Guan Yu was a famous general under Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms Period. Guan Yu was over 2 meters tall, had excellent martial arts, and was brave and decisive, but was arrogant. The famous historical event "Guan Yu lost Jingzhou carelessly" was widely spread.
What happened to Guan Yu after the loss of Jingzhou
Guan Yu was killed by the Eastern Wu Dynasty in Yuan'an Valley about four months after he lost Jingzhou.
In fact, Guan Yu's defeat in Maicheng was unexpected by Liu Bei. Pay attention to the time node. Guan Yu started the war in Xiangfan and lost Maicheng in the 24th year of Jian'an. In fact, it was also the time when Liu Bei and Cao Cao seized Hanzhong. Just after Cao Cao was defeated, a war broke out in Jingzhou.
Guan Yu entered Fancheng and flooded the Seventh Army of the Forbidden City. He captured Pound and made China famous. It can be said that Guan Yu created an anti killing situation instead of a defensive situation. His combat effectiveness is quite strong.
However, Jingzhou itself is surrounded by the Cao Wei regime on the one hand and the Eastern Wu regime on the other. However, Shuhan's forces in Jingzhou are not completely capable of fighting on both sides, and it is expected that they will be defeated in the end.
Guan Yu's "careless" loss of Jingzhou is actually due to the fact that Guan Yu is an excellent military general, but in terms of strategic layout, there is an obvious lack of popularity.
In addition, the Eastern Wu did indeed kill him. It was a sneak attack to seize Jiangling, which led to Guan Yu's defeat too suddenly.
Guan Yu wants to compete with Ma Chao. What's in Zhuge Liang's letter
Liu Bei was crowned General Wu Hu. Guan Yu learned that he was unhappy and wanted to compete with Ma Chao. Zhuge Liang wrote a letter as follows:
The book said: "Liang heard that the general wanted to compete with Meng Qi separately. In light of the brightness, Meng Qi was also a tsingling cloth and Peng Yue's disciple, although he was more powerful than others. When he was competing with Yi De, he was not as outstanding as the bearded male. It was not trivial for him to be appointed to guard Jingzhou today; if he entered Sichuan, it would be a loss in Jingzhou. It was a great crime. Only hope to shine."
The Origin of Guan Yu's Beard
Guan Gong in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is nine feet long, has a face like a heavy jujube, silkworms' eyebrows and phoenix's eyes, and has a beautiful beard and drooping belly. After three events in Guangong Tuntu Mountain, he followed Cao Cao to Xudu. It is written in the original book:
Cao asked, "Is there any number of long cloud beards?" Gong said, "It's about a hundred. Every autumn, about three or five beards go back. The winter moon is often wrapped in soap gauze, lest it break." Cao used gauze brocade as a bag to protect his beards with Guan Gong.
The next day, I saw the emperor in the morning. The emperor asked Guan Gong when he saw his brocade bag hanging on his chest. Guan Gong said, "The minister's beard is very long, so the prime minister gave it to the emperor to store it." The emperor ordered the hall to be covered, too big for his belly. The emperor said, "What a beautiful bearded male!" So everyone called him "bearded male".