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彭越 / Peng Yue

彭越 / Peng Yue enters the wiki through Qinji 135 as the episode’s “from fisher to king” figure. The source presents him as a Changyi local who once made a living fishing around Juye, then became a bandit under 秦二世’s harsh rule.

His first developed scene is organizational rather than royal. During the 陈胜 and 项梁 uprising wave, local young men gather around him and ask him to become leader. Peng Yue initially refuses, then agrees on the condition that everyone assemble at sunrise the next day and that latecomers will be killed.

When many arrive late, Peng Yue does not kill them all. He executes the last arrival, sets up a ritual platform, and declares the uprising. The episode treats the act as a harsh credibility signal: the group stops treating command as a joke and begins obeying. Peng Yue therefore becomes the source case for 盗匪成军纪律化.

By the time 刘邦 attacks Changyi, Peng Yue has gathered more than one thousand people by taking nearby territory and absorbing defeated soldiers from different states. He then brings his force to Liu Bang, making him a new ally in Liu Bang’s separate campaign line after 巨鹿之战.

Hanji 144 part 2 shows Peng Yue as an independent armed pressure point after Xiang Yu’s partition. He now has more than ten thousand troops around 巨野 and is not meaningfully settled by 项羽. 田荣 gives him a general’s seal, uses him to defeat 田安, and then sends him against Western Chu, where Peng Yue defeats Xiang Yu’s dispatched force. His branch therefore extends from local discipline into reward allocation backlash as a military threat.

Hanji 148-2 keeps Peng Yue in that pressure role. While 刘邦 publicly frames his Guanzhong move as restoring the 怀王之约, Peng Yue’s harassment inside Chu-linked territory helps divide 项羽’s attention and gives Liu Bang more time before a direct western response.

Hanji 152 part 2 shows Peng Yue losing that pressure position after 彭城之战. Once Liu Bang’s coalition collapses, Peng Yue is described as defeated, stripped of territory, and moving around the river and Henan/Hua County area rather than holding a stable base. His branch therefore shifts from useful harassment to exposed survival after Liu Bang’s strength is publicly damaged.

Hanji 153 revalues Peng Yue inside 下邑画策. 张良 names him as one of the usable forces because he is still tied to anti-Chu pressure with Qi and can strike 项羽’s rear. The episode therefore turns Peng Yue’s irregular pressure from a background nuisance into one leg of Liu Bang’s multi-front recovery design.

Hanji 155-2 adds why Peng Yue’s leg of the design becomes more important. 韩信 proposes taking the north and then cutting 项羽’s grain route from that direction, but 刘邦 repeatedly removes elite soldiers from Han Xin’s army for the 荥阳相持 front. The source says Liu Bang therefore turns to Peng Yue for the grain-route pressure, sending 刘贾 and 卢绾 to support him.

Hanji 162-1 shows that pressure taking effect after 袁先生 / 袁生 draws Xiang Yu south. While Xiang Yu faces Liu Bang’s fortified refusal to fight around Wan, Peng Yue moves toward the 睢水 and cuts Chu logistics, leaving Xiang Yu with Liu Bang in front, Peng Yue behind, and food under pressure.

Hanji 162-2 adds the preceding rhythm of that pressure. After losing ground in the wake of 彭城之战, Peng Yue resumes mobile attacks along the Yellow River, cuts Chu food routes, and defeats a Chu force around 下邳. The episode uses him as the force that repeatedly pulls 项羽 away from 成皋, making rear harassment one cause of Xiang Yu’s strategic exhaustion even when Xiang Yu keeps winning local battles.

Hanji 162-3 supplies another concrete cycle. 刘邦 sends 刘贾 and 卢绾 across the Yellow River with infantry and cavalry to reinforce Peng Yue. Peng Yue’s force then takes Suiyang, Waihuang, and other cities, burns Chu food and transport assets, and again forces Xiang Yu to leave the Chenggao front. This strengthens Peng Yue’s role as the rear-pressure leg of 下邑画策 and a practical instance of 交通线切割.

Hanji 167 turns Peng Yue’s rear-pressure role into final coalition bargaining. When 刘邦 calls for the post-Honggou pursuit, Peng Yue does not arrive at the appointed time. 张良 says the problem is the lack of settled reward, so Liu Bang promises Peng Yue the Suiyang-to-Gucheng region and thereby pulls him into the final pressure that leads to 垓下之战.

Hanji 169 turns that promised and earned wartime position into formal kingship. After stripping 韩信’s military command and making him Chu king, Liu Bang names Peng Yue king of Liang over old Wei territory with capital at 定陶. The episode frames the grant as recognition for Peng Yue’s repeated anti-Chu work and as one part of the wider 战场胜利到建国秩序.

Hanji 184 records Peng Yue’s posthumous defense through 栾布. Luan Bu publicly mourns beneath Peng Yue’s displayed head, then argues before 刘邦 that Peng Yue did not rebel, had missed mobilization while ill, and had been indispensable from Pengcheng and Xingyang-Chenggao through 垓下之战. The episode therefore adds a legitimacy aftershock to Peng Yue’s page: removing him may fit 异姓诸侯王猜忌, but the perceived injustice makes Liu Bang face the danger that merit-holders will read the new order as unsafe.

Hanji 186 supplies one concrete recipient of that aftershock. The source says Han envoys send Peng Yue’s corpse-paste to the vassal kings, and 英布 / 黥布 is so shaken that he stops hunting, returns to 淮南国, and secretly prepares for war. Peng Yue’s death therefore becomes more than a closed punishment case: it actively feeds the next different-surname king’s expectation that accusation and investigation will end in destruction.

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