Top 10 Famous Generals of Ancient China
1. Xu Da:
Xu Da was a native of Zhongli (now Fengyang County, Anhui) and the founding military commander of the Ming Dynasty. Although he was born as a civilian, he was a military genius who was not born.
2. White up:
Bai Qi was a native of Yi County (now Meixian County, Shaanxi Province) during the Warring States Period, and the first of the four famous generals of the Warring States Period.
Sadly, Bai Qi was jealous of Xiangguo Fan Ju and was finally forced to commit suicide in the 58th year of King Zhou (257 BC).
3, Xue Rengui:
Xue Li, whose name is Rengui, was a native of Xiu Village, Longmen County, Jiangzhou, Hedong Province (now Xiu Village, Hejin City, Shanxi), a famous general in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and the sixth grandson of Xue Andu, the king of Hedong in the Northern Wei Dynasty.
4, Li Jing:
Li Jing, a native of Sanyuan (now Sanyuan County, Shaanxi) in Yongzhou at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, was the first general in the early Tang Dynasty. Born in the family of the eunuch, the nephew of the Sui general Han Baohu.
5. Huo Qu's disease:
Huo Quzhi was a native of Pingyang, Hedong (now southwest of Linfen, Shanxi), a famous general and military strategist in the Western Han Dynasty.
6, Wei Qing:
Wei Qing was a native of Pingyang (now Linfen City, Shanxi) in the east of the Western Han River, and one of the three great cavalry geniuses in ancient China.
Wei Qing is good at nurturing war with war, daring to go deep with soldiers, giving strict orders to generals, loving and loving the soldiers, being generous and polite to colleagues, and being a great minister without personal authority.
7, Yue Fei:
Yue Fei, whose name is Pengju, was born in Tangyin County, Xiangzhou (now Tangyin County, Henan), a famous anti-Jin general, a famous military strategist, strategist, calligrapher, and national hero in Chinese history, and ranked first among the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty.
8. Han Xin:
Han Xin was a native of Huaiyin (now Huai'an City, Jiangsu) in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, a founding hero of the Western Han Dynasty, an outstanding military strategist, and Xiao He and Zhang Liang were listed as the three heroes of the early Han Dynasty, and Peng Yue and Yingbu were known as the three famous generals of the early Han Dynasty. He is a representative of the "war-seeking" faction of Chinese military thought. Liu Bang commented: "The battle must be won, and the attack must be won." ”
9, Wu Qi:
Wu Qi was a native of the Zuo clan of Wei (now Dingtao County, Shandong Province) in the early Warring States period, a military strategist, a politician, a reformer, and a representative figure of the military family. Wu Qi went through the three kingdoms of Shilu, Wei and Chu throughout his life, and was well versed in the three schools of thought, namely the military, the Legalist and the Confucian, and had extremely high achievements in internal affairs and military affairs. Later generations called him and Sun Wu "Sun Wu", and "Wu Zi" and "Sun Tzu" are also known as "Sun Wu's Art of War", which occupies an important position in ancient Chinese military classics.
10, Sun Wu:
Sun Wu was a native of Le'an (now Guangrao County, Shandong Province) in the Spring and Autumn Period of Qi State, and later generations honored him as Sun Tzu, Sun Wuzi, the saint of soldiers, the teacher of the hundred generations of soldiers, and the originator of Oriental military science.