Liu Xiu wanted a "great victory" as his real battle to establish the country, but no one cared about Pengcheng's fight. This spring, he was still just a supporting role.

The whole world's eyes are focused on both sides of the river.

The main force of the Red Eyebrows was in Dongjun and Dingtao area. Last year, he attacked Puyang and wanted to "surround the site and attack the aid", but Ma Yuan was not fooled. In early winter, Puyang City could still rely on the support of the fleet in Hanoi, but as the river freezes and the river is clearing, the road to the top of the city disrupted the defense of Hebei. Weijun Henoi was too busy to take care of himself, so how could he have the skill to care about other people's frost? Puyang thought the siege had been resolved, but 200,000 Red Eyebrows returned, and suddenly increased the attack.

A few days later, Puyang, which was already scarred, fell violently, and this time it was not even defended by the inner city.

"Uncle, the city is broken, please follow my nephew and leave."

Wang Pan knelt in front of his uncle and the prefect of Dongjun Wang Hong. The two were the last bloodline of the royal family of the Xin Dynasty. Wang Hong was the younger brother of Wang Mang. He was a servant of Emperor Ai of Han in his early years and even denounced Dong Xian in the face of the Broken Sleeve Emperor - because Emperor Ai of Han said in public that he wanted to pass the throne to Dong Xian.

As the best among the younger generation of the Wang family, Wang Hong should have been successful, but for some reason, he was released by Wang Mang for 2,000 stones. He worked for more than ten years and never returned to the court.

Now, this long duty is finally coming to an end. After three months of siege, Wang Hong was quite depressed and embarrassed. Seeing the shouts of killing outside became louder and louder, he was not in a hurry to hide, and only remembered his ridiculous life.

"The reason why the old emperor didn't like me was not that he was jealous of my talents as the public said. What kind of talent do I have, a mediocre person? It's because I was in the wrong team in the new Zen era of Han Dynasty."

"At that time, listening to the Empress Dowager Wen's mother scolding, 'If the brothers are destroyed, now the clan is destroyed', I couldn't bear it in my heart and wanted to persuade the former emperor again, but I was scolded for him."

Wang Mang has always been quite cruel to his opponents. It is a blessing that Wang Hong was not sentenced to death like Wang Mang's eldest son. However, Wang Hong often heard that the old emperor killed four or five times of his descendants and clans, and was quite worried, so he kept wearing a poison bottle around his neck to commit suicide at any time to protect his body.

If Wang Hong swallowed poison and died while the Han Dynasty was still alive, he might become the only relative of the Wang family who "sacrificed the Han Dynasty" and could be given a note by the history secretary.

And if he could do this when the new dynasty was destroyed, it would be reasonable to "sacrifice for the new".

But Puyang withstood the attacks of various bandits in those years. When the fifth reunion, who had a relationship with Wang Hong, was sent to surrender, Wang Hong became a Wei minister in a confused manner.

Looking back now, it really shouldn't be.

He surrendered too late. Although Wang Hong had helped Wei County in the past, he also appointed a small marquis as the treatment of "uprising and Xian County". However, they really did not love them in Wei State and their uncles did not love them. Puyang in Dongjun was on the other side of the river, and was only a "bridgehead" for the Wei State's forces in Yanzhou. It was also a place where they would be abandoned at any time. However, Wang Hong had feelings for this place after all, and if the Wei army did not save him, he could not leave.

"What is it that I'm committing suicide now?" Wang Hong had already pulled off the poison from his neck and said with a wry smile:

"Sad to Wei?"

No matter what it was, Wang Hong felt that he could not drag it anymore, it would be better than being humiliated by the Red Eyebrow Bandits, so he swallowed the poison that fell into his hand!

Then, he smiled and waited for death on the kang. Many years ago, when the Fifth Lun was ordered by Wang Mang to rush to Wei County and ran to Puyang to rescue soldiers, he was scared to death. When the dose of medicine was insufficient and he did not die, the taste of "Jin Tang" was not good.

Later, Wang Hong asked his nephew to find folk alchemists for him and equipped them with more powerful poisons. It is said that he died immediately after drinking with a sharp nail. Wang Hong tried it with a death row prisoner, and it was indeed true.

The shouts outside became louder and louder. The Red Eyebrow Army had broken through the defense line between Wang Pan and his disciples, arrested him and rushed into the county magistrate's mansion.

But what they saw was not the scene of Wang Hong dying from blood and dying violently from seven orifices, but the scene of him... eating?

Wang Hong was also surprised. He had finished taking the poison, so why was there still nothing wrong with it? He was still a little full in his belly.

Chimei was shocked. When was it time? The dog prefect still had the leisure to eat and was so brave. He was a man and felt a little admiration in his heart.

But Wang Hong was only confused. He only looked at his nephew in surprise, while Wang Pan lowered his head in shame.

"I was secretly replaced by this poison by me for fear that my uncle would commit suicide again!"

Wang Hongru was thundering at the top of the head, struggling to draw the knife and commit suicide, and he was too late to laugh or cry when he was tied up by the red eyebrows.

"I'd known it, I'd use a knife!"

...

According to convention, every time a city is broken, Chimei will examine the two thousand stones captured in the first trial. In addition to plundering valuable food and cloth, he can also be convicted. Then he should be peeled and killed.

"Wang Hong deserves to die."

A three elders of red eyebrows said, "He was surnamed Wang and was a relative of Wang Mang."

In the simple class consciousness of the Red Eyebrow Army, the surname Liu and Wang were both original sins. The Liu Han royal family was often the largest powerful landlords in the land. They could still eat meat and meat during famine years, while the poor people could only live on the crumble.

The Red Eyebrow Army went to various states and swept away almost all the Liu heroes along the way. In the words of the "Wen Tian" it means "the way of heaven is to make up for the shortcomings." He believed that humanity for the past three generations has been "deficient inadequate and surplus inadequate", which will lead to the decline of the kingly way, and the Red Eyebrow is to do the opposite!

Regardless of whether others believe it or not, Fan Chong believes it anyway!

As for the Wang family, although they were so constrained by the old Wang Mang that he was pitiful. As a royal relative, he even occupied a piece of land and raised a few more slaves. He was found by the emperor at all times and killed him. But who told them that the surname Wang? The Red Eyebrow Army hated Wang Mang deeply. The reason why they rebelled was not because of the "five equality and six prisons" that the dog emperor had lost his way to survive. It was a great regret that he failed to enter Chang'an and destroyed Xin. He finally caught a member of the Wang family and could not let him go.

"Wang Hong guarded Puyang so tightly. We came to fight a few years ago, but it didn't. This time, after three months of repeated siege, many brothers and sisters were killed and injured. He deserves to die."

"But Wang Hong has a good reputation among the people of Puyang." Someone said this.

"Who said? I am from Puyang!" A three-year-old man stood up angrily and showed up to say: "Dongjun has flooded every year, and Wang Hong has saved him? If there was a disaster relief porridge shop and a way out, I would not have dyed my eyebrows and turned to Duke Fan."

There were 300,000 households in Dongjun in the past. As the place where the river was breached, it is good that there are 30,000 households left in Qimin. The rest may have fled to Hebei, and the young and strong people entered the Wei army, and women and children lived in their houses, or entered the red eyebrows, with a large number.

The Red Eyebrow Army relied on the winter to defeat the King of Qi in Yanzhou. The Liang and Han coalition forces were about to end their food. They turned around and hit Puyang in order to get some food before the decisive battle with the Wei army according to the plan.

But what disappointed Fan Chong was that there was not much rice and grain in the Puyang warehouse, and only more than ten thousand stones were left, which was enough for more than 100,000 people under Fan Chong to eat and chew for ten days.

After interrogation, he was told by the grain official: "The Red Eyebrow was besieged for a long time. The prefect Wang could not bear the hunger of the people in the city. He gave porridge for three months. He could have eaten military rations from summer, but the spring was exhausted!"

This Wang Hong is actually a guy who loves people as much as his son? Indeed, when he learned that Red Eyebrows had captured Wang Hong, the poor people in Puyang were trembling and pleading for him.

"People should cast tiles to determine their life and death." The three elders of the Red Eyebrow suggested.

Although there were similar methods for the Red Eyebrow, this was determined by Weng Tian with reference to the ancient events recorded in the Zuo Biography of the Spring and Autumn Period. He believed that when the rituals and music had not yet completely collapsed, the "Chinese people" were qualified to be political.

However, the "Chinese people" who participated in the casting of the tile are all veterans from the Middle East County of the Red Eyebrow Army. They blame Wang Hong for their hardships of leaving their hometowns, or they hate Wang Mang, and they also hate the Wang family. They cast the tile and want Wang Hong to die!

And those Puyang people who were crying for justice for Wang Hong were not red eyebrows or "national people", and they didn't even count their adopted sons and daughters, and they didn't even have the right to argue...

So the result remains unchanged, and Wang Hong is still going to die!

Just as the people in the city were crying and shouting for justice for the prefect, someone from Suiyang, Liang County reported to Fan Chong:

"Xu Ergong said that if he captured Puyang and captured Wang Hong's uncle and nephew, he hoped that they could save their lives first and send them to Suiyang before killing them."

"What is Xu Xuan going to do?"

Fan Chong felt strange, but still agreed. It is said that "Wang Hong harmed Dongjun" and should have died here, but Fan Chong also noticed that this was inconsistent with the wishes of the residents of Puyang. It seemed that he was deeply deceived. It would be better to let him die outside, so he asked someone to send Wang Hong's uncle and nephew to Suiyang.

As for the other lieutenants and officials of the thief Cao, they were not so lucky. They were all executed by the Red Eyebrow within one morning, and their families were raided. The city was covered with the heads of officials from the three dynasties of Han, Xin and Wei dynasties.

The Red Eyebrow Army was still cheering, just like what they did when they swept across the states, but the Puyang people were quite cold about it, and they only silently watched the hungry Red Eyebrow soldiers rummaged through boxes and cabinets and found the last grain of food in their house.

And Fan Chong did not feel justice and joy this time.

When he first started his rebellion, he took a few old brothers to rob the rich and help the poor in Mount Dongtai. At that time, they had to consider survival every day and had no time to think about "why fight."

Later, when others thought that the Red Eyebrow Army should "simulate Chen Sheng, Wu Guang to destroy the tyrannical Qin and kill the new army", Fan Chong insisted on his own and took them on another way: go home.

But at home, they did not receive any welcome. Instead, the tribes were separated and could only continue to be bandits with those who were willing to leave. They swept through several states without realizing it. The tribes were getting bigger and bigger and heavier and heavier.

Fortunately, he, a practitioner, met a great theorist. When he fought against Nanyang, then conquered Suiyang and destroyed the Green Han Dynasty, Fan Chong, inspired by Tian Weng's theory, did feel that he was doing a just cause.

But since the battle with Wei, there has been great resistance. The side of the army was defeated by Ao Cang, and the five Duke Yang Yin's strength was reduced by half. He could only stay in Dingtao and guard against the damn Dong Xian for Fan Chong.

Secondly, whenever they capture another place, the Red Eyebrow Army is frequently blunt and even hated by the locals, especially the poor! They scold them for disturbing their lives when they finally settled down.

Fan Chongzong was a little slow, but he still noticed that in this city, every tree, a handful of soil, or even a mouthful of water seemed to hate Red Eyebrows: "The local scholars and people, they want me to die more than Wang Hong."

What made Fan Chong even more uncomfortable was that on the fourth day of the capture of Puyang, the Red Eyebrow Army had not yet finished the rest. As the ice on the river went downstream one after another, he was shocked to hear an unbelievable news:

"Is Chengtouzilu surrendered to Wei?"

The Linghong happened a hundred miles north of Puyang, and the remaining Red Eyebrow soldiers who escaped by luck fled one after another. In their narrative, Linghong only rushed the Red Eyebrow, while the Wei army took the opportunity to beat the fallen dog and captured the road to the city.

But in just a few days, Chengtouzilu left Weiying safely, but he was surrounded by envoys holding the colorful Wei Festival and began to gather the red eyebrows of the rivers in the plains, Bohai and other places, but he did not intend to be enemies with Emperor Wei anymore...

"Is it a fraudulent surrender?"

This incident made Fan Chong puzzled, but in the end he just shook his head and stretched out his little finger.

"When I parted with the city head, I said that his ambition has become smaller. From fighting for his brothers and sisters to fulfilling Chi Zhaoping's long-cherished wish, now it is even worse than fingernails!"

Fan Chong was a little angry, with doubts after being betrayed, and extremely disappointed. It seems that the way of the city head also followed Dong Xian's old path, was confused by the conditions of "princes and generals" opened by the fifth reunion, and was willing to be his eagle and dog?

This anger even drove away his tiredness, and Fan Chong cheered up ten times more to think about their situation.

Since the gates of Chengtouzi Road were changed, the two agreed that "I will fight against Hebei, and you will fight against Henan" will naturally fail. The main force of the Red Eyebrow Army even had to be careful, beware of them being caught in the north and south attack of the Wei army...

Should he stay here, die with him, or go in the battle like in the past? Where should he go? Is it the foundation for abolition of slavery in the Mintian field, or go east, enter Qi, and return to the place where the Red Eyebrow Army Dream began?

I was also worried about what I came from. On the fifth day after Puyang fell, there were no more boats in Hanoi on the river with ice. There were also Wei troops and Jizhou soldiers camped in camps on the north bank.

And there were also people in the south who reported urgent news.

"The Wei army's Ma Yuan army rushed east from Chenliu, raiding 400 miles, and raided Dingtao!"

...

On the first day of February of the second year of Wude, the "Weiguo" county on the other side of Puyang also belonged to the Dongjun. It was flooded by the flood at the Yellow River in its early years and became a wasteland. Now it has become the latest place in the fifth relationship. Tens of thousands of soldiers from the Hanoi and Jizhou gathered here, and he also learned about Ma Yuan's good news.

"General Wenyuan was in charge of Dingtao, and the fifth red-eyed king Yang Yin was defeated again. In this way, he was connected with Dong Xian's wandering soldiers of Onozawa."

A piece of chess that Ma Yuan lost last winter has now become a killer move.

The situation became clear: From Onozawa to Dingtao, the huge net on the east side was opened, and the main force of the Red Eyebrow and his partial army in Yanzhou were isolated.

From Chenliu to Aocang, the defense line of the Wei army in the west remained unmoved.

And north of the river, the shore is full of five-colored banners!

On the land of Yanzhou, between Heji, a "red eyebrows surrounded net" has taken shape!

But it is not enough to be perfect. Currently, there is a "three circumferences and one circumference". Only the passage to Suiyang, Liangjun, in the south, is still open. I wonder if the Red Eyebrow is trying hard or will it be transferred?

In the Warring States Period, people used the image of war as chess. This map was like a big chess game, with nine horizontal and five horizontal, nine palaces and eight horizontal lines, and the Yellow River that crossed the sky was like the "Chu River and Han Border".

The red and colorful owls fought each other on this vast battlefield, and the fifth reunion raised the "cart" representing Ma Yuan.

Walking straight and aiming at Puyang, the blood-red red eyebrows manipulator knocked hard!

"General!"

...
Chapter completed!