In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu had a well-managed unit called the Five Hundred School Swordsmen. Presumably everyone is no stranger, since the existence of this unit, every battle will take him with him to help, and Guan Yu is the most lonely of many famous generals, and the generally arrogant people are not willing to do things for others. So I often hear a saying about hanging on my lips, that is, only five hundred school swordsmen are needed, which means that he does not know that the army is strong enough. Readers are also very confused, is this force really as powerful as the legend?
After the Battle of Chibi, Guan Yu was responsible for intercepting and killing Cao Cao, who was fleeing to the north. Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun both led 3,000 soldiers and horses, but Guan Yu only led the general Ling Pingguan, And Zhou Cang and five hundred laughing knifemen went to Huarong Road to ambush. From this, it can be seen that Guan Yu has great trust in this unit, and at the same time, it can be seen that this unit has an important position in the army. There was no record of this force in history before 201 AD, so where did this well-made army come from?
Most of the soldiers in this unit were from Jingzhou, Hubei Province. However, the backbone of the troops may not all be from Jingzhou. When Liu Bei first rescued Tao Qian in Xuzhou, Tao Qian sent 4,000 Danyang soldiers to Liu Bei in return. Danyang soldiers have been known all over the world for their bravery and good fighting in history. Li Ning, the grandson of Emperor Wu of The Han Dynasty Li Guang, fought with 80,000 Xiongnu troops for eight days and eight nights before being captured, which shows how strong their combat effectiveness is. In the later Three Kingdoms period, Danyang bing became synonymous with the first army in the world, and was almost the first choice for the conscription of various princes, Cao Cao, He Jin had recruited soldiers in Danyang.
When Liu Bei was defeated and retreated to Runan, there were still nearly a thousand people in the army. And some of them must be Danyang soldiers. There was no doubt that these veterans had certainly joined Guan Yu's five hundred school swordsmen. So many brave and resourceful Danyang soldiers as the main force of this army, of course, its combat effectiveness can not be underestimated. Plus Guan Yu is well trained. Perhaps this is the reason why Guan Yu can be debauched. But this is the frequency of the appearance of the army in the three countries is not high. This also makes people feel very sorry that such a powerful force has no place to play. At the moment of Huarong Dao, Guan Yu spared Cao Cao, and the two sides did not fight at all, and in the Battle of Changsha, it was mainly Guan Yu and Huang Zhong who singled out, that is, the PK of personal force.
In the history of the Three Kingdoms, the battle of the five hundred school swordsmen was also the battle of Xiangfan in Hubei. When Guan Yu broke through in Maicheng, he still had more than two hundred remnants of soldiers around him, and some of them must have been part of the five hundred school knifemen who were in the limelight that year. However, at that time, Guan Yu's situation was also very dangerous, outnumbered, even if the troops under his command were very experienced in combat and the production was very sophisticated. The final result is that Guan Yu and Guan Ping's father and son have died and defeated each other, and the five hundred school swordsmen under him have also followed him to the battlefield.
This ending can't help but make people sigh. It was really unpredictable, Guan Yu was untamed all his life, and he did not expect to eventually fall into this fate. But it was undeniable that the five hundred school knifemen trained by him were really powerful, and just listening to the name was enough to make the enemy feel frightened.