If you know a friend of the Three Kingdoms, you will definitely be more impressed by Guan Yu's death. In the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu's biography of Guan Yu records that Guan Yu defeated Maicheng and fled back to Xichuan from Xiaolu to encounter an ambush by Eastern Wu, who was captured by Pan Zhang's subordinate Ma Zhong, and guan Yu and his eldest son Guan Ping were killed. In the novel, the description of Guan Yu's capture and murder is similar to that recorded in history, so what kind of person is Pan Zhang, the historical figure who led to Guan Yu's murder?
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is recorded that after Guan Yu's death, Liu Bei sent a Shu Han army to fight against the State of Wu to avenge Guan Yu, at this time Guan Yu's son Guan Xing also went out with Liu Bei, during which Time Guan Xing killed Pan Zhang and regained Guan Yu's Qinglong Yanyue Knife to avenge his father, and the story about Pan Zhang disappeared into the novel. In fact, the historical Pan Zhang was not killed by Guan Xing, he lived until the end of his life. We can learn from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Shu, and the Biography of Pan Zhang" that Pan Zhang, a person, is indeed a very powerful figure in history, and he has a hand in fighting, but his character is very poor.
Pan Zhang was originally a city gambling stick, and generally people who gamble well basically do not win, so the more they lose, the more they gamble. In the long run, Pan Zhang lost the family's money and wealth, and borrowed money everywhere in order to prepare gambling funds, and then the creditor came to ask Pan Zhang for a debt, and Pan Zhang said to these people that when I get rich, I will definitely pay you back! In this way, Pan Zhang embarked on a path of Lao Lai, and Pan Zhang's reputation spread rapidly at that time, just as Sun Quan was an official in Pan Zhang's hometown at that time, he had always heard of Pan Zhang's deeds and was very curious about Pan Zhang, so he let Pan Zhang follow him and also let Pan Zhang command more than a hundred people. Later, Pan Zhang followed Sun Quan to fight the mountain thieves and was gradually appreciated and valued by Sun Quan, during the Battle of Hefei, the Wei general Zhang Liao defeated the general of the State of Wu, when Sun Quan's people were defeated and fled, Pan Zhang saw this situation and immediately killed two deserters to stabilize the hearts of the army, which enabled Sun Quan's guards to fight desperately, and Sun Quan rewarded Pan Zhang after escaping.
From the above description, we feel that Pan Zhang may be a good person, but in fact, it is not. Pan Zhang, this person really has a hand in fighting, but his character is very poor, this person may have been born in poverty and gamblers before, so he was obsessed with money, and he would stop at nothing to accumulate wealth. In order to make money he could make war money, and the historical records record that Pan Zhang would set up a market in his own troops during the war, and items that other troops did not have had to come to him to buy. Therefore, Pan Zhang was a well-known money lover at that time, and in his later years, he was even more extravagant and profligate, and the slightly richest soldiers in the army were all plundered by him, and even in order to usurp the property of the soldiers, he did not hesitate to kill these people. At that time, someone had reported Pan Zhang's illegal behavior, but Sun Quan did not pursue Pan Zhang because Pan Zhang could fight and had many military achievements. However, shortly after Pan Zhang's death, his son was exiled by Sun Quan for breaking the law, and his wife was placed in Jianye by Sun Quan, where she was given only fifty tenants who were given land and houses and exemptions from military service.