Chapter 537: The Beginning of the Destruction
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Cen Peng said: "Your Majesty has always been known for his honesty and benevolence, but now General Zhu thinks that Your Majesty is coaxing you, isn't this a villain's heart to live the belly of a gentleman?" ”
Zhu Kun's face turned red and he didn't speak immediately. Liu Xiu's words are indeed famous, but people will always change, in order to take Luoyang, who dares to guarantee that Liu Xiu did not send Cen Peng to coax him?
Cen Peng said loudly: "General Zhu, now that Luoyang has been trapped for two months, how much grain and grass can be left in the city?" ”
Zhu Kun subconsciously said: "Luoyang has enough grain and grass......"
Cen Peng said: "Even if Luoyang's grain and grass are sufficient, if you are trapped for a year and a half, Luoyang can still hold on?" ”
Zhu Kun stopped talking again. In fact, with the current grain and grass reserves in Luoyang, it is no longer enough to meet the needs of a month, in order to save the degree, the soldiers have changed from three meals a day to two meals a day, even so, the speed of grain and grass consumption is still very fast.
He was silent for a long time, and said quietly: "If I surrender, how will Liu Xiu treat me?" ”
Cen Peng said: "Feng Hou worships the general! ”
Zhu Kun's body was shocked, Liu Xiu didn't kill him, it was already a very incredible thing, and he could still be named a marquis and worship him as a general? Zhu Kun stared at Cen Peng outside the city and asked, "Cen Peng, how do you make me believe your words?" ”
Cen Peng asked rhetorically, "What can I do to win General Zhu's trust?" Zhu Kun looked left and right at him, and a cronie and strategist stepped forward and whispered, "Why don't Da Sima let Cen Peng enter the city to talk?" Seeing that Zhu Kun frowned, the strategist continued: "If Cen Peng has no ghost in his heart, he will dare to enter the city
Da Sima talked in detail, on the contrary, if Cen Peng didn't dare to enter the city, it must mean that he had a ghost in his heart, and this time he came to recruit Da Sima, it was his conspiracy with Liu Xiu! ”
After listening to the strategist's words, Zhu Kun couldn't help nodding again and again, knowing that the strategist was reasonable. He turned to the generals on the left and right and said, "Put down the drawbridge!" ”
With Zhu Kun's order, the suspension bridge at the Luoyang City Gate was slowly lowered with a creak, and then a big basket came down from the city. Cen Peng, who was outside the city, hadn't figured out what Zhu Kun wanted to do, and Zhu Kun said loudly in the city gate tower: "General Cen, one of you and I is in the city and the other is outside the city, it is inconvenient to talk, why don't General Cen come into the city and talk to me in detail, how about it?"
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After speaking, he looked at Cen Peng outside the city with a smile, as if to say, if you have the courage to come into the city and talk to me.
Cen Peng was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Zhu Kun meant, he was testing himself to see if he was using fraud.
At this time, Cen Peng was faced with a dilemma, if he did not dare to enter the city, then it meant that he was ashamed, and it was difficult to continue the matter of recruiting Zhu Kun, if he entered the city, then his life would be completely in the hands of Zhu Kun. Just in an instant, all kinds of possibilities and all kinds of consequences passed through Cen Peng's mind like lightning. In reality, Cen Peng was only stunned for a moment, and then without saying a word, he turned over and dismounted, drew his sword, and slapped it hard on the horse's buttocks. Cen Peng put the sword into the sheath, walked across the suspension bridge, came to the bottom of the city wall, stepped into the bamboo basket with his legs, raised his head and said to Zhu Kun above: "General Zhu, there are brothers who have to help."
I'm up! ”
Cen Peng's series of actions surprised Zhu Kun and others in the city. Even the strategist who made the plan widened his eyes in disbelief, but he didn't expect Cen Peng to dare to enter the city alone.
Even if he doesn't have a ghost in his heart, isn't he afraid that he will not surrender to Liu Xiu, and after he enters the city, he will be cut by his own side? How could this person be so bold?
Zhu Kun was also quite shocked, and he said to his subordinates: "Pull General Cen up, slow down, steady!" The soldiers at the head of the city dragged the rope and pulled Cen Peng, who was sitting in the bamboo basket, up to the city little by little. The moment Cen Peng came up, he heard a commotion around him, and countless soldiers were either holding spears in both hands or crossbow machines in both hands, one by one
Enemy.
Cen Peng smiled indifferently and untied the saber under his rib with his hand. At this time, Zhu Kun walked out of the city gate tower and shouted to the surrounding soldiers: "Don't be rude!" Stand down! ”
The soldiers surrounding Cem Peng retreated, but their faces were still wary and hostile. Cen Peng handed the sword in his hand forward, and said with a smile: "General Zhu! ”
Zhu Kun looked at the saber handed over by Cen Peng, hesitated for a moment, waved his hand and said, "No need." ”
Cen Peng was not hypocritical, and when he saw Zhu Kun signaling that he didn't have to hand over the sword, he took the opportunity to hang the saber back on his waist, and then gave Zhu Kun a deep salute and said, "Peng has seen General Zhu!" ”
Zhu Kun said with a cold face: "I am still the great Sima of the imperial court!" ”
Although Cen Peng was alone in Luoyang City, surrounded by enemy soldiers and enemy generals, Cen Peng's face did not have the slightest fear, and he said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "The court that Peng recognizes is only the orthodox Han court!" ”
The implication is that Liu Xuan's first court is no longer the orthodox Han court in Cen Peng's eyes, or in other words, from the moment Chang'an fell, the first court has been destroyed.
Zhu Kun stared coldly at Cen Peng, who was smiling and looking at him without fear. I don't know how long it took, Zhu Kun's fierce gaze softened, and his gloomy face tended to ease.
He waved his hand to Cen Peng and said, "Let's go into the city and talk!" As he walked down the steps, he asked, "General Cen, Liu Xiu...... Will Your Majesty really accept my surrender? ”
Cen Peng's face was straight, and he said: "Your Majesty's personal promise is absolutely not false. ”
Zhu Kun sighed softly and did not speak again.
Cen Peng rushed back to his war horse, while he himself entered Luoyang City, which made Wu Han and the others who were watching from behind stunned and stupid.
Could it be that Cen Peng is crazy? He dared to run into Luoyang City alone, even if he grew ten or a hundred heads, it was not enough for people to cut it off!
Wu Han and the others watched Cen Peng sit in a big bamboo basket, be pulled to the city, and then disappear. Zhu You, Cho Qi and others stepped forward one after another and asked eagerly, "Da Sima, what should I do now?" ”
"This ......" Wu Han hesitated for a moment and said: "General Cen is not an impulsive and frizzy person, since he dares to enter Luoyang alone, it shows that he is completely sure that Zhu Kun and the others will not harm him!" ”
Everyone looked at each other, they were very relieved about Cen Peng's safety, but now that Cen Peng had entered the city, they had no other way outside the city.
Zhu Kun was really unwilling to surrender to Liu Xiu. First, he had killed Liu Xiu's eldest brother and surrendered to the past, and he didn't think that Liu Xiu would treat him well.
Secondly, Zhu Kun has never taken Liu Xiu seriously, and he has a sense of superiority psychologically, and now he wants him to surrender to Liu Xiu, who he despised before, and he will not pass the level in his heart.
But now it is a fact that Luoyang is trapped, and it is also a fact that he is about to face the dilemma of running out of food in the whole city, and the situation is precarious, and there seems to be no other choice than surrender.
Zhu Kun still has some hopes for Liu Xuancun, hoping that Liu Xuan can make a comeback, gather troops and horses, and counterattack Chang'an.
You must know that Jingzhou is still under your control, as long as the counties of Jingzhou are willing to pay money and people to form an army of hundreds of thousands, it will not be a problem, and it is not impossible to counterattack Chang'an and defeat Chimei.
Out of such a mentality, Zhu Kun neither killed him nor surrendered to Cen Peng, who entered the city alone, and kept dragging him.
In this way, four days passed in a row, and on this day, Zhu Kun suddenly received news from Chang'an that Liu Xuan surrendered to the Red Mei Army.
This news, after it entered Luoyang City, was undoubtedly explosive, and more than 200,000 soldiers in the city were all stunned by this news.
Did the Son of Heaven surrender to the Red Eyebrow Army? Even the Son of Heaven has surrendered, and the imperial court no longer exists, so who are you still fighting for?
Liu Xuan's surrender was really helpless. Although Jingzhou was controlled by the imperial court, the Taishou of each county had already gone their own way, seeing the fall of Chang'an and Liu Xuan trapped in Gaoling, no one was willing to send troops to rescue.
Yan Ben, the captain of Fufeng, personally led the army to besiege the post station where Liu Xuan stayed, and neither killed him nor let him go. Later, the Red Eyebrow Army sent Xie Lu to send a letter to Liu Xuan, the content of the letter, and bluntly told Liu Xuan, you surrender now, we can also accept surrender, and let you be the king of Changsha, you can only think about it for twenty days, twenty days later,
Our army will no longer accept your surrender.
After reading this letter, Liu Xuan did not think about it for twenty days, and immediately decided to surrender to the Red Mei Army. Liu Xuan followed Xie Lu and returned to Chang'an, where Liu Xuan met the emperor Liu Penzi, who was lifted by the Red Eyebrow Army.
Liu Xuan bowed his head to Liu Penzi and dedicated his Son of Heaven to Liu Penzi, so far, he overthrew the new Mang court, completed its short life, and drew an end.
In the twenty-third year of A.D., in the first month, the Chung Ling army joined forces with the Green Forest Army to defeat Nanyang Taishou Zhen Fu and Duwei Liang Qiuci, and Liu Xuan ascended the throne on the shore of the water.
Only more than two years later, in October of the twenty-fifth year of AD, Liu Xuan surrendered to the Red Mei Army, and the first emperor had only been emperor for more than two years.
In the history, Liu Xuan did not leave a good reputation, and the most recorded record of him is that he was addicted to the harem and had fun with women all day long.
After Liu Xuan offered the seal, the Red Eyebrow Army present wanted to break their promise and wanted to kill him on the spot. Liu Panzi, who was sitting on the throne, was a complete puppet, trembling with fright, and didn't even dare to say a word.
Xie Lu, who was still responsible for recruiting Liu Xuan, fought hard and desperately saved Liu Xuan.
After Liu Xuan surrendered, the Red Mei Army gradually revealed its true nature in Chang'an, raping, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, Chang'an, Zuo Feng Yi, Right Fufeng, and Sanfu all suffered from it.
At this time, the people in the Sanfu area began to miss Liu Xuan and the reign of the first imperial court.
Although the first court is not as good as the Xinmang court, the people of Sanfu can at least survive, as long as they don't provoke the powerful, they can still make a living, and now, Chang'an, who has been mastered by red eyebrows, the people of Sanfu really can't live.
This is simply a swarm of locusts, robbing whatever they see, robbing food, money, women, and even the cemetery they have to dig open to rob the burial goods in the cemetery.
It was during this period that a major event broke out that shocked Chinese history, when the Red Eyebrow Army dug up Liu Bang's tomb, not only stealing the property in the tomb, but also committing heinous acts of rape of corpses. It is said that when the Red Eyebrow Army entered the cemetery, Empress Lu, who was buried with Liu Bang, and even the harem concubines, were still vivid, and the Red Eyebrow Army had evil intentions and raped the bodies of Empress Lu and the harem concubines. (It is clearly recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty and other documents.)
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Jingshi Sanfu fell into the hands of such a group of perverts who were inferior to pigs and dogs, and it would be hellish if the people could live a good life. Compared with the two evils, people of course miss the more primitive court that did less evil. Later, why did Liu Xiu set the capital of Luoyang instead of Chang'an? It's because Sanfu has been tossed so hard that it can't be done, and the most prosperous Jingshi area in China back then seems to have become a ghost town, and Liu Xiu has no choice but to settle in Duluo
Yang.
The people of Sanfu missed Liu Xuan, which made Liu Xuan feel that he was still doing a good job as an emperor, but he never expected that this would become his hypnotic charm.
Zhang Wei, who followed Wang Kuang to surrender to the Red Mei Army, secretly protected Xie Lu, saying that the people of Sanfu all supported Liu Xuan, and Liu Xuan could be restored at any time by taking advantage of the people's hope.
Xie Lu was shocked when he heard about Zhang Wei's secret protection, and Xie Lu, who had tried to protect Liu Xuan, sent his own soldiers to secretly execute Liu Xuan, so that he would never suffer in the future.
So far, Liu Xuan has completely finished his life. Liu Xuan's life is actually quite sad, at the beginning, he didn't want to be the emperor, it was the people of the Green Forest Army who forced him to support him and pushed him to the throne.
When Liu Xuan began to care about his throne, he suddenly found that he had no relatives, and on the side of the clan, they all looked at Liu Xuan, while on the side of the Green Forest Army, they all regarded themselves as puppets, and no one cared about their own son of heaven at all. In order to consolidate his throne, he killed Liu Xiu, and as a result, he erected Liu Xiu, a powerful enemy, while he himself was still a puppet in the hands of the Green Forest Army.