Guan Yu was a very important figure in the Three Kingdoms period, and he was also an outstanding fierce general in the Shu Kingdom, and he was also a very optimistic brother of the eldest brother Liu Bei.
Looking around the entire Three Kingdoms era, Second Master Guan can be regarded as a rare corner in terms of force value, command ability, and loyalty. As far as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is concerned, Guan Yunchang is really very good.
Historically, Guan Yu easily defeated the famous Hebei general Yan Liang in the Wanma Army when he was not yet famous. In the rendition, Mr. Luo Guanzhong forcibly added several scenes to Guan Erye: splitting Huaxiong before the Shuishui Pass, passing five levels of the second six generals, and cutting wen ugly in the Battle of Yanjin.
Although in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is no drama of Guan Yu passing through five levels, nor is there a bridge section where he cuts the ugly text, and Hua Xiong was also killed by Sun Jian, but these cannot change the fact that Guan Yu is very brave.
The Flooded Seventh Army is the pinnacle of Guan Yu's life.
In 219 AD, Guan Yunchang marched north and beat "Cao Ren Xiao'er" to wait for rescue behind closed doors. At that time, after Cao Cao heard the news that Guan Yu had attacked Xiangyang and Fancheng, he immediately sent Yu Ban to lead 7 elite troops to support Cao Ren.
These 7-way armies were all extremely effective teams under Cao Cao, and if the real swords were to be put together, then Guan Yu might have to pay a heavy price even if he could win. However, after all, the second master was a general with outstanding military ability, and he immediately used the water attack method in the art of war, directly using rain and river water to submerge the forbidden army.
After this battle, Guan Yu's prestige once again resounded throughout the Three Kingdoms period, and even had the effect of "Wei Zhen Huaxia". However, when this famous general of the Shu state was immersed in the joy of victory, his stronghold of Jingzhou was attacked by Sun Quan, and the situation instantly became unfavorable to him.
At that time, Guan Yu was guarding Jingzhou, and most of his soldiers were from Jingzhou, that is, Jingzhou soldiers. The Eastern Wu side seized on this weakness of Guan Erye and used a heart-attacking battle similar to that of Han Xin against Xiang Yu in the past. Sun Quan deliberately asked the families of the Jingzhou soldiers to summon them home.
As a result, Guan Yu's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses instantly ran to only a few hundred, and Liu Bei's brother-in-law Mi Fang and his general Fu Shiren surrendered to Sun Quan earlier. Subsequently, this martial saint also staged a tragic drama of defeating Maicheng and killing Linfeng.
Guan Yu won the battle, but his soldiers abandoned their commander because of the fall of their families, which eventually led to the tragic death of this "martial saint", which was very lamentable.
On the other hand, Liu Bei was different, no matter how badly this old brother lost, no one betrayed him.
At that time, Liu Bei suffered a defeat in Xuzhou and was separated from Guan, Zhang and others. But later they met in the ancient city, and everyone returned to Liu Bei's side, such as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Sun Qian, Jian Yong and others.
In the Battle of Changshanpo, Cao Cao beat Liu Bei to lose his wife and fold his troops, but even if he lost so badly, none of Liu Bei's men surrendered to Cao Cao.
At that time, Zhao Yun was responsible for protecting the family of the lord Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang went to Jiangxia for help, and Zhang Fei led more than 20 people to die at the Changsaka Bridge; on the contrary, Cao Bing had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the strength of the two sides was very different. However, at this critical juncture, Mi Fang did not even surrender to Cao Cao, but fought the enemy to the death and was seriously injured.
Objectively speaking, Liu Bei's situation in Changshanpo's fiasco was far worse than Guan Yu's situation in Jingzhou, but the ending of the two was completely different.
Take Mi Fang, for example, he could swear to die under Liu Bei, but when he arrived at Guan Yu, he instantly abandoned his leadership. Why?
In fact, the reason for this is very simple, in the final analysis, it is that Guan Yu will not buy people's hearts like Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was always a courtesy corporal, and he was very good at winning people's hearts, so he could make his subordinates very loyal to him. For example, Liu Bei deliberately dropped Liu Chan to show everyone, and successfully captured Zhao Yun's "heart", and at the same time publicized his "thick image" once again.
However, Guan Yu was different, this person was usually too arrogant and looked down on people, so he failed to deal with Mi Fang and Fu Shiren; plus this old brother usually did not treat the soldiers very kindly, so the soldiers immediately gave up their commander as soon as they encountered things.
To sum up, Guan Yu fought but everyone rebelled, and no matter how badly Liu Bei lost, no one betrayed him, which became reasonable.