In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu besieges Maicheng and sends Liao Hua to break through to Shangyong and ask Liu Feng and Meng Da for help, but is refused. Therefore, people believe that it is Liu Feng's
"See death and don't save"
Eventually, Guan Yu was captured and killed by Eastern Wu.
In fact, this is Luo Guanzhong
invent
of the plot. In the main history, Guan Yu did ask Liu Feng and Meng Da, who were stationed in Shangyong, for help.
More than once
However, this all happened when Guan Yu's heavy troops besieged Cao Ren, not when Guan Yu's soldiers were defeated and cornered.
"Since Guan Yu besieged Fancheng and Xiangyang, he even called out to Feng and Da, and ordered the troops to help themselves."
Guan Yu asked Liu Feng and Meng Da to send troops to help him take Xiangyang and Fancheng as soon as possible.
However, in the face of Guan Yu's successive urgings, Liu Feng and Meng Da repeatedly refused, so why did they do this?
1. First, let's take a look at how Liu Feng and Meng Da won Shangyong.
Liu Feng was Liu Bei's righteous son, and followed Liu Bei into Sichuan and participated in the Battle of Hanzhong. Meng Da was originally a subordinate of Liu Zhang, and later surrendered to Liu Bei as an envoy and Fa Zheng on the border between Yizhou and Jingzhou to meet Liu Bei, and was appointed by Liu Bei as the Taishou of Yidu.
At the same time that Liu Bei and Cao Cao were fighting fiercely in Hanzhong, Liu Bei sent Meng Da to lead an army from Zigui north to attack Fangling, and Meng Da killed Fangling Taishou Puqi (Zhuge Liang's eldest brother-in-law) and occupied Fangling, and then Meng Da attacked Shangyong without stopping.
At this time, Liu Bei, who had defeated Cao Cao and occupied Hanzhong, feared that Meng Da's power would grow and could not be controlled, so he immediately sent Liu Feng to lead his troops south to control Meng Da's troops and join forces with Meng Da. In the face of heavy siege, Shangyong is too defensive
Shen Delay
Surrender, his brother
Shen Yi
Ezekiel surrendered. After taking the three counties of Shangyong, Fangling, and Xicheng, Liu Bei's territory reached its peak.
Liu Feng also ascended to the peak of his life and was promoted to the rank of Liu Bei for his military merits
Adjutant General
He became the supreme military and political governor in the Shangyong region. At this time, Liu Feng's most important work was to consolidate his rule in this area, restrain Meng Da, Shen Tan, Shen Yi and others, and ensure that there was no mistake in this place.
2. Liu Feng's reasons for rejecting Guan Yu.
At this time, Guan Yu launched the Xiangfan Campaign, and the early stages went smoothly, beheading Pound, descending to the forbidden, and then besieging Cao Ren at Fancheng and Xiangyang for a while
"Wei Zhen Huaxia"
。 However, after a long siege of the city, Guan Yu was still unable to take Xiangfan Erdi. In order to take this place as soon as possible to end the battle, Guan Yu asked Liu Feng and Meng Da, who were stationed in the northwest of Jingzhou, to send troops to help.
In the main history, Chen Shou used one
"Whew"
The word to describe the way Guan Yu asked the two to send troops can be seen from Guan Yu's haste, and it can also be seen that Guan Yu's attitude towards the two is not friendly, almost urging. The end result was two
"Refusal to accept the feather"
。 The reasons for this are:
"Resigned to the first annex of the mountain county, not shaken"
。 There are many people who think that this is liu feng and Meng Da's pretext, in fact, through the above analysis, it can be seen that this reason is not used to perfunctory Guan Yu, Liu Feng and Meng Da really can't open their bodies.
First of all
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Liu Feng had limited soldiers and horses in his hands.
Shangyong's defenders consisted of three parts, liu feng's army from Hanzhong, Meng Da's army from Zigui, and Shen Yanshenyi's original army.
According to the Zizhi Tongjian,
"More than 4,000 families came down to the rate of the ministry",
It can be seen that the number of Meng Da's troops is 4000. The number of Liu Feng's troops is unclear, but it should be similar to Meng Da, and it is also estimated that it is 4,000 people. After Shen Yanshenyi surrendered, Liu Bei would certainly not reserve too many troops for the two men, estimated at 2,000 people, so the garrison in the Shangyong area was about 10,000 people.
Second, Liu Feng was unable to divide his troops to support.
Although 10,000 people is not a small number, for the Shangyong region, these armies are not many. Shangyong area is located in the area of present-day Zhushan, Zhuxi and Fangxian in Hubei, located in the hinterland of the Qinba Mountains of Hubei Province, bordering the deserted Shennongjia in the south, which is the gateway to Yizhou and the frontline area of Liu Bei and Cao Cao, and its strategic location is very important.
And here has just been annexed, Liu Bei's foundation here is not stable. In addition to controlling the powerful local Hao clan, Liu Feng also had to restrain Meng Da, who had hidden ambitions, and for Liu Feng, this task could be called arduous. What Liu Feng could do was to use his slightly superior forces to control Meng Da, Shen Tan, Shen Yi and others. If Liu Feng agreed to Guan Yu's request and sent troops and horses to assist, in case there was any disturbance in Shangyong, Liu Feng would have no way at all.
Moreover, even if Liu Feng assisted Guan Yu, there was not much change in the battle situation.
When Guan Yu asked Liu Feng to send troops, he was still in an advantageous position, and did not reach the point where the mountains and rivers were exhausted later. And Guan Yu had no way to besiege Cao Ren with superior troops, even if Liu Feng came with thousands of people, it would not help. Moreover, at that time, there was already a shortage of grain and grass on the front line, and if Liu Feng sent troops to come, it was bound to increase Guan Yu's logistical pressure, and there was not much change for the war situation.
Therefore, I think there is a certain reason why Liu Feng did not send troops to support Guan Yu, but this did lay the groundwork for his later tragic encounter.
Liu Feng's tragic end
Although Liu Feng had a practical reason not to send troops, if Guan Yu asked him for help when he was in trouble, Liu Feng would definitely send troops. However, Guan Yu's defeat was too fast, and under the traffic conditions at that time, Liu Feng had no time to make any reaction.
After learning the news of Guan Yu's defeat, Liu Feng was also very afraid in his heart, knowing that Liu Bei would be angry with him. In fact, Liu Bei was indeed very angry at what Liu Feng had done
"It will be defeated, and the lord will hate it."
But this is actually not the main reason for Liu Feng's failure, but that he and Meng Da have lost harmony and lost Shangyong.
Liu Bei's main purpose in sending Liu Feng to Shangyong was to restrain Meng Da, so Liu Feng had always been suspicious of Meng Da. After Guan Yu's defeat, the distraught Liu Feng and Meng Da soon clashed fiercely, and Liu Feng even captured Meng Da's advocate (military band). Advocating at that time symbolized military power, Liu Feng took away Meng Da's advocacy, which meant that the next step could be to dispose of Meng Da at will. In desperation, Meng Da surrendered to Cao Cao with more than 4,000 private soldiers, and together with Xu Huang and Xiahou Shang, came to attack Liu Feng.
In the end, Liu Feng was defeated, and he fled back to Chengdu in a daze, seeing his adoptive father Liu Bei gone. Liu Bei, who was in a position of anger, did not fight Liu Fengqi, both angry that Liu Feng and Meng Da had lost peace and lost Shangyong, and complained that he had not supported Guan Yu and led to his defeat. Zhuge Liang believed that Liu Feng was fierce and fierce, and it would be difficult to control the emperor after Yi Shi, so he persuaded the first lord to get rid of it.
In the end, Liu Bei accepted Zhuge Liang's advice and gave Liu Feng the death. Before Liu Feng died, he looked up to the sky and sighed
"Hate not to use Mencius' words!"
Because Meng Da had written a letter to persuade Liu Feng to surrender to Cao Wei, but Liu Feng strictly refused, he did not expect that he would end up like this.
After Liu Bei learned that Liu Feng had refused Meng Da's persuasion to surrender, he actually wept over Liu Feng's death. Can make Liu Bei cry, it can be seen that Liu Feng is not an incompetent person. If you imagine, if Liu Feng had followed Meng Da to surrender to Cao Cao, his end would not have been so miserable.