In 202 BC (the fifth year of Gaozu), Han Xin, Peng Yue, and Yingbu met liu Bang and the Battle of Xiaxia broke out. Liu Bang sat in the rear, and Han Xin approached xiaxia with 300,000 Han troops as the main force, and defeated the Chu army. In the end, Xiang Yu broke through with his men and hanged himself at Wujiang, and Liu Bang won a complete victory. Also in the same year, Liu Bang declared himself emperor and established the Western Han Dynasty. Many times it is often said that Liu Bang actually has no talent in many aspects. It is true that he is not very good at leading operations.
For example, the Battle of Pengcheng in April of the second year of the Han Dynasty (205 BC), which was a major battle in the Chu-Han War, liu Bang suffered the biggest defeat since the beginning of the army. At that time, Han Xin was not by his side, and Liu Bang himself took advantage of Xiang Yu's 560,000 troops to go out and capture Pengcheng. But what he did not expect was that this caused his fiasco, relying on Xiang Yu's bold command. The Chu army defeated 560,000 Han troops in half a day by relying on the overall situation of 30,000, and the Han army was seriously injured in this battle.
In fact, in this battle, as long as Xiang Yu chased after and killed Liu Bang, the world would be his. And this battle was led by himself, and Xiao He, Han Xin, Peng Yue and others were not around. From these wars, it is enough to see that his military talent is not as good as Xiang Yu's, in fact, many times people are curious, why are so many people willing to follow Liu Bang? In the early years, Liu Bang could be said to be unprofessional, and many people thought that he had no great ambitions and could not work.
But he had a very important talent, and that talent is popular even in modern times, and that was to handle relationships. For example, when he was the chief of the Pavilion in Surabaya Pavilion in Pei County, he was very familiar with the officials of Pei County, and he was still famous in the local area. His wife was still because he could engage in interpersonal relations, and he married Miss Qianjin's Lu Lu with one mouth. The first people who followed him were transporters, because there were always people running on the road, and Liu Bang felt that when he got to the place, it was estimated that everyone ran. He simply let them go, and got a dozen followers.
Under his management, the number soon became hundreds. Then there is the fact that when Liu Bang first was in Pei County, because of his good personality, he liked to give alms and be kind to people, so he met Fan Duo, Xiahou Bao, Zhou Bo, Cao San, Xiao He and others. These people were all the founding heroes of the early Han Dynasty, Xiao He, who used good tactics, and he retained Han Xin for Liu Bang. Fan Duo, who rescued Liu Bang at the Hongmen Banquet, was the bravest warrior around Liu Bang.
He would engage in interpersonal relations from Zhang Liang's followers, and it could be seen that Zhang Liang was originally going to go to Jingju, and as a result, he talked to Liu Bang. He was also impressed by him, and immediately joined his team and became one of the three masters of the future Han Dynasty. Zhang Liang didn't seem to do anything, but in fact he did a lot of things, such as persuading Liu Bang to leave Xianyang, and his vision was very long-term. The later Hongmen banquet was precisely because Zhang Liang was very familiar with Xiang Bo, and in the later stages of the Chu-Han War, it was also Zhang Liang who gave him a plan to win over Peng Yue and Han Xin.
Although it is said that interests are paid attention to in the field of power, it is impossible to do without interpersonal relations, and Xiang Yu will not engage in interpersonal relations. Then there is Liu Bang, who is generous and open-minded, and he has leadership skills. Not to mention knowing people and making good use of them, the leadership ability to control people is actually the art of imperial power. On the other hand, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang have these are his weaknesses. So even if Xiang Yu had the advantage, he still lost.
References: "Records of History", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Book of Han and Records of Emperor Gao"