Who is the embattled figure?

The embattled figure, that is, the protagonist, is Xiang Yu, the overlord of the land of western Chu, and a famous star in history. There are many idioms about him, and embattled is one of them.

I'm sure everyone has heard of an idiom, besieged on all sides, which is about a very famous historical figure. So you know, who is the embattled figure?

Details 0 1 Xiang Yu, known as the overlord of the western Chu Dynasty, was an outstanding strategist in the late Qin Dynasty. According to historical records at that time, he was a descendant of Guo Xiang, a vassal state of Zhou Dynasty. Ji surname, Xiang surname, first name and word feather, so it is called Xiang Yu.

Xiang Yu was brave and good at fighting. In his early years, he joined his uncle in the Wuzhong Uprising. Fight Qin together. After the restoration of the king of Chu, he was named Duke Lu.

The source of Embattled comes from Historical Records written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, and it is mentioned in the article Xiang Yu's Biography. This idiom is a derogatory term, which describes people who are forced or hit by various factors and fall into a dilemma when they are in very difficult times.

Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were originally non-aggression, with the east and west of the gorge (now Jia Luhe, Rong County, Henan Province) as the boundary, which is equivalent to what people say now: You take your Yangguan Road and I will take my wooden bridge. But later, Sean and Chen Ping, Liu Bang's ministers, remonstrated with Liu Bangjin at an early morning meeting, saying that our army should destroy Xiang Yu's army while it was still weak, so as to eliminate worries. Liu Bang heard Ai Qing's words, which made sense. He sent Han Xin, Rebekah and others to arrange troops and win him together when Xiang Yu attacked.

As soon as Liu Bang's army saw Xiang Yu killed, it immediately surrounded Xiang Yu in Gaixia, which is now the southeast of Lingbi County, Anhui Province. At this time, Xiang Yu's men did not have a strong enough army and no food. I don't know what to do. In the military camp at night, Xiang Yu was very surprised to hear that all the troops around him were singing Chu folk songs: Did Liu Bang occupy Chu? Why do he have so many troops? The fighting spirit in my heart is also slowly decreasing. In desperation, he drank the last glass of wine in the camp and sang this song sadly with his beloved concubine Yu Ji. As a final farewell. Xiang Yu thought that he had no face to face his elders in Jiangdong, so he got on the horse, leaving only 800 soldiers to flee to the south and die by the Wujiang River.