As we all know, Liu Feng, originally the son of Luo Hou Kou, was adopted by his uncle Liu Bi, and later recognized Liu Bei as his "righteous father" and became the adopted son under Liu Bei's name. After that, Liu Feng followed Liu Bei in the Southern Expedition to the North, and participated in many battles such as the Battle of Xinye and the Battle of Chibi, making great contributions to the great cause of Shu Han. In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219 AD), Liu Feng led the deputy general Meng Da to occupy Shangyong and other places.
At this time, Liu Feng's troops in Shangyong were also not small. However, in the Battle of Xiangfan, Lü Meng crossed the river in white clothes and secretly attacked Guan Yu, causing Guan Yu to lose Maicheng.
At this time, Guan Yu asked Liu Feng for help, Liu Feng, who had 50,000 mercenaries, was not far from Maicheng, so why not rescue Guan Yu? The following are my personal views.
First, the relationship between Liu Feng and Guan Yu was not harmonious, and Liu Feng himself may not want to save Guan Yu.
As we all know, Liu Feng was not Liu Bei's biological son, but only an adopted son. At that time, Liu Bei had not yet given birth to Liu Chan, so he adopted Liu Feng. When he adopted Liu Feng, Guan Yu was quite critical of this matter. He believed that Liu Bei should not adopt Liu Feng, because if Liu Bei had a biological son in the future, Liu Feng's position would become very awkward. Guan Yu even felt that Liu Feng would covet the foundation that Liu Bei had worked so hard to lay.
And there is no impermeable wall in the world, and Guan Yu's dissatisfaction and doubts about Liu Feng somehow reached Liu Feng's ears. As a junior, liu Feng could not say anything on his lips, I am afraid that he secretly remembered Guan Yu in his heart. Because Liu Feng thought that he did not covet Liu Bei's hegemonic heart, it was Guan Yu who was worried about the sky. Later, when Liu Bei ascended the throne of Hanzhong and wanted to establish an heir, Guan Yu directly stated that the position of crown prince could not be held by a righteous son. This makes the gap between the two even greater.
After that, there was a scene in which Guan Yu sent troops to Shangyong to ask for support. Perhaps liu feng at that time, after receiving Guan Yu's distress letter, planned to send troops to rescue Guan Yu. However, Meng Da, who was guarding Shangyong with him, somehow recalled the old gap between Liu Feng and Guan Yu, which made Liu Feng recall Guan Yu's various injustices to himself, which made Liu Feng hesitate to send troops to rescue Guan Yu.
Second, Shangyong City has just been broken, and the foundation of the city is unstable, so it is necessary to leave the town to guard.
In fact, when Guan Yu attacked Cao Wei from the eastern front and attacked Cao Cao, Liu Feng just received orders to cooperate with Guan Yu and attack Shangyong and other counties. Later, because Guan Yu was in a strong position on the eastern front, most of Cao Wei's troops were sent to the eastern front to support, leaving the defense of Shangyong and other counties empty, and Liu Feng did not spend any effort to easily conquer Shangyong. When Liu Feng and Meng Da had just wandered around Shangyong City a few times and laid down their defenses, Guan Yu sent a letter.
Because Lü Meng of the State of Wu at that time secretly attacked Jingzhou, causing Guan Yu to defeat Maicheng, and Guan Yu was short of troops at this time, he asked Liu Feng for help. However, at this time, Liu Feng had already used the only troops to deploy the newly occupied cities, and if he withdrew his troops and gave all the troops to Guan Yu, then it was inevitable that there would be no rebellion in the newly breached cities. Moreover, after Guan Yu's defeat at Maicheng, the support troops sent by the Cao Wei regime to the eastern front also returned to the rescue. Once Liu Feng sent troops to support Guan Yu, it was likely that he would not be able to resist Cao Wei's attack.
And it is very unwise to take a few cities as a price and do a rescue with a low success rate, and to stand in the position of Liu Feng, the defender of the Shangyong City. This may also be one of the reasons why Liu Feng refused to send troops to rescue Guan Yu. What's more, the Shangyong region at that time was indeed not very stable. In addition, on the surface, Shangyong and Maicheng are not far away, but in fact, they are also 500 kilometers away. Even if it is a rapid march, it will take at least a lot of time to reach Maicheng. Even if Liu Feng sent troops to rescue, I am afraid it would not be of much use.
Third, even if Liu Feng wanted to save Guan Yu, he still had more than enough heart and insufficient strength.
Liu Feng and Meng Da's capture of Shangyong occurred shortly after the end of the Battle of Hanzhong. Although Liu Feng succeeded in capturing Shangyong, Cao Cao's forces were still strong around him. At least 400,000 Cao troops were eyeing Shangyong. And Liu Feng had just occupied Shangyong, and the soldiers were widowed. If Liu Feng led the main force to support Guan Yu, he might not be able to save Guan Yu, but the newly acquired Shangyong might be lost.
Therefore, even if Liu Feng wanted to rescue Guan Yu in his heart, under such realistic conditions, he was not sure that he could succeed. According to the commentary:
Da Yue: "But when Yan ShanCheng was first attached, the people's hearts were undecided, and they did not dare to create a second army, for fear of losing what they were defending." "Sealed from his words. The next day, liao huazhi said that the place where the mountain city was initially attached could not be rescued by separate troops.
What's more, in addition to Cao Wei's power, Eastern Wu was also a major threat. After all, most of Jingzhou at that time had already belonged to Eastern Wu, and Liu Feng was worried that even if he rushed to the rescue, it would not help. Perhaps it was precisely because of this that Liu Feng did not rescue Guan Yu.
It can be seen from this that Liu Fengzhen's Shangyong itself is not close to Shangyong, coupled with the gap with Guan Yu, as well as shangyong's own realistic conditions, he did not rescue Guan Yu.
What do you think of Liu Feng's failure to save Guan Yu?
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