At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and at this time, there was first the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising, and then there were more and more rebel armies in Chu. It is worth mentioning that in the late Qin period, the first to revolt was the old department of the State of Chu, which had a lot to do with the State of Chu and the State of Qin. However, in the end, Chen Sheng's Wuguang uprising ended in failure.
Although Chen Sheng's Wu Guang uprising failed, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang opened up the overall situation of the uprising in the late Qin period. Under such circumstances, there were more and more rebel armies at the end of Qin. The Chu-Han dispute was undoubtedly the most powerful of the late Qin rebels, and Liu Bang and Xiang Yu began to compete for the world, but in the end, Xiang Yu killed himself at Wujiang.
Now it seems that in terms of force value, Xiang Yu should not fail, after all, the name of the Western Chu Overlord was not blown out. In history, there is an allusion to "the overlord lifting the top", which is said to be Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu was brave and invincible, but why did he still lose? What is the reason for this? Later generations have different accounts of Xiang Yu's failure.
People's evaluation of Xiang Yu is undoubtedly very high, although he is a loser in history, but Xiang Yu is still very good compared with Liu Bang. Based on the experience of the Chu-Han dispute, later generations said the evaluation of "Xiang Yu is a true gentleman, Liu Bang is a real villain". It can be seen from this sentence that Xiang Yu's handling of people is definitely good.
In the late Qin dynasty, heroes emerged, and during this period, the Central Plains seemed to have opened a "knockout game". In the end, after a lot of selection, only Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were left. Thus there was the familiar Chu-Han dispute. There are many reasons why Liu Bang can win, the most important of which is that people think that Liu Bang has encountered a stupid opponent.
Xiang Yu, as Liu Bang's opponent, was a brave and unscrupulous warrior, domineering and with insufficient intelligence, and was completely defeated in the Battle of Xiaxia and died in the country. Although Liu Bang won the Jiangshan, in the eyes of posterity, Liu Bang is a rogue-like existence. Liu Bang's biggest weakness is that his direct command ability is very bad, while Xiang Yu is a master of tactics.
If it is a contest between the two, then Liu Bang must have lost, but liu bang and Xiang Yu are different in that Liu Bang has many talents in his hands, but Xiang Yu is not good. In the Chu-Han war, the most crucial war was the Battle of Weishui. At that time, Liu Bang was definitely not an opponent when he faced Xiang Yu head-on, but the problem was that Liu Bang had a general in his hands, and he was Han Xin.
At that time, Han Xin asked Miao to go to war and said: "May the army of 30,000 people be beneficial, and the subjects please raise Yan and Zhao in the north, attack Qi in the east, the grain road of Chu in the south, and the king in the west will meet in Xingyang." In the end, Liu Bang adopted this suggestion, and Liu Bang's army was in a saw with the Chu army on the xingyang and Chenggao lines, while At the same time, Han Xin went from west to east on the northern front and directly attacked the rear of the Chu army.
At that time, Xiang Yu was facing a situation, that is, if Han Xin took QiDi, then the consequences were unimaginable, in order to make up for this loss, Xiang Yu had to send Long He (jǖ) to lead the elite 200,000 to save Qi. So the two armies had a fateful battle on the way to the conquest. The Battle of Weishui eventually reversed the decline of the Han army and changed the direction of the Chu-Han War.
In this battle, Han Credit was like a god. Xiang Yu's general Long Ji and Qi Wang Tian Guanghui met in Gaomi and confronted Han Xin across weishui. At this time, Han Xin fell into the inferior position, Han Xin considered that the Chu army had the superiority of troops, once the battlefield was given up, the Chu army could divide the troops into several roads and trap the Han army by copying the back road, cutting the grain road, and spreading rumors.
So Han Xin did not attack head-on, but chose to divide the troops into two ways and began to lure the enemy deeper. The most wrong thing was that Long He actually crossed the river, and he never expected that as soon as Long He crossed the river, Han Xin immediately decided to dam and release water, so Long He's army suddenly became Han Xin's bag. In history, after the Battle of Weishui, the elite of the Chu army was annihilated and collapsed.
It was precisely because of the Battle of Weishui that Xiang Yu's army was defeated. After the defeat at the Battle of Weishui, Xiang Yu fell under the siege of Liu Bang. The fundamental reason for Xiang Yu's failure was that he could not use people, it turned out that Han Xin, Zhang Liang, and Xiao He were all from Xiang Yu's side, but in the end these people turned to Liu Bang. Xiang Yu didn't understand the truth that he died: a person can't fight the world in Noh Nai!