In fact, Guan Yu's precautions against Dongwu are already in place, and he would never have thought that the Nanjun Taishou and the "national uncle" Mi Fang, who "guarded" the families of the soldiers on the expedition, would commit treason and defect to the enemy.
Mi Zhu and Mi Fang are the main sponsors of Liu Bei's family, and the two brothers donated their family wealth, leaving behind Cao Cao's seal of Yingjun Taishou and Pengcheng Xiang, and followed Liu Bei to go west, even if Liu Bei's house has no land, they will not abandon it.
Liu Bei ascended to the throne of Hanzhong, Mi Zhu sat on Zhuge Liang when he held a meeting, Mi Fang also became a feudal official, the future of the brothers is like a bright future, and the loyalty to Liu Bei may not be under Guan Yu Zhang Fei Zhao Yun, so Liu Bei is relieved to leave Mi Fang in Jingzhou, not only to provide logistics support for Guan Yu, but also to take precautions - Liu Bei likes to centrally manage the families of the soldiers who went on the expedition, and he also did this when he entered Sichuan: "The first master went to Guanzhong, questioned the generals and the wives of the soldiers, and led the troops to (Huang) Zhong, (Zhuo) Ying and others entered Fu, according to its city. ”
Liu Bei asked his brother-in-law Mi Fang to take charge of logistics, and let his adopted son Liu Feng lead the troops to respond, which seemed to be comprehensive, but laid the groundwork for the discord between the generals: "Guan Yu besieged Fancheng and Xiangyang, and even called (Liu) Feng and (Meng) Da, and ordered the troops to help themselves. ”
Guan Yu fought hard in Xiangfan, but fell into the double dilemma of lack of food and grass and lack of reinforcements, and the beacon tower he used to prevent the sneak attack of Eastern Wu also became an ornament, which allowed Lü Meng to cross the river in white clothes.
If we take a closer look at the historical materials of the Three Kingdoms, we will find that the primary responsibility for the loss of Jingzhou lies with Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang, the military general without a title, is not at fault at all - Zhuge Liang was not only under Mizhu at that time, but also much lower than Guan Yu of the former army of the Marquis of Hanshouting, Zhang Fei, the right general of the Marquis of Xinting, Ma Chao, the left general of the Duting Marquis, and Huang Zhong, the general of the Marquis of Guannei, and he had no power to decide who would assist Guan Yu to defend Jingzhou.
By the way, the Three Kingdoms followed the Han Dynasty official system, two days ago a famous scholar said that Ma Chao's Duting Marquis is higher than the Hanshou Pavilion Marquis Guan Yu and Xinting Marquis Zhang Fei like the name Tinghou, which is obviously not right: the Han Dynasty princes are divided into county marquis, township marquis, pavilion marquis, Guannei marquis, township marquis is divided into township marquis and famous township marquis, Tinghou is divided into Tinghou and famous Tinghou, there are famous fiefs, "all" only takes a fixed subsidy and no fief, and the "capital" refers to Chang'an, Luoyang may be prosperous, but a fictitious feud, and when he has made new achievements and has a vacant fief, he will be promoted to the name of the pavilion marquis or the name of the township marquis.
Many of the famous pavilions are promoted from the Duting Hou, and there may be countless Duxianghou and Dutinghou at the same time, but the specific township and pavilion marquis names belong to only one person at a certain time, and the pavilion or township is his unique fief, and the taxes on his acres are collected by him, and he only needs to symbolically pay a few taels of gold to the imperial court.
Liu Bei turned his face with Cao Cao and proclaimed himself the king of Hanzhong, so he didn't want the marquis of Yicheng Pavilion, and the later Yicheng Pavilion was Han Ji and Wang Wei successively. It is impossible for two Yicheng Tinghou to appear at the same time, but Dutinghou grabbed a lot of them, there are dozens of them in the "Three Kingdoms" alone, let's only pick the famous ones: Lu Bu, Gongsun Zhan, Cao Ren, Jia Xu, Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Xu Huang, Li Dian, Zang Ba, Pang De, all served as Duting Hou, and later these people were named Tinghou, Duxiang Hou, Mingxiang Hou and County Hou (county marquis have names and fiefdoms, and there is no Du County Hou).
Whether it is the Marquis of Guannei or the prince of the township, they can call themselves "Lonely", and Zhuge Liang only did not have any title before Liu Chan became emperor, and he had to salute when he saw the "Marquis".
Liu Bei is not as generous as Cao Cao, and the fiefs he can get are pitiful, so Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun and others are all miscellaneous generals without titles, and they are not at the same level as the fake Jieyue former general Hanshouting Hou Guan Yu of the "Dongdu Jingzhou Affair", so the defeat of Jingzhou has nothing to do with them.
Guan Yu's loss of Jingzhou was mainly due to the lack of a capable helper, and he was defeated by Maicheng in frustration, and he did not get Ma Chao's response from the "superintendent of frustration", which left historical regrets.
In order to make up for this regret, later generations wrote a "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and deployed Xu Shu and Zhao Yun to Guan Yu as military advisors and deputies, and these two people also lived up to the trust: Xu Shu expected that Eastern Wu would inevitably attack Jingzhou, Guan Yu asked Zhao Yunjiang to set up an ambush, and Lu Meng crossed the river in white clothes, and was almost captured by Zhao Yunsheng.
In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Guan Yu asked the troops to send Xuchang and discussed with Xu Shu Xu Yuanzhi, Xu Shu raised objections: "The prince and the marquis please rest the thoughts of the expedition, and first seek the strategy of close attack. ”
Xu Shu's words can be said to be to the point, and Guan Yu also understands: "Yuan Zhi is so worried about Jiangnan's false attack on me?"
Xu Shu replied: "Wu Jiao has been extinct, he has rejected me, that is, when Cao is attached, since Cao has been attached, Cao will survive, Cao will die, Cao is in danger, and the blessing of Jiangdong is rather than the blessing of Jiangdong...... Cao Bing is strangled in Tongguan in the west, and Shangdang is in the north, and he can't fight in a battle, and he can't go out of his way, so he will provoke Wu with the friendship of his lips and teeth, and make Wu Bing scratch me. If I lose the slightest defense, Jingxiang's defense will be urgent, and Guan Fu's heart will be shaken; Cao's soldiers will do their best to merge the state, and send the division to control Guan Fu, so that the soldiers who will die will be on the newly acquired land, and a city will be lost, and all the achievements will be abandoned!"
Readers who are familiar with the historical materials of the Three Kingdoms will definitely admire Xu Shu's eyes like a torch and watching the fire, and Xu Shu's countermeasures are also perfect: "But Ling Zilong and his wife (Zhao Yun married Ma Chao's sister Ma Yunluo, and Ma Yunlu is written in some books), led 5,000 sailors, went straight out of Dongting, and assisted Liu Qi in guarding Baling; Although Jiangdong has 100,000 soldiers, it is not easy to overcome this risk. The prince led an army of 10,000 and went out to patrol the public security, which was not only strong, but also watching, and the defense of Jingzhou was willing to do his best. ”
Zhao Yun was ordered by General Guan Yu to go straight down the river to Baling, and immediately discovered the abnormal movement of the Eastern Wu army: "Lü Meng summoned Xu Sheng to cross the river to discuss the incident, but he did not return for three days, and now the Jiangxia guard has replaced Gan Ning, and the Xiakou guard has replaced Xu Sheng, and Lü Meng does not know where to go." Sun Quan ordered Lu Meng to guard Xiakou, that is, for Jingzhou, there is nothing to change the defense, there must be a move, how can there be a general who does not know where to go!"
Zhao Yun hurriedly ordered the ships of the sailors to sail to the lower channel of Renji, and divided the east and west banks of the river, and at the same time strictly ordered the ships on the water in Jiangdong, no matter how big or small, were not allowed to go, and those who violated the order were beheaded.
Lu Meng didn't know that Zhao Yun had opened a net and came against the current with dozens of "merchant ships", and refused to accept the interrogation, the result was that Zhao Yun was furious and blood flowed like a river: "Command all the soldiers to rush forward and kill all the merchants on board, and there is no need to let them go." When the army received the order, they swarmed forward, surrounded the merchant ships, and slaughtered them. ”
As soon as Lu Meng saw that the line was exposed, he beckoned his subordinates to take out weapons and resist stubbornly, but they were all short knives and light bows, while Zhao Yun's main force was a spear, a halberd, a strong bow and a strong crossbow, Zhao Yun's wife Ma Yun beat the drum to urge the army, Zhao Yun took the lead, and the rocket was launched like no money, burning Lu Meng and the follow-up Eastern Wu reinforcements to a fever and hugging his head and running away, Lu Meng was almost captured alive, only with Pan Zhang, Chen Wu and a few other people fled in embarrassment, and never dared to fight the idea of Jingzhou again.
Although "Anti-Romance of the Three Kingdoms" looks like a cool text, the descriptions in it are consistent with historical materials, and it also makes up for many shortcomings in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and also leaves a question for readers: If Liu Bei asked Xu Shu and Zhao Yun to assist Guan Yu in guarding Jingzhou as described in "Anti-Romance of the Three Kingdoms", how would the history of the Three Kingdoms be rewritten?