潍水之战 / Battle of Weishui
潍水之战 / Battle of Weishui enters the wiki through Hanji 164-2 as the battle that completes 韩信’s attack on 齐国. After Qi asks 项羽 for help, 龙且 brings a claimed 200,000-man Chu rescue force and joins 田广 around Gaomi.
The episode makes the battle begin with rejected restraint. A retainer advises Long Ju to hold the camp, let Tian Guang call back cities already taken by Han, and use Han’s distance from its base to turn the campaign into a supply problem. Long Ju rejects this because he despises Han Xin’s early humiliations, expects an easy victory, and wants the merit and possible territorial reward of defeating Han Xin directly.
Han Xin answers that psychology with a river trap. At night he has troops fill thousands of cloth bags with sand and stones, damming the upstream section of the Weishui. He then crosses to attack, feigns defeat, and lets Long Ju pursue into the riverbed. When the upstream dam is removed, the water splits the Chu force; Han attacks the isolated side and kills Long Ju.
The aftermath turns a battlefield defeat into a political collapse. The remaining Chu troops scatter, Tian Guang is captured at Chengyang, 灌婴 captures the Qi chancellor Tian Guang and enters Boyang, and 田横 briefly makes himself Qi king before losing to Guan Ying at Ying County and fleeing to 彭越. 曹参 and Guan Ying then continue the pursuit until Qi is pacified.
Connections
- Hanji 164-2 - source episode.
- 韩信 - commander who stages the dam, crossing, feigned retreat, and counterattack.
- 龙且 - Chu commander killed after pursuing into the trap.
- 齐国, 田广, and 田横 - political field that collapses after the battle.
- 项羽 - ruler who sends the rescue force and loses a trusted commander.
- 灌婴 and 曹参 - Han follow-up commanders in the pacification of Qi.
- 战场信息控制, 渡河欺敌, and 诱敌离位 - tactical mechanisms visible in the battle.
- 汉中对 and 古代大兵团指挥极限 - broader Han Xin command-capacity frame.