introduction
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wushu Lu Su Biography": "Su invited Yu to meet, and each soldier and horse were stationed on a hundred steps, but please ask the general to attend the meeting with a single knife." "Going to the meeting with a single knife is the most typical idiom for describing Guan Yu, which almost sums up about the most powerful time." Indeed, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu is a very remarkable figure, and there are many idiomatic stories about him in history, such as Yi Bo Yuntian and Sangu Maolu are related to Guan Yu.
Since Guan Yu is recognized as a hero by everyone, then he must have his own outstanding ability, and in the Three Kingdoms struggle, he cannot be easily caught. However, the world is unpredictable, it is such a hero, during his Northern Expedition, he was actually captured alive by Lü Meng, why Guan Yu was captured alive, in fact, for a long time is a mystery, people do not know, and it is not clear why Guan Yu was planted in the hands of Lü Meng. Later, a bamboo jian was unearthed at the Hunan site, which explained the reason for the occurrence of this period of history, and its content can be described as subverting history, and experts suddenly realized that Liu Bei did not save Guan Yu.
As the number one general under Liu Bei, Guan Yu's status can be imagined. As far as the real situation is concerned, Liu Bei is in the Three Kingdoms, and the benefits brought to him by Guan Yu are very large, although he has won Zhuge Liang with three Gu Maolu, but Guan Yu's role is also an irreplaceable and non-negligible part, in short, these two people have their own roles. Therefore, if Liu Bei knew that Guan Yu was in trouble, he would definitely send someone to help him, but he did not. This reason was found on bamboo strips unearthed in Hunan.
At that time, the general content of the bamboo jane unearthed in Hunan was that Wu Guo secretly cultivated more than 100 dead soldiers, just to wait for a change in Jingzhou and then wait for an opportunity. In ancient times, the dead soldiers were actually parts, which is what we often call the army. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the clans were all good at raising soldiers, and the so-called soldiers, at that time, referred to the dead soldiers at that time. The dead soldiers were composed of the elite members of the selected parts at that time, and all the dead soldiers were composed of people who had a skill or were very brave, very intelligent, and very virtuous, and they were all composed of rich children or innocent children of the family clan who selected dependent forces, and at the same time collected intelligence for the family clan.
These dead soldiers are raised by the major families, and they do not need to do anything in normal times, their role is to give the enemy a heavy blow at the critical time, and completely pull the enemy off the horse. Obviously, many people have achieved their desired goals through the dead, and because of this benefit, more and more people have joined the ranks of the dead. Later, not only did more and more people raise the dead, but this habit of raising the dead gradually passed down
Until the Jian'an period, this habit was still preserved. The difference, though, was during the Three Kingdoms period. Dead soldiers are often used to perform special missions. Lü Meng sneaked into Jingzhou, Guan Yu was defeated and captured, according to normal circumstances, the probability of Lü Meng capturing Guan Yu was basically unlikely. Because Jingzhou was located in the plain, the land was flat and vast, and the possibility of capturing Guan Yu was basically non-existent in the case that Eastern Wu did not send a large army to encircle it.
Moreover, tens of kilometers west of Jingzhou is the Qinling Mountains, the Qinling Mountains are lush with trees, as long as Guan Yu hides inside, the possibility of the Eastern Wu army finding Guan Yu is very small, so why can the Eastern Wu army capture Guan Yu? This has to mention the dead soldier mentioned earlier. At that time, the dead were a group of elite troops with special skills, and they were also a sharp knife against the enemy, and they were also responsible for collecting various intelligence data.
Obviously, before the action, the enemy had done enough of Guan Yu's homework. Like Guan Yu's weaknesses, or Guan Yu's strengths, are all in the hands of others, and Guan Yu's marching and fighting habits have also been thoroughly explored by the enemy. In this way, it is naturally very easy to capture Guan Yu. But Liu Bei's reinforcements were another variable, so the enemy's dead soldiers played a role, not only would they intercept the soldiers sent out by Guan Yu to deliver the letter, but Liu Bei would also be stopped by this group. The two sides could not exchange information, and Guan Yu naturally could not wait for Liu Bei's reinforcements.
In the end, even if Guan Yu had a favorable location, the vast plains and Qin Mountains could not save him from the defeated battle. Because Guan Yu had already fallen into the trap of the enemy, and Liu Bei naturally wanted to save Guan Yu, but without receiving any news, how could Liu Bei rush to send troops? Therefore, Guan Yu's biggest loss is the news blockade, no one can receive his distress message, and finally can only be defeated and arrested.
epilogue
Poor Guan Yu, if he could also make such a strict plan against the enemy against him, it might not be the same end. But who could have predicted what was to come in the future? Even the reason why Liu Bei did not save Guan Yu was only known hundreds of years later, how could Guan Yu think of it. Maybe he resented Liu Bei, but defeat was defeat, and he Guan Yu was not a person who was afraid of death. However, unfortunately, he was captured by the Wu army, and Guan Yu was sent to Cao Cao's hands and eventually died.
Reference: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wushu Lusu Biography