Chen Pingliu made a surprising plan to help Liu Bang unify the world

Chen Ping's Six Surprising Strategies made great contributions to Liu Bang's victory in the world. However, the six surprising strategies we often talk about are actually only five strategies, because there is still one strategy that cannot be verified.

The six surprising strategies are:

1. Use countermeasures to eliminate Fan Zeng at the beginning

2. The golden cicada escapes from Xingyang

3. Poor Kou Yi Chasing down Chu Gaixia

4. Please enter the urn to capture Han Yunmeng

5. Use the Yan family to rescue Bai Deng

Let’s talk about the stories of these six surprising strategies in detail :

1. At the beginning of the rebellion, Fan Zeng was planned to be eliminated

At the most intense moment of the Chu-Han war, Han King Liu Bang followed Chen Ping's strategy and took advantage of Xiang Yu's attack on Qi to lead 50 soldiers. Ten thousand troops captured Xiang Yu's lair, Pengcheng. After stationing in Pengcheng, Liu Bang indulged in wine and sex, blindly enjoyed himself, and relied on his large number of troops. He was paralyzed and underestimated the enemy, and relaxed his guard. In addition, although the Han army was said to be 500,000, most of them were temporarily surrendered princes. The alliance was not strong and the morale of the army was not unified. After Xiang Yu heard the cry of the Yu brothers and sisters who escaped from Pengcheng, he immediately ordered his generals Long Qie and Zhong Limei to lead 200,000 horses to pacify the various countries. He himself led 30,000 generals such as Fan Zeng, Xiang Zhuang, Ji Bu, Huan Chu, and Yu Ziqi. The elite soldiers returned to Pengcheng and killed the Han army by surprise. The alliance disintegrated, and the Han army suffered more than 200,000 casualties. Liu Bang fled to Xingyang City with a few remaining soldiers, but was besieged in the city for a year by the Chu army who pursued the victory. Liu Bang requested to cut off the west of Xingyang in order to make peace, but Xiang Yu refused. Faced with this crisis situation, Liu Bang was in a low mood and said to Chen Ping in frustration: "The world is in chaos, when can we get peace?"

When Chen Ping saw Liu Bang asking him for advice, he confidently said: My lord, there is no need to worry, the situation is changing now. As long as the Lord uses his strengths and avoids his weaknesses, the world will be settled in an instant. Liu Bang wanted to ask for details, but Chen Ping said: King Xiang mainly relied on Fan Zeng, Zhong Limei, Long Qie and Zhou Yin. If the lord can part with tens of thousands of kilograms of gold, he can use counter-intuitive tactics to make the king and his ministers suspicious of each other. Xiang Yu is naturally suspicious and slanderous, which will inevitably lead to internal strife and mutual harm. kill-. By then, our army will take the opportunity to counterattack and will surely defeat Chu. Liu Bang thought so and gave Chen Ping 40,000 kilograms of gold at his disposal.

Chen Ping then began to use the money to actively implement his counterinsurgency plans among the Chu army. On the one hand, he sent envoys to Chu and wrote to Xiang Yu. On the other hand, he bribed some Chu soldiers with heavy money and asked them to spread rumors everywhere, saying that generals such as Fan Zeng and Zhong Limei led King Xiang's troops in the war. They made a lot of achievements, but they never got anything. When King Xiang gave them land, they could not get the title of marquis. They were resentful and planned to unite with the Han army to destroy the Xiang family, divide the Xiang family's land and establish themselves as kings.

Xiang Yu had seen the letter from the King of Han asking for peace and naturally refused to agree. But he suddenly became suspicious of those rumors, so he sent envoys to the city to find out the truth.

When the envoy from the King of Chu entered Yingzu City, Chen Ping led a line of people to greet him. He invited the envoy into the living room and gave him a sumptuous banquet. Chen Ping pretended to accompany him and asked diligently: "What do you think Fan Yafu wants to teach you when he sends your envoy here?" Are everything okay with Mr. Fan and General Zhongli? Do they have letters? The envoy from Chu was puzzled by the question. He didn't know how to answer, so he had to say: I am an envoy sent by the Overlord himself. How come I have letters from Mr. Fan and General Zhongli? After hearing this, Chen Ping deliberately frowned and said: Oh! So you were not sent by Mr. Fan and General Zhongli.

After Chen Ping finished speaking, he rolled his eyes at Chu Shi, put down the wine glass in his hand, stood up and strode out. Messenger Chu looked at all this and felt very puzzled. He was in a daze when some attendants came in and quickly removed all the food on the table. After a while, a maid came in and brought him a bowl of vegetable soup and a steamed bun. When the Chu envoy saw it, he was very angry and thought that they regarded Fan Zeng and Zhong Limei as so noble, but regarded King Xiang as nothing. There must be a mystery in this. Maybe Fan Zeng and Zhong Limei had colluded with them a long time ago!

The Chu envoy was so angry that he was humiliated. As soon as he returned to the Chu camp, he reported the details to King Xiang. After hearing this, Xiang Yu was furious and said to himself: No wonder there have been a lot of discussions in the camp recently, saying that Yafu and General Zhongli are having an affair with the King of Han and have different ambitions. It seems that there is no smoke without fire. Xiang Yu became suspicious and gradually distrusted Zhongli. He also became increasingly alienated from Fan Zeng.

Fan Zeng did not advocate negotiation with the Han army. He hoped that the Chu army could attack Xingyang and capture Liu Bang in one go. The more he persuaded Xiang Yu to attack Xingyang, the more Xiang Yu suspected that he was playing some trick with Liu Bang. Fan Zeng was very angry and asked to retire to the mountains and forests. Xiang Yu didn't stop him and actually allowed him to ask.

Fan Zeng was discharged and returned to his fields. On the way back to his hometown, he was angry and annoyed, and developed carbuncle on his back. He died of an illness at the age of 75. When Xiang Yu heard the news of Fan Zeng's death, he realized that he had fallen into a counter-intentional plot and regretted it very much, but it was too late. The only counselor who had repeatedly performed extraordinary feats was actually eliminated by Chen Ping through a small plan. This was the first of Chen Pingliu's surprising plans.

2. The golden cicada escaped from its shell and escaped from danger in Xingyang

Xiang Yu fell into Chen Ping's counterintuitive plan, which made Fan Zeng angry to death, and Xiang Yu was furious. In May 203 BC, Xiang Yu stormed Xingyang. The situation was very critical. Chen Ping gave Liu Bang a plan: Ask the king to quickly write a letter of false surrender to the overlord and ask him to meet at the east gate. The overlord will definitely place his army outside the east gate. If we find a way to lead his guards from the west, north and south gates to the east gate, the king can rush out from the west gate. The king of Han agreed. After a while, Chen Ping led a general who looked like the King of Han to see the King of Han. He said that he would disguise himself as the King of Han and go out to pretend to surrender, attracting the enemy to concentrate their troops around the east gate, and then the King of Han could break through the west gate.

The next day, before dawn, the Han army opened the east gate. Chen Ping sent two thousand women out of the east gate one by one. When the Chu soldiers at the south, west and north gates heard that there were all beautiful women outside the east gate, they rushed to the east gate. Suddenly, someone shouted that the King of Han is coming! Everyone looked up and saw that it was indeed the King of Han sitting in the car, with the honor guard leading the way: he slowly walked out of the east gate. When he got close to the Chu camp, the Overlord realized that the person coming out of the chariot was not the King of Han. The real King of Han took advantage of the chaos at the east gate and rushed out of the west gate. He led Chen Ping, Zhang Liang, Fan Kuai and others to fight a bloody path and fled towards Guanzhong.

3. The poor bandits should be pursued and destroyed in Gaixia of Chu

In May of the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang led dozens of cavalry remnants to escape from Xingyang to Hanzhong, regrouped and marched eastward again from Nanyang. The Chu and Han armies launched a protracted tug-of-war in Xingyang, Chenggao, and Guangwu. The rulers and ministers of the Chu army were suspicious, and the troops were exhausted and lacked food. In addition, Han Xin and Peng Yue continued to harass Qi, Liang and other places respectively, making it difficult for the Chu army to supply supplies, and the situation became increasingly unfavorable to Xiang Yu. As for the Han army, Xiao He continued to transport soldiers and food from Hanzhong to support the front line. Liu Bang had enough soldiers and food to stabilize his position west of Xingyang. In August, Liu Bang asked King Xiang to stop the war and make peace in exchange for his father and wife Lu Fei, who had been captured by the Chu army. When Xiang Yu was facing enemies from both sides and was besieged internally and externally, he was naturally willing to negotiate for peace. Therefore, Chu and Han used the chasm as the boundary, with the west belonging to Han and the east belonging to Chu, dividing the world in the middle. In September of the same year, Xiang Yu left his camp and returned eastward, heading towards the capital Pengcheng. Liu Bang also planned to return to Hanzhong in the west. Chen Ping and Zhang Liang once again coincided with each other with their keen insight as strategists. They unanimously saw that Xiang Yu was stretched to the limit, so they jointly admonished Liu Bang: Looking at the general trend of the world, we have already won most of the rivers and mountains. More princes from all directions joined him, but Xiang Yu's troops were exhausted and their food supplies were exhausted, and they had rebelled and abandoned their relatives. It was time to pursue them fiercely and take advantage of the situation to annihilate them. My lord, please don't raise tigers to cause trouble, let them go east calmly. After hearing this, Liu Bang nodded frequently, deeply convinced. So he immediately adjusted his layout and prepared to attack eastward. In December of the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang personally led Han Xin, Peng Yue and other armies to surround Xiang Yu in Gaixia. He adopted Han Xin's ambush from ten sides strategy and surrounded and annihilated the Chu army in one fell swoop. Xiang Yu was forced to retreat to Wujiang River and commit suicide. Chen Ping's fourth strategy was able to adapt to the enemy's changes, and it was better to use the remaining brave men to pursue the poor invaders. With Liu Bang's complete victory, the Chu-Han War of nearly four years ended, and it also made up for the shortcomings of the strategy of not pursuing the poor invaders.