Xiang Yu

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Roles:
warlord
Factions:
Chu State (Warring States) (primary)
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Appears in 8 chapters:
  • Chapter 18 — Giving Counsels, Jia Xu Directs A Great Victory; Braving Battlefield, Xiahou Dun Loses An Eye.
    The stronger rival who lost anyway - Guo Jia's proof that Yuan Shao's big battalions decide nothing.
  • Chapter 29 — The Little Chief Of The South Slays Yu Ji; The Green Eyed Boy Lays Hold On The South Land.
    Invoked twice: Xu Gong's secret letter brands Sun Ce 'a turbulent fellow of the Xiang Yu type', and Lu Su casts Cao Cao as the Xiang Yu blocking any true service to the Emperor.
  • Chapter 30 — Shunning Advice, Yuan Shao Loses Leaders and Granaries; Using Strategy, Cao Cao Scores Victory At Guandu.
    The stronger rival of Xun Yu's letter-analogy, and the master Han Xin wisely abandoned in Cao Cao's welcome to the defectors.
  • Chapter 31 — Cao Cao Overcomes Yuan Shao In Cangting; Liu Bei Seeks Shelter With Liu Biao In Jingzhou.
  • Chapter 43 — Zhuge Liang Disputes With The Southern Scholars; Lu Su Denounces The Majority Opinion.
    The victor of every battle but the last - Zhuge Liang's proof that defeats decide nothing until Gaixia.
  • Chapter 82 — Sun Quan Submits To Wei, Receiving The Nine Dignities; The First Ruler Attacks Wu, Rewarding Six Armies.
    The hegemon from whose hands Liu Bang took a princedom — the precedent that lets Sun Quan kneel to Wei.
  • Chapter 109 — A Ruse Of A Han General: Sima Zhao Is Surrounded; Retribution For The House Of Wei: Cao Fang Is Dethroned.
    Alluded to in the same poem, paired with Pang Juan - 'As Xiang Yu at the Nine Mountains' - as the other great instance of an army boxed in by terrain.
  • Chapter 112 — Rescuing Shouchun, Yu Quan Dies Nobly; Attacking Changcheng, Jiang Wei Mobilizes.
    Named in Qiao Zhou's essay as the strong power destroyed only once the weak one had settled its own people - the Chu that Zhang Liang pursued and finished after the empire had been divided at the Grand Canal.