On huarong road, what would happen if Guan Yu really killed Cao Cao? Look at Zhuge Liang's plan and you will understand
The Battle of Chibi was defeated
Around 208 AD, after unifying the north, Cao Cao led an army of 200,000 to the south, hoping to eliminate Liu Bei and Sun Quan, and then unify the Central Plains. Under such circumstances, Sun Quan and Liu Bei formed an alliance to jointly resist Cao Cao's army.
Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu and others led a total of 30,000 troops, marched along the Yangtze River with Liu Bei's army, and finally met cao jun at Chibi, and the battle was triggered.
Perhaps Luo Guanzhong's excessive "preference" for Zhuge Liang, so in the book, the role of Zhuge Liang is highlighted, and he went south to Jiangdong alone and fought against Confucianism, which promoted the alliance between Sun and Liu.
At the same time, in the later period of confrontation with the Cao army across the river, Zhuge Liangcao's boat borrowed arrows to solve the problem of insufficient arrows for the Cao army. At the same time, he also proposed the strategy of "fire attack" with Zhou Yu, and borrowed the "East Wind" during the decisive battle, making the wind direction favorable to Sun Liu's combined forces.
In fact, the real Battle of Chibi is not like this. "Fire attack" is a strategy that Huang Gai came up with, and Zhou Yu decided to use it, so there was a story of Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai and Huang Gai's fake surrender, basically no Zhuge Liang had anything to do.
In addition, the serial plan was conceived by Pang Tong, which had the premise of "deciding victory or defeat in the First World War". Under such circumstances, when Eastern Wu attacked the Cao army's camp with fire, the Cao army, which was not familiar with water warfare, would be defeated.
Of course, the factors of Cao Cao's defeat were not only in the "strategy", but also in the timing and geographical advantages. For example, Most of Cao Jun is a northerner and is not adapted to the climate and environment in the south.
After many Cao Jun arrived at the Yangtze River, they began to get sick, and this state lasted until the end of the war, from the beginning of the war, the Cao Army has no momentum like a rainbow of "military heart", let alone undefeated (the content of the Three Kingdoms Chronicle)!
Regardless of the course of the Battle of Chibi, it is a fact that the Cao army was defeated. After the war, the decadent Cao Cao could only take a few people and horses and run back and forth in the land of Jingzhou in order to get a chance to live.
Under such circumstances, Cao Cao did not forget to play his own "little cleverness" and over-guessed Zhuge Liang's thoughts, so he chose to escape from Huarong Road, and finally mistakenly entered the encirclement and met Guan Yu on the narrow road.
Guan Yu Huarong moral interpretation of Cao Cao
Cao Cao was running in Huarong Dao, when a person suddenly appeared in front of him, and this person was Guan Yu, and behind him were many soldiers with great military hearts. Look at your own soldiers, who are already exhausted and incapable of fighting.
If the two armies were at war, it was no exaggeration to say that Cao Cao would only have the fate of being captured or killed. However, there is no invincible road in the sky, and Guan Yu and Cao Cao were saved earlier, and it was precisely because of that "source" that cao Cao's life was saved.
It is said that since Guan Yu "warm wine beheaded Huaxiong", Cao Cao has been very appreciative of Guan Yu. Later, Guan Yu was captured by Cao Jun, and Cao Cao not only did not kill Guan Yu, but instead gave him a courtesy to Corporal Xian, giving him everything good, and Guan Yu also made a lot of contributions to him.
However, Guan Yu had already been dead set on Liu Bei, and after learning of Liu Bei's news, he embarked on the road to find his brother, which led to the saying "passing through five levels and cutting six generals". However, although Guan Yu was gone, his entanglement with Cao Cao's grievances was solid.
Adhering to this idea, the strategists around Cao Cao said to Cao Cao that Guan Yu had a clear grudge, and the chancellor was kind to him, and if we could move Guan Yu, maybe we still had a little life. As soon as Cao Cao heard that it was reasonable, he talked to Guan Yu about human feelings.
Then, Cao Cao moved guan yu with affection and reason, and Guan Yu was also a person who valued "faith and righteousness", so he let Cao Cao go when he couldn't bear it. In this way, Cao Cao quickly fled huarong dao, which was equivalent to retrieving a life.
The truth of that
Many people feel sorry for Guan Yu's interpretation of Cao Cao in Huarong Dao, and even some people say that if Guan Yu killed Cao Cao in Huarong Dao, then Liu Beibei would have no fierce enemies, and the revival of the Han Chamber and the old capital were just around the corner, and Zhuge Liang would not be "exhausted".
But is this really the case? With the study of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by later generations, some "incredible" places have also been found, and even the film and television drama "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has also elaborated on this.
Taking the film and television drama as an example, Zhuge Liang knows that Guan Yu takes "loyalty" as the principle of life, and he will certainly not do anything to kill Cao Cao, after all, Cao Cao had a favor for him, in other words, Zhuge Liang calculated that Guan Yu would let Cao Cao go.
If this is the case, why did Zhuge Liang do this again? There are two general reasons. First, for the sake of political needs, after the Battle of Chibi, although Liu Bei achieved great victories, he also gained many cities such as Nan Commandery and Lingling, and the soldiers and horses in his hands were also greatly expanded.
However, these forces are not worth mentioning compared to Sun Quan in the East. If Guan Yu killed Cao Cao in Huarong Province, then the north would be in chaos, and if Sun Quan took advantage of the chaos to seek benefits, it would be unfavorable for Liu Bei, and Ma Chao's power was still there.
There is a saying called: "There is no eternal friend, only eternal interests", before the Battle of Chibi, "Sun Liu" was an alliance, after the Battle of Chibi, the two became enemies of each other, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang naturally would not let Sun Quan become bigger.
Let Guan Yu garrison Huarong Dao, and inadvertently let Cao Cao go, on the one hand, in order to fulfill Guan Yu's loyalty, on the other hand, to ensure that Cao Cao did not die, to ensure the stability of the northern environment, so that Sun Quan had no opportunity.
Second, Zhuge Liang also has a certain selfishness. Guan Yu was born as a military general, and he was prejudiced against some Confucians, and because of Zhuge Liang's "trust" when he was three Gu Maolu, guan Yu looked at him unfavorably, targeted everywhere, and did not obey the general's orders.
In order to solve this problem, Zhuge Liang used this matter to make Guan Yu owe him a favor (he did not kill Guan Yu according to military law) and was convinced of him. After Huarong Daoyi interpreted Cao Cao, there was a picture between Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang, the former kneeling to the latter.
For the ancients, "this kneeling" was equivalent to recognizing a person and recognizing a person, and it was only after this that Guan Yu officially recognized Zhuge Liang and obeyed his strategic plan.
If Guan Yu really killed Cao Cao, not only would Zhuge Liang be implicated in military law, but it is estimated that Liu Bei's group would not have the glory of the future.
