From July to August, the Green Forest Army's attack on Luoyang lasted for a whole month. It was not their crude siege equipment that finally broke through this big city, but news.

"Wang Mang is dead, his new room has been destroyed! Those who surrender are exempt from death!"

Regardless of whether the head of Wang Mang obtained by Wancheng was true or false, it was a bad news that was enough to defeat the defenders. With the shouts of the Green Forest Army, the morale of the new army in the city tended to collapse. The new dynasty was already unpopular. Now that the court has been destroyed and the emperor is dead, what else can they fight?

If the defender of the city was Yan You, it would be fine if a soldier was like Cen Peng, but the one who guarded Luoyang was the Grand Master Wang Kuang who was beaten to death by Chimei in the Battle of Chengchang.

One night, Wang Kuang was tied out of the city by a group of lieutenant soldiers who were trying to surrender. He pulled out his shirt and pressed his flesh on the ground. He saw a pair of feet wearing straw sandals walking towards him. Looking up, he was wearing a military uniform, but he was clearly a lieutenant's armor, but a general's helmet. The combination was inappropriate, making the straw sandals look even more eye-catching.

The man came with a big beard. Because his left eye was injured in the battle with the new army, he closed his eyes tightly and stared at the defeated general with his right eye: "Are you the pseudo-new Grand Tutor Wang Kuang?"

The green forest rose too fast, and Wang Kuang didn't even know who the other party was, so he nodded and begged for mercy.

Unexpectedly, the one-eyed man kicked Wang Kuang directly: "You deserve to be called Wang Kuang!"

It turns out that this one is the commander of the Daqu in Green Forest, and the "Dingguo Shanggong" of the Green Han, also known as Wang Kuang!

The name was knocked away, and whoever was embarrassed. Now one person was the winner and the other was the prisoner. The Grand Tutor Wang Kuang was shocked and was stunned for a moment. After a while, he suddenly bowed his head.

"The general misunderstood!"

"The general's Kuang is the Kuang who supports the Han Dynasty!"

"And the name of a villain is actually a basket of baskets!"

The Grand Tutor Wang Kuang instantly turned into a king's basket, which made the Supreme Duke of Dingguo laugh and patted him on the face: "What a king's basket. Wang Yi, the pseudo-new Grand Sikong, still brought tens of thousands of people in Chenggao and Xingyang to resist stubbornly. Are you willing to go and surrender to him?"

Wang Bao repeatedly agreed. He was a greedy person who was afraid of death. In the battle of Chengchang, he abandoned Lian Dan and rushed thousands of miles to retreat to Luoyang, causing Guanzhong to be decayed. If he had a little way out, he would not choose to die.

Wang Kuang asked again: "Can Ai Zhang be in the city?"

This Ai Zhang provided a huge joke for Luoyang's offense and defense. At that time, Ai Zhang volunteered to send him from the capital to attack the Taishi, and also led a large number of "capable people and strangers". Faced with the attack of the Green Forest, he boasted that he only needed to collect 555 people according to the Tuchen, and then he asked the Emperor Taiyi God to show his spirit and immediately kill the Han army without leaving any armor.

The Grand Master believed him, but Ai Zhang also said that he had to go to Beimang Mountain north of Luoyang to practice...

So Ai Zhang sneaked out of the city like this. On the same day, 555 people stood at the four corners of the city, all wearing yellow robes. It happened to be thunderstorms that day, and the world changed color for a while. However, after the rain passed, the green forest surged again.

However, Ai Zhang never came back and didn't know where to escape. Only the Taishi was trapped in the lonely city until today.

"How can Wang Mang not perish such a person?"

Wang Kuang was very despised and asked someone to arrest the "Wang Bao" and looked up at Luoyang, which was slowly opening the door towards him.

Many years ago, he was a young fisherman. When casting a net by the water siege, Wang Kuang never thought that he would one day become the "Dingguo Shanggong" of the Han Dynasty and do such a career. However, he, who was reluctant to part with Green Forest Mountain, did not expect that one day he would enter Luoyang, a big city known as "the world" as a winner.

The soldiers of the Green Forest were eager to try it out. They had long heard that Luoyang was prosperous, which was even better than Chang'an. In the east, Jiaqi, Lu, Jialiang, Chu, all things gathered together and had a rich population. Now they can finally go in to see it, and they all looked greedy. Although they were holding the Han flag, the old rules of the Green Forest could indulge in the city for three days when they entered the city. During all the actions, the Shanggong of Dingguo would turn a blind eye. Luoyang had something to do.

The Luoyang elders who surrendered together were also looking at the group of "Han soldiers" with fear. The new army was a wolf, would the visitor be a tiger? They only saw that when Wang Kuang and other generals entered the city, many of them were crowned. Some soldiers were wearing women's clothes, and the embroidered clothes were scattered outside the armor and helmets, and they looked at each other in a row.

An older elder whispered: "I haven't seen the dignity of the Han officials."

Seeing these "Han soldiers" roaring into Luoyang City, and following Xiaoqu coaches began to rush into the government, Fulu plundered, and the most iron-hard "former Han soldiers" also looked at them uneasy: "Indeed, they are not like Han soldiers, but like bandits..."

Some people laughed at it, some people fled because they felt it was not good, and some people even said, "I heard that there was a Han Dynasty in Hebei, and it was Liu Ziyu, the son of Emperor Xiaocheng. I wonder which is more authentic, the Northern Han Dynasty or the Green Han Dynasty!"

...

In July and August, it was the time when various forces shouted and divided the remnants of the New Dynasty. When the Green Han took Luoyang, the "Northern Han" also expanded its territory.

The first one to open was Liu Yang. His power was based in Changshan and Zhongshan, mainly relying on the name of "Zhending King" that he had in the former Han Dynasty, as well as the Changshan Kingdom, the marquis of Liu surnamed left over from Zhongshan Kingdom, gathered tens of thousands of people, claiming to be 100,000.

His strength was comparable to that of King Liu Lin of Zhao. Liu Yang was not very interested in Liu Lin's proposal to "resist the bronze horse from the east". Instead, he was in harmony. Julu stood in the east, and the bronze horse and the bandits in Hebei could not pass.

Liu Yang then felt relieved to cover the land west. There was only a Taihang Mountain and Jingxing Pass between Changshan and Taiyuan County. In early August, Liu Yang led his army to Taiyuan. With his name as the "Da Sikong" of the Northern Han Dynasty, he said that he had surrendered Guo Ji, the governor of Bingzhou who controlled Taiyuan, and tens of thousands of new troops sent to Taiyuan by Wang Xun. They all heard that the new dynasty had been destroyed, and they heard that the fifth reunion attacked Hedong, so they immediately changed their doors.

Although Liu Yang's big red and purple-red tumor on his neck was ill-inspired, he was still respectful to the wise and polite. He helped Guo Ji, the governor of Bingzhou in the new dynasty, and smiled and said, "I have heard of the name of Guo Jun from Maoling for a long time. When I saw him today, I realized that he was worthy of being the descendant of Guo Daxia!"

The "God of the Great Hero" he mentioned was Guo Jie, who was Guo Ji's grandfather. Although Guo Jie was executed by Emperor Wu of Han, the Guo family of Maoling gradually developed. During the Ai Ping, Guo Ji worked under the command of the Grand Sikong Wang Yi, and was moved to Yuyang Commander and Shanggu Dayin. Until the governor of Bingzhou, he became one of the few local officials with real power and at least able to control a county.

Because he was an official in Hebei, he had some friendship with Zhu Liu from Hebei.

After Wang Xun sent troops to Taiyuan, Guo Qi was impatient and was very anxious while realizing his desire to connect with the "Hu Han".

Anyway, Wang Mang was driven away by the fifth reunion and the new house was about to be destroyed. Guo Ji personally persuaded the side generals sent by Wang Xun, and urgently contacted Liu Yang, expressing his willingness to use the entire county of Taiyuan and Yanmen and Dai County to join the Northern Han, hoping to use it as a backrest to block Hu Han and Lu Fang. In the more than a month, with the help of the Xiongnu, Lu Fang's territory was no longer limited to Wuyuan, Shuofang, Lianyunzhong, and Dingxiang counties.

The world is chaotic and divided. Guo Ji doesn't know who can succeed in the future. He only knows that he must not call the puppets of the Huns a climate!

From Guo Ji's mouth, Liu Yang also learned that his fifth relationship was sent to his seal by their emperor "Liu Ziyu". Not only had he attacked Hedong and seized the south of the Rat and Chop Valley, he even became king!

"King of Wei?"

Liu Yang covered his tumor and digested the sudden message. His eldest nephew Geng Chun didn't tell him anything, did he not know about this, or...

But at this point, Liu Yang had not yet reached the conclusion that the fifth reunion wanted to do it alone, and just murmured: "It seems that the fifth reunion is quite ambitious. I want to be like Han Xin decides to be king, and force us to give him a title of king too!"

"Don't he know that the king of my great man's surname is miserable?"

...

Wang Lao Situ's long head was finally chased and killed by Geng Yan, and sent to Anyi and placed in front of Di Wu Lun and Ma Yuan.

"Although Geng Bozhao killed Wang Xun, he was still one step slower and failed to enter Taiyuan County."

This time, Ma Yuan was not funny. Geng Yan lost his mind because he was blocked in the Ekou for a month, and siege was still not Ma Yuan's strength.

"Taiyuan has now been taken over by Liu Yang, and the Yanmen and Dai County in the north may join Guo Ji, the governor of Bingzhou, to join the Northern Han Dynasty."

Wu Lun nodded and smiled: "Wenyuan, it seems that the day of taking advantage of the destruction of Xinmang and land grabbing is over."

The collapse of the new dynasty in Guanzhong brought great confusion and delay to the world. The fifth reunion took advantage of this moment to seize the three counties in Weibei, surrendered to Shangjun, Xihe, and Hedong. In addition, Ma Yuan easily captured Hanoi from Wei territory, and his power expanded to nine counties in just two months.

However, when July entered, and all forces began to react one after another, they also joined in the division of the remnants of the New Dynasty. With the destruction of Wang Xun, Bingzhou surrendered. Recently, I heard that Luoyang was also captured by the Green Han, and the good days of being able to win a county by destroying it will probably be gone forever.

Wu Lun was playing with the seal sent by the "Northern Han" in his hand. So far, they have not yet broken up with the three Lius of Hebei, and only let Geng Yan fight in Pingyang and defend the Shique Valley.

"Wen Yuan thought, what should we do next?"

When Ma Yuan was recently frustrated by the Ekou Pass, he thought a lot, and said, "Zhang Yi was the Qin Lianheng and said to the King of Wei: 'Wei Nan and Chu but not Qi; then Qi attacked the east; east and Qi did not meet Zhao; then Zhao attacked the north; not in line with Han; then Han attacked the west; not in close proximity to Chu; then Chu attacked the south: this is the so-called way of splitting and splitting!"

"The king's country is called Wei, and the situation is the same as that of Wei in the Warring States Period, and it is divided into pieces!"

Ma Yuan pointed out the large topographic map made by the fifth reunion. The territory to the east is Wei County, Hanoi, and Shouliang and Dong County north of the Yellow River, which is equivalent to one county. Although these three counties have the Yellow River, Taihang and Wangwu protection, it is considered to be the "solidity of mountains and rivers". However, Henan has been controlled by the Green Han Dynasty, and to the east are the remnants of the Red Eyebrows and the Tongma bandits. In the north, facing the pressure of the "Northern Han Dynasty", it only takes one day to attack Yecheng from Handan.

What's so bad is that because of the barriers of Shangdang, this eastern territory was only maintained by a trough from Hedong. Just like the Wei during the Warring States Period, it became a "barbell"-shaped terrain, with thick ends and thin middle.

"Hedong has just been captured and is still unstable. It is facing Guoji, Taiyuan, and Shangdang Bao Yong in the east. Hongnong, who is separated by a river, has already surrendered to the Green Han."

Weibei in the west also borders other forces on all sides. Needless to say: the north is the Hu Han Dynasty, the west is the Western Han Dynasty, the north is the middle-aged, and the south is the Green Forest Army that began to enter the pass to occupy Chang'an.

The four realms of the east, west, south and north are all in danger, which is simply a replica of the situation during the reign of King Hui of Wei.

"Why did Wei decline? He was fighting against Qin, fighting against Hexi with Chu, fighting against the Central Plains with Qi, and fighting against Song territory with Zhao Han internally, trying to annex and unify the Three Jins."

Even the Yan State, which was not bordering, declared war and fought five wars at the same time. Even if there were more victory and fewer defeats, the Wei Wushu could not withstand the consumption. As a result, his hegemony was defeated and eventually became a second-rate country.

"The king must not repeat the mistakes of King Hui of Wei."

The fifth reun nodded, wanted to do everything, and could fight anyone. This is the mentality of his generals. After fighting Hedong, they expanded again. Xiao Geng wanted to take Taiyuan. The seventh reunion yelled that it was time to take back Chang'an and take two counties in a month, and they could unify the world in less than three years.

But is the land you come from the horse racing circle really your territory? It is meaningless to surrender to you today and others tomorrow.

As Ma Yuan said, they seem to be smooth, but in fact they are as dangerous as if they are tired of them. They make enemies everywhere and can collapse in a defeat. This theory of quick victory must be resolutely curbed!

"We won't take Taiyuan for the time being. It would be nice to have Liu Yang and Guo Ji block Lu Fang and the Xiongnu in the north."

"Chang'an and Weinan won't get it." This is the established strategy of the fifth relationship, so the hot potato will be left to the green forest.

Then where are you going to fight next? The generals looked at each other.

The answer to the fifth relationship is to fight no matter where!

Shangdang must find a way to take it down to avoid cutting them off for the enemy; the north must try to surrender to connect with the old subordinates of the New Qin Dynasty. However, the fifth reunion must not start a war on both ends or even three ends, so they must be slow. After a war, it is the turn to attack the plot and the diplomatic relations. Feng Yan, a divine guest in charge of diplomacy, is busy.

Although he was called king, now both the Western Han Dynasty, the Northern Han Dynasty and the Green Han Dynasty want to win over the fifth relationship and take the initiative on his side - unless the fifth relationship cannot help but be called emperor.

"Before looking at the meal in someone else's pot, eat the meat in your bowl."

The fifth reunion taught everyone a lesson: "The three counties in Weibei, plus Hedong, Henei, Wei land, large grain-producing counties, and large household registration counties are all in my hands. What should be urgent is others. Let's stop and transfer half of the troops back to Weibei to prevent the attack of the green forest. Let the soldiers help thresh the grain and make the autumn harvest. Before winter, I do not plan to use troops to the outside world."

To consolidate the rule of Weibei, Hedong and Henoi, we should train troops, farming, and have to determine the title and internal affairs must be clear. The fifth relationship believes that the current crisis of Wei State is not in Zhuanyu, but in Xiao Wall!

Finally, the fifth reunion used six words to summarize the strategic decision he made after discussing with Ma Yuan.

"Build high walls and accumulate grain!"

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ps: Chapter 3 is at 18:00. (It will be about an hour later)
Chapter completed!