Who was the hero of the last battle?

There are many classic battles in Chinese history. Today we will talk about the last battle, so who is its hero? How did he defeat 200,000 strong enemies with 30,000 weak soldiers?

The last battle. Han Xin ordered the Han army to retreat on purpose. Zhao was in front of the Han army, followed by a river. There is no way out, so he must fight to the death. Han Xin, the hero of the last road, is called the last road.

The last stop has passed.

In May of the second year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (205 BC), Liu Bang worshipped Han Xin as emperor and led the army eastward to Wei, Dai, Zhao and Yan. In October of the third year of Han Dynasty (204 BC), Han Xin led tens of thousands of troops, crossed Taihang Mountain and attacked Zhao eastward. The King of Yue and Commander Zhao camped in Jingxingkou to fight Han Xin. Zhao Jun opened the camp to fight. After a long battle, the Han army pretended to be defeated and fled to the water's edge. Seeing that the Han army stood behind the water and there was no way out, Zhao rushed out to storm the Han army in an attempt to destroy it at one fell swoop. At this time, 2000 Han Qingqi soldiers who were lying in ambush near Yue Ying immediately rushed into Yue Ying, unplugged Zhao Qi and set up the Han flag. Zhao Jun couldn't fight for a long time, but suddenly he found the Han flag flying over Zhao Ying, and his morale was in chaos. Han Xin commanded the Han army to attack and defeated Zhao. Chen Yu tried to escape from the water, but was killed by the Han army, and Zhao Wangxie was captured.

Han Xin's "last battle" was fruitful. Why don't future generations follow suit?

A: After Han Xin staged the miracle of "the last battle", many people dared to use this tactic in later generations. However, most consequences are sad reminders. The most typical example is the "Battle of the Hanshui River" in the Three Kingdoms period. Cao Jun's famous Huang Xu followed Han Xin's "Last Battle" and lined up on the edge of the Hanshui River. But I didn't expect the array to be called out, and Zhao and Zhong didn't speak on the other side. When Huang Xu shouted that he was exhausted and had no choice but to withdraw, Zhao Yun and Huang Zhongbing split up in two ways, just driving Huang Xujun, who was backed by Hanshui River, into the water and almost wiped out. The "last stop" trick, once used badly, is a big trouble. So since Huang Xu, few people dare to use it.

Then the question is, why can Han Xin win the key battle in the Chu-Han War with this move? The most important reason is that the "last battle" is not as simple as tying the army to the water and then mobilizing and shouting. Instead, it is a set of difficult technical moves.

To understand the difficulty, we should look at how Han Xin did it in history.

The classic battle of Han Xin's "Last Battle" was the Jingxing Battle in the Chu-Han War. The situation of this campaign is that Han Xin took tens of thousands of recruits, and the enemy of Zhao was an army called 200,000, and he held the strategic position of Jingxingkou early. For Han Xin, this is a dead end. So what did Han Xin do? Before arranging last stand's troops, Han Xin also did several such things.

The first is intelligence warfare. In the face of formidable Han Xin, he did the intelligence work of the army to the extreme, so that when the war was just around the corner, the contents of the secret conversation between Zhao's commander-in-chief and counselors were placed on Han Xin's desk. Arrogant Chen Yu didn't listen to Li Zuoche's advice, insisted on the fatuous decision of the main battle, and called Han Xin to know everything. So Han Xin made up his mind to choose the last battle. Therefore, to make the choice of the last stop, the first premise is to get the information in place and know yourself.

And after the last stand, Han Xin couldn't help shopping with red eyes. His routine goes in two steps. First, put on a desperate posture to lure Zhao to underestimate his enemy and leave the camp for pursuit. Second, and most crucially, Han Xin arranged two thousand special forces in advance. Before the war started, they took advantage of the dark path to go up the mountain. When Zhao pursued from the camp, they copied Zhao's back road and pulled out his camp. Such a tactical arrangement is not just to rely on the flood to fight to the death, but to dig a big pit first, lure Zhao Jun in, and then start a desperate struggle.

So, after the battle started, the whole process went smoothly: Han Xin, who took the initiative to attack, pretended to be defeated and led Zhao's main force to the water's edge. Han Xin's army, which had no choice but to go, burst into amazing energy and fought a bloody battle with Zhao. At this time, Han Xin's special forces planted battle flags in Zhao's camp, which became the last straw to bend the camel. So Zhao's 200,000 troops collapsed, and Han Xin's eastward journey was opened, creating a miracle.

Such a miracle, where there is a chance to rely on the flood? On the contrary, it is a step-by-step plan. Most importantly, only a United army can burst into amazing energy in this desperate situation. The miracle of Han Xin's last battle also came from his excellent ability to run the army! Therefore, we can't know ourselves and ourselves, we can't have a unified Qiang Bing, and we can't make a reliable plan according to the strategic situation. The so-called "copying the last stop" is just a gripper. Self-defeating is inevitable.

Han Xin's tactics are very famous in my history. Some are imitated by later generations, and some can't be imitated even if they are intentional. The last stop is one of them. Han Xin made great contributions to the establishment of the Han Dynasty, but in the end, Han Xin's ending was not so good, because Liu Bang suspected that he was finally killed by Lv Zhi and Xiao He, which was really "the defeat of Xiao He".