To say who was the most difficult in ancient China, the author believes that the emperor must be able to become one of the most competitive answers. The reason why I say this is because in order to become a qualified king who has not been scolded by the ages, the conditions that need to be met are really very strict.
For example, the basic task of the king is to rule the country instead of the heavens, which requires the ability to govern the country and the patience to deal with tedious government affairs day after day, and if you are not careful, you will become a sluggish monarch.
In addition, if it is a founding monarch or an emperor with foreign intrusion around the territory, it is more or less necessary to have military capabilities.
In history, many kings have personally marched, and many emperors have led their own troops to fight down the Jiangshan Sheji little by little, so qualified emperors should be excellent military and political talents. So, which emperor in history has the strongest ability to fight wars?
There is such an emperor, if he is called the second in the war, no one dares to call the first, even Li Shimin is a little worse, he is the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, who was praised by Chairman Mao as "the most capable emperor of war".
Liu Xiu was born in the first year of jianping in the Western Han Dynasty (5 BC), although he was the ninth grandson of Gaozu Liu Bang, but because of the slashing of the han emperors and the untimely death of his father Liu Qin, Liu Xiu grew up in a poor family and had to rely on farming to support his family.
After Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty and established a new dynasty, Liu Xiu went to Chang'an to study, and this study increased Liu Xiu's knowledge and insight, and also allowed Liu Xiu to find the ideal of life, that is, "Shi Eunuch as a Jinwu, marry a wife to be Yin Lihua".
In the third year of emperor Di (22), Liu Xiu saw that the people were dissatisfied with Wang Mang's rule, so he seized the opportunity to raise an army in Wancheng, because it arose in Gangling Township, and his troops were also called "Lingling Army".
Initially, due to the lack of military resources, Liu Xiu, as the leader, had to ride an ox to the battlefield, which showed that his situation was very embarrassing. Even in the absence of soldiers and food, Liu Xiu still led the soldiers to attack the city strategically, and when there was a problem of uneven distribution of the spoils of war, Liu Xiu showed the demeanor of a commander, and he "" collected the goods of the Emperor's people, and the people were happy. ''
In order to increase his strength, Liu Xiu defected to the mighty Green Forest Army, and after achieving many military achievements, he was made a general by liu Xuan, the nominal leader of the Green Forest Army.
Seeing that the Green Forest Army had restored the Han Dynasty, and many people responded, Wang Mang really couldn't sit still, and he sent his brother Wang Yi to lead an army of 400,000 to go on a crusade. In May, Wang Yi marched south from Luoyang, and Liu Xiu, who led 9,000 men stationed in Kunyang, bore the brunt of his crusade.
In the face of Wang Yi's army, the generals in the city were worried and uneasy, but Liu Xiu calmly analyzed: "There are few soldiers in the valley of this day, but the outer Kou is strong, and the strength is strong, and the merits can be established; if you want to disperse, there is no complete force." After stabilizing the hearts of the army, Liu Xiu took thirteen elite cavalry to Dingling, Gaoxian and other places overnight to transfer troops, and soon brought back more than 17,000 infantry horses, slightly making up for the gap between the two sides. At the end of May, Wang Yi's troops approached Kunyang City, while Liu Xiu led reinforcements to arrive in time at the moment of the first attack.
According to the Book of later Han, Liu Xiu and three thousand daredevils rushed to the fort from the water west of the city, seeking and destroying Chen, taking advantage of the sharp collapse, and killing Wang Xun. ''Seeing that Liu Xiu had achieved unexpected victories,' the city also roared out, the Chinese and foreign forces combined, shaking the heavens and the earth, the reckless soldiers collapsed, and the people who walked together and ran for more than a hundred miles. ''At this moment,' there will be thunder and wind, the roof tiles will fly, the rain will fall like a note, the rivers will overflow, the tigers and leopards will fight, the soldiers will rush to the battlefield, and the drowning will be tens of thousands, and the water will not flow. ''
That is to say, first of all, Wang Yi's army was arrogant and light enemies, resulting in a surprise attack by Liu Xiu; second, the soldiers and horses in the city reacted quickly and joined forces with the reinforcements brought by Liu Xiu to kill the enemy; third, when heavy rain suddenly fell from the sky and the wind and thunder increased, the cavalry in Wang Yi's troops had no choice but to dismount and fight, and the combat effectiveness was greatly weakened. In short, in this Battle of Kunyang, Liu Xiu defeated the strong with weakness and annihilated the so-called millions of New Dynasty troops, shaking the whole world.
A few months after the battle, the new dynasty, which had lost its main force, was destroyed under the increasingly powerful offensive of the Green Forest Army.
After eliminating Wang Mang, the world was still in chaos, so emperor Gengshi sent Liu Xiu to Hebei to quell the chaos. With the help of Deng Yu, Geng Yi, and others, Liu Xiu's power in Hebei grew, and when Emperor Gengshi repented and prepared to deprive him of his military powers, he officially broke with him. In less than three years in Hebei, Liu Xiu was already "cross-state territory, with a million", and in the first three years (25), Liu Xiu declared himself emperor in Hebei and established a new regime.
At that time in the Central Plains, two rebel forces, Green Forest and Chimei, invaded each other, liu Xiu took advantage of his defeat and injury, and when the famine in the Central Plains broke out, he launched a large-scale expedition to the west.
After spending six years to conquer and unify the East, Liu Xiu successively pacified Kui Hu and Gongsun Shu in Southwest Bashu, and finally ended the chaotic world in the twelfth year of Jianwu (36).
Compared with Li Shimin, Liu Xiu did not have the assistance of famous generals of the rank of Li Jing, Cheng Yaojin, and Wei Chigong. He was able to win many battles, and his own military ability was very important. Therefore, Liu Xiu, who was born as a peasant but eventually restored the Great Han, was the emperor with the strongest ability to fight.