项羽于垓下(今安徽灵壁县东南)败在韩信和彭越的两军合击之下,乘夜突围,南逃至乌江(今安徽和县东北),最后自刎而尽。他面临败局,对跟随他至最后的二十八个骑士说:“此天之亡我,非战之罪也。”他对着驾船靠岸想渡他过乌江的亭长说:“天之亡我,我何渡为!” Xiang Yu (now southeast of Lingbi County in Anhui Province) defeated the joint attack of the two armies of Han Xin and Peng Yue, and flew overnight to the south of Wujiang (now Anhui and northeast of the county). He faced the defeat and told the twenty-eight knights who followed him: “The death of me, the sin of non-war,” said Ting Ting, who was crossing the Wujiang River when he was driving a ship. The death of me, I why ferry!