Han Xin only knew how to study and practice martial arts when he was a child, dreaming of becoming a general to lead the army and fight in the future, but later on, his parents died, and his family was poor, but Han Xin did not know how to earn money, and lacked the ability to live on his own, so he was so poor that he couldn't eat, and often went to other people's homes to mix his food, and he was not dressed neatly, but he was carrying a sword on his back like a warrior. A group of teenagers in Huaiyin city looked at him and teased him, saying: "Han Xin, you are not like a man of letters, not like a man of arms, not like a poor man, not like a rich man, and you carry a sword on your back all the time, what do you look like? You'd better take off the sword!"
Han Xin didn't bother with them, but when they saw that Han Xin was honest, they bullied him, and one of them, a butcher's son, was a scoundrel, and said to Han Xin: "You always carry a sword on your back, as if you are very powerful, but I think you are a coward, do you dare to fight with me? If you dare, stab me with your sword, but if you don't, get under my pants." With that, he spread his legs on the street, and Han Xin looked him up and down for a while, then got down and drilled through his crotch, and all the people there laughed, and Han Xin also laughed in embarrassment and walked away. From then on, they nicknamed him "The Crotch Driller".
In fact, Han Xin had the ability to kill the scoundrel, but if he killed him, Han Xin would have to pay for his life, or at least be sentenced to imprisonment, and then Han Xin's great ideals could not be realized, so Han Xin did not have a general understanding of the scoundrel, drilling on the drill, no big deal. Peculiar characters and ordinary people's thoughts and understanding is very different! The ability to tolerate the intolerable is also one of the qualities of a strong-willed person.
So, the historical allusion to the "humiliation" often refers to the fact that enduring immediate humiliation is a way to achieve great things in the future.
Second, xiao he under the moon chasing Han Xin:
Liu Bang was Xiang Yu as Hanzhong king, with troops stationed in Hanzhong, and Liu Bang's soldiers are Shandong, they do not want to stay in the Hanzhong basin surrounded by mountains for a long time, to Hanzhong soon, there are people constantly desert, and even some of the generals did not say goodbye. After Liu Bang became the king of Hanzhong and burned down the ancient palisades into Hanzhong, Han Xin came to Liu Bang single-handedly, on foot, over the dangers of the Qinling Mountains, which were rare and inaccessible. After he came to Liu Bang, he was only given a very low position, then he met xiao he, xiao he found out that Han Xin was not a general, two talents, then, xiao he talked to Han Xin for several times, convinced that Han Xin was an extraordinary talent, far above the other generals of Liu Bang, to defeat Xiang Yu and win the world, it is not him, so he recommended to Liu Bang many times to ask him to let Han Xin be the general, but Liu Bang said: "Drill pants, the general is not a good person, but he is a very good person. But Liu Bang said, "How can a pants-driller be a general? If you worship him as a general, not only the three armies will be disobedient, the vassals will make fun of him, and even Xiang Yu will say that I am blind when he hears about it, so please don't mention it again".
Han Xin was originally in Xiang Yu's army, a tent in front of the halberd, he also gave Xiang Yu advice, but not Xiang Yu's attention. So, he left Xiang Yu and traveled thousands of miles to join Liu Bang, but he could not be utilized, so he became more and more frustrated and decided to leave.
That day, the day just dawn Han Xin set off, in his out of 50, 60 miles after the road xiao he only got the report: Han Xin out of the, do not know what to do to go, xiao he heard anxious foot, said: "really let him to go away, this is not good?" Immediately led a few attendants to ride fast horse chase out. Xiao He chased him all the way while asking questions, from morning to dark, chased him so much that he was tired, wanted to stay down and wait for the daybreak to chase him again, but he was afraid that he would not be able to chase him tomorrow, fortunately the moonlight was very bright that night, Xiao He chased him for a while under the moonlight, and then turned to a mountainside, and went down to a hill, and there was a river in front of him, flooded with silver, and from afar, he saw a person pulling a horse slipping back and forth alongside the river, and it was precisely General Han Xin, and Xiao He called out loudly. "General Han, General Han!" When he came to General Xin, he said, "General Xin, you're too heartless, aren't you?" General Xin stared at him blankly, not saying a word.
Xiao He said, "We've known each other for a long time, we're friends, aren't we? Why did you leave without saying anything? I'm in a hurry, go! Come back with me", Han Xin bowed to Xiaoho and shed tears, but still didn't say anything. Xiao He said a lot of things to Han Xin, who nodded his head, shook his head, and then sighed and said, "I can't forget the Prime Minister's love for me, but the King of Han." At this point, Han Xin stopped speaking again. At this moment, Xiahou Ying also arrived, and the two of them persuaded Xin to go back, and finally, they said, "If the king doesn't listen to our advice again, the three of us will go together, okay?" Han Xin was touched by this and said, "What can I say if you all think so highly of me? Let's go back, I'm happy to die in your hands".
They returned to Nanzheng County on the third day, and Xiao He put Xin in the prime minister's residence and rushed to find the king of Han. After Xiao He went after Han Xin, Liu Bang got a report that Xiao He also ran away, so as soon as Liu Bang saw Xiao He, he scolded him, then, Liu Bang asked: "Who did you say you went after?" Xiao He said: Huaiyin man Han Xin which, Liu Bang said: more than a dozen generals have run away, and I have not heard of you to chase who, why do you have to go after him? Xiao He said: there are many generals, easy to find, but Han Xin is the country's first-class talent, where to find? If the king is willing to be the king of Hanzhong for the rest of his life, then Han Xin will be of no use, but if you are ready to fight the world, you have to use Han Xin.
Speaking to such a point, Liu Bang's anger is not strong, said: I certainly want to go back to the east, who would like to stay here?
Xiao He said: then quickly reuse Han Xin, otherwise, he will have to go. Liu Bang said: Then ask him to be a general. Xiao He said: If you ask him to be a general, you still can't keep him. Liu Bang has always trusted Xiao He, and since Xiao He recommended General Xin so resolutely and repeatedly, he had to consider it seriously, and said: Then make him a great general! Xiao He said: this is the king's wisdom, the country is fortunate, fortunate!
Said Liu Bang is going to invite Han Xin to meet with him, Xiao He frowned and said: the king has always been rude and slow to ministers, how important it is to worship the great general, you can not call him like a child, the king should choose an auspicious day, fasting, bathing, and in the square to build a large platform, hold a grand ceremony to worship the general. Liu Bang said: that's good, let's do it according to what you said.
Three, openly repair the inn road, secretly crossing the Chencang:
The inn road, that is, in the cliffs of the mid-air cut on the holes, inserted into the horizontal stakes, and then in the two horizontal wood between the two rafters, and build a kind of road, this is a great creation of the ancient working people, the construction of the inn road has a great deal of danger and a very high degree of technicality.
The trestle was the only road from Guanzhong to Hanzhong, and it was extremely difficult to build. After Liu Bang passed the trestle, in order to make Xiang Yu believe that he no longer had the ambition to take over the world, he burned down the ancient trestle, indicating that he stayed in Hanzhong and never came out again.
After Liu Bang had paid his respects to Han Xin, he talked with him for a few days, admiring his insights and hating that he hadn't paid his respects to him earlier. So they prepared for an eastward expedition. Han Xin sent Zhou Bo and Fan Kuai with 10,000 men to repair the trestle road, while he and the king of Han quietly left Nanzheng County with their army. When Han Xin came to Hanzhong, the road had been burnt down, and when he joined Liu Bang, he traveled day and night over the mountains, and came across an old man chopping wood, and asked him about the road to Nanzheng County, and the old man said, "The road to Nanzheng County is not accessible anymore." Han Xin begged the old man to see if there was any other road, even if it was farther away. The old man scratched his head and said: "There used to be a road to Chencang, but it was not a road, it was difficult to walk, and there were wild animals. Han Xin asked the old man to the road how to go in detail, the old man on the road how how to go, carefully said a large basket of words to say clearly, Han Xin is one by one to remember, said goodbye to the old man, to Chen Cang go, Chen Cang in the original Baoji County, south. After a lot of hard work, Han Xin finally made it to Nanzheng County. This time, Han Xin led his army on the same road he took when he came to Hanzhong. Xiang Yu's King of Yong, Zhang Han, who knew that the King of Han was planning to make an eastward expedition and was repairing the trestle road, mobilized his troops to block the east entrance of the trestle road. Just when Zhang Han thought that the trestle road was still early to be repaired, suddenly one day, the soldiers patrolling in the west came to report: the King of Han's army has already hit Chencang, Zhang Han half-believe: the trestle road is not yet repaired, is it possible that the Han army is winged to fly over? Zhang Han rushed to lead the troops to defend against the Han army, the heart of the Han army to Zhang Han beat a great defeat.
Four, backwater battle:
When Han Xin led his troops to attack Zhao, Chen Yu, the prime minister of Zhao, led an army of 200,000 men to defend the well-flanked mouth of the river in Hebei province, and Han Xin led an army of only 30,000 men, who were stationed at a distance of 30 miles from the mouth of the well-flanked mouth. That night, Han Xin sent 2,000 cavalrymen, each holding a Han flag, to ambush the Zhao camp on a hillside where they could see it. The next morning, Han Xin led his army across the Mian River and set up a formation with the Zhao army, known as the "Backwater Formation", at which the Zhao army laughed and laughed: they laughed at Han Xin's ignorance of the art of war and the fact that he had set up a formation in such a place, which would give him no way of escape in the event of defeat. Han Xin and Zhang Er commanded their troops to attack the Zhao army, which came out of the camp to meet the battle, the Zhao army had the advantage in numbers, the Han army could not support it gradually, threw away their drums and flags and retreated towards the river, the Zhao army saw that they had won, the soldiers of the whole camp ran out to pick up the flags and drums which were thrown away by the Han army, at this time, the two thousand cavalrymen of the Han army who had been lying in ambush on the hillside rushed into the camp of the Zhao army and pulled down the Zhao army's flags and inserted the red flags of the Han army, and the Han army who retreated to the river, saw that there was no way of retreating, and they were very happy.
The idiom of "to fight with one's back to the water" means to cut off one's own back, so that one can only go forward to get a way of life, which has the same meaning as Xiang Yu's "breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat", and both of them are "to put one's life in danger to survive". The meaning of "to die and then to live".
Five, ambush on all sides and chu song:
Liu Bang called all the troops gathered Chenggao, Rongyang area, *** more than half a million troops, commanded by Han Xin, ready to siege Xiang Yu's Chu army, the Chu army is only 100,000 people. Han Xin knew that the Chu army was much braver than the Han army, so he chose a good place to besiege Xiang Yu, Gaixia, and sent one of Li Zuo Che's subordinates to fake surrender to Xiang Yu's account and tricked Xiang Yu to Gaixia. After that, he surrounded the Chu army with layers, which was called "ambush on ten sides", and then attacked the Chu army in turn, the Chu army defeated one layer of Han army and attacked one layer of Han army, this kind of wheel tactics made the Chu army exhausted. At night, Zhang Liang took advantage of the fact that the soldiers in the Jiujiang area led by Ying Bu could sing the songs of Chu, and asked them to teach the other Han troops to sing the songs of Chu as well. After hearing the songs of their hometown, the Chu soldiers missed their hometown, and under the siege with no reinforcements, they lost confidence in the victory and started to flee in large numbers. Zhang Liang ordered the Han soldiers: they were not allowed to stop the fleeing Chu soldiers when they saw them. After Yu Ji heard the Chu song, she woke up Xiang Yu, who was sleeping. When Xiang Yu heard the Han army singing the Chu song, he said: It's over, Liu Bang may have already defeated Chu, otherwise, why there are so many Chu soldiers in the Han army? In the end, even the generals who had followed Xiang Yu for many years, such as Ji Bu and Zhong Li Mi, fled, and there were only a thousand or so soldiers left in the Chu army, and just like that, the Chu army - after hearing the Han army singing the Chu song - collapsed.
So, "ambush on ten sides" is a heavy encirclement, "Chu song on all sides" means: a force has reached the final situation of isolation, surrounded by enemies on all sides.
Sixth, Han Xin pawns, more is better:
One day, Han Gaozu Liu Bang and Han Xin casually chatting about the talents of the generals of the Chu and Han Dynasties, talking about the strengths and weaknesses of each of them, how each of them how to fight, how many soldiers, and so on, at this time, Han Xin has been relegated from the king of the Chu Huaiyin Hou Hou, after the purpose of the conversation is to know Han Xin is not to his heart, unfortunately, Han Xin did not understand that the king of the Chu and Huaiyin Hou, after the conversation is to know whether or not he has already convinced him, but he did not understand that the king of the Chu and Huaiyin Hou, after the conversation is to know whether or not he has already convinced him. Unfortunately, Han Xin didn't understand the intention of Liu Bang's chat, and really showed his pretentiousness and outstanding talent. Liu Bang asked Han Xin this sentence: "So how many soldiers do you think I can lead?" Han Xin replied: "Your Majesty can lead 100,000 soldiers", Liu Bang was very unhappy and asked: "Then how many soldiers can you lead?" Han Xin said, "Me? Of course, I can carry as many as I can." Liu Bang sneered back, "I can carry as many as I can, but how did you get caught?" Han Xin then realized that he had spoken out of turn, and hastened to amend: "Although the Emperor is not good at leading soldiers, but he is good at leading generals, so I was caught by the Emperor. Moreover, the emperor is destined by heaven, not by human power".
Han Xin did have the commanding ability to "win battles and take down millions of people", while Liu Bang led an army of 500,000 to 600,000, but was beaten by Xiang Yu's 30,000 people and fled, and Xiang Yu wiped out 400,000 to 500,000 people in a single battle, and even his father and his wife were captured by Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu was really brave and Xiang Yu's Chu army was also brave, therefore, in the battle of Gaixia, Han Xin commanded Peng Yue, Ying Bu and other four armies with more than half a million people to set up an ambush on all sides for Xiang Yu to destroy Xiang Yu's corps in one go.
Han Xin was not like the ancient ministers who would flatter and speak in favor of the situation. All the talented people are generally more individualistic or not good at socializing and making connections, because they are self-reliant with their real skills at work, not by flattering and flattering to please people's hearts.
When praising a person's leadership, people sometimes say: "A person is Han Xin's pawns, the more the better".
Seven, success is also Xiao He, failure is also Xiao He:
We know: Xiao He is Han Xin's bole, it is Xiao He found Han Xin this military genius, and three times to Liu Bang strongly recommended Han Xin, after Han Xin left, Xiao He rushed to chase, from the morning until the middle of the night, interpretation of the "Xiao He under the moon after Han Xin" good story, "Xiao He under the moon after Han Xin", and the "Xiao He under the moon after Han Xin". "Finally, Liu Bang finally worshiped Han Xin as a general, and Han Xin lived up to Xiao He's high expectations and defeated Xiang Yu for Liu Bang, accomplishing the history of the Han Dynasty for four hundred years. It can be said that there is no Han Dynasty without Han Xin, and it can be said at the same time that Xiao He made Han Xin accomplish his great historical achievements.
When Empress Lu plotted to kill Han Xin, she ordered Xiao He to trick Han Xin into the palace, and Xiao He, in order to protect himself, helped the Empress Lu's accomplices. At that time, Liu Bang led his troops to suppress Minister Chen's rebellion, and Empress Lu was in charge of the government, and Empress Lu had always been unfavorable to General Xin. When General Xin claimed to be sick and didn't go to the court, Xiao He came to ask him to come to the palace, saying: Minister Chen's rebellion has been suppressed, Minister Chen has been killed, the Emperor will soon come back, and ministers are all going to the palace to celebrate with the Empress, so it is not a good idea for you not to go, is it? Xin thought that it would be fine if Minister Xiao accompanied him, so he followed Xiao He to the bell room of Changle. Xiao He, who was loyal to the emperor and feared Empress Lu, conspired to arrest Han Xin, and Empress Lu killed him and exterminated his three clans, which is why there is a saying that "success is also Xiao He, and failure is also Xiao He".