I am still wikiing names from your list, which I enjoyed a lot, but I have to wonder, even though I have limited knowledge about military affairs, would not Bai Qi deserve to be there ? Undefeated, took 70+ cities against all sizes of armies, there isn't much info on him but if Yue Fei and Han Xin manage to get on the list ( whom I don't want to denigrate) ?
It's always difficult to quantify how truly skilled Chinese generals are because military history has never been a strength of Chinese historiography and we have very little idea of battlefield tactics, strategy etc. Standard exaggeration is also a problem, since Chinese military reporting are derived from battlefield communiques, which are inevitably subject to massive distortions.
Bai Qi took 70+ cities, but one supposes that many of these cities gave up without much of a fight (especially in his campaigns against the Chu and post-Changping Zhao). In the same vein one could argue that Yue Yi, the contemporary Yan general who almost extinguished the state of Qi, was of comparable skill... similarly for the logistical feats of Sima Cuo's conquest of Shu. Why not Wang Jian or Meng Tian, Qin Shihuang's right hand men in unifying the country?
Now, not saying that Bai Qi shouldn't be on that list (from Changping alone we can see that the quality of his opposition must be pretty damn strong), but the point I'm trying to make is that for most Chinese generals, we simply have very little idea of what they
really did. We only know what the consequences were.
Other potential Chinese generals that should have been up there, perhaps at the expense of others:
1. Wu Ding of Shang. If there's going to be one Chinese warrior-king on the list it is most definitely not Li Shimin, but this now-forgotten leader from the 2nd millennium BC. Warring in all directions for the majority of his 50-odd years in power (no small feat), Wu Ding annexed around 80 tribes - and we have actual archaeological evidence for this in the fact that the majority of human sacrifices in the Shang capital of Yin date from his reign - and it was during his reign that we see the first chariots and forged weaponry in China. Also, his consorts were generals in their own right, especially Fu Hao.
2. Huo Qubing or Wei Qing. The most prominent commanders of the Han attacks against the Xiongnu during the Han Wudi period, each leading prongs striking the Xiongnu on the eastern and western flanks respectively. While again we have little idea of tactics (besides the idea that pursuing mounted cavalry with a largely chariot-based army couldn't have been easy), we can probably have some idea of their operational prowess by the fact that the Xiongnu were frequently caught off guard by the rapidity of their movement (Huo Qubing engaged a Xiongnu army near modern-day Ulan Bator, quite some way from his base in Shanxi province). Their strategy was also sound: by pushing the Xiongnu north of the Gobi, the generals cut the nomads' link to the rich oasis towns of the Tarim Basin, which denied Xiongnu leaders the resources needed to consolidate power and fund expeditions.
3. Zhu Yuanzhang. Starting out in a Nanjing sandwiched between the superior forces of Chen Youliang, Fang Guozhen and Zhang Shicheng, all of whom constantly sought to destroy him, the future Ming Emperor nevertheless managed to delay Zhang and Fang through various delaying maneuvers for long enough to inflict a crushing naval defeat on Chen Youliang at Poyang Lake. Also the first Chinese general to manage unification from the south (though more because of Yuan infighting), a feat that wouldn't be repeated until Chiang Kai-Shek 600 years later.
Other notables could include Liu Yu of the Northern-Southern dynasties (though the quality of his opposition is debatable), Mao Wenlong of the late Ming period (though his politics are iffy), Zuo Zongtang of the late Qing, and Lin Biao.
