Some people ask me, if Xiang Yu won the world, would Chinese history be rewritten?
Cough, I am going to criticize this friend, history has no assumptions, history will not rewrite. And who told you that Xiang Yu did not win the world, in fact, he did seize the world, but he just did not sit still.
So, why did he obviously seize the world, but finally lost it?
Xiang Yu was a tragic figure in history, with the name of the King of Western Chu, and later when he competed with Liu Bang, the King of Han, he was defeated and killed, which also triggered people's praise and regret for him for more than 2,000 years:
"Born as a master, dead as a ghost."
"Pull up the mountain and be angry."
"Empty songs pull up the mountain power, shame to be a river crosser."
Xiang Yu's personal combat ability is also ranked first in the entire history of China. Compared with the future of the Three Kingdoms Martial Arts that we are most familiar with, Xiang Yu can completely become the leader of the group, even if the Three Kingdoms single out King Lü Bu, he must bow down in front of Xiang Yu.
Lü Bu's reputation is very large, but the force has not reached a jaw-dropping point, which also led to his death, many military generals also dared to think of themselves as "not down to Lü Bu's courage".
Xiang Yu is different, and no one has ever heard of it in later generations, and some people dare to call themselves "the courage of No Less Than Xiang Yu"
Xiang Yu's courage was not blown out, it was done, as early as the beginning of the army, he alone killed Yin Tong's hundred and ten people, and later, the soldiers saw that he was trembling and did not dare to lean forward.
When the others saw Lü Bu, although they knew that he was strong, they still wanted to try it, but when they saw Xiang Yu, they didn't have the courage to try it. Even in the end, Xiang Yu Wujiang killed himself, and after killing several people in a row, he ended up with himself.
This kind of momentum and sense of oppression is really not what ordinary martial artists have!
Xiang Yu's personal combat strength is strong, does not mean that the command ability is poor, even if he is put into the Three Kingdoms period, his command ability is also ranked in the first camp!
Looking at the entire history of the late Qin Dynasty, the battles commanded by Xiang Yu were either small in numbers or insufficient grain and grass, in short, they were always at a disadvantage. But even under such circumstances, he was invincible and invincible, rising up for eight years, fighting more than seventy battles, and almost never losing once.
For example, in the Battle of the Giant Deer, Xiang Yu broke through the cauldron and destroyed the elite of the Qin Dynasty with a disadvantage of ten times the strength of the army. For example, in the Battle of Pengcheng, Xiang Yu's 30,000 cavalry defeated Liu Bang's 560,000 allied troops in half a day, and even his father and wife were captured by Xiang Yu.
But almost all victories do not mean all, Xiang Yu lost once in the battle of Xiaxia, but just this time, he could not stand it, and expressed his attitude of not being able to accept defeat in a self-assertive way.
It is said that it is easy to fight the world, it is difficult to sit in the world, Xiang Yu is a hero with romantic colors, and he cannot tolerate a grain of sand in his eyes.
In addition to what is written in our history books, the sub-feudal system promoted by Xiang Yu represents the advanced difference between backwardness and the county system promoted by Liu Bang.
For example, after Xiang Yu won the world, he adopted a sub-sealing system, and divided all the people who looked good, had relatives, and made meritorious contributions! Nineteen countries were sealed out at this moment, as long as there were people who had rivers and lakes, these countries were mixed up in the blink of an eye, and no one maintained order anyway, so it was up to the fist to speak.
In addition, Xiang Yu's failure is more due to his personal character defects.
Xiang Yu, just look at his name, the Western Chu Overlord, the Overlord is the representative of the hegemony, which also leads to his self-centeredness everywhere and cannot listen to the opinions of others.
For example, his only adviser, Fan Zeng, his second father, had been persuading him to kill Liu Bang, and was eventually jealous of Xiang Yu and left. For example, Han Xin, who had come to him, Xiang Yu did not take him seriously, nor did he hear the opinions, and eventually pushed him to the opposite side. Another example is the fisherman, who obviously rowed to the edge of the Wu River, and Xiang Yu was even more stubborn and did not leave, and finally died here.
In fact, as early as the process of Xiang Yu's seizure of the world, he did three things that made ordinary people feel strange, which was also doomed, he could not sit in the world at all:
Xiang Yu just suffered the loss of no culture, but if he read more books when he was a child, he would not end up losing so badly. He hadn't read much, nor had he learned any martial arts, all he had was hatred for the Qin state, and as the hatred value increased, it was transformed into a force value.
Xiang Yu's grandfather was Xiang Yan and his uncle was Xiang Liang, both of whom died at the hands of Qin generals. After Chen Sheng's Wuguang uprising, the Six Kingdoms of Shandong were restored, and naturally ushered in the Qin Empire's fierce pursuit.
Among them, the most effective one was the Chu State, which was powerful, but compared with Wang Li and Zhang Handan's large army, it was also not good, and Xiang Liang was killed in battle. Just when the Qin army formed a siege and was about to crush the coalition army trapped in the giant deer, Xiang Yu stood up and carried out the famous battle of the giant deer in history, which won more with less, and evolved into an idiom called "breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat".
Xiang Yu became famous in battle!
The later war against Qin was basically destroyed, which also caused Xiang Yu's arrogant personality. After entering Xianyang, he immediately shouted Liu Bang, who arrived one step ahead: You think that you can become king by entering Xianyang first, you are still young, and you will quickly roll up and leave!
And Liu Bang didn't dare to say a word, packed up his things and ran.
In fact, in addition to Xiang Yu's arrogance, xiang Yu was full of unconfidence in dealing with Qin Guo, or fear, and even suspected that his power had exploded, and it was this fear that was at work!
That's why he did three incredible things:
The first thing happened, Zhang Handan surrendered to him with 200,000 people, which was originally a gesture of goodwill to avoid unnecessary casualties. But Xiang Yu was good, as soon as he saw that he had surrendered, it was very good, so he killed them all, so these 200,000 people were killed by the pit.
You must know that Zhang Handan's 200,000-strong army was not an elite soldier born and raised in the Qin Dynasty, but a prisoner and migrant worker recruited from the Six Kingdoms. Even if Xiang Yu had hatred for the Qin State, he should also screen it and kill it in a targeted manner?
Some people said that maybe he learned that Qin would be white, and didn't he kill 400,000 Zhao Guo pawns in that year? At that time, the Killing of the Qin State had the effect of deterring other countries, and it was also the reason for killing the elite of the Zhao State once and for all and consuming the national strength of the Zhao State. Under the premise that the overall situation had been decided, Xiang Yu's killing of these 200,000 troops was really incomprehensible.
Even after those cities that refused to surrender were breached, Xiang Yu was indiscriminately killed, such as the xiangcheng slaughter, the pit killing of civilians, and the men, women, and children did not stay. Another example is the slaughter of chengyang, the reason is that the people in the city help the Qin army to resist, and it is also a no-stay. Later, after breaking the State of Qi, Xiang Yu played tucheng again, forcing the State of Qi, which had already surrendered, to rebel again.
It can be seen from this that surrender is death, not surrendering is also death, and xiang Yu cannot see the possibility of protecting the border and the people, and people cannot see hope.
The second thing is the fate of the last emperor of the Qin Kingdom, and the child is not the son of Qin Shi Huang, because Qin Shi Huang's son has been killed by the second Hu Hai.
Zi Bao was a relatively wise king, when Hu Hai killed innocents indiscriminately, he also jumped out to stop it, such as Meng Tian and Meng Yi were killed, he argued according to reason, but unfortunately did not succeed. Later, Hu Hai was forced to kill by Zhao Gao, who originally wanted to establish himself as emperor, but the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu did not approve, and in desperation, he made his son the King of Qin. The reason why he failed to claim the title of emperor was because Zhao Gao felt that the Six Kingdoms had rebelled, the State of Qin had lost control, and it was not conducive to calling the emperor himself to replace him.
Zi Bao was very powerful, and on the fifth day of his reign, he killed Zhao Gao, which shows that this person is still worthy of the hearts of the Qin people.
After Liu Bang entered Xianyang, Zi Bao did not resist and directly took the Chuanguo Jade Seal out of the city and surrendered. Fan Duo had suggested that Liu Bang kill him, but was reprimanded, Liu Bang not only did not kill the child, the relationship between the two was once good, often chatting together or something, Liu Bang even proposed that the child could still be the king of Qin in the future.
However, the good times did not last long, Xiang Yu's army arrived, without saying a word, immediately executed the baby, the execution was just that, and also chose a rather cruel waist beheading. It is to cut people in half from the middle, so that people cannot die at the beginning, and they will suffer a lot before they slowly die, which is very cruel.
Xiang Yu's move suddenly chilled the hearts of the entire Qin people, if he really wanted to execute the baby, the problem that could have been solved by a cup of poisonous wine and a white silk could be solved by Xiang Yu had to be so cruel.
The third thing was that Xiang Yu's fire was burning Xianyang, and in his bones, he looked down on other people except the Chu people, and he didn't have the world in mind at all.
In this regard, he was not even as good as Li Zicheng, wherever Xiang Yu's army went, burning and looting, and he did not even think about protecting the border and the people. All he could think of was to move all the wealth of the whole country to the Chu Kingdom, like "the rich and the noble do not return to their hometowns, just like the night of the brocade", that is to say, he said.
According to the ideas of ordinary people, the army has entered Xianyang, which is the wealth center of the country and has so many majestic buildings. Now to sit in the world, to be an emperor, of course, can not destroy these have become their own wealth.
Unfortunately, Xiang Yu's brain circuit is always so special, a fire burned Xianyang, and the "Afang Palace Fu" that we learned when we were reading is the scene described before the Afang Palace was burned. The fire burned for three months, how many people had to regret this, and how many people would feel that Xiang Yu had a mental problem?
Of course, it was not that no one had persuaded him, at that time there was a Confucian named Han Sheng, he came to persuade Xiang Yu, you want to become emperor in the future, why did you burn the imperial city?
What kind of person Xiang Yu is, as we said before, he will not listen to other people's opinions at all. If you want others to have no opinion, trying to convince the other party is too troublesome, it is better to kill him, so that there is no opinion?
In this way, Xiang Yu asked someone to throw Han Sheng into the pot and boil him alive...
Such a selfish and conceited Western Chu overlord Xiang Yu, who could not listen to the advice of others, he eventually lost to Liu Bang, which was too normal. Even without Liu Bang, he couldn't sit steadily in the Jiangshan, because he had never thought of sitting in the Jiangshan at all!