God of War through the ages: Han Xin

Chapter 1 Prologue

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Juren Bao Bin once wrote a poem "The Temple of the Marquis of Huaiyin", lamenting the sad and joyful life of Han Xin, the God of War during the Chu and Han Dynasties. The poem is as follows:

When the bird is exhausted, the bow must be hidden,
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A mere meal is like a newspaper,

Fighting to be a minister to defeat the King of Han.

How famous is Han Xin in history?Just look at the life of Han Xin who is entangled with the lives of some famous people: Liu Bang, a sage through the ages, Xiang Yu, a hero through the ages, a generation of female tiger Lu Zhi, and a generation of virtuous minister Xiao He.However, Han Xin became famous not because he was fired by famous people, but because he used his military genius who looked down upon the ages to forcibly take a share of the feast of the heroes, and wrote a life legend that made people sigh and sigh with emotion. .

The world remembers Han Xin not only for his ups and downs in a legendary life, but also for many idioms that shone in history: a meal is worth a thousand dollars, the humiliation of the crotch, the benevolence of a woman, the bright repair of the plank road, the secret crossing of the old warehouse, the old and the new, and the old and the new. Decide, fanfare, fight to the death, fight for the people, fight for the people, put them to death and survive, ambushes from ten sides, three-legged confrontation, hordes of heroes vying for the throne, people's hearts are unpredictable, utterly devastated, utterly daring, the more the better, the success is Xiao He, and the defeat is Xiao He .

An ancient person who can connect with an idiom is enough to be famous in history, not to mention that there are so many popular idioms, it is difficult for Han Xin not to be famous.For Han Xin, what he cares about is not being famous in history, but being famous in the world.If a person lives for a lifetime, why bother to have a false name for all eternity, it is enough to prove his greatness in the world at that time!
Whether it is to be famous in the world or in history, Han Xin has done it.Two thousand and 200 years ago, Han Xin was an inconceivable "phenomenon". Since the Han Dynasty, Han Xin has always been an inconceivable "phenomenon", and it remains so until now.The emperors and generals of the past dynasties are like crucian carp crossing the river, coming and going in a hurry, how many people can be firmly remembered by history?But history has firmly remembered Han Xin.

Liu Bang is immortal in governing the country, Zhang Liang is immortal in ingenuity, Xiang Yu is immortal in blood, and Han Xin is immortal in military use!Take a look at how Mao Kun, a famous literary critic in the Ming Dynasty, commented on Han Xinbing:
"If you look at the ancient military traditions, you should take Han Xin as the most important one. To defeat Wei, use wooden poppy, to defeat Zhao, to establish the red flag of Han, and to defeat Qi, use bag sand. They all descended from the sky, and they have never fought bloody battles with the enemy. Yu Gu said: From ancient to modern times , Tai Shigong, the immortal of literature; Li Bai, the immortal of poetry; Qu Yuan, the immortal of Cifu; Liu Ruan, the immortal of wine; and Han Xin, the immortal of soldiers, of course!"

——From "Historical Notes"

There are many good soldiers in the past dynasties, but Mao Kun only recognized Han Xin as a soldier, which shows Han Xin's extraordinary status in the military.

Starting from his unexpected ascension to the altar, Han Xin's life trajectory has skyrocketed like a rocket.
Build plank roads in the open, cross Chencang secretly, and talk and laugh to settle the Sanqin.

Mu Ying is suspicious of soldiers, and captures Wei Bao like a palm.

Standing against the water, he killed 20 Zhao Jun, and Zhao Xie fell on his horse.

Attack Qi in the east, kill and capture 20 Chu troops, and the general Long Qie gave the head.

The siege of Gaixia, the ten-sided battle, Farewell My Concubine, Pei Gong will conquer the world in one battle!

If the Great Han Empire, which was born more than 200 years ago, is compared to a monument, then Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, is the body of this monument, standing in a prominent place in history for future generations to worship and pay homage to.Han Xin is the pedestal of this monument. Although it is not as dazzling as the body of the monument, everyone knows that without the pedestal, this monument would not exist.

Ever since Chen Shengdeng, a famous mud-legged man at the end of the Qin Dynasty, shouted, "Princes and generals, I would rather have a kind", countless grassroots from humble backgrounds were unwilling to accept the cruel judgment of fate.They will use their blood, youth, and even their lives to prove to the heaven and the earth that everyone has a share in the monument of history!Those who can't do it, and those who can do it!
There have been many heroes who emerged from the bottom of the grassroots in the past dynasties, but only two people can finally become kings and gods as "beggars": one is the beggar Zhu Yuanzhang who founded the Ming Dynasty in 270, and the other is Han Xin.Although Han Xin is called Wang Sun, he is actually grassroots. When he was at his worst, he couldn't even eat. Survival was almost a luxury for Han Xin.

The heavy suffering did not overwhelm Han Xin, never underestimate the heart of a champion!Everyone has dreams.In the face of opportunities, everyone is not necessarily equal. Grassroots is certainly not as close to the water as the rich and noble children, but as a grassroots, if you do not even have the most basic confidence and courage, you are not qualified to dream of success, and you cannot and will not get anyone. pity.

Look at Han Xin!
No matter how much embarrassment he had in his youth, how many people insulted and ridiculed him, Han Xin still lived bravely.Because Han Xinxin has a dream in his heart, a dream that all boys once had.Even though he was abandoned by everyone, Han Xin still did not give up on himself, he was still trying to prove the value of his existence to fate.

Han Xin's life legend is actually an inspirational book. If you understand Han Xin, you will also understand the suffering life.In this world, nothing is more valuable than persistence, and nothing is more moving than courage.It doesn't matter if you come from grassroots, as long as you work hard, you will get closer and closer to success.

Although Han Xin's life ended in tragedy, it was a political failure, not a failure of confidence and courage.According to the famous wooden barrel theory, Han Xin's wooden barrel has many solid wooden boards of suitable size, including military boards, confidence boards, and courage boards. There is only one political short board, which directly ruined Han Xin's brilliant future.

Han Xin lacks sufficient political ability, that is, political emotional intelligence. To put it more bluntly, he just doesn't know how to be a human being.From this point of view, Xiang Yu and Han Xin actually fell in the same place. They both have more IQ and less EQ.The difference is that Xiang Yu's failure was because he overestimated himself, while Han Xin's failure was because he underestimated his opponent.

All his life, he was conceited that he had no understanding of military science. After he became a dragon, Han Xin was defiant and offended almost all the powerful factions in the officialdom.When Han Xin contemptuously insulted Fan Kui face-to-face as a dog slaughterer, his tragic fate was irreversible.A wise man looks down on someone in his heart, and he won't say it, but his face is still kind.When everyone is against you, you have failed.

Han Xin is smart in doing things, but not smart in life. He didn't understand the relationship between power and people's gains and losses.Han Xin did not analyze his relationship with Liu Bang from the standpoint of his interests as a human being, thinking that the world is settled, so he can share wealth and honor with His Majesty the Emperor, pay a lot of food and sacrifice, and believe in one person for thousands of years.It's just that Han Xin never thought that Liu Bang could share wealth with Xiao He, Zhang Liang, and even Fan Kuai, but he absolutely couldn't share wealth with Han Xin!
The reason is actually very simple: whoever sleeps on the side of the crouching tiger sleeps soundly!
Xiao He and Zhang Liang are extremely capable, and they are not enough to pose a threat to Liu Bang's world, let alone Fan Kuai, the dog-butcher brother-in-law.And Han Xin was recognized as the No. 1 general in the world at that time, and his use of soldiers was like ghosts and gods, and no one could fathom it.Liu Bang was able to destroy Xiang Yu, and Han Xin made the most military exploits. Once Han Xin and Liu Bang met each other, who dares to say that Liu Bang can have the last laugh?
For the sake of the great Han Dynasty, Han Xin must die, but if Han Xin knows the truth of "a rabbit dies and a dog cooks", after the world is settled, he quickly surrenders his military power and shows Liu Bang his ambition to return to the wild and wander, and he will never enter the officialdom. Liu Bang It is still possible to let Han Xin survive.More than 500 years later, Tang He, the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, was far more clear than Han Xin. If Tang He hadn't handed over his military power in time to relieve the monarch's suspicion, Zhu Yuanzhang would not have let him go.

But what Han Xin chose was to rely on his merits to resist, and he was arrogant and bullying. The gate of hell in Changle Palace has slowly opened towards Han Xin, but Han Xin still stepped in with his head held high.At the order of the insidious and vicious Lv Zhi, an unrepeatable life legend turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared into the boundless sky.Rise and fall, honor and disgrace, are empty.

Han Xin was born humble and died aggrievedly, but the process was vigorous and soul-stirring.One sigh of Han Xin's humiliation, another sigh of Han Xin's meritorious service to the universe, and three sighs of Han Xin's rabbit and dead dog cooking.In this huge life reversal process, the good and evil, beauty and ugliness, wisdom and ignorance, loyalty and treachery in human nature are vividly sprayed in the eye-catching places of history, and a picture scroll of life that cannot be obtained again is written.

From a coward despised by everyone to a god of war recognized by everyone, many stories happened during it...

(End of this chapter)