Farewell My Concubine refers to the historical story of Xiang Yu, the hegemon of Western Chu, who bid farewell to his favorite concubine Yu Ji after his defeat.

The Records of the Grand Historian (史记-项羽本纪)records that Xiang Yu, the king of the Western Chu Dynasty (西楚), was finally defeated in a war with Han Gaozu (汉高祖), and knowing that the tide had turned, he had to bid farewell to his favorite concubine Yu Ji (虞姬)on the eve of his breakout. The story of Farewell to My Concubine by the Overlord Chu and Han, the vassals mostly rebelled against Chu and returned to Han. The king of Han listened to the strategy of Zhang Liang and others, and joined hands with the vassals to attack Chu. At that time, the king of Chu was surrounded by the army of the king of Han, and his troops were in Gaixia, with few soldiers and no food. Xiang Yu, the king of the Han Dynasty, couldn't sleep at night, but suddenly he heard the song of Chu from all sides at the same time, which turned out to be Zhang Liang's plan. He knew that Xiang Yu's soldiers were all from Chu, so he ordered the Han army to sing Chu songs to shake the heart of the Chu army. Xiang Yu was shocked and sighed: "Has the King of Han already got the Chu land? How come there are so many Chu people in his army? "So he got up and drank wine in his tent. The king had his favorite concubine Yu Ji and Uya steeds, he was singing a generous song of sorrow, he sang: "Powerful mountains and breath, the time is not favorable and Ya does not pass away, Ya does not pass away and can not be helped, Yu Yu and Ya can not be helped. "

I. Notes:

Ji: refers to the Western Chu king Xiang Yu's favorite concubine Yu Ji.

Farewell My Concubine: it became an idiom to describe the tragic scene of a hero at the end of his life. Now it is mostly used as a metaphor for dictatorship, detachment from the masses and eventual downfall.

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The Records of the Grand Historian (史记-项羽本纪): Xiang Yu, the king of the country, was defeated in the war with Liu Bang for the feudal domination and knew that the situation was over, so on the eve of the breakout, he had to say goodbye to Yu Ji.

Three historical allusions

There is a beauty named Yu, who is often honored to ride from; a steed named Zhui, who is often ridden. So the king of Xiang was singing a song of sadness and generosity, and wrote a poem saying: "The force is strong and the air is strong, and the time is unfavorable and the piebald doesn't pass away. What can be done about the piebald, what can be done about Yu, Yu, Yu, and what can be done about it!" He sang several songs, and the beauty and the song. The king of Xiang wept several times, and all the people around him sobbed, and they could not look up.

"There is a beauty named Yu", but did not call it by the name of "Yu Ji", which has been passed down in later generations; it was not until the Tang book "Bracket Zhi" that the name of "Yu Ji" appeared. Of course, "Ji" is just a pronoun, not Yu Ji's real name. In the Five Dynasties period, the name of the word is simply "Yu Meiren" called.

Ban Gu in the "Han Shu - Sima Qian biography" said: "Sima Qian according to the" Zuo "," the "state language", "Shiben", "warring states policy", the Chu Han Spring and Autumn Annals, and its aftermath, finished in the days of Han." Among them, "Chu Han Spring and Autumn Annals" is a book written by Lu Jia at the beginning of Han Dynasty, which was lost in the Southern Song Dynasty. Undoubtedly, Sima Qian wrote "The Records of the Grand Historian" with reference to the "Spring and Autumn Annals of Chu and Han": "Sima Qian wrote "The Records of the Grand Historian" according to the "Spring and Autumn Annals of Chu and Han", and therefore his words about the Qin and Han things are especially detailed." (Wang Liqi) However, the "beauty and the" song recorded in the "Spring and Autumn of Chu and Han" was not recorded in the "Records of the Grand Historian" by Sima Qian, who paid attention to both details and curiosity. Tang Zhang Shoujie's "Justice in the Records of the Grand Historian" quoted the song from "Spring and Autumn Annals of the Chu and Han Dynasties":

The song said: "The Han soldiers have already conquered the land, and the Chu song is sung in all directions, and the king's spirit is exhausted, and the lowly concubines do not want to live.

Some people have long suspected that this song is a later forgery, on the grounds that the Qin and Han dynasties did not have such mature pentameter poetry. However, Mrs. Qi's dirge recorded in the Book of Han - Biography of the Relatives is already a fairly mature pentameter poem: "The son is a king, the mother is a captive, and she spends her days pounding the thin curtains, often in the company of the dead! Who will tell you when we are three thousand miles away from each other?" The Qin folk ballad recorded in Li Daoyuan's "Shui Jing Zhu - River Water" was also a mature poem in five lines: "Don't lift up a boy when he is born, and use a breast to feed a girl when she is born. I don't see the corpses strutting each other under the Great Wall." Therefore, the song recorded in the Spring and Autumn Annals of Chu and Han is not a forgery and should not be a problem.

The Spring and Autumn Annals of the Chu and Han Dynasties and the Records of the Grand Historian Xiang Yu (项羽本纪) are the earliest records of the story of Farewell to My Concubine, and neither of them touches on the end of Yu Ji. To the degree of common sense, Yu Ji is unlikely to survive, otherwise there will be no folk oral tradition of Yu Ji cut her own throat, it will not be until the Tang Dynasty fashion "Xiang Yu Beauty Grave" of the location of the prestige bearings. Gaixia battle, four Chu song sound, drinking sword Chu tent can only be the only end of Yu Ji.

Four, related characters

1, Xiang Yu (232 years ago - 202 years ago), the end of the Qin Dynasty, the famous militarist, "courageous fighting school" representative, is the power to carry the tripod, air pressure of a generation of heroes and heroes. Shortly after the Da Ze Xiang Uprising, Xiang Yu and his uncle Xiang Liang rose to power after killing the county magistrate in Huiji County and raised an army against the Qin Dynasty. After the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu led his army into Guanzhong, and he was able to destroy the tyrannical Qin with his five vassals, which made him a great hero in the world. After the death of Qin, Xiang Yu divided the world into eighteen feudal lords. Xiang Yu not only had outstanding bravery and courage, but also left behind the ancient masterpiece "Gaixia Song". Sima Qian commented: "All the major policies were made by Yu, and he was called the king of Western Chu, with the same power as the emperor. Though his position did not end, it has not been seen since ancient times." His appearance set off an earth-shattering storm for the history of China and wrote down an everlasting myth. Xiang Yu was defeated by the allied forces of Liu Bang and various vassals at Gaixia in 202 B.C. He killed himself by the Wu River at the age of 31.

2. Yu Ji (虞姬), one of the famous female characters in the late Qin Dynasty, was known as "Beauty of Yu" (虞美人). Today Shuyang County (Shuyang, belonging to Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, because it is located in the sun of the Shu River and named) Yanji Township people, said Shaoxing County Lizhu Town Tashi Village people. According to "Jiangxi Ji'an Luling Xiang genealogy" records: Yu after the birth of five phoenixes in the house, the fragrance smelled in the court, was born in Dingchou (224 BC) died in Heihai (202 BC), buried Pengcheng. Yu Ji was the favorite concubine of Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, who was said to have a beautiful face, talent and beautiful dance. She had been accompanying Xiang Yu in the plight of Chu songs on all sides. Although the history books did not introduce the end of Yu Ji, later people inferred that she killed herself in the Chu camp according to Xiang Yu's "Gaixia Song". Thus the beautiful myth of "Farewell My Concubine" was staged. Her story has left an indelible mark on the river of history and touched generations of people. Yu Ji, this beautiful name, will be an immortal legend in our hearts.

Story:When the Chu and Han Dynasties were fighting, Xiang Yu, the king of the Western Chu Dynasty, and Liu Bang were fighting for the throne, and the war lasted for more than ten years. In the end, Xiang Yu was defeated in Wujiang River, knowing that the situation was over, and on the eve of the breakout, he had to say goodbye to Yu Ji, and finally killed himself.

V. Historical Stories

One of the main forces in the late Qin peasant revolt, Xiang Yu's army, destroyed more than 300,000 Qin troops in the Battle of Julu, leading to the final demise of the Qin dynasty. Xiang Yu was young and mighty, with boundless strength and outstanding martial arts skills, holding a zhang eight spear and a piebald horse under his seat, and was invincible in life and in death. After the destruction of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu, who was the most powerful man in the world, established himself as the hegemonic king of Western Chu.

He divided the united China of Qin into eighteen vassals, not according to the size of the battle, military strength, but according to his own will, good or bad and sealing, causing dissatisfaction of the vassals. The most powerful of them was Liu Bang, who was made King of Han and commanded 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 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 was a man of great heart, listening to the strategist's plan, to build up his strength and take the opportunity of the king's army to attack Qi, to send troops to capture Guanzhong, to seize the land of the son of the king, and to take advantage of the victory and move eastward.

The king of Chu was furious, and with the military advantage of valor, he returned to defeat Liu Bang, and the war between them was fought for five whole years. Continuous fighting, soldiers fatigue tired of fighting, food and grass is not good, the people also have no heart to plow, difficult to live. Xiang and Liu were finally forced to make a truce and make peace, and both sides drew the boundary of the divide at Xianyang, with the eastern part belonging to Chu and the western part belonging to Han, and each side guarding its own boundaries, and no longer encroaching on each other.

Xiang Yu and Liu Bang exchanged documents, and Liu asked Xiang Yu to release his father and his wife Lu, who had been captured by the Chu army during the war. Xiang Yu, being a generous man, immediately released these two important hostages and Liu Bang was grateful. In the next year, Liu Bang suddenly reneged on his promise and took advantage of Xiang Yu's retreat 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 a long spear in his hand and unparalleled bravery, he was invincible, killing the Han army and the Han generals, quickly retreating to the territory of Chenggao, closing the city gates and calling for war.

Liu Bang is a good person with wisdom, under the hands of a number of resourceful military 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. The lords got the promise and embraced Liu Bang even more, and several groups of people converged on one place, with many soldiers and enough food, and a great momentum, and a war of encirclement of the king of Western Chu was about to begin.

Liu Bang's first commander-in-chief is the resourceful and battle-hardened Han Xin. Their first military action was to use strategist Zhang Liang's plan to take advantage of the Chu army's siege of Guling to quietly send 5,000 elite soldiers around to the Chu army's campsite where they store grain and grass, setting fire to the Chu army's grain depot and planting the root of the problem that Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, would not have any grain and grass to supply for his future battles.

Xiang Yu's bravery was unmatched, and his generals were all brave and good at fighting. How to design Xiang Yu out of his own tent position, a mistake of a desperate way, and surrounded, all annihilated? Marshal Han Xin personally led his strategists to look around the terrain. Finally selected in Anhui Jiuli Mountain, deployed troops to set up ten ambushes, and at the same time sent the articulate strategist Li Zuoche fraudulent surrender, to obtain Xiang Yu's trust, to lure him into the trap of ten ambushes.

The overlord Xiang Yu 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 and hold on to the fortress, not to fight with Liu Bang's huge army head-on and kill him in a hard battle. 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, saying that there was a surrendered strategist Li Zuo Che in the Han army, who was willing to work for the king. Xiang Yu was worried that he had no one to advise him, but he was pleasantly surprised when a Li Zuo Che fell from the sky. What's more, this Li Zuo Che's encounter is known to all: he had assisted the king of Zhao in front of the state affairs, but could not be reused; he defected to Han Xin, who was crowned king of Qi, was proud and confident, and all the plans were decided by himself, and he didn't listen to the words of the ministers under his tent and didn't obey his plans, so he fled from them, and naturally, Li Zuo Che was not able to escape from such a situation.

Xiang Yu valued Li Zuo Che, and immediately sent people to introduce him into his tent for questioning and inspection. Li Zuo Che was very modest and cautious, and looked very sincere: "Your Majesty, I have no one to depend on, and I am willing to join your army, and if I can get your trust, even if you ask me to pay with my life, I am willing to do it."

Xiang Yu is very satisfied with his behavior and speech, however, the two armies are at war, and there are too many treacherous spies who swindle their way into the army, so we can't afford not to take precautions! Xiang Bo is straight to the side and probes, "When two countries are at war, we have to guard against those who fraudulently surrender."

"I'm just a strategist, and can't lead the troops on the battlefield, is what plan, but also just say it, by everyone to discuss, listen to not listen to the last 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 is in doubt, it is my eyes that are not clear, and I have mistakenly joined my master, which is the greatest folly, so it would be better to die in front of the king in order to make my heart clear."

Saying this, Li Zuo Che crashed into the pillar beside him and was saved by the people. Li Zuo Che was a learned and wise man, and the king saw his courage and loyalty, and naturally he wanted to find out the truth about Liu Bang's camp from his mouth, so he kept him by his side and appointed him.

The Xiang Yu army held its ground, not attacking, and the whole camp was quiet, waiting for the enemy. On this day, scouts suddenly came to report that Han Xin's army had posted a list of insults to the king, which was copied and presented to the king for a closer look. The list reads, "The hearts of the people are all against Chu, the will of heaven belongs to Yan Liu, and the light of the sword generates flames to cut off the head of the king of Xiang".

Xiang Yu's temperament is fierce and violent, and he can't tolerate others to make fun of him! Immediately, he wants to order troops to arrest Han Xin, but Zhou Lan and other generals desperately try to stop him: "This is Han Xin's plan to lure troops, but he just writes such a few lines of bullshit poems and incites the king's anger, you can't do anything rashly." Xiang Yu turned around and deliberately sought Li Zuo Che's opinion.

Li Zuo Che said, "Han Xin is a cocky and arrogant person, so he intentionally spouted out crazy words, which can't scare the king at all. However, in my opinion, you want to save their own strength, can not always hide not move, you want to think of Han Xin, they can not wait a long time without fighting, let the soldiers and horses to consume food and grass for nothing, they see you long time to defend not attack, will be transferred to attack your territory Pengcheng, such as the loss of Pengcheng, you can have no home. 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 and do not dare to talk too much."

Li Zuoqi's skillful tongue, forceful arguments, left and right, and reasoning everywhere, finally convinced the headstrong Xiang Yu to take the initiative to attack, and led an army of 100,000 troops to Gaixia. Xiang Yu's important minister Yu Ziqi is the brother of his favorite concubine Yu Ji, who 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, so he has no choice but to go to his sister to persuade Xiang Yu to change his mind.

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 since she was a child, she can understand her husband's endowment, and she often shares her husband's worries and difficulties, and Xiang Yu can also listen to her persuasion. Today, I listened to my brother talk about Li Zuo Che, worried, secretly anxious: the king of this arbitrary, refused to accept the arrogant character of loyal advice, day long will be defeated in the hands of Liu Bang.

It was very late when Xiang Yu returned to his tent and rested. Yu Ji saw Xiang Yu's gloomy face and served him more and more carefully, taking off his helmet and removing his armor, and asked him softly why he was angry. Xiang Yu said: "Liu Bang, this ungrateful villain, will join all the vassals to fight with me, but also scattered posters to slander the king." Yu Ji took the opportunity to advise, "The way of using army lies in knowing oneself and knowing the enemy, if you hastily send out troops in a moment of anger, I'm afraid that Liu Bang Han's army is so powerful and Han Xin's army is so tricky that it's not a blessing to the king after all!"

"Consort's words, every sentence is reasonable, lone if the delay dare not send troops, will not be the world vassals make fun of?"

"A great man can bend and stretch, why fear others laughing? Besides, Li Zuo Che is very eloquent and his details are not clear, so he needs to be more careful."

I Xiang Yu's offense has been set, and even Yu Ji's bitter advice is annoying and long-winded: "I have never lost a battle since I started the war. I have never lost a battle. If I don't destroy Han, I won't go back. Consort do not have to say much, tomorrow, consort with lone peer!" Yu Ji was afraid of annoying Xiang Yu, so she stopped talking and ordered people to set up wine and wait for the king to drink to relieve his worries.

The next day, the Chu camp horns sounded, flags fluttered, Xiang Yu boarded the stage, pointing out all the troops and horses, ready to go to war. Suddenly, dark clouds rolled over the sky and a gust of wind blew up, breaking the flagpole of the banner, and Xiang Yu's Zhui was trembling all over the body, jumping and roaring. All the soldiers felt ominous, alarmed, Xiang Yu's favorite general Zhou Lan advised: "Flag folding horse roar, in the army is not good ah!" Yu Ji also advised: "Today's army; I hope the king will listen to the advice, so that we can win a hundred battles."

I Xiang Yu grunted in his nose, he fought with Liu Bang seventy campaigns, never defeated, today, the arrow on the string, the knife out of the sheath, the departure is 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 many soldiers and generals, but do not know that the drag is also too big, see food and grass can not be received, he has ordered a part of the army to return to the site, Han Wang Liu Bang also led a part of the men back to Chenggao, we should take this opportunity to speed up the march to attack the Han army. Hearing this news, Xiang Yu's determination to attack became stronger and he immediately led his army to Gaixia.

After Xiang Yu's army was stationed at Gaixia, his heart was not steady, and he sent people to spy on Liu Bang and Han Xin's retreat. The spies 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 look for Li Zuo Che, but he has long disappeared. Li Zuo Che's mission of luring the enemy into an ambush has been successfully accomplished, and he sneaks back to Han's camp to resume his duties. Han Xin saw the fish on the hook, and he arranged for Liu Bang and Xiang Yu to personally face each other, the next day the two sides fought, Xiang Yu saw Liu Bang, extraordinarily angry, cursing: "You this faithless villain, the former defeat of the Solid Tomb, to save you from death, between five years, did not fight with you, today deserved that you bumped into my gun, will let you die for sure."

When Liu Bang heard this, he was not angry, and still used his words to stimulate Xiang Yu; "I am not fighting with you for wisdom, but for courage, and in today's battle, I will teach you to wipe out your whole army." The two armies fought each other, Liu Bang feigned defeat, luring Xiang Yu to chase and kill a few miles away, to seal a mountain pass, Xiang Bo was afraid of deception, reminded: "Your Majesty, don't be fooled by Liu Bang's plan to lure the enemy deeper and deeper into the country."

It dawned on Xiang Yu that he had realized the truth, and he ordered his troops to retreat, and the army turned its head and retreated. Suddenly, someone on the mountain shouted Xiang Yu's name, and it was none other than the spy Li Zuo Che: "Your Majesty, please turn around, the Han Dynasty is rising, the state of Chu is being destroyed, and your Majesty has already entered the prison, so why don't you take advantage of this to return to your country, and I, Li Zuo Che, would like to be the one who introduces you to the army."

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 lah again turned his head, do not know how to die into the nine miles of mountain pass, drilling into Liu Bang, Han Xin set up a ten-sided ambush, the Han army, quickly surrounded the Chu army.

I Xiang Yu, with a gun in his palm, dashed left and right, killing off one batch after another, killing off one layer after another, how can 100,000 people beat the 300,000 people carefully laid out the siege? In the middle of the crisis, Chu generals Zhong Li Mai and Zhou Lan risked their lives to enter the encirclement and protect Xiang Yu, but Zhou Lan was unfortunately killed in action.

Han Xin's ten-sided ambush 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 defeat a battle, and her heart was very hard to bear. However, she tried her best to restrain her emotion 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. However, they never expected that the Chu army's granary had been burned down by the Han army, and even the grain road had been cut off, so the three armies had no food and grass, and the army's heart was shaken, and there was a lot of discontent.

Some said, "The king only drinks and gets angry!" Some said, "The Great King is not loyal and treacherous, and will only be deceived!" Some hard to kill out, better than stay here and wait for death, Xiang Yu at the moment in the tent, at a loss, Yu Ji is busy for the king to set up a drink to relieve boredom and distraction. A few cups of wine, outside the tent, a gust of west wind blowing, the swish of the tree branches, seemingly countless souls crying, Xiang Yu sighed: "This is the death of my Chu, non-war crime!"

Yu Ji listen to these words, foreboding, see the day is not early, wait 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 wind vaguely passed over an extremely familiar song, the song is from the opposite side of the Liu Bang military camp out, singing all the songs of Chu. Could it be that the king's Chu land has been occupied by Liu Bang? Otherwise how would someone in the Han camp sing Chu songs, it is not Liu Bang enlisted the Chu people in Chu 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 be verified, there is no record in the Records of the Grand Historian) to shake the heart of Xiang Yu's Chu army, and he deliberately taught the Han army to sing the songs of their hometowns, and the familiar sounds of the countryside aroused the Chu army's children to think of their parents, wives and children, and their hometowns, and also caused them to 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 even slipped away.

Tonight, Yu Ji night patrol, only to hear these disturbing the heart of the army of the Chu song, busy into the tent to wake up the king, together with the tent to listen to, the king heard the Chu song, can not help but be shocked, said: "The enemy army is mostly Chu people, must be Liu Bang has been the Chu land, orphaned, no retreat, the momentum is going! Alas! The former how I Xiang Yu can win, because the heroes of all walks of life each fight separately, the lonely 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 hard to determine whether we will win or lose this time. Concubine, looking at this situation, today is the day you and I part."

Yu Ji listened to these words, has been sobbing uncontrollably. Xiang Yu came out of his tent and caressed the horse that accompanied him in his life and death, and he looked at his master with tears in his eyes. Yu Ji forced herself to be happy and comforted her husband; "Gaixia is a high and rocky place which is easy to defend and hard to attack, as long as we keep our troops still and wait for the opportunity, then we can plan again."

Yu Ji persuaded Xiang Yu into the tent, drinking to relieve boredom, a few cups of wine, Xiang Yu generous song: cough! Think I Xiang Yu call! The power of the mountains and the gas cover the world, when unfavorable and piebald, piebald can not die, yu xu xu xu nai wu. Yu Ji has been following Xiang Yu for many years, and has never seen her husband singing so y and sadly. Knowing that the time for her to be reunited with him is running out, Yu Ji puts on her gorgeous clothes and jewelry, and holds a sword in her hand, while dancing and singing:

"I advise the king to drink and listen to the song of Yu, and to relieve the king of his sorrows by dancing the dance of Brahms, and the king of the kingdom of Qin breaks the kingdom of Qin in the face of his own wrongdoing, and his heroes rise up from the four directions to fight. The old saying is true: "Success or failure is a matter of moments."

The king should drink wine and sit in the treasure tent.

Xiang Yu was drinking his wine, when he suddenly heard a report from his spy: "The Han army is attacking us from four directions." Xiang Yu immediately came out of the tent, and the scouting horse reported: "The eight thousand soldiers have been dispersed on all sides." Xiang Yu knows that the momentum is gone! He urges his wife to put on her robe and follow him out of the encirclement. At this time, Yu Ziqi also comes to protect the king to break out of the encirclement, Yu Ji doesn't want to drag Xiang Yu down, and calmly advises her husband, "If there is anything unfavorable in this expedition, we should go back to Jiangdong, and then try to make a plan for the next step, so I hope that you will take care of yourself."

Yu Ji took Xiang Yu's sword by surprise and killed herself.

Xiang Yu straddled on the Wu Zhui, like a wounded tiger, and led 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 to the 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 forks in front of them, I don't know where to go, I asked the farmer to ask for directions, the farmer surveyed the military master in front of him, his appearance is in a sorry state, his eyes are fierce, and he 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. By the time Xiang Yu's men struggled out of the swamp, his pursuers had already arrived.

At this moment, Xiang Yu's soldiers and generals only had 28 people left, and seeing 5,000 people chasing after him, Xiang Yu knew that he could not escape, but he still said to his subordinates without any fear: "I have been in the army for eight years, and I have fought more than seventy battles of various sizes, and have never failed to attack and win. Trapped today, I want to storm the Han army three times, cut down the generals and seize the flag, so that you will know that the heavens have killed me, and that it is not a crime to fight."

Said, roared, jumped horse horizontal spear, rushed to the Han army. The Han army immediately surrounded up, no one can block Xiang Yu's spear, a member of the Han general was picked up under the horse, the Han army was actually forced back several miles, once again surrounded up, and was Xiang Yu killed the leader of the army lieutenant 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 Wujiang River is a vast river, and the Wujiang pavilion chief, Mr. Yiyu, is waiting for Xiang Yu to cross the river immediately with his boat. After crossing the river, Xiang Yu could go back to his hometown where he started the rebellion, but he would rather die than to go back: "At first, I brought 8,000 soldiers from Jiangdong to cross the river, and 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 down from his horse, the piebald warhorse carried him through life 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 raised his hooves and jumped into the river, was swept away by the waves. The pursuers have arrived, the Han soldiers and generals are so many that they are surrounding one layer by one layer like ants lifting praying mantis. Xiang Yu stared at a pair of electric eyes, drew his sword, and took the enemy in stride, and no one in the Han army dared to come near him.

Suddenly, Xiang Yu saw a familiar face in the Han army, which was his subordinate Lv Matong, who had rebelled against Chu and surrendered to Han: "General Lv has come just in time, I heard that Liu Bang has rewarded me with thousands of gold and 10,000 households in order to buy my head, well, I'll cut off the head of my head and give it to you to ask for the merit of being rewarded." The Han soldiers and generals were scared to retreat, Xiang Yu cut his own throat and died, with both eyes rounded, dead in peace.