The first battle Xiang Yu fought was the uprising against Qin in Wuzhong (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). Time: 209 BC. Xiang Yu followed his uncle Xiang Liang.
Xiang Ji (232 BC - 202 BC), courtesy name Yu (note in particular that Xiang Yu’s real name is courtesy name Yu), was born in Xiaxiang (now Suqian, Jiangsu Province). The grandson of Xiang Yan, the famous general of the Chu State, was the leader of the peasant uprising in ancient China, a famous military strategist, and the number one general in ancient China! He is known as the Overlord of Western Chu. After the fall of Chu, the Xiang family was brutally massacred. He and his younger brother Xiang Zhuang fled to Wuzhong (today's Suzhou, Jiangsu) with their uncle Xiang Liang. When he was young, Xiang Liang once asked someone to teach him calligraphy and poetry, but he got tired of it after a while. Later Liang asked someone to teach him martial arts, but he stopped learning after a while. Liang was furious! Ji said: "Studying literature is only about remembering names; learning martial arts is just about being able to defeat a hundred with one person; if you want to learn literature, you can only learn how to defeat ten thousand people!" So Liang taught him the art of war. But after learning for a while, he was unwilling to learn anymore, so Liang had no choice but to follow him and ignore him. He was eight feet tall, could carry a tripod (the origin of the term "overlord holding a tripod"), and had the power to overwhelm tens of thousands of people. He had extremely lofty ambitions when he was young. Once when Qin Shihuang was on a patrol crossing Zhejiang (today's Qiantang River), Xiang Yu saw the majesty of his chariots and horses, and blurted out: "He can replace him (I can replace him)." In the first year of Qin II (209 BC), Chen Sheng , Wu Guang raised his arms in Daze Township and rose up (i.e., the Daze Township Uprising). Xiang Yu followed his uncle Xiang Liang to assassinate the prefect Yin Tong in Wuzhong and raised his troops to respond. In this battle, Xiang Yu killed nearly a hundred of Yin Tong's guards alone, showing his unparalleled power for the first time. Martial arts! The 24-year-old Xiang Yu was pushed onto the stage of history by the storm of people's uprising.
All the battles in Xiang Yu's life:
In 209 BC, the first year of Qin II's rebellion against Qin
In 208 BC, in the second year of Qin II's second year, the battle between Qin and Chu Linji
The battle between Qin and Chu Dingtao in the second year of Qin II in 208 BC
The battle between Qin and Chu Julu in the third year of Qin II in 207 BC
The War between Chu and Han broke out in 206 BC
The Battle of Pengcheng and Xingyang in 205 BC
The Battle of Xingyang in 204 BC
202 BC In the Battle of Gaixia, he was defeated and committed suicide