In May 205 AD, Han Xin packed up his remnants all the way and rushed to Xingyang to meet Liu Bang without stopping.

At the same time, Xiao He recruited soldiers and materials from Guanzhong, and constantly replenished them to the front line of Xingyang, plus the remnants of the generals from all walks of life, the Han army in Xingyang has reached 100,000 people.

The morale of the Han army was restored.

In the battle of Pengcheng, the power of the cavalry of the Chu army was terrifying, and countless soldiers of the Han army were wronged under the iron hooves of the Chu army. It was imperative to form a force that could resist the iron cavalry of the Chu army, so Liu Bang ordered the formation of a cavalry unit of the Han army, which was ordered by Guan Ying as the middle doctor, who was in charge of the cavalry.

According to the previous resolution, Liu Bang gave Han Xin full responsibility for the defense of the front line of Xingyang, which is high in the south and low in the north, and is full of ravines and hills, which is convenient for defense.

Under the command of Han Xin, the Han army built a strong defense line in the area of Xingyang and waited for it.

Soon, after a short period of rest and recuperation, the vanguard troops had reached Xingyang. Xiang Yu's intention was obvious: to take advantage of the victory to capture Xingyang, and then recover Guanzhong in one fell swoop, and finally completely eliminate the Liu Bang group.

After the victory of Pengcheng, the generals of the Chu army were even more contemptuous of the Han army, and in their eyes, Xingyang was just a thing in the bag.

However, this time, it was not so simple, because this time, the opponent facing the Chu Army Iron Cavalry was Han Xin.

Before the Battle of Pengcheng, Liu Bang did not suffer hardship, so he dared to leave Han Xin and go all the way east, but Pengcheng was defeated.

This heavy defeat made Liu Bang understand that he was not a heavyweight compared to Xiang Yu's military talent.

Among the generals of the Han army, only Han Xin can stand alone and take on the work of commander.

Let's start in Xingyang. The young commander was about to start performing his conducting art in earnest. A person who can elevate fighting to the level of art can only be described as a genius, and Han Shin is such a genius.

The iron cavalry of the Chu army couldn't wait to attack.

Give back to others in their own way.

Han Xin commanded the cavalry of the Han army to defeat the Chu army several times between Beijing (south of Xingyang) and Suo (inner Xingyang).

The Chu army was originally tired, and after this defeat, it could only stand still and wait for reinforcements.

Han Xin seized the fighter plane, launched an attack, recaptured Yongqiu, Waihuang and other places, and built a stronger defensive line in Xingyang, Chenggao, and Luoyang.

Xiang Yu didn't cross this line of defense until he died.

The Chu-Han War was declared to have entered a phase of stalemate.

After the front line was stabilized, Liu Bang returned to Liyang, the Han capital, in June and did several things to consolidate the rear, one was to build a temple to worship heaven and earth, but to set up the crown prince Liu Ying, and the third was to provide disaster relief.

Han Xin tried his hand at Xingyang and finally saved the decline of the Han army.

Since he became a general, he has not had a glamorous life, because Liu Bang did not trust him enough and did not give him a good opportunity to play, so there was Zhang Liang's second recommendation.

It wasn't until Liu Bang suffered a big loss in Pengcheng that he woke up: he couldn't level Xiang Yu on the battlefield, and only Han Xin could balance him.

In August, Wei Bao, who had returned to Wei on the basis of visiting relatives, announced that he would break away from Liu Bang's group and set up his own business.

Liu Bangnian sent Li Shiqi to persuade him in the past, but Wei Bao was insulted by his personality and his human rights were not guaranteed.

In fact, being insulted is fake, but having different ambitions is real. Wei Bao was not greedy, his ideal was to take back his ancestors' belongings and be a good King of Wei.

However, a sentence from a well-known scholar at that time made him ambitious and embarked on the road of no return.

Wei Bao has a concubine named Bo Ji (later Empress Dowager Bo, I will talk about it later), Bo Ji is the daughter of Wei Yuan of the Wei clan and Bo Sheng of Suzhou, the end of Qin was in turmoil, Wei was restored, and Wei Ji gave Bo Ji to Wei Bao as a concubine. There were many beauties in Wei Bao's palace, and he didn't pay attention to Bo Ji at first. Wei Yuan was worried about her daughter's future, so she invited the famous scholar Xu Cheng to meet Bo Ji, but she didn't expect Xu Cheng to see Bo Ji, she was taken aback and said: "This girl should be the son of heaven!" ”

At that time, Wei Bao was still eating under Liu Bang, and it was not interesting to mix, so he had an idea: The son is the son of heaven, how can Lao Tzu send someone to the fence? If you don't earn him more family business, how can he be a child?

The logic of this benevolent brother is really a little simple, what the son can do must mean what Lao Tzu wants?

appeared to say that Liu Taigong was an out-and-out farmer, but his son became the king of Han.

To say an immoral thing: Bo Ji's stomach didn't move at all, and who knows whose son?

The words are hard to hear, but they are true.

Since then, Wei Bao has been waiting for an opportunity to stand on his own based on his selfless fatherly love for his son, and the Han army Pengcheng was defeated, and Liu Bang was too busy to take care of him. Wei Bao ran back to Wei on the pretext of visiting his mother.

He never planned to go back.

Broken Wei.

Liu Bang saw that he couldn't persuade Wei Bao to change his mind, so let's fight.

Han Xin was appointed as the prime minister of Zuo and led his troops to attack Wei.

Wei Bao received the news of the Han army's attack and deployed heavy troops at the crossing of the Yellow River.

Han Xin led his troops to Linjin Crossing of the Yellow River, and saw that the Wei army on the other side had already been on strict alert and could not force the crossing for a while, so he ordered to camp on the spot and confront the Wei army across the river.

Han Xin secretly sent many spies to investigate the military situation in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

Good generals have one thing in common: they attach great importance to intelligence.

The spies reported that there were fewer defenders at the ferry crossing of Xiayang (near Heyang, Shaanxi), where the water was turbulent, so the garrison was lax.

After Han Xin knew about this situation, he had secretly chosen a breakthrough in his heart. But then the question is: where to find so many ferries? Temporary shipbuilding is impossible, shipbuilding is a technical job, and when the ship is built well and enough, the children of the newlywed Wei Jun brothers opposite can make soy sauce.

So what to do?

It doesn't matter, this thing is difficult to defeat Han Xin, he is not called Han Xin.

According to ordinary people's thinking, it is generally like this: when you think of crossing the river, you think of the boat, you think of the oar, and when you think of the oar, you think of the boatman. Academically speaking, this is called reproducing thinking, that is, relying on memories of the past to think. The opposite of reproduction thinking is called creative thinking. The creation of these two words is already very concise, so I don't need to bother with my tongue.

Han Shin's idea of crossing the river is this: Who said that you must use a boat to cross the river?

Therefore, Hanxin's thinking belongs to creative thinking.

So, Han Xin ordered Cao Shen to lead his troops into the mountains to cut wood, and the sooner the better.

Then he ordered the baby to go to the nearby market and buy a large number of clay pots (pots with big bellies and small mouths), the more the better.

What to do when you buy a tile poppy, do you want to drink it! If the baby has questions, it is not easy to ask.

The superiors instructed, and the subordinates just had to do a good job.

After two days, the wood was brought in, and the poppys were bought. Cao Shen and Guan Ying waited for Han Xin's next instruction in the handsome tent, Han Xin smiled, didn't speak, just gave each of them a note.

The two of them came out of the tent, opened the note and saw that it read: The method of making wooden poppies, according to the length of the wood, seal the mouth of the corresponding number of tile poppies, arrange them in a rectangle, the mouth is facing down, the bottom is facing up, tied together with rope, and then clamped with wood.

The note not only has words, but also illustrations drawn by Han Shin himself.

This may be the earliest military science and technology process manual in ancient China.

Guan Ying said: "What kind of fame is Marshal Han doing, why are you making these things?" ”

Cao Shen said: "Presumably the marshal has his own wonderful use, I will wait for it to be built, don't worry about it!" ”

According to Han Xin's instructions, thousands of wooden poppies had been built in a few days.

Han Xin checked it carefully and didn't find any major problems, so he was relieved.

When it was dusk, Han Xin ordered Guan Ying to lead his troops to stay on the west bank, waving flags and shouting, guarding the boats, and not crossing the river without receiving orders.

Han Xin and Cao Shen led the troops to Xiayang Ferry.

The infant irrigation made the soldiers shout at the west bank of Linjin, making a gesture that they were about to cross the Yellow River by force.

The shouts of the Han army caused the Wei army to be highly nervous.

Xiayang Ferry.

Wei Bao originally thought that the water here was turbulent, and there was no ferry, so the Han army would not choose to cross the river from here anyway.

Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case.

As mentioned earlier, non-outstanding generals will not think about what happens.

It's just that Han Xin is a genius, and that's what he wants. The ferry is not enough, so I invent it myself, although it is not as comfortable as the ferry, but it can be used, and it is safe and stable.

Guan Ying led 10,000 soldiers to shout happily at Linjin Ferry, and the attention of the Wei army was all attracted to the Linjin Ferry.

Han Xin led his army to quietly cross the river with a wooden poppy under the cover of night.

When the Han army arrived at the Xiayang ferry on the east bank of the Yellow River, they found that there were no defenders here, and the soldiers were overjoyed. The Han army marched all the way to Dongzhang and encountered a handful of Wei troops.

Cao Shen rushed into the Wei army camp first, but the Wei army was caught off guard and was soon scattered and fled.

The Han army took advantage of the chaos to pursue, and arrived at Anyi, an important town of Wei (northwest of Xia County, the hometown of Xia Yu), and the Anyi defenders went out of the city to meet the battle, and in less than a few rounds, they were captured by Cao Shensheng, and the Han army immediately occupied Anyi.

Wei Wangbao, who was in Pingyang, received the report of the Anyi rout, and was horrified, so in order to avoid being attacked by the enemy, he hurriedly mobilized the army and sent out to block the Han army.

The two armies met on the way.

They are all acquaintances of each other, don't talk nonsense, just start fighting.

When the fight was full of joy, an army suddenly rushed out from behind, led by no one else, it was the baby. It turned out that Guan Ying crossed the Yellow River when the Wei army withdrew from the ferry defense line, forming a flanking attack on the Wei army.

The Wei army was attacked on both sides, was flanked by the front and rear, and was quickly routed.

Seeing that the momentum was not right, the Wei soldiers were already panicked in their hearts, and at this time, Han Xin sent someone to shout: Surrender and avoid death.

Wei Jun had no intention of fighting, and when he heard that there was a way to live, he laid down his arms one after another. Wei Wangbao knew that he would be defeated, and if he did not surrender, he would die, and in the spirit of everything for the better future of his future son, he decided to be wronged and seek perfection, and endure humiliation and secretly lived.

So Wei Bao also dismounted and surrendered.

When Han Xin saw this old friend, not only was he not polite, but he also decided to torture him.

Han Xin asked Cao Shen to stuff Wei Bao into a prisoner car and go to various parts of Wei to hold a roving prisoner car performance art exhibition, the purpose of the exhibition is not to collect tickets to make money, but to persuade surrender, the slogan of the exhibition is: Kaesong surrender, free to visit.

The exhibition was an unprecedented success, and audiences from all over the Wei Kingdom responded to the slogan of the exhibition.

However, in January, Wei was completely flattened.

Although Brother Wei Ren was insulted, he didn't care in his heart, because he still had a dream in the prison car, a dream about his son, a dream that all fathers in the world would have: hoping that his son would become a dragon.

It's a pity that Han Xin did something that was not enough for his friends next, which made his dream shattered in an instant.

At the same time that he sent Wei Bao to Xingyang, he also packed all Wei Bao's female family members and sent them to Liu Bang, including Bo Ji who wanted to help him give birth to a son of heaven in his dream.

In this way, Han Xin pacified the Wei state.

The ancient ferry of Xiayang was later renamed "Mu Poppy Crossing" or "Huaiyin Crossing", and now there is a poem monument about one meter high in Xiayang Village on the edge of the ancient ferry to commemorate the extraordinary wisdom of Han Xin.