Historically, Guan Ping was Guan Yu's biological son. However, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Ping is indeed guan Yu's righteous son who received when he passed five levels and beheaded six generals. Here, it seems that in the book in order to echo Liu Bei's acceptance of Liu Feng, it was set up in this way. Unlike Liu Feng's performance, Guan Ping was loyal to Guan Yu and followed him everywhere.
First analyze the Guanping vs. Pound.
In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Guan Ping's performance is very prominent. He was not only brave in martial arts, but also fought and killed on the battlefield. Still by Guan Yu's side, he assists Guan Yu everywhere and does his best for Guan Yu. It can be said that Guan Ping and Guan Yu are not only father and son, but also Guan Yu's assistants.
When Guan Yu was willful and impulsive, Guan Ping was able to speak and advise, which showed Guan Ping's calm and thoughtful personality. When Guan Yu and Pound were fighting, Pound's dark arrow secretly shot Guan Yu, and it was also Guan Ping who shouted out, so that Guan Yu dodged in time and escaped a disaster. After Guan Yu was injured, it was also Guan Ping who intercepted Pound and saved Guan Yu.
From many places, we can also feel the martial arts of Guan Ping. In the matchup with Pound, this is even more prominent. Before clashing with Guan Yu, Pound and Guan Ping fought for thirty rounds, regardless of victory or defeat. The next day, Guan Yu and Pound fought for more than a hundred, and there was no difference between victory and defeat. From here, we can see that under Guan Yu's personal words and deeds, Guan Ping's martial arts have been vaguely similar to Guan Yu's.
Unfortunately, Guan Ping, such an excellent general, later because of Eastern Wu's sneak attack on Jingzhou, also ended up in a situation where he and Guan Yu went to Baomai City together. On the way to Xichuan, Guan Yu's father and son were ambushed by Eastern Wu. Guan Yu was captured first, and Guan Ping, in order to rescue his father, singled out and engaged the Eastern Wu generals, and also tried his best to be captured.
Eventually, Guan Ping and Guan Yu were killed by Eastern Wu together. Because Guan Ping was loyal and filial to Guan Yu, as Guan Yu was deified and revered by the imperial dynasties of successive dynasties, Guan Ping also became a god who accompanied Guan Yu, and he was eventually crowned as the King of Exhaustion during the Wanli Dynasty.
Guan Ping and Pound are not ashamed to fight for thirty rounds, because Pound and Guan Yu did not lose the wind. However, Guan Ping and Guan Yu are still a little worse. This is because Pound and Guan Ping are still relatively easy to fight, and they do not use their full strength. And Pound and Guan Yu fought, fighting for more than a hundred rounds, but the two sides were mentally long. After Pound returned, he also said that Guan Yu was a hero of Guan Gong, and today Fang Xinye. All this shows that there is still a certain gap between Guan Ping's martial arts and Guan Yu's.
But even so, Guan Ping can be regarded as the best of the younger generation. Guan Yu, as the head of the Five Tiger Generals, has countless defeats under his command, and it is also remarkable that he can keep pace with Guan Yu. Unfortunately, he died young, so that Shu Han lost a member of his talents.
Analyze Guan Xing vs Zhang Guo again.
Guan Xing, on the other hand, was Guan Yu's second son, and his appearance was when Liu Bei launched the Battle of Yiling. Guan Xing and Zhang Bao defected to Liu Bei together to avenge their father. The two fought over the Vanguard Seal, but were persuaded by Liu Bei to marry as brothers.
In the Battle of Yiling, Guan Xing and Zhang Bao bravely took the lead, defeated Wu Bing, and killed their father's enemies respectively, taking revenge. After the defeat at the Battle of Yiling, the two protected Liu Bei from the siege and retreated to Xichuan, where they were finally safely withdrawn with Zhao Yun. After Liu Bei's death, the two belonged to Zhuge Liang's subordinates and served Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition.
These two generals were deeply trusted by Zhuge Liang and often accompanied Zhuge Liang. Just as Guan Yu Zhang Fei accompanied Liu Bei before Liu Bei's death, Guan Xing Zhang Bao also accompanied Zhuge Liang. At many critical moments, Zhuge Liang let the two of them take on heavy responsibilities.
The battle between Guan Xing and Zhang Gao took place when Zhuge Liang set up an ambush at Mumendao to ambush Cao Wei's pursuers. At that time, Zhuge Liang launched the Fourth Northern Expedition against Cao Wei. Although Zhuge Liang harvested Cao Wei's wheat and defeated the Wei army at the Battle of Halo City, his opponent Sima Yi learned his lesson and could not hold out. Coupled with unfavorable weather and long-term rain, Zhuge Liang's grain transportation could not continue, so he had to withdraw his troops.
In order to be able to safely withdraw to Shudi, Zhuge Liang decided to first strike a blow to Cao Wei's pursuers and then calmly retreat. So he set up an ambush at Mumendao, and sent Wei Yan and Guan Xing to lure Cao Wei's pursuers.
Cao Wei's pursuers were led by Zhuge Liang's old rival Zhang Guo. Zhang Gao was one of the only remaining five sons of Cao Cao at that time. In his war with Zhuge Liang, he caused a lot of trouble for Zhuge Liang. In Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, it was because he defeated Ma Mo and occupied the street pavilion that Zhuge Liang was forced to withdraw his troops.
Therefore, this time Zhuge Liang attached great importance to him, and specially sent Wei Yan and Guan Xing to lure Zhang Gao. These two men took turns to fight with Zhang Gao, and then took turns to cheat, making Zhang Gao want to fight, and he was introduced into the wooden doorway step by step. In the wooden doorway, Zhang Gao was blocked by the wooden stones thrown by the Shu army, blocking the way forward and retreating, and was shot by the Shu army with random arrows.
In this ambush battle, although Zhang Gao fought with Guan Xing, neither of them did their best. This was because Guan Xing was undertaking the task of enticing the enemy and did not give Zhang Gao a chance to succeed at all. However, since Zhuge Liang asked Guan Xing to seduce the enemy, he also had a number in his heart. That is, although Guan Xing is not Zhang Gao's opponent, it is not something that Zhang Hao can take in a few rounds.
In this way, Guan Xing and Zhang Gao would fight each other, which would cause the effect that Zhuge Liang needed. That is, Zhang Hao knew that he could defeat Guan Xing, so he did not doubt Guan Xing's defeat. But tempted by the victory that can be seen, it will obediently be introduced into the wooden doorway.
From here, we can see that Guan Xing's martial arts are far worse than Guan Ping's. Although Zhang Gao and Guan Yu had never fought each other, he had dealt with the others of the Five Tiger Generals. Moreover, except for twenty rounds of battles with Huang Zhong at Ye Meng Guan, they were defeated against other generals, and they were all defeated in twenty or thirty rounds.
In this way, Guan Ping's martial arts are slightly inferior to Guan Yu's, while Guan Xing's martial arts are lower than Zhang Gao's, and Zhang Gao's martial arts are far lower than Guan Yu's, then Guan Xing's martial arts are not as good as Guan Ping's. However, although Guan Ping's martial arts are high, he and Pound are not victorious or defeated, and they cannot win their opponents. Guan Xing's martial arts were not as good as Zhang Gao's, and he still annihilated Zhang Gao and his subordinates in one fell swoop at the Wooden Gate Road. The difference between this is a plot word. With the blessing of Zhuge Liang's plan, although Guan Xing's martial arts were low, he was still able to successfully annihilate Zhang Guo, who was highly skilled in martial arts.