Preface
Every era has its own "tide makers", and Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are undoubtedly heroes who overthrew the tyranny of Qin II.
But in the end, only Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were left to fight for the world, the two were brothers who shared hardships, but in order to compete for the world, they became the overlord of the world and became enemies.
We all know that the final winner is Liu Bang, and the overlord of Western Chu is self-defeating in Wujiang, if Xiang Yu had chosen Jiangdong at the beginning, would there have been a different ending?
However, history is unchangeable, why did Xiang Yu finally refuse to cross Jiangdong? Is it really because he has no shame to face Jiangdong's father? In fact, it is because he discovered a secret that made him completely desperate, what is this secret?
First, the group of heroes compete for hegemony
In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, the world was already dissatisfied and resentful of the tyranny of Qin II.
In the end, only Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were left, and they were able to stand out from the troubled times, which shows that neither of them is an idle person, so Xiang Yu has come to the step of killing himself in Wujiang step by step?
Xiang Yu is actually not bad, born in a noble, his grandfather is Xiang Yan, a famous general of Chu State, I think back then, Chu State was also a big country, if there was no Qin Shi Huang, it was most likely to dominate the Chu State of the world.
However, as later generations of monarchs did not do their jobs, the state of Chu gradually went to a state of extinction, and was finally destroyed by the king of Qin with tricks, and it can be said that the whole state of Chu was very resentful.
In the end, only a good story of "although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu", after the Qin Dynasty only experienced Qin Shi Huang and an emperor, in the hands of Qin II, the world became disintegrated again, and heroes and heroes rose up.
Xiang Yu's uncle Xiang Liang also began to gather his subordinates, and took Xiang Yu with him, preparing to overthrow the Qin Dynasty, when Xiang Liang was still under the command of Yin Tong, Yin Tong said to Xiang Liang: "We are now going to raise an army against Qin, and you and Huan Chu have been named generals, and you want to destroy the Qin Dynasty for me." ”
Xiang Liang said to Yin Tong: "If you want to find Huan Chu, let Xiang Yu go, he knows where Huan Chu is." When Yin Tong called Xiang Yu over, Xiang Yu killed Yin Tong and carried Yin Tong's head out of the tent.
Yin Tong's subordinates saw that the leader was killed, and they were already in a mess, and Xiang Yu took advantage of the chaos to kill nearly 100 people, and the entire county government was in mourning, and the timid ones were already kneeling on the ground and couldn't get up.
Xiang Yu first gathered the powerful officials who were familiar with the local area, and explained to them the reason for raising troops against Qin, and there was a lesson from Yin Tong's past, even if someone had objections, he did not dare to express his opinion at this time.
So he raised troops in Wuzhong, and sent people to receive soldiers from the counties under Wuzhong County, and finally counted 8,000 elite soldiers, which was definitely a good thing for Xiang Yu.
After all, he already had some men under him, and then he deployed the heroes in the county, and sent them to serve as captains, Sima and other official positions, while Xiang Liang became the Huihui Ji Taishou, and Xiang Yu was a general, occupying various counties under his jurisdiction in the name of patrolling.
Second, brothers turn against each other and compete for the world
Later, Chen Sheng's rebel army was suppressed by the Qin army, Chen Sheng was killed, the situation changed, Xiang Liang summoned his subordinates to plan the rest of the matter, and Zeng Fan Zeng, a person from the nest, came to tell Xiang Liang that if the descendants of the Chu State chose to stand on their own, it would not last long.
Fortunately, Xiang Liang was more persuasive and thought that Fan Zeng's words were reasonable, so he found the king of Chu Huai - Sun Xiongxin among the people, and still made him the king of Chu Huai, and Xiang Liang proclaimed himself Wu Xinjun.
In fact, under the banner of Western Chu, it was convenient to act, Xiang Liang later led the army to defeat the Qin army in Dong'e, and sent Xiang Yu and Liu Bang to attack Chengyang respectively.
Finally defeated the Qin army in the east of Puyang, the Qin army was forced to retreat to Puyang City, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, the two generals, are still good brothers who broke the enemy together at this moment, but who would have thought that the two would later regard each other as fierce rivals.
In order to compete for the position of the overlord of the world, you fight to the death, fight for the blood, but at the moment you can't see the future so far, if you can see the future, the two will never come together.
Therefore, the top priority was how to defeat the Qin army in Puyang City, and the two did not choose to attack, but chose to attack Dingtao and kill Li You, the general of the Qin army.
Xiang Liang defeated the Qin army one after another, he was very happy, and at this time he was also complacent that he could have such a record, but he didn't know that danger was quietly coming.
It was precisely because he got carried away that he was bitten back by the Qin army and died for it. It turned out that at this time, the Qin army had sent a large number of reinforcements to support Zhang Han, and Zhang Han soon raided Xiangliang after receiving the support of the Qin army.
Xiang Liang was finally defeated and killed because he didn't have time to take precautions, and when Xiang Yu and Liu Bang attacked Chen Liu, they couldn't attack for a long time, and if they continued like this, everyone would be consumed here, so the two discussed retreating.
Xiang Yu led part of the army to be stationed in Pengchengxi, while Liu Bang led the rest of the army to be stationed in Dang, and then the two slowly came to the opposite side, especially as the other rebel armies were wiped out one after another, and the world was only in the hands of the two of them.
After the two were in the chasm and the peace was discussed, Xiang Yu led his troops to the east, but Liu Bang tore up the covenant at this time, breaking this balanced relationship, Liu Bang began to pursue Xiang Yu and tried to eliminate Xiang Yu in one fell swoop.
But Han Xin and Peng Yue, who had made an appointment with Liu Bang to pursue Xiang Yu together, did not come, which put Liu Bang, who was initially in the active position, in a passive situation.
Liu Bang took the initiative to pursue Xiang Yu but only relied on the help of Han Xin and Peng Yue and others, and now the two of them did not come, they were obviously powerless to fight Xiang Yu, and finally Xiang Yu defeated Liu Bang in turn, Liu Bang could only stand out in the deep ravines and ravines, waiting for rescue.
3. Self-slaughter in Wujiang
Liu Bang was waiting for his reinforcement Han Xin to come to rescue him, in order to be able to persuade Han Xin, he promised to seal the land for Han Xin, so Han Xin led the army to relieve Liu Bang from the siege until the Chu army flanked.
wanted to attack Xiang Yu from the east and west, and Peng Yue, the king of Liang, also led tens of thousands of troops from Liangdi, first to the south and then to the west, and Liu Bang's main army to force back the Chu army.
This is "one hero and three gangs", I have to say that Liu Bang has a lot of foreign aid, and Liu Bang relieved the besieged situation with the help of Han Xin and Peng Yue.
In short, Liu Bang relied on the help of all parties to force Xiang Yu back step by step, forcing Xiang Yu to retreat to the wall, at this time Xiang Yu was already facing the dilemma of running out of ammunition and food, and was also trapped in the encirclement of Liu Bang's hundreds of thousands of troops.
It can be said that the defeat is decided, but Xiang Yu still wants to fight, he led 800 cavalry to break through at night, and successfully broke through, and waited until dawn Liu Bang and others found that Xiang Yu had escaped.
Guan Ying immediately led 5,000 elite cavalry in pursuit, but when he crossed the Huai River, there were only more than 100 people left, and they were lost in Yinling, so he asked an old peasant for directions, and the old farmer replied, "Go to the left." ”
Xiang Yu trusted the old peasant so much, but unexpectedly, fell into a swamp, and when he got out, the Han army had chased over, after a fierce battle, Xiang Yu fled to the east in embarrassment, and when he reached the mountain in the east, there were only twenty-eight people around him, but thousands of Han soldiers were behind him.
In the face of such a predicament, Xiang Yu did not expect to surrender to the enemy, and also arranged troops, led the army to kill the enemy, and killed nearly 100 people, but until they fled to Wujiang, they did not know that Jiang Lang was exhausted, and the chief of Wujiang Pavilion persuaded Xiang Yu to return to Jiangdong, as long as people were able to make a comeback.
But Xiang Yu said that he had no face to face Jiangdong's father, rejected the pavilion chief's proposal, and killed himself in Wujiang, some people think that Xiang Yu is too heroic, but it is actually because he has seen through one thing.
This is human nature, from the old peasant framed him, he knew the ugliness of human nature, and he was disappointed in such human nature, and he also didn't want to return to Jiangdong and bring killing to his father and fellow villagers, after all, the victory or defeat had already been decided.
epilogue
If Xiang Yu returns to Jiangdong, before he can regroup, Liu Bang's army has already arrived, and it will aggravate the killing in Jiangdong, so it is better to end here, and Xiang Yu is also relieved, after all, what he has pursued all his life has made him understand that human nature is nothing more than that.
This secret is what really makes him despair.