After the gap agreement was signed, Xiang Yu led his troops back to the east. Liu Bang originally wanted to let the Han army also have a good rest, but Chen Ping, Zhang Liang, and others advised him: "This is a good opportunity to sweep the Chu army to the end, and letting the tiger return to the mountain is doomed to be an endless disaster." Liu Bang was not as kind as Xiang Yu, and immediately tore up the covenant and sent troops to besiege Xiang Yu. Han Xin and Peng Yue had said that they would send troops to help Liu Bang, but because the conditions were not negotiated, they stood by and watched. Liu Bang had no choice but to agree to give Han Xin a land seal, and Han Xin led a large army south from Qidi, and Peng Yue also set out from Liangdi.
Han Xin and Peng Yue
After that, the Han general Liu Jia led tens of thousands of troops to join Wang Yingbu of Jiujiang, joined forces of 100,000 troops, and set out for Huaibei. At the same time, Sima Zhou yin rebelled against Chu and surrendered to Han, first slaughtering the six counties, and then joining forces with Liu Jia and Yingbu. Xiang Yu was defeated for a while, so he had to retreat to Xiaxia with an army of 100,000. Under the command, Han Xin ordered the left and right wings to pack The Xiang Yu Army. Xiang Yu could not resist and led his army to retreat, Han Xin took advantage of the situation to counterattack, and the Chu army was defeated. After that, Xiang Yu retreated to the fortress and held on, and Liu Bang surrounded Xiang Yu with hundreds of thousands of troops.
Liu
At the moment of crisis, Xiang Yu took eight hundred horses to break through at night. By the time he crossed the Huai River, there were only about a hundred cavalry left around him. While in the Yin Tomb, Xiang Yu got lost. An old farmer deliberately pointed him in the wrong direction, causing his party to sink into a swamp. When Xiang Yu came out, there were only 28 riders left. Xiang Yu felt ashamed of Jiangdong's father and brother who followed him into death, so he killed himself in Wujiang. If the situation on the battlefield is reversed and in the end It is Xiang Yu who wins, can Xiang Yu be called emperor like Liu Bang?
Xiang Yu
In the editor's opinion, it is unlikely. First of all, Xiang Yu did not have the idea of being emperor, and he preferred to restore the pattern of fragmentation in the Warring States period. Xiang Yu was born into the nobility of the Chu State, so he had a strong sense of identification with the Chu State. However, for Qin Shi Huang's policy of unifying the world, he scoffed. In his mind, it is very good for countries to manage their own government affairs, and it is not good to integrate the world into one country. He might as well be a hegemon and subject the monarchs of other countries to his obscenity. In fact, after the Battle of the Giant Deer, he divided the Eighteen Road Princes to see it. He just wanted to be the "overlord", not the emperor.
Secondly, Xiang Yu was a tyrannical person, and there would be many people who opposed the emperor. Xiang Yu advocated the use of force to solve problems, often countering violence with violence. As everyone knows, this will cause a backlash from the people below. If he wants to claim the title of emperor, there must be many opponents. And when he first led everyone to overthrow the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty and sat up on it himself, he also punched his face a little.
Finally, Liu Bang's military clique objected. Liu Bang pulled many allies in the process of confrontation with Xiang Yu, and Han Xin was one of them. If Xiang Yu had only killed Liu Bang and Han Xin and other generals were still alive, then they would not have let Xiang Yu sit firmly on the throne. Considering all, Xiang Yu would not be called emperor.