What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
From September 209 BC to December 206 BC, when xianyang was immediately established, the world was divided. Xiang Yu attacked the city like a wild storm, sweeping through violent Qin. Tai Shi Gong said: "Ran Yu did not have a size, and took advantage of the situation to rise up in the middle of the Long Mu, and in three years, he destroyed the five princes of Qin and divided the world, and the prince was crowned, and the government was born from Yu, and he was called 'overlord.'"
Xiang Yu claimed to be the King of Western Chu, occupying liang, the territory of Chu Jiu County, controlling most of present-day Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as well as parts of Shandong and Henan, and becoming the most extensive and powerful prince at that time, with the capital Pengcheng and the king's landing.
The division of the princes was the peak of Xiang Yu's life, and it was also an important step in his road to defeat.
When he was divided, he had his own strong military strength, and he could not do as he pleased. He arbitrarily changed the fiefdoms of some people, such as he drove King Xie of Zhao from a rich place to a bitterly cold daidi, and drove Han Guang, the king of Yan, from the hinterland of the Yan state to the desolate Liaodong. He made Zhang Er the King of Changshan and occupied a large area of land in the former Zhao State, but only gave chen Yusan county, who had contributed no less to Zhang Er in the anti-Qin struggle. The violation of the law established Pei Gong as the King of Han, Wang Bashu Hanzhong, and divided Guanzhong into three, so that qin's three generals Zhang Handan, Sima Xin, and Dong Feng presided over it separately, in order to contain Pei Gong, all of which not only aggravated the contradictions between Xiang Yu and the enfeoffed, but also intensified the contradictions between the consecrated ones.
The desires of the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms are endless, and those who have not been enthroned need not to be said, they have already been enfeoffed, and even those who have a large number of fiefs are dissatisfied with Xiang Yu, believing that they should get more and better fiefs. "The demand for a unified empire began in the Spring and Autumn Period; By the time of the Warring States, the opportunities gradually matured; By the time of Qin Shi Huang, it had to be realized for a time. ”
The Spring and Autumn Period is fighting for hegemony, the Warring States are crisscrossed, the people are not happy, and mourning is everywhere. The common people long for unity and stop the flames of war. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the general trend of reunification has become the home of the whole world and the hope of all the people. However, the Western Chu overlord, driven by the idea of revenge, was excessively emotional, lacked rational analysis, and could not see the general trend of the world, but went against the trend. Xiang Yu's division of the princes brought the whole country back to a state of mutual attack in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and the wolf smoke rose again and the flames continued. "Soon the State of Qi was the first to attack, and the scuffle between the princes broke out again."
Liu Bang, who was forced by Xiang Yu to be the King of Han in a corner of the Bashu Han Dynasty, took the opportunity to enter Guanzhong in August of the first year of the Han Dynasty (206 BC) and successively eliminated the three kings of Guanzhong (Yong Wang Zhanghan, Sai Wang Sima Xin, Zhai Wang Dong Feng) who Xiang Yu used to block his expansion of power. Then he led his army out to the east and attacked Pengcheng as far as the Chu-Han War, which had been officially staged. In the Chu-Han War from 206 BC to 202 BC, Xiang Yu was defeated by Liu Bang. "Five years of death of his country, death of dongcheng", the soul of wujiang.
In the Chu-Han War, although Xiang Yu had made a great victory over Pengcheng, he captured Xingyang and captured Chenggao, so that Liu Bang abandoned his father and was in a terrible state. However, Xiang Yu's men and horses fought less and less, and they could only struggle in the tide of history. Surrounded, the soldiers are starved, embattled, and the concubines are helpless. Xiang Yu borrowed wine to pour sorrow, and the long song was weeping. At the end of the hero's road, TaiShi Gong said: "King Xiang went to the Yin Tomb, lost the way, and asked Father Tian, Who said: 'Left.'" Left, it is trapped in Osawa. Pursued by the old Han. King Xiang was led east by his army, to Dongcheng, and there were twenty-eight horsemen, and thousands of Han horsemen followed him. Xiang Yu could not take off his own. "Zeng Lingfeng, the heroic ally of the eighteen princes of the world, only had twenty-eight horsemen to follow at this time, and in the face of the gushing waters of the Wu River, he crossed the east without a face, and the horizontal sword killed himself.