The first mystery of the Three Kingdoms, where did Guan Yu's first rank go? A heavy rain unravels the mystery of 1800
Introduction: There are many mysteries in the Three Kingdoms period, Zhang Jiao met the Old Immortal of South China when he went up the mountain to collect medicine, no one knows why the Old Immortal awarded him the "Taiping Technique", and people who heard about it wanted to go up the mountain to find the Old Immortal, but the Old Immortal never appeared again, and no one knew where he went. For example, during Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, because Ma Mo's mistakes caused his Chinese army to be exposed to Sima Yi, he could only put up an empty city plan. In fact, Sima Yi had already identified Zhuge Liang's empty city plan, but why he still insisted on withdrawing his troops was also an unsolved mystery. There is also the first mystery of the Three Kingdoms, where did Guan Yu's head go? No one has known about it for thousands of years, and it was not until modern times that the secret of Cao Cao's 1800 years of hiding was unlocked. What the hell is going on, let's see what happens.
It turned out that when Guan Yu was defending Jingzhou, in order to cooperate with Liu Bei's Hanzhong offensive, he took Jingzhou Erlang north to attack Cao Ren, who was stationed in Xiangfan, so that Cao Cao's army could not take care of each other. Cao Ren can be said to be the best defensive general in Cao's camp, but under Guan Yu's powerful offensive, he was gradually defeated, because the Xiangfan defense line was very important to Cao Cao, so Cao Cao specially sent two generals, Yu Ban and Pound, to lead a total of 30,000 reinforcements to support Xiangfan. After receiving this information, Guan Yu led his troops to ambush on the road that the reinforcements had to pass, which was equivalent to forbidding the group to break the embankment and release water after arriving, and the whole army was destroyed on the spot, and the general Pound was killed on the spot, and Yu Ban was also captured, so Guan Yu's name moved the world.
Because the rescue failed and Xiangfan was in danger, if Guan Yu broke through the Xiangfan defense line, he could directly threaten Xu Du, and at this time Cao Cao had begun to discuss the plan to move the capital with the ministers. Sun Quan of Jiangdong, fearing that Guan Yu would pull his troops down the river in a boat to attack Jiangdong, specially sent Zhuge Jin as an emissary, hoping to marry Guan Yu and consolidate the relationship between Liu Sun and Liu Sun. However, the arrogant Guan Yu not only did not agree to Sun Quan's request, but also insulted Sun Quan that he was not worthy of marrying the Guan family. Sun Quan, who learned of the result, was furious, betrayed the covenant on the spot and joined forces with Hope and Cao Cao to attack Guan Yu, Cao Cao agreed with this plan, so he strangled Guan Yu in the south and north of the two families, Guan Yu was defeated and killed, and the heads were sent to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was very emotional when he saw Guan Yu's human head, although they were rivals, they had known each other a long time ago, and when they were helpless against the fierce general Hua Xiong under the Tiger Prison Pass, at this time Guan Yu stepped forward and beheaded Hua Xiong with a knife, and soon after the three brothers jointly forced Lü Bu to retreat, which allowed the princes to capture the Tiger Prison Pass and take Luoyang. Later, Cao Cao captured Guan Yu and Liu Bei's family members in Xuzhou, and at that time Cao Cao also recruited Guan Yu with the high-ranking official Houlu but he refused to accept it, but only repaid Cao Cao for beheading Yan Liang on the battlefield, and then returned to Liu Bei with Liu Bei's family.
Since Guan Yu was no longer a threat to Cao Cao, Cao Cao remembered his old feelings and specially ordered someone to build a luxurious mausoleum for Guan Yu, and gave him a beautiful burial with the etiquette of a prince and a nobleman. However, after Sima Shi unified the Three Kingdoms, no one knew where Guan Yu's tomb was, which became the first mystery of the Three Kingdoms. Until the 1970s, a heavy rain washed out the Guandi Tomb in Guanzhuang Village, Luoyang, and the documents in the tomb recorded that the owner of the tomb was Guan Yu. And archaeologists also found a skull inside, most likely Guan Yu's head, and the secret that Cao Cao had hidden for more than 1800 years was finally solved.
Conclusion: It is said that dying on the battlefield is the highest honor of a military general, and Guan Yu's skills are not as good as those of a soldier who was defeated and killed, but although he died, he was honored. Eastern Wu cut off his human head on the one hand, but Cao Cao buried his human head longzhong, and it was clear who was a gentleman and who was a villain. With this ability to control people's hearts, it is no wonder that in the end, Sima Shi could rely on Cao Wei's strong strength to unify the world.