Top 5 Most Epic Battles in Chinese History

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[@ferrarim5p75]

The story of Zhuge Liang borrowing arrows did not happen. It's a romanticised story. Also, the fire ships had kindling and oil, not explosives, which hadn't been invented, even by China, at that time.

[@manchu-qu9mw]

Nice video. The battles of the great Chinese people were truly ferocious with bravery and skills. That the strategic of psychology is so insightful. The art of war is also adopted by the Western world in many aspects of conflicts. Truly remarkable Chinese civilization in all respects. Long live China.

[@nelsonsim]

I learned some Chinese history today. I am impressed with your pronunciation of all the Chinese characters in the battles.

[@baiqi44]

Not everything he said is true or rumored to be true. The arrows' borrowing was only Zhuge Liang's idea in the novel, but not in actual history. In actual history, it was Sun Quan or Zhou Yu's (the main strategist of Wu) idea or someone gave one of them that idea (and it wasn't Zhuge Liang). The host of this video is taking a lot of "facts" from the Three Kingdoms novel and not from actual history. Of course, the Three Kingdoms novel does include a lot of actual history, but Zhuge Liang being any significant factor in the battle of Chi Bi is completely false.

[@yijiun7553]

Your presentation style is commendable. I sense your deep respect for Chinese history. I admire underdogs who managed to pull off huge upsets against all odds.

[@learnchinesenow]

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[@milastran663]

Chinese history is very captivated. They have been over 3000 years of continuous historical data. And I learn something very interesting: China is so big that it uses all its energy to keep the country whole.

[@tomaschong.medicinalherb]

5000 actually

[@aawiuethapiojodsf]

@@tomaschong.medicinalherb No that's not true. The OP said 3000 years of CONTINUOUS HISTORICAL DATA and he is correct. The earliest historical records that has been found are dated back to the Shang dynasty's records on oracle bones, from 1500 BC. That's the earliest writings archaeologists found in China. No archeologists have yet found any written historical records from the mythical Xia dynasty that supposedly precedes the Shang dynasty.

[@heyheyyouxp]

Thank you, you guys are awesome.

[@k.vn.k]

Chao Chao vs Ju Ge Liang The most epic strategic battle between two geniuses. If you want to eliminate casualties, deception is the only way.

[@bearpolo3618]

Cao Cao vs Zhuge Liang.

[@PalmuserSavage]

I really enjoyed watching your narrative by your humorous way of presentation! Awesome.

[@learnchinesenow]

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[@jermaincummings2679]

Wonderful my brother. It was both fun and informative at the same time

[@sandietan397]

Great Chinese historical video. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jonnelo]

Except that the fools who made it don't know that the Yellow Race Chinese (Hun people) do not have beards. The Yellow Race took over 600 years ago under Ming Dynasty. They put Yellow Race eyes on those leaders, but had to maintain the beards, because that is how they are in paintings.

[@amirfarahbakhsh2960]

The humor is just awesome.

[@dr.gaosclassroom]

Thanks for this video!! You might also like to check out 长平之战!

[@yongdeng1813]

Bravo!!! Excellent narrative, those were some big wars!👏👏 every chinese knows about how fierce they fought!!!

[@learnchinesenow]

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[@maxjek2374]

In the battle of Red Cliffs, someone from Liu Bei's side suggested to Cao Cao to chain up his warships. Moral of the battle- don't listen to your enemy.

[@SVanTha]

moral of the story: in warfare, espionage is paramount.

[@jonathanmunoz137]

no. the guy who suggest that thing to Cao Cao was Huang Gai, a Sun Admiral who act like a defector. The idea of this comes from the minds of Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu

[@CloudHan-han]

As a Chinese who knows a little bit about Chinese history, I think "The Battle of Changping" should be on the list. Qin sent out 400,000 troops, and Zhao sent out 450,000 troops. Both sides tried their best. During the three-year confrontation in Changping, no one dared to launch an attack because all the assets of the two empires were concentrated on the battlefield. If they were not careful, the empires would instantly collapse. Spies from both sides spied on each other's intelligence in the enemy country. In the end, Qin was the better and replaced Zhao's famous general Lian Po through a public opinion war. In the end, Zhao took the initiative and fell into an encirclement. 450,000 troops were trapped and surrendered, of which 400,000 were buried alive. . At that time, all countries discovered that only by destroying living forces can we prevent the other party from becoming stronger.

[@alexlo7708]

The Qin's general, who ordered buried alive 400k Zhao surrenders , afterward ended up on his karma. He was forced to commit suicide because of his culprit act in war.

[@kevinchin3848]

it is worth to mention that the Battle of Red Cliff was on verge to reunite China. One major lost, the reunification had to wait for further decades when all those of major players or warlord died, and new blood arise.

[@沐-v9h]

讲得真不错，点赞！

[@learnchinesenow]

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[@clarepover4978]

Great video chimes in with the Chinese series as mentioned. More please! Thank you for your presentation.

[@learnchinesenow]

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[@BillF20081]

A pretty good way for westerners to learn some basic Chinese history. 🤩

[@juliantotio2471]

Would you like to tell the whole story about late Ming dynasty General who defeat Japanese pirates General Qi Ji Guang?

[@rayray6490]

Among the Wokou, many were actually local Chinese pretending to be Chinese. Actual Japanese ronin were maybe a minority

[@Hoo88846]

15:19 surrounding the Xiang Yu army with the Chu songs is called 四面楚歌 sì mìan chǔ gē (four corners Chu songs).

[@josephjr]

first time of hearing about xiang yu and his story. something we must all learn..

[@tt-ew7rx]

One of Cao Cao's famous quotes: "If you had a son he should be like Sun Quan" - this was from the authority of fathering of his era, having raised two of the best sons of the time himself.

[@Maperator]

The allied navy at Red Cliffs used fireships not gunpowerder ships as gunpowder wasn't discovered yet.

[@lillygirl7238]

Excellent. 👏🏼

[@stingray4988]

A lot of the stories being told here around the Three Kingdoms here are based on the 14 centry AD novel "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". And those plots deviate quite a lot from actual history. For instance, 1) In the battle of the Red Cliff, Cao Cao's biggest enemy is actually Zhou Yu, the major general at Sun Quan's side. Ju Ge Liang was not even on the battle field when the battle took place. He was far away in Wu Chang (武昌, present day Wuhan known for COVID) with Sun Quan. 2) "The straw boat borrows arrows" is also based on the novel "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". In real history, it was Sun Quan actually borrowed the arrows from Cao Cao's navel and the battle took place a year after the Battle of the Red Cliff in Chao Lake (巢湖).

[@baiqi44]

Yup. Was wondering why the host was telling Three Kingdoms battles from the novel's side of history, which has a lot of fiction, and not from the actual historical side. Of course, there's not that much written from the actual historical side around that time (3rd century AD).

[@dragondescendant1]

Many historians considered the warfare during the three kingdom was like the world war in the divided China.

[@dthomas99]

From all these wars, the chinese learn to work on Peace. But the Americans only know war. The next 10 years will be the great battle of Peace vs War.

[@hkhistoryw5062]

If not for the Americans (in 1945), you would be writing in Japanese in your post.

[@lawsonsimon8400]

@@hkhistoryw5062and you won’t be writing in English either

[@hkhistoryw5062]

@@lawsonsimon8400 Agree. We'll all be writing in Japanese.

[@eveningchaos1]

@@hkhistoryw5062 24 million dead Soviets have something to say about that one. For every American who died in WW2, 80 Soviets died. This was while the Soviets were pleading with the Allies to open up a Western front. The UK and US decided to wait for the Soviets to get weakened more before helping out so they could leverage that after the war to their advantage. Also, the Chinese fought and died in Manchuria and other fronts in the East. The Americans only entered the war when they got attacked directly. They might have stayed out of the war entirely if that didn't occur. They only entered the war when they knew they could win with minimal losses. After the war, the rest of the world was devastated and destroyed. The Soviets and Chinese had massive rebuilding projects to do, while the US was mostly unscathed, except for Pearl Harbor. That gave them a huge economic advantage over the Soviets and the Chinese Communists. Still they managed to rebuild and create countries that rivalled the US. Now China is overtaking them without having to engage in imperialist wars and violence abroad. How many foreign military bases does China have? How many wars have they been involved in since 1948? Apply those same questions to the US. Now ask yourself who is the threat to world peace.

[@kittykattzee]

Wtf are you talking about my guy? China has existed for more than 2000 years before the founding of America and is constantly at war with itself. This video didn’t even mention changping where bai qi buried more than 200k people alive nor suiyang where zhang xun made his soldiers cannibalize a whole city. These two battles are almost a thousand years apart from each other, 3 times the age of USA, hundreds of wars in between, from rebellions to purges. So when does the Chinese learn about peace from these battles exactly? 😂

[@smsday8208]

Really enjoyed this video abt the classics war. Great narration & you speak Mandarin like a native - very good!

[@learnchinesenow]

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[@imnothere6906]

The short version of Guandu was this. The longer version was that Yuan Shao was kind of successful but unable to control his own commanders. generals and tacticians who literally sabotage their own armies to death. Death by a thousand cuts was painful for Yuan Shao's grand coalition of rabbles who disperse to four winds.

[@tanlongt]

How about the battle of Chengpu between Jin and her allies vs Chu and her allies in the Spring Autumn period?

[@eymeeraosaka2954]

Pretty good analysis of the battles...

[@lobinhoot7]

Great sharing

[@maytan1622]

Am humbled by your video

[@Username-xd3qx]

Thank you Dynasty Warriors.

[@lyhthegreat]

15:19 i thought xiangyu was offered the opportunity to cross the river by the boatman at the dock but he turned down that offer saying that he was too ashamed to return back to his people in defeat before cutting his throat?

[@alexlo7708]

Xiangyu was, in fact, has charisma of gentle heroic than Liu Bang. But ...the world goes as it is, Cunning guy often has upper opportunity.

[@jimmychang4390]

Great work and very interesting stories. How about videos expanding on The Greatest Series like The Greatest Philosophers, The Greatest Classics, The Greatest Poets, The Greatest Poems, The Greatest Myths, The Greatest Foods (this will be controversial), The Greatest Romances etc etc. If you ever run out of ideas, which I don't think, I have many more suggestions. 😀

[@learnchinesenow]

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[@jimmychang4390]

Which Chinese doesn't love his food? On second thought, maybe the most famous dishes of each state will be less controversial 😀 I can't wait for such a post if you're as inclined :) May your stomach be as happy with your research 😂

[@oldman7829]

very well said 👍👍

[@tomhuynh4058]

Love this!

[@gunner9711]

Like the battle at DiaoYu cliff. They did manage to take out the fourth khagan of the Mongol Empire (Mongke Khan) in the siege of Diaoyu cliff making it the only battle where the Mongols lost their khagan during their campaigns of conquest. And save the Europe as the mongols have to race back to challenge to be the next Khan.

[@vincelycaner4259]

U forgot mention The Battle of Julu (Chinese: 鉅鹿之戰) where Xiong Yu steamrolled 400k Qin troops with only 30k Chu troops.😅

[@SomeOne-dz5ri]

Well the river still exists, its called 東淝河 instead of 淝水 now but i can't find any English translation

[@imgr5143]

Finally someone who gets the 4 tones right.

[@learnchinesenow]

😎🙏

[@benscheelings7401]

Try Cantonese with six tones

[@jackwei22]

Xiang Yu was so feared and legitimately powerful man as his Chu warriors were feared by all but an idiot in the sense that he could've been Emperor but chose to be overlord of Chu instead as well as his cruelty at times as would end been seen no different than some Qin generals in terms of killing prisoners. Changping despite it being a stalemate until Zhao changed from it's defensive stance into offensive it truly determined the fate of the Chinese history as a whole on whether there would be unified nation and established Qin as the most powerful vassal state, also Zhao really pushed Qin to limit being the only state strong enough to stand against them by holding off them all that time while all the other vassal states watched waiting as they were all weakened by Bai Qi before. Another argument is if Ying ji didn't listen to Han Sui then let Bai Qai capture Handan and destroy Zhao then unification could've possibly happened earlier but sadly no.

[@0animalproductworld558]

very cool armours and history.

[@Cent4man]

可以制作一个有关黄巾起义的视频吗？我对 大贤良师 感兴趣

[@Misomner]

Good job! Would better if the battles are presented chronologically.

[@mikeng8487]

IMHO the battle of changping is more important in terms of strategic and grand in terms of the sheer numbers between the Qin and Zhao.

[@MrCassowary]

Great stories

[@Caleb7575]

I'm pretty sure CaoCao was a warlord from the North side of China back then whose army were really good on horse back while YuanShao was from the South of China which was good at naval warfare

[@anisaliu3443]

Where did I see this before? Is this a reupload?

[@learnchinesenow]

New video, old stories 😎👍

[@albertliu1068]

This guy is funny ! 😁

[@wj1213]

Can you do the ottoman? Because a lot of people don’t understand how powerful they really were. I don’t think there was nobody in the world that could defeat them.

[@sjsupa]

No. The most Epic Battles in Chinese History is ChangPing(长平）。Gaixia was never considered as a Epic military battles, as it was more of a conclusion between XiangYu and LiuBang.

[@weizhang9846]

Overly simplified about Yuan Shao vs Cao Cao

[@fleem5]

Guan Yu could’ve ended Cao Mengde for good but allowed him to escape. I get he was repaying Cao for his, more or less, benevolent treatment while in Cao’s “care”. In the end, that act ended Liu Xuande’s aspiration to reinstate the Han…

[@cchen19275]

There are many much more important battles than these 5 in Chinese history. For example, battle of Chang-Ping/長平之戰 (262/261BC to 260BC) in Waring States (475-221BC); in this battle, 460,000 soldiers of State Zhao were killed by State Qin. After this battle, the Qin would be the conqueror to unify the whole China in 221BC. I will not state other battles here.

[@id61066]

What were the 3 kingdoms that were formed please???

[@baiqi44]

Wei (Cao Cao's), Wu (Sun Quan's) and Shu (Liu Bei's).

[@lucytan319]

@@baiqi44

[@Hoo88846]

Bei (northern) Wei by Cao Cao, Dong (eastern) Wu by Sun Quan, and Xi (western) Shu by Liu Bei (the remaining imperial seed from the broken up preceding Han Dynasty that preceded the Three Kingdoms Period) as Liu Bei tried desperately hard to restore the declining Han Dynasty founded by Liu Bang (who defeated Xiang Yu during the Chu-Han Contention).

[@3ChZer0]

No Yiling?

[@StryderK]

Guan Du’s position is synonymous with Vicksburg during the Civil War. This is because Vicksburg is right dad smack in the middle of the Mississippi River! It’s strategic important can not be understated! When Grant captured Vicksburg on July 4th, 1853, the same day Lee retreated from Gettysburg, it effectively cut the South in half, a blow the confederacy will not recover.

[@eonwe3559]

No. Don't compare Napoleon to Cao Cao. Cao Cao is ten times more clever than Napoleon.

[@gunadihudaya6041]

Cao Cao is over rate. He is not even in the level of han xin and xiang yu. Although he is better than them as a politician. And of course he is no where near li she min in everything.

[@Jocky8807]

​@@gunadihudaya6041disagreed. Xiang yu has no wit. Only brute force. Cao Cao was pretty good. Single handedly controlling China. Not an easy feat.

[@gunadihudaya6041]

@@Jocky8807 he couldnt even unite china

[@Jocky8807]

@@gunadihudaya6041 Every history has different players. Other people do not have to face zhuge and sun Quan/Zhao yi, also. .

[@eonwe3559]

@@gunadihudaya6041 Cao Cao is indeed overrated but his accomplishments and decisiveness far surpasses Napoleon. The majority of Han Xin's opponents were just fools and ignorant. Xiang Yu was just an arrogant commander. I can agree that Li Shi Min is better. Even Yue Fei, Subutai and many other brilliant commanders were better.

[@zenden9]

Dont agree with your selection.. Battle of Julu and Battle of Mobei need to be included. These 2 battle had serious outcome for development of Chinese history.

[@metal_fusion]

Art of War Well apparently in China's meme history, it is basically send as many bodies into the enemy forces who is also sending as many bodies into your armies. My home country's history is insane.

[@ZhangHanzhong]

Oooh... I see Li Yixiao in the thumbnail. Haha

[@jimwong8056]

In the Battle of River Fei, 淝水之战: A low level Jin captain 刘牢之 realized that the soldiers from neither side wanted to fight a war for the Super Rich. So, he developed a new strategy to shoot the commanders of Qin. Without commands, the Qin army quickly collapsed. A slave 刘裕 rose quickly after this war to become the king of South. 刘邦, 刘裕 and 朱元璋 were 3 China kings that came from poor.

[@gunner9711]

Your greatest war of China might be the most important war in Chinese history. But famous wars. There are more bigger battles that changed Chinese history.

[@lawrenceng7971]

You have missed up some important parts of battle of Chibi😢

[@boydcole8901]

Would have been good in chronological order

[@acelim6259]

Zhuge Liang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was a genius strategist, but in recorded history, not confirmed but almost all of history is, Zhuge Liang was more of a genius politician, and possibly also a philosopher, an inventor, a geographer (all geomancers should be), diviner (from myths), etc etc etc, with extreme capabilities able to quickly strengthen and help the nation of Shu Han's growth, while also able to be a military strategist, just not as ingenious as in the novel.

[@pakjai5532]

Sima Yi was also a genius strategust. He was regarded as Zhuge Liang's nemsis, who fought for the opposing faction, under CaoCao's command.

[@FreeSpeech181]

@6:05 - you not only made a mistake on the date, hence the asterisk you noted, but screwed up on the name of the dynasty, as well. The Qin Dynasty only existed for a very short period, and it's in the BC era. You meant the Jin Dynasty, founded by the Sima clan, which is the dynasty that united China after the Three Kingdoms Period.

[@HelmerAslaksen]

He is right. Former Qin (苻秦) was one of the 16 kingdoms, which comes after the Jin. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fei_River)

[@CherrySmith]

No, he’s right. It’s the former Qin and in this battle they were fighting against Eastern Jin, who left Northern China. Jin were the southern troops he mentioned.

[@frankojudoka]

Han Xin was killed by Liu’s wife.

[@Hoo88846]

Yes, Empress Lü Zhi, who also mutilated one of Liu Bang’s concubine that when her son saw what his mother did, he fell ill and soon died.

[@frankojudoka]

Napoleon came quit a bit years after Cao Cao. Sun Tzu, his grandson Sun Bing, Zhuge Laing, Zhou Yu… all military genius during the warring states to Han dynasty.

[@0animalproductworld558]

china was a very peaceful country then the invaders came and mixed with the population.

[@thomasantn]

And then the invader either got kicked out to Europe (Xiongnu/Huns), or lost a big chunk of land and people (Mongols) or completely absorbed into China (Manchu).

[@jimwong8056]

Battle of Sarhu 薩爾滸之戰: The small Manchu army defeated the large well equipped Ming army that had cannons. It was a foggy night and the Ming general could not see the Manchu soldiers. So he ordered his soldiers to lit torches.

[@lydialiang8159]

Amzaing history

[@Pork_eating_crusader]

你的發音很標準

[@learnchinesenow]

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[@Zhuge_Ke]

Liang was a murderer, Wu lasted the longest

[@timlyg]

you think the 草船借箭 was truly historical?

[@stingray4988]

in fact it was Sun Quan who performed this trick a year after the Battle of the Red Cliff in Chao Lake.

[@timlyg]

@@stingray4988 interesting. Can you source this?

[@XzyStorm]

My OCD kept getting distracted by that spec of dirt/dust on the lens.

[@andrewphillips8341]

11:17 The fact that so many fools believe this nonsense is true is just tragic.

[@CheesengChia-f4n]

👍👏🏼

[@DragonScorpio31]

LOL... napolean is nowhere remotely near CaoCao.. 🤣🤣🤣

[@gunadihudaya6041]

Actually napoleon is better than cao cao. Because he is a general who introduce a new concept of military tactic by using cannon. What new military tactic that cao cao introduce or revolutionize in his life? Yue fei was even better than cao cao because he introduce a military tactic to beat jin cavalry by using inferior infantry. Emperor han wudi was even bettee because he revolutionize han army to become a giant cavalry army that can destroy xiong nu

[@tonydecastro6340]

the figures seem inflated...

[@徐阳-d2y]

❤❤🎉

[@kevinhuxley9252]

❤

[@tanlongt]

Also your stories about Chibi were fictional and not historical.

[@baiqi44]

Exactly. Not sure why the host would use a novel that's known to have many fictional facts and pass it off as real history to mislead people.

[@william2chao]

JohnHu is prettier tho.

[@Arus_战巡]

三国历史本身没演义那么精彩，最好不要混淆了演义和真实历史 草船借箭、蒋干盗书极有可能只是演义编造，并非史实 中国历史太长，为人传颂的战役还很多，以下为部分列表： 商-周，牧野之战 晋-楚，城濮之战 魏-齐，桂陵之战、马陵道之战 秦-赵，长平之战 秦-楚，巨鹿之战 西汉-匈奴，龙城之战、漠北之战 新-绿林军，昆阳之战 唐-夏（窦建德）/王世充，洛阳/虎牢关之战 唐-东突厥，定襄/阴山之战 唐/新罗-日本/百济，白江口之战 唐-安史叛军，睢阳之战 后周-北汉/辽，高平之战 北宋-辽，澶州之战 辽-金，达鲁古城之战 南宋-金，黄天荡之战、和尚原之战、仙人关之战、郾城之战、采石矶之战 蒙古-金，野狐岭之战 南宋-蒙古，合川（钓鱼城）之战 明-瓦剌，土木堡之战、北京保卫战 明/朝鲜-日本，平壤之战、露梁海之战 明-后金（清），萨尔浒之战、宁远之战、宁远/锦州之战、松锦之战

[@rendezvu175]

Don't forget the battle of one man, Zhao Yun, against Cao Cao's entire army😅

[@yongdeng1813]

@@rendezvu175 that was dramatized, sensationalized. I dont think the actual event happend the way the novel depicted.

[@Grrrmnnnn]

ai crappery

[@henryyip1]

To compare under achievers like napoleon to Cao Cao is laughable and an attempt to make better light of napoleon

[@jameshall2238]

To much talking not enough action

[@jgarbo3541]

Napoleon was a tactical genius. Strategy, lousy...

[@Jimmyni-kk4em]

So weird listening to this guy speak Chinese. Sound so strange

[@rouenyu]

Define strange

[@MochooCheung-pu8js]

His pronunciation is pretty good, not strange at all.

[@jgarbo3541]

This is so dumb. Start at 200BC Qing.

[@user-wr4yl7tx3w]

Why do Chinese historical battle sound so preposterous. Too far fetched to be credible.

[@princesendo8309]

Talk about how Chinese fight back the Mongols.

[@toraguchitoraguchi9154]

They lost

[@johnwright9372]

They didn't. The Mongols overall China.

[@princesendo8309]

@@ericwong4213 correct. Plus, many people do not understand and they think the Mongols are the most powerful because they invaded a lot and became the biggest empire. Actually those soldiers are Chinese soldiers. So basically the Chinese are the ones who invaded them all and became the largest empire.

[@hanchiman]

@@toraguchitoraguchi9154 Haven't heart Ming Dynasty?

[@fjwong1061]

​@@princesendo8309 They are Chinese soldiers captured by the Mongol when Mongol defeated the Song dynasty. The Chinese didn't invade. They are just foot soldiers commanded by the Mongol generals.

[@Nackalb]

长平之战

[@kengsenchong4010]

Thanks 老师 for the arresting infor. I was intrigued to know more about the Po Yang Hu Naval Battle. I googled this zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%84%B1%E9%99%BD%E6%B9%96%E4%B9%8B%E6%88%B0