Top Ten Famous Han Generals Who Miscalculated

1. Chen Tang:

Among the famous generals who fought against the Huns, who was the most unjust, it must be Chen Tang. In fact, the Han Dynasty’s century-old battle against the Huns It was only when we arrived at Chen Tang that it came to a successful conclusion. Needless to say, Chen Tang’s achievements in killing the Xiongnu Chanyu in one battle, pacifying the Western Regions, and establishing China’s sovereignty over today’s Xinjiang, however, in the Han Dynasty court, he ended up with a miserable ending where his achievements were not rewarded. It's strange that General Chen is so incompetent, he only knows that he is immersed in fighting and never raises his head to flatter people. In addition, Chen Tang himself is indeed unclean, and there is evidence of corruption in the hands of the censor, so Chen Tang, who had won the victory and returned to the court, was almost beaten to death for "not obeying the imperial edict". In the end, although he was made a Marquis of Guan Nei, he was dismissed from the rank and served as a civilian within a year. Compared with the idiot general Li Guangli, Having conquered the Xiongnu three times without success but enjoying the honor of being a high-ranking official and receiving a generous salary, Chen Tang is really infuriating.

2. Gao Aocao:

In the Xianbei and Northern Qi regime, the Han general Gao Aocao was a ruthless character. The Eastern Wei King Gao Huan usually gave lectures to the army. It was in Xianbei language. As long as Lao Gao was around, it would definitely be in Chinese. The Han army led by Lao Gao was indeed the most elite part of the Northern Qi army at that time. Although Lao Gao is willing to be a lackey of Xianbei, he is not completely without integrity. He often beats his Xianbei colleagues to death in order to maintain the dignity of the Han people. "Puppet Army". In the end, Lao Gao also met a tragic end. During the battle between the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties, he forced his Xianbei master to betray him, and his tens of thousands of Han soldiers fought against the Xianbei cavalry of the Western Wei Dynasty, which was several times larger than his own. After causing the enemy to pay greater casualties, the entire army was annihilated. Its tragic ending also taught Chinese soldiers a hard truth--don't be a traitor no matter what you do.

3. Ran Min:

There is indeed a fierce debate on Ran Min’s views in historical circles today, but let’s put aside political factors and just look at military achievements. I am a military prodigy who appeared only once in a century in China. Most of the battles his Wei and Han armies experienced were fought with fewer troops and more troops. Moreover, his troops were mainly infantry, but he repeatedly challenged strong Hu cavalry in the Central Plains. The legion was victorious in almost every battle, and even wiped out its opponents. Although they were defeated by Murong Xianbei Cavalry Corps in the end, the Xianbei people also suffered heavy casualties in this battle. Unfortunately, the political propaganda orientation has caused little research on his military achievements by future generations, and his final tragic ending cannot explain how powerful Murong Xianbei's army was. In addition to explaining his mistakes in political and economic construction, it also It confirms an ancient Chinese saying: A fierce wolf cannot resist a lazy dog!

4. Liu Laozhi:

If you want to ask who is the most powerful force in the world after the defeat of Ran Wei, it must be the Beifu Army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It was the courage of the Eastern Jin government, and Liu Laozhi was the courage of the Beifu Army. This tiger and wolf army, composed of Han people who fled south, was brave and good at fighting. Many of its members were the old troops of Ran Min's army. In the Battle of Feishui, Liu Laozhi unified the Eighth Route Army. Ten thousand people defeated the 800,000 Hu coalition forces, displaying the might of the Chinese men. People today may have overlooked a historical detail. When Fu Jian, the Hu emperor, looked at the vegetation on Bagong Mountain, he saw the trees all over his body as Soldiers have left behind the eternal joke that everyone is a soldier. What is the reason that makes this great thieves who are rampant in the north so fearful? The answer is that on the day before the Battle of Feishui, Liu Laozhi led 5,000 Beifu athletes to take the lead in attacking the Hu army. Launched a surprise attack, killed more than 10,000 people, and broke the enemy's courage in one battle. Only then did the enemy flee in the Battle of Feishui. Unfortunately, Chinese history books have been advocating that the famous Prime Minister Xie An actually did not hold the command mission. , but no one knows Lao Liu’s reputation. The Beifu Army existed for more than fifty years, and finally fell into the hands of Liu Yu. Liu Yu also used this family background to conduct several Northern Expeditions, leading to the most glorious era of the Han people during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

5. Chai Rong:

The greatest sorrow in the life of Emperor Chai Rong of the Later Zhou Dynasty was nothing more than two words - short life. He unified the north and defeated the Khitan. He recovered the seventeen counties of Guannan in the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun. He had never met a decent opponent in his life, but he couldn't compete with God. The result of his untimely death was that the Zhao and Song regime lost the biggest advantage in history. .

Relying on the rich family fortune left by Lao Chai, the Zhao brothers basically unified the sphere of influence of the Han nation, but they were unable to do anything about the Sixteen Youyun Prefectures occupied by the Khitans. Thinking back to the invincible Khitan army during Chai Rong's Northern Expedition, we have to wonder, what would the ending of history be like if Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty was reborn? Precisely because of the existence of the Zhao and Song regime, not many people paid attention to the glorious deeds of the great hero Chai Rong. Most of Chai Rong's descendants died young, leaving only Chai Jin, a high-ranking official who was nothing in the Water Margin. He also ran to the mountains and became a bandit. Finally, he followed Song Jiang and returned to Liao Dynasty, which was regarded as fulfilling the wish of his ancestors.

6. Liu Rengui:

China’s number one contributor to the millennium of eradication of Japan. The Battle of Baijiang in Korea not only wiped out the entire Japanese army, but also made Japan more powerful. For the next few hundred years, Tiexin followed China as his little brother. It is said that one battle brought hundreds of years of peace between China and Japan. Lao Liu's achievements are not small, but who let him be born in the Tang Dynasty? It was an era of shining generals. Liu Rengui killed tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers. Compared with the famous generals of the Tang Dynasty, their military achievements are indeed a bit dim. Just like the United States today, if a general has defeated the Soviet Union, he can definitely show it off every day. If a general has defeated Burma, he will probably be too embarrassed to mention it. , the only reason is that China was too strong at that time, and Japan was too weak, so it is not surprising that General Liu's star is dim.

7. Wang Xuance:

Killed tens of thousands of Indian soldiers, captured tens of thousands, and pacified India with thousands of borrowed miscellaneous troops. This hero It was Wang Xuance, an envoy with no military background and a diplomat with no foundation abroad, who was able to accomplish such a feat. It is truly a miracle in the history of world military affairs. India, one of the so-called four ancient civilizations, was easily defeated by a Chinese diplomat on the battlefield. It really deserves the reputation of "ancient civilization". It is a pity that China at that time knew too little about India. In the eyes of the Chinese, it was just a foreign barbarian state. In modern times, because of the "China-India friendship", this period of history has been avoided in textbooks. So it’s not surprising that no one knows the name of Hero Wang.

8. Pang Ji:

I really doubt whether Pang Ji has any grudge against the folk storytellers, otherwise how could this great hero who fought against Xixia be here? In "The Case of Bao Gong", he became the villain that everyone hated? You must know that the strategic thinking of the Song Dynasty's defense of Xixia was designed by him. If most of the previous famous generals were offensive talents, then Pang Ji can be regarded as the number one expert in defensive warfare in the Northern Song Dynasty. Under his management, the northwest frontier became an iron wall. After the Song Dynasty fought through the battles of Sanchuankou and Haoshuichuan, it was he who guarded Shaanxi, stabilized the border situation for the Song Dynasty, reorganized the army, selected generals, and forged an elite iron army in the northwest for the Song Dynasty. Di Qing and Zhang Wu, the two famous generals who fought against Xixia, who are well-known to later generations, were both promoted by him boldly, but in the novel, they all became his enemies. Comparing it with the real history, looking at the series of distorted depictions of this great hero in "The Case of Bao Gong" and "Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses" makes people sincerely admire: the creative power of the people is infinite.

9. Fu Youde:

Among Zhu Yuanzhang’s generals, Fu Youde was a very low-key one. After all, there were too many famous generals in that era, but this one The famous general who is low-key has made achievements that are not low-key: Yunnan was conquered by him, as well as western Gansu, northern Qinghai and eastern Xinjiang. The Mongolian cavalry in its heyday suffered repeated setbacks in the Yunnan region, but Lao Fu's Ming Dynasty army swept across the southwest in a short period of time. The invincible Xu Da was blocked by the Mongols in the Battle of Lingbei and returned without success. However, Fu Youde, who set out on the Western Front almost at the same time, led his army across thousands of miles, killing everyone on the Mongolian Plateau and the Qinghai Plateau, with seven battles and seven victories, and the Mongols fled. It is a pity that his name has always been living in Xuda, and he often encounters In the shadow of Chun and others, he was convicted of being domineering in his later years, and finally came to a miserable ending.

10. Chen Lin:

The Koreans advocated Yi Sun-shin and almost said that Lao Li was the national soul of Goryeo, but at that time Lao Li was only It can be said that Chen Lin's subordinates killed tens of thousands of Japanese in the Lulianghai battle. In the final analysis, it still depends on the Ming Dynasty Iron Army. Chen Lin was an unparalleled genius in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. It was he who formulated the tactics and planned the Lulianghai Annihilation War (today’s textbooks have obliterated this out of the friendship between China and North Korea, see Duan Wanhan’s World of Five Thousand Years). This man is still an all-rounder. He can defeat Burma in the southwest and Yang Yinglong in Bozhou. He is proficient in plain warfare, mountain warfare, cavalry warfare, infantry warfare, firearms warfare, land warfare and water warfare, and can win them all. It's a pity that because of his bad reputation (his financial problems were more serious, and he was more likely to curry favor with eunuchs, the former was a bit serious, but the latter was not wrong at the time), so he was not rated highly in history books. Coupled with the distortion of the three major campaigns of Wanli in the Manchu history books, this hero who established great achievements became unknown. His little follower Yi Sun-shin back then has been regarded as the God of War of the Goryeo nation. Is he more worthy of being commemorated by us Chinese as he has truly made great achievements?