Why did Xiang Yu kill 200,000 soldiers?

In the battle of Chu and Han, why did Xiang Yu lose to Liu Bang? Some people say that it is because Xiang Yu let Liu Bang go at the Hongmen banquet, and some people say that it is because Xiang Yu did not use Fan Zeng well, and for two thousand years, there are different opinions. In fact, the real reason is that Xiang Yukeng killed 200,000 soldiers.

In the Battle of Julu, the Qin general Zhang Han led 200,000 Qin soldiers to surrender, which was an excellent thing for Xiang Yu, who was interested in dominating the world. Because, getting these 200,000 Qin soldiers is equivalent to getting the support of the people in Guanzhong. However, Xiang Yu killed and surrendered troops in Xin'an Keng, allowing himself to completely go to the opposite side of the Qin people, so that he could not gain a foothold in Guanzhong.

More importantly, it indirectly helped Liu Bang, and in the four-year battle of Chu and Han, Guanzhong was not only Liu Bang's rear, but also the main source of troops for the Han army.

So, why did Xiang Yu kill the surrendered soldiers? As the only "Historical Record" that records this incident, two reasons are given.

1.Because of the lack of food. "Historical Records: Xiang Yu Benji": Zhang Han made people see Xiang Yu and wanted to make an appointment. Xiang Yu summoned the military officials and said: "There is little food, and I want to listen to his appointment." ”

2.Because the morale of the army is unstable. "Historical Records: Xiang Yu Benji": Qin officials are still in the public, their hearts are not convinced, and they don't listen to them in the pass, and the matter will be dangerous, so it is better to kill them.

For more than 2,000 years, these two reasons have been questioned by historians, the reason is very simple, Xiang Yu's military talent is unparalleled in the world, but in politics he is like an imbecile, these two situations appear in the same person, it is really unimaginable. What is even more incomprehensible is that Fan Zeng, as the deputy general of the army and Xiang Yu's military advisor, did not express any opinion on this matter, at least it was not recorded in the "Historical Records", which seemed extremely abnormal.

In fact, Fan Zeng also gave his opinion on the reason why Xiang Yukeng killed and surrendered his troops. The Ming Dynasty's "Short and Long Sayings" records the following content:

I am stubborn, and the king is afraid, and his Qin pawn is resentful and scheming. The officials of the six countries of the husband stopped to the abdomen, cut off their limbs and slaughtered their stomachs, and they were in the hands of the Qin people. Now I am fortunate to be restored.

And one of the Qin people, the second of the Xie Zhao people, and it is still not enough. Gai the king said a word, and all the blades and hedgehogs, who can be. It is impossible to kill 200,000 Qin with the princes, and it is impossible to kill the 10th prince with Qin, and a hundred times more, I dare not believe it.

In Fan Zeng's opinion, Xiang Yu originally didn't want to kill and surrender troops, but the grudge between the people of the Six Kingdoms and the Qin people for decades could no longer be reconciled. Xiang Yu had to make a choice, either to choose the Qin people or the people of the Six Kingdoms. Although the result was not what Xiang Yu wanted, he had to bear this responsibility, which also became the biggest mistake in Xiang Yu's life.

This is because Xiang Yu wants to make himself no threat, and he also wants to weaken the enemy's strength, so he will do this.

At that time, the troops in Xiang Yu's hands were very limited, and there was a big gap compared to the 200,000 Qin soldiers who surrendered. Xiang Yu may consider that with his current strength, he is not able to safely control such a large-scale surrender, and if there is some turmoil in the later stage, once such a super-large-scale enemy surrender army mutinies, it will be a devastating blow to himself. It would be very risky to incorporate these 200,000 Qin soldiers, and Xiang Yu's hard-won victory results could not be changed by this potential hidden danger, so this was one of the reasons for killing these Qin soldiers.

Because Xiang Yu was a very brutal person, he thought that if he let these people go back, he would definitely be his enemies, so he wanted to kill them.

This is a record of historical records, and it should be true, and historical records are called letter history, and the records are relatively true.

Xiang Yu believes that the main force of this Qin army is by no means a "criminal slave", but a hot-blooded disciple of Guanzhong, and the Chu army can not doubt it; This Qin army has the Jingshi army as the backbone, and it has a strong ability to regenerate and reproduce, and the Chu army is not afraid. With these two points, Xiang Yu killed all the 200,000 Qin troops in order to prevent future troubles.

At that time, Xiang Yu already had more than 400,000 troops, and he was the most powerful among the princes, and he thought he could sit back and relax; Due to the shortage of grain and grass at that time, and Xiang Yu was a Chu person, he hated the Qin people the most, and he was even more worried that the Qin soldiers would turn against him, so he simply killed them without doing anything.

Didn't kill so many, at most 30,000, 200,000 and a night's kill? Dig a pit and bury it, people are waiting for you to kill, kill people, dig a pit and bury people can not be finished overnight, now the archaeological discovery of the "Chu pit" is 400 meters long and 200 meters wide, I don't know how the 200,000 people were buried, the history is written by the victor, it is obvious that Liu Bang Hei Xiang Yu made him lose the hearts of the people.