After Lü Bu's death, Guan Yu would hardly put anyone in his eyes, and it was precisely because of Guan Yu's arrogance that he offended many people, some people were dissatisfied in their hearts, but due to Guan Yu's strength deterrence, they still did not dare to make a mistake, and some people were disobedient in their mouths and had average actual ability.
Among all the people who disobeyed Guan Yu, there was such a person, it can be said that he showed his disbelief to the extreme, when Guan Yu sealed the gold seal in Cao Cao's place, the rest of the people did not go after Guan Yu for various reasons, only he desperately chased Guan Yu at the peak of the peak, how strong was he, dare to do this?
Why did Cai Yang dare to hunt down and kill Guan Yu at his peak
Cai Yang this person, is a commander under Cao Cao, the official Runan Taishou, although in the Three Kingdoms, especially before the thousand miles to chase Guan Yu, he has always been unknown, after the thousand miles after Guan Yu, the reputation is gradually known to posterity, obviously it looks unknown, why does he dare to chase Guan Yu for thousands of miles?
Perhaps from the positive records, we can't directly draw the reason why Cai Yang dared to chase Guan Yu thousands of miles, and we need to understand it from some aspects. Cai Yang served as the Taishou of Runan under Cao Cao, and was the commander of an army, which was enough to show that Cai Yang's status was still very high, and at that time, even Xu Huang, Yu Ban and others did not get such a heavy use from Cao Cao, indicating that Cai Yang and his people were still a very good figure in Cao Cao's eyes.
Since Cai Yang has such a high status, we can also reflect a problem from the side, that is, Cai Yang should still have a low value of force, because in a chaotic world, if you want to become the commander of an army, if you do not have a little strength, a wise leader like Cao Cao will definitely not entrust him with heavy responsibilities.
It is also because Cai Yang has a little force value, and has never fought with Guan Yu, so in Cai Yang's heart, how strong Guan Yu really is, he does not know at all, and even he will feel that Guan Yu's slashing face is ugly, it is just a legend story, and there is no need to be afraid of Guan Yu.
Of course, just studying Cai Yang's ability from such a perspective may not be convincing, and we can also study it from another side. Cai Yang was here in Cao Cao, and the relationship between Cao Cao's most trusted general Xiahou Huan was good, so later Cai Yang entrusted his nephew Qin Qi to Xiahou Huan to take care of, and as a result, Qin Qi, who also did not know the height of the sky, planned to kill Guan Yu at the Yellow River crossing, and was eventually killed by Guan Yu in one turn.
After learning that Qin Qi had been killed by Guan Yu, Xiahou Huan was suddenly irrational, and was about to hunt down and kill Guan Yu with 300 iron horses, many emissaries persuaded Xiahou Huan, which was useless, and later Zhang Liao also went to persuade Xiahou Huan, xiahou Huan told Zhang Liao in anger that Guan Yu had killed Qin Qi, who had entrusted Cai Yang to his care, and that he could not explain to Cai Yang, and the only way was to kill Guan Yu.
However, at this time, Cao Cao had already ordered that Guan Yu should not be killed, xiahou Huan had a great intention of disobeying military orders, he had always played the role of Cao Cao's cronies, but at this moment, because he wanted to give Cai Yang an explanation, he was desperate to disobey the military order to kill Guan Yu, which was enough to show that Cai Yang's identity and status in Cao Yang's camp were not within the reach of ordinary people.
It is because of these blessings of his own strength, coupled with Cai Yang's self-righteous nature, so Cai Yang feels that Guan Yu is actually just an ordinary general, not as powerful as the legend, let himself lead people and horses, after chasing and killing Guan Yu for thousands of miles, he may be able to become famous in one battle.
Why did Cai Yang have to hunt down and kill Guan Yu
The previous analysis was that Cai Yang dared to hunt down and kill Guan Yu because of his own strength, but why did he want to pursue and kill Guan Yu? Let's analyze it in detail below, and it can be summarized as two reasons.
The first reason is the most important and most direct, that is, because Guan Yu killed his nephew Qin Qi, Cai Yang is Qin Qi's uncle, he entrusted Qin Qi to Xiahou Huan's care, and as a result, above the Yellow River ferry, Qin Qi had to lead his men and horses to pursue and kill Guan Yu, Guan Yu repeatedly reminded him not to send him to death, Qin Qi also wanted to die, and was eventually stabbed to death by Guan Yu.
As Qin Qi's uncle, Cai Yang, after learning that Qin Qi was killed by Guan Yu, all the anger in his heart was vented, and he had to avenge Qin Qi, so later Cai Yang was not even willing to listen to Cao Cao's orders, and directly led a group of people to chase Guan Yu, hoping to take this opportunity to avenge Qin Qi, and at the same time he could also make a name for himself.
The second reason was that Guan Yu had too much of Cao Cao's over-standard love, sealing gold and hanging seals, and Cao Cao had arranged everything about Guan Yu in the military camp, so that the rest of the generals were very red-eyed, as far as Cai Yang, who had a relatively high status, was of course even more eye-catching to Guan Yu.
Coupled with the fact that Cai Yang believed that Guan Yu had defected to Cao Cao halfway, so he looked down on such a figure in his heart, just like a general who looked down on the surrender of the rest of the countries, Cai Yang always looked down on Guan Yu, so he suppressed a kind of anger in his heart, and after Qin Qi was killed, all the dissatisfaction in Cai Yang's heart broke out, and he had to hunt down guan Yu at all costs.
Cai Yang chased Guan Yu for thousands of miles
To say that Cai Yang chased Guan Yu thousands of miles, from the surface of the matter, Cai Yang is indeed still very heroic and courageous, but from the results of the later events, it seems that there is some "heroic shortness of breath", why say so, and let's take a look at Cai Yang's ending.
In all the literature, Cai Yang chased Guan Yu for thousands of miles, with two different versions of the ending, in the first version (the universally accepted version), Cai Yang violated Cao Cao's orders (Cao Cao told him to go to liu pei), led his army to declare a personal vendetta, and chased Guan Yu for thousands of miles.
When Cai Yang had been chasing after Guan Yu to gu, he was encountering Guan Yu and Zhang Fei meeting, Zhang Fei did not believe that Guan Yu was back to find himself and Liu Bei reunited, as soon as he saw Guan Yu, he raised his knife and stabbed him, Guan Yu escaped Zhang Fei's assassination, and quickly explained his intentions.
Zhang Fei hesitated at this time, thinking about whether to believe Guan Yu, as a result, Cai Yang led a group of people to follow Behind Guan Yu, seeing such a position, Zhang Fei of course did not want to believe Guan Yu, so Guan Yu could only agree with Zhang Fei to kill Cai Yang in the three-way drum to prove his intentions.
Zhang Fei promised to give Guan Yu a chance to perform, so he drummed to cheer for Guan Yu, who had wanted Guan Yu to go out to fight Cai Yang, a drum was not over, Cai Yang had already landed on the ground, the end was desolate, watching Guan Yu did kill the general, Zhang Fei only then relaxed his heart and hugged Guan Yu and went home together.
In the second version, Cai Yang's ability is relatively strong, he has been chasing and killing Guan Yu, just happened to encounter Guan Yu and Zhang Fei planning to reconcile, Cai Yang's sudden appearance, let Zhang Fei have some doubts about Guan Yu, so Guan Yu plans to use Cai Yang as a meeting gift for himself and Zhang Fei.
Cai Yang has 150,000 troops behind him as a backing, it can be said that there is no fear, and Guan Yu was misunderstood by Zhang Fei at that time, and his heart was full of emotions, at this time Cai Yang was fighting Guan Yu, it was the best time, after forty rounds of fierce battle between the two, there was still no victory or defeat, Guan Yu in order to be able to resolve the misunderstanding between Him and Zhang Fei in time, he said to Cai Yang: "Can't you beat me?" Why look for help? ”
Cai Yang thought that someone had come out to help him, so he turned around to check the situation, and as a result, he was killed by Guan Yu and died. Judging from this version, Cai Yang's ability is indeed not ordinary, he can fight with Guan Yu at the peak of forty rounds, looking at the entire Three Kingdoms, I am afraid that I can't find a second person.
Of course, from the real records, this version is still a bit exaggerated Cai Yang's ability, after all, a god-killing level general like Guan Yu, in the Three Kingdoms, after Lü Bu's death, is basically invincible, even if he wants to resolve the misunderstanding between him and Zhang Fei in time, there is no need to use a ruse to take advantage of the danger of people to kill Cai Yang, which is not in line with Guan Yu's identity and personality.
epilogue
Cai Yang because of his extraordinary ability, coupled with a high status in cao camp, so Cao Cao has been too much love for Guan Yu has long been dissatisfied, with his nephew Qin Qi was killed by Guan Yu, all the anger in Cai Yang's heart completely broke out, Yu public and private he must kill Guan Yu, so he will chase and kill Guan Yu at the peak of the thousands of miles, but unfortunately he was killed by Guan Yu in the end, ending up in a desolate end, posterity can only evaluate Cai Yang's four words "self-inadequacy"!
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