The Chu-Han War was one of the most familiar conquests in history, with Liu Bang and Western Chu overlord Xiang Yu fighting each other, and in such a situation, Liu Bang eventually became the overlord of the world. From this point of view, as the overlord of Western Chu, Xiang Yu ultimately failed. However, although Xiang Yu was a loser, Xiang Yu's reputation was much stronger than Liu Bang's.
In history, there has long been a saying that "Liu Bang is a real villain, And Xiang Yu is a true gentleman". Now it seems that the value of the western Chu overlord Xiang Yu's strength is beyond doubt. Because Xiang Yu's combat effectiveness is outstanding, Xiang Yu's command ability is very poor, and secondly, in terms of diplomacy and talent gathering, Xiang Yu's ability is inferior to Liu Bang's.
This became one of the root causes of Xiang Yu's failure. However, although Xiang Yu's strength was amazing, his military ability was also questioned, compared with the soldier Immortal Han Xin, what about Xiang Yu's military ability? In the Chu-Han war, Xiang Yu was unable to recognize and employ people, and his two fists were difficult to defeat with four hands, resulting in his own life being dragged down, and many famous generals were under Xiang Yu's account, and then they defected to Liu Bang.
From this point of view, Xiang Yu's ability to discover talents and use talents is indeed inferior to Liu Bang. "Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu", this sentence also reflects the hatred of the Chu people for the Qin Dynasty from the side, and it is undeniable that from the beginning of the Dazexiang Uprising in the late Qin Period, almost all the people who led the uprising were Chu people. In this case, the Qin Dynasty was in danger.
Xiang Yu's achievements are many, such as "breaking the cauldron into a boat", Xiang Yu led 30,000 Chu soldiers to defeat 300,000 Qin troops under Julu City, and even captured Wang Li alive and Na Xia Zhang. Since then, Xiang Yu has established the status of the first prince in the world. Xiang Yu then defeated Liu Bang's 600,000 allied forces with 30,000 troops, after which Xiang Yu regained all of Western Chu's lost territory.
For Xiang Yu's military ability, there was no doubt about it. In history, Xiang Yu has won more victories and fewer defeats in his lifetime, and the art of command is pure, and no one can stand out from the right, that is to say, Xiang Yu's military ability is definitely superior. So how does it compare to the historical warrior Han Xin? Bing Xian Han Xin was definitely inferior to Xiang Yu in terms of single-handedness.
There are many reasons why Han Xin can become a soldier immortal, first of all, Han Xin has Liu Bang, Peng Yue and other people behind him to help, the offensive and defensive momentum is already ten as one, with more attacks and less, in such a situation, Han Xin can form a siege under the sea. After Han Xin was made the commander of the three armies by Liu Bangbai, Han Xin went out of Hanzhong and "repaired the path of Ming and secretly crossed Chen Cang".
Han Xin defeated and destroyed the Yong King Zhang Handan, thus losing a powerful assistant to Xiang Yu and starting a four-year battle with Xiang Yu in Guanzhong. At that time, Zhang Handan's army was not strong in combat, so Han Xin was able to defeat Zhang Handan. After that, in the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, Xiang Yu defeated Liu Bang with fewer victories and more and recaptured Pengcheng, from this point of view, Han Xin was able to defeat Xiang Yu, relying on the help of others.
Later, Liu Bang and his advisers decided not to fight Xiang Yu head-on, to adopt a protracted strategy to confront Chu across the water, to constantly divide and disintegrate Xiang Yu's forces, and to win over the princes of the world, so that Xiang Yu's strength was greatly dispersed. After that, Liu Bang's Han army adopted the strategy of attacking from the north and south and constantly harassing the rear, and through this strategy, Xiang Yu was in a very passive position.
Under this decentralized strategy, Xiang Yu could not withstand the accumulated consumption and blows over the years, and was surrounded by Haixia to kill himself, ending the pattern of Chu and Han vying for world domination. Han Xin was able to disperse Xiang Yu's strength by relying on the assistance of Liu Bang and others, followed by wooing the princes. From this point of view, Xiang Yu's defeat was not in military terms, but in diplomacy.
Many people believe that Han Xin defeated Xiang Yu, but Liu Bang divided the army into two, with Han Xin as the main general leading 300,000 as the main attacking force, and the rest of the army was led by Liu Bang himself, in this case, Liu Bang let Han Xin take the lead in attacking, Han Xin 300,000 first attacked Xiang Yu, defeated, and fought and retreated, that is to say, Han Xin was defeated.
After the defeat of Han Xin, Liu Bang led an army to attack Xiang Yu, it can be said that Liu Bang attacked while Xiang Yu's troops were weak, and the remnants of the Chu army only retreated to the bottom of the army, not only that, the Chu army also insisted until the grain ran out. The Chu army ran out of ammunition and food, and was forced to go to the bottom of the hill to wait for a battle with the princes' army, under such circumstances, Han Xin's three times the strength of the army could not defeat Xiang Yu alone and was killed, so it was said that Xiang Yu's military strength was definitely higher than Han Xin's.