"effort!"

When the twelfth lunar month is about to end, there is also a beautiful young man who is located in the south of the Tang River, using his favorite word to cheer up his clan soldiers.

Since Liu Xiu and his brother Bo Sheng pulled 20,000 troops from Xiajiang to join, the situation has changed. They have gained a foothold in Xindu, south of the Tang River, and several counties in Huyang. Relying on the Liu family of Chongling, Huyang Fan family was forced to a dead end, and at least they have given tens of thousands of troops a full meal.

According to Liu Xiu's proposal during the alliance, the Han soldiers and the Green Forest Army also changed their tactics and no longer pursued active attacks to face the head-on battle with the government army. Instead, the Green Forest Army's advantages were used, the main force was arranged to confront the government army in Tanghe, and divided 10,000 people into six routes, led by local tyrants and light heroes in front of the army, and frequently cut off the food and fodder of the government army.

Liu Xiu also walked along the way with Ma Wu, the coach of Green Forest, and his cooperation was quite pleasant, and he obtained the official army's baggage several times.

Ma Wu is a man with brown face and is also from Huyang County. He is half a fellow villager with Liu Xiu. He also admires Liu Xiu very much and praises him for being a good family, but he knows how to rob a family.

Liu Xiu did not take credit, but said, "What we imitated was actually Peng Yue's plan."

Liu Xiu, who was a student of the Tai Dynasty, talked freely. When talking about Chu and Han, King Peng Yue of Liang never fought in front of him. He was located behind the Chu army. He often traveled to and fled to Han raiders and cut off his food, which made the Chu army quite exhausted and eventually dragged down.

"If you use the military strategy to summarize it, it means: the shape of a wandering army is moving and quiet, avoiding the real and attacking the virtual, watching the weak and shaking the strong, forming a new place to the ground, breaking the four paths, that's it."

It’s different for educated people. Ma Wu nodded frequently and couldn’t help but think of his sister’s begging.

Ma Wu is ugly, but his Ma San lady is born with water. Ma Wu met Jia Fu, a thief in Yushan, and even joked that he would let Jia Fu be his brother-in-law.

She grew up in Green Forest Mountain and looked at a group of dirty-faced thieves every day. She was clean like Liu Xiu. It was rare for polite children from all over the world. She was quite admirable and wanted her brother to make decisions for her. However, Ma Wu hinted for one or two times, but Liu Xiu was thinking about her fiancée Yin Lihua and pretended not to understand.

Although the use of Peng Yue's strategy of wandering troops made the official army very uncomfortable, the war has been delayed for more than two months since their rebellion. Although the Eastern Red Eyebrows attracted the attention of the court, after waiting, once the court sent three public orders to conquer, things would be difficult to handle.

It was really sleepy and sent a pillow. When the Han soldiers and the Green Forest were facing the decisive battle with the government army again, the opposite side seemed to have a glimpse of their ideas and came to the door on their own initiative!

On the eve of the war, Liu Xiuben arranged for Deng, Yin, to wait for the powerful men who were pushed to this side by the government army and were entrusted with the grave to dig a grave. He learned his lesson and did not say anything like "get married after the war". He simply shouted loudly for everyone.

"effort!"

...

It is not only Liu Xiu who works hard, but also Dou Rong.

If he could make the decision and avoid things by Dou Rong, he would be unwilling to go south to take the initiative. Didn’t the Green Forest Army frequently harass their food team? Then don’t press forward, why not retreat to Wancheng and retreat, slowly train the recruited soldiers, prepare for the troops, and wait for the imperial court to send a large army to fight.

But the person sent to Wancheng from Chang'an was reprimanded by the emperor. Yan You was ruthlessly called the world's number one general. He actually suppressed the bandits in Nanjun, which made Wang Mang very angry. He also heard that the old general was ill and could not get up, so he promoted Dou Rong to a post.

From "General Boshui" to "General Boshui"!

Except for a big word, Wang Mang was not willing to give the rest to the army, gold and silk, and only urged Dou Rong and Zhen Fu to continue their efforts in the imperial edict to quickly quell the Chongling bandits and the Green Forest bandits.

The trouble lies here. Zhen Fu was promoted to "General Pinglin" by Wang Mang and was at the same level as Dou Rong. Who was in charge of the war?

The emperor didn't think about such a complicated matter. The meaning was probably to let the two of them listen to each other and discuss it.

As a result, today's events happened. Dou Rong was forced to urge the court and Zhen Fu was in charge of the war again. He could only reluctantly pull the tribes and the temporary recruitment auxiliary soldiers, and a total of 10,000 people left Jiyang.

On Zhen Fu, 40,000 people were recruited in each county in one go, and almost every household in Wancheng had to pay a fortune. In Zhen Dayin's plan, this was the last battle against Green Forest. After the battle, it was disbanded on the spot and did not even have to pay extra food and salary.

Since the other party is a local snake and has a lot of people, Dou Rong has become a side-supporting army and has to obey General Zhen's command.

The front team was not as cold as Hebei, and the Tang River was only a shallow river, far less dangerous than the vast Yellow River. The two armies successfully built floating bridges and crossed the river in the Han army and the green forests where the defense was not strict. They were known as the "100,000 army" and prepared to advance and fight.

At this moment, something that shocked Dou Rong for a whole year happened!

When he turned around as a striker, he saw the rising smoke column and the burning pontoon bridge.

"Could it be that Uncle Liu Wen took Lu Lin to seize my way back again?" Dou Rong was shocked and immediately sent Ren Guang to inquire.

Ren Guang turned back later and told Dou Rong with a complicated expression: "General Boshui, Duke Zhen, burned the floating bridge!

Dou Rong was stunned. It turned out that Zhen Fu believed that many new soldiers in the army were unwilling to fight. He wanted to imitate the famous battle of Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin.

"Carry the array of water on your back and put it to death and live! Please help General Boshui fight with confidence in front of you! I'll do your back!"

But go to yours! Can you still feel at ease? Dou Rong just felt dizzy and his mentality was completely broken. If his teammates were like this, how could he fight this battle?

Dou Zhougong was so elegant and easy-going, and even a man couldn't help but curse: "Is this Zhen Fu a detailed work sent by Lu Lin? A loyal minister of the Han Dynasty who had been lurking for many years?"

...

Another person who worked harder than Dou Rong was Cen Peng, who was ordered by Yan You several months ago to intercept the Jiang soldiers.

In the Han River battle, Cen Peng was ordered to repay the situation in danger and was very kind to the best of his gratitude. He rushed hundreds of miles with only three thousand malaria epidemics, and barely caught up with the Xiajiang soldiers. But there were tens of thousands of enemies, what should he do? He then bluffed and attacked halfway, killing thousands of enemies, scaring the Xiajiang soldiers back.

But the defeated side turned around in a hurry to go north, and the refugees who had no livelihood in winter joined the group, and their troops doubled. They accidentally joined the front team and joined the Han soldiers, changing the situation there, as if they were a typical example of losing the battle and winning the strategy.

What about Cen Peng's army? After the war, they suffered heavy losses and planned to go to Jiangling, the capital of Nanjun to rest. They hoped that Nanjun would give him some soldiers so that they could go north to assist Dou Rong in the attack on the Xinshi soldiers.

Unexpectedly, he encountered the chaos in Nanjun. There were local thieves Tian Rong. After hearing the news of the defeat of the official army, he initiated an operation in Yiling County, known as the "General of the Sweeping Floor". Jiangling had three police officers a day, so naturally there were no soldiers to send Cen Peng, and sent him some food and fodder.

Cen Peng had to take more than 2,000 people and returned to Jianghan in disappointment. Halfway through the way, he learned that Chongling had changed in a panic. Yan You had already gone north. He wanted to follow closely, but unexpectedly, Qin Feng, a local hero who had driven into Jingshan, had been beaten back by Qin Feng, who had previously driven into Jingshan. He called himself "General Liqiu", occupied Xiangyang and other places, blocking Cen Peng's way. The thief gathered tens of thousands of people, which was hard to defeat for a while, so Cen Peng had to take a long way to the west.

Along the way, Cen Peng was full of thieves, and the counties were chasing each other, such as Jia Fu, the thief who captured Wudang County, and Yan Cen, who raised the flag in Zhuyang to respond to Liu Bosheng's light hero.

He also tried to help the local county magistrate suppress the repression. With Cen Peng's command, he won every battle, but only hundreds of thieves were defeated, and thousands of people in the neighboring county revolted again. The front team was filled with excitement, as if the people of the six countries heard about Chen Sheng and Wu Guangqi, they killed all the Qin officials and gathered to respond.

Cen Peng also felt strange: "There is clearly news that the Liu family and Lulin of Chongling were both defeated, and the affairs of each county were defeated by me. Why did they reunite after being defeated?"

The implication is that I have won, why do you still rebel?

The county magistrate of Rang County told him the truth: "In order to suppress the thieves, the front team was too busy to collect grain. Many families had no food and clothing after the winter. Although the magistrates would win every battle, they could not produce food. What if they didn't treat it? Even if the general wins, they still lost!"

The next day, the county magistrate of Rang County actually became a thief and caught Cen Peng off guard, so he had to rush to withdraw from the next county.

With the loss of this journey, Daxin's flag could not attract people to vote. He could only bring less than a thousand remaining soldiers to return to his hometown Jiyang.

The current collapse is not only the result of the more than ten years of natural disasters in the New Dynasty, but also the accumulated problems in the former Han Dynasty for two hundred years, which have long been extremely difficult. Now that it is outbreaking, how can we change the general trend of overturning with Cen Peng's few small victories?

Once the collapse begins, it will be difficult to stop. Wang Mang's efforts have failed, let alone a few "loyal and kind"?

Although Cen Peng still didn't understand this truth, he also found that his efforts were like a mantis waving his arms at the rolling wheel, majestic, and his arm blade slashed through the air, but he could not make the wheel slow for even a moment!

What's more, as they go with the flow and struggle with fearlessness, there are another group of "Da Xin loyal ministers" who are making reverse efforts!

When Cen Peng finally arrived in Wancheng after great hardships, he learned not only that his mother had already died in the war, but also that his wife and children had already died in the war, but also that the defeated soldiers from the south were defeated.

"Jun Ran, the battle of Tanghe was lost."

Ren Guang rode his horse all the way, losing his hat, and was quite like a wolf. He was quite surprised to meet Cen Peng, and only told him about this confused defeat.

Zhen Fu's "back-to-water array" caused the blame. When the floating bridge was burned, the desire to die was not aroused, but instead caused the temporary recruitment of soldiers to be in chaos. That night, a camp roared and ran away 10,000, while the Han soldiers and Green Forest took the opportunity to attack Zhen Fu's camp.

"Zhen Fu fought fiercely with the Han army in Green Forest, retreated and wanted to ask for help like General Dou, but the result..."

As a result, his subordinates ran around and disrupted Dou Rong's formation. Dou Rong still did not retreat. He gritted his teeth and fought with the Green Forest for several hours. It was not until Zhen Fu's army completely collapsed and things were not done. He retreated from the battlefield. When he set up camp, he had already quietly sent Ren Guang to build another floating bridge.

But there were only a few people who crossed the bridge. Zhen Fu finally realized his long-cherished wish of "fighting against the water". He fought hard with the Han soldiers and the Green Forest until the evening before he was killed by Liu Bosheng. Thousands of troops of the two armies died, and the rest surrendered to the Green Forest.

Cen Peng was stunned when he heard this, and could not see Dou Rong's army left and right. Ren Guangcai told him: "General Dou only had thousands of people left. Knowing that the Han soldiers would be surrounded by the green forest, the green forest would retreat to Yingchuan."

Ren Guang was separated from Dou Rong in the chaos army, so he simply ran northwest, hoping to return to the vicinity of Wancheng to gather clan guests, and rushed to the Han soldiers, but the green forest ran away before they came.

Now that he met Cen Peng, he saw that there were some soldiers under his command, and he was overjoyed and asked an idea.

"Although I failed to protect Junran's mother, wife and daughter, my son survived by chance and was placed in the west town of Wancheng. Junran should go with me!"

"Then what?"

"The front team is over. If the Han soldiers and Green Forest take this county, we will be killed. The reinforcements of the court will arrive at some point. It is better to go farther..." Ren Guang said: "Go to Wei Cheng in Jizhou and join the fifth duke!"

Yes, the fifth reunion recruited two people last year, but they were just taken first by Yan You, the teacher. Now it's natural to go to join us.

Cen Peng nodded and asked again: "Where is Mr. Yan?"

Ren Guangdao: "Mr. Yan was ill and could not follow the army in Wancheng. I had already entered the city to pay homage. He was unwilling to leave and insisted on keeping the soldiers and soldiers from gathering the county to defend Wancheng for the emperor."

At this time, there was a noise in the distance, and there were constant men and women in Wancheng who escaped from the city, and it was said that the green forest was coming soon.

Seeing that Cen Peng was still hesitating, Ren Guang said anxiously: "Junran, it's too late, let's go quickly! Don't you want to see your son?"

Cen Peng made up his mind: "I wasted my first half of my life and did not succeed until I was well-appreciated by Yan Gong, so I stood out. If a scholar dies as a confidant, I will never abandon Yan Gong."

Looking back at the remaining soldiers who fought with him in the south and north, "Your family members are mostly in Wancheng, and you probably don't want to leave them and escape by yourself. Those who are willing to stay will follow me into the city! If you have no worries, follow Ren Boqing and escort my son to Jizhou!"

"Cen Junran! You!" Ren Guangzhen didn't know what to say about Cen Peng. Why is this man so stupid and loyal, so stubborn and honest?

His fingers were facing Cen Peng's nose for a while, but when he looked at Cen Peng's firm gaze, he couldn't say a word of scolding. He was even a little ashamed and bowed to Cen Peng long.

"Your son is my son. Just part with me, I hope you will take care of me!"

After saying that, he hurried northward, and Cen Peng also said goodbye to Ren Guang. He led hundreds of subordinates to separate the soldiers and women who fled out of the city because they were afraid of the plunder of the green forest and desperately fled out of the city. He went against the current and entered the city. He wanted to assist Yan You and do things that others could not understand.

The world is in a vast world, and the wheel of history is rolling forward. Some people follow the trend, some people take the initiative to push, and some people take the initiative to hitchhike.

But in every dynasty and generation, there are always a few mantis who do not know the current affairs, do not distinguish between good and evil, do not distinguish between right and wrong, and only wave their arms and make unnecessary efforts.

...

Tanghe was defeated, Wancheng was besieged; Nanjun people were invaded, Qin Feng and Tian Rong besieged Jiangling; Dingtao fell, and Dong Xian wanted to enter Liang; Fan Chong crossed Mount Tai and attacked Chengyang County Jucheng east...

No one would have thought that in just one month the fourth year of Dihuang had just begun, so many things happened in the world.

It's all bad things!

In mid-January, these bad news seemed to have been made, and they were sent to the capital together and stacked on the desk of Emperor Wang Mang, as if they wanted to crush his country!

There are many defeats, all of them are asking for help, all of them are crying, and all of them are shirking responsibility!

Every time he opened a memorial, Wang Mang would remain silent for a while, wanting not to believe any one, and leave with his sleeves and slapped the table!

But he couldn't, so he could only listen to the Zhonghuangmen report tremblingly. His hair, which had already been completely white, seemed to be a little whiter.

"What's wrong with the world of me?"

Why does the harder he tries to govern, the faster the world collapses? Wang Mang doesn't understand.

"Isn't there a good thing in this?"

Wang Mang closed his eyes in pain until a new letter was sent out in a hurry.

"From Wei Cheng from Jizhou, the fifth reunion!"

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Chapter completed!