Xiang Yu, name, name Yu, Xiangren in Sishui (the next image is Suqian City, Jiangsu Province today), grandson of the famous general of the Chu State Xiang Yan, one of the seven heroes of the Warring States Period, the leader of the anti-Qin rebel army in the late Qin and early Han in Chinese history At home, he called himself the overlord of Chu, he was called the overlord of Western Chu in history.
Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, has always been a hotly discussed figure in later generations. There is no doubt about his bravery and military talents, but his character is more controversial, and he has more negative comments, the most appropriate The appraisal was self-contained, and it was his self-contained personality that caused him to betray his relatives, and was finally defeated by Liu Bang, and he ended up suicide.
In fact, Xiang Yu really had many chances to kill Liu Bang, and there were three times with accurate records and evidence in historical data.
The first time is the Hongmen Banquet that many people are familiar with. In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang raised their troops against Qin almost at the same time. As Xiang Yu fought against most of the main forces of the Qin State on the frontal battlefield, Liu Bang had the opportunity to march on the road to Xianyang with repeated victories and finally succeeded in capturing Xianyang City. The Qin III Ying Ziying surrendered to Liu Bang Kaicheng, so strictly speaking, Liu Bang destroyed the Qin Dynasty, and Xiang Yu destroyed most of the Qin Dynasty's military forces, allowing Liu Bang to successfully destroy the Qin Dynasty.
However, Liu Bang obeyed the advice of Zhang Liang and other advisers, instead of entering Xianyang, he stationed outside the city, waiting for Xiang Yu to arrive, let Xiang Yu enter the city. Then Xiang Yu arrived and took over Xianyang. Liu Bang’s counselor Cao Wushang told Xiang Yu that Liu Bang had the idea of being king, and Xiang Yu’s counselor Fan Zeng also urged Xiang Yu to kill Liu Bang, who had ambitions to seize the world. Xiang Yu was very angry after hearing this. Triggered a Hongmen feast.
The process of the Hongmen Banquet is familiar to everyone. Although Fan Zeng repeatedly indicated Xiang Yu to kill Liu Bang, they were all resolved by Liu Bang’s camp. The reason why Xiang Yu didn’t kill Liu Bang was because he heard it at the banquet. Zhang Liang, Fan Kui and others felt that killing Liu Bang was unrighteous. At the same time, Xiang Yu’s other uncle, Uncle Xiang, also strongly opposed it. He also used a sword to prevent Xiang Zhuang from killing Liu Bang and acted as a “spies”. Liu Bang ran away.
So at the Hongmen Banquet, Xiang Yu, king of the Western Chu Dynasty, refused to kill Liu Bang alive or dead. It was because "the teacher came out of nowhere." He believed that killing Liu Bang was an unrighteous act and would be ridiculed by people in the world. Dare to kill, because Xiang Yu has nothing to dare to, nor does he disdain to kill, because Liu Bang was also the leader of the anti-Qin Yi army at the time, but he did not want to kill and did not have the heart to kill Liu Bang.
The second time was when Liu Bang just stepped up to attack Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu contributed the most in the War of Destroying Qin, and his prestige was extremely high. Almost all the princes regarded Xiang Yu as the head of the horse. Xiang Yu was undoubtedly the overlord. After Xiang Yu was named the overlord of Western Chu, he named Liu Bang the king of Han. He considered him to be of little strategic value. Bashu as a fief. Later, Xiang Yu's prestige became lower and lower, because the princes were pregnant with ghosts, and because Xiang Yu publicly killed King Chuhuai, the princes believed that Xiang Yu was cruel, so Xiang Yu gradually betrayed his relatives.
Later, in the name of Xiang Yu's killing of King Chuhuai, Liu Bang launched an army against Xiang Yu. At this time, Liu Bang’s viable power was very low, but Xiang Yu did not annihilate Liu Bang with a powerful force, but was fighting against other princes. It was the second chance that Xiang Yu missed. Later, Liu Bang successfully captured Pengcheng, claiming to have five to six hundred thousand troops, but Liu Bang didn't want to make progress and was indulged in drinking. He didn't know that Xiang Yu had brought back thirty thousand soldiers and horses to rescue Pengcheng.
However, Liu Bang thought that his military strength was more than ten or twenty times that of Xiang Yu, so he did not put Xiang Yu in his eyes, but Xiang Yu exerted his brave and resolute military talent and defeated him with 30,000 troops. Liu Bang, with five to six hundred thousand troops, was a famous battle of Pengcheng in Chinese history.
During the Battle of Pengcheng, Liu Bang ran away in a hurry and even threw down his pair of children, so that the carriage could run faster. Fortunately, Xia Houying took the pair of children back. At this time, Xiang Yu made another mistake. Instead of chasing Liu Bang personally, it was handed over to his subordinates. In the end, Liu Bang escaped. However, Liu Bang's father Liu Taigong and his wife Lu Fei fell into Xiang Yu's hands.
So Xiang Yu didn't kill Liu Bang this time, not because he didn't want to kill, but because he couldn't kill him. It was because he missed the opportunity.
The third time is the gap and discussion. The chasm was due to the fact that Xiang Yu and Liu Bang had been fighting for a long time and had no results. Xiang Yu had no food and grass and took the initiative to negotiate a peace. Before that, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang had a tower confrontation. Xiang Yu said that he would kill Liu Bang’s father Liu Taigong and cook it. When he fell, Liu Bang spotted Xiang Yu's weakness, and actually said that he would share a cup of broth, and Xiang Yu did not dare to kill Liu Taigong.
Then Xiang Yu and Liu Bang continued to curse. At this time, Xiang Yu couldn't bear it and showed his invincible arrow technique. He actually hit Liu Bang with an arrow under the city. At that time, his heart definitely wanted Liu Bang to die, but Liu Bang was still dead, even though he was seriously injured, he did not die. Xiang Yu's arrow failed to kill Liu Bang.
So Xiang Yu didn't kill Liu Bang this time, nor was he unwilling to kill, or he couldn't kill Liu Bang because his shot did not kill Liu Bang.
To sum up, in fact, Xiang Yu's statement that Xiang Yu refused to kill Liu Bang was wrong. Only Hongmen Banquet did not want to kill Liu Bang. This was also the only time the two had a direct contact. After the Hongmen Banquet, Xiang Yu never had any direct contact with Liu Bang. Even if Xiang Yu wanted Liu Bang to die, he couldn't kill him.
