荥阳 / Yingyang
荥阳 / Yingyang enters the wiki through 《资治通鉴·秦纪》103-1｜司马迁看中的信陵君算是小人吗？ as a Qin-held point near 荥泽 in the campaign setting around 管城. The episode says Yingyang has already been absorbed into 三川 commandery.
Its role is not a stand-alone battle narrative. Yingyang helps make the map legible: Qin’s control north-west of Xingze and around Guancheng leaves 大梁 exposed to water and route pressure even after 信陵君 defeats 蒙敖 in the field.
Qinji 128-3 adds Yingyang as an early westward target of 张楚政权. After 陈胜 declares himself Chu king, he makes 吴广 acting Zhang Chu king and sends him to supervise generals attacking Yingyang. The source does not yet narrate the battle result; it uses Yingyang to mark Zhang Chu’s push from Chen County toward Qin-held strategic space.
Qinji 129-1 supplies that battle’s political consequence. Yingyang is described as a Guanzhong route point backed by the Ao granary, making it both a military gate and a logistics center. 李由, governor of 三川 and son of 李斯, holds the city against Wu Guang’s repeated attacks. The stalled siege becomes the immediate setting for 田臧’s killing of Wu Guang.
Hanji 153 part 2 moves Yingyang from anti-Qin rebel-route geography into the Chu-Han recovery map. After the 彭城之战, 刘邦 withdraws to the Yingyang area, scattered troops gather there, 韩信 defeats Chu pursuers south of the city, and 灌婴 checks Chu cavalry east of it. The place therefore becomes the front anchor for 荥阳相持.
Hanji 162-1 gives the front anchor its crisis and memory layers. 纪信 impersonates 刘邦 at Yingyang to make Liu Bang’s west-gate escape possible, 周苛 and 枞公 then commit the garrison by executing 魏豹, and the episode says Yingyang’s people later worship Ji Xin as a 城隍 in a memory frame tied to 郑州.
Hanji 162-3 uses Yingyang as part of 郦食其’s linked central-front argument. The place is no longer only the siege city where Liu Bang escaped; it is one point in the Yingyang-成皋-敖仓 system that Li Shiqi says Liu Bang must not concede if Han wants durable food and pass control.
Connections
- Hanji 162-3, 郦食其, 成皋, 敖仓, and 刘邦 - central-front logistics and pass-control argument.
- Hanji 162-1, 纪信, 周苛, 枞公, 城隍, and 郑州 - siege escape, garrison commitment, and later local memory.
- 荥泽 and 管城 - nearby strategic points in the source.
- 三川 - commandery frame attached to Qin control.
- 大梁, 魏国, and 秦国 - threatened capital and controlling state.
- 秦国东进压力 - broader pressure pattern.
- 张楚政权, 陈胜, and 吴广 - Qinji 128-3 rebel-regime push toward Yingyang.
- 李由, 田臧, 周文 / 周章, and 战时统帅斩首 - Qinji 129-1 siege, Qin defense, and rebel command crisis.
- Hanji 153 part 2, 刘邦, 韩信, 灌婴, 敖仓, and 荥阳相持 - Chu-Han defensive concentration and supply-route frame.