The Battle of Pengcheng was launched and its rapidity, from Liu Bang's dispatch of troops in Luoyang to his later occupation of Pengcheng, and then To Xiang Yu's detour to lightning raid Pengcheng, the whole time occurred in just one month. That is to say, this month created many miracles, such as the military miracle Ofe Xiang Yu's 30,000 and 560,000 princely armies, Liu Bang's thousand-mile raid to preemptively occupy Pengcheng, and so on. But just after the defeat of Pengcheng, a very controversial thing happened, and this incident also became a stain on Liu Bang's life.
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First look at the historical records, according to the description of the "Historical Record", Liu Bang tried to break through when Pengcheng was besieged, and suddenly blew up the wind and sand when he saw no hope of breaking through, so Liu Bang was able to have a gap to escape, and ran all the way to his hometown in Pei County. However, when peixian arrived, he found that his family had long been gone, so he could only continue to run away by himself, and as a result, he met a pair of his own children on the road. Then a scene of comedy appears, and here is the original text:
Chu rode after the King of Han, and the King of Han was anxious, pushing Xiao Hui and Lu Yuan under the car, and Teng Gong often took it. If so, three.
Xiahou Baby
The meaning of this record is that the Chu people were very eager to pursue Liu Bang, and finally Liu Bang thought that the carriage was not running fast enough, so he pushed Liu Ying and his daughter Lu Yuan off the carriage three times in a row. But every time Teng Gong, that is, Xiahou Bao, had to send them back into the carriage.
Through this small incident, liu Bang's image also appeared an extremely bad stain, which inevitably made people feel Liu Bang's villain attitude. There is a way that tiger poison does not eat children, and even children are not needed in order to escape. Of course, there is no shortage of so-called ambitions, believing that staying in Qingshan is not worried about firewood, Liu Bang is dead, that is, he is really dead, and the child still cannot be saved. But no matter how hateful people are, except for really putting on a show, there will rarely be such a vicious time, and this matter itself cannot withstand scrutiny.
There is no lack of contradictory records in the "Records of History", in fact, the task of taking care of Liu Bang's family was done by someone, and this person was the royal tomb of Nanyang. Wang Ling and Liu Bang are fellow villagers, both from Pei County, but Wang Ling's sense of existence has not been paid much attention to. In fact, Wang Ling not only ended up mixing with the wind and water, but also became a minister in the Western Han Dynasty. Wang Ling occupied Nanyang after Liu Bang entered Hanzhong, and when Liu Bang was out of Guanzhong, Wang Ling was instructed by Liu Bang, the King of Han, to go and greet Liu Bang's family.
There is a contradiction here, that is, a record is that Wang Ling's move to welcome his family was discovered by Xiang Yu and intercepted in the place of Yangxia. However, in the "Chronology of the Heroes and Princes of The Chronicle of History", it is mentioned that the greatest merit of Wang Ling was that liu Bang's children were born. Therefore, this is also one of the doubts, there is no way to explain that the two children disappeared from Pei County, then appeared next to Wang Ling, and finally appeared on the road in Pei County and were discovered by Liu Bang. Therefore, this shuttle situation does not exist, and Liu Bang finds that the child does not exist.
Stills of Liu Bang
In addition, judging from the recorded situation, there are also many unreasonable situations, that is, this record reflects Liu Bang's selfishness, and he does not care about anything in order to survive. However, after Liu Bang came out of Pengcheng, he fled all the way to Suishui, according to the "Historical Records", that is, Liu Bang only had more than ten horses at that time, in this case, Liu Bang still wanted to go north to Pei County to find his family, rather than directly going to the nearest Lü Zebu to assemble, which was very conflicting. If Liu Bang is selfish, he does not want to let go of the opportunity to escape, and if he does not go to a safe place, he must go to find his family.
What is even stranger is that after finding his own children, he has to abandon his children and drag them back, and then he continues to abandon his children. Isn't that a paradox? And the problem of the conflict is the action of the two people, Liu Bang, out of impatience, so he constantly threw his children off the carriage, which at least saw the enemy appear to chase and do this, but in such a serious situation, Xiahou Infant was still able to put down the carriage and not ride, and then put the two children back into the carriage, and then continue to rush, which is even more unreasonable, and this irrationality has been continuously carried out three times. So if the situation is not so critical that Xiahou Baby can come to a three-gu child, then what is Liu Bang's plan for losing the child? It's better to waste time than to hurry up.
Therefore, it may be that Liu Bang himself did not go to Pei County, but only sent Xiahou Baby to find his family, but because the Chu State acted more quickly, Xiahou Baby found Liu Bang's children on the road. As for why such a record appears, it is most likely that it was beautified in the mouths of later generations, just as Fan Duo's performance at the Hongmen Banquet came from Fan Duo's grandson Fan Taguang, not Fan Duo himself. Coupled with the fact that the characters that appear in the entire bridge section are Xiahou Bao, Liu Bang and the two children, how the facts are still to be examined.