After Lü Meng got Jingzhou, why did he have to kill Guan Yu? After killing Guan Yu, why did he suddenly die, and what was going on? Today, the Demon King will talk to you about this topic
After Liu Bei got Jingzhou, he told Sun Quan that he would return it when he got Yizhou. However, it was delayed again and again, until finally Sun Quan urged him again, and Liu Bei said that he would definitely return Liangzhou after he captured it. Sun Quan was very unhappy about this, but considering the grand plan of jointly resisting Cao, he had no choice. Lü Meng, on the other hand, insisted on killing Guan Yu and using force to seize Jingzhou.
In fact, in history, he was the first to propose to kill Guan Yu. For Lian Liu, he felt that there was no need, as long as there was Jingzhou, he could confront Cao Cao.
After Lu Su's death, Lü Meng took his place as governor. Because the time to capture Jingzhou was not yet ripe, he pretended to negotiate with Guan Yu in order to make Guan Yu relax his vigilance. Finally waiting for an opportunity, in 219 AD, Liu Bei led an army to attack Xiangyang, the news was learned by Lü Meng, so he immediately pretended to be ill and led the army to withdraw from Lukou, so that Guan Yu could take most of his soldiers to attack Xiangyang. Guan Yu was sure to succeed, Lü Meng took advantage of the lack of troops in Jingzhou to directly capture Jingzhou, and Guan Yu, who was attacked, could only defeat Maicheng, and finally was killed by Lü Meng's people with his son Guan Ping in Linyi.
The reason for this is that Lü Meng feels that Guan Yu and Liu Bei are capricious villains. The reason why Guan Yu did not attack Eastern Wu was because Eastern Wu had many generals who could fight good battles, and once these generals died, not only would Jingzhou not return, but Eastern Wu would also face a crisis. However, after Killing Guan Yu and retaking Jingzhou, Lü Meng unfortunately contracted a strange disease and finally died, which was very strange.
Lü Meng's health has always been very good, it is impossible to get any serious illness so easily, it can only be a possibility, that is, someone wants to kill him. However, whoever was most beneficial to Lü Meng's death was only two people, and Liu Bei, who was thousands of miles away, was only Sun Quan. It is very likely that he wanted to avoid provoking a war with the Shu state through Lü Meng's death. So Lü Meng's death, is Sun Quan really unloading and killing donkeys or is there something else hidden?
After Lü Meng captured Jingzhou, he contracted a vicious disease and died not long after. So many doctors around him didn't know what kind of disease he had, which was incredible. The most outrageous thing is that Sun Quan, in order not to disturb Lü Meng's rest, let people seal off the inner temple, but just opened a large hole in the wall to observe Lü Meng's condition. Did he not want people to approach Lu Meng, or was he worried about something?
Historical records record that Lü Meng may have suffered from the plague. Because there was indeed a plague epidemic in the twelfth year of Jian'an, but Sun Quan and Lü Meng had also been in close contact, why didn't he get infected? Some people also say that Lü Meng died of exhaustion and exhaustion, which is also nonsense, because Lü Meng, as the governor of the capital, has been leading soldiers to fight for many years, and his physical fitness cannot be too bad.
At the time of the capture of Jingzhou, there was no long war and no injuries, so this statement is also untenable. In fact, it is not difficult to see from the position of who is most favorable to lü Meng after his death, because in Sun Quan's view, only Lü Meng's death can make up for Guan Yu's mistake of dying in Eastern Wu, and it is also possible for Liu Bei to dispel the idea of acting against Eastern Wu. Obviously, once Lü Meng died, he not only got Jingzhou, but also allowed Liu Bei to dispel the idea of raising troops to attack Eastern Wu. This is simply killing two birds with one stone, so Lü Meng is likely to die in Sun Quan's wishful thinking.
During the Three Kingdoms period, in fact, the most unpredictable thing was the human heart. At the beginning, Sun Quan had always implemented the strategic policy of joining forces with Liu and rejecting Cao, which was also the reason why Eastern Wu could continue to go on. Therefore, after Lü Meng killed Guan Yu and captured Jingzhou by force, in order to avoid war with Liu Bei, Sun Quan believed that it was necessary to sacrifice some people.
What's more, Lü Meng only valued one Jingzhou at that time, and Sun Quan wanted the whole world, because the angle of looking at the problem was different, which also caused the problem of dealing with Guan Yu. Sun Quan and Lü Meng's ideas were different, which also doomed Lü Meng to have no good end in the future even if he did not die after Guan Yu's death. The ultimate beneficiary of this game of thrones is Sun Quan, who not only took back Jingzhou, but also had a plan to deal with Liu Bei. He gave Guan Yu's head to Cao Cao, ostensibly to curry favor with Cao Cao, but in fact to transfer Liu Bei's hatred to Cao Cao. Then he sent people to Shu Han, hoping to maintain the Wu-Shu alliance.
In order to alleviate the hatred between Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, Sun Quan decided to execute Lü Meng. But for Eastern Wu, Lü Meng was a meritorious minister who could not be publicly executed, so the reason behind Lü Meng's death was Sun Quan. Sun Quan gave Lü Meng the poisonous wine to drink at the celebration banquet, and then lied that someone was plotting, and finally Sun Quan perfectly remedied the bad consequences of Lü Meng's killing of Guan Yu. It can be said that Lü Meng died under this game of power, and Sun Quan was the biggest winner.