Chapter 42: Wu Jiang killed himself

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Wujiang self-slaughter in the historical record of Xiang Yu is recorded in this record, mainly saying that Xiang Yu's army was encamped in the wall, and the soldiers were also very short of food and grass, and Liu Bang's Han army and Han Xin and Peng Yue's army surrounded it layer by layer.

In the evening, hearing the Han army singing the ballad of Chu all around, Xiang Yuyao thought about his current situation and was sad, so he stepped on his war horse and led more than 800 soldiers to break out of the siege from the south that night.

At dawn, after the Han army noticed it, the Han general Guan Ying led 5,000 cavalry to pursue Xiang Yu. When crossing the Huai River, there were only more than 100 soldiers who could keep up with Xiang Yu.

When Xiang Yu walked to the Yin Tomb, he got lost again, and asked a farmer for directions, but the old farmer lied to him and said to turn left. Xiang Yu went to the left, and fell into a low-lying field, so he was caught up by the Han army again.

Xiang Yu led his troops to the east again, and when they arrived in Dongcheng, there were only twenty-eight cavalry left, and the pursuing Han cavalry numbered several thousand.

Soon Xiang Yu was surrounded again, but Xiang Yu was brave and fought his way out of the encirclement. At this time, Xiang Yu wanted to cross the Wujiang River eastward.

And the pavilion chief of Wujiang has already supported the boat and docked to wait for Xiang Yu. He said to Xiang Yu: Although Jiangdong is small, there is still a land within a radius of thousands of miles, and hundreds of thousands of people are enough to be king, please cross the river quickly.

Xiang Yu said with a smile: I led 8,000 children of Jiangdong to cross the Wujiang River and sweep the world, and now no one survives, even if Jiangdong's fathers and brothers love me and embrace me as king, what face do I have to see them.

Then he said to the pavilion chief, "I have been riding this horse for five years, and I am invincible, and I often travel thousands of miles a day, and I can't bear to kill it, so I will reward it to you."

After speaking, he pulled out the dagger, and the Han army fought until the last soldier fell. Xiang Yu said to the Han army: I heard that the king of Han offered a reward of 1,000 taels of gold to buy my head and make me the marquis of ten thousand households, so I will give you this benefit, and after speaking, he killed himself.

This is the first thing I know about Wujiang's self-killing, but I think Xiang Yu Wujiang's self-killing may be his best ending.

For more than 2,000 years, the so-called Wujiang self-slaughter has made later heroes feel sorry for the overlord of Chu. However, I think Xiang Yu is not unwilling to cross Jiangdong, but unable to cross Jiangdong.

From the many details in Xiang Yu's book, I think Xiang Yu is afraid that he does not have that kind of mind. On the matter of killing 200,000 soldiers, Xiang Yu is categorically difficult to call a hero, which is really unjust.

After occupying Guanzhong, Han Sheng offered Xiang Yu's advice, but Xiang Yu didn't listen, just a few words of complaint Xiang Yu cooked him to death, is this unwise.

Later, he violated his original oath and deposed the righteous emperor who had been supported before, that is, Xiong Xin, the grandson of Xiong Huai, the king of Chu Huai during the Warring States period.

All kinds of deeds show that Xiang Yu is by no means a benevolent person, saying that he feels sorry for the eight thousand children, I think it is just that later generations remember him and misunderstand the meaning of the historical records.

That's not all, in the battle with Tian Rong later, and when the dog was in a hurry, he actually threatened to kill Liu Bang's father, and I feel that his behavior is shameful to the world.

In the end, his so-called Wujiang self-slaughter, giving people a sense of picture seems to be that Xiang Yu has arrived at the bank of the Wujiang River, and in the face of the Wujiang Pavilion Chief's hard persuasion, Xiang Yu gave up this opportunity to probably turn defeat into victory, and turned to slash hundreds of Han troops, and finally killed himself.

But that's just imagination. As clearly recorded in the historical records, Xiang Yu has the meaning of exaggerating Xiang Yu at the end of this era.

I see that Xiang Yu's burial place is undoubtedly in Dongcheng, but for the Wujiang theory, Xiang Yu only mentioned it twice in this chronicle, and it is indeed not explicitly implied that Xiang Yu died in Wujiang.

In fact, as early as the Qin and Han dynasties, there was a pavilion every ten miles in the village, and the pavilion chief mainly maintained public order within his jurisdiction, but when Xiang Yu saw the chief of the Wujiang Pavilion, he was gradually determined that he was on the edge of the Wujiang River, and only then did he have the saying that Wujiang killed himself.

However, at the moment when Liu Bangxiong's division attacked, even if Xiang Yu was one enemy and one hundred, he would eventually be besieged by tens of thousands of Han troops and could not get out, not to mention that the road to Wujiang was not lacking in the interference of the Han army.

Moreover, people are sleepy and tired, and they are running out of ammunition and food, and the so-called shameless and shameless words are just to make excuses for their failures.

Otherwise, Xiang Yu will never give up the opportunity to make a comeback for the so-called false name, which is also the consistent style of Xiaoxiong since ancient times, although at first I very much hoped that he could cross the Wujiang River, but I think he is not unwilling to return to Jiangdong, but he really can't get by, and a pavilion chief in the face of the former Chu overlord is just pretending to be relieved, and finally committing suicide may be his best ending.

If a ruler is extensive, tyrannical, and political, even the peasants will fool you at critical times, and the old peasants trick Xiang Yu to the left, which is the most obvious example.

Many people think that a person who has a blind eye to the world will suddenly fall from heaven to hell will make people psychologically devastated.

But this is only the view of modern people, the hero who treats human life like a dog never harbors guilt, and his so-called Wujiang self-murder is by no means shameless or the idea of atonement.

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