Ambush on all sides
In 202 BC, Han Xin ambushed Xiang Yu in Gaixia (now southeast of Lingbi County, Anhui Province). Xiang Yu had few troops and ran out of food. He wanted to lead the team to kill, but was surrounded by the Han army and the vassal team. Xiang Yu beat off a batch and came again; Kill one layer, there is another layer; Before it was killed, the Han soldiers there gathered around again. Xiang Yu couldn't break through, so he had to return to Gaixia camp and told his soldiers to defend carefully, ready to fight again at the opportunity.
lay exposed/open to attacks on all sides
That night, Xiang Yu entered the camp with a sad face. He was surrounded by a beloved beauty named Yu Ji, who saw that he was unhappy and accompanied him to drink to relieve boredom.
When it was time to adjust my watch, I heard waves of westerly winds blowing fast. There are still songs in the wind. Xiang Yu listened carefully, and the song came from Hanying, which was actually a song of the Chu people, and there were many people singing it.
Xiang Yu was shocked to hear the sound of Chu songs everywhere. He said absently, "It's over! Has Liu Bang captured the place of Xi Chu? Why are there so many Chu people in Han Ying? "
Farewell My Concubine
Xiang Yu was more than I could bear, freely sang a sad song:
Rise from the mountain and be angry with the world,
Bad times never die.
I can't help it if I don't die,
What if you are worried?
(Dasong means that strength can pull up a mountain, and boldness of vision can overwhelm all heroes in the world. When the luck is bad, the Zhui horse refuses to run. What if the horse refuses to run? Concubine, concubine, what should I do with you? )
A few times in a row, and sing together. The overlord sang and sang, but he couldn't help crying, and the attendants beside him were too sad to lift their heads.
Concubine beside listening to xiang yu singing, can not help but also grief-stricken, then said:
"Han soldiers have slightly, ready. Your majesty is exhausted and can't live with my concubine! "
Yu Ji was singing, but she pulled out her sword and cut herself. Xiang Yu is in agony and will be buried in Kyrgyzstan.
"Heaven killed me."
That night, Xiang Yu rode on a five-fingered horse and took 800 soldiers through the Han Ying camp, running non-stop. At dawn, the Han army found Xiang Yu's breakthrough and quickly sent 5000 cavalry to catch up. Running all the way, Xiang Yu, only 100 people followed when crossing the Huaihe River, and ran for another journey and got lost.
Xiang Yu came to a fork in the road and saw a man who went to the fields. He asked him which way to go to Pengcheng. Knowing that he was the overlord, the cultivator refused to show him the way and coaxed him into saying, "Go left."
Xiang Yu and more than 100 people ran to the left, and the more they ran, the more wrong they were. Later, they saw a swamp in front of them, and there was no road. Realizing that he had been cheated, Xiang Yu quickly turned his horse's head and then bypassed the swamp. Han bing has caught up.
Xiang Yu ran to the southeast again, and along the way, the soldiers who followed him suffered numerous casualties. In Dongcheng (now southeast of Dingyuan County, Anhui Province), the number is a little higher, with only 28 cavalry. However, thousands of pursuers of the Han army were crowded around.
Xiang Yu expected that he could not get away with it, but he still refused to give up. He said to the soldiers who followed him: "I have been fighting for eight years, and I have experienced more than 70 battles. Before I became the world hegemon, I never lost a battle. Being surrounded here today is my destiny, not that I can't beat them! "
He divided the only 28 people into four teams and said to them, "Look, I'll cut one of their generals first. You can escape in four ways and gather at the foot of Dongshan. "
Say that finish, he fierce drink, rushed to the han army. The Han soldiers could not resist and fled, and Xiang Yu killed a Han general on the spot.
More important than crossing the river by boat
Xiang Yu arrived at the foot of Dongshan Mountain, and all four teams arrived. Xiang Yu divided them into three teams and guarded them in three places. The Han army was divided into three ways and surrounded the Chu army. Xiang Yu rushed back and forth and killed a captain and hundreds of soldiers of the Han army. Finally, he gathered the three men together and counted them. Only two of the 28 cavalry lost.
Xiang Yu said to his men, "What do you think?"
The subordinates all said, "Your Majesty is absolutely right."
Xiang Yu broke through the encirclement of the Han soldiers and took 26 people straight south to Wujiang River (in the northeast of Anhui Province and in the county). There happened to be a boat parked on the shore in the pavilion of Wujiang River.
The director of the pavilion advised Xiang Yu to cross the river at once, saying, "Although Jiangdong is small, there are more than a thousand miles of land and hundreds of thousands of people. The king can still be king there when he crosses the river. "
Xiang Yu gave a wry smile and said, "I crossed the river with 8,000 children after I started my army in Huiji County. Today, none of them can go back, only I can go back to Jiangdong. Even if the elders in Jiangdong sympathize with me and make me king, how can I face them? "
He handed the ZhuiMa to the curator and told the soldiers to jump off the horse. He and 26 soldiers were armed with short knives and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Han soldiers who caught up with him. They killed hundreds of Han soldiers, and Chu soldiers fell one by one. Xiang Yu suffered more than a dozen injuries and finally committed suicide by drawing his sword on the Wujiang River.
Li Qingzhao, a famous poetess in Southern Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "Life is a hero, and death is a hero." I still miss Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong. "