The original meaning of pulling out the mountain is to say that the strength is strong enough to be able to pull out the mountain, describing a person who is brave and invincible or ambitious. The idiom comes from "Historical Records: Xiang Yu Benji", "So Xiang Wang is sad and angry, and he said in a poem: 'Pull out the mountain and cover the world, and the times are not good'." ”
Xiang Yu, surnamed Ji, Xiang's name, name, word Yu, is the grandson of Xiang Yan, a famous general of Chu at the end of Qin. When Xiang Yu was young, his uncle Xiang Liang taught him to read and learn swords, but Xiang Yu gave up halfway every time, Xiang Liang blamed him, Xiang Yu said, "Books are enough to remember names and surnames." The sword is an enemy of one person, it is not enough to learn, and it is not enough to learn ten thousand enemies".In fact, Xiang Yu is indeed extremely brave, "Xiang Yu Benji" said that it is "more than eight feet long, and its strength can carry the tripod". (Therefore, the idiom "pulling out the mountain and carrying the tripod" also comes from this allusion).
In July of the first year of Qin II (209 BC), due to the brutal rule of Qin II Hu Hai, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up in Daze Township, which opened the anti-Qin curtain, and the anti-Qin forces and the descendants of the nobles of the Six Kingdoms rose up in response, Xiang Yu also followed his uncle Xiang Liang, and after killing Huiji County Shou Yintong, he raised troops with 8,000 troops in Huiji County.
Xiang Liang incorporated Chen Ying, Yingbu, General Pu and other righteous armies along the way, marched all the way to the northwest, and reached 60,000 or 70,000 troops when he entered Xiapi, after which Xiang Liang marched into Xue County, and expanded his power with Xue County as the center.
In June of the second year of Qin II (208), under the onslaught of the Qin general Zhang Han, Chen Sheng was defeated and killed, and Xiang Liang, under the suggestion of Fan Zeng, supported Xiong Xin, the grandson of King Huai of Chu, as the king, and still called King Huai of Chu, and he established himself as Wu Xinjun and led the righteous army of Chu. In September of the same year, Xiang Liang was killed in battle after being attacked by Zhang Han in Dingtao.
After Xiang Liang's death, King Huai of Chu was ambitious to try to regain power, so he promoted the champion general Song Yi and other cronies, co-opted Liu Bang and other rebel forces, and suppressed Xiang Yu and other Xiang generals.
In September of the same year, Zhao Xie, the king of Zhao, was trapped in Julu and sent envoys to ask for help from anti-Qin forces in various places, and the king of Chu Huai sent Song Yi as the main general, Xiang Yu as the deputy general to lead the army north to rescue, and sent Liu Bang to lead the army to the west. After Song Yi led the army north, he stopped the army in Anyang for more than 40 days, Xiang Yu killed Song Yi to seize military power, and Xiong Xin, the king of Chu, was forced to appoint Xiang Yu as a general.
After that, Xiang Yu led his troops to defeat Wang Li in Julu with the courage of "breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat", and forced to land Zhang Han. At the same time, Liu Bang, who led his troops to the west, had already entered Guanzhong and accepted the surrender of Qin Ziying, and Xiang Yu, who learned the news, immediately led the princes' coalition army of 400,000 to march westward, killing 200,000 Qin soldiers in Xin'an Keng on the way.
After Xiang Yu led his troops into Guanzhong, he first forced Liu Bang to surrender at the Hongmen Banquet, and then killed the prince of Qin and burned the Qin capital Xianyang. After that,Xiang Yu ignored the agreement of Xiong Xin, the king of Chu, that "the one who enters the customs first", respected Xiong Xin as the righteous emperor, divided the princes of the eighteen roads in the world on his behalf, and established himself as the overlord of Western Chu
However, because Xiang Yu's division was not fair, after the princes returned to the country, the world soon became chaotic again, and Qi Di Tian Rong drove away Qi Wang Tiandu, killed Jiaodong Wang Tian City and Jibei Wang Tian An, and openly confronted Xiang Yu after unifying the land of the three Qi. Xiang Yu personally led his troops to Qidi to quell the rebellion, but because of the cruelty of the methods, the dissatisfaction of the soldiers and civilians in Qidi caused them to be trapped in Qidi and difficult to get out.
At the same time, Liu Bang returned to Guanzhong from Hanzhong, and successively defeated Yongwang Zhanghan, Saiwang Sima Xin, Zhai Wang Dong Peng, Yin Wang Sima Wei, Henan Wang Shenyang, Western Wei King Wei Bao, etc., and his strength increased greatly.
In April of the second year of the Han Dynasty (205 BC), taking advantage of the opportunity that Xiang Yu's main force was pinned down in Qidi, Liu Bangqin led an army of more than 500,000 to attack Pengcheng, the capital of Chu. In a big battle in Pengcheng, although Liu Bang had many troops, he was defeated by Xiang Yu, so he could only flee westward in a hurry, and did not stop the decline until after the "Battle of Jingsuo". In the following two years, the two sides confronted each other on the Xingyang line.
Although Xiang Yu is brave and invincible, but because he is too rigid and self-serving, there are few talents under his command, although he can repeatedly defeat Liu Bang on the frontal battlefield, and even force him into a desperate situation many times, but after Han Xin opened up the northern battlefield, he has fallen into a strategic disadvantage, coupled with Liu Bang's frequent dispatch of irrigation, Peng Yue attacked and disturbed Xiang Yu's grain road, Xiang Yu gradually fell into a desperate situation.
In August of the fourth year of the Han Dynasty (203 BC), Xiang Yu was forced to negotiate peace with Liu Bang when he was caught in the attack of Liu Bang and Han Xin, and the grain road was frequently attacked, and then led his troops back to the east. However, under the advice of Chen Ping and Zhang Liang, Liu Bang tore up the agreement and led his troops to pursue, and sent Liu Jia and Yingbu from Jiujiang to the north to intercept them, and sent people to summon Peng Yue and Han Xin to go south to participate in the encirclement and suppression.
In November of the fifth year of the Han Dynasty (203 BC), Xiang Yu was forced to retreat to the wall. In December, Han Xin, Peng Yue, Yingbu and others led troops to join Liu Bang. In January, a decisive battle broke out between the two sides, and in the face of hundreds of thousands of Han troops led by Han Xin, Xiang Yu's troops retreated into the siege after being defeated, and Han Xin used the strategy of "embattled" to disintegrate the morale of the Chu army.
After Xiang Yu returned from the camp, he saw that the morale was low, the people were sleepy, and he knew that the general trend had gone, so he drank wine and sang sadly in the camp tent, "Pull out the mountain and cover the world, the time is not good, the skull will not pass away, what can I do, what can I do?" "Say goodbye to Yu JiAfter that, he led 800 soldiers to break through the siege, although he successfully escaped from the predicament, but in the face of the pursuit of the Han army, he finally killed himself by the Wujiang River.