Chapter 59 3. To accept or not to accept

The ancients were guided by fate, and when they were poor, they would attribute the final explanation to fate.Liu Bang succeeded in the end. Looking back on his life, he will definitely leave a place for those mysterious visions in the credit book.He will also worship the sky and thank his old man for his care and love.However, the process of Liu Bang's success was also extremely difficult. When he was unsatisfactory, such as losing his iron job, such as the Hongmen Banquet, such as the fiasco of Pengcheng, and so on.At that time, Liu Bang, even though he was still full of confidence in his temperament, would never be as confident as he was at the beginning.He might understand that even with the protection of the gods, it will not be smooth sailing, and he cannot sit back and enjoy the success.Some specific things still have to be done by himself, and the process is very difficult.

Xiang Yu is just the opposite. He has always believed in himself, but in the end he had to bow his head to fate.Gaixia was defeated, and Xiang Yu fled to Dongcheng. He was at the end of his way, and he felt that he could not recover by himself.But he was still full of domineering, and said to the only twenty-eight warriors who followed him all the time: "I am eight years old since I started the army, and I have fought more than seventy battles. Those who deserved to be defeated and those who were attacked were subdued. I have never been defeated. Then he dominates the world. However, the soldiers are trapped here today. The death of me in this day is not a crime of war. Today, I will definitely die. It was originally for the kings to fight quickly, and they will win three times. The flag, so that the kings know that heaven has killed me, and it is not a crime of war." This passage is Xiang Yu's summary of the success or failure of his entire hegemony, and even his entire life: first, he reviewed his great and glorious achievements since the uprising. course.This process can be summed up in eight words: invincible and invincible.Then he talked about the reason why he is in such a situation now: God insisted on my death, not me.In the end, in order to prove the correctness of this argument, Xiang Yu said with great pride: "If you don't believe me, just watch, let's break into the enemy army and seize their flag."

Xiang Yu "couldn't let go of himself" at that time, in fact he already knew what the ending would be like, but he still wouldn't look for reasons in himself, because he believed in his own ability.Since his ability is fine, it must be that fate is playing tricks on him, so he will be very emotional.The helpless sigh of the hero at the end of the road will undoubtedly add a little more sadness to this tragedy. In fact, before the defeat of Gaixia, Xiang Yu should have once again lamented fate.After Liu Bang captured Pengcheng, Xiang Yu came from Qi with 30,000 horsemen, defeated Liu Bang's army, and chased them all the way to the Sui River to the east of Lingbi.At that time, the Han army was in a panic, rushing across the Sui River, so that "the Sui River did not flow", let alone the embarrassment.In the end, the Chu army "surrounded the King of Han three times", implemented a strategic encirclement, and assumed a posture of complete annihilation.But at this time, "a strong wind rose from the northwest, breaking wood and building houses, blowing sand and stones, and it was dark and dark, to cater to the Chu army."The situation changed suddenly, the sky was dark for a while, and the sand and stones were flying, and they came in the direction of the Chu army.The Chu army was caught off guard, and the wind and sand confused their eyes, so there was chaos, and the encirclement was also torn open by the Han army. Liu Bang took advantage of the chaos and "fleeed with dozens of cavalry", and was overwhelmed.

This is an excellent opportunity for Xiang Yu to put Liu Bang to death.However, the sky failed, and history took a turn here.After that, although Xiang Yu pushed Liu Bang into trouble many times, he never encountered such a good opportunity again. It cannot but be said that fate made Xiang Yu a joke. But at that time, Xiang Yu's emotions would never be as obvious as he was later on the Wujiang River. Maybe he just looked at Liu Bang's back in a hurry and sneered, saying that you were lucky, so he went back to drink and celebrate.Because Liu Bang at that time was a piece of cake in Xiang Yu's eyes, nothing at all, and it would be a matter of time to eliminate him.If it doesn't go out this time, you're lucky, and it won't be so cheap next time.

For Liu Bang, this turning point is tantamount to getting a chance to be reborn.He smugly brought an army with absolute superiority to attack Chu. It was inevitable, and there was no suspense in anticipating the result. In the end, he barely escaped with the help of an occasional strong wind. What do you think at that moment.Will he also attribute this opportunity to his aura of the Son of Heaven, and lament that God has helped me? In addition, there was another time when Xiang Yu led 800 people to break through at Gaixia, and in the end only a hundred or so people were left. They walked to Yinling (you see the name), and lost their way because of the killing.It happened that an old man saw a kind of land beside the field, so he went up to ask the way, and the old man pointed casually: "Left".So Xiang Yu adjusted his horse's head and led the crowd to run to the "left". As a result, he was "stuck in a big swamp" and blocked by the lake.

The old farmer didn't know what he was doing, and he didn't know whether he really didn't know the way or made a mistake on purpose.It is estimated that there is a high possibility of deliberately making mistakes, because since you are working here, you must be a local and should be familiar with the environment.And facing the murderous warrior, he didn't show much panic.In other words, this is not a farmer in the usual sense. If you want to say something wrong on purpose, there must be a reason for it.Hate the Chu army, or hate Xiang Yu, or hate Xiang Yu for starting the war and disrupting his life, in short, there will be no reason.This place is under the rule of Xiang Yu, and there should be more supporters than opponents. This opponent actually met Xiang Yu and asked him the way. A kind of hidden coincidence.It was precisely because of this that Xiang Yu delayed his escape.With this delay, the pursuers of the Han army arrived.

Of course, Xiang Yu's final choice to commit suicide has nothing to do with this accident of fate.But this incident undoubtedly added an extra heaviness to Xiang Yu's heart, like the straw that bends the camel's back, not that the last one is so special, but it represents the result of the accumulation of countless straws.