Guan Yu is a well-known historical figure, and everyone knows him from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, from romance of the Three Kingdoms, and from some modern entertainment derivatives. But no matter how different the way to understand Guan Yu is, at least his loyalty and courage are unmatched, and his heroic spirit of righteousness and thin clouds has left a deep impression on us.
In the folk Guan Yu is a symbol of loyalty, bravery and wealth, the reason why he can have such a status, and his legendary life is inseparable, to say that the deeds about Guan Yu are the most talked about, I think it is not Wenjiu beheading Huaxiong, nor killing Yan Liang and wen ugly, but cutting six generals through five levels.
Why can Guan Yu bravely break through several levels alone? Since these guards wanted to kill Guan Yu, why didn't they close the city gate and shoot all the arrows in unison, but chose to confront Guan Yu hard?
Photo: Guan Yu bravely broke through several levels of stills alone
First, Guan Yu passed five levels and slashed six generals to shock Huaxia
1, a good start
To understand the reason behind this, we also have to carefully read how Guan Yu passed the five levels and beheaded the six generals, when Guan Yu ran away from Cao Cao, with two sisters-in-law and several retinues to cross the Yellow River to Yuan Shao in Hebei Province, to find his eldest brother Liu Bei, although Cao Cao was unwilling, but because of his words and admiration for Guan Yu's loyal and righteous behavior, it was not good to stay, and he could only let Guan Yu go with a hard scalp.
However, it is not so easy to go all the way north from Cao Cao's base camp, there are many difficulties and obstacles along the way, the most important thing is a few fortress strongholds of Cao Jun, which is still unknown to Guan Yu whether he can survive safely.
Image: Stills of Cao Cao sending off Guan Yu
The first pass that Guan Yu came to was Dongling Pass, where the guard was named Kong Xiu, who had more than 500 soldiers under his command, according to the original book, Kong Xiu knew about Guan Yu's arrival before, but it was not clear whether it was an escape, so he also went out of the city to greet him, but later he discovered Guan Yu's actual intentions, so he began to fight with Guan Yu.
Kong Xiu is a very average level of martial generals, several rounds of fighting was cut off by Guan Yu, to a large extent, Kong Xiu did not understand Guan Yu's strength, thought he could easily defeat him, did not expect to end up in this end, this battle opened the prelude to Guan Yu through five levels and six generals, but also made a good start.
Image: Stills of Kong Xiu being beheaded from a horse
2, the process and ending are perfect
The second pass is a big pass, called Luoyang Pass, the two guards are Han Fu and Meng Tan, these two are smarter than Kong Xiu, know that Guan Yu is not easy to mess with, so he thought of raw capture, so that he can become famous in one fell swoop, did not expect that the two still underestimated Guan Yu's strength, were killed, 1000 soldiers did not come in handy.
The third level is the Shuishui Pass, and the guard general Bian Xi should know about Guan Yu's seizure of the pass, and he thinks that if he does not leave the pass, he will not have the opportunity to get credit, so it is better to take advantage of his lack of preparation to sneak up on Guan Yu. So Bian Xi arranged for 200 soldiers to ambush at Zhenguo Temple, and greeted him with a smile. Unexpectedly, the old monk of Zhenguo Temple and Guan Yu were fellow villagers, suggesting that Guan Yu had a crisis here, so Guan Yu first attacked to kill Bian Xi.
The fourth level is Xingyang Pass, the defender will be Wang Zhi, he himself knows that Guan Yu is very brave, but because of the killing of the guards of the previous few passes, Wang Zhi wants to take revenge, so he pretends to meet Guan Yu, in fact, he wants to burn Guan Yu and his party at night, but also because the news inadvertently leaked, Guan Yu and his people immediately escaped from the pass, Wang Zhi could not see the tiger return to the mountain and could only lead the troops to pursue, and as a result, wang Zhi killed Guan Yu under the knife in an encounter.
The last pass is Huazhou Pass, the guard Qin Qi, here is already by the Yellow River, seeing that he is about to see the eldest brother Liu Bei, Guan Yu is very excited, just about to cross the river but was stopped by Qin Qi, he also provoked Guan Yu with words, and as a result, the two fought Qin Qi was killed.
Photo: Guan Yu meets the general Bian comic photo at Shuishui Pass
Second, fifth, why will the guards not surround and kill them?
1. Blind confidence underestimates Guan Yu
From the attitude of the Five Guards to Guan Yu, we can see that almost all of them are overconfident, thinking that they can take Down Guan Yu with their hands, and this almost blind confidence leads them to have no intention of closing the city gate and shooting Guan Yu with random arrows.
For example, Kong Xiu in the first level, he was performing his duties and interrogating Guan Yu and his party, but after learning of Guan Yu's intentions, he had the idea of challenging Guan Yu, and even felt that he could easily defeat Guan Yu, and as a result, he was killed due to too much confidence and lack of vigilance.
Han Fu and Meng Tan in the second level, and Qin Qi in the last level also looked up to themselves too highly, and did not put Guan Yu in their eyes to attract the disaster of killing themselves, of which Han Fu was ready to shoot Guan Yu with a bow and arrow, but seeing that Meng Tan was killed after a few rounds, his heart was too panicked to shoot.
In this regard, the one who knows the most about the height of the sky is Qin Qi, he feels that he is even more powerful than the famous Hebei general Yan Liangwen ugly, Guan Yu's previous things such as warm wine and chopping Huaxiong seem to be not worth mentioning at all, so when he saw Guan Yu, he thought that he was a vain man, and he must fight for hundreds of rounds to divide the high and low, this guy is a typical undefernished and arrogant man, and he does not feel sorry when he dies.
Image: Guan Yu singled out Han Fu stills
2. Driven by fame and fortune
Among the six guards that Guan Yu killed, except for Kong Xiu in the first level, one of the reasons why several other people did not choose to close the city gate to surround and kill Guan Yu was that they wanted to capture Guan Yu alive and ask for merit and reward, and have since become famous all over the world.
You must know that they were well aware of Guan Yu's reputation at that time, and if they could catch Guan Yu, a rare fierce general in the world, the benefits they would get would not be exchanged for more than ten years. Under this temptation, they either went directly to fight Guan Yu or used various conspiracies and tricks to frame Guan Yu, and sadly, none of them were Guan Yu's opponents, and they all died in Huangquan.
Finally, I would like to say that the five levels and six will originate from the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and it is very controversial whether this has happened in history. As a classical literary work, Guan Yu also represents Loyalty and Courage, such a character naturally has a legendary color, if it is closed at the first level and shot by a random arrow at the city gate, then how to write the story behind it?
Image: Stills after Guan Yu killed the shogun
Therefore, under the pen of the original author, it is natural to use various methods to highlight Guan Yu's incomparable courage, so that readers can be enthusiastic and worship the character of Guan Yu even more, which is the inevitable result of literary works.
Of course, the base of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", after Guan Yu left Cao Cao in history, he also did a lot of vigorous things, and his wonderful life is far from over, so whether from a literary point of view or from a historical point of view, Guan Yu is naturally destined to die.
Article author: Dahui
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