The tragic end of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei is both due to their personalities and the price they have to pay in the face of complex military and political struggles, but in the final analysis, the character defects of the two, Guan Yu's arrogance, and Zhang Fei's impatience are the fatal shortcomings of their respective personalities. Below, a specific analysis of the process of the two people leading to a tragic ending due to their personalities.
Guan Yu "carelessly" lost Jingzhou. Before Zhuge Liang left Jingzhou to help Liu Bei seize the strategic base area, he left Guan Yu with a strategic policy of eight characters, that is, "north to resist Cao Cao, east and Sun Quan". Guan Yu verbally said yes, his heart did not approve at all, perhaps "dividing the troops and refusing" is the ideal anti-enemy strategy in Guan Yu's heart, so when the Battle of Jingzhou broke out later, Sun Quan took the initiative to send someone to propose to Guan Yu, Guan Yu actually said such crazy words as "How can your dog son be worthy of my family's tiger head", which shows how arrogant Guan Yu was, and he did not care about sun Quan, the overlord of the party at that time. People took the initiative to ask for peace, guan Yu ignored it, so it is no wonder that Cao Cao contacted Sun Quan to attack Jingzhou, and Sun Quan gladly accepted. In the end, when Guan Yu was fighting Cao Cao's army, the Jingzhou garrison was empty, and Lü Meng of Eastern Wu took advantage of the void to take the counties of Jingzhou in one fell swoop, and Guan Yu was captured, and finally lost his head.
Zhang Fei was impatient to send people's heads. After Guan Yu's death, Liu Bei's clique fell into great mourning, and Liu Bei even threatened to raise 800,000 troops to avenge his second brother Guan Yu. After Zhang Fei learned of Guan Yu's death, he was even more mournful, strictly ordering his men to build weapons and equipment and white armor within a few days, Zhang Fei borrowed wine to dispel his worries, while waiting for the equipment to be manufactured, but he did not expect that he said that what he asked was that his subordinates could not complete at all, and in the face of the fact that his subordinates could not hand over the task, Zhang Fei took out the usual punishment methods, flogged and angrily cursed his subordinates, and the two vice generals under his command were taken away, humiliated, and their hearts were fierce, so on a dark and windy night in one month, the two entered the tent of drunken Zhang Fei. He brutally cut off Zhang Fei's human head.
The two brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei walked away tragically one after the other, and people often say that character determines fate, which seems to make a lot of sense.
