Since ancient times, fighting the world has required force as a support, and throughout ancient history, the founders of many dynasties have also been both civil and martial. But which of the 422 emperors in ancient China was the best to fight? Seeing this problem, I believe that many names will come to mind, such as: Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor who fought in the great war, Yingzheng, the first emperor who annexed the Six Kingdoms, Emperor Wu of Han, who founded the great unified Han Dynasty, Tang Taizong, known as the "Heavenly Khan", Song Taizu, who released the military power with a cup of wine, and so on. Since there is no shortage of emperors who can fight in all dynasties, which one is the most powerful in terms of personal force value?
When we see this problem, the first thing we may think of is Tang Taizong Li Shimin and Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin.
These two were indeed very capable of fighting, Tang Taizong Li Shimin was known as the General of Heavenly Strategy, and the one-handed Divine Bow could be said to be the strongest Tianzi Arrow. According to historical records, when Li Shimin was young, his strength was incomparable, and the most famous weapon he carried was a two-meter-long giant que heavenly bow. At the Battle of Tiger Prison Pass that year, Li Shimin said to Wei Chigong: "The widow holds a bow and arrow, and the gong (Wei Chi Jingde) supports the spear, although millions of people are helpless to me." This shows how confident he is in his archery skills. However, Li Shimin's arrow technique is indeed invincible, but the melee combat is not so powerful, when he was in the imperial orchard, Shan Xiongxin chased after him, and he had no choice but to rely on Wei Chigong to save the car.
Let's talk about Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, although the Impression left by the Song Dynasty to future generations is that it is heavy on literature and light on martial arts, and the military generals are always oppressed, and they are harassed by neighboring countries and pay compensation for land. But Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, was a brave and warlike warrior, and he claimed to have struck all over 400 military states with a whistle stick. Zhao Kuangyin recovered the surrounding countries during his reign, and when he fought against the Southern Tang, he was able to obtain the first rank of an enemy general among the ten thousand armies, which shows how high Zhao Kuangyin's strength value is. Not only that, Zhao Kuangyin is also a generation of martial arts masters, able to create his own martial arts, Taizu long fist, large and small plate dragon stick. For this reason, Zhao Kuangyin was also known as the First Emperor of Martial Arts by posterity. So is he the emperor with the highest military value in Chinese history?
The answer is of course no, although Li Shimin and Zhao Kuangyin are very powerful, but they are still slightly inferior to one of their predecessors, who is the first emperor of the Southern Dynasty: Liu Yu Liu Jinu. The name of the slave may be very familiar to everyone, Xin Zhiyi's "Yongyule Jingkou Beiguting Huaigu" wrote: "The grass tree of the slanting sun, the ordinary alley is strange, and the humane slave once lived." Think of that year, Jinge iron horse, swallowed like a tiger. Xin Zhiyi himself was also a very powerful martial artist, and he had such a high evaluation of Liu Yu, so how powerful was Liu Yu? Let's take a look.
Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty, Liu Yu (Chinese: 宋武帝武帝; pinyin: Lī Đồng Đại Liu Yu grew up poor, and in his early years, because his family was too poor, he fell into a depression to make a living by cutting firewood, farming, fishing and selling straw shoes. When Liu Yu grew up, he also lost his family and was despised by the township because he only knew some words and was trapped in gambling, and there were basically no people who appreciated him at that time. However, Liu Yu still met his Bole: Wang Mi, who was from the Langya Wang clan, admired him very much and said to him: "You should become a hero of a generation." ”
Later, Liu Yu became a generation of heroes through his own efforts. It was recorded in the Zizhi Tongjian that in the third year (399) of the Jin Dynasty Emperor Long'an, Sun En's army rebelled against the Jin Dynasty, and as soon as this news came out, the government and the public were shocked. The Jin court hastily sent the Wei general Xie Yan and the former general Liu Gaozhi to suppress it. At this time, Liu Yu served as a member of the army under Liu Gaozhi. When Liu Gaozhi arrived at the front line, he immediately sent Liu Yu to lead a group of men and horses to reconnoiter the enemy. However, in the process of reconnaissance, Liu Yu encountered a team of thousands of enemy troops, watching the fellow soldiers fall one by one, Liu Yu did not panic in the slightest, he single-handedly faced thousands of enemies. At this time, Liu Gaozhi, who was in the army, also sensed an abnormality, and he felt that Liu Yu might encounter some danger, so he led his troops out to find Liu Yu. However, one of Liu Prison's guards was stunned when he went out, because he saw that Liu Yu was single-handedly killing the enemy, and thousands of rebel soldiers were holding their heads and scurrying!
Liu Yu not only had superior personal strength value, but also had superior military ability, he dared to innovate combat methods, and created the Yueyue Array (this array was composed of water troops and infantry, of which infantry were mainly chariots, so through the analysis of water troops and chariots, some clues can be drawn), and with this formation, the elite cavalry of Northern Wei was defeated. After this battle, the prestige of the "But Moon Array" was greatly enhanced, so that when posterity talked about how to "ride with steps", they must say "But Moon Array".
Cui Hao also commented on him: "Song Wu Liu Yu, rising up the cold, not stepping up the earth, destroying Huan Xuan, Xingfu Jin Room, Northern Bird Murong Chao, Southern Owl Lu Xun, the direction of the invincible, not his talent, An Neng is like this!" Liu Yu's historical evaluation is so high that some people even say that Liu Yu has enough time, and perhaps the first successful Northern Expedition in Chinese history will occur in the Southern and Northern Dynasties! However, heaven did not give the hero enough time. Liu Yu's son also inherited his military talents, and won the Canghuang Northern Gu because he was anxious to seal the wolf Juxu. The Southern Dynasty Liu Song after the hero's death is lamentable.