Guan Yu could have escaped death after losing Jingzhou, only because he made a fatal mistake on the way back and fell into Lü Meng's trap again.
In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Guan Yu raised a large army from Jingzhou to the Northern Expedition to Cao Cao, fought smoothly all the way, beheaded Pound De, captured the general ban, and frightened Cao Cao to want to move the capital. Unfortunately, however, Eastern Wu took the opportunity to sneak into Jingzhou, and Lü Meng used a white-clad strategy to cross the river and occupy Guan Yu's old lair.
According to the situation at that time, although Lü Meng secretly attacked Jingzhou, Guan Yu took away all the main forces in Jingzhou, although Guan Yu's army lost a lot after the fierce battle with the Cao army, but the main force was still there, why couldn't he break out of the siege and retreat with his whole body?
In fact, after Guan Yu lost Jingzhou, he was fully powerful and capable of leading a large army to break through the siege and escape death. It was only because Guan Yu fainted again on the way back from the army, made a fatal mistake, and once again fell into Lü Meng's trap.
When Guan Yu besieged Fancheng, due to the rescue of Xu Huang of the Cao Army, the encirclement of Fancheng was broken. However, Guan Yu's army only held the water and did not open the road to Xiangyang. Just at this time, Eastern Wu sent Lü Meng to sneak into Jingzhou, and Mi Fang and Fu Shiren surrendered. After learning the news of the fall of Jingzhou, Guan Yu quickly retreated, but on the way back, Guan Yu made a fatal mistake: he had illusions about Lü Meng.
Jingzhou fell, Guan Yu should have immediately blocked the news, quickly retreated, and encouraged the soldiers to fight out of the siege, the so-called soldiers are fast, so the soldiers are victorious in Qiye. However, Guan Yu sent emissaries to negotiate with Lü Meng several times, and actually fantasized that he could negotiate with Lü Meng to produce a result.
So Lü Meng immediately set a trap for Guan Yu. He treated Guan Yu's emissaries with kindness each time, and took the emissaries on a tour of Jingzhou, deliberately letting the emissaries see how the Wu army treated the families of the Jingzhou generals. Guan Yu's conditions for negotiation were ignored. In this way, Guan Yu sent emissaries several times, and the emissaries returned several times without success. However, the generals learned from the emissaries that their families were treated preferentially in Jingzhou, so they gradually lost their war spirit.
In this way, Lü Meng used a small plan to disintegrate Guan Yu's military heart step by step. As a result, Guan Yu was on the way to retreat, and the soldiers constantly fled and broke up. By the time he retreated to Maicheng, there were few soldiers around Guan Yu. Therefore, Guan Yu was forced to be helpless, and fled with dozens of horses, only to be ambushed by the Wu army and killed tragically. It can be said that Guan Yu could have escaped and avoided death after losing Jingzhou, but it was a pity that he made such a fatal mistake, which was actually the destiny of heaven