Chapter 57 56 Overlord Wujiang commits suicide

In 202 BC, Han Xin arranged an ambush on all sides and besieged Xiang Yu in Gaixia (now southeast of Lingbi County, Anhui, Gai sound gai).Xiang Yu's men and horses are few, and the food is almost gone.He wanted to lead a team to rush out.But the troops of the Han army and the princes surrounded the Chu army in layers.Xiang Yu repelled one group, and another group came; killed one level, and another level; before killing here, Han soldiers surrounded there again. Xiang Yu couldn't break out of the siege, so he had to go back to the Gaixia camp, and ordered the soldiers to guard carefully, and was ready to wait for a chance to fight again.

That night, Xiang Yu entered the tent, frowning.There is a beloved beauty named Yu Ji beside him, who sees him depressed, and drinks with him to relieve his boredom. When it was time to set the watch, we could only hear the westerly wind whistling, and the sound of singing was also mixed with the sound of the wind.Xiang Yu listened carefully, and found that the singing came from the Han camp, and it was all Chu people's songs, and there were quite a few people singing. Xiang Yu was stunned when he heard Chu singing everywhere.He said absently: "It's over! Could it be that Liu Bang has captured Western Chu? Why are there so many Chu people in the Han camp?"

Xiang Yu couldn't bear it anymore, and sang a sad song casually: Power up the mountain and surpass the world, but the time is unfavorable and the time will never die. What can I do if the dying is not dying, what can I do if I am dying? (The meaning of this song is: "The strength can be pulled out, the courage can overwhelm the heroes of the world, the luck is unfavorable, the black horse refuses to run. What can I do if the horse refuses to run? Yuji, Yuji, what can I do with you What to do?") Xiang Yu sang several times in a row, and Yu Ji followed suit.Overlord sang and sang, couldn't help but shed tears.The servants beside him were too sad to lift their heads.

That night, Xiang Yu got on the black-tailed horse and led 800 soldiers across the Han camp, running forward without stopping.It was only after dawn that the Han army realized that Xiang Yu had broken through, and quickly sent five thousand cavalry to chase after him.Xiang Yu ran all the way, and when he crossed the Huai River, there were only a hundred people left with him.After another run, I lost my way. When Xiang Yu came to a three-way intersection, he saw a farmer and asked him which way he could get to Pengcheng.The farmer knew that he was the overlord, and he didn't want to show him the way, so he coaxed him by saying, "Go to the left."

Xiang Yu and more than a hundred people ran down to the left, and the more they ran, the more they went wrong. At the end of the run, they saw a swampy area in front of them, and there was no road at all.Only then did Xiang Yu realize that he had been deceived, so he quickly turned his horse's head around and walked out of the swamp, the Han soldiers had already caught up. Xiang Yu ran southeast again. Along the way, the soldiers accompanying him were killed or wounded.When we arrived at Dongcheng (now southeast of Dingyuan County, Anhui), we counted the number of troops, and there were only 28 cavalry.However, thousands of pursuers of the Han army surrounded them densely.

Xiang Yu expected to be unable to get away, but he still refused to admit defeat, and said to the soldiers who followed him: "It has been eight years since I started my army, and I have fought more than 70 battles, and I have never lost a single battle before I became the world's leader." Overlord. I was besieged here today, it’s because the sky told me to perish, it’s not that I can’t defeat them!” He divided the only twenty-eight people into four teams, and said to them: "Look, I will kill one of their generals first, and you can run away in four directions. Everyone gather at the foot of Dongshan."

As he spoke, he yelled fiercely and rushed towards the Han army.The Han soldiers couldn't resist.They scattered one after another, and a Han general was killed by Xiang Yu on the spot. When Xiang Yu arrived at the foot of Dongshan Mountain, the four teams were also present.Xiang Yu divided them into three teams and guarded them in three places.The Han army also divided into three groups and surrounded the Chu army.Xiang Yu rushed back and forth, killing a captain of the Han army and hundreds of soldiers.In the end, he gathered the three men and horses together again and counted the number. Of the twenty-eight cavalry, only two were lost.

Xiang Yu said to his subordinates, "What do you think?" The subordinates all said: "What the king said is right." Xiang Yu broke out of the siege of the Han soldiers, and ran southward with 26 people to Wujiang (in the northeast of Hexian County, Anhui today).It happened that the pavilion chief of the Wujiang River had a small boat parked on the bank. The pavilion chief advised Xiang Yu to cross the river immediately, saying: "Although the east of the river is small, there is still more than a thousand miles of land and hundreds of thousands of people. If you cross the river, you can still be king there."

Xiang Yu smiled wryly and said: "After I set up an army in Kuaiji County, I took eight thousand children across the river. None of them can go back today. Only I have returned to Jiangdong alone. Even if Jiangdong's elders sympathized with me and made me king, I will What face is there to see them again?" He gave the Wuzhi horse to the head of the pavilion, and also told the soldiers to jump off the horse.He and the twenty-six soldiers all held short knives and fought hand-to-hand with the Han soldiers who were chasing up.They killed hundreds of Han soldiers, and the Chu soldiers fell one by one.Xiang Yu suffered more than a dozen wounds, and finally committed suicide by drawing his sword by the Wujiang River.