The only time Han Xin confronted Xiang Yu was at the Siege of Xiaxia in 202 BC, when Han Xin had about 1 million troops to command, and Xiang Yu had only 100,000 troops under his command. According to historical records, after the Chu army was surrounded by a siege, Xiang Yu also took the initiative to attack once, but was defeated by Han Xin, so he let the army shrink in the fortress.
At that time, the Chu army was short of food, the number was far inferior to that of the Han army, and the morale was very low, but even so, the combat effectiveness of the Chu army could not be underestimated.
Five years after the Chu and Han dynasties, there were more than a hundred large and small battles fought by the two sides, the Han army often lost, the soldiers changed frequently, and during the siege of Xiaxia, most of the non-commissioned officers were temporarily recruited. The Chu army has always occupied an advantage on the battlefield, the number of defeats is very small, the elite retained is more, and most of the Chu army is composed of veterans who have been in the battlefield for a long time.
If properly commanded, the Chu army could play a record of Li Ling's 5,000 elites killing more than 100,000 Xiongnu.
Han Xin took this into account, so he did not attack the Chu army barrier, he ordered the army to surround the Chu army, and then let the Chu people under his command sing Chu songs, and the Chu song sounded in all directions of the Chu army's barrier.
The final defeat of the Chu army was not because the main force was defeated by the Han army, but because the fighting spirit was crushed by Chu Ge. When the Chu soldiers heard the songs from all directions, they all burst into tears and sang together. At this time, they are no longer willing to take up arms and fight, but only want to unload their armor and return to the field and live a peaceful life with their families again.
Xiang Yu saw that the soldiers were no longer available, so he led 800 iron horses to break through and flee, and finally died on the bank of the Wu River.
Some generals use troops, attach importance to platooning and arranging troops, and pursue victory in frontal battles; some generals use troops, attach importance to strategy, and pursue temple calculations to defeat the enemy. Looking at the military careers of Xiang Yu and Han Xin throughout their lives, it can be clearly understood that Xiang Yu belongs to the former, and Han Xin belongs to the latter.
Throughout his life, Han Xin used roughly the same tactics
Han Xin's ability was not honed by nurture, but was innately possessed.
In 205 BC, Liu Bang ordered Han Xin to attack the State of Wei, and four months earlier the Han army was defeated by Xiang Yu at Pengcheng, and the army that Han Xin had obtained was composed of a group of defeated generals and old and weak.
If you want to take the state of Wei, you must first cross the Yellow River, and the Wei king leopard has already stationed a large army at the ferry port of Linjin. If you choose to cross the river by force, the war will inevitably be protracted and attritional.
The State of Wei had garrisoned a large army at LinjinTun and its capital, Anyi, must have been weakly defended. Han Xin chose to avoid the real and attack the false, and on the one hand, he built a ship near Linjin with great fanfare, looking like he wanted to cross the Yellow River by force; on the other hand, he let the ambush soldiers cross the river with wooden barrels near Xiayang.
Overnight, Han Xin led a large army across the Yellow River and pounced on An Yi. King Leopard of Wei was shocked to see that the country was not safe, and led his army to rush to the aid of An Yi and attack Han Xin's army. The Han army defeated the Wei army in a great battle and captured the Wei king Leopard.
Han Xin single-handedly led the army to destroy four countries, during which a total of three major battles were fought, each using different tactics, but all the same. The core of Han Xin's command art is to avoid the real and attack the virtual and attack the heart. From the Battle of Wei to the Siege of Xiaxia, the essence of the tactics used by Han Xin was the same.
Taking the Battle of The Backwater as an example, why did Han Xin's 30,000 troops completely annihilate the 200,000 troops of the Zhao Army? Han Xin ordered the main force to hold firm at the water's edge, and the entire Zhao army went out to attack and could not win. At this time, the strange soldiers of the Han army who had been ambushed for a long time waited for an opportunity to move, occupied the Zhao army camp, and replaced the Zhao banner of the big camp with a Han chi banner.
When the Generals of the Zhao Army discovered that the camp was lost, they thought that both king Zhao and the main general Chen Yu had been captured, and the generals were shaken and then collapsed. The Han army attacked with all its strength, chased after the victory and chased the north, captured King Zhao and Chen Yu, the two were captured, and Zhao Guo lost his main backbone, and was pacified by Han Xin in only two months.
In the siege of Xiaxia, Han Xin also used the tactic of attacking the heart, and his blow to the Chu army was not the slashing of grass when the swords and soldiers met, but the psychological urge, and the Chu army was almost defeated without a fight.
Gifted
Han Xin has always been a lonely and arrogant person.
If a man is incompetent, is he proud?
When Han Xin begged for food from a drifting mother, he was received for two months in a row, and once his gratitude surged into his heart, and he couldn't help but praise the drifting mother on the spot: "In the future, I must repay you heavily!" ”
Hearing these words, the drifting mother not only did not get happy, but very angrily reprimanded Han Xin: "The great husband, who has hands and feet, can't even eat, I pity you before giving you food, and I expect you to repay me?!!!."
Of course, Han Xin was landless, although he knew that his poverty was only temporary, but who did not have shame? Who feels better when they hear such a thing?
After Han Xin's mother died, he had no money to arrange a burial, but he still found a cemetery where 10,000 families could be arranged to guard the tomb, saying that he would bury his mother in that place in the future. His mother's graveyard could have tens of thousands of families guarding the tomb, that was the treatment that only a prince could have, although Han Xin was poor and destitute at that time, he wanted to become a prince, it seemed that he did not know the height of the sky, but he knew that he had the ability to be crowned a prince and go through heaven and earth!
Why did the butcher only insult Han Xin and not the others? It may be because: Han Xin is inferior to anyone, but no one looks down on him, and such a person is of course very annoying.
The reason why Han Xin had to suffer the humiliation of his crotch was because he was obviously poor but always regarded himself as a prince; the reason why Han Xin drilled through his crotch was because he firmly believed that he would become a prince in the future.
Some abilities can be cultivated, some abilities cannot be cultivated, and Han Xin's ability was cultivated when he came out of the mountains, not honed on the battlefield.
If not, Liu Bang, Fan Duo, and the genus of the infants, who led the soldiers to fight for many years than Han Xin, why could they never become Han Xin? The reason why Han Xin was famous as soon as he came out of the mountain was because he was originally a military genius.