First of all, it can be said for sure that it is completely wrong for Wang Mang to hit Liu Xiu with meteorites. Wang Xiu's fight with the meteorite from the sky is completely false, so don't believe it.
At that time, the battle of Kunyang was widely rumored. Wang Mang besieged Liu Xiu in Kunyang City, and a meteorite suddenly fell from Wang Mang's side. Finally, as we all know, only this Wang Mang was smashed, but Liu Xiu was not smashed, and Wang Mang was defeated.
But the real battle of Kunyang is not like this. At that time, Wang Mang sent troops to besiege Kunyang, but he didn't fight at first. Although there are 430,000 people, Liu Xiu has only 30,000 people here, so it is still difficult to attack the city. But as time goes on, people in the city gradually lose patience, and many people don't want to resist.
But at this time, Liu Xiu was surrounded by several death squads and went to Dingling and Yancheng to move reinforcements. After arriving here, local officers and men said they didn't want to fight again. Now there are delicious and not delicious.
But Liu Xiu said that if Kunyang City falls, you will be next. If you don't talk about a good life, life will be gone. So if you want real peace, you must destroy Wang Mang. Everyone understood the meaning, so they set out to save Kunyang City.
In order to save Kunyang City and Wang Mang's army, we certainly can't fight face to face. However, Liu Xiu led a group of people and directly attacked the main camp of Wang Mang's army, killing one of their leaders. Seeing the victory outside, the people in the city also opened the gate and rushed out.
At this time, the sky suddenly thundered, the wind blew hard and the rain poured down. Wang Mang's army was in chaos. The army was torn apart and trampled on each other. Many people drowned in the river. In the end, only a few thousand people returned to Luoyang, and Wang Mang never recovered.
History:
There is a special astronomical phenomenon in the records of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. "There are meteors falling into the camp at night, and there are clouds like bad mountains during the day. When they were in the camp, they fell, but they were not as good as the rulers, and all the officials were disgusted. " This strange astronomical phenomenon happened in the camp outside Kunyang.
This means that when a meteor fell into the enemy camp at night and a cloud fell into the enemy camp during the day, the soldiers of the imperial court felt great terror. At the same time, Liu Xiu got thousands of reinforcements from outside and killed them back. Wang Mang's troops lined up four or five miles outside the encirclement to meet the enemy.
What's even more ridiculous is that Wang Xun and Wang Yi, who have absolute superiority, chose thousands of people to face Liu Xiu, while other soldiers watched from behind. Liu Xiu rushed into the enemy line with thousands of troops and cavalry, beheaded dozens, and then rushed back and forth several times to win again and again.
Compared with the later Han Dynasty, the battle of Kunyang recorded in the Han Dynasty said that Wang Xun and Wang Yi would take thousands of men to fight Liu Xiu, and the rest of the troops could only watch and were not allowed to participate in the war. The number of people is more than the "thousand people" in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. The most obvious thing is that there is no astronomical phenomenon of meteorite falling, and there are also records of strong winds and heavy rains.
The latest Tong Jian was obviously compiled with reference to the records of Han Shu and Han Shu, but it also abandoned the record that meteorites fell from the sky. This shows that Sima Guang is skeptical about this incident.
But it also recorded the extreme weather when Wang Xun and Wang Yi were defeated, that is, strong winds and heavy rain. Neither Han Shu nor Zi Tong Zhi Jian recorded meteors and meteorites falling from the sky, but only Han Shu later recorded them.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Liu Xiu