杨熊 / Yang Xiong (Qin General)

杨熊 / Yang Xiong enters the wiki through Qinji 136 as a Qin general defeated by 刘邦 around Baima and Quyu. The transcript writes “杨雄,” but this page uses 杨熊 to avoid collision with the existing 扬雄 Western Han author page.

The episode’s main interest is not Yang Xiong’s biography but the Qin command environment. After defeat, Yang Xiong retreats to 荥阳, and 胡亥 / 秦二世 has him executed as a warning. That response reinforces the wiki’s Hu Hai branch: Qin still has coercive force, but its punishment reflex can destroy commanders instead of solving battlefield pressure.

Connections

• 刘邦 - opposing commander who defeats him.
• 胡亥 / 秦二世 - ruler who orders his execution after defeat.
• 荥阳 - retreat and execution setting in the episode.
• 开封 and 颍川郡 - adjacent Liu Bang campaign sequence.
• 扬雄 - distinct later author with a similar romanized route, explicitly separated here.