Guan Yu's careless loss of Jingzhou was a false proposition: in the face of cao wei and eastern Wu's two-sided attack, even the cautious Zhuge Liang could not defend Jingzhou--the main force had been transferred to Xichuan, and his men had their own hearts, and the Jingzhou gate valve was stupid, if he had changed to Liu Bei, he would have run away in a smoke.
If we look at the map before the Battle of Xiangfan, we will know that Guan Yu has fallen into the siege of Cao Cao's Sun Quan, or has become a walnut caught in the vise, as long as the other side colludes to exert force, Guan Yu has no third way to go except to run or die.
After the Three Kingdoms of the Han Dynasty, the masses competed for hegemony, there was no eternal ally, only eternal interests, just like a crab in a bucket, Sun Quan would not allow Guan Yu to do too much and Liu Bei to become too strong.
Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army and captured the forbidden Pound, and Sima Yi and Jiang Ji saw the turning point of the war: "Yu Ban and others are not lost by water, not the loss of the war attack, and the national plan is not enough to damage." Liu Bei, Sun Quan, foreign relatives and internal alienation, Guan Yu Dezhi, Quan will not want to also. ”
Sun Quan and Cao Cao attacked on both sides, but guan Yu was defeated in Jingzhou, and what really caused Guan Yu to retreat was the internal contradiction of Liu Bei's clique: if it were not for the fierce fighting in the nest, Guan Yu could retreat to Public Security and Jiangling even if he lost in the front, and even if he was not lucky, he could run to the three counties of Shangyong, face Jingzhou with his back to Bashu, and fight a protracted war with Sun Cao's allied forces.
The reason why Guan Yu was defeated and collapsed was because he had offended people, and what was even more terrifying was that two people who hated Guan Yu to the bone were sent to Guan Yu's side and behind Guan Yu by Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, and the thoughts of these two people, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang could not have been unaware: If you cut off my future, I will take your life! Under close surveillance and prevention and control in Jingzhou, Guan Yu's defeat was inevitable and his death was not unjust.
Seeing this, readers all know that the two people I want to talk about are Liu Feng, Liu Bei's adopted son Liu Feng, and Liu Bei's brother-in-law (I don't know if it is my uncle or brother-in-law) Mi Fang--their hatred for Guan Yu is called pouring out the waters of the Yangtze River, and the hatred in their hearts cannot flow, and this hatred is endless.
Liu Fengmifang and Guan Yu are not at odds, and readers know this, but where hatred comes from, we must peel back the cocoon from the history to deeply investigate where the seeds of hatred come from.
Liu Feng hated Guan Yu, and all the readers who had read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms knew the reason, that is, Guan Yu opposed Liu Bei's acceptance of Liu Feng as his adopted son—the adopted son had to change his surname and had the right to inherit. If Liu Bei did not give birth to a son after receiving Liu Feng, then the foundation laid by Liu Bei was likely to change his surname to Kou.
After Liu Bei arrived in Jingzhou, he adopted Kou Feng as his adopted son and renamed him Liu Feng( Liu Feng, the son of Luo Hou Kou and nephew of Liu Shi in Changsha, which was an unwise move: you adopted him as a righteous son, no one can say anything, but adopting him as an adopted son is a bit too hasty.
Some time ago, a friend asked me: "The daughter-in-law is an only child, and the old man asked my son to have the same surname as the daughter-in-law, otherwise he would not give anything. ”
I smiled: "What's so difficult about this, you change it first, and when your husband is gone, you will change your son's surname back!" ”
Guan Yu is worried about this: everyone has worked hard to lay the Liu family's territory, and when you collapse and your adopted son's wings are hardened, "recognize the ancestors and return to the ancestors", aren't we busy in vain?
Guan Yu's words cut off Liu Feng's future, how could this not make Liu Feng hate his teeth three feet long?
Why Liu Feng hates Guan Yu, it goes without saying more, why Mi Fang hates Guan Yu, there is no answer in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms - not only has no answer, but also misleads.
We have to find out why Mi Fang hates Guan Yu, and we have to start from the trajectory of Lady Mi's life: she did not commit suicide by throwing herself into a well in the Battle of Changsaka, but was left by Guan Yu in Cao Camp, and at the same time lost by Guan Yu, as well as the nephew of the Mi family, that is, Liu Chan's brother or brothers without names.
If we combine the Thirty-Eighth, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-sixth, and Volume 1 of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, we will draw a road map of Lady Mi's turmoil: "In the first year of Jian'an, Lü Bu took advantage of the ancestor's departure to reject Yuan Shu, attacked Pi, and captured the wife of the first lord. The first lord transferred to Guangling Haixi, and Zhu then entered the sister Yu Xian as his wife... In the fifth year of Jian'an, Cao Gongdong attacked and prepared to go to Benshao and obtain his wife. Prepare to put Guan Yu down Pi, resume the attack, and descend ... Gong also returned the officer Du, Shao jin Baoyang Wu, Guan Yu died and returned to Liu Bei... Yu did his best to seal his gifts, prayed to the book to bid farewell, and Ben xian was the lord of Yuan Jun... Empress Gan, Pei Ren also. The first lord came to Yuzhou, lived in Xiao Pei, and took it as a concubine. First the lord counts the funeral chambers, Lady Gan often takes care of internal affairs, follows the first lord in Jingzhou, and gives birth to the lord. ”
Readers all know that wife is a synthetic word in ancient times, Lady Zhengshi is called wife, son is called son, concubines and daughters are not among the wives - the ancients practiced a polygamous concubine system, Lady Gan has not been a "wife", that is because there is Mi Fang's sister Lady Mi, Lady Gan can not be corrected, "no easy tree, no concubine as a wife" is the moral code that nobles must follow at that time.
Later, Lady Gan's mother was noble, which gave her a name, so in a strict sense, Liu Chan was neither Liu Bei's concubine nor Liu Bei's eldest son, he was only the largest surviving child of the concubine.
Liu Chan's position was originally supposed to be taken by Lady Mi's son, Mi Fang's nephew, but because of Guan Yu's surrender, both mother and son fell into Cao Cao's hands, and the relationship between the Mi family and Liu Bei was broken.
The in-laws were originally unreliable, and the marriage between the door valve and the warlord was even more fragile like an ice skate in the spring, and as soon as Lady Mi was lost, Mi Zhu Mi Fang became a passerby, especially Mi Fang, and actually became the object of Guan Yu's bullying: "NanJun TaiShou Lu Fang is in Jiangling, and the general Ren Tun Public Security, has always hated Yu and despised himself. Since Yu zhi left the army, Fang and Ren provided military resources, and did not know how to save each other. Yu said ' should still be cured', Fang and Ren Xian were afraid and uneasy. ”
Guan Yu lost Lady Mi and was arrogant, and the "uncle of the state" Mi Fang became an air bag, and he also had to worry about his own head being protected- Guan Yu was a fake festival at that time, and had the right to kill Mi Fang.
Mi Fang's surrender to Eastern Wu was not only to avenge the old and hate the new vendetta, but also to save his life, which was the sorrow of the Mi family, and it was also the sorrow of Guan Yu: Liu Bei Zhuge Liang knew that Mi Fang liu Feng had a bitter vendetta against Guan Yu, why did he let these two people take charge of the three counties of Jingzhou grain and grass and Shangyong?
In fact, if we think about it carefully, Liu Bei was not unusable at that time: Yizhou generals such as Wu Yi, Li Yan and others could be transferred to Jingzhou, Zhao Yun and Zhang Feima Chao's defense zone was not absolutely important, and Mi Fang could replace everyone except Wei Yan.
Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang placed Guan Yu's enemies behind and around Guan Yu, which cannot be said to have little meaning, and of course, it cannot be said that this arrangement has made a mistake of principle: the people's hearts are not ancient, they have to be defended, and Guan Yun's wings are gradually growing, and some checks and balances are needed.
Therefore, from the perspective of XiaoXiong, Liu Bei's arrangement is not at all problematic, the problem lies in Liu Bei overestimating Mi Fang's loyalty and underestimating Liu Feng's hatred, and Guan Yu's failure to achieve internal unity seems to be one of the important reasons for the collapse of the entire Jingzhou line...