When it comes to the Chu-Han dispute, everyone will definitely think of Xiang Yu. The name Ofehu of Western Chu is also very well known today, and Xiang Yu's failure was mainly because his subordinate Yingbu betrayed him. So why did Yingbu betray Xiang Yu? This question is puzzling, but if we dig closely, we will find that he is not difficult to explain, and it is actually very obvious.
In the era of the Chu-Han War, Yingbu can be said to be the most outstanding general under Xiang Yu, very brave and invincible, and has achieved many excellent records. Xiang Yu would also be proud of him. And often praised him, and because of this, It was because of this that Yingbu had a later betrayal. Later, Yingbu's strength became stronger and stronger, and because of this, his personality was slowly changing. With the powerful ambition of strength also continues to expand. Over time, this fact has been proven.
Yingbu, a person, was very loyal to Xiang Yu at the beginning, and was always loyal when doing things for Xiang Yu. But then his disposition deteriorated and he wanted to develop his own power. Unwilling to serve others, he even later wanted to murder Xiang Yu. There is such a record in history that once when Xiang Yu and Tian Rong fought, they were ready to attack Jiujiang. To prevent himself from losing the battle, he asked Yingbu to come to his aid. However, Xiang Yu did not calculate it, like Yingbu was actually ill at this time, and only sent less than 10,000 troops to support Xiang Yu, and when Liu Bang later attacked Pengcheng, Yingbu was even more unable to save him.
Since it was a war, it was always so careless, it was easy to let his side lose victory, so that later it led to the fall of Pengcheng, and Xiang Yu lost the battle for the first time. In fact, Xiang Yu is also very smart, he has long discovered this change in Yingbu, even if he is sick repeatedly, he will not casually find an excuse not to fight, so there is some estrangement between them, and there is no such cordiality as before. Xiang Yu also no longer reused Yingbu, but Yingbu was not willing to stop there, which led to the later betrayal of Xiang Yu.
In fact, he had already agreed to defect to Liu Bang, when the advisers of the Chu army just came to Huainan, and then rebuked Yingbu and urged him to quickly attack Liu Bang's troops. However, the Envoy of the Han Army, who happened to consult with Yingbu, happened to enter the Chu army camp. He also said that the King of Jiujiang had already surrendered to Liu Bang, so what was the use of sending troops? At that time, Yingbu was very surprised, and Xiang Yu's emissaries saw this and quickly fled. And the emissary of the Han army said, since he already knew that you betrayed Xiang Yu, then there was no need to stay, and in desperation, Yingbu had to kill the chu army's strategist. And openly betrayed Xiang Yu.
Later, when Liu Bang seized the world, he frankly asked Yingbu why he wanted to rebel and submit to me. Yingbu also said without hesitation, because I also wanted to be emperor, and you were not strong at that time. From these conversations, it can be seen that Yingbu actually has great ambitions, and even wants to overthrow Xiang Yu and then consolidate his position, but until later he did not realize his wish.