Guan Gong's prestige among the people is extremely high, he is loyal and brave all his life, he knows the word "loyalty" quite well, and his practice is as good as the beginning, and he is called "martial saint" by later generations, and he is worshiped to this day.
There are also various comments in later generations, the most representative one is that the death of Guan Gong, Liu Bei Shu Han Group lost the opportunity and maximum possibility to win the Central Plains, settle the Eastern Wu, and restore the Han Dynasty.
But that is the embodiment of face-painting, what is face-painting, that is, after many years of word-of-mouth, discussion, and evaluation from generation to generation, he has been characterized, such as Guan Gong, very perfect, impeccable, and can not be flawed, damaging the feelings of the Chinese people.
This leads to a kind of blind, mechanical, dogmatism.
If you go to Facebook and return to your origins, it is necessary to look at this issue realistically, especially Guan Gong's violent death, is it a pity, or it contains inevitable logic.
Jingzhou's own strategic location is quite important, and it is a must for the tripartite forces of Cao, Wei, Dongwu, Shu and Han.
Long before Liu Bei succeeded, he took advantage of the Battle of Chibi to become the biggest winner at that time, took the opportunity to take the four counties, and had a place to stand, and under the mediation of Lu Su, Liu Bei's group temporarily borrowed Jingzhou, but it didn't want to borrow it and not pay it back.
This move, whether there is a need for *** or the expansion of territory or the diplomacy of people and aspects, all make Soochow Group unhappy.
Under the deployment of Guan Yu, the Jingzhou army became bigger step by step, and once by a heavy rain, the Seventh Army of the Cao Wei Group's Yu Ban ** Pioneer, there was a soldier's point, the situation that could not be a lifetime, Guan Gong's reputation shook China for a while, and became the most dazzling figure at that time, which made the Cao Wei Group feel a great threat.
The Wenchen of the Cao Wei group moved his mind and encouraged the Soochow group to do tricks in its rear in an attempt to exterminate the Jingzhou army.
The Sun-Liu alliance itself is based on the premise of fearing and guarding against the Cao Wei group, once the Soochow Group and the Cao Wei Group join forces to engage in Shu Han, Jingzhou, a strategic place for Shu Han, will inevitably be chaotic and become an intersection of various scheming and interest trade-offs, which is so complex that it is beyond preference.
In the Soochow camp, Lu Xun, who has good military talent, and Lu Meng, who has a strong ability to learn Xi, have a historic opportunity to make a move.
In terms of military courage, Guan was no less than anyone at that time, but when it came to conspiracy and military tricks, Guan could not help but have some scruples, and the Jingzhou Army's think tank figures Mi Fang and Fu Shiren, etc., were later subdued by the Soochow Group with the continuous change of the situation, and the Jingzhou Army had no fighting spirit, and the soldiers and civilians were naturally tired.
The rear is empty, the backyard is on fire, the belly and back are under attack, and the general trend is gone.
Later generations characterized this matter as "Guan Yu's carelessness in Jingzhou", and the main reason is to blame the "talents" and strategy implementation behind the tripartite forces
In fact, history and life have "Brownian motion" similar to peaks and troughs, and the trend is forward and upward, but normalcy is inseparable from peaks and troughs.
Guan Gong's flooding of the Seventh Army and the achievement of shaking the prestige of China reached the apex of his personal military and ability exertion, and the apex also meant the possibility of slipping.
Losing Jingzhou, Guan Yu and his son went west to Maicheng, and then fell into an ambush, and were intercepted by Ma Zhong, a general under Pan Zhang of the Soochow Group.
Historical episodes are often like this, out of the unexpected, and often in the expected. At this point, this heavyweight figure of the Three Kingdoms has fallen, and a generation of generals has walked off the "altar".
Of course, Guan Gong's death also had its own reasons, such as his arrogance and rigidity in his personality, slow treatment and contempt of scribes, and so on. In terms of his own personality alone, he is a model of the ideal personality of the Chinese people, the embodiment of loyalty, and an indelible heroic memory of future generations.
In any case, Guan Gong's violent death is the climactic plot of the continuous struggle of the three-legged tripod, the result of the development of the current situation, and implies inevitable logic.