Why didn t Xiang Yu kill Liu Bang? Why didn t Xiang Yu kill Liu Bang?

At the Hongmen banquet, Xiang Yu did not kill Liu Bang, and the contempt thought that there were two reasons.

Xiang Yu was overconfident and despised Liu Bang.

Needless to say, it's well known. Xiang Yu and Liu Bang are far higher than Liu Bang in terms of family background and current power. Xiang Yu wants to kill Liu Bang easily. So I despise Liu Bang very much.

2. Subject to the situation in the world.

At the Hongmen banquet, although Xiang Yu claimed to be the commander of millions of troops, the contemptible people thought that Xiang Yu was not as careless and had no shortcomings as he imagined. Xiang Yu commanded 400,000 troops, which was far higher than Liu Bang's 100,000 horses. But don't forget that Xiang Yu entered the customs with all kinds of princes.

The 400,000 army led by Xiang Yu was a coalition army with Xiang Yu as the commander-in-chief and composed of princes from all walks of life. The 400,000 people are not all Xiang Yu's men. So how many people did Xiang Yu have at this time?

As far as I know, Xiang Yu had 60,000 or 70,000 troops when he killed Song Yi in Anyang and seized the military power, and General Yingbupu led 20,000 troops to help. In other words, before the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu had less than 100,000 troops. After the Battle of Julu, because it was on the border of Yan, Zhao, Weiqi and other countries, no matter how much Xiang Yu recruited and expanded the army, the number of troops would not increase too much.

Yan, Zhao, Wei, and Qi countries sent troops into the customs, and they must send troops ranging from 20,000 to 70,000 or 80,000. Plus the other rebels from all walks of life. Therefore, it is estimated that Xiang Yu will not actually lead more than 200,000 troops.

There is also a huge amount of military rations consumed by the army every day, and the soldiers and horses of the princes from all walks of life must be from their own countries. And don't forget that Xiang Yu's killing of Song Yi in Anyang is to seize the military power of King Huai, will King Xiong Xin of Chu Huai go a long distance ** Xiang Yu's military rations? I don't think so.

I estimate that part of the military rations of the Xiang army were captured and raised on the spot, but it should not be too much. Most of the military rations probably still come from friendly relief.

Among the anti-Qin rebels, although Liu Bang's record is not as good as Xiang Yu's, after all, it was Liu Bang who entered Xianyang first and captured the king of Qin. The merits of Xiang Yu and Liu Bang are like one person breaking the tiger's claws and one person taking the tiger's head. The credit of both can be the first credit.

If Xiang Yu joins Liu Bang when the fire of the anti-Qin war has not yet been extinguished, it is easy to expose his intention to monopolize the world. In order to protect themselves, the other princes are likely to unite and join forces to attack the project. At that time, Xiang Yu's army had no food and grass, and his foothold in Guanzhong was not stable, so it was bound to be difficult.

Rather than this, it is better to leave Liu Bang's dog life, detain the small family, and relegate to the poor and distant land of Bashu. Then send Sanqin to guard Guanzhong (Sanqin's subordinates were all killed by Xiang Yukeng, only Sanqin was the only one in Guanzhong, and the people in Guanzhong hated Sanqin, and it was difficult for Sanqin to take root in Guanzhong and it was easy to control) It is expected that Liu Bang will be difficult to do in the short term. At the same time, Xiang Yu divided the kings in the name of Emperor Yi, taking the opportunity to divide and disintegrate and weaken the princes, and take the opportunity to expand his power.

When the princes of the world were defeated by each other due to the uneven division of the feuds, Xiang Yu sent troops to sweep the world and exterminate the princes from all walks of life. At that time, I will go back and solve Liu Bang, the caged bird. Wouldn't it be better?

First of all, Xiang Yu is a down-to-earth person, and he is unwilling to secretly poison his hands.

Secondly, Xiang Yu has enough self-confidence He looks down on Liu Bang In Xiang Yu's cognition, I, Xiang Yu, can let you go 99 times, Liu Bang can catch you 100 times.

Then there is Xiang Bo, who also played a certain role.

The reasons are as follows: 1. Xiang Yu previously killed Song Yi because of the support of Fan Zeng and the soldiers of the whole army; The success of the pit Qin surrender is also due to the help of many princes. Now, if he wants to kill Liu Bang, the princes from all walks of life may not help him.

At that time, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were both generals under King Huai, in other words, their contradictions were only internal contradictions among the people, and the contradictions between the two were not made public. More importantly, Xiang Yu was still young at the time, only in his twenties, and although he was brave and good at fighting on the battlefield, he was very immature politically.

2. When Liu Bang personally brought the treasure to Hongmen to apologize, and at the same time gave up the credit and the qualification to be the king, Liu Bang had already occupied a moral advantage - the king had an appointment first, and the one who entered the customs first was the king, and Liu Bang did not need to do this at all. Liu Bang packaged himself as a moral perfection at this time, and claimed that he was fighting for Xiang Yu. What's more, after he entered the customs at that time, he did not guard Xianyang.

This directly proves that he has no desire to be the king.

3. Liu Bang's packaging seems to be leaky. If Xiang Yu rashly kills Liu Bang at this time, then he will inevitably lose the trust of the princes, and his prestige will inevitably be damaged. And if after killing Liu Bang, Liu Jun resisted with all his might, and the princes continued to watch from the wall, Xiang Liu's army would fight together, even if Xiang Yu could win, it would also cause his vitality to be greatly damaged.

What's more, even if he killed Liu Bang, his army could not be easily annexed by himself, because Liu Bang's army had many Qin people, and Xiang Yu himself had just killed 200,000 Qin people because he suspected that the soldiers had two hearts.

4. Therefore, at that time, the most important thing for Xiang Yu was not to kill Liu Bang, but to quickly use the prestige he had established in the Battle of Julu to seize the opportunity to win the hearts of the people and establish hegemony.

Therefore, Xiang Yu did not have the intention of killing Liu Bang. Not killing Liu Bang was also the only correct choice Xiang Yu made after entering the customs. It was precisely because of this time that Xiang and Liu Yanhe laid the foundation for Xiang Yu's subsequent division of the princes. And this is also the premise that he can be called the "Overlord of Western Chu".

At the Hongmen banquet, Xiang Yu did not kill Liu Bang not because he was "unbearable", but because he decided not to kill him after considering many aspects. There are three reasons for not killing. First of all, Xiang Bo leaked the empty military plane to Zhang Liang, and Liu Bang escaped wittily; The second is that Liu Bang took the lead in entering the Guanzhong region, practicing the division of benevolence and righteousness, and then went out of the city to station in Bashang, and took the initiative to give way to Xiang Yu, and Xiang Yu just killed more than 200,000 prisoners of the Qin State, if Liu Bang was killed at this time, he would lose the hearts of the people; The third is that after Xiang Yu and Liu Bang fight, the vassal states may not help him, and he is not sure of victory.

After the fall of the Qin Dynasty, a situation of secession between Chu and Han led by Xiang Yu and Liu Bang was formed. Liu Bang took advantage of the time when Xiang Yu and the Qin army were inextricably linked, and took the lead in entering the customs, and was praised by the local people. Not only that, Liu Bang also took the initiative to withdraw from Xianyang City, stationed in Bashang, and took the initiative to let Xiang Yu be the king of Guanzhong.

On the other hand, Xiang Yu, although he has a lonely and brave imitation of Hong Blind, but he likes to go his own way, he killed nearly 200,000 prisoners of Qin, if he kills Liu Bang at this time, it will definitely lose the hearts of the people. Moreover, at the Hongmen banquet, Liu Bang already knew the news that Xiang Yu wanted to kill him, so he escaped by urine.

But there is also the most critical factor, that is, among the hundreds of thousands of troops on Xiang Yu's side, only a few hundred thousand of his own soldiers obey his orders, while the others obey the orders of all princes. To put it bluntly, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang's power at that time was comparable, if he really started a war with Liu Bang, the vassal states on his side would definitely wait and see and not come to the rescue, he had no certainty of victory, so Xiang Yu thought twice before deciding not to kill Liu Bang in the Hongmen banquet.

As for not killing Liu Bang in the Hongmen banquet, whether it was the most correct decision Xiang Yu made after entering the customs, it is unknown, after all, Xiang Yu was besieged by Liu Bang in the end, Yu Ji committed suicide, and Xiang Yu finally killed himself in Wujiang, all of this, did Xiang Yu not regret it, it should be regretted, after all, his biggest enemy is not Liu Bang.

The contradiction between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang is not a personal contradiction between the two of them, but a contradiction between two political groups, which cannot be solved by getting rid of one person.

At the Hongmen banquet, Xiang Yu originally had a chance to kill Liu Bang. However, some experts believe that Xiang Yu was born into an aristocracy, which caused him to have a buried personality and did not allow Zhao Na to use intrigue to eliminate his opponents.