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Chapter 293 This is too unlucky

"This was the Battle of Kunyang. At the time, Liu Xiu was in a low position and had little power. He probably had less than 20,000 soldiers under his command. Many of his generals did not obey him. Facing the army of Wang Yi and Wang Xun, which was said to have 'millions of people', he had almost no chance of winning."

"The difference in military strength is too great. Even if Wang Yi and Wang Xun cannot break through Kunyang City, they can still kill everyone in the city with so many people besieging it. Moreover, they have siege equipment. It is only a matter of time before the city is broken."

"Some generals in the city wanted to surrender, but Wang Yi and Wang Xun felt that Kunyang would be taken and would not accept the surrender."

"The two of them were thinking that Kunyang City would be captured, and the credit would be in their hands soon. If you surrender, where would I get the credit from?"

"Not only did he not allow surrender, Wang Yi also threatened: 'With an army of one million, we will destroy everything we pass through. Now we are slaughtering this city, marching forward in blood, singing and dancing, how can we not be happy!'"

As a general, Meng Tian snorted coldly and commented: "You haven't won yet, but you are already thinking about what to do after the victory. Who knows that the situation on the battlefield changes rapidly? The victory and defeat have not yet been determined before the end of the battle. You actually take it as a credit and don't allow the enemy general to surrender. How can you not be defeated if you are so arrogant?"

In fact, what Wang Yi and Wang Xun thought also makes sense.

Hundreds of thousands of people are facing a city with 20,000 defenders. We have the advantage and it is almost impossible for us to lose. The people in the city will soon become our credit, so of course they are unwilling to accept their surrender.

They certainly didn't expect that they would be in great danger in Kunyang and that it would become the place where they would be defeated.

It is spring and summer now. The scene of vibrant life and flourishing things is right around us, and the achievement is right in front of us. How can we not take it?

Li Nian smiled and said, "In fact, based on the conditions of both sides, it makes sense for Wang Yi and Wang Xun to think that they will win this battle."

"It is said that their army has as many as 420,000 soldiers. Even if there are still some insignificant soldiers among them, compared with the defenders in Kunyang City, their advantage is much greater than 800,000 versus 600,000. The advantage is definitely theirs!"

This kid deliberately said 800,000 versus 600,000. This must have happened in later history, and the side with 800,000 troops also lost!
"But they were not facing an ordinary person, but the great mage Liu Xiu. When Wang Yi and Wang Xun were determined to take over Kunyang City, a meteor fell to the ground that night, but fortunately it rushed towards the military camp of Wang Yi and Wang Xun."

"Meteors fly from the sky, and the destructive power of falling at high speed is extremely terrifying. Even a meteor the size of a bean can make a hole in the ground. If it is larger, it can destroy a city. The meteors that Wang Yi and Wang Xun's army encountered were obviously not small, otherwise they would not have been seen and recorded."

"Wang Yi and Wang Xun never thought they would be hit by a meteor, and they didn't take any precautions. The meteor that night caused heavy losses to Wang Yi and Wang Xun's army, and it is estimated that many people were killed or injured."

"But the key is not the casualties. Even if the meteor really killed and injured many people, the number of soldiers who survived is still greater than the defenders in Kunyang City."

Meng Tian said: "The falling of the meteor into the camp will definitely have a great impact on morale, and will make Wang Mang's army think that the gods are helping the Kunyang defenders."

Li Nian nodded and said with a smile, "Not only that, the armies of Wang Yi and Wang Xun who survived the meteor attack encountered a cloud ring like a mountain during the day. The mountain-like clouds fell straight down from the sky above the camp and only disintegrated about a foot above the ground."

The First Emperor and his two men were a little overwhelmed. Wang Mang was really unlucky. His army was hit by meteors at night and frightened by mountains and clouds during the day. One can imagine how low the morale was.

It’s not that our army is not strong, it’s just that the other side has Meteors and we can’t withstand it!
"Wang Mang's army encountered a meteor falling on the camp at night, and encountered this wonderful cloud mountain phenomenon during the day. People at that time were confused, let alone those soldiers who were not well-born and had little experience. They would only think that the heavens were helping the enemy and that they were standing against the heavens."

"If they continue to fight the enemy, they will no longer be fighting the enemy, but fighting against heaven. The soldiers of Wang Mang's army naturally do not want to be the enemy of heaven and have no intention of fighting."

At this point, Li Nian said: "If the soldiers of Wang Mang's army knew what a meteor was, why it fell to the earth, and why the cloud mountain was formed, their morale would not be so low."

"But the army's morale is low and they have no desire to fight. Wang Yi and Wang Xun are still there, but if the soldiers don't want to fight, how can we win?"

"They were defeated by Liu Xiu one after another. Seeing how brave Liu Xiu was and how vulnerable the enemy was, the other rebel generals also became brave and won victory after victory."

"Finally, after Liu Xiu led 3,000 daredevil warriors to disrupt the formation of Wang Xun and Wang Yi, Wang Mang's army completely collapsed and began to flee."

"Just as Wang Mang's army was fleeing, there was a loud thunder and a strong wind that blew away all the tiles on the roofs. Heavy rain poured down and the water of the Fei River surged to overflowing. Such a phenomenon frightened tigers, leopards and other fierce beasts. The fleeing soldiers rushed to cross the Fei River, and tens of thousands of people drowned, and the river stopped flowing."

The First Emperor and his two companions didn't know what to say. Wang Mang was just too unlucky. He had an army of hundreds of thousands, yet he was defeated just like that. Li Nian didn't need to explain the following plot, as they all understood that Wang Mang was powerless to save the situation.

The loss of hundreds of thousands of main forces cannot be made up in a short period of time.

Wang Mang's situation was hopeless, and it was only a matter of time before he was completely defeated.

How could anyone be so unlucky?
There were meteors, clouds and mountains, thunder and rainstorms...

It was as if God was deliberately wanting Wang Mang to fail!
In sharp contrast to Wang Mang is Liu Xiu. How could someone be so lucky?

A battle that was originally almost impossible to win was actually won with the help of various strange changes in heaven and earth, as if God was helping him win.

However, Liu Xiu's title of "Great Magician" is quite appropriate as he can summon meteors, call out clouds and mountains, and stir up storms. It is not unfair for Wang Mang to be defeated by such a person.

Li Nian smiled and said, "Liu Xiu's luck in this battle can be called God's help. Therefore, he was also nicknamed the 'Son of the Plane' in later generations. That is, the Son of God, who was born specifically to destroy Wang Mang, the variable, and bring history back on track."

When the First Emperor heard this, he frowned and asked a special question: "If Wang Mang was the variable in the late Western Han Dynasty, then you are the variable in the Qin Dynasty. What you have done is also changing history. Will God send someone to get rid of you?"

This question makes sense. Li Nian thought about it and replied, "I don't think so. Wang Mang was just unlucky. His experience can actually be explained scientifically."

"Meteors are not rare. There are meteors flying from the universe every moment, but most of them are destroyed in the atmosphere."

"The atmosphere is made up of the invisible air around us, just like the city wall of this world. Meteors that can fall to the ground generally do not pose a serious threat, and the chance of killing someone is extremely small."

"Wang Mang's army was really unlucky. The location of the camp they chose happened to be on the trajectory of a powerful meteor. Rather than saying that the meteor hit them, it would be more accurate to say that they found a good location and waited for the meteor to hit them."

"There is also an explanation for the Yunshan that the army encountered during the day. It could be that the meteor at night affected the atmosphere in the Kunyang area, or it could be purely due to weather changes."

"It was the end of May and the beginning of June, so it was normal for the weather to change dramatically. The same was true of the storm that Wang Mang's army encountered when they fled."

Despite traveling through time, Li Nian is still an agnostic and will not attribute things he does not understand to the gods or the gods. But after listening to Li Nian's explanation, the First Emperor did not think so. He decided in his heart to increase the security of this kid, to be prepared for any eventuality. He could not wait for something to pop out and kill this kid before taking action, as that would be too late.

This guy is not only the core of a series of reforms in Daqin, many things depend on him, but he is also his future son-in-law, and this guy is quite interesting.

It’s a pity that he is just a son-in-law, not his biological son, and I don’t know how his sons are doing in the local area?

In a county town on the border of Chu, Fusu, who had hidden his real name, was pulling his beard, trying hard to suppress the annoyance in his heart.

He is no longer the son of the First Emperor, the noble Prince Fusu, but just a Qin soldier sent by the Qin Dynasty to serve as a minor official in the local area.

Before coming here, he was full of confidence and vowed to make some achievements here so that his almighty father, the emperor, could see that only benevolent and virtuous governance can govern the world well, make the country prosperous and peaceful, and enable the people to live and work in peace and contentment.

This matter concerns the dispute between him and his father over the philosophy of governing the country. He does not want to lose, he only wants to win, and he vows to prove that the philosophy of governing the country that he upholds is correct!
However, after losing his status as a prince and becoming an ordinary Qin soldier, Fusu found that the problem was not that simple.

This damn place is so difficult to govern. It's a bunch of unruly people who don't understand reason or morality. He is restricted in doing anything here.

Especially since the place is close to Western Qiang, the people here are quite tough and they prefer to conquer people with physics rather than with benevolence.

When he first arrived, the locals were somewhat in awe of him because he was still a Qin soldier. But as time went by, they found that this annoying county official who always talked about a lot of things was just so-so, and many people stopped paying attention to him. If it weren't for the help of other Qin soldiers who came to the county, he would have been beaten long ago.

But the other Qin soldiers gradually became fed up with him, because Fusu often blamed the other Qin soldiers, accusing them of sometimes being too barbaric and vulgar:
You are soldiers of the Qin Dynasty. It's ok for the locals to be barbaric and fierce, but how can you be so barbaric? Isn't that fighting violence with violence?

You should reason with them and educate them with kindness and virtue. Only against those who are completely uneducatable should you use violence.

Then, other Qin soldiers who were transferred to be officials here couldn't stand him: Since we are all old Qin people, we are kind enough to help you, but not only do you not appreciate it, you also lecture us. Who do you think you are, His Majesty the Emperor, or the princes?

The Qin soldiers even began to doubt his identity. This guy really came from the army like them. From his age, appearance to personality, he didn't look like an old soldier at all.

A Qin soldier reported Fusu's abnormality, believing that he was most likely not a native Qin person, or at least had never been a Qin soldier.

However, after verification by the above, it was confirmed that there was no problem with Fusu's identity. The only difference was that he was not a Qin soldier who had been on the battlefield. He had done clerical work in the army before, which dispelled the suspicions of the local Qin soldiers.

In fact, the abnormal report was sent to the First Emperor, who found a way to patch Fusu's identity again to make it look reasonable and legal.

But after that, Fusu became a person who was disliked by the locals and his colleagues. Naturally, he encountered many difficulties in doing things here and failed to accomplish anything he wanted to do.

Fusu has now gradually realized that the reason he was able to accomplish certain things in the past was not because of his strong abilities or good methods, but because of his status as a prince.

He needs to change his mindset and methods in order to get things done here, but if he does that, wouldn't that be tantamount to acknowledging that his father's philosophy of governing the country is correct?
Fusu didn't want to change himself. He had his own pride and persistence. Every day he was thinking about how to get things done in this broken place and put his ideas about governing the country into practice.

But the more anxious he was to get things done and achieve results, the worse he did. Fusu was extremely frustrated, but the stubborn temper inherited from the First Emperor made him unwilling to admit defeat.

He knew that this county was deliberately chosen for him by the First Emperor and would definitely be difficult to govern, so he was determined to make some achievements.

Not to mention how angry and depressed Fusu was in the border county, in Zhangtai Palace, after listening to Li Nian's words, Meng Tian and Meng Yi also had some ideas:
When leading troops into battle in the future, you must pay close attention to the local weather and must not make the same mistake as Wang Mang's army. You cannot avoid meteors, but you can still avoid mountains of clouds and storms.

Li Nian continued, "After this battle, Liu Xiu became famous throughout the world, and Wang Mang's power plummeted, and he was powerless to turn the tide."

"In the fourth year of Emperor Dihuang, the Green Forest Army invaded Chang'an, and Wang Mang was killed by the Green Forest Army soldier Du Wu. After his death, the school lieutenant Gong Bin cut off his head and hung it in the Wan market. Dozens of soldiers rushed to kill Wang Mang and cut up his body."

"When the people heard that Wang Mang's head was in Wanshi, they all beat him up and some cut off his tongue and ate it."

"At this point, Wang Mang died, and the Xin Dynasty he established after usurping the Han Dynasty was destroyed."

"Wang Mang's head was kept by successive royal families until the reign of Emperor Hui of Jin, when a fire broke out in the Luoyang armory and it was burned along with many other items."

After hearing about Wang Mang's ending, Qin Shihuang and the other two felt sad.

Although Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty and was regarded as a traitor, after he established the Xin Dynasty, he tried to find ways to solve the problems left over from the Western Han Dynasty.

However, his solution was flawed, the opposition was too strong, and he was just unlucky, which led to his downfall.

"Although Wang Mang and his Xin Dynasty perished, they played a role in taking the blame for the crimes of the Western Han Dynasty, causing people to think of the good things about the Western Han Dynasty, without knowing that their problems were actually accumulated from the Western Han Dynasty."

"Due to the Enfeoffment Order in the Western Han Dynasty, the descendants of Pei Gong spread all over the country, and Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu was one of them."

"This is probably one of the benefits of having many children and grandchildren. With a large number of children and grandchildren, there is a greater chance that someone of great ability will emerge, especially for the royal family. Who knows, maybe one day they can re-establish a country for their descendants."

"Many descendants of Lord Pei participated in that chaotic world. Even if Liu Xiu didn't end it, there was a high probability that another descendant of Lord Pei would end it."

Li Nian said: "Liu Xiu was able to end the chaotic times and quickly establish the Eastern Han Dynasty. One of the important things he relied on was the powerful people."

"After the Battle of Kunyang, Liu Xiu became famous overnight and was known to the world. Many people believed that he could achieve great things, so they placed bets on Liu Xiu."

"Liu Xiu first married Yin Lihua and gained the support of the Yin family. Later, when he was sent to Hebei by Emperor Gengshi Liu Xuan, he married Guo Shengtong, the niece of Liu Yang, the King of Zhending, and gained the support of the powerful people in Hebei."

The First Emperor asked curiously, "Since Liu Xiu rose to power with the help of powerful people, after he gained the throne, didn't he worry that this would lay an unstable foundation for his empire?"

The First Emperor now had a basic understanding of what powerful people were. They might be advanced for a while, but in the long run, they would sooner or later become a disaster.

(End of this chapter)