The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" says that "the general trend of the world, the division of time will be united, the combination of long time will be divided", it is about the great unified dynasty of ancient China, after a period of time, there will inevitably be a split situation, and many wonderful and colorful historical stories basically occurred in the period of division, such as the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Eighteen-Way Anti-King in the last year of the Sui Dynasty, etc., but the most wonderful of them is obviously the Chu and Han hegemony at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
The influence of the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony in Chinese history is extremely far-reaching, a great dynasty was established on this basis, a great nation took this as its name, this dynasty is of course the Han Dynasty, and Liu Bang, who established the Han Dynasty, is the ultimate victor of the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony. Liu Bang was born very ordinary, and being able to become the founding emperor was something that many people did not expect, and he himself summed up the reason for his success because he was good at using the talents of Han Xin, Xiao He, and Zhang Liang.
Although Liu Bang himself said that among these three people, the person with the greatest merit was Xiao He, who listed him as the "first meritorious hero of the founding of the Han Dynasty", but in people's minds, the person with the greatest merit was obviously Han Xin, and it was precisely because of Han Xin's invincibility on the battlefield that Liu Bang successfully defeated many princes, and finally defeated Xiang Yu and successfully unified the world, and Han Xin himself was respected as a "soldier immortal".
But specifically, why did Han Xin get this honor? In fact, as long as we look at who his defeated generals are, the answer to this question can also be understood, in that era of rising up, there were many people who lost under Han Xin, and this list can be very long: Yong Wang Zhang Handan, Wei WangBao, Zhao Wang, Cheng An Jun Chen Yu, Qi Wang Tian Guang, Xiang Yu's first general Long He, but the most powerful one was obviously the victory over Xiang Yu himself.
The people on this list were all princes of one side at that time, and there were hundreds of thousands of troops under their command, in an era without Han Xin, then they might be directly called emperors, but because there was Han Xin in that era, they could only be called kings, and they could not last long, just need to briefly introduce the achievements of Zhang Handan and Xiang Yu, you can know how powerful Han Xin really is.
Zhang Handan was originally a great general of the Qin Dynasty, after Chen Sheng and Wu Guang launched the Dazexiang Uprising, the world responded one after another, the qin dynasty that was originally extremely powerful for a time presented a situation of landslides and snow, the Qin Dynasty's subjects were extremely frightened, at this time it was Zhang Handan who led the Qin army, three times five divided by two destroyed the Zhou Wen army approaching Xianyang, according to the records of the "Former Han Dynasty", Zhou Wen was Chen Sheng's general, leading a large army of 1.2 million to attack Qin, but in front of Zhang Handan, he was vulnerable.
Zhang Handan also broke the Qi-Chu coalition army, killed the Commander of the Chu Army, Xiang Liang, and then broke through many large armies, and the originally precarious Qin Dynasty seemed to be in a stable position again, which showed how strong Zhang Handan's strength was, but when facing Han Xin, he showed no strength, and could only defeat himself in the siege of the Abandoned Hill, which showed Han Xin's strength.
In the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu broke 400,000 Qin troops with 50,000 troops, and in the Battle of Pengcheng, he almost completely annihilated Liu Bang's 500,000 troops with 30,000 Chu troops, and even Liu Bang almost failed to escape, but even Liu Bang was forced to kill himself by Han Xin with ten sides and surrounded by Songs, Han Xin was so outstanding, it is no wonder that Liu Bei, who was defeated by Xiang Yu many times, was so jealous.