The golden iron horse, the sword and light sword shadow, the smoke of war, and the dust are probably the appearance of the ancient battlefield imagined in the minds of every Chinese hot-blooded boy. There are also people who have fantasized about themselves wielding spears or swords on the battlefield and taking the first level of the enemy.
As the saying goes, "Wen Wu is the first, Wu Wu is the second", but in ancient times, there were so many famous generals, and there was no way to move between the masters of different eras, and there was never a conclusion about who was the first in the world. Moreover, the selection of fierce generals can not only look at the value of personal strength, but also their combat command ability is a reliable basis.
Although the analysis is very complicated, there are always a few powerful characters that are deeply rooted in people's hearts. There are such three figures in history, who are recognized as the real "fierce generals". The first two are derived from a sentence - Wang is not xiang, will not be Li. The "Xiang" here refers to Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, and "Li" refers to Li Cunxiao, a famous general of the late Tang Dynasty.
Xiang Yu's reputation is prominent, and without too much description, everyone can casually cite a few famous examples about him. In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, under the tyranny of Qin II, the people everywhere rose up, and Xiang Yu was a member of the rebel army. When he was young, Xiang Yu worshiped Xiang Liang as a teacher, saw Qin Shi Huang's carriages and horses, and made bold promises to replace Qin Shi Huang.
In the end, although Xiang Yu did not succeed in ascending to the throne, the Qin Dynasty's Jiangshan was really destroyed in his hands. In 224 BC, the Qin general Wang Qi led an army of 600,000 to destroy Chu, and Xiang Yu's grandfather Xiang Yan was beheaded by Wang Qi, and since then the Xiang family has formed a vendetta against the Wang family, and Xiang Yu's rebellion is mostly for revenge.
The Chuzhong people have always been known for their bravery, and are good at winning more battles with less, especially the generals of the Xiang family can crush hundreds of thousands of enemy troops with tens of thousands of soldiers. And Xiang Yu is even worse, looking at his record, he has been fighting this kind of battle that seems to hit stones with pebbles all his life. From 208 BC to 206 BC, 200,000 Qin troops besieged the State of Zhao, and the State of Zhao asked for help from all sides, but Xiang Yu only led tens of thousands of soldiers to break through the cauldron and kill 200,000 Qin troops.
This is the famous battle of the giant deer in the history of war. It's just that Xiang Yu's personality is prone to conceit, sexual suspiciousness, and self-sufficiency. After losing the battle with Liu Bang, he broke through to Wujiang, and after Bieji killed himself, leaving behind the regret of "still thinking about Xiang Yu and refusing to cross Jiangdong".
And Li Cunxiao is also a fierce general with the same name as Xiang Yu, and everyone may not be familiar with him, but he is known as the first fierce general of the late Tang Dynasty. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the situation was turbulent, and the princes fought their own battles. Li Cunxiao was originally a Turkic person, his original surname was Zhu Xie, and he was favored by Li Keyong, the king of Jin, and adopted as a righteous son, changed his name to Li Cunxiao, and from then on he worked for his righteous father and made many military achievements.
Li Cunxiao was originally brave and powerful, and he lived in the midst of war since he was a child, as if he was born for war. Every time the battle was invincible, he even forced the Tang dynasty general Huang Chao to die, defeated Wang Yanzhang, and made the Tang Dynasty lose its last face. But just because he was too fierce, he was jealous of all his colleagues. In March 894, Li Cunxiao was framed for rebellion.
Li Ke, the king of Jin, had to execute him with the punishment of car splitting, but it is rumored that when Li Cunxiao was split by the car, the natural reaction of his body pulled the five horses back. The executioner had to break his tendons and ankles to complete the torture. Li Cunxiao was only 36 years old when he died, and the Jin state has since gone into decline.
However, although the fierce general died, the prestige was still there, and the Jin army once used a stand-in to pretend to be Li Cunxiao to stage a scene of fox and fake tiger Power, and Wang Yantong, the younger brother of the opposing general Wang Yanzhang, was frightened to vomit blood when he saw Li Cunxiao's iconic flying tiger flag, and was defeated and killed. The last general who could match the first two was none other than the famous Western Han general Huo Zhiyi.
Born in 140 BC, Huo Fuyi had the talent of a general from an early age and was valued by Emperor Wu of Han. At the age of 17, Huo was able to lead only 800 people to drive directly to the hinterland of the Xiongnu to take the head of the Xiongnu nobility, and to capture the enemy prime minister and Shan Yu's uncle. He led his troops to fight flexibly and changeably, made good use of strategy, had his own set of military skills, and "disdained" learning Sun Tzu's art of war.
In 121 BC, the 19-year-old Huo Wentai annihilated 100,000 Xiongnu troops in the Battle of Hexi and opened up the Silk Road. In 119 BC, the 21-year-old Huo Fu led 50,000 cavalry and annihilated more than 70,000 Xiongnu. However, such a heroic figure died suddenly at the age of 24, and Emperor Wu of Han was forced to abandon his plan to conquer the Xiongnu.
In addition to being brave and fierce, these three generals were all invincible at that time with one enemy and a hundred, and they were able to influence the development of history by their own strength, so that such a general could be called a real fierce general.