The Long army's attack on Lüyang lasted only one day, and although the battle was fierce, the Long army still failed to break through Lüyang.

The next day, the Han army led by Geng Yi and Gai Yan was the first to approach Lüyang. Hearing the news, the Long army did not dare to attack Lüyang wantonly, and the generals persuaded Kui Hustle to withdraw as soon as possible to avoid its edge.

Now Geng Yijun and Gai Yanjun have approached Lüyang, and in a few days, Cen Peng's army and even the Western Army will arrive in Lüyang, and by that time, they will not be able to leave if they want to.

Kui Huan really couldn't swallow this breath, the Han army in Luoyang City obviously only had 20,000 people, but after two or three months of attack, he just couldn't defeat Luoyang. Kui Huan's heart was on fire, and his condition became more and more serious.

In the end, Kui Huan was forced to accept the advice of the generals, led his soldiers and horses, and retreated.

With the withdrawal of the Long army, the Battle of Lüyang finally came to an end.

The battle of Lüyang can be described as a long time. In Liu Xiu's second battle against Long, the first to break out was the Battle of Lüyang.

20,000 Han troops took it by surprise and infiltrated the hinterland of Hanyang and took Lüyang in one go. After that, Kui Huan led the army to attack, and with the support of the Shu army, the Long army and the Shu army jointly attacked Luoyang.

However, at the beginning, the Long army and the Shu army had their own selfish intentions, and the offensive against Lüyang was not violent, which gave the Han army enough time to gain a firm foothold in Lüyang.

Later, although the Long army and the Shu army had an all-out attack on Lüyang, the city defense of the Han army had been stabilized, and the joint attack of the two armies had never made any progress.

After that, the war dragged on. Until the defeat of the Long army on all fronts, Lüyang was still firmly occupied by the Han army.

I have to say that the tactics of the Han army's sneak attack on Luoyang were a great success, and the troops invested were not much, but the returns were extremely huge, at least the Shu army that supported Kui and Longdi was pinned down in Luoyang.

After Kui Huan led his troops to Tai, he did not stay, and took his family to Xixian again.

Xixian is located in the west of Tai, very close to Tai, only thirty or forty miles away. After Kui Huan arrived in Xicheng, he couldn't afford to be sick, and he was getting thinner and thinner, and in just a few days, the whole person was about to lose weight.

Thanks to the fact that there is also a Jin Dan by Kui Huan's side, relying on the elixir refined by Jin Dan, Kui Huan's life can be regarded as temporarily saved.

The battle has reached this point, and all that remains is the final decisive battle.

Liu Xiuye has already made up his mind, and this battle is to completely eliminate the Kui Huan forces.

He transferred Wu and Han, who were guarding Chang'an, to the front line, and all the soldiers and horses of the Han army gathered in Tai and Xixian one after another.

It is worth mentioning that most of Niu Han's 150,000 troops were dismissed by Liu Xiu.

Soldiers and horses are expensive but not expensive, which has always been one of Liu Xiu's core ideas in governing the army.

For example, although there are only 100,000 soldiers in the Western Army, when it comes to the battlefield, these 100,000 soldiers can be used as 200,000 or 300,000 people.

The 150,000 army under Niu Han's command, Liu Xiu really can't look at it, and in addition, and the most critical point, the Luoyang Imperial Court really can't afford to raise so many soldiers and horses now.

If you want the people to have a good life, the imperial court can only greatly reduce taxes, but after the tax is reduced, the imperial court's money and food are very limited, and it is impossible to raise so many soldiers and horses, which is no way.

Liu Xiu cut down 100,000 of the 150,000 troops under Niu Han, and only 50,000 remained.

Even if only 50,000 are retained, Liu Xiu still feels that the number of people is too much, and if he lays off any more people, he is afraid that it will cause Niu Han's dissatisfaction, and it will also give Niu Han the illusion that the Son of Heaven does not trust him, so he will feel guilty.

Therefore, after reducing the soldiers and horses under Niu Han to 50,000, Liu Xiu did not continue to reduce them. Just when Liu Xiu was preparing to launch a full-scale attack on Tai and Xixian, the western part of Liangzhou suddenly discovered that something had changed.

It turned out that it was the Qiang people in the northwest who suddenly crossed the border and invaded Wuwei County and Jincheng County in Liangzhou, killing and plundering the people and seizing the towns.

In fact, in the heyday of the hustle and bustle, the Qiang people really did not dare to invade the Xiliang border.

Under the command of Kui Huan, there are also generals like clouds, like Li Guang, Niu Han and others, all of whom are fierce generals who are good at commanding troops and brave and good at fighting.

Like Wang Yuan, Wang Jie, Wang Meng, Xingxun, Zhou Zong and others, they are also famous generals, and the Qiang people have suffered a lot in the hands of these generals.

Under the suppression of Kui Huan, the Qiang people behaved very honestly, and they were good friends with Kui Huan.

And this time, in the battle against the Han army, Kui Huan lost one after another, lost his troops and lost his generals, and even the general Wang Zun and the fierce general Niu Han led their troops to take refuge in the Han family, which is undoubtedly worse for the Kui Huan forces.

The Qiang people saw the opportunity and knew that for a long time, Kui Huan would be too busy to take care of themselves, and if they didn't take the opportunity to invade Liangzhou at this time, how long would they wait?

The Qiang people, who were originally very honest, turned into a fierce face, invaded Liangzhou on a large scale, burned and looted in Wuwei County and Jincheng County, and did all kinds of evil.

The Qiang people are right, now Kui Huan is indeed too busy to take care of himself, even if he hears that the Qiang people are in chaos in Wuwei and Jincheng counties, Kui Huan can't spare the energy and troops to deal with them.

At present, the problem of the Qiang people making trouble is in front of Liu Xiu.

Of course, Liu Xiu can also ignore the nonsense of the Qiang people, let them toss in Wuwei County and Jincheng County, and he will go all out to deal with the Kui Huan.

But Liu Xiu is the Son of Heaven after all, and he has always advocated bringing Liangzhou into the control of the imperial court, and now that Liangzhou is being attacked by foreigners, how can he, the Son of Heaven, sit idly by?

Liu Xiu was also furious about what the Qiang people did, he summoned Feng Yi, Niu Han and Wang Zun, and asked Feng Yi to lead the Western Expeditionary Army, and let Niu Han and Wang Zun lead 50,000 soldiers and horses, with Feng Yi as the main general, Niu Han and Wang Zun as deputy generals, commanding 150,000 troops, entering Wuwei and Jincheng two counties to quell the Qianghu Rebellion.

Feng Yi, Niu Han and Wang Zun had no objections, and after receiving the order, they immediately led the troops into battle.

Before going to war, Feng Yi also deliberately discussed with Niu Han and Wang Zun, and he mainly attacked Jincheng County, which was closer to Hanyang, and asked Niu Han and Wang Zun to go to Wuwei County.

Niu Han objected to Feng Yi's arrangement, and he advocated that Wang Zun should accompany Feng Yi in battle.

After all, Feng Yi is not familiar with Jincheng County, and Feng Yi has never been in contact with the Qiang people, and it will be much easier to have Wang Zun by his side to help, as for the Qiang Hu of Wuwei County, he is enough to deal with it alone.

After listening to Niu Han's proposal, Feng Yi was very moved, and then asked worriedly, "Ru Qing is alone, will he be alone?" ”

Niu Han looked up and smiled, waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "Don't worry, General, I have fought dozens of battles with Qiang Hu, big and small, and we have never been defeated!" As he spoke, he also deliberately looked at Wang Zun's side.

Wang Zun smiled, nodded to Feng Yi, and said, "Ruqing is indeed victorious in every battle against the Qiang people, as long as you hear the name of Ruqing, the Qiang people are all terrified!" ”

When Feng Yi heard this, he laughed and said, "In this case, I am at ease if Ru Qing goes to pacify the trouble of Wuwei!" ”

After discussion, the three of them finally decided that Feng Yi and Wang Zun would lead the western expedition to Pingqiang, Jincheng County, and Niu Han would lead their troops to Pingqiang, Wuwei County.

The war on their side will not be shown for the time being, let's talk about Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu divided the Han army under his command into three parts. The great Sima Wu Han and the general Cen Peng of the Southern Expedition led 100,000 troops to attack Xixian where Kui Huan was located; Geng Yi, the general of Jianwei, and Gai Yan, the general of Huya, led 100,000 troops, mainly attacking Tian Yi, Li Yu and others stationed in Tai; Liu Xiu himself, led more than 30,000 soldiers, stationed between Tai and Xixian. He was stationed here, firstly, he could command and mobilize the troops and horses attacking the two roads of Tai and Xixian at any time, and secondly, he could be stationed between the two places, and he could reinforce them as soon as the war was tight and encountered difficulties.

The west city of Tai and Xixian is a big city, the city is high and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, don't look at the absolute advantage of the Han army now, but it is not easy to capture these two cities.

In fact, the strength of the Long army is not only concentrated in Xicheng and Tai, Wang Yuan, Xingxun, Wang Meng, Zhou Zong's generals, and more than 20,000 soldiers and horses are all in Jicheng.

Jicheng is located in the north of Xixian and Tai, and the three cities just form a triangle, but Liu Xiu does not attach importance to Jicheng and does not send troops to attack.

Kui Huan, like Liu Xiu, did not attach importance to Jicheng, the reason why he arranged Wang Yuan, Xingxun, Wang Meng, Zhou Zong and others to Jicheng was just to be out of sight and not upset.

Look at these generals stationed in Jicheng, Wang Yuan fought against the Han army in Longdi and fled without a fight; Xing Xun fought against the Han army at Fanxukou and was defeated by the Han army; Wang Meng faced the Han army in Jitou Valley, and lost even more heavily, 60,000 soldiers, he only brought back less than 1,000 people; As for Zhou Zong, in the battle of stability, 100,000 soldiers were defeated by him, and the loss was terrible. For such a group of defeated generals, can Kui Huan not be angry?

Kui Huan sent all these generals to garrison Jicheng, and there were not many generals who stayed with him, the most well-known of which were the general Li Guang and the general Wang Jie.

Next to Xicheng, there is a fortress called Rongqiu, which is the acropolis of Xicheng and an important part of the defense line of Xicheng. Kui Huan sent Wang Jie to Rongqiu and made him the chief general of Rongqiu.

Wu Han and Cen Peng, who were in charge of the main attack on Xicheng, both noticed the place of Rongqiu, and after discussion, the two decided that Wu Han would lead the main army to attack Xicheng, and Cen Peng would lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack Rongqiu.

It's just that after the war began, the fight didn't go well.

The city defense of Xicheng was very strong, and although the offensive of the Han army was fierce, it was pushed back by the Long army.

Cen Peng's side is not smooth, Rongqiu is built on a hill, don't look at the city is not big, but the terrain is steep, it is not easy to attack the hill, and then want to attack the head of Rongqiu, it is even more difficult.

After the full-scale outbreak of the war, the Han army fought very awkwardly.

The battle reports from Xicheng's side continued to reach Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu frowned. Kui Huan is already at the end of the crossbow, but it is really difficult to deal with the battle of trapped beasts.

After thinking about it, he wrote a letter to Kui Huan. In this letter, Liu Xiu is a combination of grace and power.

He first gave the example of Tian Heng to Kui. At that time, Gaozu (Liu Bang) made a heavy promise to appease Tian Heng, as long as Tian Heng was willing to surrender to Han, the Tian family brothers, the elder brother was crowned king, and the brother was crowned marquis.

Tian Heng was the leader of the peasant rebel army at the same time as Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and after Liu Bang won the world, the Tian Heng brothers refused to submit, which led to Liu Bang's promise.

Taking this example, Liu Xiu is showing Kui Huan that as long as you are willing to surrender now, I will not blame you for what you did before, and in the future, you can continue to be your Xizhou general.

If you insist on refusing to surrender and want to emulate Yingbu, then your fate will only be the same as Yingbu. As for whether to descend or not, it is now up to you to decide.

Yingbu was originally a subordinate of Xiang Yu, and later took refuge in Liu Bang, and was known as the three famous generals of the early Han Dynasty along with Han Xin and Peng Yue. Later, Liu Bang killed Han Xin and Peng Yue one after another, and Yingbu was frightened, so he raised troops to rebel, and was finally killed due to defeat.

Liu Xiu's letter was shot into the city by the Han army outside the city.

Kui Huan, who was sick in bed, after reading Liu Xiu's letter, was not only grateful for Liu Xiu's special kindness, but was so angry that he scolded Liu Xiu.

said that Liu Xiu was a despicable, insidious, and vicious villain, and tricked him into surrendering, the purpose of which was just to kill him.

After Liu Xiu wrote a letter of persuasion to Kui Huan, he did another thing, summoning Kui Huan's son Kui Huan from Luoyang to Xicheng.

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