In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the battle of Fancheng Xu Huang and Guan Yu did not distinguish between victory and defeat in terms of the results of the confrontation. In the end, Xu Huang still relied on fighting with Cao Ren to force back the Jingzhou army. Guan Yu took advantage of the rising Han River to flood the Seventh Army and the soldiers after besieging Fancheng, and the sound of the sound was great, and all the Chinese were shocked. After receiving the news, Cao Cao was also shocked, believing that Guan Yu's wisdom and courage were in the world, and after the victory, he was even more unstoppable, worried that Guan Yu would send troops to Xuchang, and wanted to move the capital to avoid it.
Sima Yi could send someone to say that Sun Quan had secretly attacked Jingzhou, and the siege of Fancheng could naturally be solved. Cao Cao adopted his strategy, and while sending people to Jiangdong to persuade Sun Quan to send troops, he decided to send a crack army to block the Jingzhou army from continuing to attack.
Speaking of this, there were not many people under Cao Cao's command: Xiahou Yuan was beheaded by Huang Zhong at Dingjun Mountain. Xu Chu was stabbed in the arm by Zhang Fei in the Battle of Hanzhong and was unable to fight for a while. Yu Ban and Pound had just been defeated by Guan Yu, both of them were captured, Yu Ban surrendered to Guan Yu, and Pound died without surrendering. Zhang Liao was guarding Yangzhou, wary of Wu Jun, and Zhang Gao was sitting in Guanzhong, but he could not get out. Xiahou Huan and Le Jin did not appear for a long time, and it is estimated that they are either dead or in poor condition and unable to play. Only one Xu Huang can still be used.
However, Xu Huang's martial arts were much worse than Guan Yu's. In the Battle of Xia Pi Tu Shan, Xu Huang and Xu Chu had both been defeated by About. Moreover, Later, Xu Huang lost to Yan Liang at the Battle of Baima, and the Battle of Yanjin was defeated by Wen Ugly, but Yan Liang and Wen Ugly were both killed by Guan Yu. Although Yan Liang's death was a bit unexpected, it was obvious that Guan Yu's martial arts were not a little stronger than Xu Huang's.
The problem is not to say that others can't send it, even if they can be transferred, in addition to the injured Xu Chu and the dead Pound, Zhang Liao, Zhang Guo, Xiahou Huan, Le Jin and other people's martial arts are not stronger than Xu Huang's, and may even be worse. Therefore, when Xu Huang asked for orders to go to war, Cao Cao also agreed.
Of course, Cao Cao also knew that Xu Huang's martial arts were inferior to Guan Yu's, so he asked him to go to Yanglingpo to camp first and not take the initiative to fight. Wait until Sun Quan succeeds and Guan Yujun is unstable before marching. In the end, Xu Huang did wait until Sun Quan had captured Jingzhou before marching, and also sent people to publicize the news of the Wu army's seizure of Jingzhou before the battle, in order to confuse Guan Yu's military.
Xu Huang's plan worked, and the two armies of Guan Ping and Liao Hua stationed at Yucheng and Sizuka were panicked after receiving the news, and were defeated by Xu Huang successively. Xu Huang took advantage of the situation to lead a large army into Fancheng and started a major battle with Guan Yu.
Guan Yu did not pay attention to Xu Huang's arrival, after all, the two of them were also old acquaintances, guan Yu knew that he was much stronger than the other party, and had the confidence to defeat him.
However, Guan Yu was not in a good state at this time, before he led his army to attack Fancheng, he was shot by a poisoned arrow in his right arm, and the poison had entered the bone, causing his right arm to be bruised and swollen and unable to move. Later, after Hua Tuo scraped the bone to cure the poison, the condition of Guan Yu's right arm improved, at least it could move.
But the so-called tendons and bones for a hundred days, such a major operation, the right arm must be a long time bad to use force. And Guan Yu's Green Dragon Yanyue Sword weighed eighty-two pounds, and the inability to use his right arm was naturally a great discount to his martial arts. Therefore, when the two armies fought in front of the battle, Guan Yu and Xu Huang still did not distinguish between victory and defeat after more than eighty battles, and the battle became a draw.
In the end, guan ping was worried about the injury to Guan Yu's right arm, and took the initiative to collect the troops, and Guan Yu retreated. Since the book does not mention that Xu Huang has the upper hand, then purely from the perspective of the battle between Xu Huang and Guan Yu, in fact, the two people are tied, and there is no victory or defeat.
However, at this moment, Cao Ren saw reinforcements coming, so he took the opportunity to kill out of the city. The Jingzhou army had previously received the news that Jingzhou had lost its hand, and the army was unstable, and it was attacked by the Cao army twice, and immediately chaos broke out, and Guan Yu could only lead the army to retreat.
From this point of view, Guan Yu was defeated by Cao Jun's two-sided attack and his own military instability. In addition, according to the fact that Guan Yu could successfully withdraw across the Xiang River with his troops afterwards, Cao Cao also ordered Xu Huang and Xiahou Shang to garrison Xiangyang to prevent Guan Yu from making a comeback, and Xu Huang and Cao Ren did not take much advantage when he retreated.
Therefore, from a comprehensive point of view, the battle between Guan Yu and Xu Huang should basically be a draw, and Guan Yu only took the initiative to retreat when the situation was unfavorable.