Guan Yu is the person who kills the most fierce generals with strong force in the rendition, such as Wenjiu beheading Huaxiong, Beihai chopping Guan Hai, killing Yan Liang in the White Horse Wanjun, Yanjin re-beheading Wen Ugly, etc., this point is not as good as Lü Bu or Ma Chao or Zhao Yun, but although Guan Yu killed many fierce generals, the voice of doubt is not small, especially in the battle to kill Yan Liang, today let's talk about Guan Yu's most humiliating battle: originally upright, but it was distorted into a sneak attack.
Let's first look at the records in the canonical history:
Shao sent the general Yan Liang to attack Liu Yanyu on Baima , and Cao's envoys Zhang Liao and Yu attacked him as the vanguard. Yu saw the cover, and the spur was good among the people, beheaded it, and shao zhu could not be the one who could do it, so he broke the white horse siege.
Let's take a look at the description in The Tale of Mao:
Guan Gong got on his horse, lifted the green dragon sword upside down, and ran down the mountain, the phoenix's eyes were wide open, and the silkworm eyebrows were straight up, straight to the other side. The Hebei Army cracked like a wave, and Guan Gong ran to Yan Liang. Yan Liang was under the cover, when he saw Guan Gong rushing forward, when Fang wanted to ask, Guan Gong was fast and had already run to the front; Yan Liang was caught off guard, and was stabbed by Yun Chang with a knife and stabbed under the horse. Suddenly he dismounted, cut Yan Liang's head, tied him under the horse's neck, flew onto the horse, and raised his knife out of the battle, as if entering no man's land.
The description of Jiajingben is even more exaggerated:
The male rushed forward. Yan Liang was under the cover, when he saw Guan Gong coming, he just wanted to ask, and the horse was near. Yun Chang raised his hand and slashed his face with a knife. The generals of the Chinese army were all heartbroken, and they threw away their flags and drums. Yun Chang suddenly got off his horse, cut Off Yan Liang's head, tied it to the horse's neck, flew onto the horse, and raised his knife out of the battle, as if entering a no-man's land. It turned out that when Yan Liang resigned Yuan Shao, Liu Xuande had secretly instructed: "I have a brother, Guan Yunchangye, who is nine feet and five inches long, must be one foot and eight inches long, his face is like a heavy jujube, Dan Phoenix's eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, he likes to wear green brocade battle robes, ride a yellow horse, and make the green dragon sword, which will be at Cao Cao's place." If you see him, you can teach him to come in a hurry. Therefore, when Yan Liang saw Guan Gong coming, he only said that he had come to defect, so he was not ready to meet the enemy, and was beheaded by Guan Gong under his horse.
In the main history, there are only two ten thousand enemies, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, there is no doubt that Guan Yu's force is the first, in history, there are very few people who can kill the enemy general in the history, Guan Yu is one of them, from the records in the main history, it can be seen that Guan Yu's killing of Yan Liang was a dignified decapitation under the confrontation between the two armies, and there were no many objective factors, it can be said that this battle can be called the battle of Guan Yu's armed forces.
"One Lü Two Zhao Three Dianwei, Four Passes, Five Horses, Six Zhang Fei", Guan Yu in the interpretation is not only weakened in force, but also the battle that best reflects his strength to kill Yan Liang, Guan Yu is suspected of sneaking attacks and seems to have won not enough glory, why do you say so? Because the hint in the rendition is obvious:
Mao Ben Yanyi emphasized the two major objective factors of Guan Yu's red rabbit Ma Kuai and Yan Liang's surprise, Jia Jingben Yanyi was even more excessive, adding the plot of Liu Bei's prior instructions to Yan Liang, making Yan Liang misunderstand that Guan Yu was here to defect rather than kill him, so he was not prepared to meet the enemy at all, so he was successfully killed by Guan Yu's sneak attack without defense, and from the perspective of interpretation alone, Guan Yu's victory was indeed not glorious enough.
The biggest reason why Yanyi is described in this way may be that Yanyi overemphasizes and emphasizes Yan Liang's force, whether it is Mao Ben or Jiajingben Yanliang is a rapid defeat of Xu Huang in twenty rounds, according to guan yu's force in the yanyi, it is impossible to do this, that is to say, Guan Yu may not have beaten Yan Liang in the yanyi, so it can only emphasize the objective factors of red rabbit horse fast, Yan Liang's surprise, and Liu Bei's prior instructions, otherwise it is impossible to justify itself.
Guan Yu killed Yan Liang in the wanjun, Zhengshi was simply and clean and convincing, but in the rendition, it was not glorious enough to win, which could be described as the most humiliating victory for Guan Yu.