In the battle of Xiangfan, Pang De fought with the coffin in order to repay Cao Cao's kindness, and vowed to defeat "Guan's thirty-year reputation". When Guan Yu learned about it, he changed color and his beautiful hair fluttered, thinking that Pang De dared to despise him, and he was simply looking for death. Guan Yu then asked Guan Ping to continue the attack on Fancheng, and he personally went to meet Pang De for a while and beheaded him.
Guan Ping thought that his father Guan Yu was making too much of a fuss, and he was willing to go to fight Pang De on behalf of his father, but Guan Yu would come back if it didn't work. Guan Yu listened to Guan Ping's words and felt that it made sense, so he asked his son Guan Ping to give it a try, it would be better if he could kill Pang De, even if he couldn't kill it, it would be fine.
Guan Ping took his sword and mounted his horse and led the army to meet Pound. He took the lead and scolded Pound as a "thief who betrayed his master". Pang De was originally Ma Chao's lieutenant general, and Ma Chao surrendered to Liu Bei, but Pang De surrendered to Ma Chao's enemy Cao Cao, so he called him "the thief who betrayed the master". Pang De originally wanted to fight Guan Yu, the strongest man in the Shu army, but a "scabies child" came, looked down on Guan Ping, and wanted him to call Guan Yu.
Guan Ping was furious, brandishing a big knife to fight Pound, Pound's weapon was also a knife, and the two fought for thirty rounds, regardless of victory or defeat, and each returned to the camp for a truce.
Pang De and Guan Ping fought a draw in 30 rounds on the surface, but in fact they were divided into winners and losers, and if the two fought another 30 rounds, that is, Pang De and Guan Ping fought for 60 rounds, Guan Ping could be killed. Guan Yu, Pang De, and Guan Ping know this well.
Guan Yu knows:
The news of Guan Ping's thirty rounds of drawing with Guan Yu quickly reached Guan Yu's ears, and after Guan Yu got the report, he was not pleased that his son was able to draw with the fierce general Pang De in thirty rounds, but he was furious, and he handed over the matter of attacking Fancheng to Liao Hua and personally faced Pang De. After Guan Ping saw his father Guan Yu, he told the whole process of the battle. Guan Yu already had a preliminary judgment on Pang De's combat strength.
Guan Yu and Pang De scolded each other for a while in front of the two armies, and then began to fight officially. The weapons of both of them are knives, chess opponents, will meet good talents, and soon fought more than 100 rounds, regardless of victory or defeat, but the spirit is doubled. Even the ordinary soldiers on both sides who watched the battle were stunned and did not dare to blink, for fear of missing it.
Through this battle, Guan Yu had a clearer understanding of Pang De's combat power, and he believed that Pang De was "familiar with swordsmanship, and he was really my opponent." "To get such a high evaluation from Guan Yu, it is estimated that there is no one else in the entire Three Kingdoms who use knives except Huang Zhong. Guan Yu had already estimated Pang De's combat power, and he knew that his son Guan Ping had a few catties and taels of combat power, so he could deduce how many rounds Pang De could kill Guan Ping.
Pound knows:
Pang De's target is Guan Yu, not Guan Ping, the main reason why he fought with Guan Ping for thirty rounds is to increase the chance of winning the battle with Guan Yu by observing Guan Ping's knife technique and peeking at Guan Yu's Qinglong Yanyue knife technique.
Pang De's 30-round draw with Guan Ping can be compared to Guan Yu's 30-round draw with Ji Ling. Pang De and Guan Yu both have their own purposes, among which Guan Yu is to completely tear his face apart from Yuan Shu and be profited by Cao Cao, while Pang De is to observe Guan Yu's knife skills through the fight with Guan Ping. Therefore, Pound and Guan Ping fought for 30 rounds, it is likely that it is just a warm-up match, and then Pound will use all his strength, he is likely to fight another 30 rounds, defeat Guan Ping, and even kill Guan Ping.
Guan Ping knows it:
Guan Ping tried his best to draw with Pang De in only 30 rounds, which is already his limit, if he continues to fight, he is likely to be killed by Pang De in less than 20 rounds. Guan Ping knows this.
Although Guan Ping's conceited martial arts are outstanding among the younger generation of generals, he is far from being able to compare with his father Guan Yu and all the fierce generals who can beat Guan Yu.
If Guan Ping and Guan Yu really go head-to-head, he will definitely not be able to hold out for a hundred rounds, maybe he will lose in thirty or forty rounds, and Pang De can draw Guan Yu in a hundred rounds, so Pang De is a fierce general at the same level as Guan Yu, therefore, Guan Ping knows that if he fights with Pang De for another thirty rounds, he is likely to be defeated by Pang De, or killed.
epilogue
Compared with Guan Yu and other super-first-class generals, Pang De is obviously a latecomer, but his combat power is not inferior to Guan Yu at all, he drew with Guan Yu in a hundred rounds in the battle of Xiangfan, and in the next day's battle, an arrow hit Guan Yu's left arm. Before Pang De fought Guan Yu, he drew with Guan Yu's son Guan Ping in 30 rounds. Pound and Guan Ping are thirty rounds later, and if they continue to fight each other, he will likely have another thirty rounds (for a total of sixty rounds) to be able to kill Guan Ping.
(This article mainly refers to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms")