Xiang Yu & Yu Mei-Ren extract from The Tale Of The Heike:
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@skialux.bsky.socialXiang Yu & Yu Mei-Ren extract from The Tale Of The Heike:
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At Gaixia, Xiang Yu was surrounded, outnumbered, and losing hope.
He still had a chance to cross the Wu River and rebuild in Jiangdong.
He refused.
That decision ended the Chu–Han War.
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Xiang Yu captured Liu Bang’s father and threatened to kill him unless Liu Bang surrendered.
Liu Bang answered with one of the coldest lines in Chinese history—and made the threat almost useless.
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Ying Bu wanted time to decide whether to betray Xiang Yu.
Sui He didn’t give him any.
By exposing the secret in front of Xiang Yu’s envoy, he turned hesitation into a choice Ying Bu could no longer avoid.
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Xiang Yu was still winning battles. But talented men kept leaving him.
Chen Ping was one of them.
Liu Bang did something Xiang Yu often struggled to do: trust useful people even when their past looked messy.
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Liu Bang had reached Guanzhong first. Xiang Yu still sent him away to Hanzhong.
His followers wanted to fight. Liu Bang chose to retreat.
It looked like humiliation. It may have been the decision that kept him alive long enough to win.
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At the Feast at Hong Gate, Xiang Yu had the army, the advantage, and every chance to kill Liu Bang.
Liu Bang survived by doing something else: apologizing, building alliances, and making Xiang Yu hesitate.
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