Long Zhun if he knows the beak of the same bird, the general should have the heart of the five lakes - Qian Ruoshui's "Title Han Xin Temple"
In Chinese history, there were less than a hundred generals who were able to enter the Wu Temple, of which the Ten Philosophers of the Wu Temple were the most famous. As the second ranked ten philosophers of the Wumiao Temple, Han Xin is one of the famous generals who have to be mentioned in the history of ancient Chinese wars.
In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, due to Qin II's fainting and harsh expropriation, the people's grievances in various places surged, and countless peasant uprisings caused wars and chaos, and the forces of division from all sides continued to attack. In the decades of division, the last unification war under heaven was fought between Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, which is the famous "Chu-Han struggle for hegemony" in history.
In 202 BC, led by Liu Bang's general Han Xin and other princes, hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded the Chu king Xiang Yu under the siege, and Xiang Yu led hundreds of cavalry to kill the blood road several times and break through. However, in the end, they were outnumbered and defeated by the Wu River.
As one of The Chief Heroes of Liu Bang's unification of the world, Han Xin, who was known as the "Bing Immortal" by the world, was demoted to the Marquis of Huaiyin after eliminating Xiang Yu, and finally died in Changle Palace. How did Han Xin, who had outstanding merits and unparalleled national soldiers, go from being a civilian to a very popular subject, and finally being exterminated by Yizong? This has to start from his childhood experience and personal personality characteristics and many other aspects.
Born into a poor family, Han Xin was a young and bohemian but unsophisticated businessman, relying only on the people around him to survive. Once Han Xin was so hungry that he had to fish in the river. At this time, a woman washing clothes by the river saw Han Xin, who was yellow and thin, took out the dry food in her arms and gave it to Han Xin, and helped him here for dozens of days. At that time, Han Xin made up his mind that in the future, he would have to take the lead in repaying the favor of the drifting mother.
Another time, Han Xin was walking in huaiyin city, a butcher stopped Han Xin and told him that if he had the courage, he would take the sword and kill him, and if he didn't have the courage, he would obediently drill through his crotch, Han Xin thought about it and knelt down on his knees and drilled under the butcher's crotch, and everyone around him laughed at Han Xin for being as timid as a rat, and it would be difficult to become a great instrument in the future.
From Han Xin's experience, it is not difficult to see that when he was young, Han Xin experienced countless unbearable pains and tribulations of ordinary people, but this paved the way for his future success.
With the rise of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, many peasant uprisings also sprung up in various places. Han Xin, who was bent on doing great things, served in Xiang Liang, Xiang Yu, and Liu Bang, but he was never reused.
So he escaped from Liu Bang one night, and When Xiao He heard that Han Xin had escaped, he immediately rode to chase after him, and said to Liu Bang: "If the great king wants to fight for the world, Han Xin must use it heavily." Liu Bang, who knew people well, immediately sealed the altar to worship the general, and Han Xin was promoted from an ordinary soldier to a general, and the whole army was shocked.
Therefore, Liu Bang appointed Han Xin as a general, and Ban Gu recorded in the Book of Han: He Jin Han Xin, the King of Han thought of himself as a great general, saying that the King of Han ordered the army to lead the army to the Eastern Ding Three Qins. Under the command of Han Xin, the Han army assisted Liu Bang in the final decisive battle of the unification of the world through dozens of fierce battles of all sizes, such as the Battle of Anyi, the Battle of Jingxing, and the Battle of Weishui.
In 202, Liu Bang, Han Xin, and Peng Yue each led a large army south from three directions to encircle Xiang Yu's Chu army, and before that, Liu Bang had assigned a large area of land to Han Xin the King of Qi and Peng Yue the King of Liang.
In this battle, Han Xin was the commander-in-chief of a total of 300,000 Han troops, forcing Xiang Yu's 100,000 Chu army to retreat to Xiaxia (垓下, in modern Lingbinan, Anhui). At the beginning of the decisive battle, Han Xinchu led the vanguard troops to engage Xiang Yu, the overlord was brave and fierce, and the Han army was defeated. Subsequently, Han Xin commanded the left and right wings of troops to launch a fierce attack on Xiang Yu, the Chu army fell into a bitter battle, Han Xin took the opportunity to kill a Hui horse gun, led the army directly through the Chu army, the Chu army was defeated, fled to the fortress to hold out.
Since then, many breakthroughs have not been achieved, there is little grain and grass left, the people inside the Chu army are panicked, So Han Xin sent people to sing Chu songs around the Chu army camp late at night, the Chu army generals left their hometowns for many days and the war was unfavorable, homesickness and war weariness continued to spread in the army, a large number of soldiers even fled, Han Xin took advantage of the situation to attack the Chu army camp at night, the Han army shouted: "Han Xin Tun down, to behead the overlord!" The Chu army collapsed at the touch of a button, and 100,000 Jiangdong disciples collapsed in an instant, and Xiang Yu fled to the Wu River and killed himself.
However, what puzzled everyone was that after defeating Xiang Yu, Liu Bang galloped into Han Xin's formation, quickly announced the dismissal of all han xin's military powers, the withdrawal of the general's seal letter, and the change of Han Xin as the king of Chu, at this point, Han Xin and Liu Bang completely broke with each other.
The first thing Han Xin did when he returned to Chu was to order someone to visit the drifting mother with a thousand taels of gold to thank him for his kindness in giving up his meal that year, which was also the origin of the allusion of a thousand gold, but Han Xin's zhi en tu did not bring him good luck.
After the defeat of Xiang Yu's army, his general Zhong Liyi defected to Han Xin, and Liu Bang had always been at odds with Zhong Liyi, and later someone reported that Han Xin was preparing to rebel, and Liu Bang personally led troops to Chudi to tie up Han Xin. However, after arriving in Luoyang, Liu Bang pardoned Han Xin and only demoted him to the title of Marquis of Huaiyin.
In 197 BC, Chen Feng, the founding hero of the Han Dynasty, plotted a rebellion, and Han Xin promised to do internal responses, but in fact he did not move. At this time, one of Han Xin's courtiers was punished by Han Xin for making a mistake, and the younger brother of the courtier wrote to Liu Bang overnight to expose Han Xin's crime of rebellion.
Liu Bang's wife, Lü Hou, was horrified, and immediately pretended that Liu Bang had decapitated Chen Fengxiang and summoned his ministers to congratulate him. Han Xin went to Changle Palace alone and was captured by the samurai hiding in the palace, and before he died, Han Xin knelt in front of Lü Hou and shouted, "I don't obey!" The unwilling Han Xin was talented and meritorious, but he was informal in his conduct and did not know how to be a vassal, and was finally wiped out of the three tribes.
The reason for Han Xin's death was not only influenced by his personal character, the drama of rabbits and dead dogs cooking was not uncommon in china's ancient history, the reason was that due to the influence of the feudal hereditary system, the emperors had to remove obstacles in advance to continue the rule of the dynasty.
Although Han Xin died, his mysterious and exquisite use of soldiers has left a strong mark in the history of ancient Chinese warfare. Cao Cao once said of Han Xin: "Han Xin bears the name of insult, has the shame of seeing and laughing, and can achieve the king's cause, and the voice is thousands of years." What do readers think of Han Xin's experience? Welcome to leave a message to discuss.
bibliography:
"History of the Marquis of Huaiyin", "Book of Han", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Gao Zu Benji", "Book of later Han"