One of the main forces in the peasant revolt at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu's army destroyed more than 300,000 Qin troops in the Battle of Jie Deer, leading to the final demise of the Qin Dynasty. Xiang Yu was young, brave, powerful, with outstanding skills, holding a zhang eight spear, with a piebald horse under his seat, and was invincible at birth and in death. After the destruction of Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu, relying on his high position and strength, established himself as the hegemonic king of West Chu. He re-divided the unified China into eighteen vassals, not according to the size of the battle, military strength, but according to his own will, which caused dissatisfaction among the vassals. The most powerful of them was Liu Bang, who was made King of Han, and was in charge of the areas of Ba, Shu and Hanzhong. This is the place where the Qin dynasty banished the prisoners, the Han army generals are mostly from Shandong, who do not want to be far away from home to this remote barren and savage land, the soldiers and generals often escape.
Liu Bang was very annoyed with Xiang Yu, but he is a person with a great heart, listening to the strategist's plan, to build up their strength, taking the opportunity of the king of the army to send troops to attack Qi, to send troops to capture Guanzhong, to seize the son of the king of the land, and to take advantage of the victory to move east. The king of Chu was furious, and with the military superiority of primus inter pares, he returned to his army and defeated Liu Bang, and the war between them was fought for five whole years. The soldiers were fatigued and tired of fighting, the grain and grass were not good, and the common people had no intention to cultivate, making it difficult to live a life. Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were finally forced to make a truce and make peace, both sides set the divide of Xianyang as the boundary, the east belongs to the Chu land, the west belongs to the Han land, and each of them guards the boundary, and no longer violates each other. Xiang Yu and Liu Bang exchanged documents, and Liu asked Xiang Yu to release his father and his wife Lu, who were captured by the Chu army during the war. Xiang Yu was generous and immediately released these two important hostages, for which Liu Bang was grateful.
The next year, Liu Bang suddenly reneged on his promise and took advantage of Xiang Yu's withdrawal to pursue and annihilate the Chu army with all his might. The king of Chu was furious and scolded Liu Bang, the treacherous villain, and quickly gathered 300,000 men to attack Liu Bang's Han army back. With his hands a long spear and incomparable bravery, invincible, straight to kill the Han army Han will hold his head, quickly retreated to the territory of Chenggao, closed the city gates, called the war not.
Liu Bang is a good person with wisdom, under the hands of a number of resourceful military advisers and generals, they are determined to unite the king of Qi, Han Xin, Wei Xiangguo Peng Yue, and other powerful vassals together with the siege of Xiang Yu. Liu Bang also made a promise that as long as Xiang Yu was defeated, he would give the land of Linzi and Daliang to Han Xin and Peng Yue. All the vassals get the promise, more embracing Liu Bang, several branches of the people converge one, more soldiers, food, momentum, a siege of the Western Chu king of the war will begin.
Liu Bang first worship marshal is resourceful, able to fight Han Xin. Their first military action, is to use the strategist Zhang Liang's strategy, by the time the Chu army besieged the solid Ling, quietly sent five thousand soldiers around to the Chu army camp grain, set fire to the Chu army's granary, burying the king Xiang Yu later battle without grain supply of the root of the trouble.
Xiang Yu's bravery is unparalleled, and his generals are all brave and good at fighting. How to design Xiang Yu out of his own tent position, a mistake of a no retreat, surrounded, all annihilated? Marshal Han Xin personally led his strategists to look around the terrain. Finally selected in the Anhui Jiu Li mountains, deployed troops set up ten ambush, and at the same time, sent the articulate strategist Li Zuo Che fraudulent surrender, to obtain Xiang Yu's trust, luring him into the trap of ten ambush.
Xiang Yu, the overlord, had hundreds of thousands of men, but his strength was far from being comparable to that of the encircling Liu Bang's army, and he was determined to keep his city in a deep ditch, not to fight with Liu Bang's huge army head-on and kill him. Moreover, Jiangdong is the place where Xiang Yu started his army, people's hearts return to the king, as long as they patiently hold their position and never attack rashly, after one or two months, the Han army will retreat without a fight if they can't get food and grass. However, Xiang Yu's biggest regret is that there are no smart and capable strategists around.
On this day, Xiang Yu's uncle, Xiang Bo, hurriedly reported with excitement that there was a surrendered strategist, Li Zuo Che, in the Han army, who wanted to see the king and was willing to work for the king. Xiang Yu was worried that he had no one to advise him, but he was pleasantly surprised to see a Li Zuo Che in the daytime. What's more, this Li Zuoqi's encounter is known to all: he had assisted the king of Zhao in front of the state affairs, not to be reused; he defected to Han Xin, who was appointed as the king of Qi, proud and self-confident, and all plans are decided by himself, and he didn't listen to the words of his ministers, didn't follow the plans, and fled from them in nine out of ten cases, so naturally Li Zuoqi can't escape from such a situation. Xiang Yu thought highly of Li Zuo Che, and immediately sent someone to introduce him into his tent for questioning and investigation. Li Zuo Che was humble and cautious, and looked very sincere: "Your Majesty, I have no one to rely on, and I am willing to join the army, if I can get your trust, even if you ask me to pay for it with my life, I am willing to do so." Xiang Yu is very satisfied with his demeanor, however, the two armies are currently at war, and there are too many spies who swindled their way to surrender, so we can't afford not to be on guard! Xiang Bo straightened up and probed from the side: "When two countries are at war, we have to guard against people who fraudulently surrender."
"I'm just a strategist, and can not lead the troops on - array combat, is what plan, but also just say it, by everyone to discuss, listen to not listen to the last is still in the king. As for the strength of your side of the arrangement of the real, Han Xin has long been probing the report, there is no need for me to risk the risk of killing the head of the fraudulent surrender to probe. If the king sees doubt, it is my two eyes are not clear, mistakenly cast his master, it is the greatest folly, it would be better to die in front of the king, to make clear the heart."
Li Zuo Che then crashed into the pillar beside him, and was saved by the people. The king of the country is a learned and wise man, and the king of the country sees his courage and loyalty, and naturally wants to hear from him about the realities of Liu Bang's camp, so he keeps him by his side.
Xiang Yu's army held its ground, not to attack, the whole camp quietly, to wait for the enemy. This day, scouts suddenly came to report that Han Xin's army was in Gaixia, and posted a list of insults to the king, which was copied and presented to the king for a closer look. The list reads, "The people's hearts are all against Chu, the will of heaven belongs to Yan Liu, the sword light generates flames, and wants to cut off the head of Lord Xiang.
Xiang Yu's temperament is fierce and violent, and he can't tolerate others to make fun of him! He immediately ordered troops to capture Han Xin, Zhou Lan and other generals desperately blocked: "This is Han Xin's plan to lure troops, but just wrote a few lines of bullshit poetry, inciting the king's anger, you can not act rashly."
Xiang Yu turned around and deliberately sought Li Zuo Che's opinion.
Li Zuo Che said; "Han Xin is an arrogant and arrogant person, and he intentionally spouted crazy words, which can't scare the king at all. However, in my opinion, you want to save your strength, you can not always hide not moving, you think Han Xin they can not wait a long time not to fight, socket white let soldiers and horses to consume food and grass, they see you a long time to defend not to attack, will certainly transfer the power to attack your territory Pengcheng, such as Pengcheng lost, you can be homeless. If you take the initiative to lead your troops to battle, and win the battle, you can naturally break Liu Bang's Han army; if you can't win, you can still retreat to Pengcheng, which is a foolproof plan to advance to battle and retreat to defend. However, I am a first-timer, I dare not talk too much."
Li Zuoqi's skillful tongue, forceful argument, left and right, everywhere reasonable, finally convinced the headstrong Xiang Yu initiative to attack, leading 100,000 troops to Gaixia.
Xiang Yu's important minister Yu Ziqi is the brother of his favorite concubine Yu Ji, and he is loyal to Xiang Yu. He can see that Li Zuoqi's heart is not right, but Xiang Yu is very hard to listen to other people's opinions, and he has no choice but to go to his sister and persuade him to come back to his senses. Yu Ji has been following Xiang Yu's campaign for many years, not only is she beautiful and smart, but because she has been studying and practicing the sword since she was young, she understands her husband's endowment, and she often shares her husband's worries and difficulties, and Xiang Yu can also listen to her counseling. Today, I listened to my brother talk about Li Zuo car, worried, secretly anxious: the king of this arbitrary, refused to accept the arrogant character of loyal advice, the day long will be defeated in the hands of Liu Bang.
Very late, Xiang Yu returned to his tent to rest, Yu Ji saw Xiang Yu's face gloomy, more and more careful to wait for him, for him to take off his helmet and remove his armor, and asked him why he was angry. Xiang Yu said, "Liu Bang, the ungrateful villain, has been fighting with me for a long time, and he has been slandering the king."
Yu Ji took the opportunity to advise: "The way to use the army is to know yourself and know your enemy, if you are angry, hasty troops, I'm afraid that Liu Bang's Han army is powerful, Han Xin's army is more tricky, the end is not the king's blessing ah!" "Consort's words, every word is reasonable, lone if delayed dare not send troops, will not be the world vassals make fun of?"
"A great man can bend and stretch, why fear others laughing? In addition, Li Zuo Che's sharp teeth, the details are not clear, you need to be more careful as."
Xiang Yu's attack has been finalized, even Yu Ji's bitter words also feel annoyed and nagging: "Lone from the start of the campaign, never fought a losing battle. I've never lost a battle. I'm not going to go back if I don't destroy Han. Consort do not have to say much, tomorrow the army, consort with lone peer!"
Yu Ji was afraid to annoy Xiang Yu, no more words, ordered people to set up wine, wait for the king to drink to relieve their worries.
The next day, the Chu camp horns sounded, flags fluttered, Xiang Yu boarded the stage, pointing out all the troops, ready to go to war. Suddenly, dark clouds rolled over in the sky, and a gust of wind blew up, breaking the flagpole of the banner, and Xiang Yu's Zhui was shaking all over the body, jumping and roaring. The soldiers were shocked and alarmed, and Xiang Yu's favorite general, Zhou Lan, said, "The flag is broken and the horse is roaring, which is not good for the army.
Yu Ji also advised: "Today's troops; hope that the king will listen to the advice, so that you can win a hundred battles."
Xiang Yu grunted in his nose, he and Liu Bang fought seventy campaigns, never defeated, today, the arrow on the string, the knife out of the sheath, the departure of the imminent, there is no reason to return?
In this key, Li Zuo Che also took the opportunity to report a good news to the king: Han Xin is very happy, gathered a lot of soldiers and generals, but do not know that the drag is also too big, see the food and grass can not be, he has ordered part of the army to return to the resident, Han Wang Liu Bang also led a part of the men and women back to Chenggao, we should take this opportunity to speed up the march to attack the Han army. When Xiang Yu heard this news, his determination to attack became stronger, and he immediately led his army to Gaixia.
After Xiang Yu's army was stationed in Gaixia, his heart was not steady, and he sent people to spy on Liu Bang and Han Xin's retreat. The spy reported that Han Xin's camp was stationed on the east side of Jiu Li Mountain, and all the camps were connected with each other, and there were many soldiers and food, and the momentum was great, and there was no intention of retreating. Xiang Yu was shocked after hearing this and exclaimed with a pair of disoriented round eyes, "Oops! Our army has fallen into a heavy siege!"
Xiang Yu urgently ordered to find Li Zuo Che, has long disappeared. The mission of Li Zuo Che to lure the enemy into a deep ambush has been successfully accomplished, and he sneaks back to the Han camp to resume his duties.
Han Xin saw the fish on the hook, he arranged for Liu Bang and Xiang Yu personally, the next day the two sides of the battle, Xiang Yu saw Liu Bang, extraordinarily angry, cursing: "You have no faith in the villain, the former defeat of the solid Mausoleum, to save you from death, between five years, did not fight with you, today, it is deserved that you bumped into my gun, I will make sure that you must be dead. "
Liu Bang heard, not angry, still use words to stimulate Xiang Yu; "Lone and you do not fight the battle of wits, today's battle, teach you to wipe out the whole army."
The two armies fought each other, Liu Bang feigned defeat and lured Xiang Yu to chase and kill a few miles away, to seal a mountain pass, Xiang Bo was afraid of deception, and reminded: "Your Majesty, don't be fooled by Liu Bang's trick of luring the enemy deeper and deeper into the mountain."
Xiang Yu suddenly realized that, lets the Zhui, orders to retreat, the army suddenly turned his head to retreat. The mountain suddenly shouted Xiang Yu's name, and it was the spy Li Zuo Che: "Please turn to me, my lord, the Han Dynasty is rising, the Chu Kingdom is dying, my lord is in the cage, why don't you take advantage of this to return to the throne?
Xiang Yu saw another enemy, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
Just turned the head of the Chu army and lah lah again turned his head, do not know how to die into the nine miles of the mountain pass, drilling into the Liu Bang, Han Xin set up a ten-sided ambush, the Han army to get, quickly surrounded the Chu army.
Xiang Yu, with a gun in the palm of his hand, rushed left and right, killed a batch and a batch of people, killed a layer and a layer, 100,000 people how to beat 300,000 people carefully laid out the siege? In the middle of the crisis, the Chu generals Zhong Li Mai and Zhou Lan risked their lives to enter the siege and protect Xiang Yu, and Zhou Lan was killed in action.
The ambush laid by Han Xin won a great victory, but Xiang Yu escaped.
Xiang Yu, the defeated Xiang Yu, walked into the tent, his face was blue, Yu Ji had never seen her husband defeated, her heart was very difficult. But she tried her best to restrain her emotions and comforted the king. From then on, they decided to hold the camp firmly and not to attack any more, just waiting for the Han army to retreat without food. But they never expected, the Chu army's grain depot has been burned by the Han army, even the grain road is cut off, the three armies have no food, military spirit is shaken, complaints.
Some said, "The king only drinks and gets angry!"
Some said, "The king can't distinguish between the loyal and the treacherous, and will only be deceived!"
Some hard to kill out, better than stay here and wait for death,
Xiang Yu in the tent at the moment, at a loss, Yu Ji is busy for the king to set up a drink to relieve boredom. A few cups of wine, outside the tent, a gust of west wind blowing, tree branches swish, seemingly countless souls crying, Xiang Yu sighed: "This is the death of my Chu, the crime of non-combat!
Yu Ji listened to these words, a sense of foreboding, see the day is not early, waiting for her husband to undress early to rest, her heart is not solid, carry a lamp out of the tent patrol.
The moon is bright, deeper and quieter, the night winds vaguely over a very familiar song, the song is from the opposite side of the Liu Bang army camp out, singing is Chu song. Could it be that the king's Chu land has been occupied by Liu Bang? Otherwise, how would someone in the Han camp will sing Chu songs, it is not Liu Bang enlisted the Chu land of Chu people to enrich the Han army? It's really worrying.
The singing of Chu songs in the Han army is a ploy used by Han Xin to shake Xiang Yu's Chu army. He deliberately taught the Han army to sing the songs of their hometowns, and the familiar sounds of the countryside aroused the sons and daughters of the Chu army to miss their parents, wives and children, and their hometowns, and also made them mistakenly think that Liu Bang had occupied their hometowns. And they are trapped in Gaixia, no food and grass inside, no rescue troops outside, sitting and waiting for death. Listening to these heart-wrenching native sounds, the Chu army deserted in twos and threes, and later on the whole batch of them even slipped away.
Tonight, Yu Ji night patrol, only to hear these disturbing the heart of the army of Chu song, busy into the tent to wake up the king, together with out of the tent to listen to, the king heard the song of Chu, can not help but be shocked: "The enemy army is mostly Chu people, must be Liu Bang has been the Chu land, orphaned, no retreat, the momentum to go! Alas! The former how I Xiang Yu can win, because the heroes of all walks of life fight separately, the lone family can eliminate a place, and then occupy a place. Now all the people gathered together to attack me, you and I are trapped in Gaixia, fewer soldiers and food, can not defend. I am determined to fight with the thieves again, and it is difficult to determine whether I will win or lose.
Yu Ji listened to these words, has been sobbing uncontrollably.
Xiang Yu came out of his tent and caressed the horse that accompanied him to his death. The first time I saw it, I was so happy to see it, and I was so happy to see it, and I was so happy to see it, and I was so happy to see it, and I was so happy to see it, and I was so happy to see it, and I was so happy to see it, and I was so happy to see it, and I was so happy to see it.
Yu Ji also persuaded Xiang Yu into the tent, drinking to relieve the boredom, a few cups of wine, Xiang Yu generous sad song:
cough! I'm not going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it.
The power of the mountains, the gas cover the world,
The time is not favorable, piebald does not pass,
Zhui does not pass, what can be done,
Yu Xue Xue Xue Nai Ruohuo.
Yu Ji has been following Xiang Yu for many years, but she has never seen her husband sing so y and sadly. Knowing that her time with Xiang Yu is running out, she puts on her beautiful clothes, holds her sword, and dances and sings: "I advise the king to drink and listen to Yu's song, and I relieve his sorrow by dancing in a pas de deux, but I know that I have to be a hero because I have no way of destroying my kingdom. The old saying is not deceiving me, success or failure, rise and fall in a flash, drink wine and sit in the treasure tent!"
Xiang Yu is drinking wine to kill his sorrows, and suddenly the scouting horse reported: "The army is under pressure, and the Han army is besieging us in four ways."
Xiang Yu immediately came out of the tent, and the scouting horse reported: "The four sides of Chu Ge, eight thousand soldiers have been scattered."
Xiang Yu knew the situation was over! He urged his wife to put on her robes and quickly follow him out of the siege. At this time, Yu Ziqi also came to protect the king to break through the siege, Yu Ji did not want to drag Xiang Yu, calmly instructed her husband: "This time, if there is a disadvantage, and retreated to the east of the Yangtze River, and then try to move forward, I hope that you will take care of your own king."
Instead, Yu Ji took out Xiang Yu's sword and cut her own throat.
Xiang Yu puts on his black horse, like a wounded tiger, and leads the last 800 soldiers to break out of the siege. After daybreak, the Han army realized that Xiang Yu was the one who broke through the siege and fled south last night, and Han Xin hurriedly ordered his general, Gu Ying, to lead 5,000 cavalry to chase Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu had already crossed the Huaihe River, and there were no more than a hundred people following him. They came to Yinling in Huainan, there are two forked roads in front of them, I don't know where to go, I asked the farmer on the roadside for directions, and the farmer surveyed the military master in front of him, with a wretched appearance and fierce eyes, and casually pointed out: "Go to the left and you will be able to do it." He did not know that the left side is a swamp. When Xiang Yu's men and women struggled out of the swamp, the pursuers had already arrived.
At this moment, Xiang Yu's soldiers and generals are only twenty-eight people, and seeing five thousand people chasing after him, Xiang Yu knew he couldn't escape, but he still said to his subordinates without any fear: "I've been in the army for eight years, and I've fought more than seventy battles, and I've never failed to conquer and win. Today is trapped, I want to storm the Han army three times, cut down the generals and seize the flag, so that you know that the heavens have killed me, and it is not a crime to fight."
Said, roared, jumped horse horizontal gun, rushed to the Han army. The Han army immediately surrounded up, no one can block Xiang Yu's spear, a Han general was picked on the horse, the Han army was forced back a few miles, and again surrounded up, and was Xiang Yu killed the captain of the army and hundreds of soldiers, Xiang Yu's subordinates only two people were damaged.
However, the Han army was so outnumbered that by the time Xiang Yu reached the edge of the Wujiang River, he was the only one who was bloodied and single-handed. The boat was parked on the bank of the Wujiang River, and Han Xin had ordered his men to disguise themselves as fishermen and prepare a boat to wait for Xiang Yu.
After crossing the river, Xiang Yu will be able to go back to his hometown, where he started his rebellion, but he would rather die than go back: "When I crossed the river with 8,000 soldiers from Jiangdong, I went to the west to fight for the whole world, and I grew up to hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and today, they are all finished! What face do I have to go back to see my folks in Jiangdong!"
He jumped off his horse, this piebald war horse carried him to birth and death, invincible, he asked the fisherman to ferry the horse across the river, escape a way of life, the piebald wailed, refused to board the boat, suddenly hoof jumped into the river, was swept away by the waves.
The pursuers have arrived, and the Han soldiers and generals are as numerous as ants lifting praying mantis to surround them layer by layer. Xiang Yu stared at a pair of lightning eyes, pulled out the sword, stride to meet the enemy, the Han army actually no one dared to approach him. Xiang Yu suddenly saw an acquaintance in the Han army, who is the subordinate of Lv Matong, who rebelled against Chu and surrendered to Han: "General Lv came just in time, I heard that Liu Bang rewarded me with thousands of gold and 10,000 households in order to buy my head, so I will cut off the head and give it to you, so please ask for the merit to be rewarded!"
The Han soldiers and generals were so scared that they retreated, Xiang Yu cut his own throat and died with both eyes open.
Liu Bang led the army to arrive, and immediately passed the order: "Xiang Yu is dead, the body can not be damaged, buried with the great gift of the vassals."
When Xiang Yu died, he was only thirty-one years old.