Seventh place: Qi Anpingjun, who skillfully used a series of tactics to break the Yan army and recover more than 70 cities-Tiandan
Tiandan
In 284 B.C., the state of Qi had attacked Yan, and the king of Yan Zhao worshiped Le Yi as the commander in order to avenge this, and together with Qin, Zhao, Wei and Han, he attacked Qi.
In the Battle of Jixi, the Yan army defeated the Qi army, and then the Yan army of the Five Routes pursued and captured Linzi, the capital of Qi. Seeing that the situation was not good, King Qi fled in a hurry. Then, Tian Dan stepped forward, although he was a small official, he was outstandingly intelligent. With his dual talents in military and psychology, he used the Qi people's fear of the gods to unite people's hearts and boost the morale of the people.
Then, he skillfully separated the monarchs and ministers of the Yan Kingdom. He sent people to spread rumors, slander Le Yi and claim that Le Yi intended to stand on his own feet. King Yan complained about Le Yi, listened to the rumors, and let his cronies replace Le Yi. Tian Dan felt that the time had come and began to prepare for a counterattack. He personally participated in the construction of the city defense, let his wife and concubine join the army, scattered all his family wealth to reward the soldiers, stabilize the morale of the army, and was determined to live and die with Jimo.
Tiandan
Next, he removed the elite troops in the city, dressed the old, the sick, the sick and the women in military uniforms, and asked them to patrol the city to ride and rob in confusion. At the same time, he bribed the generals of the Yan army to let the rich man tell the Yan army that Jimo City was about to surrender, hoping that the Yan army would protect their families in order to relax the vigilance of the Yan army.
Finally, on a dark night, Tian Dan used the fire bull array he invented to attack the Yan army camp. The Yan army was unguarded for a long time, and in the face of the threat of the Fire Bull Array, it was powerless to resist, so it had to flee in a hurry and collapse. Immediately afterward, Tian Dan pursued the victory, expelled the Yan army to the border of Qi, and inspired the will of other cities occupied by the Yan army to resist. In less than a year, all the cities were recovered by Tiandan.
Zhou Yafu
Sixth place: The Marquis of the Western Han Dynasty who quelled the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in one fell swoop - Zhou Yafu
After Emperor Liu Qi of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, in order to solve the problem of the princes and kings who could not be defeated, he adopted Chao Cuo's suggestion and gradually reduced the fiefs of Chu, Zhao, Wu, Jiaoxi and other countries.
But unexpectedly, Liu Bi, the king of Wu, colluded with other princes and kings to set off an armed rebellion under the pretext of killing Chao and the Qing monarch, which is the so-called rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu. At that time, Emperor Jing of Han had only two choices: one was to follow Chao Cuo's advice and personally conquer the battlefield and stay in the rear himself, and the other was to follow the advice of Yuan An, who had served as the prime minister of Wu, to kill Chao Cuo and satisfy the rebels' demands to quell the rebellion. However, Emperor Jing of Han chose the latter. However, Chao Cuo's death did not bring peace, because the Qing monarch's side was nothing more than an excuse for the rebels, and their real purpose was to overthrow the imperial court. Liu Bi, the king of Wu, not only did not withdraw his troops, but proclaimed himself the Eastern Emperor.
It was only then that Emperor Jing of Han realized the gravity of the situation and decided to use force to suppress the rebellion. He sent the lieutenant Zhou Yafu to lead the army on the expedition. Zhou Yafu and Liu Qi's younger brother, Liu Wu of Liang, firmly held their positions and sent cavalry to bypass the enemy's main force, seize the mouth of Surabaya into Huai, and cut off the opponent's grain route. Due to the failure of the long siege, the Wu army began to collapse and flee due to lack of food and grass. After the defeat, Liu Bi fled to Dantu and was eventually lured and killed. In this battle, the main force of the army of the Seven Kingdoms was forced to retreat, Liu Wu, the king of Chu, and Liu Shu, the king of Jiaoxi, chose to commit suicide, and the other kings were executed. The Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms finally subsided. Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty took the opportunity to recover the fiefdom of the rebellious king, and abolished the power to pay taxes and appoint and dismiss feudal officials. At this point, the threat of the vassal king was alleviated.
Xie Xuan
The fifth 80,000 Beifu soldiers broke hundreds of thousands of former Qin troops and curbed the Kangle County Duke - Xie Xuan, who was invaded by the northern clan in the south
In 383 AD, when the northern bandit army invaded the south and disturbed the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Xie Xuan led 80,000 Beifu troops to fight back bravely. At this time, the former Qin Fujian mobilized nearly 900,000 troops, advanced by land and water, and went south to attack the capital of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. When the capital of the Eastern Jin Dynasty learned that Fu Jian's army was approaching the Huaiqi area, it fell into a panic. However, just when the Eastern Jin Dynasty was in danger, the Xie family stepped forward, and Xie Xuan led 80,000 Beifu troops to resist and confront the enemy across the river in Huishui.
Fu Jian believed that Xie Xuan did not dare to cross the river to attack, and was doomed to defeat. However, Xie Xuan saw the flaws of the Former Qin army, and realized that once the opponent's huge army panicked, it would fall into great chaos and even cause a stampede, so that he could easily defeat the enemy. For this reason, Xie Xuan sent an envoy to Fu Jian's military camp and said to Fu Jian using the method of agitation: "We can't fight a direct decisive battle now, and the water is blocked, so it is better for you to order the former Qin army to retreat a little, so that we can take the opportunity to cross the river and start a decisive battle." Despite strong opposition from Fu Jian's subordinates, they advocated maintaining the status quo and gradually demoralizing the Eastern Jin army. However, Fu Jian did not agree, because he believed that attacking half-crossing was the best option, and only by taking advantage of the surprise attack of the Eastern Jin troops crossing the river could he achieve victory. So, Fu Jian ordered to retire from the army.
Fu Jian's plan is flawless in theory, but in practice there are often surprises. When the Qin army began to retreat and Xie Quan led the army to cross the river, the Eastern Jin envoys stood behind the Qin army and worked closely with Xie Xuan, loudly conveying the news that the Qin army's front line had been defeated and retreated. The soldiers in the rear of the Qin army mistakenly believed that the battle had been lost, and began to flee one after another. In the chain reaction, the huge Qin army fell into chaos, and serious stampedes occurred one after another. At this time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty troops took the opportunity to quickly cross the river, led by Xie Xuan, launched a fierce attack on the former Qin army, and 80,000 Beifu troops bravely killed the enemy. Due to the discouragement of the army and the loss of combat effectiveness, the former Qin troops could only flee in defeat. Fu Rong, the commander of the vanguard team, was killed on the spot, and Fu Jian could only escape in embarrassment under the protection of his cronies.
Xie Xuan won a great victory in this battle, capturing a large number of supplies and treasures, and capturing and fleeing more than 700,000 soldiers. Xie Xuan's victory allowed the Eastern Jin Dynasty to last for decades, successfully stopping the invasion from the north.
Guo Ziyi
The fourth place pacified the Anshi Rebellion and recovered the Tang Fenyang King of the Two Capitals - Guo Ziyi
After the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang in the Tang Dynasty, resolutely enlisted and led the army to calm the chaos and regain the lost territory.
In 755, the rebels raised troops from Fanyang, plundered all the way, and quickly approached Chang'an. Tang Xuanzong snuggled up and fled, and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty collapsed in an instant, falling into an era of chaos. Guo Ziyi resolutely served the imperial court, led the army to save the emperor, recovered the lost land, and saved the people from fire and water. Under his command, the Tang army won successive battles, quickly pacified Hebei, and recovered Chang'an and Luoyang.
However, Guo Ziyi was framed by the eunuch Yu Chaoen and was forced to be transferred from the front line and lost his command. In the face of unfair treatment, Guo Ziyi was not selfish, but chose to obey for the safety of Datang. For the next three years, although he was occasionally activated, he always came and went.
It was not until 763 that the Tubo and the Hui invaded together, the Tang Dynasty was weak, Chang'an fell again, and the Son of Heaven fled again. Guo Ziyi, who was deprived of military rights, was once again ordered to be in danger, he reorganized the army, led 4,000 warriors to repel Tubo with suspicious tactics, recaptured Chang'an, and once again saved the Tang Dynasty from fire and water.
In 765, Fugu Huaien, who had made great achievements in quelling the Anshi Rebellion, was framed by eunuchs and launched a rebellion. He colluded with Tubo and Hui to threaten Jinyang City. Guo Ziyi was ordered to be in danger again and went into battle in a battle robe. Faced with the disparity in strength, although he was over sixty years old, he still went to the enemy camp alone. He succeeded in convincing the Hui to withdraw their troops and put down the rebellion with minimal casualties. In the years that followed, he repeatedly saved the Li Tang Dynasty from danger, showing steadfast and selfless heroism.
Han Shizhong
The third place Huang Tiandang beat Jin Wuzhu and kicked off the fight against Han Shizhong, the king of Xian'an County in the Southern Song Dynasty
At that time, Jin Wuzhu led an army of 100,000 to the south, deep into the Yangtze River, captured Jiankang, pursued Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, forced him to flee by boat, and finally reached Wenzhou. In order to stop the pursuit of Jin Wuzhu, Han Shizhong led 8,000 sailors to trap 100,000 Jin soldiers in Huang Tiandang. After more than 40 days of stalemate battles, the Jin soldiers failed repeatedly and fell into a desperate situation. However, Jin Wuzhu found the traitor and escaped by digging a 30-mile passage through the old channel of the Old Stork River overnight. However, after receiving the information, Han Shizhong once again besieged his Jiankang in the north of the Yangtze River, and at the same time used iron hooks to overturn a large number of Jin ships, so that the Jin soldiers had nowhere to escape.
Once again, Jin Wuzhu spent a huge amount of money and, through the advice of a traitor, set fire to the sails of the Song ships. Han Shizhong was unprepared and was caught off guard by Jin Wuzhu, and the Song army was finally defeated due to the numerical inferiority, and Jin Wuzhu was able to escape. However, he was later ambushed by Yue Fei at Niushou Mountain, and the Jin army suffered huge losses. From then on, Jin Wuzhu did not dare to cross the Yangtze River again, and the Southern Song Dynasty turned the crisis into safety, and the situation was completely reversed.
Yu Qian
The second personally supervised the formation outside the nine gates to resist the invasion of the Ming Dynasty - Yu Qian
Orthodox 14 years of Warat invasion. At the instigation of the eunuch Wang Zhen, Zhu Qizhen of Ming Yingzong led an army of 500,000 to conquer in person. On the way out, Ming Yingzong allowed Wang Zhen to command indiscriminately, privately changed the route of the march, and controlled the generals, resulting in a lack of food and grass for the army, and the morale of the army was weakened. When the army marched to Tumu Fort, it was raided by 100,000 cavalry led by Ye Xian. The people's army, which lacked water and food, suffered a devastating blow, and the 200,000 elite troops of the Ming Dynasty were almost wiped out, many noble and famous generals were killed in battle, and the emperor Zhu Qizhen was captured.
After the bad news came from the Jingshi, the government and the opposition were shocked, Yu Qian's heart was uncontrollable, he looked up to the sky and cried, crying and shouting, vowing not to live with the captive. The other ministers panicked and didn't know what to do. There were only tens of thousands of old and weak soldiers left in the capital, and the army of Yexian captured one city after another. At this time, Da Ming seemed to have reached the end of the road and could no longer resist. When everyone was worried about the future of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Youzhen, who liked to watch the sky at night, suggested giving up resistance and moving the capital to Nanjing quickly.
Yu Qian stood up and angrily reprimanded, advocating that those who advocated moving south should be killed, have they forgotten the shame of Jingkang and the bitter lesson of being untouchable? Under Yu Qian's impassioned speech, Zhu Qiyu, who was in charge of the state, decided to stay in Beijing to fight and rebel, and appointed Yu Qian as the secretary of the military department. Because all the elite cavalry at that time went out with Yingzong and suffered heavy losses at Tumu Fort. Yu Qian could only recruit the Henan Reserve Army, the Shandong and coastal Reserve Army, and the Jiangbei Grain Army to resist in Beijing. Subsequently, in order not to be threatened by Yexian, Yu Qian also asked with the civil and military officials to appoint Zhu Qiyu as the emperor. He also knew that the emperor in his hand was about to lose his effect, so he threatened to launch a decisive battle.
Yu Qian quickly recruited volunteers and brave people, and rushed to work day and night to prepare for the city's fortifications. Soon after, the Warat army took Yingzong hostage and came to the city of Beijing. Although there was a huge disparity in strength and many people advocated defense, Yu Qian insisted on going out of the city to meet the battle, and personally took the lead in battle, setting up a position outside Desheng's gate. He expressed his mortality. Under the encouragement of Yu Qian, the morale of the Ming army was high and everyone was excited. A month after the battle began, 20,000 old and weak soldiers, with firm will, repelled the Warat army and recaptured more than 10,000 people captured by Yexian. In the end, Yu Qian saved the situation, protected the people, avoided a repeat of the tragedy of Jingkang's shame and unbridged clothes, and saved thousands of people from the suffering of war.
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The first self-raised military expenses to carry the coffin to the west to collect the restoration of Ili - Zuo Zongtang
At that time, the Qing vassal state of Tashkent was encouraged by the British to establish an independent state of Hongfuhan, which was not controlled by the Manchu government. There was chaos in the Xinjiang region, and Russia took the opportunity to occupy the Ili region under the pretext of assisting the Qing Dynasty in clearing the civil strife, but the fact was that it was the heart of a jackal who was eyeing the enemy. At this time, the Qing government was in a difficult situation both inside and outside, with the Taiping rebellion inside and the foreign powers coveting the southeast coast. Faced with this situation, Li Hongzhang and others proposed to abandon the barren Xinjiang and devote limited resources to defending the southeast coast.
However, as an important minister of the imperial court, Zuo Zongtang firmly believed that Xinjiang was a key region on the Silk Road. If Xinjiang is lost, I am afraid that Gansu, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia will not be able to hold it, and then it may even lose the capital. Therefore, in 875, after Zuo Zongtang was allowed by the imperial court to raise military expenses and carry the coffin to the expedition. His determination inspired the soldiers' will to fight. After arriving in Xinjiang, he adopted the strategy of first advancing north and then south, slowly advancing and fighting a rapid war, and quickly recovered northern Xinjiang and Urumqi.
However, the more difficult southern Xinjiang and Ili regions are the hard bones. To this end, Zuo Zongtang took measures to slow down, while maneuvering with the enemy, while raising military salaries, upgrading military equipment, and then looking for an opportunity to launch a decisive battle. There is no doubt that Zuo Zongtang achieved a brilliant victory, defeating Agubai, and the Qing army regained Hotan.
However, his goal had not yet been fully achieved, as Ili remained under Russian control. As Xinjiang borders on Tsarist Russia, the consequences of rash war with it are unimaginable. Therefore, negotiation became the best option. However, Russia's attitude was arrogant, and the negotiated treaty clearly stipulated that the land around Ili would be returned to Russia, and only the city of Ili would be returned. And the Qing army also had to compensate Russia with 2.8 million silver for garrisoning Ili. After Zuo Zongtang read the treaty, he lightly told the envoy to renegotiate, otherwise he would fight.
Zuo Zongtang, who was in his prime, went to Hami with his illness and coffin, ready to fight Russia at any time. He painted the inky black coffin red, as if to show the world that he was ready to die in battle. Russia itself is not reasonable, and there are many contradictions at home. Coupled with witnessing Zuo Zongtang's momentum and determination, Russia finally chose to return the nine cities of Ili. So far, this vast splendid land has returned to the territory of the Qing Dynasty, covering an area of 1.66 million square kilometers.