The fall of public security triggered a chain reaction, and it was shocking that Gangneung surrendered without a fight! Today, let's talk about the most critical person in Guan Yu's defeat of Maicheng: Mi Fang.
Mi Fang, whose name is Fang, was born in a wealthy merchant family in Qu County, Donghai County, with tens of thousands of servants in the family and extremely wealthy. After Liu Bei was defeated by Lü Bu at Xiapi, the army was dispersed and retreated all the way to Haixi County, in an unprecedented desperate situation.
At this most difficult moment, Xuzhou, who went out with the army, gave Liu Bei great support. Lu Zhu and his brother Lu Fang scattered their wealth to support Liu Bei, and gathered more than 2,000 servants, guests and clansmen to supplement Liu Bei's army.
At that time, Mrs. Gan fell into the hands of Lu Bu, her life and death were unknown, and Lu Zhu also married her sister to Liu Bei as his wife. Subsequently, Liu Bei took refuge in Cao Cao, and Cao Cao recommended Elfang as Peng Chengxiang, but Elfang still chose to resign and continue to run with Liu Bei.
From Xuzhou to Yecheng, Runan, Xinye, Changbanpo, Jiangxia and other places, he has followed Liu Bei for more than 20 years. Aside from ability, when Liu Bei entered Sichuan to arrange candidates for Jingzhou guards, wasn't Elfang, who had the triple identity of an old brother, a financial supporter, and a national relative, not the best candidate?
Liu Bei thinks so, Guan Yu thinks so too, they are good brothers for decades, and they know each other. However, to everyone's surprise, as soon as the Jiangdong army approached the city, Elfang took the initiative to open the city and surrender, so fast that even the other Shu Han officials in Jiangling City did not react.
Why, exactly? Let's take a look at the historical records: 1. Since Yu's army, Fang and Ren supply military funds, and they don't know how to save each other, Yuyan said"It should also be cured"2, and Nanjun Taishou Elfang is in Jiangling, and the general Shirentun Public Security, who is suspicious of Yu 3, at the beginning, there was a fire in the city of Nanjun, and weapons were burned.
Yu blames Fang, Fang is afraid, the right is tempted by hearing it, and Fang is in harmony. and the attack on it, but the above three sentences may explain the reason why it surrendered without a fight.
Guan Yu, who was on the front line, was most anxious about supplies and siege equipment, why couldn't he beat Fancheng all the time? Because there was a major incident of fire in the armory in Gangneung, where Elfang was sitting.
Whether he couldn't hand it over because of ** or really accidentally caught fire, as the person directly in charge, Elfang couldn't escape the involvement. The army did not move the grain, grass and equipment first, this is the iron law of war since ancient times, delay the delivery of grain, damage to the siege equipment is to be engaged in military law!
During the Prime Minister's Northern Expedition, he was also delayed once by the second-in-command Li Yan, and immediately took Li Yan after returning to the army. The city is not without the number of boards; Yu rushed to attack Fancheng, Fancheng got water, often collapsed, everyone was discolored, Yu came to the city by boat, surrounded several times, cut off from outside and inside, the food was exhausted, and the rescue did not come.
As long as the siege equipment gives a little force, can Fancheng, where the city walls are about to collapse, still be able to hold it? Elfang is quite despised by Guan Yu, and the relationship between the two is usually not good, but Elfang, who is a relative, is not very panicked, what kind of good man is his father-in-law, he is very clear in his heart, even if Guan Yu sues Chengdu, Liu Bei is nothing more than a few painless scoldings.
But Liu Bei called the queen and sent something to Guan Yu, which made Lu Fang's mentality completely collapse. False knots. The false festival represents the emperor's travel, and all the envoys who hold the festival represent the emperor's personal visit, symbolizing the emperor and the country, and can exercise the corresponding power.
If the military general pretends to be a military general, he does not need to ask for instructions from the left and report to the right in wartime, and he can directly kill the soldiers in his army who violate military orders! Elfang knew very well that after getting the fake Jieyue, Guan Yu could decide the life and death of the generals in Jingzhou for himself, if Guan Yu won and killed himself, Liu Bei would not blame him; If Guan Yu is defeated, he just kills himself and takes the blame.
Every time I recall this sentence: "It should be cured", Elfang feels panicked. These internal frictions of the high-level of Shu Han were fully seen by Lu Meng, and the power was tempted by hearing it, and Sun Quan usually won over Elfang.
But after all, Elfang is a major minister of the father, his elder brother Lu Zhu, worshiped as General An Han, and his status is still above the military general Zhuge Liang, and the treatment is the highest among the ministers (worship as General An Han, the class is in the military general, it is to treat him as a guest of honor, and he has not tasted the domination, but the reward is incomparable) There is no external pressure, and he will not surrender easily.
Now the failure of the public security has become the last straw that crushes its psychological defense. Uncle Huang made a major mistake in employing people this time, and Lu Fang and Fu Shiren did have merit in the early days of their business, but their abilities seemed to be relatively mediocre, so.
What should be turned on should be closed, and what should be closed should be opened, how can this way of doing things make sense? After hearing this, Elfang looked ashamed.
Lu Zhu felt guilty for his brother's crime, so he got himself up and went to Liu Bei's mansion to plead guilty. Liu Bei expressed his understanding and forgiveness for Lu Zhu's actions, believed that the younger brother's guilt should not be borne by the elder brother, and treated Lu Zhu with courtesy as always.
However, Lu Zhu's heart was still full of guilt, and he died with hatred soon after. Since then, Shu Han's biggest foreign relatives have disappeared.