Mi Fang and Mi Zhu brothers, can be regarded as the most original partners and shareholders of Liu Bei Group, when Liu Bei had nothing, they married their sister Lady Mi to Liu Bei, in order to support Liu Bei, the two brothers also took out the wealth accumulated by the Mi family to recruit liu Bei to buy horses, and it is precisely because of these touching actions that Liu Bei is also blessed and difficult to share with the two brothers of the Mi family, and obviously has regarded them as his confidants.
The two brothers followed Liu Bei for 24 years, from Liu Bei having nothing to liu Bei gradually laid the foundation for hegemony, able to divide the world with Sun Quan and Cao Cao, the two brothers never abandoned, but when Liu Bei was at its most brilliant, Mi Fang, who had followed Liu Bei for 24 years, suddenly chose to surrender to Sun Quan of Eastern Wu, why?
Mi Fang's surrender passed
Twenty-four years after Jian'an, Guan Yu led the Jingzhou army to the Northern Expedition to Xiangfan, and at this time, Liu Bei's clique can be said to be the time when the strength was strong and the sun was in the sky, coupled with Guan Yu's military talent, in the early stage of the Battle of Xiangfan, Guan Yu made great achievements, and this time can be regarded as the peak period of Guan Yu in the history.
At that time, the Xiangfan area was experiencing continuous torrential rains and the river was rising sharply, and Guan Yu took advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to divert han water to flood Xiangfan, achieving the famous story of the flooded Seventh Army in history, when Guan Yu eliminated the 30,000 reinforcements of Yu Ban, which was a typical example of winning more with less.
With one victory after another, Cao Cao saw that Guan Yu's sharp edge was too sharp, and he planned to move the capital to avoid it, but at this critical moment, the problem of insufficient manpower in Guan Yu's army became more and more prominent. Originally, Guan Yu's army was insufficient, and now with the victory of the war, there are many prisoners of war that need to be resettled by themselves, and if you want to resettle these prisoners of war, you need to send more soldiers to resettle, so that the army that is already stretched is rapidly decreasing.
Seeing that there were not enough people to resettle prisoners of war, Guan Yu still wanted to continue to take advantage of the victory to pursue, so he could only go to Shangyong, who was relatively close to him, to seek support, when Shangyong was Meng Da and Liu Feng, after receiving Guan Yu's letter of help, the two of them also needed manpower to maintain stability after fighting down, and they could not disperse people to support Guan Yu.
In fact, the situation of Shangyong at that time was not so complicated, the two were unwilling to support Guan Yu, only because the two usually had a bad relationship with Guan Yu, plus guan Yu was in the middle of the day at that time, the two did not want to help Guan Yu achieve his good name, in any case, the main reason why the two did not support Guan Yu was selfish, after Guan Yu's death, the two were executed by Liu Bei, which was also deserved.
Since Liu Feng and Meng Da, who were shangyong, were also unwilling to support Guan Yu, Guan Yu's situation was now even more dangerous, and he could only pin his hopes on the two areas of Gong'an and Jiangling, hoping that Fu Shiren, who was guarding the town of public security, and Mi Fang, who was guarding Jiangling, could hold their positions, so that even if Guan Yu finally insisted or had some accidents, he could retreat to recuperate, and everything was considered in the long run.
After these considerations, Guan Yu launched a major battle again, but the situation at this time changed dramatically, after Cao Cao led the main force back to Guandong, he arranged for Xu Huang and others to reinforce Xiangfan, and Sun Quan saw the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to take all the Jingzhou area for himself, so Sun Quan took advantage of the danger of people and joined forces with Cao Cao to secretly attack Guan Yu.
Sun Quan arranged for Lü Meng to sneak up on Guan Yu, Lü Meng sent his subordinates to disguise themselves as merchants, and Bai Yi crossed the river to seize the beacon used to alarm the police, and then Lü Meng led a large army to the gong'an city, Fu Shiren had no time to prepare, he was attacked by Lü Meng's army, and he was caught off guard, and finally he could only open the door and surrender to Lü Meng.
After taking the public security, Lü Meng continued to lead a large army to attack the Jiangling area where Mi Fang was located, at that time Mi Fang had already been somewhat shaken, and under the advice of Lü Meng and Fu Shiren, Mi Fang easily chose to surrender to Lü Meng. The two people and places that Guan Yu had been hoping for had been occupied by Lü Meng, and these two places were inhabited by the families of Guan Yu's subordinates, who heard that their families had become hostages under the threat of Eastern Wu, and chose to leave Guan Yu and surrender to Eastern Wu, Guan Yu's army was demoralized, and was caught off guard by the Eastern Wu army, and eventually Guan Yu was captured and killed.
If Mi Fang and Fu Shiren had not surrendered, Guan Yu could actually continue to fight with Eastern Wu, or even if the two did not support Guan Yu, they would hold the city and wait for Guan Yu to return, so that there was still hope to defeat Eastern Wu, but unfortunately both of them chose to surrender at a critical moment, which made people really puzzled.
Why did Mi Fang surrender to Eastern Wu
In fact, Mi Fang and Mi Zhu had a very high status in Liu Bei's clique, and Liu Bei entrusted them with heavy responsibilities, and it could be seen that Liu Bei had enough trust in the two of them, but why did Mi Fang surrender to Eastern Wu? I think this question must have nothing to do with Liu Bei himself, so what is the problem?
Many people say that the problem of Mi Fang's surrender is due to Guan Yu, because the relationship between Mi Fang and Fu Shiren and Guan Yu has always been bad, full of contradictions, plus Guan Yu often looks down on others, so there are many people who have offended, such as Meng Da and Liu Feng of Shangyong, who are not willing to support Guan Yu because they are offended by Guan Yu.
Indeed, this statement has a certain truth, Guan Yu's personality has great flaws, the number of people who have offended is definitely not a minority, plus according to historical records, before Guan Yu went out to xiangfan, because of some mistakes by Mi Fang and Fu Shiren, Guan Yu was also furious, telling the two to wait for themselves to come back and then clean them up, this sentence is enough to become a fuse, the two feared that Guan Yu would come back to clean up after themselves, so they chose to surrender.
Such an analysis seems to be no problem, but we think about it carefully, guan yu is even worse, he wants to clean up Mi Fang also has to give Liu Bei face, Mi Fang's sister is Liu Bei's wife, in other words, Mi Fang is Liu Bei's second brother-in-law, Guan Yu can't just clean up Mi Fang casually, besides, Mi Fang's eldest brother Mi Zhu is still around Liu Bei to support Mi Fang, Guan Yu no longer has no one in sight, and he will not be so ignorant of lifting.
This point Mi Fang and Mi Zhu are actually very clear in their hearts, Guan Yu himself must have understood, after Mi Fang surrendered to Eastern Wu, Mi Zhu caused illness due to guilt, and soon after Mi Zhu died, from Mi Zhu's behavior, we can understand that Mi Fang's surrender is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface, although he and Guan Yu have contradictions, but this contradiction will not make Mi Fang surrender.
What really made Mi Fang surrender was his inner lust and greed for life and fear of death, because Mi Fang was greedy and afraid of death, so when Lü Mengbing came to the city, he directly chose to surrender, because of Mi Fang's selfish desires, he did not want Guan Yu to achieve a more resounding reputation, so he chose to give Sun Quan a head at the most critical moment, so that Guan Yu had no way to retreat.
In other words, Mi Fang surrendered to Eastern Wu not because he was afraid of Guan Yu, but because he deeply understood that when he surrendered to Eastern Wu, he only changed his boss and did not threaten his own life, but Guan Yu was different, not only could he not achieve a greater cause, but he would also lose his life because of it, because Sun Quan could not let Guan Yu go.
Because of Mi Fang's selfishness, not only Guan Yu died, but finally Shu Han also led to a decline in strength because Liu Bei and Zhang Fei went to avenge, and what is even more tragic is that after Mi Fang surrendered to Eastern Wu, although he saved his life, he did not get the respect he deserved, many generals of Eastern Wu would humiliate Mi Fang from time to time, living in such an environment, I don't know if Mi Fang's last years were happy, and whether he would sigh like Liu Chan later, "Here is not happy to think about Shu"?
epilogue
Mi Fang and Mi Zhu brothers, originally Liu Bei's original shareholder and partner, followed Liu Bei for 24 years, from nothing to now Liu Bei's career is booming, originally as long as everyone continues to work hard, more glory will come as scheduled, but at this critical moment, Mi Fang chose to surrender to Eastern Wu, thus causing Guan Yu to be killed, his brother Mi Zhu to die of guilt, and the strength of the Shu Han state declined.
Mi Fang may have thought at first that his surrender would only send Guan Yu's life, but in the end, he found that in addition to sending Guan Yu's life, he also sent away all his discipline, even if he was reused in Eastern Wu and survived, but in the eyes of others, he was always a despicable villain who betrayed his master and sought glory!
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