Do not judge heroes by success or failure, the first person in history. An article that is worth reading again and again.
Xiang Yu's success lies in his decisiveness and resoluteness in killing Song Yi; Xiang Yu's defeat lies in the benevolence of the woman when he confronted Liu Bang.
Xiang Yu is a general with strong execution, not a strategizing marshal. Liu Bang was a decision-making marshal, not a general. Fighting in battle and looking for fighters are Xiang Yu's strengths; After planning and acting, unity will be Liu Bang's strength. From Han Xin's evaluation of Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, we can get a glimpse or two. Han Xin commented on Xiang Yu, "King Xiang is evil, thousands of people are wasted, but he can't be a virtuous general, this special puppet is brave." King Xiang saw that people were respectful and loving, and his words were vomiting, and people were sick, so he wept and shared food and drink. To make people meritorious as knights, the seal is unbearable, and this so-called woman's benevolence is also. And commented on Liu Bang, "Your Majesty can't be a general, but a good general, this is the reason why Your Majesty is a bird." And His Majesty's so-called heavenly endowment is not human. Because of this, Xiang Yu did not have particularly outstanding generals around him who led troops to fight alone, but all the talents with outstanding abilities left him and defected to Liu Bang, such as Han Xin, Yingbu, and Chen Ping. In the confrontation in Xingyang, Xiang Yu had to confront Liu Bang head-on, guard against Peng Yue's guerrilla troops, and even withdraw to attack the rebellion of Qi. Only once did he send a dragon to fight against Han Xin, who attacked the Qi Kingdom, and was also killed by Han Xin. Even if Xiang Yu has an outstanding ability to lead troops, and often attacks the opponent's hundreds of thousands of troops with tens of thousands of troops, he can't withstand Liu Bang's group battle, and Han Xin's ambush on all sides has become the embattled song of the overlord of Western Chu, the overlord Farewell Concubine and Wujiang self-slaughter.
The evaluation of Xiang Yu has been evaluated in combination with the social environment and his own subjective emotions in the past dynasties, and the more famous ones are Du Mu's "Wujiang Pavilion", "The victory and defeat of the soldiers are unexpected, and the shame and shame are men." Jiangdong's children are talented, and their comeback is unknown"; Wang Anshi's "Stacked Title Wujiang Pavilion" "A hundred battles are tired and the strong men mourn, and the Central Plains is difficult to return after a defeat." Although the children of Jiangdong are here now, are they willing to make a comeback with the king? ”；Li Qingzhao's "Summer Quatrain" "Life is a hero, and death is also a ghost." So far, I think of Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong. ”。