Whether it is Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu who is brave and brave throughout the ages, Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu who was born in cloth but sat in the world, or Liu Bang, the Marquis of Huaiyin, who endured the humiliation of his crotch but was shocked by the altar and shocked the world, are all the world's best people who influenced the trend of the times in that war-torn world, and their heroic stories are often talked about by people.
However, sometimes the people who can influence an era are not only those who have the ability to do the world, sometimes some small people meet the right people at the right time and in the right place, and they may also inadvertently affect the times, just like The General Ding Gong under Xiang Yu. Ding Gong's real name was Gu, and he had a half-brother Ji Bu, because Ji Bu worked under Xiang Yu and repeatedly defeated Liu Bang for his meritorious service, so Ding Gong also entered Xiang Yu's army as a general.
It seems that Ding Gong is a real little person, so most people do not know his name, but he played a very important role in a decisive battle for the hegemony of Chu and Han, which was the Battle of Pengcheng. In 205 BC, Xiang Yu's important strategist Chen Ping defected to Liu Bang, bringing Liu Bang the news that Xiang Yu's forces were trapped in the State of Qi.
Therefore, Liu Bang thought that the time had come to eliminate Xiang Yu, and first shouted the slogan of "Kill Xiang Yu, for the Righteous Emperor Chu Huai King", and then the princes who were dissatisfied with Xiang Yu responded one after another, and soon gathered 560,000 troops to attack Xiang Yu, hoping to take it down in one fell swoop. However, there is a detail here, probably because of the absolute superiority in troop strength, so Liu Bang confidently served as the commander himself, and did not let Han Xin serve as the commander.
Xiang Yu was already in a very critical situation at this time, although the history books did not record the detailed number of his troops, but it was certain that it was far less than 560,000 people. In this autumn of critical survival, Xiang Yu once again showed the courage to break the cauldron in the Battle of julu in 207 BC, and personally led 30,000 elite soldiers back to the division to attack Liu Bang's 560,000 troops.
Xiang Yu attacked The vanguard army of Fan Duo and other Liu Bang with lightning speed, and then surrounded Liu Bang's army with 30,000 elite soldiers in Xiao County, killing more than 100,000 people. Subsequently, Liu Bang's army quickly retreated and ran to the Lüliang Mountains south of Pengcheng, Where Xiang Yu's army then chased after him and killed more than 100,000 people again, and Liu Bang's army jumped into the Suishui River as a last resort, drowning countless of them.
At this time, Liu Bang's 560,000 troops had been crippled, and they were surrounded by Xiang Yu's 30,000 elite soldiers divided into three layers, and when they saw that Liu Bang and his remnants were about to be destroyed, a northwest wind blew in, blowing sand and taking away the stones, and The Xiang Yu army that surrounded Liu Bang's army was also blown to the east and west one by one, and fell into a short period of riots, Liu Bang took this opportunity to lead more than a dozen people out of Xiang Yu's encirclement.
After Xiang Yu knew that Liu Bang had already run out, he would naturally send someone to pursue and kill him, and the general he sent out was Ding Gong. When Ding Gong quickly caught up with Liu Bang, who was already wearing a shawl and was in a terrible state, and was about to capture Liu Bang, Liu Bang said, "You are also a good man, I am also a good man, why should you persecute each other?" ("The two sages are in conflict!") ）”
After Ding Gong heard Liu Bang's words, he led his army to retreat, even if he saved Liu Bang's life, and also let the Battle of Pengcheng commanded by Xiang Yu win a big victory, but did not achieve a fundamental victory, because Ding Gong let Liu Bang go. Later, Xiang Yu was defeated by Liu Bang, and Ding Gong then surrendered to Liu Bang, talking about the love of the Battle of Pengcheng and wanting to ask Liu Bang for rewards, but Liu Bang said: "Traitor, it is you who killed you!" (Ding Gong was disloyal to King Xiang and made King Xiang lose the world, nai Ding Gongye)"
This means that Ding Gong was originally a courtier of Xiang Yu, but he was not loyal to Xiang Yu, he let me go, only to let Xiang Yu lose the world, it can be said that the person who made Xiang Yu lose the world is Ding Gong! The reason why he wanted to kill him was so that future courtiers would not follow the example of ding gong as traitors. Of course, some people say that the reason why Liu Bang killed Ding Gong was because Ding Gong saw the way he looked when he was embarrassed, what do you think about this?