The battle of Jingxing was a battle between the Han army and the Zhao army in 204 BC. With the permission of Liu Bang, Han Xin fought against Zhao in Jingxingkou area in order to further attack Xiang Yu's separatist forces at home, and eventually won more with less.
In this battle, Han Xin, commander-in-chief of the Han army, showed outstanding ingenuity and military strategy, and his record was a wonder in military history. The Battle of Jingxing is his masterpiece.
War background
In 205 BC, Xiang Yu defeated Liu Bang in Pengcheng. At first, he saw that the Han army relied heavily on Liu Bang's vassals. Seeing that Liu Bang was defeated, he left Liu Bang in succession, which made many vassals choose neutrality and seriously threatened the flank of the Han army. In order to get rid of this unfavorable situation, Liu Bang adopted the suggestions of Sean and others, and formulated a strategic policy of active persistence, flank development and harassment behind enemy lines.
In 205 BC, Han Xinxian led an army to destroy the leopard of Wei State and pacify Wei State.
At that time, there were three separatist forces in the north of the Yellow River and Hebei Province: Dai (now northern Shanxi), Zhao (now southern Hebei) and Yan (now northern Hebei). Although they were three neutral separatist forces, in order to expand their power, the Han Dynasty had to eliminate three swing forces. To destroy Chu in the Han Dynasty, we must first destroy these vassal states and isolate Xiang Yu.
In view of the weakness of these separatist forces, Han Xin proposed to Liu Bang to further open up the northern battlefield, destroy Dai, Zhao and Yan one after another, divert Tian Ji from the east, reserve the Chu army in the south, detour the Chu army again, and finally join forces with Liu Bang in Xingyang. It was praised and recognized by Liu Bang.
The cause of war
In September of 205 BC, Han Xin defeated Guo Xia. In 204 BC 10, Han Xin led the Han army, crossed the Taihang Mountains, moved eastward, and launched an attack on Zhao. After hearing the news, Zhao Wangxie and Zhao Jun's coach Chen Yu assembled an army to defend Jingxingkou.
Jingxingkou is one of the eight famous passes in Taihang Mountain and a folk pass in 10, west of Huolu, Hebei Province. There is a narrow post road about tens of kilometers long in the west, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack, which is not conducive to the action of large troops. At that time, Zhao Jun held Jingxingkou in advance, commanding, waiting for an opportunity, and was in a favorable active position.
At that time, Guang Wujun, under Zhao's head coach, had a strategic vision. He carefully analyzed the enemy's situation and terrain to Chen Yu: Han Xin crossed the Yellow River and made an outside call. Some time ago, Wei and Xia Shuo were captured alive and attacked Zhao with high morale. Therefore, Zhao had to temporarily avoid the edge of the Han army. But the Han army also has great weaknesses. This is mainly manifested in the fact that the rations of the Han army have to be transported all the way, and it is difficult to replenish them. Jingxingkou road is narrow, and chariots and horses can't be parallel, so the Han army's grain transportation will inevitably lag behind. In view of this analysis, Li Zuoche further suggested to Chen Yu that he should lead thirty thousand Indiana Jones to attack from the path, seize the trench of the Han army and cut off the route for providing foodstuff in Han Xin.
Personally command Zhao main force, deep ditch and high base, and fight Han Xinjun. Li Zuoche believes that as long as this tactic is used, Han Xin can retreat without fighting, no way back. /kloc-within 0/0 days, the Han army can be completely destroyed; Otherwise, Zhao will be defeated by the Han army.
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Han Xin found that Li Zuoche's plan was not adopted. Chen Yu, the head coach of the Zhao army, despised the enemy's emotions and was very happy after hoping for a quick victory. He immediately made a good plan for surprise attack and defeated Zhao in one fell swoop. He led the troops into the camp 30 miles away from Jingxingkou. Quickly deploy in the middle of the night: while selecting 2000 Qingqi, let them each carry a red flag of the Han army, and detour from a remote path to Baoduzhai Mountain (now the north of Jingxing County, Hebei Province) on the flank of the Zhao army camp, ready to take the opportunity to break the enemy camp and take it back to China.
At the same time, 65,438+00000 men were sent as forwards, crossing Jingxingkou in the dead of night when Zhao was not looking, and in last stand on the east bank of Mianmanshui (now Jingxing County, Hebei Province), in order to confuse and mobilize Zhao and increase their contempt for the enemy. The deployment is certain, the eastern sky is slightly exposed, and the day of decisive battle is quietly coming.