At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the heroes of the world fought endlessly for the world, of which 3 battles that affected the trend of the times were the Battle of Guandu, the Battle of Chibi, and the Battle of Yiling, which laid the foundation and completely formed the situation of the Three Kingdoms, and Guan Yu played an extremely important role in 2 of them, and it is no exaggeration to say that his actions directly affected the future of the Three Kingdoms of Wei Shu and Wu.
Guan Yu is known as "Martial Saint" in the folk, has long been a mythical figure, whether it is a person who does serious business or an improper business, whether it is a person who seeks wealth or peace, he likes to worship Guan Gong when there is nothing to do, and Mr. Shushu is indispensable to him in his mouth.
However, in real history, although Guan Yu can also be regarded as a generation of famous generals, he has not achieved so many achievements in the novel, Hua Xiong and Wen Ugly and others were not killed by him, to be precise, he only killed 1 famous general in his life, and fought only 1 big victory.
The famous general that Guan Yu killed was naturally Yan Liang, in the fifth year of Jian'an (200), Liu Bei was defeated by Cao Cao's personal army, and had no choice but to flee to Yuan Shao, while Guan Yu was captured in this war and became a prisoner of Cao Cao's command, so he surrendered to Cao Cao, prepared to repay Cao Cao's favor, and then returned to Liu Bei's side, and Cao Cao appointed him as a partial general and treated him with kindness.
It was also in this year that Yuan Shao, the largest force in the north, launched an attack on Cao Cao, and Cao Cao was once so distracted that he almost insisted on surrendering. However, in the "Battle of the White Horse", Guan Yu single-handedly rushed into the enemy camp, and with lightning speed, killed Yan Liang, who was sitting under the banner of Shuai, and Yan Liang was indeed a famous general in Hebei who was recognized at that time, Guan Yu was famous for this, but there were not too many amazing achievements, Hua Xiong died at the hands of Sun Jian, and Wen Ugly died in the rebellion.
The first great victory that Guan Yu fought was, of course, flooded the Forbidden Seventh Army, when Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei discussed the development strategy in Longzhong, they discussed that after taking the land of Jingyi, they would send generals to set out from Jingzhou to the Northern Expedition, and in the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219), Liu Bei claimed to be the King of Hanzhong and appointed Guan Yu as a former general, while Guan Yu led the Northern Expedition in the same year, and the soldiers pointed directly to the strategic locations of Xiangyang and Fancheng.
Cao Cao appointed the general Yu Ban to lead the Seven Roads to the rescue, and Guan Yu took advantage of the heavy rain for many days to use the flood to flood the Forbidden Seven Roads army, a total of more than 30,000 people, Yu Ban himself was captured alive, thus threatening Huaxia, frightening Cao Cao almost to move the capital, but under Sima Yi's suggestion, he did not act rashly, but repaired the book to Eastern Wu, provoking Sun Quan to march into Jingzhou, and Guan Yu was carelessly defeated one after another, and finally defeated Maicheng, killed more than twenty miles away from Yizhou, and Shu Han lost the strategic jingzhou.
Guan Yu's death triggered a strong "chain reaction", Liu Bei personally led a large army to attack Eastern Wu in order to avenge Guan Yu the following year, which directly caused the Battle of Yiling, and Shu Han was defeated in the Battle of Yiling, losing a lot of vitality, Liu Bei was even more depressed and died, although Zhuge Liang did everything to save the situation, but Shu Han had inevitably fallen into decline.
Art originates from life but is higher than life, although "Martial Saint" is not as "god" as in the novel, but his existence does influence the direction of the Three Kingdoms.