Chapter 97 6. Fudge requires sincerity

Liu Bang tore up the peace agreement just signed, and led the Han army to chase and kill Xiang Yu, but he dared not go forward when he caught up. In the end, the angry Chu army turned around and killed the Han army.The place where this encounter broke out was Guling, so this battle was also called the Battle of Guling, and it was the outpost of the Battle of Gaixia. So far, the nerds of later generations have all sighed and said: "If Xiang Yu seizes the opportunity to pursue the victory, expand the results of the battle, and annihilate Liu Bang before the two powerful armies of Han Xin and Peng Yue arrive, the situation must be reversed." , The land changed hands. It is a pity that Xiang Yu's IQ is not enough to apply, he lacks strategic vision, and missed a good opportunity. What a pity, what a pity!"

But in fact, Xiang Yu doesn't have this ability at all.Or it can be said that Liu Bang took the first step and completely sealed off this possibility. Comparing Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, there is no doubt that Xiang Yu is better at fighting than Liu Bang, because he is young-the year when the Battle of Guling took place, Liu Bang was fifty-five years old, and Xiang Yu was thirty-one years old.It is conceivable that a thirty-one-year-old man in his prime can fight better than a fifty-five-year-old man. But Xiang Yu's ability to organize and coordinate is far worse than Liu Bang's.Back then, Liu Bang started in Pei County and led a group of peddlers and pawns, but after several bloody battles, he turned these peddlers into famous generals in the world.For example, Cao Shen, a small official, Guan Ying who sold silk, and Fan Kuai who killed dogs, if there is no Liu Bang, they will not have their lives as marquis and ministers.This powerful ability to govern and cultivate and use talents, is it beyond the imagination of ordinary people?

On Liu Bang's side, some inexplicable little people often appear and put forward some extremely valuable suggestions to Liu Bang. At this time, Liu Bang has nothing to say and immediately adopts it.It is easy to say that it is possible to gather the wisdom of all people for one's own use, but there are very few people who can do it. On the other hand, Xiang Yu is always eating his laurels, constantly consuming the war resources accumulated during Xiang Liang's era.All the generals under his command were left to him by Xiang Liang, and none of the rising stars could stand out in his camp.Even a talented general like Han Xin fell into Xiang Yu's hands, at most he was just a guard with a halberd.Xiang Yu never had the idea of ​​finding talents, he only had himself in his eyes, and never had anyone else.

What's interesting is that although Liu Bang is the best at employing people, he is rude to people and especially likes to humiliate others.Frequently pointing at the other party's nose and scolding the ancestors, or intentionally embarrassing the other party with the posture of "squatting and washing".But Xiang Yu is just the opposite. He only has his eyes on himself, and never admits the abilities of others, but his attitude towards others is gentle, gentle, considerate, infinitely warm, and as gentle as jade. The reason why Liu Bang treats people rudely, even shamelessly, is because he is at the commanding heights of intelligence, looking down at the other party from a high position, and knowing the other party's mind.Knowing that even if he did this, the other party would have nothing to do with him.And the reason why Xiang Yu treats others as gentle as a virgin is because Xiang Yu can't understand the other party, so he uses a gentle attitude as a win over, so as to fool the other party to die for him.Between the two, there is a huge intellectual gap, with the gap as the boundary, to the west of the gap is the territory of high IQ, and to the east of the gap is the territory of low IQ. Liu Bang, who is high in IQ, will definitely cross this gap to bully his lack of IQ Xiang Yu, this is the inevitability of the cruel game of the barbaric generations.You can't ask Liu Bang in the barbaric era to love Xiang Yu with a low IQ. This is not in line with human nature.

Saying so much is just to explain one thing-why Xiang Yu didn't seize the opportunity to win in Guling and wipe out Liu Bang.He couldn't wipe it out. Although the Chu army had 100,000 troops, it was robbed of the limelight by Xiang Yu's personal heroism, and the overall combat effectiveness was lower than that of the Han army.Although Gu Ling won, he only made a move out of anger, and there was no chance of winning. In addition, there is another thing, the big killer that Xiang Yu used to rampant on the battlefield has been taken away by Liu Bang. This big killer is the newly emerging cavalry warfare.

Liu Bangfu came out of the Three Qin Dynasty and fought in Pengcheng. Xiang Yu killed more than 200,000 people with a new cavalry battle.With his incredible agility, Liu Bang established his cavalry division in a very short period of time, led by Guan Ying.This immediately weakened Xiang Yu's advantage.Later, Han Xin conquered the State of Zhao and coerced the State of Yan in the north to surrender, which completely cut off the source of Xiang Yu's horses. At that time, war horses could only be purchased from the north, either from the state of Qin or from the state of Yan.But these two places are all firmly controlled by Liu Bang.After that, Liu Bang imposed an arms embargo on Xiang Yu, and adopted a ruthless economic blockade method, completely cutting off Xiang Yu's idea of ​​​​recovering cavalry superiority.

This is the reason for the stalemate between the two sides after the Battle of Guling.Xiang Yu was too good at fighting, and Liu Bang couldn't kill him alone.However, the overall combat capability of the Han army brought out by Liu Bang was higher than that of the Chu army, so the Chu army could not win Liu Bang. It can only be another stalemate, just like the era of the chasm. While sending orders to strengthen his own defense line, while listening to the fierce attack of the Chu army, Liu Bang was worried, and asked Ji Yu Zhang Liang: "Our soldiers are trapped here, and the reinforcements of Han Xin and Peng Yue have not come for a long time. At this time, what should we do?" What about it?"

Zhang Liang said: "Isn't this clear? The Chu army is already dead, and there is only a few more nails to be nailed into their coffins. These nails must be nailed by Han Xin and Peng Yue. What I did was to hold down the coffin slab so that Xiang Yu could not climb out again. But the question is, at this juncture, why do you ask Han Xin and Peng Yuelai to nail the nails for you? Xiang Yu is about to die, but none of them got it Fiefdom. If you are willing to share the world with them and share the land with them, they will definitely come." Liu Bang said: "Well... that's not right, didn't we make Han Xin King of Qi?"

Zhang Liang said: "Please, Your Majesty, Han Xin is not lacking in intelligence. Can't you see that we fooled him last time? You said that he is the king of Qi. Where is his fiefdom? How is the boundary divided? Where is the written contract? These Not at all, just a fool. Besides, Peng Yue, he has wanted to be king for too long, but now he is just Wei Xiangguo, do you think he will be satisfied with this salary? So, if the king wants these two guys to send troops, just You have to be more sincere." "How is sincerity?" Liu Bang asked. Zhang Liangdao: "Your Majesty, what do you think of this? Immediately draw up a contract and distribute all of Suiyang to Gucheng to Peng Yue. That is the place where he has fought for many years. He is most eager to make a big picture. Then Give Han Xin everything from Chendi to Donghai, and also give him Han Xin's hometown. He is famous for drilling people's crotch in his hometown. He must go back to find his enemy, and let the other party drill his crotch too. If Your Majesty does this, they will definitely come with their troops, and it will be easy to break the Chu."

Liu Bang shook his head: "No, I cannot agree with your suggestion." "Why?" Zhang Liang was shocked. "Because," Liu Bang explained, "you only mentioned Han Xin and Peng Yue, but you missed Yingbo. That guy Yingbo is also very good at fighting, so you must not miss him. Therefore, except for the big seal of Han Xin and Peng Yue In addition, the whole of Huainan should be granted to Yingbu, and he should be named King of Huainan. What do you think?" Zhang Liang said: "Oh, Xiang Yu is really doomed, I feel sorry for him."