In the eyes of many people, Guan Yu was indirectly killed by Liu Feng. After all, at that time, Shangyong was only 300 kilometers away from Maicheng, and if Liu Feng could send troops to save him, perhaps Guan Yu would not have defeated Maicheng and the soldiers would be defeated and killed.
Similarly, Liu Bei also thinks so. Under the double blow of losing Jingzhou and losing Guan Yu, even though Liu Feng was Liu Bei's righteous son, he was eventually killed by Liu Bei and ended up in a tragic end.
In fact, when Guan Yu defeated Maicheng, even if Liu Feng really sent troops to rescue, it would be useless, and Guan Yu would eventually die. Even Liu Feng would send troops to rescue Guan Yu and put himself in.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" >, from Shangyong to Maicheng, how much time does Liu Feng need? </h1>
Shangyong is located in the southwest of Zhushan County, shiyan city, Hubei Province, while Maicheng is located in Lianghe Town, Danyang City, Hubei Province, and the distance between the two places is more than 300 kilometers.
In the Three Kingdoms period, no matter what cars and planes there were, everything could only rely on people's two legs. The average person walks at a speed of about 2 kilometers per hour, and it is already very, very good to walk 20 kilometers a day.
In the army, the speed is 4 kilometers per hour, and the Japanese march is about 30 kilometers, which is called "forced army". At a speed of 10 kilometers per hour and a Japanese march of more than 50 kilometers, it will be called "forced marching".
Relying on two legs alone, even in the absence of weight, will tire people enough, not to mention that as a soldier, you must have thirty or forty pounds of weight on your body. That is to say, in the case of walking on two legs alone, it is already very good to be able to march 60 kilometers a day.
Then let's assume that the Shangyong reinforcements led by Liu Feng rushed to Maicheng at a speed of 60 kilometers per day, which would take 5 days. In this case, before Liu Feng had reached Shangyong, Guan Yu had already been destroyed by Eastern Wu.
Even if we assume that Liu Feng rushes to Maicheng as quickly as possible, it will take at least two and a half days.
During the Long March of the Red Army, in May 1935, in order to kill a bloody road and avoid repeating shi Dakai's mistakes, the Red Fourth Regiment of the Red Second Division of the Red First Army of the Central Red Army, under the leadership of regimental commander Huang Kaixiang and political commissar Yang Chengwu, forcibly marched 120 kilometers in 24 hours on only the two legs of the soldiers, and only then reached the Luding Bridge, completed the feat of flying to seize the Luding Bridge, and also saved the Central Red Army in danger.
24 hours of forced marching of 120 kilometers, looking at the whole world is an impossible thing to do.
In the second campaign of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the 113th Division of the 38th Army, in order to cut off the retreat of the US army, forcibly marched 72.5 kilometers to Sansoli in 14 hours, making great contributions to the second battle. This has also become the highest record of forced forced march in the history of world war.
Let's assume that Liu Feng, leading the Shangyong reinforcements, can force the army at a speed of 120 kilometers per day. But even so, Liu Feng would need at least two and a half days to reach Maicheng. In these two and a half days, perhaps Guan Yu had been killed.
If by that time the Eastern Wu army had already withdrawn, it would be better to say that if it had not withdrawn, then the army led by Liu Feng who had forcibly marched 120 kilometers for two and a half consecutive days had already been at the end of the crossbow, and it would be good to be able to stand firmly, and where would it be the opponent of the Eastern Wu army? What's more, Liu Feng's troops simply could not march 120 kilometers a day.
What's more, from Shangyong to Maicheng, most of them are winding and rugged mountain roads, which bring great trouble to the marching army. Therefore, Liu Feng can arrive in Maicheng within 10 days, which is already very good.
That is to say, even if Liu Feng sent troops to rescue Guan Yu, he could not reach Maicheng before Guan Yu was defeated and killed. If that's the case, then why send troops and do such useless work?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="56" > two, even if Liu Feng arrived in Maicheng, then he was not the opponent of the Eastern Wu army</h1>
Let's make another assumption, suppose that Liu Feng arrived in Maicheng as fast as possible, and that Guan Yu was in a safe state at that time.
But even so, could Liu Feng rescue Guan Yu from the Eastern Wu army?
The answer is that it is almost impossible. Because the comparison of troop strength between the two sides is really too big.
When Guan Yu defeated Maicheng, there were only more than three hundred people left around him. And even if Liu Feng came out of the nest, the strength of his troops was only about five thousand.
In the Zizhi Tongjian, it is written like this:
The Shu general Meng Datun (孟達屯上庸) was at odds with the deputy general Liu Feng (劉封封;
This shows that when Guan Yu defeated Maicheng, Meng Da had more than 4,000 people in his hands.
There is also a sentence in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms:
The first lord Yin was afraid that It would be difficult for him to take up his duties alone, so he sent himself from Hanzhong to take the underwater command of the Da army and to meet with Dahui.
That is to say, Liu Bei was worried that Meng Da would not be able to take Shangyong, so he sent Liu Feng to lead troops to support Meng Da.
The history books do not say how many people Liu Feng brought with him, but judging from the situation that Meng Da rebelled later and easily defeated Liu Feng, it can at least be determined that Liu Feng's army strength is less than Meng Da's, and it may be about two thousand people.
This shows that when Guan Yu defeated Maicheng, even Meng Da agreed to send troops to rescue, then Liu Feng led at most more than 5,000 people to Maicheng.
So how many people did the Eastern Wu side send to besiege Maicheng?
Guan Yu could not be underestimated, so Sun Quan dispatched 7 generals at one time, namely: Jiang Qin, Han Dang, Zhou Tai, Ding Feng, Xu Sheng, Zhu Ran, and Pan Zhang. Among them, 6 ranked among the Twelve Tiger Ministers of Eastern Wu, which is enough to see the importance that Sun Quan attaches to Guan Yu.
As a result, even if Liu Feng arrived in Maicheng, then in terms of high-end combat strength, Shu Han was not an opponent of Eastern Wu.
In terms of troop strength, there is a huge disparity.
In order to retake Jingzhou, Sun Quan dispatched a three-way army, and in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there are three sentences:
Quan Nai sneaked up on the army, making Sun and Lü Meng the front, to the Ke Gong'an and Nan County.
Quan Zheng Guan Yu, Zhang and Zhu Ran broke the yu walkway, to Linfeng, and lived in the stone.
Now Ling Zheng defended Nan Commandery, Pan Zhang lived in the White Emperor, and Jiang Qin sent thousands of rangers up and down the river.
Combined, these three armies had at least 50,000 men. Among them, at least 20,000 people were used to besiege Maicheng.
These 20,000 people were all waiting for work, and Liu Feng's 5,000 soldiers and horses were all after a long journey, and the soldiers were already exhausted, so how could they be the opponents of the Eastern Wu army?
That is to say, even if Liu Feng really led the Shangyong soldiers and horses to Maicheng, he would not be the opponent of the Eastern Wu army. And This practice of Liu Feng will also be called giving away heads.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="67" > three, for Liu Feng, whether there is an army to rescue Guan Yu or not, it will eventually be difficult to escape death</h1>
On the one hand, it would take ten days to reach Maicheng, and on the other hand, even if it arrived, it would not be an opponent of the Eastern Wu army. Coupled with the fact that the three counties of Shangyong had just been occupied, people's hearts were unstable, so Liu Feng's refusal to send troops was actually a correct choice.
But for Liu Bei, Liu Feng was a personal vendetta against liu bei, and even disloyalty to him Liu Bei. An important reason for Liu Feng's killing was that there were no troops to rescue Guan Yu.
But even if Liu Feng really sent troops to the rescue, wouldn't Liu Bei kill him?
After all, no matter how you say it, Liu Feng is not Liu Bei's own son, and liu Bei's Jiangshan will definitely be left to Liu Chan in the future. And Liu Chan's ability is average, in order to clear the obstacles for Liu Chan in the future, Liu Bei will also kill Liu Feng sooner or later.
Therefore, Liu Feng's life is actually quite tragic.
For him, not sending troops to rescue Guan Yu was definitely dead. But even if the troops were sent to rescue Guan Yu, they would either go to send people's heads, maybe they would lose their lives, or they would run in vain to collect the corpses of Guan Yu's subordinates. After he returned to Shangyong, it would not be long before Liu Bei would find other excuses to put him to death.
I have to say that Liu Feng is really too difficult.