After Guan Yu was killed, Cao Cao cried at his tomb and told guan Yu the real cause of death
Introduction: Among the many famous generals of the Three Kingdoms, who is the most respected god of war? I think it must be Guan Yu, because he is not only excellent in martial arts, but more importantly, he has a jianghu qi in him, and he does not look like a domineering official at all, but more like a ranger-like figure. At the same time, his loyalty was also respected by successive generations of scholars, and his death was also very sad, not only for today's readers, but also his former enemy Cao Cao, who was also sad, Guan Yu was killed, and Cao Cao cried at his tombstone to break the real cause of his death.
Guan Yu's early experience was very miserable, he was young because of the murder and from his hometown Yuncheng all the way to Zhuozhou, by helping people to do coolies, selling dates to live, a long period of exile let him train a body of force, when he passed through Zhuozhou, he happened to see Liu Bei was recruiting troops to buy horses to prepare for the Yellow Turban, so he decided to join the army, he and Liu Bei and Zhang Fei saw the same thing, and formed a brotherhood.
The battle against the Yellow Turban was extremely fierce, the three of them established a lifelong friendship on the battlefield, and then although the Yellow Turban was peaceful, the world was in chaos, Guan Yu and others assisted the eldest brother to fight all the way, with a team of hundreds of people, it took more than 30 years to lay down a large area of land in Jingzhou and Yizhou and establish a hegemony. After the capture of Jingzhou, Guan Yu, as the first fierce general under Liu Bei, was responsible for guarding the town, and the forces of the liu, Sun, and Cao families converged here, so the situation in Jingzhou was very complicated.
In 219, Guan Yu decided to take the initiative to attack Fancheng, which Cao Wei occupied, and the Jingzhou army was like a split bamboo, smoothly taking Xiangyang, and then completely annihilating the reinforcements led by Yu Banshou, and then surrounded Cao Ren, Cao's army was once very passive, and Cao Cao even wanted to move Emperor Xian of Han to a further north place to prevent Guan Yu from attacking. At this time, Jiangdong's emissaries suddenly appeared in Yecheng, it turned out that Sun Quan saw That Guan Yu was fighting a lively battle and could not sit still, the two sides conspired successfully, and Lü Meng secretly led the army to sneak up on Jiangling, the base camp of the Shu army, Guan Yu wanted to return to the army to save, who had wanted the Jiangling defenders to surrender without a fight, his soldiers fled one after another, and finally he was captured in Linfeng, and then ordered by Sun Quan to be killed.
Sun Quan finally got Jingzhou as he wished, and he thought that he would not be able to sit back and relax, and sent Guan Yu's head to Cao Cao, hoping to divert the target of Shu Han's hatred. Cao Cao was not only not happy about this, but very sad, because his purpose was to get Sun Quan to send troops and then force Guan Yu to retreat and maintain the balance of power between the three families in Jingzhou, he did not expect that Jiangdong would be so vicious, not only seizing territory but also killing people. Cao Cao ordered that a wooden corpse be carved and buried with Guan Yu's head, and on the day of the funeral, he wept bitterly in front of his tombstone, and he felt that Guan Yu's death was due to his loyalty. If he had not blindly been loyal to Liu Bei, he would have followed Cao Cao and believed that he would never end up in this situation.
Conclusion: Guan Yu's death was indeed largely due to his own loyalty, and he gave up the most powerful Cao Cao in order to end up, and followed the weakest Liu Bei, although he tried his best to recreate the Han Dynasty. However, if he did not have this loyalty, the historical Guan Yu was at best a generation of tiger generals, and there would not be much difference between him and other famous generals of the same era, and it was his loyalty that created the image of Guan Gong, who was respected by all the people from ancient times to the present.