Why did Liu Bei drop the chain at a critical moment? Guan Yu fled to Linfeng, only 20 miles from Chengdu, why didn't Liu Bei send troops to meet him? 20 miles, ordinary people can walk for up to 3 hours, if you are riding a bicycle, it is up to 1.5 hours.
At the end of 219, Guan Yu's army defeated Fancheng and quickly retreated in the direction of Maicheng, and finally Guan Yu and his party fled to Linfeng. Guan Yu and his party retreated in the direction of Chengdu, and Guan Yu's retreat plan clearly wanted Liu Bei to send troops to meet them. However, just as Guan Yu and his party retreated to this place in Linfeng, they were stopped by the Eastern Wu soldiers and horses, and finally Guan Yu and his party were all captured, and Guan Yu and Guan Ping were captured and killed!
Speaking of this, there is a problem, Guan Yu fled to Linfeng that year, which is also 20 miles away from Liu Bei's base camp Chengdu. What is the concept in 20 miles? That is, 10,000 meters, in today's view, it may be the number of exercise steps of an ordinary office worker in a day!
Since Guan Yu broke through to Linfeng and was still so close to Chengdu, why did Liu Bei sit idly by? What about watching Guan Yu being captured by Sun Wu? There are actually three main reasons for this.
First, Liu Bei was busy with matters related to the governance of Hanzhong and did not have time to take care of Guan Yu at all.
As we all know, after defeating Cao Cao in Hanzhong, Liu Bei directly became the king of Hanzhong under the recommendation of Ma Chao. Some people say that Liu Bei's becoming the king of Hanzhong was the biggest failure of his life, why? When the time is not ripe, to establish yourself as king, this is to lift a stone and drop it on your own feet!
However, for Liu Bei, defeating Cao Cao almost exhausted the elite soldiers and strong generals of Sichuan Shu, and even let the women of Sichuan Shu transport grain, and the men all went to the battlefield! What is this concept? This shows that Liu Bei did lack troops at that time, and once the troops were weak, how could he possibly repulse Cao Cao?
You know, at that time, Liu Bei repelled Cao Cao and used almost all his strength except Guan Yu. But what about Cao Cao? This was only a small retreat, and Cao Cao transferred all the people and military funds in Hanzhong to the Chang'an area.
Although Liu Bei got Hanzhong, he only got an empty city, with no population or money. It took a very long time to clean up the battlefield in Hanzhong, so when Guan Yu sent troops to the Northern Expedition, Liu Bei had no time to prepare money, food, soldiers and horses to deal with Guan Yu.
Second, the ability to overestimate Guan Yu led to tragedy.
When Guan Yu began his Northern Expedition in July 219 AD and was defeated at the end of 219 AD, Liu Bei basically did not have the slightest response to Guan Yu's troop movements. At that time, Guan Yu was threatened by Sun Wu to the east, and there were also Cao Ren and Cao Cao's armies to the north.
However, Guan Yu had no reinforcements except for the 30,000 Jingzhou soldiers. I would like to ask, how can a general be able to defeat the strong generals and troops of the two countries? However, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang believed that Guan Yu was a famous general in the world, and Eastern Wu's generation was not his opponent at all, so he let Guan Yu play freely, and Liu Bei even gave Guan Yu the right to fake festivals.
Judging from Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's attitude at that time, they all overestimated Guan Yu's ability. After all, Guan Yu at this time is also nearly 60 years old, not all people can be like Huang Zhong, at the age of 60 can still win the three armies?
3. Guan Yu did not send emissaries in time to explain to Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang the importance of the Battle of Xiangfan.
In 219 AD, after Liu Bei fought a great victory in Hanzhong, Guan Yu himself lamented in Jingzhou: "Zilong and Yide have all made meritorious contributions in Hanzhong, but I have done nothing in Jingzhou!" Then Guan Yu relied on the "false festival authority" given by his eldest brother Liu Bei and began to dispatch troops in Jingzhou to prepare to attack Cao Ren.
Guan Yu attacked Cao Ren for two main reasons at that time, the first Cao Cao suffered a defeat in Hanzhong. Second, he wanted Liu Bei to implement the Longzhong Confrontation in advance, so that it would be possible to end the disputes in the world as soon as possible and thus complete the reunification.
However, Guan Yu ignored the talents in his hands and handed over the important rear city pool to Mi Fang and Fu Shiren, who, although they had certain abilities, were definitely not the best generals to guard the rear city pool. Because the two had already violated the relevant rules of Jingzhou before, it was only because of the face of Liu Bei and many scholars that they did not deal with the two in time.
However, Guan Yu did not pay attention to it, but handed over the city to the generals of general ability. The most capable warriors, such as Liao Hua and Guan Ping, were brought to the front-line battlefield. As for the strategic direction of this operation, as well as the overall plan, Guan Yu did not send emissaries to report to Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang at that time.
To put it bluntly, Guan Yu actually served as the commander-in-chief of the Battle of Xiangfan, and as the big boss of Chengdu, Liu Bei, he did not know the truth at all. And when the news of Guan Yu's defeat reached Liu Bei's ears, even if Liu Bei wanted to send troops to rescue Guan Yu, it was already too late!
At that time, Shu Dao was extremely difficult to walk, and if you were not familiar with the geographical location of Sichuan and Shu, it would take at least half a month to go from Jingzhou to Yizhou. Even a first-class sentry ride takes at least 10 days. Can Guan Yu wait until 10 days later? Even if Guan Yu could wait, Sun Quan wouldn't give him a chance?
In summary, is Guan Yu really only a dead end? The answer was no, but at that time, the only people who could rescue Guan Yu were the only people and horses, and this road was Guan Yu's eldest nephew Liu Feng.
At that time, Liu Feng was ordered by Liu Bei to occupy Shangyong and other places with soldiers, and there were still more than 10,000 elite soldiers in his hands. If Liu Feng went to rescue Guan Yu with all his elite troops, Guan Yu would not say that he could repel the pursuing soldiers, at least to save the lives of Guan Yu and Guan Ping.
At that time, Liao Hua rushed out of the siege and went to Shangyong to ask Liu Feng to send troops. However, Liu Feng directly refused Liao Hua's request, according to common sense, even if he is a general with general relations, Liu Feng should also send troops to rescue, after all, the people and horses are all Father Liu Bei, but for Liu Feng, others can still rescue, but Guan Yu is not!
Why? The reason is also very simple, although Guan Yu is Liu Feng's second uncle, Guan Yu once said in front of Liu Bei, "Feng is the son of a different surname, how can the heir consider him?" Liu Bei immediately made up his mind.
Liu Feng was a fierce tiger, and although Guan Yu was telling the truth, he should not speak so desperately. Let me ask, if you are Liu Feng, will you hate Guan Yu? It was hard to lean on a rich and powerful father, but he was said to have no future by others!
Because Liu Fengji hated Guan Yu, he did not send troops to rescue Guan Yu at that time. In this way, Guan Yu's fate was very simple, and he was eventually beheaded by Sun Quan in Linfeng. However, Liu Feng was eventually held accountable by Liu Bei, and eventually Liu Feng committed suicide.
What did Liu Feng say before he died?
Liu Feng refused to support Guan Yu, completely angering Liu Bei, so Liu Bei urgently ordered Liu Feng to return to Chengdu. In fact, it is to find Liu Feng to settle the account, and poor Liu Feng still believes that Gan Dad will forgive him, which is also too small to look at Liu Bei's friendship with Guan Yu.
After Liu Feng arrived in Chengdu, he was directly taken to Liu Bei's place, and Liu Bei's first words were to ask, "Why didn't Ru save your second uncle?" Liu Feng also returned, and had not yet received the order from Gan Dad, liu Feng's answer simply made Liu Bei angry enough! Liu Bei said angrily, "Rufei Caomu, won't you think!" ”
Liu Bei was speechless and ordered his men to prepare the result Liu Feng's life. If it were not for the father-son relationship of several years, it is estimated that Liu Bei would have hanged Liu Feng first, and then beheaded! It was like treating the three surnames of the family slave Lü Bu at that time!
Liu Feng knew that he could not escape this time, and could only gladly accept his fate. However, Liu Feng said such a paragraph to Liu Bei before he cut himself off.
Feng sighed, "Hate doesn't use Mencius' words!" ”
The above excerpt is from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Biography of Liu Feng", from this sentence, it can be seen that the amount of information is very large, Liu Feng is completely regretting, of course, he is not regretting that he did not send troops to rescue Guan Yu, but regrets that he did not listen to Meng Da's words and defected to Cao Wei with him.
After Liu Bei listened, he didn't want to scold him as a family slave with three surnames. After all, Liu Feng is the same as himself, also surnamed Liu. It was just a pity that Guan Yunchang's life was lost, and then Liu Bei wept. Perhaps this crying was the most sincere one in Liu Bei's life...
In fact, judging from Liu Feng's last words, Liu Bei rarely communicated with Liu Feng in private, and in the final analysis, if Liu Bei did more homework with Liu Feng in private and gave more guidance, Liu Feng would not see death and not be saved.
The reason why Liu Feng did not save Guan Yu was actually that Liu Bei was mainly responsible. And Liu Feng's dying words also made Zhao Yun very speechless. Liu Beiren was righteous all his life, but he could not teach his righteous son well, and he lost a general's talent in vain. At the same time, even if he is dying, he still has no remorse, which is really speechless to the extreme!