At the beginning of the Three Kingdoms story, Guan Yu has two scenes, the first is to kill Dong Zhuozhi's general Hua Xiong, and the second is to kill Yuan Shao's general Yan Liang. Especially when killing Yan Liang, the author portrayed Guan Yu's bravery and good fighting vividly, and Guan Yu almost effortlessly beheaded Yan Liang's head under the horse. So is Yan Liang really so weak on the real battlefield?
Yan Liang was a major general of Yuan Shao, who had helped Yuan Shao make great achievements in his fight against Dong Zhuo. In one battle, Yan Liang fought with Xu Chu for a long time, a total of 20 rounds, and Xu Chu failed and fled back to the military camp. Then Xu Chu continued to fight with Xu Huang, Xu Huang used a lot of tricks and failed to defeat Xu Chu, they fought a total of more than 50 rounds, regardless of victory or defeat, just when the battle was deadlocked, Le Jin also participated in the war, Zhang Fei also joined with a large knife, Xu Huang and Zhang Fei fought for a while, and the two sides were equal. According to the above achievements, Yan Liang's martial arts were obviously much stronger than Zhang Fei and Xu Chu. If it were not for Yan Liang's early death, it is estimated that he would have left a lot of impressive battle achievements.
Yan Liang and Wen Ugly are brothers, and their martial arts skills are basically the same. When Wen Ugly first appeared on the scene, he had an exciting fight with general Baima, that is, Gongsun Zhan. It is said that when Wen Ugly and Gongsun Zhan fought, Wen Ugly took a knife and gun and attacked Gongsun Zhan, directly forcing Gongsun Zhan onto the narrow bridge. Gongsun Zhan had to carefully passively accept Wen Ugly's attack at the side of the bridge, and they only fought for less than 10 rounds, gongsun Zhan could not hold on, so he had to hurry up and flee. Wen Ugly was definitely unwilling to see it, and he immediately took advantage of the victory to pursue, thinking of cutting Gongsun Zhan's head under the horse, but Wen Ugly's knife fell empty, did not cut Gongsun Zhan's neck, but cut off his helmet.
Gongsun Zhan's hair was scattered, and he got off his horse and ran. Just when Wen Ugly was about to stab Gongsun Zhan, a major general suddenly stepped out on horseback, only to see that he was eight feet long, handsome in appearance, and mighty, wen ugly and he fought for more than 50 rounds, or did not distinguish between victory and defeat. It can be seen that Wen Ugly's martial arts can really be praised, he and Zhao Zilong can fight a draw, and they must not be idle people. And Yan Liang, the brother of Wen Ugly, must also have a level of martial arts.
Yuan Shao had always regarded Yan Liang as his confidant, he was so powerful, why did he finally fall into the fate of being beheaded by Guan Yu?
First, Liu Bei used a confusing tactic in advance to make Yuan Shao credulous. Liu Bei had paid a special visit to Yuan Shao, when Yan Liang was also present, Liu Bei told Yuan Shao that he had a second brother, who was more than 9 feet tall, had great strength, and was strong in martial arts, and was a rare person. Yuan Shao heard the great joy and thought that Liu Bei had come to join him, not only that, but also brought a heavy general. Later, Yan Liang heard that Guan Yu was coming, and he didn't care, he thought that Guan Yu had come to surrender, so he calmly stood in the barracks, which was obviously deceived.
Second, Guan Yu used a sneak attack to kill him. Wen Ugly was in the military camp, the guards outside told him that Guan Yu came with a large knife, Wen Ugly thought that Guan Yu was sent by Liu Bei, so he wanted to receive him, but he did not expect that Guan Yu's horse directly rushed into the military camp, and Guan Yu directly hacked Yan Liang to death. Poor Yan Liang didn't even have the chance to fight, so he died.
Third, Yan Liang himself had no one in sight, and wanted to convince people with reason, but he failed. Yan Liang originally wanted to persuade Guan Yu to defect to Yuan Shao, but he said that Cao Cao was not credible, and That Yuan Shao was very thoughtful about Liu Bei, so why not come together as a soldier? It's just that Guan Yu didn't believe him, and he wasn't even given the chance to speak.