If Eastern Wu hadn't killed Guan Yu, would the Three Kingdoms have been a different situation?

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Guan Yunchang was the most powerful general around Liu Bei, and in the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Sun Quan sent Lü Meng to secretly attack Jingzhou and capture Liu Bei's general Guan Yu. Soon after, Sun Quan killed Guan Yu and gave Guan Yu his first rank to Cao Cao. So, should Sun Quan kill Guan Yu?

Two years later, Liu Bei declared himself emperor and launched the Battle of Yiling under the slogan of Guan Yu's revenge on Eastern Wu.

Although the Battle of Yiling was won by Eastern Wu, the shu-Wu war would only allow Cao Wei to reap the benefits of the fisherman. After the Battle of Yiling, the Shu Han Dynasty was seriously injured, and although Eastern Wu won, the relationship between Wu and Shu broke down, and the two sides no longer had basic trust, resulting in the next half century, the two sides looked at each other, but the superficial alliance was secretly wary of each other. As a result, neither country was able to go all out in the Northern Expedition, and finally the two countries were destroyed by Cao Wei (Jin).

So now we raise the question: Did Eastern Wu have a way to avoid a complete break with shu Han as much as possible when it took Jingzhou?

In fact, Eastern Wu has this method, this method is: do not kill Guan Yu!

Before discussing not killing Guan Yu, let's first look at why Sun Quan killed Guan Yu?

According to the Book of Shu, (Sun) Quan dispatched the general To yu and obtained Yu and Ziping. Quan wants to live against Liu and Cao, and left and right: Wolves cannot be raised, and they will be harmed later. Cao Gong did not get rid of it immediately, but caused great trouble to himself, but discussed the migration of the capital. How can I be born now! It's a cut.

This record is that Sun Quan cherished Guan Yu's talents and originally planned to keep him for his own use and resist Liu Bei Cao Cao, but everyone around him said: Guan Yu's wolf ambitions will definitely be a scourge in the future. Cao Cao was almost moved to the capital because he did not kill him, which led to a major disaster, so how can he be allowed to live now? So Sun Quan killed Guan Yu.

Judging from this record, Sun Quan killed Guan Yu because Guan Yu could not be used for himself, so he was killed.

This is like the Qin State in the Warring States period, for the elites of the Six Kingdoms, those who can be bribed with money can be bought, and those that cannot be bought cannot be used by the enemy, so they order the assassins to kill them.

Sun Quan's reason for killing Guan Yu was very clear.

Indeed, Guan Yu, as the premier general of the Shu Han Dynasty, was certainly not going to defect easily against Liu Bei's loyal subjects, and Sun Quan left Guan Yu behind, undoubtedly leaving himself a time bomb, so it seemed that there was no problem in killing him.

However, if we think from another angle: If Sun Quan does not kill Guan Yu and does not leave Guan Yu, but returns Guan Yu to Liu Bei?

If Sun Quan returns Guan Yu to Liu Bei, it can be said that Guan Yu disregarded the alliance and bullied Eastern Wu, and now I teach him a lesson for you, hoping that you can discipline this person well, we are still good friends.

As an ally of Sun Liu, Sun Quan simply took Jingzhou, which originally belonged to him (at least Eastern Wu himself thought so), and returned Guan Yu to Liu Bei in its entirety, which was equivalent to kicking the ball to Liu Bei.

Meaning: your people are disobedient, I did not kill him, give you your eyes to do it, anyway, Jingzhou I took it back.

At this time, if Liu Bei did not send troops to fight with Eastern Wu, he would appear cowardly, and if he sent troops because of this, he would be nameless instead. Jingzhou was originally borrowed from others, and now people take it back and send Guan Yu back, you still have to fight, I'm afraid it's a little too thick-skinned, right?

If Sun Quan did not kill Guan Yu, it would actually be equivalent to creating a problem for Liu Bei.

Even if Liu Bei was bent on retaking Jingzhou, it didn't matter, the big deal was to fight the Battle of Yiling again, but if such a fight was fought, it would be Liu Bei who should lose!

What about Guan Yu? As the strongest military commander of the Shu Han Dynasty, didn't Guan Yu let him go and return the tiger to the mountains? Even if Liu Bei did not want to take revenge, Guan Yu would definitely fight for his life to take Jingzhou, wouldn't it be more difficult to do?

That's how we look at this question.

Yes, Guan Yu was indeed very powerful, threatening Huaxia, but this was all before he was captured.

Guan Yu, as the commander-in-chief of the Jingzhou Front appointed by Liu Bei with full authority, was defeated and captured, lost the city and lost ground, which can be said to be a disgrace and no face.

In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, he was captured by Eastern Wu, Sun Quan did not kill him but released him back to Sichuan, Guan Yu faced Liu Bei, and there was probably an inexplicable grudge between the monarchs and his subjects!

At that time, whether to fight Jingzhou or not to fight Jingzhou, how to fight Jingzhou, will be a fierce debate within the Shu Han, with Guan Yu's temper, if you don't get it right, you will turn your face upside down.

Sun Quan let Guan Yu go, in fact, he wanted to throw Guan Yu's bomb to Liu Bei to deal with.

Taking a step back, even if Guan Yu and Liu Bei worked together to capture Jingzhou, it would not be so terrible. Can a defeated general, plus a semi-military blindness, be Lymon Luxun's opponent?

Just after Sun Quan killed him, he gave Guan Yu's first rank to Cao Cao, which shows that Sun Quan was actually jealous of killing Guan Yu, and he was jealous of Liu Bei seeking revenge on himself, so he sent Guan Yu's first rank to Cao Cao, hoping that Liu Bei would go to Cao Cao for revenge.

But who is Cao Cao? How can you not understand Sun Quan's tricks? Cao Cao ordered guan Yu to be buried in Luoyang, and Sun Quan's plan to kill people with a knife failed.

When Liu Bei heard that Sun Quan had attacked Jingzhou and killed Guan Yu, he was furious and, despite the opposition of his heavy subjects, raised a large army to attack Eastern Wu, which finally led to the rupture of the Wu-Shu alliance, the two countries were at war, and the State of Wei was profitable.

The reason why Liu Bei wanted to launch the Battle of Yiling and take Jingzhou was only one aspect, and the main reason was precisely the death of Guan Yu.

The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms @ Biography of the First Lord records that the First Lord, angering Sun Quan's attack on Guan Yu, will march to the East, autumn and July, and then lead the armies to cut down Wu.

The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms @ Liu Ye (劉晔傳) says: Guan Yu and Bei, righteous as kings and subjects, Enyou father and son, Yu death can not repay the enemy for the Xingjun, and the distinction between the beginning and the end is insufficient.

It can be seen that Liu Bei attacked Eastern Wu desperately, mainly because Sun Quan killed Guan Yu.

And if Sun Quan only captured Jingzhou and did not kill Guan Yu, then the situation was likely to be a different kind.

Since Lu Su's death, Eastern Wu had lacked a far-sighted strategist.

As a monarch, Sun Quan's military talent was his biggest shortcoming, and he had to use the strength of military commanders such as Lü Meng and Lu Xun to formulate strategic plans.

In the end, Lü Meng was only a semi-illiterate person from a small pawn, rough and easy to kill, and his strategic vision was actually very general.

And Lu Xun, as a family clan in Jiangdong, was full of thoughts about how to protect the interests of their Jiangdong family, and as for the unification of the world, he really had no interest.

If Eastern Wu dan had a strategist of Lu Su's level, he would not have killed Guan Yu in the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an!

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