, Guangwu Emperor, arrived to find a foothold, but was offered a reward for catching important people.

Wang Lang's regime has gained a firm foothold, and the regime that started from scratch also depends on its authenticity. He also sent generals Lu, Xiu and Wu Xin to cross the Yellow River and go to Zhaofu counties in Hebei Province to be internal officers. Liu Xiu is the ninth grandson of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang. Although his lineage is far from the royal family, he is also a pure emperor. And Wang Lang's identity has no evidence to prove that he is from the royal family, so many people have been fooled by a fairy tale.

Emperor Xian was not a good emperor. He killed Ada, who was of the same blood. In order to avoid the butcher's knife of the fresh emperor and stay away from this troubled place, Liu Xiu borrowed the banner of the fresh emperor to appeal to Hebei, actually for self-reliance. He came to Hebei to rob Wang Lang's territory. How could Wang Lang allow him? He immediately issued a letter offering a reward of 100,000 family members to take Liu Xiu's head.

Liu Xiu sent his general Wang Ba to the market to recruit, but people laughed at him. Wang Ba was busy for a long time, and few people responded. It seems that Wang Lang is still very popular in Hebei. Liu Xiu's conscription in other people's base areas is also scary, and Wang Lang will kill him. To be on the safe side, Liu Xiu and his men ran to Xindu (now jizhou city, Hebei). It turned out that not all parts of Hebei believed that Wang Lang was a descendant of Liu's royal family, but officials of Xindu Prefecture and Herong Prefecture suspected that Wang Lang was an impostor and refused to join them. As for Liu Xiu's identity, they have no doubt that they open their doors and warmly welcome Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu just breathed a sigh of relief, at least there is a base area, otherwise it's really finished. With the gold-lettered signboard of the base area and the regime of starting a new stove, Liu Xiu recruited soldiers and recruited more than 10,000 people who had originally joined the real king of Wang Lang to study abroad.

Liu Xiu also got the support of some Nanyang people and Hebei strongmen, and gathered a group of brave and resourceful generals around him. However, Liu Xiu still felt that his military strength was not strong enough. He expanded his strength and gained the most powerful fighting capacity in Yuyang County and Shanggu County of Hebei Province. After these 4000 sudden riders and 2000 infantry joined, Liu Xiujun's fighting capacity was greatly improved.

Why did Liu Xiu indulge his most elite sudden riding and slaughter the city wantonly?

After Yu Yang's satrap and Shanggu's satrap Geng joined up, they sent troops to attack Jixian County and killed General Wang Lang. Together with Liu Xiujun, they captured 22 counties including Zhuo Jun, Zhongshan, Qinghe and Hejian in one breath. Wang Lang has few cities except Handan, the capital, and Julu, which is besieged by Liu Xiujun.

However, Liu Xiu's sudden riding was corrupt and aggressive. The methods of killing and plundering are cruel. 4,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry went south. Before they reached Julu to meet Liu Xiu, they swept 22 counties along the way and beheaded more than 30,000 people, with 5 beheadings per capita. Its general haing s ngor has been conniving at his men's wanton murder and robbery, and even Liu Xiu's own hometown has been wantonly plundered by this barbaric army.

However, in order to win over these reinforcements, Liu Xiu pretended not to know their tyranny, or turned a blind eye and did not interfere. In this way, Liu Xiu left a bad reputation on the land of Hebei and lost the hearts of the people. However, relying on these powerful troops, Liu Xiu's chassis also snowballed.

Liu Xiu led an army to besiege Julu, but failed to conquer it for several days, so he decided to take Handan directly. At this time, Liu Xiu was full of confidence. First, his troops in Mazhuang are strong, and second, he is nominally a member of the regime of starting a new stove. The regime that started a new stove also sent a general Xie Gong to lead more than 100,000 troops to attack Wang Lang, and the two allied forces joined forces in Handan.

The fake emperor is at the end of his rope. He wanted to be Wan Huhou, but he stood in his way.

At this point, Wang Lang had to fight Liu Xiu and start a new stove. He fought with the allies many times and was defeated. There are no reinforcements outside, and internal morale is lax. Wang Lang had to send physician Dewey to Liu Xiu's camp to surrender. Dewey is a real person, very loyal to Wang Lang, and has repeatedly declared that Wang Lang is the first blood of Emperor Han Cheng. Forget over and over again. Liu Xiu finally got impatient and said angrily: Even if Emperor Han Cheng is resurrected, the world can't be his, and Wang Lang is simply a fake Liu Ziyu! ?

Dewey stopped arguing, but asked Wang Lang to surrender and be named Wan Huhou. When Liu Xiu heard this, he laughed even more. Wang Lang is at the end of its tether. He also offered me a deal and immediately refused. I wish I could keep him alive and not think about anything else. Dewey did not give in and vowed to stick to Handan.

Dewey, though car-scrapping, blocked Wang Lang's back road. Before long, Li Li of Wang Lang became the inside man of the Han army and opened the gate. Han army captured Handan, and Wang Lang had to flee. In desperation, he walked into a dead end and was chased by the Han army. Poor Wang Lang was emperor for half a year from being proclaimed emperor to being killed. Of course, Liu Xiu will not admit that he is an emperor, and history books also list him as an supernumerary emperor.

Wang Lang is a character. Although he claimed to be the son of Emperor Hancheng, he didn't have enough evidence to prove himself. He lies by making up stories. Wang Lang himself is short of talents, so it is reasonable to lose to Liu Xiu, a soldier who is stronger than Ma Zhuang, who has a clear imperial status and is good at strategy.