The winds blew and the clouds flew, and Gao Zu raised his sword into Xianyang: Liu Bang's boldness and military ability
After the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bang had a dialogue with his ministers:
Liu Bang once asked the Qunchen, "Why do I have the world?" The courtiers replied that they did not get the point.
Liu Bangsui said: "In the midst of the husband's planning, I am not as good as the son of the house; the town and the country care for the people, give food, and do not stop grain, I am not as good as Xiao He; even a million people, the battle will be won, the attack will be won, I am not as good as Han Xin." All three are masterpieces, I can use them, so I take the world. ”
It sounds like Liu Bang is useless.
But it should be known that the three masters of the early Han Dynasty were the crown of the world in terms of logistics, strategy and military ability, and Liu Bang was not comparable, and others were even less comparable.
Let's look at another conversation:
"History of the Marquis of Huaiyin": The generals who taste calmly and believe in the words can not, each has its own differences.
On the question: "What if I can put geometry?" The letter said: "Your Majesty can only send 100,000." ”
Shang: "What about Yu Jun?" "The many are the more the better the ears." ”
Shangxiao said, "The more the merrier, what is my bird?" The letter said: "Your Majesty cannot be a soldier, but a good general is a good general, and this is the reason why the letter is His Majesty's bird." And His Majesty's so-called heavenly gifts are not human beings. ”
From this passage, the soldier Han Xin said that Liu Bang's military talent could command an army of up to 100,000, and the more he himself was, the better. Finally, he touted that Liu Bang's ability to be a general was a natural skill, not something that mortals could achieve.
Han Xin did not brag. In the final siege of Xiang Yu's Battle of Xiaxia, The King of Qi, Han Xin, led 300,000 troops to assist in the battle, commanded other Han soldiers totaling 700,000, and surrounded and annihilated Xiang Yu's 100,000 troops.
So is it objective for Han Xin to say that Liu Bang can command an army of up to 100,000 troops?
In history, due to the influence of the slanderous book "Shi Ji", people's impression of Liu Bang has always been poor, believing that Liu Bang was a rural scoundrel who did not do farming in his early years, idle, wandering around, eating and doing lazily, and making friends with three religions and nine streams, unlike his second brother Liu Xi, who was a farmer of duty, so Liu Taigong did not scold him less.
But how can the hero of the world be trapped in the field?
When Chen Sheng was planting land, he also stopped hoeing, looked up at the clouds, and sighed at the ambition of the birds and birds.
Many questioned Liu Bang's military prowess, believing him to be bad.
At the time of the Chu-Han war, Liu Bang basically confronted Xiang Yu in the area of Xingyang in Chenggao, while Han Xin went north to attack the Zhao and Qi states, and Peng Yue fought a guerrilla attack in the interior of Western Chu. This does not reflect Liu Bang's military ability in the slightest.
Later, he negotiated peace with Xiang Yu on the boundary of the chasm, and Xiang Yu led the army back to the east. Liu Bang tore up the peace treaty and led his army in pursuit, only to be defeated by Xiang Yu at Guling.
The Eighth Chronicle of The Eighth Chronicle of Gao Zu and the Qi Wang Xin and The Completion of Hou Peng's Yue Period meeting attacked the Chu army. To Guling, no. Chu attacked the Han army and broke it.
In particular, Liu Bang's siege in Baideng made people doubt Liu Bang's military talent.
But it must be known that Xiang Yu, Han Xin, Yingbu and others were all first-class military experts at the end of Qin, and Liu Bang's military ability was certainly inferior to theirs.
So what about Liu Bang's military talents? Is it really unbearable?
A troubled world is the stage.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang rebelled against the snake, captured Pei County, and proclaimed himself the Duke of Pei.
Liu Bang recruited three thousand Pei County disciples as an army and began to attack the city. Liu Bang's army attacked Huling (Longgu Town, Pei County, Jiangsu Province), Fang He, killed the Qin general, defeated the Qin army, relieved the siege of Fengyi, and personally led the army to attack Xue.
There were victories during this period, but there were also defeats. For example, many attacks on Fengyi Buke, and later with the support of Xiang Liang's five thousand troops, they were finally conquered.
Another example is Zhang Handan's general Sima Yi fighting Liu Bangjun in the west of Xiao County, and Liu Bangjun was defeated and retreated to Liu County.
Probably because of Xiang Liang's 5,000 soldiers and horses, Liu Bang had a total of 9,000 men, and since then he has won many victories, conquered many cities, and captured mengyi, Yu county, Yanqi county, Dongqi county, Li county, Luosang county, Wanqu county, Shanfu county and other old Wei state cities, known in history as "Dingwei Land".
Liu Bang and Xiang Yu then joined forces and achieved a series of victories: Liu Xiang and his men led an army to capture Chengyang (城阳, in modern Heze, Shandong); the Qin army led by Dabaozhang Handan in the east of Puyang; and the qin army at Yongqiu (present-day QiXian County), breaking the Qin army and killing Li You, the defender of Sanchuan.
It can be seen that Liu Bang's military ability is also very strong, and he has defeated the Qin soldiers many times, and even Zhang Handan's army.
After Zhang Handan attacked and killed Xiang Liang, he thought that Chu Di was not worried, so he went north to attack the State of Zhao.
King Huai of Chu moved the capital to Pengcheng, rewarded the meritorious men, and summoned the people to discuss the next deployment.
At that time, the Qin army attacked fiercely, captured Handan, and besieged Zhao Wang Xie and Zhang Er at Julu. King Zhao sent envoys to the State of Chu for help.
Under the cold of his lips and teeth, King Huai of Chu promised to save Zhao.
At that time, the Qin army was strong, and in order to distract the Qin army, King Huai of Chu decided to divide the Chu army into two branches, one to go north to rescue the Zhao state, and the other to attack Xianyang in the west.
When Chu heard that he was going to attack the Qin state in the west, he refused to resign.
Because at that time, the Qin army had just killed Xiang Liang and captured the Zhao capital Handan, the military was strong, and the anti-Qin uprising of the Six Kingdoms fell into a low tide, and the rebel armies were very afraid of the Qin army.
However, King Huai of Chu's orders had to be carried out, and the generals believed that only Liu Bang had always been generous and a virtuous elder, suitable for "supporting righteousness and going west" to attack the Qin state.
This is actually a kind of pot throwing behavior.
All the generals knew that qin's army was powerful and there were many crises on the road to the west, so they all shrunk their heads and let Liu Bang go to the west, in fact, they did not want to see his jokes and let him be a substitute ghost.
Unexpectedly, Liu Bang actually answered the promise and served as the main general of the Western Expeditionary Army.
It can be seen from this that Liu Bang is bold and not afraid of hardships and dangers.
Knowing that there were many difficulties on the road to the Western Expedition, he was still in danger and served as the General of the Western Expedition in the ridicule of the generals.
Xiang Yu originally wanted to go, but the generals thought that he was cruel and cruel, "a fierce slippery thief" and "all that was passed" and slaughtered the city at every turn, so that he would attack the Qin state in the west and would definitely slaughter the city in a big way, which would be detrimental to the western expedition, so they sent him to follow Song Yi to the north to save Zhao.
In this way, the Chu Northern Route Army took Song Yi as the main general (Xiang Yu as the second general), and the Western Route Army took Liu Bang as the main general, and agreed that whoever entered Guanzhong first was the king of Guanzhong.
Xuzhou to Xianyang is more than 800 kilometers away, all the way is the Qin army guarded the city, how easy is it to attack Guanzhong? In the eyes of the generals of the Chu army, it was an impossible task.
However, Liu Bang, with his indomitable courage and military ability to slash and conquer generals, did not fail to accomplish this impossible task.
In October of the third year of Qin II (October 208 BC), Liu Bang led an army to the west, he first gathered Xiang Liang and Chen Shengsan to strengthen his army, and then defeated the Qin army led by Wang Li at Chengwunan, which opened the prelude to the Chu army's counterattack and cleared the obstacles for the advance of the Song rebel army.
In December, in Li, Liu Bang captured the troops that encountered the Chu general "Gangwu Hou", adding more than 4,000 more people.
Liu Bangjun and the Wei general jointly attacked Changyi, and detoured to Gaoyang.
In February of the third year of Qin II (February 207 BC), Liu Bang and Peng Yue combined their forces to attack Changyi again, but did not fall.
At Gaoyang, Li Shiqi's brother led 4,000 men to defect and attackEdu, capturing a large amount of grain.
Liu Bang attacked Kaifeng, but could not attack, so he had to bypass Kaifeng and continue westward.
At Chen Liuxi, Liu Bangjun defeated the Qin general Zhao Ben and defeated the Qin general Yang Xiong at Baima and Quyu.
In April, Liu Bang conquered Yingyang and joined Zhang Liang, capturing The Pass in Korea and approaching the Luoyang Basin.
Liu Bang's army marched south, fought with the Qin army east of Los Angeles, and then defeated zhao's army.
Liu Bangjun defeated Nanyang Shou lü yi (犨) east of Qian (犨, in present-day southwest of Pingding Mountain, Henan) and occupied Nanyang Commandery (南阳郡). He also pursued Lü Yi and besieged Wancheng, and Lü Yi raised the city to surrender.
After several major battles, Liu Bang's prestige was greatly shaken, and the cities guarded by the Qin generals on the Road to the West surrendered.
When it was time to arrive at Danshui, Qi Gill, Marquis Gaowu of the Qin state, and Marquis Wang Ling of Xiangyang surrendered to Liu Bang at Xiling.
Liu Bang attacked Huyang and occupied YanXian and LiXian in one fell swoop.
At this time, Liu Bang's army was already approaching Guanzhong, and the soldiers were approaching Wuguan, and victory was in sight.
Liu Bangjun secretly attacked Wuguan, conquered it in one fell swoop, and marched into Guanzhong.
Qin Ting organized the Qin soldiers in Guanzhong to fight a decisive battle against Liu Bang.
Liu Bang defeated the Qin army at Xiaxia and Lantian, destroying the last army of the Qin Dynasty, and the garrison of Bashang was near Xianyang, and there was only one way to surrender in front of the Qin Dynasty.
In October of the third year of Qin II (207 BC), the Prince of Qin, a white horse with a "neck tied", presented Liu Bang with a jade seal of the country next to Xuandao (present-day Xi'an City, Shaanxi). The Qin Dynasty fell.
On the road to the west, Liu Bang's army conquered most of the cities except for a few cities that were not conquered, and in the field battle, it was a complete victory and was a great hero in the destruction of Qin, which was enough to show that Liu Bang had quite excellent military ability.
Although Xiang Yu fought against the main force of the Qin army led by Zhang Handan at the Battle of Julu, he still could not erase Liu Bang's achievements in destroying Qin. After all, Liu Bang led his army all the way to the west, and he kept slashing and attacking the flag to break through the barrier.
Therefore, although Liu Bang's military talent may not be as good as Xiang Yu's, he is still very good and is a first-class military expert at the end of Qin.