After Liu Bei joined the alliance of Dong Cheng and others, he knew that Xu Chang could not stay for long, so he took the opportunity to intercept Yuan Shu and returned to Xuzhou, and also killed Cao Cao's general Che Qi, who remained in Xuzhou.
Of course, this made Cao Cao very angry, plus he always believed that Liu Bei was a hero who was enough to stand with himself, and could not raise tigers for trouble, so he first ordered Liu Dai and Wang Zhong to attack Xuzhou. After the defeat of Liu Dai and Wang Zhong, Cao Cao personally led an army to attack Xuzhou, first defeating Liu Bei and Zhang Fei with a trick at Xiao Pei, and then taking Xuzhou in the same way, so that only Guan Yu's guarded Xia Pi had not yet been taken.
Since Shuishuiguan knew Guan Yu, Cao Cao admired him very much and intended to take this opportunity to subdue Guan Yu. However, Yu Yu believed that Guan Yu was strong in martial arts and arrogant in nature, and only by sending someone to deceive and lead him outside the city, and then using elite soldiers to cut off his way back and force Guan Yu into a desperate situation of dilemma, could he be said to surrender.
Cao Cao then ordered Xiahou Huan to go to Xia Pi City to scold the enemy, provoked Guan Yu to leave the city, and then ordered Xu Chu and Xu Huang to lead the troops to ambush him, and when Guan Yu entered the ambush circle, he would cut off his retreat.
The first half of this plan was completed smoothly, and Xiahou Huan successfully led Guan Yu into the encirclement. However, Cao Cao's arrangement went wrong next, and after Xu Chu and Xu Huang led the troops out, Guan Yu bravely stepped forward and actually killed the two of them. Forcing Xiahou Huan to kill him again, he wrapped him around and trapped him on tushan mountain, and finally Zhang Liao persuaded Guan Yu to surrender.
Xu Chu in the Battle of Gepi and Dianwei Battle for a day is difficult to distinguish, in the Battle of Weihe and Ma Chao vicious fight more than two hundred is only slightly inferior, even if the Battle of Puyang against Lü Bu, that can also play dozens of rounds without winning or losing, in the interpretation is definitely a top level of masters, can be among the super first-class.
And Xu Huang's martial arts were not weak. When Cao Cao kidnapped Emperor Xian to Xuchang, Xu Huang was still Yang Feng's general, and together with Yang Feng came to intercept it, and fought with Xu Chu for more than fifty rounds without winning or losing. Being able to fight for so long without falling behind, it was obvious that even if Xu Huang's martial arts were not as good as Xu Chu's, the gap was not large, at most it was just a line difference. No wonder Cao Cao was so moved by this that he told everyone afterwards that he would subdue him.
As a result, such two people joined forces, but they could not stop Guan Yu, and this result can be said to be very frightening.
However, there are also some people who believe that since Cao Cao is bent on subduing Guan Yu, he must tell Xu Chu that they must not hurt Guan Yu. In this way, in the battle, Xu Chu and Xu Huang could not go all out, which was bound to affect their play, so this could not prove that under fair conditions, Guan Yu could defeat Xu Chu and Xu Huang one-on-two.
Of course, there is some truth to this idea, but even so, through this battle, we can still see that Guan Yu's martial arts are much stronger than xu chu and Xu Huangzhong.
As mentioned earlier, Xu Huang's martial arts are also very good. Even considering that Xu Huang lost to Yan Liang in twenty rounds in the subsequent Battle of the White Horse, which lowered his overall evaluation, Xu Huang was still a top ranking fierce general in the second echelon, and his martial arts were still above Zhang Gao, Zhang Liao and others. Such a person and Xu Chu joined forces, even if the two had reservations, then they were much stronger than any of them alone.
Therefore, in this battle alone, Guan Yu's martial arts were obviously much higher than Xu Chu and Xu Huang, which could also be proved from the later battles with Yan Liang.
In the Battle of The White Horse, Yan Liang first killed Song Xian and Wei Xu, and then defeated Xu Huang in twenty years, killing the Cao army general Li Ran, and no one dared to challenge him. In the end, Cao Cao had no choice but to send someone to Xuchang at cheng Yu's suggestion and invite Guan Yu to assist in the battle before killing Yan Liang.
Before this battle, Cao Cao's 150,000 troops were divided into three parts, and only one of them rushed to Baima. Therefore, not all of Cao Cao's generals participated in the Battle of the White Horse. However, since Dianwei's death, Xu Chu has been Cao Cao's personal bodyguard and has been following him for a long time. Therefore, since Cao Cao was in Baima, xu Chu had a great chance of participating in this battle.
Therefore, Xu Chu was probably one of the Cao generals who did not dare to fight in the face of Yan Liang.
And even if Xu Chu was not present. When Cheng Yu recommended to Cao Cao that Guan Yu come to help in the battle, Cao Cao hesitated, fearing that Guan Yu would leave after he made meritorious service. Obviously, Cao Cao was not willing to let Guan Yu fight Yan Liang, but he did not mention Xu Chu to help in the battle. Obviously, Cao Cao also believed that only Guan Yu could fight with Yan Liang, and Xu Chu could not do them.
Therefore, from a comprehensive point of view, the result of Guan Yu's defeat of Xu Chu and Xu Huang in the Battle of Tushan, even if it is conservatively estimated, then his martial arts must be above Xu Chu, which can be said to be very good.