It is difficult to describe what kind of role Fan Zeng played in Xiang Yu's heart. Although Xiang Yu verbally called him "Ya Father", in various military operations, he was also obedient to Fan Zeng, but with the increasing status, this "Sub Father" seemed to gradually become a stumbling block.
Figure | Stills of Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng
Many people have said that the two of them are incompatible in the end. In fact, from the beginning of the cooperation, they have been inseparable, laying the groundwork for the failure of the Xiangyu Group afterwards.
Talking about the differences between the two people is nothing more than the following three points:
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Fan Zeng's anti-Qin was more out of "national vendetta", he hated Zhang Yi for using tactics to deceive the king of Chu Huai to the Qin state, and even more hated that after the Qin state conquered the Chu state, it brought great trauma to the people of Chu.
Figure | Fan Zeng stills
This is not difficult to see from his dialogue with Xiang Liang:
Fu Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, and Chu was the most innocent. Since the king of Huai entered Qin, the Chu people have taken pity on him so far, so Chu Nan Gong said that 'although Chu has three households, qin will die in Chu' also.
"Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu" itself is a whining sentence, but Fan Zeng is convinced of it, and even uses it to persuade Xiang Liang to rebuild the Chu State, which shows that Fan Zeng loves the Chu State deeply.
Fan Zeng's original intention was to let the Xiang clan, a famous and prestigious clan of the Chu state, carry the banner of the Chu state, awaken the anti-Qin hearts of the people of the Six Kingdoms, support the descendants of the Chu royal family, and gradually realize the feat of unifying the world from the Chu dynasty to the Qin.
However, Xiang Yu was more of a "family hate" for the Qin state, his grandfather Xiang Yan was killed by the famous Qin general Wang Qi, as a family family, Xiang Yu was sown the seeds of revenge by the elders from an early age.
Figure | Xiang Yu stills
For the Chu royal family, he did not have great respect in his heart, and he did not want to give up the country he had laid.
The reason why Xiang Yu supported the king of Chu Huai was more like Cao Cao, blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order the princes. After he felt that the King of Chuhuai had lost its use value, he ordered Wu Rui, the king of Hengshan, and the king of Linjiang to quietly sink the king of Chuhuai to the bottom of the river.
He was envoy to Changsha Chenxian County, the Emissary of the Emperor. Emperor Quyi, whose courtiers betrayed him slightly, was the yin order hengshan and the king of Linjiang to kill jiangzhong.
Two people with different starting points have been forcibly pieced together by the times, and it is not surprising that they will argue in future decisions.
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The core of Xiang Yu's march lies in a "straight" word, and what he is good at is to drop ten meetings with one force, and this strategy to fight the tailwind bureau can be said to be tried and tested.
When xiangcheng was attacked, the soldiers and civilians of Xiangcheng swore to resist to the death, and Xiang Yu relied on blindly attacking, and finally successfully broke the city, and after breaking the city, he also killed many people to vent their anger.
Before the Battle of Julu, Song Yi was the nominal leader of the Chu army, and he wanted to wait for Qin and Zhao to lose both, and then reap the benefits. However, Xiang Yu thought of rapidly marching, and joined forces with the Zhao army to attack the Qin army.
Figure | Marching map of the Battle of the Giant Deer
In order to realize his ideas, how did Xiang Yu do it, he killed the chief song yi with a knife, completely disregarding the maintenance of his own image. What happened next was even more outrageous, he burned all the guys in the barracks, smashed pots and shipwrecks, and led more than 20,000 people to destroy the Qin army's ranks.
On the other hand, whether Fan Zeng offered a plan from Hongmen or persuaded Xiang xiang to kill Liu, he highlighted a "qu" character and did all kinds of strange and devious things.
Although two very different military ideas collide in the short term, due to the paranoia of the two personalities, in the long run, they will only hinder each other and affect the sustainability of military strategies.
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The group of "former dynasty" old ministers is both cute and hateful for any person in power. In the early days of the transition of power, they were able to stabilize people's minds, and once the superiors were in power, they became a stumbling block to giving orders.
As Xiang Liang's military division, Fan Zeng's prestige in this unit was naturally very high, so high that Xiang Yu had to pull him in.
However, after Xiang Yu killed Song Yi and broke the Qin army, collected Zhang Handan, and sat firmly in the position of the main general, Fan Zeng's role could not help but be embarrassed. Especially at the Hongmen Banquet, Fan Zeng could actually step over a hand and directly give orders to Xiang Yu's brother Xiang Zhuang. Against his will, Xiang Zhuang drew his sword and tried to kill Liu Bang.
Figure | Hongmen Feast
What made Xiang Yu most angry was that Fan Zeng actually did not care about his own face at all, and after Liu Bang fled, he threw his face in front of Zhang Liang and angrily rebuked himself:
alas! The shaft is insufficient and conspiratorial. Whoever seizes the king of the world will be the Prince of Pei, and I am now a captive.
"Good words are warm in three winters, and bad words are cold in three springs."
Fan Zeng dared to count xiang yu like a son in front of outsiders like a son. Xiang Yu already felt the threat that this old minister was facing himself.
At this time, Fan Zeng not only did not have a way to temporarily fade out of Xiang Yu's line of sight, blurring the aura of his "former dynasty" old minister. Instead, he often hung around in front of Xiang Yu, nagging every day: "Where is Liu Bang, kill Liu Bang." ”
Even if Xiang Yu really adopted his plan and pursued Liu Bang, at the same time, his suspicions about this "sub-father" became heavier and deeper, and the estrangement became deeper and deeper.
This point was precisely grasped by Chen Ping, who only slightly strayed and successfully divided the cooperative relationship between Xiang, Fan's first and second in command.
For superiors and subordinates, only the pursuit of common interests, or similar ideals and beliefs, can build sufficient trust. Like Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng, the leaders and subordinates who seem to be in harmony with each other can only lead to failure.
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