The general trend of the world will be united for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, due to the tyranny of the King of Qin, the people were not happy, the world was in chaos, and the people rose up one after another, overthrowing the faint rule of Qin II. With the banner of the uprising, the group was divided, and Yan Zhao Qi Wei Chu became the king; Liu Bang went north to march west, breaking the Qin army.
However, Xiang Yu pacified Guanzhong, went north to rescue Zhao, established the Eighteenth Road Princes, proclaimed himself the King of Western Chu, named Liu Bang the King of Han, and sealed him in the three parts of bashu Han, in an attempt to completely suppress Liu Bang in the southwest region. This officially opened the prelude to the Chu-Han war.
In this period of strife and division, it has also opened up for us the grand plan of hegemony of the masses, deceitfulness, and chasing after the central plains. During this period, many heroic legends and able people were also born, and their power struggles were written in the history of Danshuqing, leaving many allusions for future generations, so that future generations can glimpse the historical face of that era of division.
Among them, "Han Xin points out soldiers, the more the merrier." A famous saying is familiar, but the historical Han Xin is not only this, he is also a man who combines thirty-two allusions. He was the founding hero of Liu Bang's establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, and he attacked the Zhao state with a "battle against the water", and also "put it to death and be reborn", "ambushed on ten sides" to ambush Xiang Yu, and even "Ming Xiu Zhan Dao, secretly crossing Chen Cang" was also from Han Xin's hand.
These allusions are enough to highlight Han Xin's extremely remarkable military ability, so he was evaluated by Liu Bang as "invincible", at the same time, Han Xin was also called "The Three Masters of the Early Han Dynasty" together with Zhang Liang and Xiao He, and was regarded by posterity as an outstanding military representative of the ancient military power strategists, with the titles of "Soldier Immortal" and "Divine Commander".
In the "Chu-Han Controversy" that determined the future direction of history, it was also with the help of Han Xin that Liu Bang was able to encircle and annihilate Xiang Yu and unify the world, laying the foundation for the historical trend of China for the next two thousand years. However, he never expected that after Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty as emperor, he was the first to "clean up" Han Xin, resulting in Han Xin's death. What's going on?
Han Xin
First of all, let's understand the growth journey of Han Xin, a military wizard.
Han Xin's early origins were extremely depressed, as a grass farmer, no one had the skills to make a living, even military talent was useless, so he lived an extremely poor life, living a muddy life. Even after her mother died, she was so poor that she could not afford to run a funeral.
Later, during a fishing trip, Han Xin met an old woman who was drifting clothes, and when the woman saw that he was very hungry, she gave him a bowl of rice, and for dozens of consecutive days, she would send him a bowl of rice as usual, solving Han Xin's basic food and clothing problem. After the woman's rinsing mission, Han Xin expressed his gratitude to the woman who was about to leave the place. But the woman advised him to find a way to support herself, not expecting him to repay.
Fed up with such a poor and impoverished life, Han Xin decided to follow Xiang Liang, who went north to the Huai River to quell Chen Sheng's Wu Guang uprising, and joined the army here, all the way to obscurity. After Xiang Liang's defeat, Han Xin saw the situation and submitted to Xiang Yu and became Xiang Yu's Lang Zhong. However, Han Xin's talent was not valued by Xiang Yu, and his repeated suggestions were not valued and adopted by Xiang Yu. With Liu Bang entering Shu, Han Xin, who had great vision, left Chu and returned to Han, but he was still unknown and only worked as a petty official in the Han state to manage the warehouse.
Until later, Han Xin was involved in a case by his peers, and according to the joint sitting system, Han Xin and the thirteen people in the same case had to face the crime of beheading. When it was Han Xin's turn to behead him, he introduced himself to the then TengGong Xiahou Infant with a unique opening statement: Did the King of Han kill the heroes, did he not intend to win the world?
This bold remark attracted the attention of Xiahou Infant, so he let him have a way to live, and after a conversation with Han Xin, Xiahou Infant saw that Han Xin was a talented thousand-mile horse and recommended Han Xin to Liu Bang.
But at first, Liu Bang did not attach much importance to Han Xin, and only gave him up as a small position of management. However, with the passage of time, Xiao He, who was devoted to following Liu Bang, also discovered Han Xin's talent in the process of talking with Han Xin, and recommended him to Liu Bang, and even chased han Xin who escaped at the cost of twenty miles and nights to show the rareness of Han Xin's talents.
Aichen Xiao He's move succeeded in making Han Xin finally attract Liu Bang's attention. After the two talked all night, Liu Bang appreciated Han Xin more and more, and made him a general, before leaving Han Xin in the Han Kingdom.
Meritorious service, invincible
After being made a general, Han Xin's military ability and strategic wisdom finally had a place to use, and he offered advice to Liu Bang, ming repairing the road, secretly crossing Chen Cang, leading the Han army to kill Guanzhong, and also ordering the Three Qins; and then destroying Wei And breaking the dynasty, attacking it unprepared, and surprised it; marching east to destroy Zhao, fighting a battle against the water, leaving him dead and reborn; the Battle of Huaishui, resourceful, flooding the Chu army, and destroying the Qi state. Under han xin's strategy and assistance, the power of the Han state continued to expand, and eventually rose to prominence, and was divided into the world with the chu state.
After completing the pacification of Wei, Zhao, Yan, and Qi, Han Xin proposed to Liu Bang that in order to completely calm the situation in the State of Qi, he would propose himself to be the acting king of the State of Qi to suppress the scene. Han Xin's move infuriated Liu Bang, who was besieged by Xiang Yu and in a critical situation, and he began to doubt Han Xin's purpose of establishing himself as king.
However, he was helplessly jealous of the strength and strength of Han Xin's hands, fearing that his rebellion at this critical juncture would aggravate the current situation that was not favorable to himself. In order to stabilize the hearts of the army, Liu Bang promised him to be the king of Qi and ordered Han Xin to lead an army to attack the Chu army. Although the matter of asking for merit was resolved peacefully, Han Xin's move was also Liu Bang's loss of trust in him, laying the foundation for the tragedy of Liu Bang's suspicion of his meritorious service in the future.
Under the leadership of Han Xin, the Chu army was gradually defeated and retreated, and the situation was extremely unfavorable. At this critical juncture, Xiang Yu sent people to persuade and instigate the anti-Han Xin, let Han Xin let the Chu army go for the sake of his old friendship with Xiang Yu, and also persuaded Han Xin to take advantage of the momentum to unite with Chu and oppose the Han, and to establish himself as king in three parts of the world.
But Han Xin awe-inspiringly refused him and expressed his loyalty to Liu Bang, the King of Han:
"The king of Han gave me the seal of the general, gave me tens of thousands of people, undressed me, pushed me to eat and drink, and listened to my words, so that I could reach this." Madame believed in me deeply, and I was doubly ominous, although it was not easy to die. I will not rebel until I die. "
Although Han Xin refused to rebel against Han, Han Xin's adviser Qu Tong advised him to make himself king, otherwise in the future, the King of Han would certainly not tolerate him and would not let him have a good end. However, Han Xin still could not bear to betray the King of Han, believing that his merits were remarkable, and the King of Han would not touch him in the slightest, so he did not listen to The advice of Pu Tong.
Han Xin, who was loyal to the King of Han, at the juncture of the decisive battle between Chu and Han, han Xin, who used soldiers like gods, naturally took the lead in confronting Xiang Yu, setting up an ambush on ten sides, surrounded by songs, and Ge Yun: "The hearts of the people are all back, and the world has belonged to Liu; Han Xin tun is under the command of the king, and he wants to behead the overlord."
Such a mournful song made the besieged Chu army disintegrate, the situation collapsed, and took this opportunity to attack the Chu state in one fell swoop, completely annihilating the Chu army, causing Xiang Yu to flee to Jiangdong and kill himself. Let han realize the situation of rejuvenating the Han Dynasty and destroying Chu and unifying the world.
Meritorious service to the Lord, it is difficult to escape death
I never thought that the original Pu Tong would become a slur. After Liu Bang established the Western Han Dynasty and successfully became emperor, the first thing he did was to take Han Xin as a knife, take away Han Xin's military power, change his title to king of Chu, and repel him to the Chu state, so as to avoid him from affecting his absolute dominance because of his meritorious service.
After Han Xin came to the Chu Kingdom, he summoned the woman who had given him food and rewarded her with thousands of gold to fulfill the promise he had made that year. He also made himself a lieutenant by making himself a lieutenant as a sign of irony. Other than that, there is no second thought.
However, after the defeat of Xiang Yu's army, his subordinate Zhong Lixiao actually came to the Chu state to defect to Han Xin. The appearance of Zhong Liyi also made Liu Bang more suspicious of Han Xin, and later, when Han Xin sent troops to inspect martial law, someone took advantage of this to falsely accuse Han Xin of leading the army to rebel. Liu Bang took this opportunity to take Han Xin down and demote him to the Marquis of Huaiyin, in order to further reduce the threat of Han Xingong's high lordship.
In the face of Liu Bang's deeds, Han Xin was well aware of Liu Bang's fear of his own talents, and sighed: Cunning rabbits die, good dogs cook; the enemy country is broken, and the plotters are killed. So he closed the door and was sullen; he had always valued kindness and loyalty, and he could not imagine that he would really end up like this. Holding back a wave of resentment, he complained to Chen Feng in the process of walking with him, and he had the heart of rebellion, and offered a plan to discuss conspiring with him. Chen Feng, convinced of Han Xin's talents, obediently plotted against him according to his plan, and Han Xin took the opportunity to attack Empress Lü and the crown prince.
However, Han Xin, who had always been good at strategizing, did not expect that he would be rebelled against by Lü Hou's army, credulously believed Lü Hou's lies, and was tricked into the bell room of the Changle Palace to murder him, and ended up with the tragic fate of the three tribes, and a generation of famous generals fell.
When Liu Bang put down the rebellion and returned to the palace, when he learned that Han Xin had been killed, he was happy and pitiful, and his emotions were contradictory. Although the great trouble in his heart was finally solved, liu Bang felt very sorry for the loss of this founding father who had laid down the country together and a rare wizard in a thousand years.
However, the emperor is the emperor after all. Between kings and subjects, after all, it is the interests that come first, especially for the emperor who stands at the peak of power, in order to stabilize this scepter and throne, whether it is kindness or brotherhood, they are just victims under power. On the talent of strategy, Han Xin does have the wisdom of genius, but on the art of imperial power, Han Xin still has more dull emotional righteousness and human heart, and realizes the cruelty of human nature under the desire for power too late.
It wasn't until he was dying that Han Xin sighed: I regret not adopting Pu Tong's plan!