entity Updated 2026-08-23 Topics: History

柴武 / Chai Wu

柴武 / Chai Wu enters the wiki through Hanji 167 part 2 as one of the commanders of the third line in 韩信’s 垓下之战 formation. The source pairs him with 周勃 over the final ten-ten-thousand-person line.

His wiki role is to mark the stopping point of 项羽’s shock attack. Xiang Yu breaks through Han Xin’s first line and 刘邦’s second line, but by the time he reaches the Zhou Bo / Chai Wu line, the Chu force is exhausted and cannot break the formation. Chai Wu therefore belongs to the final holding layer inside 纵深分层防御.

Hanji 182 part 2 gives Chai Wu a diplomacy-and-force role in the 陈豨之乱 cleanup. He presses 韩王信 with 周勃, then writes to Han Wang Xin urging surrender and arguing that 刘邦 has forgiven returnees before. Han Wang Xin rejects the appeal and is later defeated and killed at 参合.

Hanji 183 reuses that terminal action as part of the episode’s same-year juxtaposition. Chai Wu’s killing of Han Wang Xin at Canhe becomes one side of the host’s “two Han Xins” framing, paired with the capital death of 韩信.

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