In the land of China, there has never been a shortage of world-class fierce generals, and their military ability has impressed future generations, but there are only a few generals who can be worthy of the title of God of War. At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there were two of them, namely Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, and Han Xin, who had rarely lost, and in any way, they were worthy of the reputation of the God of War.
More than two thousand years have passed, the popularity of Xiang Yu and Han Xin is still undiminished, and the mention of their names will make people's blood boil, and the number of their fans is also very impressive. From the tactical analysis, xiang yu and Han Xinbing's ways are quite similar, they are good at thinking of what ordinary people dare not think, doing what others dare not do, and applying the technique of putting them to death and being born later to the realm of pure fire.
Fans who support Han Xin believe that although Xiang Yu is very strong, he was eventually defeated by Han Xin's men (the Battle of Xiaxia), and from this alone, it can be seen that Xiang Yu is still slightly inferior to Han Xin. Xiang Yu's fans definitely disagreed, in their eyes, defeating Xiang Yu was definitely not the credit of Han Xin alone, if the two were to go it alone, or command the same number of soldiers to do a big job, Han Xin only had to be hanged, or even had no power to fight back.
There is an old saying that heroes do not talk about success or failure, even if Xiang Yu fails, it cannot negate the brilliant achievements he has created, and it is estimated that in Han Xin's mind, Xiang Yu is an admirable opponent. In the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu performed a miracle in the history of ancient warfare with the tactic of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, defeating the main force of the Qin army.
Han Xin was also helpless, in the duel with the Zhao Army, with the tactics of fighting against the water, achieved unparalleled results, dare to ask who else can compete with the front? Leaving aside other achievements, comparing only Xiang Yu's broken cauldron and fighting with Han Xin's backwater, who is better? Since it is a comparison, there must be arguments for reference, not to follow the clouds, let alone to open the mouth, we explain from the following two aspects.
Let's first look at the number of soldiers on both sides. Sima Qian's "History" records that during the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu had a total of about 50,000 soldiers under his command, and the Qin army was more than eight times that of Xiang Yu, about 400,000 people, and the strength was quite disparity; Han Xin and the Zhao army only brought more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, while the opponent had 200,000, only from the analysis of the ratio of enemy and enemy soldiers, Xiang Yu was 1 to 8, and Han Xin was less than 1 to 10, it seems that Han Xin's difficulty coefficient for winning is higher.
Looking at the combat effectiveness of the opponent, Xiang Yu faced the Great Qin Iron Horse, even if the combat effectiveness was not as strong as when it swept through the Six Kingdoms, it was also experienced in hundreds of battles, and the commanders were the famous generals Zhang Handan and Wang Li (Wang Qi's grandson). As a military wizard, Xiang Yu knew how difficult it was to win this battle, and it was certainly not possible according to the usual way of playing, so he had to resort to a plan to break the ship, only in this way could it be possible to fully stimulate the potential of the soldiers.
The Zhao army that Han Xin faced was bound to be inferior in combat effectiveness to that of the Great Qin Iron Horse, and more importantly, the commander of the Zhao army, Chen Yu, was too light on the enemy, so he did not take Han Xin in his eyes at all, and categorically rejected the strategy that the strategist Li Zuoche could not stick to. Therefore, judging from the opponent's combat effectiveness and commander's talent, Han Xin's difficulty in winning was much less difficult than Xiang Yu's.
Based on the above analysis, the author believes that Xiang Yu's broken cauldron is even better, if the two exchange positions, Han Xin may not be able to win the Battle of julu, and Xiang Yu should have no problem defeating the Zhao Army. Of course, this is just a family statement, what is your opinion on this?