Among the many heroes of the Three Kingdoms, is there a character you like, cao cao, Liu Bei or Sun Quan? Of course, everyone likes characters for their own reasons.
But I believe that everyone should not resist liking Guan Yu as a hero. Guan Yu was a military general in the Three Kingdoms. His deeds were widely circulated, and guan gong statues were also enshrined in major business venues. He is not only tall and powerful in appearance, but also one of the generals who can stand alone in the Three Kingdoms, and his five levels and six generals are also well known. To this day, he has always been praised by future generations as the Duke of Mei, the Duke of Guan, the Duke of Wusheng, and the Marquis of Zhuangmiao, whom we often hear, refers to him. For such a high evaluation, it is conceivable how high our evaluation of Guan Yu is in later generations.
However, everyone should know that Guan Yu was killed by the famous Eastern Wu general Lü Meng on the other side, and although Lü Meng was also a general who could fight a good battle, compared to Guan Yu, a hero who could pass five levels and slash six generals, he was also a small witch. However, no matter what, in the end, Guan Yu was still killed by Lü Meng.
As a result, in academics, Guan Yu, who has such a high evaluation, his death has caused a lot of controversy. Some people will think that when Sun Quan of Eastern Wu had already stressed against Guan Yu in three times, he absolutely could not kill Guan Yu, so why did Lü Meng not listen to Sun Quan's words, or let his subordinates kill Guan Yu, why? What hatred would put Guan Yu to death? Then, this issue of the secret history will take you to understand what interests are involved behind Guan Yu's death.
First of all, we must know the cause of Guan Yu's death, then we must first understand the ins and outs of how Guan Yu was defeated and captured in this war, which is called the defeat of Maicheng in history.
According to historical records, at the end of 219 AD, during this year, Guan Yu was attacking Cao Ren in Fancheng, but Cao Ren knew in his heart that he could not defeat Guan Yu, so Cao Ren retreated to yu Ban for help.
Borrowing the plot of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, we can see the environment at that time, in the autumn of this year, it rained continuously, and at this time, various parts of Fancheng began to flood, and Guan Yu used a plan to flood the forbidden city, and surrounded Fancheng with a trend, and Fancheng was already facing the crisis of being about to be breached.
At this critical juncture, Cao Cao wanted Sun Quan to sneak attack from behind Guan Yu, so he let Sun Quan send troops to attack on the condition of dividing Jiangnan, and then he sent Xu Huang and others to quickly send troops to support Fancheng, Cao Cao also thought about his own plan to attack Guan Yu personally, but because the road was too far away, he finally chose to give up. Just because of this abandonment, Xu Huang was once again anxious, Cao Cao had no choice, had to send heavy troops to support Xu Huang, just like this, Xu Huang had a plan, using the strategy of attacking the west with sound, deliberately telling Guan Yu that he was going to attack Weitou, but he did not expect That Guan Yu was convinced and transferred his heavy troops to Weitou, but he relaxed the defense of Sizuka.
In this way, Guan Yu was in charge, Xu Huang turned around and attacked all his troops to attack The Four Tombs, at which point Guan Yu came back to know that he had already made a plan, so he personally led the remaining 5,000 people to rescue the Four Tombs. Seeing this, everyone understands that Guan Yu went to support Shizuka this time, because there were few soldiers and the long distance required a long journey, and for Guan Yu, the past support was to send death. For this reason, Guan Yu was invincible to Xu Huang and had to retreat, and because his own water army was in shuishui, there was no way to use a boat to Xiangyang, coupled with the conquest of this road, the grain and grass had long been left, so the grain and grass were urgently needed, but this time the supply of grain and grass was escorted by Mi Fang and others, and everyone knew that Mi Fang and Guan Yu were incompatible, so the supply of grain and grass was delayed. At this time, Sun Quan ordered Lü Meng to sneak attack Jingzhou, but the generals who guarded Jingzhou had a relationship with Lü Meng, so they surrendered to Lü Meng without a fight.
In this way, Guan Yu's general situation had gone, and he could only lead the few people he had left to escape from Maicheng, and on the way to escape, he was also ambushed by the Eastern Wu general Ma Zhong, so Guan Yu and his son Guan Ping were captured.
The news soon reached Sun Quan, who repeatedly stressed that he and Lü Meng said that guan Yu could not be killed, because once Guan Yu was killed, Sun Liu's two families would definitely turn against each other, but Lü Meng did not listen to his lord Gongsun Quan's words and insisted on killing Guan Yu. Why? From here we can analyze:
First of all, Lü Meng's lord Gongsun Quan knew very well that at this time, Guan Yu could not be killed, even if Guan Yu was a general who could fight with one enemy and ten enemies, staying behind would definitely be a scourge to Eastern Wu. Even so, there was no way, he knew that although Liu Guanzhang and the three were brothers with different surnames, they were brothers and sisters, once Guan Yu was killed, Liu Bei would have a reason to send heavy troops to attack Eastern Wu, and the most terrible thing was that in this three-legged situation, once Liu Bei and Sun Quan fought, Cao Cao would take advantage of the void to break Eastern Wu and Shu Han one by one, and then it would end up in a battle between the sandpipers and the end of the fisherman's profit. As the leader of Eastern Wu, he would look at the long term, and from the later development, it can be seen that Sun Quan's idea is correct. But who knows that there is a pig-like teammate Lu Meng around him, and he can't see it for a long time. He only wanted to be famous himself, because Guan Yu was a well-known general, and if he was killed, he would definitely be famous. So he wanted to seize this opportunity to get rid of this big general. In this way, Liu Bei thought that Guan Yu's banner of revenge led his 80,000-strong army to attack Sun Quan, which was the famous Battle of Yiling in history.
In fact, we can also understand Lü Meng, in the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu's combat effectiveness can be said to be one of the best. It has a good reputation everywhere. However, Lü Meng was only an unknown general before his death, and he also had a well-known nickname Wuxia Amon. Therefore, clear-eyed people know that he is narrow-minded and short-sighted, and he also wants to become a general known to the world. Now that you have encountered such a good thing, how can you not take advantage of this opportunity to make yourself famous. If Guan Yu is released this time by obeying the words of the lord Gongsun Quan, then there will never be another chance to kill Guan Yu in the future, and it will be unrealistic to want to make a name for himself in the world. In the end, Lü Meng also realized his dream and became a well-known general.
Second, in fact, everyone understands that Lü Meng and Guan Yu themselves have personal grudges. First of all, Guan Yu is well known for his heavy feelings and righteousness, and he is affectionate and righteous to his brothers, but everyone also knows that Guan Yu's only shortcoming is that he is too arrogant, and the only people who can see in his eyes are Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others, and for The Eastern Wu Sun Quan, these people are not in the eyes, and every battle will seriously injure and insult them in many words. Once Sun Quan's son wanted to marry Guan Yu's daughter, so Sun Quan proposed to Guan Yu, Guan Yu said very proudly, how can his daughter marry you dog, according to the reason, Sun Quan is the leader of Eastern Wu, Guan Yu's daughter married to Sun Quan's son should be stained, but Guan Yu said such a thing, it is really too ugly for Sun Quan. Guan Yu couldn't even look at Sun Quan, how could he look up to Lü Meng. During the alliance between Eastern Wu and Shu Han, Guan Yu also met with Lü Meng many times, but Guan Yu said when they first met: You are Wuxia Amon. In this way, Lü Meng hated Guan Yu even more in his heart.
Secondly, Zhou Yu also had the grace of knowing Lü Meng, so Lü Meng admired Zhou Yu very much, and also regarded Zhou Yu as an idol, but after the Battle of Chibi, because of Zhou Yu's jealousy, he was killed by Zhuge Liang, and he could not take back the land of Jingzhou before he died, which was also Zhou Yu's regret before his death, in order to fulfill Zhou Yu's last wish, Lü Meng could only do this.
In addition, many scholars believe that Lü Meng may not have killed Guan Yu because of short-sightedness or to repay Zhou Yu's kindness or his selfishness. It was deliberate. Because there were two major factions in Eastern Wu at that time, one faction was the Shu Han dynasty dominated by Lu Su, and the other faction was dominated by Zhou Yu, believing that Jingzhou itself was Eastern Wu's, and it was supposed to take back its own things. Lü Meng wanted to break the current status quo of the Three Kingdoms, and wanted to attack the Shu state first and then take the state of Wei. Therefore, there was absolutely no good excuse for Liu Bei to take Jingzhou to raise an army to fight Eastern Wu, so there was no way to make Eastern Wu and Shu state at war, so there was only one way to kill Liu Bei's brothers, so that Liu Bei had the banner of attacking Eastern Wu.
However, whether Lü Meng killed Guan Yu in order to make himself famous or whether he was careful, this could not be proved in the examination, but it was undeniable that the situation of the Three Kingdoms was broken by Lü Meng, which made Zhuge Liang's idea of using Shu Wu to resist the State of Wei also fail. No matter how good the two brothers of Shu Wu were, driven by interests, it was difficult for anyone to maintain them.
Looking at the historical trend of the entire Three Kingdoms, it can be seen that the killing of Guan Yu can indeed weaken the military strength of the Shu Kingdom, which is also a great contribution to breaking the situation of the Three Kingdoms, which is an unchangeable situation in history, and the return of the Three Kingdoms to Jin is also a choice of history.
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