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Did Han Xin, who defeated Zhao's 300,000 soldiers in a last-ditch battle, just win by chance? What is the basis for this?

After the fall of the Qin Dynasty, Chu and Han stepped onto the stage of history, and a protracted war began. During these five years, the Han general Han Xin demonstrated extraordinary military strategies. His achievements can be called a miracle in hundreds of years of history, and the Battle of Jingxing can be said to be unique among his many battles. Han Xin followed the famous saying of Confucius in the art of war: know yourself and your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger, and never fight an unprepared battle. In the third year of the Han Dynasty, Han Xin led tens of thousands of newly recruited Han troops to attack the State of Zhao eastward. King Zhao gathered 200,000 troops to station at Jingxingkou, occupying a favorable terrain, and prepared to annihilate Han Xin in one fell swoop.

At this time, Han Xin had already sent people to sneak into Zhao State quietly to find out that Chen Yu was arrogant and did not adopt Li Zuoche's plan and did whatever he wanted. Han Xin was overjoyed and confidently deployed his troops into Jingxing Road. Han Xin knew that the enemy and we were very different and could not attack by force. After studying the terrain, he decided to station himself far away from Lijingxing. He sent two thousand elite soldiers, each carrying a Han military flag, and took advantage of the moonlight to quietly sneak back to the side and rear of the Zhao army's camp and hide under the cover of vegetation and branches, waiting for Han's letter the next day. Deliberately pretending to be defeated, the entire Zhao army must be dispatched. At this time, the soldiers quickly captured the Zhao army's camp and planted their own Han army flags. When Zhao Jun's troops were shaken, they launched a pincer attack from the front and rear.

After the deployment was completed, Han Xin hosted a banquet in honor of the generals. After everyone was deeply impressed by Han Xin's deployment policy, they only agreed on the surface but murmured in their hearts. Han Xin saw through his subordinates' thoughts and told them that Zhao's army occupies a favorable terrain and its troops are several times stronger than ours. It aims to completely annihilate our army. Therefore, our army will not attack our army when it enters Jingxingkou at the beginning. He had to see our army's banners and drum chariots before he could be completely confident in besieging our army, so he ordered to advance to Jingxingkou overnight. As expected by Han Xin, when the Han army passed through Jingxingkou, the Zhao army did not make any movement, intending to wait for all the Han troops to move in and completely encircle and annihilate them. The Han army's front troops did not set up their troops on the west side of the water, but hurriedly crossed the east bank of the overflowing river and stationed their camps on their backs.

At dawn, the two armies fought for a long time. Because the retreat was cut off, everyone fought desperately. The Zhao army, which had the numerical advantage, saw that the Han army would not retreat for a long time, and its morale began to waver. General Chen saw that the number and combat effectiveness of the Han army far exceeded his original expectations, so he ordered a halt to the attack and retreated in an orderly manner. When the army returned to the barracks, looking from a distance, they saw thousands of Han army flags on the camp, and Han generals standing on the walls. They thought that the rear had been captured by Han Xin, and the army was temporarily unmotivated. Under the double attack of the Han army, Zhao Junbing Defeated, defeated. Chen Sheng was killed and Zhao Wangxie was captured. Han Xin defeated Han Xin with 30,000 men against 200,000 men.

The Last Battle is a textbook war in ancient China, and it was also the most outstanding battle conducted by Han Xin in his military career. In fact, Han Xin did not initiate the "Last Stand". If we look back carefully at history, when Xiang Yu led the Chu army to the north to fight against Qin, he defeated the Qin Army of 400,000 in Julu with 50,000 Chu soldiers. Han Xin's Last Stand was probably based on Xiang Yu's example. The original fighting method in Julu was to put the soldiers to death to stimulate their morale, so as to achieve the purpose of putting them to death and survive. It doesn't matter if Han Xin borrows Xiang Yu's play style and applies it, or it is Han Xin's own play style. The last battle fully demonstrated Han Xin's military talent.

However, another thing to mention here is that there was still a lot of luck in the success of Han Xin's last battle. There was a key figure in this battle, and that was Li Zuoche, Lord Guangwu of the State of Zhao. Li Zuoche came from a famous family (the grandson of the famous Warring States general Li Mu) and was a man of considerable military strategy. Before the arrival of Han Xin's army, Li Zuoche suggested that Zhao's commander Chen Yu guard Jingxing and cut off the Han army's food and grass supplies. Zhao's army could not hold on for a few days before Han Xin's army collapsed without a fight. It's a pity that Chen Yu is very happy with his success. He relied on Zhao Guo's large number of soldiers to try to have a decisive battle with Han Xin with more against fewer, which led to the final battle. Li Zuoche's strategy was not adopted, which was one of the important reasons for Zhao Jun's defeat. Afterwards, Han Xin specially offered a large reward to capture Li Zuoche and treated him as a guest of honor. Han Xin should be glad that Li Zuoche's plan was not adopted. Fortunately, the heroes sympathized with each other and gave Li Zuoche preferential treatment after he was captured. Later, when Han Xin captured Zhao and Yan, Li Zuoche could be said to have been a great help. Of course, this is all a story later.