When it comes to the fierce generals of the Three Kingdoms, the name Guan Yu cannot be mentioned. Guan Yu is not only brave and resourceful, but also loyal and upright, and is respected by posterity as "Martial Saint", becoming a mythical cattle man in the minds of posterity.
Of course, Guan Yu was a god and a mortal, carelessly losing Jingzhou, defeating Maicheng and being captured and killed, he was beaten back to his "original form". Guan Yu's tragic ending, of course, is due to his fatal weakness in his body, 4 words, pride and complacency.
Guan Yu's battle for fame was to take the first rank of the enemy among the ten thousand armies - to kill the Xiao general Yan Liang. In the fifth year of Jian'an (200 AD), Liu Bei was defeated by Cao Cao, and after Guan Yu and Liu Bei were separated, they had no choice but to "temporarily surrender" to Cao Cao. In order to make Guan Yu truly surrender, Cao Cao appointed him as a partial general and treated him with kindness. However, Guan Yu was loyal to Liu Bei, and after waiting for the opportunity to repay Cao Cao's kindness, he then defected to Liu Bei.
Soon, Yuan Shao launched a major offensive against Cao Cao, causing Cao Cao to lose his armor and disarm his army. In particular, Yan Liang, a famous general from Hebei sent by Yuan Shao, was even more unstoppable, and no one dared to fight against the generals of the Cao Army. At the critical moment, Guan Yu stood up, and he single-handedly rushed into the enemy camp and killed Yan Liang, who was sitting under the banner of the marshal, with a lightning speed that could not cover his ears.
After Yan Liang was beheaded, Yuan Jun quickly retreated, and Cao Cao's siege was alleviated. And Guan Yu is also famous for this feat.
Guan Yu's bravery and loyalty are vividly reflected here.
After the Battle of Chibi, Guan Yu was entrusted with a heavy duty and became the general of jingzhou, a major military town. During the period of defending Jingzhou, Guan Yu's greatest achievement was to fight against Cao Jun. Zhuge Liang was right in Longzhong, planning to use Jingzhou as a "springboard" and send generals to the Northern Expedition. Guan Yu also strictly implemented this strategic policy. In the 24th year of Jian'an (219 AD), Guan Yu led an army in the Northern Expedition, targeting the two military strongholds of Xiangyang and Fancheng, which bordered Jingzhou.
As a result, Guan Yu won a great victory, staging a classic scene of flooding the Forbidden Seventh Army, thus shocking Huaxia. At that time, after Guan Yu defeated the Cao army, Cao Cao sent the general Yu Ban to lead the Seven Roads Army to rescue quickly, and as a result, the clever Guan Yu took advantage of the heavy rain for several days and successfully drowned more than 30,000 troops of the Seven Roads of Yu Ban through the measures of encircling the flood and discharging the flood, and even Yu Ban himself was captured alive. Afterwards, Cao Cao was so frightened that he once had the idea of moving the capital.
After that, Cao Cao's advisers played a role, mentioning the revision of Eastern Wu and provoking Eastern Wu to march into Jingzhou. As it turned out, this plan worked. Because Guan Yu was fluttering after several great victories, his eyes were empty, and with Sun Quan's initiative to marry, he actually refused without mercy, and Sun Quan hated Guan Yu to the bone. Therefore, after he received Cao Cao's letter, he immediately took action.
In the end, Sun Quan used the numb thoughts after Guan Yu's great victory to send Lü Meng to cross the river in white clothes and successfully sneaked into Jingzhou.
Guan Yu, who had lost Jing Upward, was attacked on his stomach and back, and was soon defeated and captured by Eastern Wu Sheng.
It was precisely because of this that Sun Quande had taken Jingzhou south of the Yangtze River as he wished, and on the surface he had made a lot of money, but in fact he had not been able to gain more than he had gained, because he had made enemies on both sides, both against Cao Wei and against Liu Shu.
Of course, Sun Quan knew the stakes, and for this reason, he repeatedly stressed that he would not kill Guan Yu, but surprisingly, the forward general Lü Mengdi still directly took down Guan Yu's first rank, why was this?
It turned out that Lü Meng was originally a general of Zhou Yu's department, and Zhou Yu was very important to him, not only carefully teaching, but also promoting him with one hand, and Lü Meng was grateful to him. After the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu died under the city of Jingzhou after a recurrence of sword wounds during the attack on Jingzhou, and Jingzhou has been occupied by Liu Bei ever since. In this regard, Lü Meng was very angry and secretly attacked Jingzhou, on the one hand, he was acting according to orders, on the other hand, he also had the intention of avenging Zhou Yu.
Therefore, after Lü Mengsheng captured Guan Yu, he killed Guan Yu with a fast knife.
Lü Meng did not expect it, and the scourge also came. His actions caused Sun Cao's alliance to break completely. In the end, this led to the incompatibility between Liu Bei and Eastern Wu.
Sure enough, Guan Yu's tragic death caused an uproar, Liu Bei in order to avenge Guan Yu, personally led a large army to attack Eastern Wu, triggering the Battle of Yiling, although Liu Bei lost to the Rising Star of Eastern Wu in the fire attack strategy, but Eastern Wu obviously also lost troops, seriously injured, more importantly, from then on, Eastern Wu lost this good partner of the Shu state, and also lost the opportunity to counterattack the originally powerful Wei state, and could only hold one side and passively defend. This eventually led to the successive demise of the Shu kingdom and Eastern Wu.